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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
SKETCH OF MR.. WILLIAMS.

Rev. Mr.. Williams the originator OF
this movement in this city, has given MS
NJ, T. mission work lie Is an \. Il. 81
Rochester University and spent two
wears al the Southern Baptis, Theolcgi-
ca Seminary. gradual In most Of the
schools. when that institution was com
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
Household Repartee.

Q.OndOn Id-B.tsD
The lady was making some remark
about the kind OF clothes some other
ladies' at church had ON. when her hus-
band remarked.
"The finest garment woman can wear
IS the mantle Of charity"
"Yes." she snapped. and It's about the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
Kid Gloves.

Famous brands that stand
for quality and wear, If its
an odd shade to match n street
or evening dress, the chances
are that YOU can get it Lere.
-Four prices to choose from, ant
each prl rs tn best Glove t.
~ found at the price.
$500 Pair
AI.25 "a Pair
SI.5O N puir
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06

81 Double Faced Satin Dam
ask Fringed Cloths, regular Sl.Zo
quality,
This Week, 63c.
2I-Yards-L Long Bleached Damask
Cloths, with Blue borier, German
make, regular 81 qusllty,
This Week. S1.35.
3 Yards Long Damask Cloths,
with Blue border, German make,
regular $3.50 Quality,
This Week, $50.
3-Yards. Long Cloth, with one
do zen DollIes h match. cOlors Blue,
Salmon, Yellow, regular 81. 30 qusi-
ty,
This Week, 81 "a Set.
Real Sco'cl Turkey Red Table
Cloths at less prices than you ever
bought them,
Yards Long, Si.@5.
. l.. Yards Long, S1.3O.
3 Yards Long, $500.
TaJle D0D1aSB.
pieces ,. fards.Wide Full
Eleached All-Liuen Table Damask,
extra heavy and fine, regular Sl.-j
quality,
Napkins TO match.
7o-inch All-Linen Full BleacEe /
Scotch Table Damrsk, all new pat
terus, regular 81 quality,
This Week. zoe. Yard.
G0-inch lvory-t inlshei All-linen
Table Damask, regular t5c. quality,
This Week. Doe.
NapkinS.
5-S All-Linen Bleached Napkins.
Scotch linen and extra heavy, regu-
iGr 500 quality.
This Week. 80 Dozen.
Special values IN all Linen Nap
kins at
81. Si.@5. $3.50, and sI.75 Dozen.
TOWe(S.
xtra Large Hemmed Huck
Togeis--pure German liner-hZe
-6xi4-rrd and blue borders-a
regular Doc. towel.
Crash.
Genuine Russia Crash, the best
towel crash made.
The l5c. Quality for ~ lie.
The I6 2-:ic. &uniity for Zoe.
The zoe. Quality for III 2-ac.
PiIIOlC C0SeS.
All-Linen Bemstitched, size
22x30 inches-regG iar Sl.2j a ar
kind.
This week, soc. Each.
.Bure0U Sets.
A full Ike Of irish Point and
Lace Bureau Sets IN new patterns.
$3.50 10 50 "a set.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
REV. GEORGE f. WILLIAMS.

REV. GEORGE +. WILLIAMS.
PEELED to suspend on account OF the war.
on leaving the seminary ne became
n missionary In the Confederate army.
ana after the close Of the war went TO
the county and city OF Mobile. Ala lie
established the Mlrine-Str'et Mission IN
that city raising the money by personal
supsal. and working with his own hands
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
Blankets.


