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BUSINESS AMERICAN ART.
Not Math emntics. hut Matter of
Crentive imagination.


"The idea Of business in country
that has reached the height of its de-
velopment is a dry as dust affair" says
Hutchins HapgOod in Ainslee's. ut Is
the miserable system of keeping what
one has. Il system in which the temper
amont and the imagination do not play
n part. The American, however, puts
imagination into business. Business is
the art of this country. To the Ameri'
can of affairs there are in his work eX-
element, charm and color. TO him it is
not a matter of mathematics, but Of
the creative imagination. Great proc
esses. great inventions, great corpora
tions-the organization of such things
requires genius.
Nobody is stupider, more ayaricious
and more economical in small way
than a French peasant or q German
hausfrau. Nobody is less avaricious
and more economical in a big way than
q great American inventor tinancier
or business man. Through his brains
production becomes cheaper and conse-
ouently more abundant, and more good
to the common people thereby accrues
than by all the small savings ever made
since civilization began. 1t is better TO
be able to make than to save, and to
make much large outlay in money,
energy and brains is necessary. To
save pennies is sign of commercial
incompetence and national decline.
"When an individual or a nation be
gins a system of housekeeping on a
small scale. it is a sign that the life
blood is ebbng Old people, drier and
less resourceful than young people, are
VIGOROUSLY more economical. They, like
old nations, want to hang on to what
they have rather than strive for more.
The wisdom Of the French peasant
consists in keeping down his expendi'
ture and the size of his family to a
point where the nation as whole is
weakened. AS Bacon said, He that
hath a state to repair may not despise
small things and perhaps the decay or
the country is the cause rather than
the effect of French economy. Anyway
the two things hang closely together"
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Why Washington. Legs shine.

One of the points of interest in the
financial district is the bronze statue
of Washington in the front of the
United States subtreasury on Wall
street. 1t is invariably pointed out to
visitors. and almost invariably the
question is asked:
"Why do they polish only the knees
and not the whole statue?"
Mentor and guide has to shake his
head and adult that he does not
know.
1t appears that some years ago o
peddler with some new kind Of polish
came to the subtreasury and extOled
the virtues of his compound to one of
the guards. why" be said. Il could
even polish up that rusty old statue out
there in jiffy."
go ahead" said the guard.
The agent went to work with a will
and in a few minutes had succeeded in
taking off the beautiful dull oxidizine
from the legs of the statue as far as
the knees. Just then Mr.. Muhleman.
the deputy assistant treasurer, came up
the steps, and in less time than ii
takes to tell it the agent found himself
sitting at the foot of the steps, while
Mr.. Muhleman lectured to the surpris
ed guard in forcible language on tue
vandalism of indiscriminate polishing.
But not even the variability of the
New York climate has been sufficient
as yet to restore to the polished parts
their old dull beauty.-New York
Times.
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A True Poem.

How hard it is to tell what makes a
true poem, lasting poem. When one
asks himself what it is, how many
things arise, how hard to narrow the
list down to a few things! Is it beau
ty? Then what is beauty? One meets
with beautiful poems every day that he
never thinks Of or recurs to again. 1t
is certain that without one thing there
is no real pOetry-genuine passion. The
fire came down out Of heaven and con-
sumed Elisha's Offering because Elisha
was sincere. Plan and build your poem
never so deity, mankind will not per-
manently care for it unless it has gen.
uine feeling. 1t must be impassioned.
John Burroughs in Century.
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To snve remners and Collars

"You button your collar the wrong
way" said the salesman as he was
selling neckwear to a customer.
How is that?"
"You have buttoned the right side
last. Now, when you 90 TO take it off
you will have to tug at the end Of the
collar and crumple it, because you
can't get a proper hold Of it, but if you
had the left end on top you could get
it off easily. then loosen the collar be-
hind. and the right end could be easily
detached. That's why men have so
much trouble taking off well Numbered
collars. Remember to fasten the right
side FIRST and then the left, and you
will save your collars and your tenn
per"
Il never supposed there was a right
and a wrong way of putting on col
lars"
Try both ways and you will see."-
New York Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-07-05

