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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-23
NEW CURE FOR NAL DE MER.
The Simplest Thing In the Wosld.
Shut One Eye, That's All.

] The Simp1est Thing In the World.
Shut One Eye, That's All.
The malady of seasickness has
troubled physicians In all ages of the
worlds history. Pliny, l believe, pre-
scribed wormwood. CELSIUS, a general
practitioner In the Augustan age,
recommended moderate eating after a
, voyage, which seems at first sight a
receipt Of only vague utility to the
sufferer during voyage. Rabelais, 1t
may be recollected, in book 4 Of the
"Deeds and Sayings OF the Good Pan
tagruel," pins his faith to vinegar,
"which was the cause that none OF the
whole company gave up what they had
eaten nor were Seasick, with pain ut
The head and stomach; which incOnven-
fence they could not so well have
prevented by drinking, for some time
before, salt water, either alone or
mixed with wine, using ounces, citron
peel, juice Of pomegranates, sourish
sweetmeats, fasting n long time, cover.
Ing their stomachs with paper or fol-
lowing such other idle remedies as
physicians prescribe to those who go
to sea-"
The latest remedy has. at all events,
the merit Of simplicity. The inventor
is one DR.. G. ArbOur Stephens Of Glas-
cow, and he has confided his secret to
the sympathetic care of Science Slft-
ings, which intends to try 1t on the first
opportunity. Briefly he points out that
railway and sea sickness are both caus-
ed by the rapidly changing focus oc-
casioned by the eye closely following
the apparent approach and withdrawal
Of objects. such as hedges, ratings.
etc. when In a train or the rolling
crests of the waves at sea. Now, 1t is
obvious that two eyes are necessary
for focusing objects properly, and con-
sequently it occurred to the ingenious
physician that by closing or covering
one eye he might get rid Of the irritat-
ing effects Of travelling by rail or sea.
He personally tested the experiment on
several occasions. with the most graf
flying results. and as result Of expe-
rience he now finds it necessary only
to close or cover one eye occasionally
the short intervals of rest being sufii-
cient to prev ent any nervous irritation.
Itmight be urged that people have
frequently tried closing their eyes be-
fore now without effect. But IT seems
that it Is not enough to shut both eyes.
Closing or covering the two has not
the same effect, for the simple reason
that the imagination is sufficiently
stimulated to produce by descending
cerebral sations exactly the same
effect as were produced by external
stimulus. When one eye Is closed, the
Imagination has not equal play. At
any rate, the new remedy has the ad-
vantage of being an easy one to ex-
pertinent with, and probably the cross
channel steamers will soon be full Of
passengers engaged in "wlnking the
other eye."-Pall Mall Gazette.
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Russia Nay Dc RuIed by a Woman.

Russia Nay Dc Ruled by n woman.
Russians next ruler may be woman.
The Salic law. that r0nbound enact
ment put IN force In Russia by the EN-
peror Nicholas. may be overturned and
the law Of primogenIture be readopted.
This will place the Grand Duchess
Olga on the throne rs autocrat Of all
the Hussias at the death of her father,
the present car. 1t is the cars wish
that this should be and that his daugh-
ter rather than his brother, the Grand
Duke Michael. shall succeed him.
Since the birth Of the latest Russian
princess Journals spoken Of as off
cial" in various large cities of the EN-
pire have urged the car to return to
the ancient practice Of awarding the
throne TO the eldest born irrespective
of sex.
Michael, according to his intimates,
is not overanxious to inherit the pro-
diglous empire Russia has now become
and will be when the Transsiberian
railway makes more than half Of Asia
part Of the cars domains. He would
not at all object If his brother the car
should change the present family COM
pact and make his eldest daughter, the
Grand Duchess Olga. eligible to sue
coed her father.-Philadelphla Times.
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A Ra ttIesnake,s Wisdom.

The writer of this rode bronchos and
punched" cattle on the ranges of Mon
tana and Wyoming twenty years ago
and had ample opportunity to study
the habits Of rattlesnakes. He knows
how they went into their holes then,
and 1t is doubtful If any improvement
has since been made In their method.
They start In head first. and one would
promptly come to the conclusion that
they reach the bottom of their holes in
this manner, but Mr.. Snake is too willy
to keep his Lead where he cannot have
an eye on tie rest OF his body; there
fore as soon as he enters the hole few
inches he makes a half turn which
brings his head to the entrance again
and then permits the remainder Of his
length TO glide down out Of slght-a
very simple performance. you will see.
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STANDARD TIME.
DO Aseertain and PrOmuignte II II .
Costly Task.

