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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01
Chamberlain Cough Remedy
Great FayOrite.

The soothing and healing proper
ties OF this remedy, it's pleasant taste
and prompt and permanent cures
have made it great favorite with
people everywhere. 1t is especially
priced by mothers of small children
for colds, Group and whoopiDg cough
as it always affords quick relief, and
as it contains no opium or other
harmful drug, it may be given as
confidently to baby rs to an adult
For sale by VIM. r. Bell & Co., Ac-
comac G. H., Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01
STICK TO SIMPLE FOOD.
The American business Mans Pace
Demands Easily DiGented Dishes.

Vhc American business Mans Pnc,
Demands Easily DiGented Dishes.
"There was in the cid days far les!
wear and tear upon the nerves, and
under such conditions, digestion wa.
more completely performed" writes
Mrs. S. Il. Rorer of why Am Op
posed to Pics" in The Ladies' Home
Journal "Thc mothers of today must
look more carefully to the building OF
their bodies and brains than their
mothers and grandmOthers did. In
deed at the pace at which we Ameri.
cans are going we use our brains AT
full speed nearly all the time. What
man can build brain and Drawn on
pies, layer cakes or preserves or any
other mass Of material which from its
very compleXlty requires labor and
time for digestion, drawing the blood
from the brain to the stomach during
his working hours? Observe those who
eat their complex foods carelessly and
hastily and You will see at n glance
the conditions that necessitate a COM
plete rest every now and then, or an
early nervous breakdown.
"In my close observation In the last
20 years find very few people in our
common struggle for existence who can
for any length Of time eat carelessly OF
complex foods. At 40 or 30 a man may
perhaps have accumulated wealth, but
not health, and Of what earthly use is
the first without the second? Many
persons In the generation gone before
have eaten pies at least once a day.
but they have not had meat three times
q day, nor have they rushed at our
pace. They gave more time to the d.
gestiOn Of the pie. People who recon-
mend these rich foods rarely know any
thing Of their complex conditions and
still less of the complexity of diges.
ton"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01
Economy.

whats thisY exclaimed the young
husband, referring to the memorandum
she had given him. "One dozen eggs,
one pound of rasins. a bottle of lemon
extract. a tin of ground cinnamon and
half a pound of sugar-what do you
want with all these things, BelindaY'
"I'ye got a stale loaf" replied the
young wife, that Pm going to save
by working it up into bread pudding.
never let anything go to waste,
Henry."-London Fun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01

Its no fun being married. My wife
is coming to me all the time and ask
ing for money!
You're lucky! have to ask my
wife always for money when l want
anyr-Heitere Welt.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01
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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-01

1t is not enough that people shall be
clad; they must be dressed. Costly
thy habit as thy purse can buy" was
the advice Of Polonius to his son;
"rlch, but not gaudy, for the apparel
oft proclaims the man." and the advice
is just as good today as it was 300
years ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Brown Sauce.

A good brown sauce that serves as q
foundation for half dozen other
sauces, varied by the addition of lemons
juice, mushrooms, wine or tomato, is.
made as follows: Put two tablespoon
fuls of butter into frying pan on the,
back of the range and as it begins to.
sizzle add to it sliced onion, a small
carrot, bay leaf and half of a small
turnip chopped fine. Cover the pan
and, pushing still further back, let the
contents "steam" for a quarter of an
hour. Pull forward over the fire and
allow the vegetables to color, but not
Nefore stirring in two tablespoonful of
Hour. When well Drowned add grad
ually two cupfuls stock, three cloves, 3
blade of mace, half a dozen pepper
corns and little salt Again cover
and simmer for twenty minutes. Strain
and serve.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Success With Turkeys.