Though 800 years have elapsed since
the death Of Tycho Brahe, it appears
that we are in many lines almost as
far from the ultimate goal as when he
began the great work of exploring the
skies before the days of Kcpler, when
all Europe was slumbering in intellcc.
tual darkness. The science Of the stars
indeed has been refined and perfected
in an unparalleled degree and infinitely
extended in all directions, but with tie
bounds Of darkness pushed back step
by step the goal is not and never will
be in sight An inGnity of objects and
causes and an endless variety Of Pile.
nomena are yet to be explored, anG the
work of the mind is rather a process
of development to the perfect under
standing Of the universe than the SOLD
ton of a simple mathematical problem.
Atlantic Monthly.
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ANIMAL lMITATlVENESS.
How DcegGr'a Doc Crows to nc
Like lis linatcr.

Like lis AleStcr.
zone Of the most curious traits to be
found in the animal nature" said an
observant citizen, SIS that wLich crows
out Of the unconscious imitahyeness OF
Features Of the lower order. have
observed many instances Of where the
creatures Of lower order have taken
on the characteristics in some notice
able degree Of members Of the human
family. One might know, for instance.
the beggar's dog from the look Of the
dog, from the droop Of the eye, the pa
thetic hang of the lip and certain gen
eral air Of dependency and hopeless
ness which seems to speak in The very
nature Of the animal. l mention the
beggar's dog because it is a familiar
example. The beggar's dos never looks
cheerful, never smiles, never frolics,
but simply sits by his master and
broods and begs for whatever charity
may give.
81 have seen the dog character mold
cd under happier influences, and the
dog became more cheerful. lie was u
light hearted, free and easy sort Of
creature and seemed to get something
of the SUMMER side of things. | am al
most tempted to say that if you will
show me a mans dog | will tell you
what manner Of man the owner Is,
with particular reference to tcmpera-
ment and his moods. The melancholy
man, the man who groyels mentally
along the gloomicr groves, the possl-
mistic man who is always looking at
the dark side of the picture, all the men
who come within these unhappy classl-
fications rarely own cheerful dog.
The dog unconsciously takes TO the
ways of the master and in his moods
initiates the masters way of thinking.
"But turn to the dog of the jolly,
cheerful fellow. Watch him show his
teeth in laughter when the master APP
proachcs. He is darting across the
yard and dancing and frisking around
the masters feet in the happiest way
Imaginable, and he is UP to all kinds Of
pranks and does all kinds Of little
things to Indicate the good nature that
is in him. lie does as his master does
and seems to take the same general
view Of life. These are small things, /
guess. but they show jus. how impor-
tant ones way Of thinking may inhu-
ence ones dog and change his whole
view Of life."-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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The Sunreme Test.

"You may be a clergyman" said the
railway dignitary to the stranger who
had applied for half fare permit, but
you haven't furnished me sufficient ev-
idence Of it. How do you pronounce
M-e-l-c-h-i-z-e-d-e-kY
"Mel-kez-e-dek," promptly responded
the stranger.
Without another word the railway
man made out the permit -
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A Former Predicnment.

The cook in southern family was
fat, black and sixty and a devoted
churchwoman. \ "laboring brother
in the same church, a widOwer with a
dozen children, was 50 assiduous in bis
attentions that he could be seen haunt
ing the kitchen at all hours. The mis-
tress Of the house finally said to the
cook:
Il do hope you don't mean to marry
that old man, with all those children"
mo, ma'am," was the reply. Il done
been kotched in dat predicament once
already" which was the first intima-
ton that had been given in a long
service that she was entitled to wear
the weeds of Observation-Disclosures Free
Press
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Mrs. SMITH reckon our Jane has
got first rate husband.
Mrs. Brown-Well, you ought to be
thankful.
Mrs. Smith, hope | am, Gusty. Of
course he isn't much to look at, and he
amt oyersmart, but there's one thing.
and that is he's saving. Why, the
very first day after the marriage he
told Jane she'd better let him take the
engagement ring back and get the mon
ey returned. lie said there was 10
longer any use for her to wear it now
that she was married.-BOston Tran
script.
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Fish Tint XIII Each Other.