As good Blankets at 81 a
pair as we know of anywhere
at s.. That's Il good start
ing point. Up and down the
story runs on the same rela-
tive lines. -Four Of the spe-
cials:
SPECIAL No. l AT s2.50 4
PAIR-l0-4 size clean stock on
cotton warp -- q good looking
blanket that will wear we'll.
SPECIAL No. ., AT 1925 A
PAIR-l0-4 size-made Of selected
wool-red, blue pink. and yellow
borders, actually worth 81 PAIR.
SPECIAL no. 3, AT 81 A
PAIk-ll-l size strictly pure
wool filing and regular 81 value
SPECIAL no. /, AT 50 A
PAIR-l2-4 size--iinest pure wool
filing, and the equal oil any 81
blanket we know Of.
HderdOlCR.
They meet many wants-they
cost INT little-PlaIn colors white,
pink, light blue, red, and gr, y.
Doubie-FaccG, Use.
Sfngie-kaced, e. &c.
Their great popularity ha.
caused us to largely increase
the assortment-fuffy, beau.
tiful--warmth without weight,
style without cost.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
TaJIe D0D10SR.
NupkiJ1S.

5-S All-Linen Bleached Napkins.
Scotch linen and extra heavy, regu-
iGr >. 30 quality.
This Week. - Dozen.
Special values IN all Linen Nap
sins at
81. Si.@5. $3.50, and s1.75 IA Dozen.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06
Crash.
Bureau Sets.

A full Ike of Irish Point and
Lace Bureau Sets IN new patterns.
$3.50 40 50 a set.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-06

SI.so u Pair
$3.50 u Pair.
500 "a Pair
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
The Usefulness of q Jest.

He stood upon the platform Of his
car serene and smiling, when every car
driver and truckman on West street was
swearing and cursing. The jam was
tremendous, and the street was packed
from curb to curb. Yet whenever he
spoke it was with some good natured
Jest, and the truck drivers turned out of
his way and let car rs go by. He hailed
them all with merry badinage, and the
surliest of them grinned from ear to ear
and gave him back all that he sent.
cts easy" he said to me coniden-
TALLY. "When once you get man to
smile, he'll do anything you want him
to do. Did you see that surly chap driv-
ing the beer wagon? 1 kept chatting him
until 1 got him to laughing, and when
man once lets smile chase over his
face, he's goner. Itell you, my friend,
that even down here in West street good
nature will go farther in getting your
own way than all the yelling and ours
ing
And the philosophical car driver
whipped up his horses and told the
charioteer of the wagon in front that nc
man could stop things up as he did IN
less he were from Cork. The wagon
turned aside, and the man grinned and
said that he was from Limerick. New
York Herald.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
whence Comes Croft?

The origin of "croft" itself, even more
than of its sister words, is "wrop in
mystery. 1t is q very old English
term, appearing in the charters or title
deeds of estates as long ago as the reign
of Edgar, where the phrase sat the
croft's head" is quoted by DR.. Murray,
but it remained long unrecognized in
the literary language. The old English
form, like the modern one, is 'croft, "
meaning an Enclosed field. In lowland
Scotch it appears generally in the form
"craft, +" which is still employed in
many derivatives, but the only other
Teutonic equivalent in the sister Ian
guages is the Dutch work "lroft, "
which means ga piece of high and dry
land, ""a field on the downs, P" "a rocky
headland. In the north Of England,
according to Ray, the word croft" i'm
plies neighborhood to house, but in
the south it is applied to any small in
closure, near building or otherwise.
DR.. Murray's English dictionary gives
several uses of croft in early times,
though not for the most part in what
can fairly be called literature. AS he
stood in his croft" says legal writer
of the thirteenth century, whose spell
ing and grammar mercifully modern
ize. While Piers Plowman writes,
Birds come into my croft and crop my
wheat" Early in the sixteenth century
Fitzherbert defines a curtylsge (what-
ever that may be) pc "a lytell croft or
court to PIT n catell for TYNE. In
the seventeenth century the phrase oc-
ours, "All ould tenants shall have a
croft and meadow, :" which sounds as
if it came out of a crofter commission
report But it was Milton who first en-
nobled the plebeian word by admitting
it frankly into immortal poetry. The
spirit in "Comus" says to the elder
brother:
This have learned
Tending my focks hard by / tn billy crofts
That brow this bottom glade.
-Cornhil1 Magazine.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
The "Big AIcKinneys."