Costly Task.
what time is itT Few questions
are more common than this, and yet
each day the United States government
goes to a great expense In giving 1t an
official answer. To ascertain the In
slant when it is noon on the seventy.
fifth meridian and to send that infor-
nation all over the country is n great
and a costly task. The astronomical
observatory In Washington computes
the true time, which Is thence trans
mitted by electricity to every important
city and town.
About FIVE minutes before the Wash.
ington noon the telegraph companies
cut off all their regular business except
on lines where they have more than
one wire. They then connect all I'm.
portant points. from which there may
be numberless ramifications. with an
electric wire going into the great clock
In the observatory so that all over the
country Its tickings may be heard. Fol
the ten seconds just before II o'clock
moon beat" Regular business is then
resumed.
In some cities the wires connect with
a time ball which drops with the noon
beat The time ball In Washington
over the state, war and navy depart
ment building IL three feet in diameter
and can be seen from all parts Of the
city. Crowds frequently gather about
to see 1t fall. distance of 81 feet. high
In the air. The man whom some of the
spectators suppose to be- dropping the
ball is merely there to hoist 1t again to
It's place.
In the building beneath are % clocks
which are each day automatically cor
rected by 1t. An electrical device sets
them. placing hour. Enuic and second
hands eXa ctly vertical nj the instant
the ball drops. The hands that are zoe
fast are pushed hack, and those that
are slow are thrust forward.
Although Washington Is on the srv
enty-seventh meridian. the noon houi
Is for convenience computed for the
sevcnty-ifth, the time standard fCr the
eastern part of the United States. In
the central belt. which is governed 10y
the ninetieth meridian. the signal from
Washington means II O'ciOcS. in the
Rocky mountain belt 1t Is 10 O'Clock,
and on the Pacific coast line it Is o.
Youths Companion.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The burning Of sulphur candle In a
room infested with pests Of any kind
will relieve you Of them in a short time.
Glasses which have been used for
milk should be washed first in cold wa
ter and then in hot soapsuds. This will
make them clear and shining.
Wilted or dropping flowers may be
revived by giving them a quick plunge
into moderately hot water in which a
few drops Of ammonia have been
poured.
Never put soda in the water In which
you wash china that has any gliding
on 1t. Soda Injuries the gliding. In
stead use soap. which answers just as
we'll and has no Ill effects.
In washing cut glass only moder-
ately hot water should be used on ac-
count of the glass being Of varying
thickness, which causes the dishes to
expand unevenly II subjected to ex-
cessive changes of temperature.
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Mixed Tho.e signs Up.

Considerable mlrth among passengers
generally and not a little indignation
among residents Of Babylon who were
travelling on a Long Island train the
other day were caused by thoughtless
brakeman, who rather oddly misplaced
two important notices in one Of the
coaches.
The ordinary board Of health notice
warning passengers against expectorat'
ing on the floor had occupied alone a
prominent place In the center of the
car until the company ordered a card
displayed reading. This car for Baby
lon."
AS the train pulled out Of the station
on the next trip passengers were greet
ed with this rather startling notice;
This car for Babylon. Five hundred
dollars for this Offense or one years I'M
prisonment, or both. New York Mall
and Express.
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WATER For JERUSALEM.
TO He Drawn From Source Of
which Solomon Sang.

