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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-19
Business Locals.

NoTIcE-The undersigned offers for
sale several pairs of wild geese at So
per pair. For further particulars
call on or write to me.
Joshua Wheaton.
Chincoteague, Va.
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NoTIcE-A red heifer, 8 years old
this spring, with marks. cropped
left ear overbit the right" has stray
ed away from my premises. The
finder will be reasonably rewarded.
Kendall Chase,
MearsVille. Va.
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For LoAN-Money secured by lien
on unencumbered real estate.
J. II. Fletcher, Jr.
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II can say one thing for Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera aud Diarrhoea
Remedy; and that is that it excels
any proprietary medicine have eeen
on the market, and | have been in
the practice of medicine and the drug
business for the past forty years."
writes j. NJ. Jackson, NJ. D., Bronson,
Fla Physicians like Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
because it Is scientific preparation,
and because it always gives quick re-
lief Get bottle at your drug store.
For REHT-l offer my new store
house at Harborton for a term of
years, 30x60 feet two story, (can use
second story also grocery room at
tached 14x4O feet. This is one of the
best stands in the county for live,
energetic merchant. Farming trade,
oyster trade and also factory employ
ing about $50 hands.
Geo. B. Hoffman,
Harborton, Va.
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For RENT-Storehouse at Jenkins
Bridge, formerly occupied by G. S.
Smith. Possession given at once.
Apply to T. E. Fletcher.
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For SALE-Lady Thompson straw

For SALE-Lady Thompson straw
berry plants, 81 per 1000, roots
Strengthened so in bunch, informa-
ton how to save half the usual labor
in working strawberries free with all
10000 orders, also the best rust proof
kidney wax beans very early, 50 25 a
bushel, f. O. b. take up the entire
bed of strawberry plants, which will
give you large, healthy, we'll rooted
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-03-19

PUBLIC AUcTIoN-I will sell at
public auction, Saturday afternoon,
February 10th, beginning promptly
at one o'clock, the entire stock Of
goods belonging to F. w. Sparrow at
Harborton, Va, consisting in part Of
dry goods. notions, boots, shoes, hats
caps, ready made clothing, hardware,
queensware, and store fixtures &C.,
&c. Terms Cash.
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notice. Money for loan on unen-
numbered real estate.
E. 4. Northam,
103 E. Baltimore St.,
Baltimore, Md, or
e. Stewart K. Powell,
Onancock, Va.
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REID'S
Early Prolific.

After being fully tested is now offer
ed to the trade by g. s. Read u Co.,
growers of strawberry plants.
In comparing it with other varie-
ties, the Lady Thompson is taken,
which is wonderful berry, bringing
forth large number OF quarts to the
acre, never falling Reid's Early
Prolific is week to ten days earlier.
ripens in bulk, deep red, large size,
perfect bloomer and a decidedly
better berry. The fruit brought from
five to ten cents more per quart last
season in the berry markets than
other varieties.
Reid's Early Prolific plants are
now ready for delivery, 1000
for 500, 500 for So, $50 for
ST., 100 for SIS. On lots 5000
to 10000, liberal discount.
All plants sent G. o. D. Pur-
chaser pays expressage on plants
and return charges on money.
To avoid charges on money,
send Post Office Order or drafts
in advance of shipments.
For further particulars write to
l.. .. Hyslop. Agent
for lower Accomac,
KELLER, VA,
or to
C. S. REID g. Co.,
Princess Anne, Va,
Chadbourn, N. G.
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NOTICE. have for sale, Hoffman,
Lady Thompson and Tennessee Pro-
life strawberry plants. each 81. per
1000, Meek's early at $1.25 and Blu
bach at 81 rs per 1000, also a few of
the following varieties: Brandywine.
Marshall, Victor Hugo, No Name,
Weston. Muskingham, Cyclone, Aro>
ma, Rio, Tubbs, Princeton Chief, and
Eleanor. all of which l have fruited
and advise everyone to plant some of
them, as think they will prove to
be very fine berries. I will furnish
package, with Strengthened roots,
so in bunch and delivered at Onley
Station. l also have for sale slip po-
tato seed, Big Stem Jersey.
Jno. j. Hopkins
louisville, Va.
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G. B. Hofnl.

