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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20

Appointments of Edwin T. Powell
Mapsburg, Oct. 9, 10 and 18th.
louisville, Oct. I6, afternoon.
Casvile, Oct Is, morning.
Fineys, Oct. IS, afternoon.
Pugoteague, Oct, ID, 81, Nov. 10, 90,
Band "a.
Sa,gevil!e. Oct. %, morning.
Mea. Oct. 23, afternoon.
Lem R. Lewis Store, Nov. I, after
non.
Bel Haven, Oct. 26, afternoon.
Keer, Nov. 2, afternoon.
Talcier. Nov. 8, 9 and 10.
Haborton, Nov. %, night.
OnlncOck, Nov. 10, 16 and II.
Wahapreague, Nov. 10, IL and ID.
Accomsck G. II Nov. 81, % and 20.
AID first day OF County court and
3 laws Circuit Court.
At lome Nov. 30 and at night when
MT otherwise posted.
Those falling to pay their taxes be-
for. the list day OF December, 1900,
will have per cent. added to their
biIls AS the law directs.
The change made in the Tax law at
tbejIsst session Of the Legislature,
wbIcb shortens the time for collecting
nnIsid Tax bills, will force US to col
lect them much earlier than hereto
fore at 8 season perhaps when money
will be scarcer than now. Therefore
we will advise all persons to pay be-
fore Dec. /, 1900 and save the penalty.
Your humble servants.
John H. Hopkins, Treasurer.
Edwin 7. Powell. by. Treas.
OF Accomac County, Va
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Defining Darkpenn.

The following police regulation 'in
view of the earlier approach Of dark
ness" is being widely posted in the
north Of Ireland: Until further notice
every vehicle must carry a light when
darkness begins. Darkness always be-
gins az soon as the lamps are lit"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20
Ier.-LOndon Telegraph.

The average man will pay 80 cents
to see O. show Of fireworks and neglect
20 look at the sunset. which he can
zee almost every night for nothing
louisville Journal.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20

81" stops for passengers on signal
to conductor. 2Daily, except Sunday.
R. b. Cooke. J. g. Rodgers,
Gen'l. Freight & Supt.
Pass. Agent, Cape Charles, Va.
Norfolk, We,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20

Something very similar to the te,e.
phone was used in China 1000 years
ago.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20

The average man likes to point to
the good traits In his children as a
heritage from himself. Chicago New-,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20
Tax Notice.

Note is hereby given that the
Statetsx and county levy for the
year 90 are now due, and that In
purstnce OF law, the treasurer or
his duty will be at the following
nam, places In said districts at the
tjmeerein specified, for the purpose
OF ccecting said taxes and levies, viz:
Apartments of John H. Hopkins;
Farley, October 4, and 9, Novem-
bel4.
Blom. October II, IL and 10.
Mapville, October 10, 10 and 90.
Teneranceville, October 25, 20 and
81
NeEhurch, November 1, Q and 3.
San I'd, Nov. z, and 8.
Sax. Nov. 2, at night.
MeRvillp, Nov. 10, afternoon.
Catil, Nov. 10, morning.
Grelbackville, Nov. 10, at night.
Chicoteague, Nov. ID, IA and 10.
Hortown, Nov. 10, at night.
HsllT Nov. 16, afternoon and
Mold p, Nov. II.
Hop4 Nov. 90, morning.
NewtnD, Nov. %, afternoon.
Leeulir Nov. 29, afternoon.
Hume CT Creek, Nov. 20, morning.
Acco, i, q. H., first day OF every
col
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-20
NEW YORK, PHILA. & NORFOLK R.R.

Time Table in Effect Nov. 30, 1897.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
folk and Old Point Comfort.
NORmuWARn
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
The Mission of Language.