It is impossible for some people to
make success with turkeys, and so
far as our observation goes, the fault
lies with the breeder and not with the
bird. Starting with good strong breed
ing stock, proper attention to the poults
will bring success. In number of
failures we have found the cause to
be breeding from immature stock.
Breeders should not only be mature,
but they should be large strong birds.
We do not approve of compelling tur-
keys to roost indoors. The turkey
needs plenty of fresh air and will be
healthier and stronger if it is allowed
to roost out doors the year round. The
turkey has never quite been able to get
rid of it's wild nature, and to shut it
up is radical antagonism to that part
of it's nature that it is still wild.
Lice is fertile cause of failure, and
there are breeders who never take pre-
cautions against this destructive pest.
let lice once get hold of young turkeys
and the whole brood will go the way
of all the living The breeders should
be thoroughly and frequently busted
with insect powder as the breeding sea-
son approaches, and young turkeys
should be similarly treated until they
are several weeks old. 1t is a fact that
lice are responsible for good many
deaths that are attributed to other
causes. Lice and bad feeding certain
ly are A neighbor of ours lost brood
last year because, she said, they got
wet. 1t is not well to allow poults to
get wet, but it is not wholly true, as
is often asserted, that a wet little tur-
key is as good as a dead turkey. We
have had poults get v ct and not die.
But if you feed badly and permit lice
to abound-as was the case with my
neighbours brood-wet, OF any other
condition that requires some stamina
in the young thing, will end its life.
The turkey hen should be the mother
of young turkeys. 1t may sometimes
be desirable to set turkey eggs under
a common hen, but the brood should be
given to turkey hen to mother. The
common hen is out of her element with
little turkeys. Her natu i theirs
differs, and she does not L. and her
charges We have never used the in
cubator and brooder for turkeys,
though others have, and claim that they
have been successful.-The Agricultur
iSt
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Tit for Tat.

1t is characteristic of those who are
severe on others that they cannot bear
severity. Dean Swift, the severest
satirist of his day, was one day dining
with a company of gentlemen, one Of
whom he had made the butt of his ridi-
Guile. with repeated sallies. At last the
Dean poured upon piece Of duck some
gravy intended to be eaten with q
roasted goose. The unfortunate gentle
man, seeing this, Immediately said:
my good dean, you surprise me-you
eat duck like goose The company
reared, and the poor dean was so con-
fused and mortified that he few into q
rage and left the table.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
rhE HEART OF The TREE.

it does he plant who plants tree!
e plants friend of sun and sky;
plants the flag of breezes free;
be shaft of beauty towering high;
e plants a home to heaven anigh
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard
j treble of heavens harmony
use things he plants who plants tree.
Dat does he plant who plants a tree!
lie plants cool shade and tender rain,
"a seed and bud of days to be,
IND years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory Of the plain;
He plants the forests heritage,
The harvest Of the coming age,
lie joy that unborn eyes shall see
hese things he plants who plants tree
hat does he plant who plants tree!
He plants, in sap and leaves and wood,
love of home and loyalty,
And far-cast thought Of civil good
His blessing ON the neighborhood
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land
nations growth from sea to sea
.irs in his heart who plants a tree.
Century.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Soaking Seeds.

Soaking seeds in pure water has some
disadvantages; it dissolves some SUBJ
stance from the seeds, which is brown
in color and gives off the smell of am
monia under heat, showing that nitro
genous matter. which nature has stored
there to nourish the young germ, has
been soaked out. The water will be
weaker and paler in color than from
seeds not so treated.
Seeds soaked in water dry very
quickly, and the evaporation leaves
them dryer than before; therefore
such seeds frequently fail in dry
soil, or during a period of dry, warm
weather.
These evil results may be easily
avoided by soaking seeds in solution
of some chemical salts of a fertiliZing
nature. Such solution can dissolve but
little from the seed; on the contrary
it thoroughly impregnates them with
fertilizing ingredients, so that the
young plants appear darker and de-
cidedly stronger.
Seeds so STEPPED always continue
moist, in consequence of the properties
of the saline substance they contain
American Gardening.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Black Brood.