The Holy Land has its railways, cleo
trio ligE.s and American windmills,
and now Jerusalem Is about to get
supply OF good drinking water. In an.
cient times the city OF David was well
supplied. The remains OF aqueducts
and reservoirs show this. But since
the Turks day the people of Jerusalem
have been dependent on the scanty
and often polluted accumulatlons OF
water In the rock hewn clsterns be-
meath their feet. Even this supply has
recently failed owing to want of rain.
Distress and sickness became so gen
eral that the Turkish governor has ut
length been induced to sanction the
purchase of iron pipe to bring water
from Ain Salah. or the SEALED foun-
tain" at Solomon's pools, about nine
miles south Of Jerusalem. A pipe six
inches In diameter will bring 5000
skins" OF water q day for distribution
at fountains" supplied with faucets.
Solomon In his famous Song speaks Of
this secret spring, now turned to use.
"My beloved" he says, as quoted by
The Times correspondent, us like a
spring shut up. fountain sealed" 1t
is deep down subterranean spring,
which has from the time Of Solomon
flowed through the arched tunnel built
by him to the distributing chamber or
reservoir near the northwest corner Of
the highest Of SolomOn's pools.
Half century ago the location Of
this hidden" spring, which was still,
as in Solomon's time, flowing into the
reservoir mentioned. was unknown.
The tunnel is rooted by stones leaning
against each other like an inverted V,
the primitive form of the arch. which
is also seen In the roof OF the queens
chamber OF the great pyramid. The
entrance to this tunnel from the spring
Is one of the oldest structures In exist
ence. The piping Is to be laid along
the old aqueduct which formerly from
the time of Solomon brought this same
water to the temple area. There are
eleven or twelve ancient fountains
here and there In the city. long unused,
but now to be utilized, and from which
the water may he drawn free to all,
several taps being attached to each
fountain.-I.ondOn Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-23
The Well Built Christian.

Theodore L. Cuyler describes the
well built Christian In these words:
"a well built Christian is harmonious
In all his parts. No one part shames
another. He is not tumble Of incOn-
sistencies-tOday liberal to one cause.
tomorrow niggardIy toward another;
today fluent In prayer and tomorrow
fluent in polite falsehoods. He Is not
In favor Of temperance for other folk
and Il glass OF toddy for himself. He
does not so consume bis spiritual fuel
during revival seasons that he Is as
cold as Nova Zembla during the rest
of the time. Tor does bis spiritual fer.
vor ever Outi'un his well ordered con.
yersatlon.'
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-23
MYSTERY or THE ICE.
4 Pathetic sto-y of Tenement House
Life In New York.

hAIG IN NGW AOh4s
During the intensely hot weather OF
last July woman sat In an Ill ventilat-
ed room Of back tenement In the
great east side Of the metropolis, lean
ing over bed where lay sick child.
"He is worse" she said, 'and / must
have the doctor"
She went to the fire escape, In mar
row, dark shaft, where the sun never
shOne, to look for a neighbor to help
her In her extremity. No one was there,
excepting a woman on the fire escape be-
low, who had moved In the day before.
The mother asked her to hasten to the
corner drug store and send the doctor
from there, but she shook her head.
The mother turned back. FASTENED
into the narrow public hall and there
met friend.
1.-THE doctorr' she cried. Little Leo
is worse. The woman below would not
go for me-"
"She does not understand" was the
answer. None OF us can understand
her excepting the druggist. hc says
she Is from Roumania and cannot speak
like we do. She moved yesterday from
where she was because her child died.
l will CO."
When she had gone, the mother went
again to the fire escape and took from
q soap box there a bottle that held a
little milk. 1t had been wrapped in q
bit Of carpet to shield 1t from the heat.
She poured the milk into a glass and
tasted It,
ut is sour" she said, land have no
money for Ice"
Medicine cannot help your child"
said the physician when he came. He
must have nourishment."
The mother took from her little store
bought more milk. fed her child and
placed the remainder Of the precious
supply In the soap box. 1t was quite
early when she went for 1t in the morn
ing. and great was her surprise when
she found a large piece Of ice beside 1t.
The next day there was Ice with the
milk, keeping it sweet, and the next
day and the next, and so on through
July and August and into September.
and the mother could not learn who
placed 1t there.
The little patient became better, and
carly one morning, when sitting In his
bed looking out Of the window over the
fire escape, be saw hand reach up
holding piece OF Ice.
"See! Mother!" he cried.
She hurried to the window, and there.
standing on the ladder below. was the
woman from Roumania who could not
understand or be understood. The
eyes of the two met. and mothers who
had suffered found that they could I'M
derstand each other without words.
The mother whose child had died
drew from the bosom of her dress a
ticket that read Poor Free Ice Fund
and showed 1t to the mother whose
child was allve.-Exchange.
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"It vertue feeble were
Heaven itselfe would stoope to her."
CAPITAL TEN PERCENTERS.
Government Clerks Who Lend to
Their Fellow Workers.