1t is the mission of language and
literature in education to bring young
individual life into accord with the
Benjamin Ide Wheeler in the Atlantic.
Mind is expanded in the molds Of
mind; not in the lifeless geometric
cells of logic and reasoning, but in the
life cells shapen to contain the prod
ucts Of the soul-the whole, the living
soul. The practically logical mind In
a healthy, well-nourishing mind
nothing more or less. Such mind is
produced by feeding it during the
years of development upon healthy
normal food, not upon the embalmed
food of the logicians or the chemists.
The Chinese mandarins trained upon
language and innocent of pure logic
are said to be the keenest practical
losicians in the world. The forms of
reasoning, indeed, to which a child
is stimulated in catching the meanings
of sentences of the mother speech, or
which a boy uses in making out the
meaning of q sentence in his Caesar
from the imperfect data of words and
svntax, are the forms of contingent
reasoning which are almost exclusive
ly employed in the decisions and judg-
ments of actual life. Men who pretend
to regulate their lives according to
well-constructed syllogisms-and II
must be pretense or self-deception, fol
there are no such syllogisms in life
are generally regarded as impossible
men. They are what are politely
known as cranks.
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e.Not IF IT We're NV Bow"

Some years ago the late Horace
Mann, the eminent educator, deliv-
cred an address at the opening of some
reformatory institution for boys, dur
ing which he remarked that if only
one boy was saved from ruin, it would
nav for all the cost, and care, and
labor of establishing such an institu-
ton as that. After the exercises had
closed, in private conversation a gent
leman rallied Mr.. Mann upon his
statement, and said to him: Did you
not color that a little, when you said
that all that expense and labor would
be repaid if it only saved n boy!"
mot if it were my boy" was the SOL
emn and convincing reply,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

One of the leading New York mer-
chants recently made a window dis
play of artificial flowers which caused
much pleased feminine comment. At
the same time ONE wondered how
they were to be used. Certainly not as
hat trimmings. MiIliners are putting
posies on bonnets gingerly. What
then? The exhibition was made to
give us suggestion for decorating u
winter evening gowns. Lovely laces,
shimmering satins, sparkling sequins,
pillows of tulle and chiffon are INSULT
Gent for such full dress toilettes as
fashion requires this season. And nat
ural blossoms cannot be depended upon
to keep their life and charm in the
heated atmosphere of a reception or
ballroom. So the best possible imita-
tons Of the real flowers are sanctioned
again, to add the soupcon, bouquet,
wreath or garland of desired color.
Velvet is the material frequently used
for blossoms and leaves. Perhaps one
shade or another Of purple oftenest is
repeated in the blooms, which appear
in familiar forms of pansy, violet, hell
otropc; not so frequently in the morn
ing glory and petunia. And for nov
cities there are plenty Of lavender
purple orchids, trumpet and passion
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
A New Heat Process.

An illustration is given in the
Chemical News of the new heat pro-
cess brought forward by a German in
vestigator: A rivet, such as is en-
ployed in bridgemaking, is imbedded
in a mixture Of oxide of iron, sand and
aluminium powder and the whole
plunged in sand in a wooden box. On
top of the aluminium mixture which
must just emerge from the sand in
the box, is placed a small lump of a
mixture of aluminium powder and an
easily reduced oxide, in which is fixed
the end of a short piece Of aluminium
ribbon. The reaction Is started by
lighting the free end of the magne-
SUM, more sand being Immediately
placed on the top of the mixture, SO
that as little heat as possible may be
lost. If at the end of a few moments
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
MILLION A DAY.
LARGE GAIN IN IMPORTS FROM
NEW POSSESSIONS.
Total for Ten Months S2SO,624,S7I-
Trade Possibilities Awaiting Tropical
Territories Supplying Our Market
Send Little to Them. q

