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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
THE JESUIT FATHER IN CHINA.
: Eearfully Narrow, Barren Life and Its
Mental Effects.

4 Eearfully Narrow, Barren Life and Its
Mental Effects.
Up summer and winter before sunrise,
he reads the maths and his days work
is often done, says Blackwood's Maya
zine. Sometimes he reads the angelus
and vespers usually they are undertaken
BIZ the native catechist. Perhaps in the
course of the long morning All San or
All ST will present himself and pour
forth complaint about buffalo and a
trampled padi field; or he may be called
to adiudicate in what should be an ac-
ton fer divorce. Sometimes Of morn
ing he sallies forth, his yellow pigtail
coiled around his head and an enormous
satchel slung across his back, with a
store Of iron shot and wadding for his
rickety muzzle loader, and if he is lucky
will bring back pigeon or two, or even
pheasant, to supplement the inevi-
table pork or fowl and rice.
The mail comes in once fortnight
and day slips by unnoticed, thanks to
home letters and a dozen numbers of
La Croix, where, squeezed between the
latest miracle and the life Of some
worthy saint, the doings of the outer
world may be found recorded in a ten
line notice On ga / Granger. -
Sometimes an afternoon is whiled
away in curing the rank tobacco of the
place or in brewing rice wine or malt
beer-because ten years of solitude have
taught him to do things for himself
and when he has no such pastime on
hand, he gets through the day absorbed
as one hopes in his little medieval Ii
brary of religious books-lives of the
saints and sermons and essays.
Then is wonderful that even mind
as bread and gentle as his should in con-
slant jouneyings on the one road have
worn a rut for itself, deep sunk and
gloomy as the traffic channeled paths Of
tie loess land in the north, till, when a
rare glimpse Of the outside world does
break upon his view, his dazzled eyes can
see nothing but trees walking, schis-
MATES and Freemasons, Jews and athe-
lists, spiritualism and table turning,
with the fcnd himself in fiery cloud
over all:
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
NEW WOMAN IN LITERATURE.
Jcanuette Glider Gives Her Ideas Concern
ing tho Talked OF Creature.

.ycanuette Glider Gives Her Ideas Concern
ing tho Talked OF Creature.
The new woman of the novelist IS
merely one Of DR.. Max Nordau's degen-
crates She is the creation of a writer
who is hySterical and degenerate, and
the world takes her as something that
really exists. To be sure, there are plenty
Of women with ''pasts" and with
"yearnings, and there always have
been and probably always will be, but l
doubt if any woman outside of an insane
ASYLUM talks the rubbish about spiritual
impacts, tells that i've are tones OF one
chord" and about the vile slavery"
of marriage, as do the women OF Miss
Rendered and Mr. Grant Allen. Writers
of this sort do not represent the women
of the day any moro than the painted
women of the streets represent tho wom-
en- of good society.
The jaundiced writer's of 1.-The Vel
low Book" cannot be expected to give
rs pictures of healthy lives. Their tastes
run to worm eaten fruit. They have no
liking for that which is red with the
hue of health They prefer the yellow
hue Of decay. Dr. Nordau is quite right
when he calls it disease. The heroines
of "The Mellow Book, of "Discords'
and of ''Wreckage" might have been
taken from Lombroso's study Of the fe-
male offender. If they exist outside Of
their creators brains, their cases will be
found recorded in scientific studies OF
criminology or il the ordinary police re-
ports.
The new woman as find her outside
of the pages of fiction is an industrious,
healthy minded, healthy bodied young
person, with certain amount of indie
pendence, who cares more for out Of door
sports than for indoor follies, and who
if she has work to do does it and does
not waste her time in telling about 1t.
Her spirits run high over the adventures
OLA Gentleman of France, she laughs
and cries by turns over "Trilby" and
thinks The Dolly Dialogues great
fun, but for yellow Discords" and the
like she has 10 use.
am happy to say that little Of the
historical literature of the day originates
in this country. 1t is almost entirely OF
English origin. Some of our younger
writers have tried their hands at it, but
they do not take TO it naturally, and it
is-fast going out of fashion.
There always will be handful Of
people who like erotica, but I think
there has been a turn in the tide which
even at its highest never swamped the
writers of purer fiction. Rudyard Kip
ling and Mrs. Humphry Ward have
many more readers than Grant Allen
and Mary l. Rendered, and in this
country our writers of clean fiction are
the most popular. Glider.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15