Government Clerks Who Lend to
Their Fellow Workers.
II reckon I'll sell my salary this
month" remarked the young census
clerk.
ITO whomr' asked his friend.
"Why, to one Of the ten percenters,
Of course" was the reply.
Dialogues such as this are Of fire.
Quent occurrence between government
clerks In Washington toward the end
Of the month. When a clerk sells his
salary to a ten percenter, he gives the
latter an o u for the entire salary
due him on the following pay day and
receives In exchange 80 per cent Of the
amount. The man who makes the loan
retains the remaining 10 per cent,
whence his name Of ten percenter.
The ten percenter is said to exist
under one name or another in all Of the
great federal department buildings In
Washington. He is invariably a shrewd
government clerk who has a bit Of
money of his own or has saved his sal
airy until Its accumulation represents
tidy little sum. This capital he Is
ever ready to lend in sums of from $40
to 800.
In a majority Of the Washington Of
fees the laws against usurers are 50
vigorously enforced that the ten per-
center is unable to transact business
In safety as an Individual; he exists
nevertheless under the protecting title
Of beneficial society. These fake So
cieties should not be confused with
the mutual beneficiary organizations
which have been established for a
number Of years In many Of the de-
printing Office, for the purpose Of aid
ing sick or disabled members and their
families and Of burying the dead. The
ten percenters' society never includes
more than FIVE or six members. They
Lave their charter and a carefully
drawn constitution and bylaws.
Each member contributes a certain
amount Of money to the funds Of the
concern, and the other employees Of
the Office are quietly Informed how
they can be accommodated with loan
for a small bonus. On the first of every
month the pool divides Its profits.
These organizations are usually short
lived, as they become unpopular when
the business begins to grow large. The
death Of one fake association Is rapidly
by the birth of a successor,
differing from its predecessor in name
only, so that the ten percenters are en-
abled to ply their trade without much
lnterruption.-New York Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-11-23
PATHS ADVICE.
The Way to Avoid Illness and Attain
Health and Happiness.


"To be healthy Is the natural state,
and disease is, in nine cases out Of ten,
our punishment for some indiscretion
or excess" says Patti.
"Every time we are i'll 1t Is part Of
our remaining youth which we squan-
der. Every recovery, whether from
headache or pneumonia, is accomplish
ed by strenuous effort Of vitality and
is. therefore, a waste of your capital Of
life
Therefore, don't let yourself be Ill.
"The best plan to avoid illness Is to
live regularly, simply, with frugality
that stupid persons alone will deem
painful or eccentric.
"Sleep eight hours In every twenty
four.
"yentllate the rooms you work and
sleep in. Very few people, even among
those who think they are well up in
modern ideas, have any conception of
what ventilation means. Even when
my voice was the only thing had in
the world | slept with my windows
wide open. summer and winter, and
never caught cold In that way.
Examine seriously into your list Of
social obligations, have the good sense
to recognize that there is neither pleas
ure nor profit In most Of what you re-
gard as essential In that line and sim
plify your social life-simplify 1t all
you can.
"Complicated living breeds worry,
and worry Is the main enemy Of health
and happiness. the one fiendish microbe
that does more to destroy the health
and happiness of mankind than any
other
Make your home pleasant place,
cheerful. but well within your means.
Drink nothing but water or milk
especially drink lots Of water. You
never can drink too much of 1t.
ION the other hand. remember that
alcohol is poison. which does untold
damage within you: that wine, beer
coffee and tea are polsons too. Shun all
Of them as you would diluted vitrlol."-
Mainly About People.
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AN ECCENTRIC DINER.
The Tall Story That Is Told of n Pa
rdsian Gourmet.