The theory of poison in food has be-
fore been preached with reference to
black brood, but the following, from
Massachusetts Ploughman, mentions
new way of poisoning:
A new theory in regard to what is
known as black brood was advanced
at the beekeepers' convention the other
day, but as we have not seen full re-
port yet we do not know what facts
there are to support it. This differs
from foul brood inasmuch as that the
dead larvae do not have the odOr char
acteristic of foul brood, nor will they
string out when pulled apart. They
simply die in the comb, which turns
black and then dries up SO as to
crumble, while the bees also soon die
out. The idea advanced was that it
was caused by feeding of syrup which
had been boiled in rusty iron kettles.
We think the disease has appeared in
cases where no feeding has been done,
but it may be that the disease is SO in
fectious as to be communicated by the
flying bees or by the flowers which the
diseased bees may have visited. While
we are sceptical in regard to the above
theory, and have not learned of any
case near enough for us to make inves-
tigation, we shall watch closely for fur
Their information from those who have
been troubled by this black brood or
picked brood, as it is sometimes
called.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
CURIOSITY OF THE CHINESE.
fiardships European Woman Encountered
in the Empire.

The eyes of the world are upon China
at the present writing, which makes
timely the appearance of work by
Mrs. j. f. Bishop on "The Yangtze
Valley and Beyond which embodies
the personal experiences of the writer
in the Celestial Empire.
Mrs Bishop for the most part trav-
eled alone, save for a few natives, and
on several occasions nearly lost her
life at the hands of violent mObs who
had never seen European. The hard
ships she endured from the curious
crowds she thus describes:
II sat in my chair in the village
street the unwilling center of large
and very dirty crowd, which had
leisure to stand around me for an hour,
staring, making remarks, laughing at
my peculiarities, pressing closer and
closer till there was hardly air to
breathe, taking out my halrpins and
passing my glove round and putting
them on their dirty hands, and ON two
occasions abstracting my spoon and
slipping it into their sleeves, being in
no way abashed when they were de-
fected The crowd which always
gathered during my passage down the
street rolled in at the doorway, block
ing up the yard, shouting, oftentimes
hooting, and fighting each other for
a look at the foreigner. Fortunately
doors in Chinese inns have strong
wooden bolts, and when my baggage
and.I were once ensconced / was Sc
cure from intrusion, unless few men
and boys ran on ahead to take poses
sion of the room before | entered it
or forced themselves Ia behind Be
diem when he brought in my dinner.
If it were merely boarded wall, a
row of patient eyes usually watched
me for an hour, and with much graft
fication. for these rooms are dark with
the door shut, and my candle revealed
my barbarian proceedings. But worse
than this was the slOrv scraping of
holes in the plaster partition, when
next, accompanied by the peculiarly.
irritating sound of whispering and
eventually by the application of a sue
cession of eyes to the hole, more
whispering and some giggling.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
A CULINARY TRIUMPH.

R01HEN Dorothy Griswold, after
NXAW brief but blissful courtship,
became Mrs. Philip Marston, it
eemed to her that life could hold no
bore of happiness. But, alas, cloud
ppeared on the sky of connubial bliss
vhich increased in dimensions and
ensity every day. The fact Of the
halter is this: Dorothy could not
$ook-not little bit. Like too many
Sf the girls of the present period, she
Vas educated in anything and every
hing but the one thing needful to a
housekeeper whose husband is a clerk
b. a Chicago department store.
Dorothy awoke from her dream of
bliss to a realizing sense of her de-
hciencles. She discovered that burnt
teak, muddy coffee, soggy biscuit, and
Hried-up roasts were not exactly the
light sort of fuel with which to feed
The Pickering flame of domestic love.
Philip was too much of gentleman to
indulge in unkind or sarcastic speeches
10 the bride OF a few months, but be
lost his bright spirits, became serious
hnd preoccupied in his manner, lost
bis appetite, and, horrors, began to get
Thin.
Dorothy became anxious and worried
him nearly to death with her solicitude.
When, one morning he announced to
her that his firm desired him to go to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
BEAUTIFUL FEET ARE RARE.
Present. Day Footwear Distorts the Elk.
tremities Abominab1y.