The commercial possibilities which
await the tropical island territories
which have come into closer relation
ship with the United States during the
past year in supplying a permanent
and growing market in this country
are suggested by a compilation made
by the treasury bureau on statistics OF
the importation of tropical and sub
tropical products into the United
States during ten months of the pres
ent year, compared with that of the
corresponding months of the preced-
ing year.. This importation amounts
to the surprisingly large sum of $780,
624,871, during the 300 days in Ques-
ton, or an average of over $1,000, 900
for each business day of the year,
showing that for the full year the total
will reach more than $500, 000, 900. For
the same period in the preceding year
the total was s216, 1888, 455. The COM
pilation includes raw silk, tea and rice,
and the small proportion of our sugar
importations, which is manufactured
from beets; but even if these be omit
ted, the total which would be clearly
entitled to be classed as tropical prod
ucts would exceed $3.50, 600, 900 annual
ly. Sugar, coffee, Indiansrubber, ibers,
tropical fruits and nuts, cocoa, tobac-
co of the finer grades, spices, gums,
indigo, dyewoods and cabinet woods
form the important features of this
large Importation, and all of them
articles for which the United States
is absolutely dependent, with the pos
sible exception of sugar, upon other
parts of the world, and for the present
at least for the large proportion Of our
sugar. OF Jul sugar importations in
the ten months just ended, Cuba has
furnished $50, 600, 900 pounds, other
West Indies SAG o 900 pounds, the
Hawaiian islands 534, 000, 900 pounds,
the Philippine islands 10000, 00s
pounds, while the East Indies have in
the present year furnished a larger
share of our sugar importations than
any other single part of the world,
the total number of pounds from the
East Indies alone being for the ten
months ending with October, 1,078,-
907 ,548 out of a total of 3,767, 756, 98l
pounds. Coffee, of which our impor-
tations are growing constantly and
rapidly, amounting to about $50, 000, 00O
pounds annually, as against an aver
age of about $50, 000, 900 pounds in the
I earlier years Of the decade is success
, fully grown in all of the islands il
question, and, at one time, was a very
important crop in Cuba, as well as a
present in Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
: Philippines. Fiber, Of which the i'm.
l portations in the present year will
l amount to 500, 900 900 in value, cal
! readily be grown in all of the islands
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the end. Mrs. Washington, seated at
the foot of the bed, listened in silent
grief. At ten o'clock the tying man,
after much effort, made those around
him, who included four servants, I'M
derstand that he wished to be buried
decently, and hat his body might not
be put in the vault until three days
after his death. The last words he
was heard to say, when ne was told
that he had been understood, were:
"'Tis WELL" Not long after his breath
ing became easier; he res:ed quietly;
he even made a movement to feel his
own pulse, but his c~ountenance
changed, his hand fell, and he died
without a struggle or a sigh. Major
Lear motioned that the end had come.
otis WELL" said the widow IN a COM
posed voice. Il shall soon follow
him."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

The new permission to enjoy imita-
ton flora needs to be enjoyed with
care lest it be revoked. Nothing is
uglier than badly made flowers of a
crude line, unless it is shabby ones.
Dragon flies in fine silver net
touched up with sequins are of later
couture favor than butterflies. A tin
sel-winged thing in black and silver
which never was lends movement to a
couture of the new fashion, parted at
the side.-Margery Daw.
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said Echols, "for saving her life.
Shortly after troop e returned from
Cuba with the rest of the Ninth, a
sergeant and twenty men were de-
tailed to accompany a track train from
the railroad station to the fort. On
the way to the station We stopped in
an Indian village for dinner. A lot
of sQuaws gathered around with bead
work and Mexican trinkets to sell, and
we joked and laughed with them and
made a few purchases. We had our
horses picketed just outside the village
and when we went after them the
squaws followed us. The Moquis are
VIGOROUSLY ugly, and whenever we
saw a squaw who was eve passably
good looking we became quite atten-
tive to her. I had picked out the one
l considered the best looking-she was
quite a young girl-and we were walk
ing side by side. We had just reached
the place where the horses were pick
eted, when 1 heard an ominous rattle
in the bunch of grass. l turned, and
as | did so | saw a monster rattle
snake coiled up ready to spring at my
companion. l grabbed her by the
shoulders and gave her a shove which
landed her ten feet away in the grass.
She didn't know what struck her;
neither did the RATHER when 1 fired a
A cartridge into it. AS soon as the
Indian girl regained her composure
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
Last Moments of George Washington.

Last m of George Washington.
When George Washington felt that
death was drawing near, he asked his
wife to bring him his wills from his
desk, and indicated which of the two
should be destroyed. Toward night
he became very weak. 81 find 1 am
going now" he said, and added, after
giving injunction as to his accounts
and papers, "It is the debt which we
must all pay" Occasionally he made
such remarks during the evening as,
Doctor, I die hard, but l am not
afraid to go, and you had better not
take any more trouble about me, but
let me go off quietly; l cannot last
long" DR.. Craik could do little more
than press the hand of his old friend
and then sit by the Preside in the sim
| ply furnished room, sadly waiting for
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
v SoUAW'S LIFE,
And II Presented a String of Beads to

