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CHINESE WASTE PAPER.
Every Scrap with n Printed Charac-
ter Upon Ii IN Sacred.

You will never find upon the street
or in the rubbish heap scrap of pa
per with Chinese characters written
or printed upon it. An intelligent
| Chinaman, questioned as to the rea-
son, explained the matter In this way:
"Melican man never tears up and
flows in stlcet his Bible or hymnbook.
Chinee lifting all same TO Chinaman as
Mclean mans Bible"
Then he still further clucidatcd the
mystery by leading the way IL the eel
lar of a Race street house, In wilfh.
piled up before Il gigantic furnace.
were bundles Of paper and sacks OF let
tiers and newspapers printed in CHI
nese hieroglyphics.
Interpreted into plain English the old
Chinaman's story was that the orien-
tails regarded the written characters
as so sacred that this furnace was es-
pecially set apart, after being blessed
by the priests, for the incarceration Of
all Chinese letters and documents.
SO sacred indeed was the Chinese
writing regarded by the orientals that
the most compromising letters of the
highbihders and the private CORE
spOndence Of families were left with
confidence in the care Of the furnace
attendant, it being perfectly well
known that he would not risk his i'm
mortal soul Ivy committing the deadly
sill Of prying into correspondence com
mitted to his care TO he given to the
flames.
Nor does the oriental regard the Chi
nese writing as safe from the hands of
the infidel even when every scrap Of 1t
has been reduced to ashes After the
paper has been burned the ashes are
has accumulated to make load they
are shipped OH board boat belonging
to the Chinese Merchants company.
by which society all such matters are
managed. and taken to sea, where they
are scattered over the surface of the
ocean.
TO the Chinaman it is horrifying to
see the white mans newspapers used
for wrapping purposes, his letters
scattered around the streets TO be
walked on and his old books flung
around when read as though of no
more sacredness than old boots. A
letter, an envelope, the printed slips
eXtOlllng the virtues Of preserved gin
ger or the characters that advertise
laundry for sale become. after their
usefulness has passed, as sacred as
the gilded ornaments that add to the
glory of the joss.
One man is employed I'm Chinatown
to collect the waste paper. He calls ut
the stores and the rooms and gathers
IT up with the utmost care, tying it In
sacks so that not a shred shall escape
With his sacred burden he goes to the
furnace room and hands the sacks to
the important parsonage in charge
there, who slows 1t away ready for the
next burning day. Twice week the
furnace is lighted and the sacks of pa
per solemnly committed to the flames
with many Observation-Disclosures
Record.
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The Women of Damascus.

The women of Damascus-thati is. the
MOslem WOmen-are more closely veil
ed than those of COnstantinOple and
other eastern cities because the people
here are more tenacious in the Observ-
ance Of the ancient customs of their
race and the requirements of their re-
ligion. The wells are thicker, also, and
cover the entire face. Some of them
are figured 50 that the conceaiment is
even more complete.
Greeks, Jews and Armenians do not
wear wells, and some Of them are very
handsome, particularly the Jewish vO-
men. Their eyes, complexion and hair
are superb. The types Of orienta, love-
illness remind you of SOlon0n's Song.
No women are employed about the
hotels or restaurants. All the "dOmcs-
tic" work is done by men. In the shops
and manufactures Of Damascus thou
sands Of women and girls are employ
ed, but they are exclusively Greeks and
Jews. No MOslem would permit his
wife, daughter or sister to appear in
shop or any other place where men are
emplOyed.-ChicagO Record Herald.
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Triumph of Mechanical Skill.

A curious piece Of mechanical luxury
has been set up in Sir James Blyth's
home in Portland place, London, by
means of which the dining room can
nOiselessly double its size.
One saunters down to drink cup Of
coffee $50 a contemporary describes it,
and finds a spacious and well proper
toned room papered in warm crimson
and hung with handsome pictures.
There is a door of communication with
the adjoining room. on either side Of
which hangs large picture in a heavy
gold frame. The floor is polished, and
q thick carpet comes within yard Of
the wall all around
The coffee is excellent, but one doubts
its potency when, on turning round,
one is confronted by the partitiOning
wall, doors, pictures, and all half way
through the floor. Silently it sinks be-
low, and no flaw in the polished and
even floor is perceptible. Only the
crimson walls are twice as long, and
there are bordcred carpets. 1t is the
most perfect triumph Of mechanical
skill.
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ELECTRICAL LEAKAGE.
One OF the Grent Dangers which
Threaten Men.