Marion county, Ia, of which Knox
vile is the county seat, the home of the
"I.ong Three Robinson Brothers,, F" the
giants who starred several seasons with
Barnum as the three tallest brothers in
the world, is also the native county Of
the "Big McKinneys, -" four mammoth
specimens OF humanity who claim to be
the only four brothers in Iowa whose
combined weight is more than 1000
pounds. Only two of the brothers, Doc
and Jim, now reside in Marion county.
The former of these weighs 259 pounds
and the latter $40. Frank, the second
largest, weight 267, is somewhere out
west, and John, the giant of the four,
weight 2S6, is a Chicago policeman.
Not one CT the four is what would be
termed "fleshy" man. Each is trim
specimen of perfect manhood, standing
from feet to feet inches in height.
John makes the boast that he "can stand
fat footed and turn back somersault
any day." and Jim can mash a mans
hand in his giant grasp, or can take a
dime and twist it all out of shape be-
tween his thumb and fingers. St. Louis
Rerublic
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
MISSING WORD sWlNDLgs.
Still Finding Dupes In England, Although
Prohibited by Law.


Though missing word contests"
were declared illegal six months or
year ago in England, and were supposed
to have been definitely stopped, they are
still being carried on. Unfortunately 1t
is only the fraudulent ones that are now
in existence. The missing word con-
test" was SO popular for many months
after it was introduced that it is not
surprising that it has been kept up even
against the law. It never attained any
great popularity in this country. A SEN
fence was printed with one word left
blank, and the first person who supplied
the missing word by mail got the chief
prize, other awards being made up to
considerable sum. Each competitor sent
in something like shilling as entrance
fee, and the total amount received IN this
way, generally an enormous sum, was
distributed among the winners.
That was the way the competition
went when it was managed fairly. But
the most of the missing word games. If
not all of them, that are now running
are managed on no such principle. The
periodicals now conducting them are
generally printed somewhere on the con-
tineut and are scattered broadcast on
British soil. In many cases they are not
periodicals at all, but merely circulars
sealed up as letters giving the terms OF
the competition and the sentence to DO
completed.
An instance of how one of these swim
dies works is that of workingman who
sent shillings abroad to contest. A
few days later he received in reply
letter marked Private, osteusibly
from an employee of the foreign con-
Germ, which offered in revenge" to
supply the missing word secretly for 30
shillngs, or about So. The deluded me-
chanic sent Oh the money and received
the word. Shortly afterward he got a
letter from the company, saying that
he had won, and that there were several
hundred dollars standing to his credit.
The only trouble was. so the letter ran,
that another competitor had lodged a
complaint and claimed GO. If he was
willing 10 buy the man OUT senuinS 80
by postal, TIE prize money would be
forwarded to him III full
The work!rGmar started to pawn
clothing in order to raise tho money
when friend suggested to him to have
the company send the prize money
minus the 60. lie wrote to that effect.
In answer came letter stating that be
need not send the money, as it had all
been settled But they had a charge on
their books against him for "notorial
and other costs of currency" amount
ing to shilings. Would he send that
over Immediately for expenses? Confid-
ingly he did so and never heard from
the company afterward.-New York
World.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
RoHerY Pistols.