Trustee
P. S.-Thls sale will continue every
Saturday afternoon until the entire
stock is disposed of.
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rar ria ges -
nniag es

Always full stock of burial sup
plies, trimmings and prices to suit all
White hearse and caskets for burial
of persons under 81 years of age.
Black hearse for adults. Will meet
boat or train at any point on the
Peninsula On short notice. All or
ders by wire or otherwise, will have
prompt attention I solicit a share
of your patronage as in the past.
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net, seine, fyke, weir or other fixed
device is to be used: the kind of net,
seine, fyke, weir. or other fixed de-
vice; the amount of license tax paid,
and the fines or other revenues ac-
cruing under this act: and it shall be
the duty of each and every oyster
inspector to furnish the board of fish
cries with a monthly report of same.
Each and every oyster inspector
shall report to the board of fisheries
or some commander OF the oyster ma
Wy the failure upon the part of any
and all persons to conform to the
provisions of this act; and any such
commander shall be and is hereby
empowered to arrest such person or
persons so reported by an oyster in
spector, or who may be known to him
as not conforming to the provisions
of this act and carry him or them be.
fore some justice of the peace; and
upon conviction, such pereon or per-
sons shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than
two hundred dollars, to be recovered
according to law. If any oyster in
spector knowing fail to report viola
lions of this act. or to perform any
of the duties herein required of hNn,
he shall for every such offence forfeit
one hundred dollars. The money
collected for license taxes or fines
under this act shall be paid over to
the auditor of public accounts, and
accounted for in the general oyster
fund of the State: but shall in no
wise be considered part thereof, or
in any way be used to defray the ex>
penses of said oyster commission.
And the board of fisheries shall make
q separate report of the subjects in
this act, and the revenue derived
therefrom, respectively.
i5). Should there be no oyster in
spector for the district within the
jurisdiction where such fishing or
grabbing is desired to be carried on,
all the duties devolving upon oyster
inspectors under this act shall be
performed by the commissioner of
the revenue for such county or dis
trict, and such commissioner of the
revenue shall be empowered to issue
all licenses in conformity with this
act, to receive all fees and taxes here
in provided and shall make such re.
port, and be liable to such penalties
for failure to perform the duties as
are hereinb before prescribed.
(6). ALI acts and parts of acts in
pealed.
(7). This act shall be in force from
its passage.
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We represent Fire Insurance
Companies that pay losses in
the event of fire.
No reliable Insurance Agency
can write your insurance at a
lower rate than we can make
you.
1t will be a matter of economy,
on your part, to consult us
before placing ourinsurance.

We have ample facilities for
handling all your insurance, no
matter how small, or how large
the amount may be.
Evening star., 1898-09-10
The Proper Use.

She was a collector of souvenirs
The young man who had just returned
from the war could not refuse SO slight
request. All she wanted was something by
which to remember the campaign in Cuba
He was about to respond in the usual ro-
mantle fashion and offer himself, when she
interposcd.
All | desire is some worthless trifie that
will remind ne of the hardships you went
through in defense of liberty"
"How would one OF the buttons off my
uniform do?' he inquired.
No; l want something that was asso-
ciated with you in your daily routine of
life; not a mark that would designate any
and all of Uncle Sans soldiers. L want TO
hang it in the parlor and preserve it for
ever"
1T must be fndestructible then?'
Well, the more nearly so, of course, the
better"
He was lost in meditation for some min
utes. Then, with Frightening countenance
he exclaimed:
How thoughtless it was of me not to
realize it before, L have the very thing
I've carried it for weeks in my pocket over
my heart as a piece of armor plate. You
can take this hardtack and paint a little
landscape on it and let it hang on the wall
for the next century. Now that the war is
over I'm glad to see it put TO sene legiti-
mate use. 1t will make lovely plaque"
Evening star., 1898-09-10
SOME HORSE LUCK.
1t Looked Very BAD. but 1t Turned
Out All Right,

