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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-06-30
An Old Railroader.

Early this fall the management Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad de-
cided that the uniformed force should
be provided with service stripes, and
on the winter uniforms each man has
one or more gold stripes on his right
sleeve II he has been in the service for
five or more years. The gold stripe
stands for five years continuous en-
ployment by the company. There is
one employee, a hale and hearty old
man, with keen, undlmmed eyes and
a springy step, who has been in the
continuous employ of the company for
30 years. w. III. Green is his rame,
but everybody on the line calls him
Captain Harry"
Captain Green Is probably the oldest
passenger conductor in the world. If
he Is not. he has the best record, for
not once has he been suspended from
duty for any cause whatever. And
then, too, he has never been injured.
Green was born on Sept. 10, 1927, in
Cockeysville, Baltimore county, Md,
and entered the Baltimore and Ohio
service March 3, 1850, as n freight
brakeman. He was promoted in two
years to freight conductor and in 1857
was given a passenger train and has
served in that capacity ever since. He
is now running through trains between
Baltimore and Cumberland, Md, and
wears ten service stripes on his right
arm. -WashingtOn Post.
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Strauss Divorced Wife.

Johann Strauss will is to be contest
ed. He left his property to a Vienna
musical society, providing small life
pensions only for his third wife, his
stepdaughter and sisters, but nothing
for the families OF his two brothers.
The chief contestant, however, will be
his second wife, from whom he Sc
cured u divorce and who Is employed
In a Berlin Photographic establish
ment. They were both Catholics when
they married, but as Austria does not
permit divorce Strauss went to the
duchy of Saxe-COburg-G otha, declared
that he had become Protestant, re-
sided in the ducby for the legal term
and then obtained Coburg divorce
and married again. AS Austria does
not recognize such divorces and the
Austrian inheritance law secures at
least a third of the property to the
widow, Strauss divorced second wife
seems to have good chances of getting
a large share of what he left.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-06-30
THEY DEVOuR FORESTS.
The Modern Pulp Mills Are Only Less
Destructive Thnn Fires.

Destructive Than Fires.
Nothing eats up timber land so fast
as a pulp mill. unless it's forest fire
with 40 KIN 1t gale to keep it going.
Each year we hear the cry that the
timber's being cleared to the last stick,
but the year following the lumbermen
go in and cut a notch few millions
larger And still there's plenty left
Fact is. Names spruce lot is a big pre-.
serve, and not in this generation will we
bee it exhausted. The state has an area
Of 81, 500 square miles and over one
half of that is forest land. The axes are
making inroads year by year. and the
railroads are winding their parallels
nearer the heart of the forest
The early lumbermen were SO fastidi-
ous that what they rejected is now look
ed upon as A No. l. Thus. lands which
have been nominally cleared once are
again good cutting. Especially is this
true when cutting for pulp, as the pulp
mills will take 20 per cent more timber
from tract than the sawmills. The
latter reject any tree that won't scale
10 feet in length with n diameter Of
eight inches at the top. but the former
are omnivorous and will crunch small
logs and tops with as keen relish as
they would bite into segment of 80
inch giant
They figure out that there is better
than 1000, 600, 900 feet of logs left in
the Androscoggin valley. Four billion
is good deal, but the pulp mills have
awful appetites. The International Pa
per company. which is logging from
Canton to the Diamonds on the Magal- |
loway. will call for 100. 900. 900 just |
to supply its chain of mills from Rum
ford Falls to Livermore Falls. You can
easily figure out how long 1t would take
to exhaust the supply if the trust had it
all
But the trust is neither sole owner Of
the land nor sole consumer of the lum-
Der Much Of the timber land in the
upper Androscoggin valley is so snugly
tied up that nothing short Of foot for
foot in gold mine would induce a
But it may be that when tim
Der is scarce enough to make prices in
teresting there II be some shifts in that
corner Of Maine. and when there are
they'll be big ones
What is true of the Androscoggin
valley is true Of the Kennebec and the
Penobscot, save that the reserve is not
being worked up quite so rapidly.
The forests are going. but they are
large and there's lots Of meat on their
bones for the digesters.
To talk about their "growing up as
last as they are cut off, is nonsense
when you stop to think that spruce is
well on to 200 years old before it's big
enough to cut. Lewiston (Me. Jour.
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ANCIENT DENTISTRY.
Some Things Not Mentioned mt the
Massachusetts Dental Society.