Pistols are almost as plentiful on the
Bowery as shoes in shoe factory. The
secondhand dealers, the pawnbrokers
statesmen and the hardware men almost
literally festoon some of their windows
with them. They make fringes and fres-
Goes of them and pile them in heaps
They sell them for from half dollar
upward. A pistol seems to be the first
thing that boys buy when they get lit
tie money, and the first thing that they
and the east side sports part with when
they are hard up, and the Bowery is
where they nearly all seem to buy and
sell them. New York Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02

I" stops for passengers on signal toconductor
r." daily, except Sunday.
R. H. Nicholas, Superintendent.
Cape Charles, Va.
Il. B. Cooke, Gen'l Freight and Pas
senger Agent, Norfolk, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02

rreignt ana passengers received Tor all points
on tho II. T., Phla. and Norfolk, Wlcomlco and
Pocumoke R. z. daily, Delaware, Maryland and
yirslnle. Railroads.
Positively Do rroight received after 90 p, m
aud must be prepaid to all points, except
On the N. Y. Phila. and Norfolk Railroad.
Willard Thomson, B. L. Fleming,
GenI Manager. Genl Frt. x Pass. ACT.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
ELECTRICITY AND THE MAILS.
Talk of nIorc Extensive Use of Wires In
the Postal Service.


It has recently been pointed out that
already the telephone is used, by actual
count, ten times as much as. the tele-
graph, the annual figures being put now
at about rs, 600, 600 kilograms and $780,
600, 900 telephone talks. The long dis
lance telephone system is parallelirg the
older telegraph lines all over the coun-
try, and in the cities the average of use
of the telegraph, owing to rapid transit,
messenger service, special delivery let
tiers, and, above all, the telephone, has
dropped much below one message per
head per year.
A suggestion lately put forward by
Mr.. P. B. Delany, an inventor and
electrician of high standing, is the sub
iect Just now of warm discussion In
electrical circles. Having in mind the
statistics quoted above, Mr.. Delany an
nounces his firm conviction that it is
time to get out of the telegraph its full
working value, and that it ought now
to be used for the carriage of the mails,
not in the physical sense, but literally,
all the same. He believes that $1,000 or
$4,000 letters of about so words each
between Chicago and New York could
every day be profitably sent over cou-
pie of copper wires at rate of ~ cents
or Is cents apiece. Thousands of such
letters now pay 1s cents in the mail to
insure the saving of half an hour after
a journey of "a hours, whereas, by Mr..
Delany's plan, correspondence between
two such metropolitan centers could
easily be interchanged in an hour, and
the documents be delivered in clean
typewriter print.
The plan is based necessarily on "ma-
chine telegraphy," which has been on
trial before, and not gone very far, but
the growth of the great cities and the
undoubted desire for swifter, cheaper
intercommunication OF private and pub
lie news give more plausibility to Mr..
Delany's arguments than they have had
hitherto. His idea is to give the public
low priced telegraphio mail on the
same lines that Rowland Hill first start
ed his universal postal service, and his
contention is that the function of rail
ways is to handle passengers and freight,
but not anything so intangible as cor
respondence and news.-New York
Post
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
A Famous French Detective.

M. G. Goron, the famous French de-
tective, is about to retire from the po-
lice. He is perhaps the most wonderful
and accomplished man in his profession.
1t was NJ. Goron who was intrusted
with all the arrangements for insuring
the safety of the Czarowitz Nicholas
during his visit to Paris some three
years ago. The Russian prince, accom-
panied by the detective, made tour Of
the lowest quarters of Paris in disguise,
and visited some dens of the worst re-
pute.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02
English American New.

This is the way . writer in the Lon
don Telegraph refers to recent American
laws against pool selling and betting at
race tracks: 1.-THE antibetting ukase
passed last autumn at the instance Of
the Puritans, who would fain introduce
the blue laws of Connecticut into the
city of New York, the most cosmopoli-
tan capital in the world
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-02