V1RG1N1A:-Tn the circuit
court for the county of Acco-
mack, in vacation, January 18th,
A. D., 1896.
John T. Mock. Plaintiff.
Against
George A. Edmonds and Elex-
zine NJ, his wife, in right of his
said wife, and George w.
Crockett and Virginia f., his
wife, in right of his said
wife. Defendants.
In chapcery.
The object Of this suit is to
sell for purpose of partition, a
tract of land of ninety acres
go A., more or less, and forty
acres Gao Az, more or less, of
marsh, situated near the head of
Bradford's Neck, in said county
of Accomack, bounded on the
N. E. by the lands of John 7.
Mock; S. E. by Bradford's Broad
water; S. w. by the lands of
VIM. r. Mapp; and N. w. by
Machapungo creek.
Affidavit having been made
before the clerk of the said
court that George w. Crockett
and VIRGINIA F.. his wife. two
of the defendants in the above
entitled cause, are non-residents
of the State of Virginia, on the
moTion of the plaintiff, by his
attorney, it is ordered that
they, the said nonresident de-
PENDANTS, do appear here within
fifteen days after due publication
of this order and do what is nee
essary to protect their interests;
and that this order be published
once a week for four successive
weeks in the Peninsula Enter
prise, a newspaper published at
Accomack G. H., Virginia, and
also posted at the front door of the
court house 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.
L. Floyd Mock, p. q.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
IN THE AMPHlTHEA1ER
q Contest Before King Herod and Pom
tins Pilatus In Jerusalem.

& Contest Before King Herod and Pom
tins Pilatus In Jerusalem.
On one Of those days he went to the
amphitheater, the circus Which Horod
the Great had built, at some distance
from the city. He paid for a seat in one
of the upper galleries. On the tiers OF
seats below him were all sorts Of people,
and far away, on the opposite side OF the
vast arena, the sandy level in the mid
die, he saw, in the lower tier, canopied
place that was furnished magnificently.
In it there were throne seats, and on
them sat King Horod Antipas, Pontlus
Pilatus, the Roman governor, two Ro'
mau generals, with other distinguished
men, and q number of richly dressed
women, some Of whom wore brilliant
tiaras or coronets upon their heads. He
stared at them for few minutes and at
the tremendous throng of people, but
after that he thought only of what was
going on in the arena.
There were chariot races, and Cyril
could not help being intensely excited by
the mad rush Of the contending teams,
while all the thousands who looked on
shouted and raved After the races,
however, came scenes some Of which
made him shudder. There were foot races
and boxing matches, but these were soon
over, and then there were contests be-
tween pairs of swordsmen, spearmen,
clubmen, and the like, in which the
fight went on until one CT the combat
ants was slain. Close upon the last of
these duels, bands of gladiators marched
in from opposite sides Of the arena and
charged each other like detachments of
soldiers upon real battlefield.
The fighting was furious and desper-
ate, but one side was soon beaten, for
the parties had not been equal One
party had been trained warriors, pro-
fessional gladiators, and the other only
common men, captives taken in a recent
raid of Pilatus' soldiers upon wild
tribe beyond the Dead sea. They were
bravo enough. but they were put there
only to be killed for the amusement of
the great men and Of the multitude. So
were the poor victims with whom the
days exhibition closed, for they were
driven into the arena, half armed, to
contend as best they could with num-
Der of hungry lions, tigers, leopards and
hyenas, which were loosed upon them
from their dens under the tiers OF seats.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
Dinner Wines.