One of the queerest sharks is the
thrasher, which has the upper lobe Of
it's tail so much developed as to equal
in length the body of the fish Itself
This tail is controlled by powerful
muscles and is used as weapon
Swordfsh and thrasher sharks have
been seen on many occasions to attack
whales in concert and kill them. the
sharks lashing their victims with their
tails while the swosdfsh pierce them
from below. On the other hand, sharks
themselves are often killed by por
poises, which will surround a shark
and lash the enemy to death with their
fukes.
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BOOKS OF I'LL BIBLE.
A Rhyme That Tells yOu How to Re
peat Them Ia order.

peat Them Ia order.
Churchgoing people sooner or later
learn the names of the books of the
Bible. but even they as well as the lit
erary person looking FIR historical facts
find it difficult to repeat them in order
unless some thread of interest holds
them together. Here is set of rhymes
which may be used with success:
OLD TESTAMENT.
The great Jehovah speaks TO US
| In Genesis and Exodus;
| LeViticus and Numbers see.
Followed by Deuteronomy;
| Joshua and Judges rule the land;
Ruth CLEANS the sheaf with trembling
hand:
Samuel ahd numerous Kings appear
/ Whose Chronicles we wondering hear;
Ezra and Nehemiah now
Esther. the heauteous maiden, show;
Job speaks in signs.
| David I'm Psalms,
! And Proverbs teach to scatter aims;
! Ecclesiastcs then comes on.
| And the sweet Song Of Solomon;
Isaiah. jeremiah, then
| With Lamentations takes his pen;
| Ezekiel. Daniel. HOsea's Tyres
| Swell Joel, Amos. Obadiahs;
| Jonah. Micah Nahum como.
! And lofty Ilabakkuk finds room;
/ Zephaniah. Haggai calls;
| Rapt Zechariah builds his walls.
! And Malachi. with garments rent,
| Concludes the ancient Testament
NEW TESTAMENT.
This is the way the gospels run:
! Matthew. Mark. Luke and John;
| Then come the Acts. inviting you
! The apostolic church to view;
| The Romans and Corinthians are
! TO cities sent, renowned afar;
! Galatians and Ephesians then,
! Wrote by the same inspired pen;
/ Philippians and Colossans stand
! With Thessalonians nigh at hand:
Timothy leads to Titus on
| This brings us down to Philemon;
The Hebrews then we gladly find,
| And that of James comes close behind;
| TO Peter then our thoughts we give;
| with loving John we wish to live;
Pious Jude will pierce the soul,
And Revelation close the whole.
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The Black sea differs in a most re
markable manner from other seas and
oceans. A surface current flows con
tinuously from the Black sea into the
Mediterranean and an under current
from the Mediterranean into the Black
sea. The latter current is salt, and, be.
ing heavier than the fresh water above
it. remains stagnant at the bottom. Be
ing saturated with sulphuretted hydro
gen, this water will not maintain life
and so the Black sea contains no living
inhabitants below the depth of about
100 fathoms. The deeper water when
brought to the surface smells exactly
like rotten eggs
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A FAMOUS PAINTING.
One Figure In Japanese Picture
Visible Only at Night.

One Figure In n Japanese Picture
Visible Only at Night.
Some Of the finest Japanese paint
ings in Washington are in the legation
building of that nation, the japanese
ambassador being a collector and con-
noisseur Of the art of his native land.
The japanese style of painting is alto
gether unlike that of Europe and
America, and the reason japanese
painters are able to produce color ef-
fects that are the despair of Euro
pean and American artists is owing TO
the pigments they use, large number
of which are secret and unknown out
side Of Japan.
In Japan there is a very famous
painting which no amount OF money
could buy and which is the master
piece of a famous artist who lived
several centuries ago. Viewing the
painting in the daytime, one is disap-
pointed. 1t shows nothing more than
very commonplace landscape, unre-
lieved by mountains or hills. AS soon,
however, as night falls one begins to
realize the peculiar merit of the pic
ture, for upon the canvas there APP
pears a luminous water buffalo (cari-
bou) browsing upon the grass at its
feet.
The artist who painted this picture
discovered a certain phosphOrescent
paint, which he obtained from the bod
les of certain mollusks, or fish, and
with which he painted the buffalo that,
invisible in daylight is LUMINOSITY
brilliant in the dark. The secret Of
making this paint died with the artist.
The picture, which hangs in a Bud
dhist temple, has proved a fertile source
of superstition, the priests claiming that
the buffalo hides away in the shade
behind some trees in the picture dur
ing the heat of the day, coming out at
% rrro N[o hin erfOn Post
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The Way Ont.