Present Day Footwear Distorts the Elk.
tremities Abominably.
A man who denies that he is preju
diced, but claims that he is a good
judge of feminine beauty, declares that
there is scarcely beautiful foot to be
found. among the women of to-day.
The high heels, the exaggerated curve
at the ball of the foot, the stiff heel
stays and the pointed toes, he declares,
have distorted the foot in a painful
and ugly manner.
The ankles are misshapen In some
cases the bones are enlarged until they
bulge out so that every bone is percep-
tible. The weight of the body thrown
upon the toes has caused them to
spread out Crowded into pointed toes,
they stick up in clusters of knotty
corns.
The foot should be as shapely as the
fits the hand. The perfect foot is slen-
der, with an arched instep and toes
that lie smoothly and easily.
The first step toward acquiring a
pretty foot is to wear shoes that fit it
comfortably. The next is to take ex-
ercises that will render the toes strong
and supple. Begin by spreading out
the toes to the utmost extent; then hold
four toes still and attempt to move the
remaining one. Every toe should be
distinct and able to move separately.
Every nail should keep it's shape. just
as finger nails do. The big toe should
be straighter and shorter than the
next one and the arch should be shape
ly and plant.
The feminine foot of to-day renders
a graceful carriage an impossibility.
And all because Dame Fashion has de-
creed that a short, high-heeled, point
ed-toe shoe is the correct thing in
dressy footgear, forgetting that there
never was human foot built that
waV
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Farmers Signboards.

There is no occupation in which evil
dences of real success or the reverse
are SO patent to all observers as that
porous doesn't have to make declara
tons of the fact.
The signboards which testify of his
success will be well kept roadsides,
fences in good repair, thrifty orchards,
washes in fields arrested by proper
means, pastures with abundant grass
growth but free from weeds, good
grades of stock, provision for protect
ing stock in times of cold and storm,
poultry yard and house in condition to
be profitable, manure intelligently
saved and wisely used, a good garden
spot, and this titled SO as to make it
pay farm implements shielded from
summers sun and winters storm.
These signboards will be read by
neighbors and the casual passer by, and
yet the buildings may not be palatial,
though we are heartily in sympathy
with the best farm home that can be
provided without incurring debt.
To bring about these unmistakable
evidences of thrift means exercise of
Drawn and brain. The latter especial
~ must be put to work and worked
hard. Did you know that there are
more people who are lazy mentally
than there are of those who are ply
sically lazy? Many will do, and do it
well, a task that has been all arranged
for them, but when left to individual
resources where the exercise Of mental
powers in forming plans is demanded
such men are utter failures. The pow
er to formulate wise plans and to exc
cute them or have them executed is a
business faculty that is too often o. sr-
looked ON the farm. A commercial en-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
ADummy Hive For Queen Bees.

For increasing the storing of comb
honey, the use Of dummy for keep
ing the hive full of brood is advisable.
This dummy is simply a beard as long
as the hive is wide, less onefourth inch
at each end, and as wide as the hive
is deep, less one-fourth inch at the
bottom. This is nailed to the top bar
of frame and hung in the hive in
place of any frame not filled with
brood Some queens will keep all the
frames of a hive full of brood, while
others cannot keep more than six or
eight If a dummy is put in in place
of each empty frame, the bees will then
go to filling the sections, otherwise no
honey will be stored.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Potato BIigt t.

1t is not yet fully decided, or at least
parties are not all agreed, whether the
leaf blight is the cause of the potato
rot, or whether they are entirely diff
ferent fungus resulting from similar
conditions. We incline to the latter
opinion, because we have found rotten
potatoes where we saw no leaf blight.
But it is surely the case that when the
leaf is badly blighted the crop is dam
aged, and there is likely to be rotten
potatoes in the hill. 1t is, therefore,
better to prevent the blight by spray
ing with the Bordeaux mixture. 1t is
not claimed that this will cure the
blight when it has once got a foot
hold, but is is preventive, and even
may check its spread when it has APP
peared in part of the field. The direc-
tons given by the experiment stations
for effectual work in this is to begin
spraying when the vines are six inches
high, and repeat one in 10 days or two
weeks, as long as the vines remain
green, which they are said to do much
longer than when not sprayed. This
gives a longer season of growth, even
on fields where the blight would not
have come, and this results in heavier
crop. A case has been reported where
part Of . field was sprayed and part
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Plenty of Space Between Crops.