And II Presented a String of Beads to
the Trooper.
Kansas City Journal: Men who wear
necklaces are not common, consequent
ly ]. w. Echols, a trooper of the Ninth
cavalry, stationed at Fl. Apache, Ariz.,
attracted a great deal of attention at
the union depot yesterday. Echois
is on the way to his home in Boston,
after three years in the service of I'm
Gle Sam. He was honorably dis
charged a few days ago. A little ro-
nan fingers upon the string OF
beads, which lay tightly against the
tall troopers neck in five or six coils.
81 got them from a Moqui Indian girl
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

the contents of the box are emptied
out, the rivet will be found to be quite
redhot and ready to be forged. Work
ing in an analogous manner, the in
ventor claims, steel tubes may be
welded together at the most trifing
cost, and even two bars of soft steel
can be fused together. Indeed the
temperature obtained under these
conditions may, it is asserted, be high
er than that realized in the electric
furnace.
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flowers. besides tulips. After these
come strange blooms never grown on
bush or tree. One needs to know her
botany, and much else besides, to &C
count for the flowers and the insplra-
lions of limitations which she may
wear on her new evening gowns. Black
flowers of curious invention are COM
mended as contrast with fellows with
delicate hue. Thus, a frock OF WHITE
China crepe is touched up at the cor
sage with a nosegay Of warm pink car
nations and their foliage and two or
three blooms of the same sort in dead
black, sometimes satin, again velvet.
Black tulips are in demand since the
play of this name, current in London
has achieved a certain vogue. hnoCs
of black velvet are preferred to placA
lowers by certain f~Astidious women
who cannot abide distortion OF nature.
A dress from shell pink faille fran
caise, made with no attempt at &C.
centricity in being cut simply a care
fully fitted skirt with spoon-Shaped
train, has a decollette bodice OF Hon1-
ton point lace over shell pink satin.
Panne velvet ribbon in the hue of the
gown has knots on the left shoulder,
with a rose of black satin and another
from soft pink. At the corsage top
the ribbon stops In it's crosSways
ward course to entwine another pink
flower or two, and at the belt the rib
bon finally ceases to wander, consents
to knot side by side with W big
looms from the artificial ~rosebush, one
black, one pink. A finish aver SO
pretty. is given to the parted, waved
couture by a pink rose with two trans
parent, iridiscent butterflies lowering
over it. Notice, by the way, that wee
pearl earrings, pendant, are worn with
confidence, and perhaps beauty, with
this effective gown. The invariably
popular violet forms a rich decoration
for a gown of fine white applique lace.
The small flowers, in violet and satin,
are strung by their stems from a gar
land of more violets Joined invisibly'
The lengths end at the sides Of the
skirt under handfuls of artificial maid
enhair ferns. Another wreath and
more ferns encircle the low neck and
form floral epaulets at the shoulders,
No evening couture is complete
without a touch of something related
to the gown. This particular toilet is
finished by a couple of witching
knots in the hair, done from black
baby ribbon and furnishing a setting
for a little growth of white violets
Tiger lilies are strange favorites in
hot-house age. Yet they ornament
one or more gowns done from blacl
and yellow. Other homely garden
blooms, including big blue bachelor
buttons, are on a dress Of harmonic
ing blue satin.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

and saw what l had done for her she
put her arms around my neck, and l
actually had to scramble to keep her
from kissing me. In lieu of the kiss l
gladly took this string of beads which
she wound around my neck. l prize
the beads highly, but I'm going to take
them off, for they are always slipping
up so that everybody a see them"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
EXaSnerating.
the day

Chicago News: Quinn-When WON
en- imagine themselves wits they are a
menace to the community. DeFonte-
You must have met some of late.
DUMMIES, my wife. She asked me
if a sea horse was in any way related
to a bay mare.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