BONE 1hfuEs MOI mentioned AT tno
Massachusetts Dental Society.
We regret that we were unable to
attend the annual meeting of tho
Massachusetts, Dental society. A skill
dentist Is one of the noblest works
OF God. DR.. Clark said that most den
lists are unaware of the supcrlntive
value of turpcntine for many PURPOSES
as breath Swcetencr. This is interest
ing. for as a breath Swcetcncr turpen-
tine has been associated with gin.
When was the toothbrush invented,
and when was ii first hung near the
sink for general use? Toothpicl;s were
known to the ancient Romans. but
Erasmus In his book on etiquette. al
though he insists OH the duty of keep
ing the teeth clean, adds, ITO whiten
them with powder Is duty only of
girls"
We also regret that there was no
discussion Of the Lupton,an method OF
pulling teeth. Here is the rule given
by Thomas Lupton in lG2T: "To draw
out tooth. 1l an earthern pot with
emets or ants and their eggs and set
the same pot in hot embcrs so long un-
Ill all he burned into ashes; and when
any doth axe, which you would draw
forth without pain, then take of the
same powder and touch the tooth
Herewith. and 1t will fall out"
This method Of extraction seems to
us more humane than the operation in
vented by DR.. Tushmaker Of Boston,
who had naturally strong mechanical
genius and fine appetite. John Phoe-
nix tells us that Tushmaker was the
man who first invented 1.-THE method
of placing small cogwheels in the back
teeth for the more perfect mastication
of food, and he claimed to be the orig
inal discoverer Of that method of fill
ing cavities with kind of putty |
which, becoming hard directly, causes |
the tooth to ache so vigorously that IL |
has to be pulled, thereby giving the |
dentist twosuccessive fees for the same |
job"
These discoveries alone should pre-
serve Tushmaiiers name for all time;
but, perhaps from jealousy, perhaps
from ignorance. this dental giant was
not mentioned at the meeting. There
was not even passing allusion to his
for pulling teeth. "a COM
bination of the lever, pulley. wheel and
iXle, inclined plane, wedge and screw.
A child 3 years Of age could, :,
Dy single turn Of this screw, raise
stone weighing % tons."-Boston Jour
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GOVERNING A FAMILY.


One Way 90 Maintain thc Dignity OF
the Head OF The House.
had put Up at IA shanty of IA Dakota
settler for The night, and soon after
[ supper his seven or eight children
showed signs of wcariaess and the ia
Their stopped his conversation with me
to say:
"Waal, childr, n. you'd better be off to
roost Henry, you come here and get
licked"
Henry was about II years old. but he
promptly came forward and was haul
ed over the parental knee and given
half dozen vigorous spanks. When
he had fallen back the father called:
"Now, Oscar, it's your turn"
Oscar advanced with shy look at me
and got the same kind OF dose; and
then Charles, Richard, Sarah, Title
and Nancy succeeded him in rotation.
Not one of them made the least resist
ance, nor did | see tear on any cheek
as they fell back. All were more or less
embarrassed over the fact of stranger
being present. but the whipping seem
cd to be part Of the evening pro-
gramme. After they had gone to bed
and we had talked out other subjects
the father said:
what dye think of my children,
Stranger
"Thcy are about as healthy and good
looking a lot as can be found In the
state" replied.
That's all in the bringing up, sir-all
in the bringing up" he proudly contin-
ned. Eyes, guess you'd have to go
good ways to beat this lot of children.
Ma and me think we have n right TO
feel proud of EN-. Not one of 'em ever
says or does a thing to be licked for"
But noticed you spanked the
whole lot this evening"
YES. spanked 'em same rs usual, but
they hadn't done anything. That's jest
one of our rules. you know"
do you mean that you've made it
rule to spank your children every
evening in the week." | asked.
"Sartinly, Sir-sartinly. | spank 'cm
four nights In the week, and ma spanks
'em the other three. Regular thing,
sir We begin with 'em when they are
a month old and keep it right up. Don't |
even miss Christmas eve"
but what Is the object"
Family government sir-family !
government. Not only that. but 1t cir
culates the blood. prevents cold feet
md makes 'em hungry in the morning.
Beats any tonic in the world for chill
1ren. If l happen to get home late, they
can't go to bed without it. Use the
right hand on the boys and the left on
the gals. while the old woman takes
the bootiack 10 all alike Sarah, how
DID is the baby"
She'll be t weeks next Sunday"
answered the wife.
That's three days off. but she'll get
ler spanking Sunday night with the
est Yes, sir, ii establishes family
government. adds dignity to the head
# the house, and ma or me don't have
o spend half Of our time chasing 'em
around with ak or flinging clubs and
iatirons at their headS"-Clhcago
News.
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AN UNBURIEO SKULL.
The Weird story of the Ghost Of
BOyntOn Agnes Hall.