The greatest dangers which threaten
man are generally invisible to the vic
tim, and among these none is more
productive Of disastrous consequences
than electrical leakage" the selfsame
leakage used by the natives Of all hot
AS no organic function can take place
except by means of electrical currents,
so it can be easily understood that If
these currents leak from our bodies
the loss of power must be distinctly
harmful. \ common instance Of this
loss of electricity from our bodies con
sists of what we call nervous shock
the scientific explanation being that n
sudden cgress of electricity takes place
owing to the violent mental impress
sions involuntariIy forcing a current of
power through channels which had not
been previously open TO receive them.
"This," remarked scientist, us but
one case among thousand of the ways
in which we useleSSly cXpcnd our vital
power The electrical waste of n per-
son is entirely due to his surroundings
the seat upon which you sit the tn-
bic upon which YOU write the floor, the
ceiling, the fireplace, the rays and col
Ors of light which surround you, all
may I've instrumental in absorbing your
electricity, to the great detriment Of
your health. Red or yellow light waves
excite electricity within you, blue and
violet waves exhaust it, while green
waves are practically neutral in their
effect.
THE air you breathe places you In
direct communication with the walls,
windows or hearth Of your room; If,
owing TO the manner i'm which they are
constructed, they place you in electrical
communication with the soil on which
your house is built, an earth return is
formed, and the electricity in mans
condenser the hrain-is drawn ont Of
the body. When one stands in the
vicinity of a place of electrical eXhaus
ton one ought to face II, as the base
Of the skull and spine, being the center
of the nervous system. are more sen
sitlve to outside Influences than is the
more covered front of the body. This
is why one feels so tired when sitting
with ones back to Il fire; the flames
serve as conductors and extract the
force from the exposed nervous cen
tiers. "-PearSon's Magazine.
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If any reader of this article should
ever be so unfortunate as to expert
ence the embrace of a boa constructor,
it is recommended that he try to re
lease himself by taking hold Of the
creatures tail and unwinding it from
that end. 1t can be easily unwound in
that way, but otherwise it is not posi-
bic. The way to kill a snake is not to
attempt to crush its head, the bones Of
which are very hard, but to strike the
tail, where the spinal cord is but thinly
covered by bone and suffers readily
from injury. 1t is the same with an
eel. Hit the tail two Or three times
against any hard substance, and the
eel quickly dies.
The bOas are not venOmous, but their
fangs are sufficiently powerful to in
fiict serious wounds.
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SOURCES or KNOWLEDGE.
You May LEARN Something From Ev-
crybody You Meet.

One of the most useful success habits
one can form is that of learning some
thing from everybody with whom he
comes in contact. No information which
can be acquired is too trivial to be ig-
nOred.
Constantly measure yourself with the
men you meet. You will find that every
one can teach you something which you
did not know before and which, per-
haps, you would never have a chance
to learn again If you did not acquire 1t
from him.
Daniel Webster once made great
hit In arguing a case before n jury by
repeating story wlhch he afterward
said he had not thought of since he
heard it fourteen years before. But
Webster was always picking up some
thing for future use. His famous reply
to Hayne, The greatest speech ever de
livered on the American continent, was
largely made up Of little reserves which
he had picked up here and there In his
reading. from studying men and from
observation.
Many q prominent novelist has col
lected material for his stories by max
ing notes of his conversations with
those he has met and by observation.
Charles Dickens got great deal of the
matter for some of his novels in this
way.
One young man will 60 to a lecture
and after spending an hour listening To
the helpful. inspiring words Of some
prominent man will leave the hall or
lecture room without having derived
any benefit from the address. Another
young man will attend the same lee
ture with an ambition to learn some
thing lie will drink in the speakers
sentences as If he were never to hear
such words of encouragement and in
splratiOn again At the conclusion Of
the address he will determine that he
will make more of his opportunities in
the future; that he will read more,
think more, study more, be more than
he ever was before. Such young man
has a purpose and is determined TO
learn something from everything he
comes in contact with and from every
body he talks to- The other has no am
bition does not throw himself into
what he does, lets his mind wander
hither and thither, so that he never
wholly understands what people are
saying and therefore never derives any
benefit or information from those with
whom he cOnverses.-Orison SWEET Mar
den in Success.
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The oldest mathematic book in the
world is believed to be the "Papyrus
Rhind" in the British museum, pro
fessed to have been written by Ahmes,
a scribe Of King Ra-a-us, about the pc
riod between 2000 and 100 B. g. This
"Papyrus Rhind" was translated by
Eisenlohr Of Leipsic, and it was found
to contain a rule for making square
equal in area to a given circle. 1t was
not put forth as an original discovery,
but as the transcript Of a treatise 500
years older still, which sends us back
to, approximately. $500 B. c., when
Egyptian mathematicians solved, or
thought they had solved, the problem
of sQuaring the circle.
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FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
srhey Are Misunderstood" Says one
Who Knows Them Intimately.