Paris is par excellence the city Of
gourmets and cranks, and many a
story concerning them has added TO the
gayety Of the nations. Here Is one
" the latest. told by well known
French head waiter: One of the regu-
lar customers of a famous Partisan
restaurant used to be a short thin,
shy and shabbily dressed man whose
name no one knew, but who gave out
that he was butter dealer, for which
reason he was called the butter man at
the restaurant in question.
he ate next to nothing, but his soup
pared for him. was always put before
him. He took a few spoonfuls and
had 1t taken away. Next came a
whole fllet Of beef, from which he
cut the tiniest slice. Then followed
four Quails or large chicken, Of which
he ate one mouthful, together with
two lettuce leaves and one radlsh. His
dessert was four grapes-never a sin.
gle one more-and cup Of coffee. A
bottle of the best claret and another
of the best champagne were served
with the repast, but he only wetted
his lips with drop from them and let
them 60. lie took two Of these meals
q day, and the price for each meal was
100 francs.
But this was not all Every time
the butter man got up from his ex-
traordinary meal he gave 40 francs to
the head waiter, who put his food on
his plate, since the guest did not like
to handle spoons or dishes; 20 francs
to the waiter, 10 francs to the woman
cashier and francs to the porter
Thus each meal came to 200 francs.
The head waiter Of the restaurant Of
ten did slight errands for him, buying
his cigars, etc, and took them to the
Grand hotel, where the butter man
lived. The little old man would then
open the drawer of a wardrobe filled
with heaps Of bank notes Of from 100
francs to GOO francs In value and
with an enormous mass Of goldpieces.
PAY yourself" said the owner, and
the head waiter did so, putting the
bills before his patron, who never
deigned to look at them.
One day the mysterious millionaire
went away and was never seen again.
Gazette.
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COULDN'T CALL HIM CRAZY.
Just a Newspapers ffeAdlIner Mum
bling From Force of Habit.


The young man with the haggard
look sat IN the rear car Of an elevated
train, staring and staring at one Of the
advertisements.
English beauty Shoes" he mumbled
to his companion. That's what he
says"
Eyes" said the other, but that's too
short"
Him, him." the haggard man replied
Beautiful shoes from England
"That won't fit. It's long" was the
curt reply.
"well. then, Beautiful English
shoes -
That's only three words. You've got
to have four, you know"
That's so, that's so. All, have ltF'
he cried so loud that all the other pas
sengers in the car gave jump. Eng
lish shoes OF beauty % letters and
spaces at last"
A compassionate old man looked up
from his newspaper.
whats the matter with your
friendY" he asked. SIS the chap suf.
fering from delirium tremens"
"Oh, no." the man addressed replied
assuringly. You see, he's just through
with his nights work on morning
newspaper. He's a headline writer,
you know, and after fellow has scrib-
bled off headlines Of % letters and
spaces for about eight hours steady he
contracts that habit and can't get over
II. Every advertisement, every scrap
of paper he sees for several hours aft
erward until bis mind gets rested
we'll, he begins to count the letters and
spaces and turn the wording into q
headline that will fit. 1t isn't exactly
delirium tremens. It's something worse.
The headlines Of % letters and spaces
go wriggling around in that poor over
worked brain much worse than
snakes. "-Chicago Chronicle.
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QUEER OPTICAL ILLUSION.
An Interesting Experiment With =
Pencil and n Wire Screen.


Pencil and a Wire Screen.
Professor r. w. Wood recently de-
scribed rather startling optical illu-
sion which any one may see with lit
tie practice. A lead pencil is held point
up an inch or two in front Of q wire
screen with a sky background. II the
eyes are converged upon the pencil
point, the wire gauze becomes some
what blurred and, Of course, doubled.
AS the gauze has n regularly recur-
ring pattern, however, the two images
can be united and, with little effort,
can be accommodated for distinct vi
sion Of the combined images Of the
mesh. As soon as accommodation Is
secured the mesh becomes perfectly
sharp and appears TO be nearly In the
plane Of the pencil point.
If now the pencil is moved away
from the eyes, which are to be kept
fixed on the screen, 1t apparently pass
es through the mesh and becomes dou-
bled. If now the pencil is removed en-
tirely, It will be found that the sharp
images OF the combined images Of the
gsuze persist, although the eyes be
moved nearer to or farther away from
the screen.
Now bring the eyes up to within six
or eight inches of the plane In which
the mesh appears to be and attempt
to touch it with the finger. 1t is not
there. The finger falls upon empty
space. the screen being In reality a
couple of inches farther off.
"Thls," says Professor Wood. us by
all means the most startling Illusion
| have ever seen, for we apparently see
something occupying a perfectly def
mite position in space before our eyes.
and yet If we attempt to put our finger
on 1t we find that there Is nothing
there" -Exchange.