The man who followed the horses was
Jogging around the conversational track
with few scattered listeners in the inf1eld
and nobody in the grand stand.
Speaking of luck he was saying "no-
boey can tell where it is going to hit or
when, or how many times in the same
place Let me show you what 1 mean One
day my wife was in the grand stand and
was out around the betting boxes and it
was about half hour before the first race,
when a rattling nice-looking chap rushes
up to my wife in the crowd where she was
sitting, and asked where I was She did
not know him at all. but he seemed to
Know me so well that she never tumbled
bat said right away that she hadn't any
idea where to find me, but If there was
anything she could do she would be glad
to do it. He told her he had got a tip that
was valuable, and wanted so as soon 90
ne could get it. Well. You know. my wife
has got the right spirit and in minnie
Sho had out the money. and in another
minute he had skipped with it. and that
was the last she saw of him. Anyhow that
day or for many days, but she had taken
nm in when he called and she was looking
Tor him And when a woman gets onto a
man trail he might as well Law down fo,,
she Will get him by and by. About three
months after the $40 drop we were in Phil
adelphla one day walking along Broad
street. when whom should the little woman
SPY but her friend. and she had him where
he couldn't get away. He knew it, ana he
was as slick as you please, and came rp
smiling with his hat off and bowling. He
apologized and said he was so sorry he hcd
not sent her the ten, and he was then on
MS way to do SO. but had got a tip on De-
canter that he must take care of and i'm
mcdiately thereafter he would send her the
money. The way he did it kind of dazed
both of US, and before we fairly had our
wits about as he had slipped out of sight
in the crowd.
Nifey never said word and 1 said a
Sood many, and We soon brought up at our
motel. where she left me in the office and
hurried off to our room. The next | saw of
her was that evening, when she met me
about o'clock.
. jim, says she, we've got money
g How says l.
You know that two hundred 1 We saw
ing up? says she.
I do. says l.
Well says she, I took that and put Il
on Decanter just as my $40 hoodoo said
ne was going to do. One hundred at II to
TO win and one hundred at to | for
place, and Decanter won. We're sixteen
hundred to the good, and now let's go and
have cold bottle Which we did. and
which was all true as preaching. though
the $40 hoodoo doesn't any the less deserve
TO be thUmped for imposing on an innocent
woman and beating her out of ten good
plUnkS. e?"
Evening star., 1898-09-10
Incons plete.


What originally charmed him was her WON
drous wealth OF knowledge.
To hear her talk was better than a course
at any college.
Euripides she quoted
And Herodotus she voted
A writer who was singularly suited to
her taste.
About Assyria she read for long hours quite
enraDtured:
The wars that it engaged in and the people
that it captured:
Ger cuneiform inscriptions
Her delight would cause conniptlons
And she seemed to like them best when
they Were very much erased
He felt he had secured a prize when she at
last consented
To be his life companion, and a fiat he
straightway rented
And, as he conversed demurely,
He would often murmur, Surely.
There is no literary page wher. she has
failed to look.
But when he tried the early morning coffee
and the biscuit,
And concluded his digestion was too vaiu-
able t. risk it,
She confessed what he suspected.
She had totally neglected
The handy little volume where they tell
you how to cook.
Evening star., 1898-09-10
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4 kirtu9So,

He was far from prepossessing, and they
wondered, one and all,
How he ever got chance to answer to
his country's call.
His gait was rude and shambling and his
eyes were small and dim,
And annoying depredations Were most al
ways traced to him.
But the dsapproval didn't reach it's climax
till one night,
When. bearing an accordion, he gaily hove
in sight;
And they vowed an awful vengeance to be
wrought without delay
When TRANQUILITY he sat himself beneath
the stars to play.
But they paused again to listen to the notes
so harsh and shrll,
And presently the voices that had uttered
wrath were still.
The instrument was sounding strains that
mothers used to sing
When childish eyelids answered to the twi-
light shadowing.
That Nellie Was a Lady, It would
~ hoarsely tell them ALL
And Hard Times Come No More and
when the Leaves Begin to Fall
1t sang straight to their hearts, and ears
that once had been dismayed
In sweet remembrance listened as the old
accordion played.
Oh, happy organ builder, If the creature
you devise
Can equal those crude harmonies that fas-
tered to the skies,
Oh, thrice triumphant master, If such
plaudits you can win
As you rest your loving cheek against your
faithful violinI
The sternest mood grew gentle as with
voices soft and low
They Joined and sang in chorus those dear
tunes of long ago.
And their favorite musician will forever he
the scamp
Who found the old accordion and brought
it into camp.
Evening star., 1898-09-10
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A Narrow Escaue