I have had rare opportunity to study
the inside life of the foreign mission
airy. am free 10 say that so far as
their external life is concerned there Is
no class of people more fully mlsunder-
stood and more perSlstently misrepOrt-
ed. Some say they live lives of ease In
comparative luxury; others that those
who 20 into missionary work do so be-
cause there is no chance Of their get
ting n comfortable living at home.
Others think of them as lot of long
haired fanatics who have a strange
conception of religious duty and who
under the impulse of that conception
have gone into unciviliZed regions to
live.
1t is not generally known that the
most of the missionaries of the old.
well established mission boards are
graduates of our best American col
leges and universities and who have
had. in addition to their university
training, n postgraduate course of from
three to five years. The missionaries
who are finally sent are selected from
a larger number of applicants, and
they are in many cases the honor men
of their classes. There are few Amer
lean colleges or universities which
have not graduates in the foreign mis-
sionary service who bear degrees Civ
en- by the alma mater for distinguished
scholarship. These people go to unciv-
iliZed countries for the most part and
take up their abode among a rude and
savage people.
1t is not to be wondered at that for
eign missionaries have adventures
which are hardly paralleled by any
class Of people in the world. The life
Of many a missionary is filled with
marvellous experiences, to which he
gives little attention, seldom referring
10 them in conversation, almost never
writing about them and regarding
them as the mereSt incidents to the
work he is trying to do. They not in
frequently lose their lives through the
perils Of the country and the savagery
of the people. Little is said or done
about it, and so the world is kept in ig-
nOrance.-Rev. DR.. James L. Barton
in WOman'S Home Companion.
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Got His Hebrew Mixed.

Mr.. John s. Sargent, the artist, some
times tells of ludicrous mistake he
once made which brought home to him
the need Of verifying details. At the
request of the trustees of the Boston
library he painted some scenes on one
of the frescOcs and sought to represent
in Hebrew characters Il am thy Cod"
When the work was finished and
ready for inspection, he was dismayed
to hear Jewish friend declare that
his Hebrew inscription read, Thou art
shalt not" The characters were
promptly revised.
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The widows Mite.

THAT story Of the widows mite does
more harm than good, l believe" says
a church worker who has seen the lido
syncrasies Of many good people. THE
inference that people draw from it is
that there is virtue in mites, and they
give mites from their own abundance,
forgetting that the poor widow of the
Bible story gave all that she had. l
am inclined to believe that this must
be one reason that church work of all
kinds is so poorly supported. People
give generously everywhere before
they remember the church. They ex-
pect to pay for what they get every
where outside, but in the church they
want to get as much as they can for
the least possible outlay"
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A Story Of j. Sterling Morton.

A touching incident illustrating J.
Sterling Morton's devotion to his wife
is told Of him. They had three sons,
one Of whom died not many years ago.
but all did well in life, one Of them,
Paul Morton, being vice president Of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad. In ordering a tombstone for
his wife's grave Mr.. Morton had carved
upon it the usual inscription and added
that she was the mother Of three sons,
whose names were written on the
stone. In telling his sons Of this he
remarked, eff any one Of you ever does
anything to disgrace your mother, l
Will have his name erased from her
tombstone"
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Notice tOCreditOrS
Commissioners Office,
Accomack g. H.. Va,
NAV 26th. 1902.