If new variety of corn, melon, Gu
cumber or tomato is to be preserved in
their purity the plants of one variety
should not be grown near another. A
highly priced novelty of a melon will
several hundred feet of it, or even a
greater distance, as bees and insects
carry pollen from one plant to an
other. The fact that varieties of corn
will mix even when two or more kinds
are in distant fields, is we'll known. II
seed is to be saved it is better to grow
only one variety of each kind Of crop
and then select the seed from the most
perfect specimens.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Orange Ielly.

One box of gelatine, one pint of or
ange juice, the juice of lemon, one
pint of sugar, pint and half of boil
ing water. half pint of cold water, and
the white and shell of an egg. Soak the,
gelatine. Add the boiling water, sugar,
the fruit juice and the white and shelh
of the egg, beaten with two tablespoon
fuls of cold water. Let the mixture.
come to boil, and set back for twenty
minutes where it will keep hot, but not
boil. Strain through a napkin. Place
the mold to the depth of two inches
with liquid jelly, and, when this is
hardened, put in a layer of oranges
divided into eighths, pour on little
more jelly to set the fruit and then fill
it up with the jelly. Keep in the ice
chest six hours and serve with whipped
cream.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
SAVED BY A SNAKE.
Inspectors Experience in Norther in the
Lone Star State.

Lone Star State.
Speaking of snakes said man
whose manners and attire smacked
strongly of the west, according to the
Detroit Free Press, "a cold snap and
snake saved my life once when l
was prospecting in northern Texas. |
had been out and got lost in the noun
tains, and reckon 1 would have starv-
ed if it hadn't been for the change of
weather and the snake. You've heard
about the norther in Texas that comes
down with a rush and changes sum-
mer day in autumn to a freezer from
Freezersville, haven't you? Well, it
was that kind of thing that caught
me. l was stumbling along about dead
one day at noon among the cliffs,
scared half to death all the time at
the snakes that were stretched on the
rocks summing themselves. | hadn't SO
much as stick to defend myself with,
and | was kept on the watch every
minute. All at once before l or the
snakes knew what was happening, the
sky clouded up and norther swept
down ON us. | made my way to cave
had noticed near by, and, getting far
back into it, / kept from freezing, but
could not have a fire because there
wasn't any timber up there on the
mountains.
EARLY the next morning l got out
and concluded to make for the valley,
where somebody might find my dead
body, anyhow, after the starving had
finished me. 1t was colder than Alas
ka, and l hadn't gone more than a
sneaked out of cave just beyond mine
and came after me. / gave up then,
for l was weak as a kitten, and had
nothing to- fight with, but | couldn't
help making some kind of show, and
| looked around to get any old thing
to hit the wolf one lick, when l no
ticed a snake on fat rock, frozen
hard. grasped it just as the wolf got
near enough to growl, and as he came
at me / hit him three-base hit with
that ball club of a frozen snake that
knocked him silly. 1t was square one
right ON the jaw, and he keeled over
like log. Then l hoped on him and
kicked the life out of him.
Wolf meat isn't prime eating, but
anything will do for a starving man,
and it WASH long till l had sliced
meal off Of him with my penknife, and,
making a bee line for the valley, where
there were some trees, | soon had a
fire, and the wolf meat cooking on it.
That saved my life and gave me
strength enough to go back and cut
off his hams, which l carried away
with me and lived on for two days
longer, when | was picked up by some
other prospectors and restored to my
friends. Nowadays when | see snake
1 always have very friendly feeling
for him, whether he is frozen or not