GLOW did you ever manage to get
out of buying your wife that opera
cloak that she wanted so muchT
"Say, Bill, that was easy. | told her
that | would buy it for her on her
thirty-fifth birthday and asked her to
let me know the time. "-Detroit Free
Press
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Culture.

She-But you must admit that socie-
ty in our village is all the time becom-
ing more cultured.
He-Yes. l hear that at the minstrel
show instead of end men they adver-
tise superior terminal facllides."-
Boston Transcript.
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Every one ought to know his Shake
speare, for the plays constitute, on the
whole, the foremost textbook which our
race has given to the world.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
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"Ha. haw laughed Willie. 81 chucked
q bananer skin in front CT de teacher"
Il don't see any joke in that, spoke
up his mother.
Don't you? Well, he tumbed all
right, all right. philadelphia Record.
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"f" stops for passengers on sigma
to conductor 2Daily, except Sunday
R. b Cooke. j. q. Rodgers,
Traffic Manager, Supt.
Norfolk, Va. Cape Charles, Va.
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You can't be mean and happy any
more than an apple can be sour and
sweet.-New York Tribune.
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This Way
For Bargains

- have III Stock
General line of Merchandise,
Quaker city cook stoves, some
makes No. 7, low as $1,000.
Lime, bricks, shingles, hair
and plastering laths.
Lumber for dwelling and
other building purposes.
Meal, bran, mill feed and No.
l hay.
100 building lots at this place
from $50 to 5000.
All persons are forewarned
from trespassing in Cropper
Swamp.
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NEW YORK, PHILA. s. NORFOLK
RAILROAD

Time Table In Effect June 4, 1902.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
folk and Old Point Comfort.
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Fertilizers, Farmers Supplies, Build
ing Material, Furniture, &c.

The public will please notice. that for sale
Fertilizers, to suit all crops.
Farmers Supplies. such Garden and Field Seeds, Ag-
ricutura Implements, Mill Feed, Hay, &c
Building Material viz Shingles Brick Lime HAIR Sash
Doors, Binds Moudings, &c.
Furniture in Oak Suits Bureaus Bufets Tables Chairs
Mattresses, &C.
Dry Goods, sOtions. Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Tin an
Wooden Ware Groceries, Canned Goods &C..
Patronage solicited satisfaction guaranteed.
Rogers e. Bro, EMuoy, Va.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-31

Portland Press, leading Republican
organ.
Lewis B. Smith, custom house, Port
land.
The hero OF Appomattox, now fol-
lower rather than a leader, drew his
coat closer about him as the threaten
ed storm burst upon them, and the
party hastene1 ION to (the) Rich
mond" of their perforced invasion.
The house was soon reached and the
host and hostess, MIR. and Mrs. Mel
son Mullin, astonished, but not COM
pletely overwhelmed, by the arrival of
SO distinguished party of guests, set
themselves triskly at work to take
care of the invaders. The spokesman
of the latter said they would like
some supper and place to sleep, and
didn't expect or desire for anything
out of the common course 1t was
foggy, and, darkness coming on, lamps
were lighted and fires were kindled.
Grant was plain and democratic, as
was his nature, and by his CHEEKY chat
with the somewhat perturbed landlord
and landlady soon made them at
their ease in their own inn"
The humble tables were soon spread
in the little dining room and Mr.. Null
and gentlemen. if you will please take
seats at the table, we will do the best
we can to serve you" was accepted
with alacrity. and all the party were
forthwith partaking of what they
jointly pronounced delicious supper.
After supper the party returned to
| the parlor and passed the evening in
an informal, social way, some Of
| them playing cards, the most of them
| cracking jokes, and all making them
| selves entirely at home. According to
| Mrs. Mullins statement, President
| Grant came out into the kitchen, sat
down on a stool and talked with them
a long time.
| He said he preferred to sit in the
| kitchen, where he could smoke with
| out disturbing those in the parlor. He
! would utter a few, words, then take a
! pun at his cigar. His talk covered a
wide range of subjects.
1.-The president wanted no one tc
wait upon him." remarked Mr.. Mullin
..and made less trouble than a young
drummer on his first trip
During his waiting hours a cigar was
almost constantly in his mouth. Mr.
Mullin carefully preserves, as a valued
memento of Grants visit, an empty
cigar box marked Colorado Claro,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-31