Nike" exclaimed Flooding Pete, good
health's great blessin', amt it? All dat
keeps me spirits up is me good health II
it wasn't fur me powerful constitution,
how'd 1 be able ter git up an go some
where's else when offers Of work gifts too
thick?"
''Yes, an how'd we be able to digest all
dis pie an roast beef we gifts as we jour
neys along on our travels, on root fur no.
where in partic'lar? Wus you ever sick?'
mary. Wus your
''Well, had a purity cluss call once. De
medicine gent had me scarf clear up to me
neck. 1t was some years ago and dis
coverin' had jes' took new tack Dey'd
quit lookin fur de north pole an huntin'
fur comets wit telescopes an had gone to
discoverin' bacilluses an things. Pete. eff
ye vallies yer peace O. mind keep away
frcm desc young doctors when derers a new
discovery let loose. AS soon as his med
dicks looked at me knew he was out dis
Evening star., 1898-09-10

be marketed. Farmers are now virtually
giving fine tomatoes away, at from Il to 20
cents per busnel, rather than see the vege-
table rot on their vines.
1t is a blessing that tomatoes are so
abundant this season, not only for the rea
son that otner vegetables, such as peas,
beans and corn. have not matured so sue
ccssfui-y, but because the demand for the
canned article has been so great in the
army and navy duIirg the past four months
that dealers now have u very limited sup
ply of last years canned goods left on hand
to make up any GeiiCIancy that might have
existed had this seasons crop of tomatoes
been light
Salem coITty, with its thirty-three pack
ing houses, and Cumberland county with
fourteen, usually pack about 10 per cent of
the @ntlre output Of tomatoes in the United
states In good season, such as the pres
ent IS. l0,OO,00 cans are packed in Salem
county, and Cumberland county is good for
+,Wb,WD cans. The acreage in the two
counties this year is 81 per cent larger than
that OF last year, when the season was
only moderately fair one for growing to-
mafoes. 1t is estimated that the combined
pack Of the two counties this year will not
be less than G0OD,6J0 cans. The average
output of canned tomatoes in the United
States from 1893 to 1897 was about 5,25D, go
cases, or 126,0D0,OD cans
Evening star., 1898-09-10
Endenvorinr To lie Proper.

The little girl with a broad-brimmed hat
was bright child All the railway passep-
gers who happened to occupy seats in her
immediate vicinity were ready TO admit
that The lady with her wore gold eye
glasses and was reading raper-backed
novel as attentively as rer youthful COM
panion's flow Of conversation would permit
was you ever in a railway accident.
aUntie?" the child queried
No. dear"
Would you like to be-"
Certainly not"
Il know a man who was in a railway ac-
cident"
DO you?'
Yes. l asked him If It hurt him much
He said he just laughed when 1t was an
over"
1t couldn't have been a very serious ac-
cident." said the lady with gold eyeglasses
as she laid her book down and gave 4 sigh
OF resignation.
Yes. it was. 1t was quite a large acci-
dent, and his car was in the ve.y worst
He was fortunate to escape witlou, in
jury
He didn't. He lest his limb in the acci-
cent IL was all covered up in the debris.
Anu ne had to come away without it,"
w hat did you say he lost?' WAS The in
qury, in a tons OF slight severity
His limb
My dear, 1 am going to tell YOU some
| thing which i desire you to bear in mind
in the future. There was a time when pco-
pie VINO were very punctilious regarded II
as desirable to say limb when they meant
| leg. But now sensible persons who mean
leg use that word Don't say limb unless
that is what yoI mean. Remember that 4
limb is something that grows on n tree Do
You think you viii be able hereafter to
make that distinction?"
"Hes'm. l asked the gentleman that was
in the accident why he didn't go back after
ward and try to find his-his limb"
"Carolinei l thought / told you a limb
was som ething that grew on "A tree"
'Gesm. But, auntie, this gentleman's leg
was a wooden one
And the child told her story without fur
ther interruption.
Evening star., 1898-09-10
4 NATTER OF SUPPORT.
The Two Men Did Not Mean the Sam.
Max.