In serving wines with course dinner
sherry should be served with soup. With
the fish chablis or sauterne is nearly al
ways served, and with entrees have
claret. Champagne, hook or moselle
comes with the roast. Port wine is u.s.
ually served with the cheese course and
burgundy with the dessert. Serve red
wines at the same temperature as the
room. White wines should be slightly
chilled, but never put ice into wine.
Do ret fill a glass to the top. Serve the
least celebrated wines at the commence
ment Of "A dinner, reserying for the last
the choicest vintages New York Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
A Forgotten Fortune.

One of the great capitalists IN New
York, a man whose achievements by
reason Of their magnitude cause his
name to lie as familiar to the public as
that of almost any man in New York,
went into the safe deposit vaults one
day and gave to the manager an envel-
one which he said contained 1000
shares of Northwestern stock. He did
not want to put this stock IN his vault
for reasons best known to himself. The
envelope was given to an employee, who
did not know its contents, who was IN
structed to place it i'll his own private
vault until called for, and with that ar
rangement the capitalist seemed content.
A few months later this capitalist was
in a great state of mind. He could not
find anywhere among his possession
block of 1000 shares Of Northwestern
stock. He could not say whether it had
been lost or stolen. At last he gave a
bond to the railroad company aud re-
ceived for it new stock, and the old issue
was Cancelled.
At the beginning of the following
year the deposit company's employee
asked that he might be relieved of the
responsibility of caring for the cap
italist's envelope, although he did
not know what it contained. The
capitalist was sent for and the envelope
given to him. He himself received the
envelope in apparent ignorance of its
contents until he opened it and found
within the missing 1000 shares of tho
par value of 5000, 900. The whole trans
action was an utter blank to him. If he
had been man of Incorporate habits it
might have been explained, but he is
practically total abstainer. -Philadel-
phia Press.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
A coNluRER,s TALE OF WOE.
Confederate Produced n Handful of Change
Instead of IA Marked Dollar.

Instead of IA Marked Dollar.
Carl Hertz, the illusionist, was talk
ing Of some of tho accidents that some
times spoil the art of the conjuror.
sit was in Nashville, " he said, that
[ experienced real knock down blow.
1 was performing the well known trick
OF passinsa marked coin into the center
Of IN uncut orange; at least that's what
good many people thought l was do
ing. | used silver dollar, and empha-
sized the trick by passing the coin into
the pocket of some boy whom I had en-
ticed on to the stage.
81 will openly confess that the boy
had to be confederate and that the
marked dollar had its fellow in one pre-
viously prepared by me. Ono night, as I
was entering the theater. | looked around
for likely youth to aid me in my dou
BILE dealing. I picked boy and prom
ised to pass him in if he would follow
my instructions.
1 am Il conjurer.' 1 said. 4 want
you to put this dollar in your right hand
trousers pocket. I'll get you seat in
the front row. When l ask for some
body to como on the stage, you must
come Then will ask you to produce
the dollar.
"Tho boy promised everything, and,
after making arrangements for him ut
the door, left him. When l was ready
for the dollar trick, ] saw my young
confederate sitting open mouthed in the
front row. had prevailed upon another
member of the audience to lend mo Il
dollar marked exactly rs was that l had
given to the boy.
81 passed that borrowed dollar into
the orange, cut the fruit open. and out
dropped the COIN Then | went on:
And now, ladies and gentlemen, [
will perform still more difficult feat.
I have passed that dollar into an orange.
Now will ask some member of the au-
dence to step on the stage, and, without
going anywhere near him, will pass
the same dollar, marked, as you have
seen, into his right hand trousers pocket
'Truo TO his bargain, the boy stepped
TO the stage. Istepped opposite him and
asked
CHOW, sir, have you ever seen me
before?'
no, sir, was the answer.
"'I have here dollar. I continued.
L am going to pass it into Your right
hand trousers pocket. One-two-three
-go!'
81 made the proper magician's pass
and smiled confidently upon my audi
ence.
CHOW, said to my assistant, put
your hand into your right hand trousers
pocket and give me the dollar.
1.-The hoy looked bit sheepish, but
he divcd his fist down. Then, to my I'M
utternble horror, he produced handful
Of silver and said:
''I've only got 90 cents of it left, sir.
Il went out III hurry and took 4
drink. New York Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
Cecil Rhodes.