it observed that at first, however, it
was not the size, but the costliness or
the buckle which was conspicuous.
Thus among royalties, people OF high
rank, and those who were the glass
of fashion, and the mold of form at
court, wore diamonds. Needless to
say that then, as now those VINO de-
sired to initiate them wore paste buck
les, happy, perhaps, in that self-com-
placency which imagines nobody else
shrewd to estimate possibilities. III
1920 a leader of fashion would wear a
full flowing curled wig reaching in
ringlets half way down back and arms,
a laced coat cut straight, with buttons
put on in every possible place-there-
by, by the way, affording a remarkable
similarity to the "pearlies" OF the pop
ular and ~up-to-date electromagnetic
| sQuare-toed, black shoes with an en-
ormous flap on the instep, high heels,
anG on the flap a small but brilliant
buckle. Next to the buckle of brill
liants came those of gold. Rich land
owners and equally rich merchants,
men whose reputation for being
'twarm"-or in the then recent ASA
clan fashionable slang "rhinocerial," a
quite obsolete synonym for moneyed-
wore gold buckles larger than the dia-
mond ones, but still small in proper
ton to the shoe flaps. Your thriving
shopkeepers wore buckles Of silver, and
your opulent farmers those OF shining
steel, and the poorer classes had buck
les of brass or iron; but OF some ma
terial every one wore buckles on the
shoes. Indeed, so wide-reaching was
the depreciation in bucklemakers'
work when, at the epoch of the French
revolution, people in general followed
Roland the Just's" example and took
to shoe ribbons, THAT the Ducklemak-
ers actually, in their desperation, petit
toned George III. and parliament that
shoe ribbons should be forbidden III
der penalties, clamoring for a renewal
of the sumptuary laws of P~lantagenet
and Tudor with an apparent inability
to read the signs of the time. A spas
modic attempt was made by thu
princes and their encourage to benef'
the bucklemakers by wearing buckles
as ostentatiously as possible; but rib
bons. decidedly far more unpicturesqu'
though much more practical, carried
the day.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
MALAY Tongue Easily Learned.

The Malay language is spoken by
more than 4O,O 0 900 persons. 1t is
said to be easy to learn, as it has al
most no grammar,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
SHOE-BUCKLE HISTORY.
How the Gentlemen of Many Years Ago
Dressed Their Feet.

Once on a time your shoe was moth
ing without the buckle. Indeed, it was
a case of the tail wagging the Cog"
for the buckle was the attraction and
the shoe but the accompaniment. Be
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-07
BEGAN JUNE ELEVEN.

On That Date the Boxers Destroyed
the summer Homes of the Minis
tiers and the Foreign Cemetery.
Eastern Part of City burned June
18th.
VICTORIA, B. c., July -e.-Corres-
pondents Of Japanese papers writing
from Pekin as late as June 10, tell OF the
daily arrival there Of refugees from all
the surrounding country. Many OF the
incoming parties had been wounded.
Some report having left others dead
behind them.
The boxer hosts at Pekin practically
commenced their work OF destruction
at the capital. according to the cor
reSpondence on June II. when a mob
burned the summer houses OF the min
listers, the race course and foreign Gem
etery at Sihshan On the following
days. thousands gathered outside the
CITY with banners Then. owing to the
terror that reigned among the refugees
and the foreigners, the minists4n CO..
dered al to gather IN the British AZ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-07
DEAD NUMBER THOUSANDS.

The Chinese dead about Tien Tsin
number thousands. Most of those WHO
have been killed lie unburied in the
fields. The river TO Taku is full OF
floating bodies and many have been
washed up by the tide. Dogs are feed
ing on these bodies along the banks.
Small American oontingents every-
where distinguished themselves. Cap
tain McCalla AMI Major Waller are
most popular at lien Tsin- Their men
are placed in the lead Of every move
ment by common consent with the
British close beside them. The for
eigners in Tien 1sin declare. however.
that they owe their lives to the Rus
SLAMS, without whom the other small
detachments must have been over
wheImed On the darkest day. We'd
nesday week. when the Chinese were
pressing on every side and the bravest
men were abandoning hops. the Rus
sian commander, Col Woz2ck. arranged
that the main body 81 the troops
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-07
THE CALL OF STATES.
THE OPENING PRAYER.

Immediately following the prayer the
call of States began for the purpose of
making nominations for the vice pre-
sidency- Great confusion prevailed and
very few of the delegates were aware of
what was going on until Alabama and
Arkansas had been passed, and Cali
fornia was called. Then the doughty
face OF Senator White emerged from
among the Californians, and in stem
torian tones he demanded to know
what was going on and that the aisles
be cleared OF the disorderly intruders
When the chairman responded that