BOyntOn Agnes Hall.
Boynton Agnes Hall, the country seat
of Sir Henry Somerville BoyntOn, who
has go recently died, has one of the
most extraordinary ghost stories at
tached to it. The house, which was de-
signed by lingo Jones, Is large and
picturesque red brick building, partly
in the Tudor and partly in the Eliza
bethan and Jacobean styles. The in
terror, which was decorated by Rubens,
contains some magnificent apartments,
including grand hall, with finely
carved screen. behind which is splen.
did staircase. Over the mantelpiece in
the hall there was a curious representa-
ton of the Empire of Death. In the
time of Elizabeth the hall and estates
became vested in three sisters coheir-
esses, who determined to have erected
for themselves and their descendants
the present mansion, instead of the old
er building.
The youngest of the three sisters,
who had taken a special interest in the
erection of the new house. was brutally
maltreated by some ruffians when pay
ing a visit to Harpham Hall, the resi-
dence of Lady st. Quentin, and died
very shortly after. Before her death
she made her sisters promise that her
head should be removed from her body
and preserved within the hall, to re-
main there forever She also left
weird message to future owners Of the
house that if they disobeyed these in.
functions she would render the place
uninhabitable.
Her sisters. who had only made the
promise to pacify her, had the body in
tered in the church without decapita-
ton. A very short time afterward such
terrible disturbances took place in
Boynton Agnes Hall that the servants
refused to remain in it. and ii became,
in truth, impossible to live there. The
two sisters then consulted with the |
vicar Of the parish and had the coffin I
brought up from the vault. and, on
opening it. found the head severed from
the body and rapidly assuming the APP
pearance of feshless skull The skull
was duly brought to the house and
placed on a table in the hall, where
with the exception of very short
periods, it has remained ever since
On one occasion a maidservant se-
cretly threw it from a window on to
wagon, which remained immovable I'M
til, terror stricken with what she had
done, the girl confessed. and the skull
was restored to its place At another
time the Boynton of the day, ignoring
or disbelieving his ancestress' power.
caused the skull to be buried in the
garden. The result was that dreadful
and numerous unexplained
:rashings were heard about the hall.
md the skull had to be again rein.
Itated. London Mail.
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Deem Sen Pressure.

The British oceanographers who were
exploring the intermediate depths of
the Atlantic some $50 miles west of Ire
land last summer have left us in pain.
full doubt as to the meaning of an in
teresting phenomenon which they oh
served. There was some curiosity to see
what would be the effect Of pressure
upon wood in the depths Of the sea, and
so a piece of common deal match board
ing was sent down On wire tc a depth
OF 5000 feet. II came up apparently
unchanged and deeI sea pressures were
openly derided, as MIR. George Murray
writes, "by some Of the more frivolous
members of the expedition.
The piece of pood was left on deck,
and on the following day, as it was de-
sired to ascertain the drift, it was
thrown overheard. Instead of keeping
ahoat and performing the service ex-
pected Of it. the board sank like shot,
and there ends the story The men Of
science might have ventured the theory
that deep sea pressure had forced water
all through the pores and then smashed
in the ends thereof, leaving the board
permanently waterlogged, but they
cautiously reserved Judgment.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-06-30
THE LAST OF THE BISON.
Even the Yellowstone Park Herd
Has Dwindled Away.