To the creditors of Thomas
Petit, deceased, and all others
concerned You are hereby
notified that, at the re-
quest of the personal represen-
tative of the said decedent, /
have appointed the 3Oth day of
June next, at my said office,
for receiving proof of all debts
and demands against the said de-
cedent or his estate; at which
time and place you are required
to attend and prove your claims.
Given under my hand the day
and year first above written.
Jno. S. Parsons.
Comr. Of Accounts of Accomack
County Court.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-06-14

The great emotional experiences of
life are belittled 10y the same insist
ence upon the trivial. Life and love
look Into each others eyes. a man and
woman elect each other from all the
world, but the joyful socmnity of
marriage is RULED by the details Of
the wedding. perhaps by family squad
bles over flowers and gowns and inyl-
tations Or great death comes i'm at
the door. and the little human soul.
overwhelmed with grief. appalled, by
the sudden opening of ctcrnity before
its eyes, yet fusSos there is no other
word for it, over mourning over the
width Of the hem 10 the vel or the
question Of Grape buttons or dull jet.
This may be shocking or mournful or
ludicrous, as one happens to look at it.,
but it is certainly uncivilized. - Har
per's Bazaar.
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One Of the most delightful methods
of teaching botany to children is af-
fOrded by "SchOol gardens" There are
more than eighty such gardens in Eu-
rope, extending from Switzerland,
whose Alpine flora is very beautiful, to
Sweden, which is also a land Of beau
tiful plants and flowers. Such gardens
have lately been introduced in this
country and. according to Mr.. Henry
/. Clapp, who recently addressed the
Boston Society of Natural History on
this subject, they give much promise
Of popularity and success.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-06-14

a good story is told Of an Irlshman,
more patriotic than clever, who enlist
ed in one Of the smart cavalry regi-
ments The fencing instructor had
experienced rather difficult job in the
matter of explaining to him the vari-
GUS ways of using the sword. "Now,"
he said, "hOw would you use the
sword If your opponent feintedY "Be-
dad" said Pat, with cleaning eyes,
I'D Just tickle him with the point to
see If he was shamming."-St. James
Gazette.
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In Chancery.

The object Of this suit is to
enioin and restrain James II.
Fletcher, Jr., special commits
siOner in the suit of Isaac Gill
lespie, who sues, &C., VS.. Geo.
! T. Brodwater's admir-, C. t. a
and others, from making sale
of the real estate Of which the
said George T. Brodwater died
seized and possessed, under a
decree entered in said suit, on
the 18th day of April, A. D., 1902,
and to contest the claims filed
in said suit against the said
Geo. 7. Brodwater, deceased.
Affidavit having been made
before the clerk of the said
court that Leah e. Harmons
and John Brown, two of the de-
PENDANTS in the above en-
titled cause are non-resi-
dents Of the State of Virginia,
on the motion of the plaintiffs,
by their attorneys, it is ordered
that the said Leah E. Harmons
and John Brown do appear here
within fifteen days after due
publication of this order and
do what is necessary to protec
their interests; and that this OF
der be published once a week
for four successive weeks in the
Peninsula Enterprise, a news
paper published at Accomack
Q. H., Virginia, and also posted
at the front door of the court
house of the said county on the
first day of the next term of the
county court of the said county.
Test: JOHN d. GRANT, C. C.
A Copy
Test: JOHN D. GRANT, C. C.
Parsons & Quiuby, p. q.
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Concentration.

Don't put all your eggs in one bas.
ket" is all wrong. | tell you Put all
your eggs in one basket and then
watch that basket" 1t is easy to
watch and carry the one basket. 1t is
trying to carry too many baskets that
breaks most eggs in this country. He
who carries three baskets must put
one on his head. which is apt to tum-
BILE and trip him up.-Carnegie's EN-
pire of Business"
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Electric Centipeds,

Least attractive among the insects
which give light are the so called "elec
trio centipeds." black crawlers with
many legs which have been likened to
serpents skeletons in miniature. They
move in snakelike fashion, forward
or backward, leaving behind them a
bright track Of phosphoric light. How
ever, they are most accustomed to ap-
pear In the daytime, when the illumi-
nation they afford is not visible.-Lon-
don Times.
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Proved Her Claim.