VIRG1N1A:-At rules held in
the clerks office of the circuit
court for the county of Acco-
mack, on the third Monday in
October, A. D., 1895, the same
being the 21st day of the said
month.
Severn East and Ida East, his
wife, James w. Cobb and Sarah
Cobb, his wife, Harry Landes
and Kate Landes, his wife,
..,......,.... .''...'...'.''''''''''' Ao1IO'
against
Spencer Parker, Ella Parker,
Lee Parker, Rebecca Parker,
Willie Parker and Edith Parker,
(the last five of whom are in
fants under the age of twenty
one years. ..................Defts.
In chancery.
The object of this suit is to
partition certain real estate OF
which the late Levin Parker
died seized and possessed, sit
uate near Cashville, in the coun-
ty of Accomack, State of Vir-
ginia, amongst the parties en-
titled thereto.
Affidavit having been made
before the clerk of the said
court that diligence has been
used on behalf of the plaintiffs
to ascertain in what county OF
corporation said defendant,
Spencer Parker is, without effect,
on the motion of the plaintiffs,
by their attorneys, it is ordered
that said defendant, Spencer
Parker, do appear here within
fifteen days after due publica-
ton of this order and do what is
necessary to protect his interests;
and that this order be published
once a week for four successive
weeks in the Peninsula Enter
prise, newspaper puDllshed al
Accomack G. H, Virginia, and
also posted at the front door of the
courthouse of the said county
on the first day of the next term
of the county court of the said
county.
Test: John D. Grant, c. c.
A Copy.
Test: John D. Grant, c. c.
Wescott & Gunter, p. q.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1895-02-08

entire nubes de evangelico ~misticismo,
sino que, filtrandose por las sombrias
paredes, iba reeorrer ell mundo de los
vivos, donde habfan quedado en- ebu-
llicion sus suef1os de adolescente sus
realidades de muier.
Era joven Y bella, Y sus ojos encerra-
ban tanta luz y poesia, que la madre
Priora sc asustaba al contemplarlos,
creyendo descubrir en- sus miradas algo
de profano Y mundanal que pugnaba
con la seyeridad del claustro
A su escultural belleza sentaba meior
un traje blanco con artfsticos lazos, que
aquel negro zay6n, bajo cuyos pliegues
desaparecfa la plasticidad de las formas
Sus labios, de un enearnado muy vivo,
parecian forInados, no para elevar pre-
ces Y pronunciar latinajos, sino para
besar con toda Ia fuerza de la passion
Sus oraciones Sc confundian con las
frases de amor, Y la imagen de su aman-
tie Sc lnterponia siempre entire ella Y el
Cristo de su oratorio.
En- el arm6nico misticismo del claus
tro, era una nota discordante, una nota
mundane, aquella hermosa novicia que
todas las tardes baiaba al jardln en-
brlagarse con FL perfume de las flores
Cuando Sc hallaba en aquel sitio te-
MA aluciuaciones diab6licas
A yeces deten{ase frente algun ar
bol, imaginando que era su novio,
eAclamaba:
-1ngrato. Crei que no vendrias a
verne. Me tlenen aqul para que te oil
vide, pero no 10 conseguiran. Io te
ano siempre; y tn dme quieres mucho?
Isl? Nuelve repetirmelo
extendia los brazos, como 81 tratase
de abrazar q alguien.
Cuaudo entrada la tarde, las notas
del salterIo y el rumor de las esquilas
la llamaban al interior del conyento,
Ia noyicia, triste Y pesarosa, Sc alejaba
del jardin yolyiendo i cada paso la ca
beza y agitando las manos en sehal de
despedida.
POGO tempo despu6s, la novicia mu-
RIO focn de amor, Y su muerte cause un
verdadero panico entire aquellas reigio-
sas, pues el iardinero afrmaba todos los
dias, que 4 las atlas horas de la noche,
cuando todos dormian en- el convento Y
un silenoio sepulcral reinaba por los am
bltos, &c vela cruzar, por entire las alame-
das del jardin, una sombra de muj jer
con el cabello suelto Y el pecho descu-
bierto, y de cuyos Iabios brotaban, rapi-
pidos, estallantes, chasquidos de besos y
suspiros de alma enamorada.
MARIANA ABRII.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1895-02-08