The young fellow, with business which
was netting him about $500 a year and
growing slowly but surely, arrived in
Washington one day last week from the
thriving town Of Chicago, and at once pro-
ceeded to the northwest part of the citv
where a very charming young lady lives
with her father and several other MEM
bers of her family, all very nice people and
extremely well-to-do and all of them very
friendly to the young man, except the
father, who is one of those fathers all of
US know about, who always seem to hava
got into the family by mistake. The old
man is, ambitious socially, and would rather
his daughter would marry a diplomat on 81
a week than the sharpest young business
man in ten states. 1t is rather remarkable
that such men remain American citizens
but they do. About two hours after the
young chap had gone into joint conference
with the young lady he begged to he ax
cused, and carefully proceeded into the
library to have a talk with papa
Being somewhat of hustler 1t was not
great while before the caller stated his
case fully, Notwithstanding he had not
been cheered on by an admiring father
Can you support my daughter, SIR the
Older man said with pompous dignity. ''in
tomed?"
do not recognize your authority to ask
me that question" replied the young man
stiffiy, and the older one nearly tumbled
over.
What do you mean, sir?' he inquired.
jumping up.
Just what say. / will never be called
on 10 support your daughter She will be nv
wife, and if don't support my wife In a
manner to which she has been accustomed
1t win be her privilege to object She has
not been accustomed to anything as nv
wife, but that is no sign she won't be, and
all you need to do is to give US a chance"
It almost foored the father bv its novel
ty, but the argument won, and the young
man Is getting a cage ready In Chicago for
Evening star., 1898-09-10
ONE OF THE tNRECoNsTUCTED
He Did Not Know That the War Was
On Again.

The war with SPAIN" remarked the
handsome drummer from PhilaGeIphia
n ay, as our statesmen and orators +ell
US. be blessing in that it has brought to-
Sether once more in fraternal union the
TWO sections of the country split wide open
by the civil war, but while their speeches.
are all right i'll general way, thay are
lacking in some of the particulars For in
stance. two weeks ago l was passing along
remote road in Mississippi At the ford
OF a small stream | met a man of about
thirty years, who was quite as primitive a
specimens as / ever saw in my life / asked
rim the way 10 the place was after. and.
as he was going the same way, l asked
him to Join me, and We enliveneG the Jour
ney by converse tion. Naturally. the first
thlng | spoke about after the preliminaries
was the war, and | said / di1r.'t suppose
he mad been In the fight.
No. he said. but my daddy wuz'
How did 1t happen that he went in and
you didn't?' | asked
1 wuzn't born then, mister he an
sWered. looking at me as if | ought to have
known better than to ask such question
on. L Mastered to explain when 1
caught onto what he was thinking about
1 don't mean the last war between the
norm and the south, but the one that has
been on this summer
'GeeW hillikins' he exclaimed has tbar,
been another war?
OF course there has" I said, laughing
at MS surprise and his ignorance
Well. III be derned,' he said after Civ
ing hlmseIf moments thought; it do
seem Ike ez ef we never would git them
dang Yankees licked plumb right; don't
it?
Then IT took ME n minute to compre-
mend clearly what was in the mind of this
tar-away, uurecoustructed southecner and
when did | never let on that he was mis-
taken in his facts and conclusions but ioI-
lied him along for mile down the road
when he turned off into the woods and left
me TO pursue my way alone, wondering
what there was in the world that we had
not yet heard off,
Evening star., 1898-09-10

S"Ntrih was sorry in a minute dat I
I LdI applied AT de drug store where l ham
pen"d to meet him. De fust ring k,,,.ry
ne Had me In his wagon an was dr:yin' me
20 ms Office says to him. Dock IN
heaHeh name whut have I been doin' to
pe KIDNAPPED fur% He SAYS: 4 wouldn't
be surprised IL you was a fine case I'm
lahln great personal risks. in assnriatin'
win yer, fur I'd he willin' To bet yn,I'ra
tuI o comma bacillusses' Dock saws /.
Scre wrong: Desc bacillusses amt
commas. kin tell hy me own reellr's
Dey amt anything as mild as commas.
Desc Is exclamation points at de very
le-st! An wit dat jumps de carriage an
run. An DAT de last time I ever braced
a drug shack fur Jamaica ginger"
Evening star., 1898-09-10
They Had 1t.

From the Norwich Argus.
II want copy of Victor Hugos master
piece" said the lady who had entered the
booksellers shop.
She expressed herself thus vaguely be-
cause she was nervous about her French
Il don't think we have any book Of that
name" responded the youth behind the
counter.
THAT is not the name Of the work It
merely describes it, rejoined the GUS
toner.
Published lately, ma'am?"
ut was published many years ago. Sure
ly you have Victor Hugo's greatest work?'
81 don't know whether we have or not.
What's the name of it?''
Lay Nee Say Rabble," replied the lady,
desperately.
''Oh, you mean Less Misserables.' Yes'm,
we've got it"