81 wanted to show" she said, "that
woman is maligned, that brevity is
quite as much her attribute as it is
mans, and so when he proposed had
to say Yes"
"You might have said NO." 1t was
suggested.
"Not at ALL" she protested. when
you say No. you have to explain why
you say 1t and tell how sorry you are,
and it would have spoiled everything"
Chicago Post
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Philip was saying his prayers before
going to bed and ended his supplica-
ton with, "Amen, Philip Evans"
"Why, Philip, why did you say that%
asked his mother.
"Well," he replied, Il didn't want
God to mix me up with Brother Ed.
He does act so Observation-Disclosures
TranScrint
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against

Isaac Gillespie, James H.
Fletcher, Jr., special commits
sioner in the suit Of Isaac Gil
lespie, who sues, &c, VS.. Geo.
T. Brodwater's admir-, C. t. u.
and Others" Leah f. Harmons,
George Brown and Mary f..
Brown, his wife, John Brown
and James 4. Hall and Benja-
min G. Johnson, merchants and
partners trading as James A.
Hall q CO.,."......Defendants
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They Generally Stick.

Hewitt-Gruet has Tilted that Boston
girl.
Jewett-I didn't think he could do 1t
Hewitt-Why not?
Jewett-It isn't easy TO get rid Of
cOld.-New York Times.
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VIRGINIA:-ln the circuit
court for the county Of Acco.
mack, in the vacation of said
court, the 9th day Of May, A.
D., 1902.
William Walsh, admir-, C. t.
d Of George y. Brodwater, de-
ceased, and sally Crippin.........
........... -. .... .......... Plaintiffs.
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Gottlieb Schneider-I hear you hat
a new bicycle got Do you get much
on it?
Louie Piltzheimer-I hat neffer had
It to a pawnshop NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
(O) State Journal.
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Suggesting n Remedy.

With sarcastic fingers the deaf and
dumb lady curtain lectured her hus-
band for betting on the races.
"Either talk slower" be spelled out
on his hand, "or else put topples on
your fingers They interfere when you
strike this gait."-Judge
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Early EXPLANATION.

"And she married Jaggers, did She?
Well, well! How on earth did that
come aboutT
$50 far as l can learn, 1t is owing to
a mutual Misunderstanding" -Brook-
Ign Life.
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The Parrot.

She-Isn't that a beautiful parrot?
He-Well, | like the cage better than
] do the parrot
"Pshaw! The cage can't talk"
"That's the reason l like it."-Yon-
kers Statesman.
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VIRGINIA:-At a court held for
the County of Accomack on the Goth
day of May, A. D., 1902. d,
In the Matter of the Payment and
Delivery of the Estate of Elliott
Johnson. deceased, to his sole Legal
tee. without Reminding Bond being
given. ~ H.
On the motion of Alice M John
ston. sole legatee of Elliott Johnston,
deceased. by Stewart X. Powell, her
attorney, it appearing to the court
that a report of the accounts OF the
transactions Of Stewart X. Powell
and william G. West, executors OF
the said decedent, and OF the deDts
and demands against their SAID de-
cedent's estate, has been lied In the
office of this court, aud it further APP
bearing to the court that more imam
one year has elapsed since the uali-
iication of the said executors, IL Is Or
dered that the creditors OF the SAID
Elliott Johnston, deceased, do show
cause, if any they can, Cd the Euu
day Of the June term, 1902, OF this
court, against the payment and de-
livery of the estate Of said decedent to
his said legatee without rounding
bond being given by the said legatee;
and that a copy Of this order shall be
published once week, for four sue
cessive weeks, ia the peninsula En-.
terprise,n newspaper published at
the courthouse OF this county, and
also posted at the front door Of the
courthouse Of this county on the
first day OF two successive terms OF
this court.
A Copy, Test