For once at least in the history OF
this republic the nation was without
a head. Though brief, the interregnum
was complete. 1t was only for about
fourteen hours, but in that short per-
iod the nation ran itself. But the peo-
pie knew it not, and nothing occurred
to create a temporary state Oh an
archy. All the same, the occasion
thereof constituted a most interesting
incident.
1t transpired in the summer of 1873,
when President Grant, several mem
bers of his cabinet and other more
or less distinguished men. including
Hannibal Hamlin, Gen. Babcock, Simon
Cameron, Lot NJ. Morrill,, James G.
Blaine and Thomas B. Reed were en-
forced prisoners one night on little
Maine island, during violent storm
and completely isolated from the rest
of the world.
.aThe idea that Grant couldn't talk!
Why, bless you, that two hours talk
he gave us one memorable night on
a lone island off the coast of Maine
was at once the most graphic and fas-
cinating | ever heard in my life
So spoke Lewis B. Smith, for many
years deputy collector of customs at
Portland, Me-, a prominent citizen of
that city He told the very interest
ing story to a little bevy of his &C
Quaintances one evening a few years
after the episode.
BY virtue of his Office, Deputy Col
iector Smith was at the time referred
to in charge of the presidential party
on board the United States revenue
cutter McCulloch. That year QS73)
President Grant, accompanied by
members of his cabinet, noted states
ment, and other public men prominent
in civil and military life, came east,
and was received with due honors in
the cities and principal towns visited.
One of these was Portland and in ad-
dition to the public ovations given the
distinguished party, arrangements
were made to take them back to Bar
Harbor-then comparatively little
known as summer resort-and other
points on the Maine coast
The party went oy rail as far as
Rockland, where the revenue cutter
met them, took them on board, and
put out to sea again
But their voyage was destined to be
a short one. The cutter had been but
a little while out when there was
abundant evidence of = storm near at
hand approaching the coast Night
was coming on. The cutter, however
continued on her way until opposite
the little island of North Haven when
it was decided to take no further risks
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-31

with such a valuable freight andso the
captain steered for the island, near
which, in safe harbor, boat was low
cred, and the gentlemen of the party
taken ashore, the ladies preferring to
remain on board because it was very
damp and they were not prepared to
go out in the wet.
The march of that little army of oc-
cupation from the beach to a certain
neat-looking white house which proved
to be an unpretentious inn, of very
light patronage, on account of its iso-
lation,' was a memorable one. 1t is
safe to say. that no body of infantry
SO small in number, yet so illustrious
in character, silent and unescorted,
ever before took up it's line of march
on this continent. A complete roster
of the procession, as recorded by the
twenty-six members in Mr.. Mullins
register. is given in fac simile from
photograph, with this article. The per-
sonnet was as follows:
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, president of
the United States.
The Hon. James G. Blaine of Angus
ia, Me-, at that time representative
in congress from the Third district
The Hon. Eugene Hale of Ellsworth,
Me-. member of congress from the
Fifth district, now United States SEN
ator.
Gen. o. E Babcock. U. S. A, on
Grants staff in the civil war and his
secretary when Grant was president
The Hon. Lot M Morrill, of Angus
ia, Me-, United States senator, after
ward secretary of the treasury under
Grant.
The Hon Hannibal Hamlin of Ban
gor, Me-. ex-United States senator who
was vice president in Lincoln's first
term
A s. Washburn of the famous Wash
burn family of statesmen
Clarence Hale, lawyer, a brother of
the congressman.
The Hon Thomas B. Reed. of Port
land. Names attorney-general, after
ward member of Congress from the
First district.
w. T. Hildrup.
Ex-Congressman Sidney Perham of
Paris. Me-, at that tine governor
The Hon. John H Burleigh of South
Berwick, Me- member of Congress
from the First district
The Hon Simon Cameron of Penn
sylvania, at one time Lincoln's sec