los elementos egoistas opuestos
a que la patria oyera resonar en-
su seno la v.ril paabra autono
mista.
La victoria de los otros fu6
comnleta.
ALI fueron 6 expone" en- urpa
de orc eI pensamien o de la Anne
RIGA.
Souri6 de jdbilo la madre. la
verdadera madre. Y eotall6, rui-
doso, en- sus mano5 ell plauso,
en- agassjo a estos esp(ritus escla-
recidos Y libres que epcarnan el
mundo hallado un dia y perdido
luego, en- la regi6n remota en-
Que aun humea la valerosa san
gre ibera.
Escuchaba & los americanos.
no la Espana del co0greso,
nj del gabinete, III del medro
inicuo, nj de la exploitation in
fame. sino la Espana pueblo, la
E~pana justieiera, la E<pana
grande, Iibre de preocupacione~
y preiuicios engendrados al insa-
no calor de la ambi ion.
De ahi, el entu<iasmo por la
vibrante palabra de quieues al
pueblo ensa'zaban y al pueblo
defendian.
Eel triunfo no es sole de los
oradores Pertenece tambi6n &
las antillas, y es de la America
tambi6n.
Una idea sombrea i este pun
to nuestra inteligencia.
Que fu6 de Puerto Rico en-
este brillantisimo certamen?
Estaba muda y quieta, ALI don
de su hermana tronaba Y se mo-
via.
Pudiendo, fecunda en- todo
como e., cnnquistar ALI prec O.
sfsimos laureles. no SO oy6 su
VOZ, Y deJo q 'uba sOla en- O. pa
lepque, y sufri6 que cargase con
los lauros.
La causa es sencilll~ima.
Los que aquel dia honrarou s
Cuba eran hijos de Ia cubana
TERRA; terlsn en- su alma el cielo,
el sol, los aires, el poderoso iuau
jo del enhiesto monte, 81 adora-
bic recuerdo del nativo y lie, Ia
f1erza, Ia vitualidad creadora. el
alma, en fin. de la reg on angus
ia que form6. y V goiz6 Y tenn
p|6 su ser para el amor de Ia tie
ira y para los combates por la
liber tad.
F,j6monos Ell estas elocuen-
tes ensenanzas.
Neamos por nosotros mismos,
= trabajemos por nuestro por-
venir.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1895-02-08
PERPIL DBL Ola
LA NOVICIA

En- las afueras de Ia cludad levanta-
base aquella mole de granite, nogra,
som bIia, como atalaya del fanatlsmo.
Aquel edlticlo era un antro, un abs
mo, un m6ustruo de piedra que tragaba
seres mas seres sin dejar Ell sus abier-
tas fauces la mas love gotta de sangre.
J6venes bellas Y hermosas desapare-
ciaE tras aquellas paredes, como caen los
ouerpos en- las tumbas, palidas, inermes,
como angeles cata6pticos & qulenes una
,nauo Invisible arrojase q aqueI abismo.
Las puertas del conyento solo Sc
adrian para dar eutrada 4 uno de esos
seres; despu6-, cerrabanse con el Chi
rrido dc los mohosos COMES; cesaba el
tanldo de la campana; apagabase el eco
de las salmodias, todo permanecia Ell
sileneio, on ese sllenoio ldgubre de la
muerte.
Tn dia lego hasta Ia puerta de aque-
LA tuplba, uua noyicia bastante joven.
Pero antes dc penetrar luch6, forceje6,
quizo razgar el velo que la cubr1a, y hu-
biera escapado de aqutl sitio 81 unas
sombras negras que del interior sur
gieron no hubieran hecho presa en- su
cuerpo. arrastrando!a al interior.
Y todo quedo en- oalma; nj ayes III
lamentos atravesaron las Hegruzcas pa
redes.
Pero ALA, en- ell wien ire del monstruo,
la novicia ee agitaba con deaesperacion.
Prisione,a bs 10 las bovedas del con-
vento, su alma no Sc eleyaba al cielo