Cecil Rhodes" says The Saturday
Review, lis a strong man of the kind
that is never finished by single stroke
And he is strong with the strength of a
coarse, ruthless, greedy egotism, the
strokes of whose piston rod force the
minds and the money of weaker men
into its reservoir. AS he was at Oriel 20
years ago SO he is at Cape Town today
lonely, self absorbed, irritable and not
to be relied upon. He hates women,
whom he regards as unnecessary i'm
pedimenta in the campaign, and he has
no idea Of friendship. He only recog-
nizes instruments to be used and enc
mics to be dealt with. Success accentu-
ated his defeats to the point of disease
and made him so irritable, so self abb
sorbed and so insolent that none but
parasites could live with him.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
WOMAN.

Oh, woman with the bonny eyes
That shine like stars i'll midnight Skies
Before the break of morn.
Oh, tel re, GO yen Know the power
That lies within them-every hour,
Those eyes so soft ard bright?
Oh, woman with the glossy hair,
Do YOU, who are so frail and tair,
Fer pause to think with scorn
That you can chain us to your SIDE
Where all our strength and manly prlde
Are but for your delight?
Oh, woman with the faultless face,
Tho red, red lips where dimplcs chase
Each other to and fro
Oh, dol You know your countless charms
The swelling neck, the rounding arms
Ike form poets wish,
The hand so taperins and white,
The foot so slim and wee and slight
And fairer than the snow?
You have the power for good or Ill,
You charm us TO obey Your will
Eor one smile or kiss.
M. Idseer in Womanllind.
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The Baltimore Weekly Sun.

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1t contains regular reports OF the
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methods and ideas in agriculture.
Its market reports, poultry depart
ment and veterinary column are par
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Every issue contains stories, poems,
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Payments invariably in advance.
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A MAN FOR AN EMERGENCY.
Surprising Experience In a Car of a Boy
Who Was Headstrong.

Who Was Headstrong.
A poorly dressed woman with q boy
about years old boarded one of the
Union Trolley company's cars in White
Plains avenue recently. There was no
vacant seat, and she grabbed strap-in
front of young man and prepared to
hang on. The young man got up and
tipped his hat to her. Quick as flash
the boy dropped her hand and leaped in
to the seat OH his knees, taking care to
wipe his muddy feet on the clothing of
tho passengers on either side. The young
man looked first at the woman, for
whom he intended the seat. and then at
the boy. The woman shook her head
and said:
Poor boy Iguess he's tired. He can
have it, sir y
The young man looked from one to
the other again He shifted about I'M
easily for moment. The other passen-
gers in the car giggled. That decided
him. Holding to strap with one hand,
he reached for the boy with the other
and got him by the nape or the neck.
He lifted him clear of the seat and held
him dangling and kicking i'll the air.
The woman was about to protest. Then
she thought better of it and sat down Ill
the vacant seat.
Madam, - said the young man,
throwing the boy at her, there is your
boy.
"Thank you, sir, she said. "He is
bit headstrong, it's true, sir. y
The boy looked astonished He whim-
pered a little. The woman patted him
on the head, and there wasn't peep
heard from him from that time until
the Harlom bridge was reached and the
crowd got out.-New York Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-02-15
Women oversesrs of the Poor.