| mas DMfnule0 Away.
In answer to correspondent a
writer in Forest and Stream has this
TO say regarding the practical extermi-
nation of the American bison In It's
wild state:
''ln 1893, when Billy Hofer and my
self made the trip through the Yellow
stone park in the winter with the pur-
pose Of counting the buffaloes, 1t was
supposed that there were 800 buffaloes
left in the Yellowstone park. We could
not feel In the least sure that there
were over 49, after we had counted
all that we could find or hear OF, and
then we felt that it was quite likely
we had counted the same buncA more
than once. Probably there Y 100
to l25 head In the park at thdy time
There were at that time in the Mus
selshcll country of Montana about
eight or ten head Of buffaloes. Which
were later killed by the Crees. There
were also then perhaps few animals
Of a somewhat mythical herd in the
Red Desert Of Wyoming never esti-
mated nj over IL dozen head and whose
existence for the past ten years has
been more than doubtful. Also the
same could be said regarding the Lost
park herd of Colorado, where, for a
time. half dozen or 50 bulfaloes were
known to exist. There may have been
a ho Il of in h,.t -
Is doubtful If any are alive now.
"The buf'aloes of the Yellowstone
park met their fate the more quickly
by reason Of the fact that during
a mild winter they wandered out from
the west side Of the park and were
killed by men along the edge Of the
park. AS they were picked up about
as fast as they came out into Idaho or
the Market lake precincts. it Is unlikely
that any are left alive outside the
park Inside the park at last accounts
during the past year there were only |
about II or 10 buffaloes supposed to be
left, and these were not breeding.
"There Is not in all likelihood a sin |
gle individual left Of the Staked Plains
herd, out Of which Buffalo Jone,
caught bis calves in 1856 to 1889. Uni
in the Peace river region Of the British
possessions there really is a herd Of
wood bison left, for so my friend Nor
ris, who was up there last year. tells
NE. and he says the Indians know
where they are The numbers Of these
are not known. and II would be only
guosSwork to state them. as. indeed. I'll
Is more or Tess gucsswOrk to state fig
urcs as above.
"On the face Of all discoverable in
formation on this head, 1t Is safe tol
say there are not dozen live wild buf
Palocs outside the Yellowstone park In
the United States. and If there Is q
single one | do not know where II Is
Inside the park there may be 20 head
Or so.
"The Peace river herd, not In the
United States and always more or less
l matter of fable, may number ION
lead, though 1t Is by no means likely
t is more apt to be the case that there ,
nay be only a score or so Of these AMI {
nails which have been able to escape
he hungry Indian Of that forsaken re- {
,Ion." {
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PRICES TO CATCH THE EYE.
The Italian Fruit sellers Shrewd-
ness In Marking Ills Wnres.

The Italian Fr1it Sellers Shrewd-
ness In Marking Ills Wares.
The Italian fruit seller shows his
shrewdness as Il business man In a
small way 10y the prices which he puts
on his wares. The fruit is arranged in
tempting groups on his pushcart, and
each group is usually marked with q
ticket, so that the pedestrian may
know the prices without asking. Over
pile of plums may be seen the tiny
sign. IS for cents"
Now the average customer does not
buy eight plums, and when he asks for
one it is cents. OF two for cents,
and, as the vender sells more lots Of
one than anything else, the eight for 8
cents becomes myth, and his stock
averages nearly 2 cents apiece. Peaches
that are marked II for - cents If sold
in dozen lots would be fairly cheap,
but one peach from the same pile al
ways costs 3 cents, and as 1.-TWO for
5" is the popular sale in that class.
the lot which is advertised at % cents
usually brings more than 80. In the
orange season IS for % cents" is IA
vorite price placed on the fruit, which
is really sold for cents apiece.
A bronzed Italian who has a regular
route, over which he sells fruit at all
times of the years. was asked, why
don't you make prices for one or two,
and not for eight or q dOzenW
"Eightee for nine mackee We look
den we payee two TO one" and he
winked the other eye in a way that
showed that his reputation for shrewd-
ness was well deServed.-New York
Tribune
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METALS IN THE ARTS.
Enormous Quantities of Gold and
Silver Are Consumed.

Enormous Quantities of Gold and
Silver Are Consumed.
Ii is easy TO ascertain how much GOLD
and silver are absorbed in the coinage
of the various nations but the most
careful estimates as to the quantities
of these metals used in the arts and in
dustries are only approximate. Stats
ticians In the treasury department or
the French government recently under
took the considerable task of compi-
ing the best information on this sub
ject and the figures they have reached
are probably as accurate as any that
have yet been published.
Most of the gold used in the arts is
for ornamentation. though II is also
employed to large extent for the
most practical purposes, as IN den
tistry. Ii is doubtful if even Jewelry
CONSUMES larger quantity of gold
than some other ways in which 1t is
used. The consumption for gliding
alone is large. The films of gold leaf
are thin, but enormous numbers or
them are applied TO considerable va
riety Of manufactures, such as signs,
jewelry, books, frames, furniture, pot
terry. and other articles, and the aggre-
gate value of the gold thus used Is
large. The consumption Of gold for
gliding has considerably increased
since electro gliding came into vogue,
both because more gliding is done and |
also because the new process wastes a |
considerable quantity of the metal Ac-
cording to the French figures, the
United States consumes in the arts |
about $1,000 pounds Of gold in year,
which amounts in value to $lO.OOO,OOO |
i'm round numbers. France however,
with her pre-eminent manufactures OF
tewelry and other articles Of luxury,
heads the list with an annual con-
sumption of about 1920 pounds a
year. Great Britain also surpasses the
United States with a. pounds;
Germany consumes 29,04O pounds;
Switzerland, $4,000; Italy. 1000; Rus
STA. 1900; Austria Hungary, 6,175. and
Belgium and Holland, $500.
Perhaps one reason why the United
States consumes in the arts Il good deal
more silver than any other country Is
because photography here, with its
amateur branch, is far more extensive
ly In use than in any other land. The
chief industrial uses of silver are for
solid silver plate and silver plating,
for harnesses and other Or
and photography. The
silver Industries In the United States
consume over $4,000 pounds year.
Germany and France about $4,000
each. Russia 100000, and
Great Britain Dos OOO.-Eychange
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A BIT OF HISTORY.
The Result of "a DIunder of an Ego
tistic Consul.

ttsttc Consul.
The following story was told to the
Chicago Tribune correspondent at Ber-
| lin by diplomat to Illustrate the SUI
periority of professional consuls over
commercial consuls, but it Is equally
pertinent to Whittlers couplet-
For Of all sad words Of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: ut might have been"
When Consul General Lee closed his
Office In Havana just before the out
break of war, he took the key to the
German consul, who was Il merchant,
and offered TO place the interests Of
the United states and the lives and
property Of American residents under
the protection of the German eagle.
He Informed his colleague he wished
to reciprocate the honor conferred upon
the American consul at Paris in 1870
Without even notifying his govern
ment the merchant consul at once de-
clincd to assume the responsibility on
the ground that it would hurt his bust
ness. General Lee then went to the
British representative, n professional
diplomat, and he, of course, accepted
the trust rs n high honor to his cOun-
try.
The Berlin foreign office heard Of the
matter some time afterward in a
roundabout way, as the story goes. 1t
was intensely mortified, but it was
then too late to make an explanation.
General Lee, of course, Informed the
secretary of state of the rebuff he had
received at the hands Of the German
representative. AS no explanation was
received from the banks of the Spree,
1t was assumed the consul acted under
instructions, and his refusal to accept
an office which international courtesy
renders almost obligatory was looked
upon as an intentional slight.
The diplomat went on to say he at
tributed the miserable squabbles Of the
last two years largely to the blunder OF
the egotistic consul. Had Germany UNI
dertaken to watch over American in
terests In Cuba Il diplomatic entente
would likely have ensued which would |
have dissipated the suspicion she was |
plotting to interfere. Admiral Dewey |
would probably have had no ground to |
believe Admiral Dlederichs wanted to
shy his castor into the ring. public
opinion in Germany would have been
not have been called upon to show his
teeth to the captain of the Fake. for
there would have been no quarrel be-
tween the English and Americans on
the one hand and the Germans on the
other at Samoa. Such at least is the
opinion Of the diplomat who told the
story, and it is a true story.