Why it is desirable that women be
elected on tho board of overseers of the
poor i'll the towns CT Massachusetts needs
no argument. That is the kind of work
III which good women are naturally in
terested and active, and their special fit
ness for such service does not admit Of
challenge. 1t will be for the public good
IN any community to put at least one
competent woman on all such boards
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1896 THE SUN. 1896
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VIRGINIA:--In the circuit
court for the county of Acco-
mack, in the vacation of the
said court, the 9Th day of Feb
ruary, A. D., 1896.
William T. Bowden.. Plaintiff
Against
Lydia A. Bowden. Defendant
In chancery.
The object of this suit is to
obtain a divorce a vinculo
matrimonii between the plaintiff
and defendant.
Affidavit having been made
before the clerk of the said court
that Lydia A. Bowden, the
defendant in the above entitled
cause, is nonresident of the
State of Virginia, on the motion
of the plaintiff, by his attorney,
it is ordered that she, the said
nonresident defendant, do ap-
pear here within fifteen days
after due publication of this or
der and do what is necessary to
protect her interests; and that
this order be published once a
week for four successive weeks
in the PENINSULA ENTERPRISE, a
newspaper published at Acco-
mack G. H., Virginia, and also
posted at the front-door at 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.
Thos. w. Russell, p. q.
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I'm the circuit
court for the county of Acco-
mack, in the vacation of said
court, the 3Oth day of January,
A. D., 1896.
William j. Matthews, admin
istrator cum testamento annexo,
of Mary A. E. Johnson, Plaintiff.
Against
Solomon T. johnson, executor
of the last will and testament of
John S. Johnson, Asher T. Wal
Top, John D. Wallop, Mary B.
Wallop, Sally Wallop and Will
liam j. Matthews, in his own
right. $500. Defendants.
In Chancery.
The object of this suit is to
obtain instructions as to dis
posal of balance in hands of
said plaintiff belonging to the
estate of Mary A. E. johnson,
deceased, and to construe her
will and post-nuptial settlement.
Affidavit having been made
before the clerk of the said court
that Asher T. Wallop, John D.
Wallop and Sally Wallop, three
of the defendants in the above
entitled cause, are non-residents
of the State of Virginia, on the
motion of the plaintiff, by his
attorneys, tits ordered that they,
the said non resident defend
ants, do appear here within fif-
teen days after due publica-
ton of this order and do what
is necessary to protect their in
terests; and that this order be
published once a week for four
successive weeks in the PENN
sULA ENTERPRISE, a newspaper
published at 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, G. G.
I A Copy
Test: JOHN D. GRANT, G. G.
Blackstone & Bundick, p. q.
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f,stops for passengers On signal toconductor
#'dally. except Sunday.
r. H. Nicholas, superintendent.
Cape Charles, Va.
r. B. Cooke, Gen'l Freight and Pas
senger Agent, Norfolk, Va.
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WINTER SCHEDULE slcs
OF THE ,s4SE;gs
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic
Railway Company

Untiifurtnor notice. Will ruiz their steamers 1t
weather permittine,j leaving South -
wharf at $50 o'clock .. N.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-07-23
A Clock Of Clocks.

In the possession of Mrs. II. ID. Nun.
son OF Williston is a clock that is a
marvel Of ingenuity. 1t was construct
ed 80 years ago by her husband, Russ
ell ID. Munson, very ingenious man
and father OF the Munson brothers OF
Burlington,in his workshop in Willis
ton. Upon the face of the clock are
several small dials which tell the year,
month, week and day. Itruns nine
days with but one winding and six
hours before the expiration Of that
time bell will ring. In the base OF
the clock u music box is located that
plays tune at the end of each hour,a
different tune for each day of the
week. Sunday il plays "Old Hun
dred;" Monday, sold Folks at Home;"
Tuesday, "Swiss Waltz" Wednesday,
"The Star Spangled Banner;;" Thurs
day, "Hail Columbia" Friday, cyan
kce Doodle;" Saturday, "Home Sweet
Home" In the ball OF the pendulum
is small chronometer which keeps
excellent time and never requires
winding, as its motive force is derived
from the oscillations of the pendulum.
Mr.. Munson at one time patented
wagon wheel hub and stump puller,
neither Of which, however, were a sue
cess. He exhibited the clock for sew
eral years at the county fairs.etc., and
many people saw the curiosity.