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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-14
Sell Fruit Trees.

Good men wanted to sell fruit trees.
By our plan statesmen make big profits.
No trouble to sell our stock. Liberal
terms and regular work. Fine opening
for energetic men. Write today. SMITH
BROS, Concord, Ga.
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A handsome electric sign now ornamah ats
the front of the Marlborough House Cafe.
The place is most lavishly fitted up and
is attracting much patronage.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-14

If you are without prejudice and simply
want the best, just get Blue Ribbon Va
nilla Extract
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Il is quite evident that Melee and
Finch were not well acquainted With
governor Aycock, when they undertook
10 gobble the A. and N G. T. r. The
Governor certainly made it warm for these
n3ooiecs: he has set a pace that it will
be good for his successors to t,'low.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Having qualified as the administrator
of Aisle T. carp, deceased. late of Wake
County, North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against the
estate Of said deceased to exhibit them 10
the undersigned on or before the 10th day
of January, 1905, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery and all
per sons indebted to said estate viii please
make immediate payment to me.
This 4th day of January. 1904.
WILLIAM FL. carp. Administrator.
1-7-1W CIV
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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
ParnelI's Superstitions.

Charles Stewart Parnell was one OF
the strongest men that ever lived, but
he had numberless superstitions. Once
colleague of his brought him the
draft of a bill to the cell he was then
occupying In Kilmainham. 1t was In
thirteen clauses. Parnell was Mortified.
He insisted that somehow or other
fourteenth clause should be added.
Once Parnell saw a colleague with
three lights In his bedroom. He was
quite uneasy until he saw one Of the
lights put out. travelled with him
once when he had a scarf that had
been presented to him by a lady ad-
mirer. There was some green in the
scarf. One of his superstitions was
that green was an unlucky color. He
used to say. half joke, whole earnest.
that all the misfortuneS of Ireland
came from the fact that her color wHs
green. He was very much put out by
this scarf. 1t was in the days when
the habeas corpus was suspended in
Ireland and we were sleeping on the
mail boat at Kingstown and were not
to start for Holyhead till next morn
ing. He was quite sure the green scarf
would have us arrested before we left
In the morning.-M. y. L.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
ANIMAL LANGUAGE.
Sounds Both shrill and Low That
We Cannot Hear.


Most people suppose O mole to be
dumb, but It is not. A mole can give
a sound so shrill that 1t hasn't any
effect on the human ear at all and an
other sound so low and soft that no
human being can hear 1t. Yet a wea-
sci can hear both these sounds as plain
" as you can the report Of a gun, and
sound registering machine-the pho
nautograph--will show them both, with
scores Of other sounds you are deaf to.
The usual note of the mole is low
pur, which II uses good deal while
at work underground, and 1t can also
shout at the top of its voice If hurt or
alarmed; but though 1t shouted and
purred in your ear, you wouldn't hear
II. The sound register, however, with
its delicate pencil that marks the vol
ume of sound on paper, gives the
quality Of both sounds.
A weasel too, which Is one OF the
mole's enemies, can hear these sounds
through a couple of inches Of earth
and often catches the mole when he
throws up his hillocks Of earth. The
common field mouse, too has pur
that is altogether beyond you, though
you can hear him squeak plainly
enough If he Is hurt. A deaths head
moth, too, can squeak, but that Is done
by rubbing his wings together and is
not a voice at all.
But the champion of all creatures for
good hearing and one that can hear
sound that is over 100 degrees beyond
your own limit Is the common thrush,
and you may often amuse yourself by
watching him at it. He can hear
lobworm moving underground, locate
him by the noise and haul him out
Often you may see thrush stand
perfectly still on your lawn, cock his
ear and listen intently. then make
couple Of steps and haul out fat lob
worm. Even the startling. which Is
about the size of a thrush, cannot do
this, but he knows the thrush can, and,
being a disreputable person, with no
common honesty, he follows the young
thrushes about on their worm hunts
and steals the worms from them as
soon as they are caught-London An
sWers
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VIGOROUS OLD AGE.

Plato died in his eighty-third year,
and his last hour was devoted to intel
lectual work.
Isocrates was ninety-four years old
when he wrote his famous work. PA
nathenaikus
Terestius varro lived to be nearly a
hundred. and he continued to write up
to the day of his death.
Hero, king of Sicily, lived to be
ninety, and Masinissa lived to be still
older and ruled for sixty years.
Quintus Fqbius was appointed augur
when he was past middle age. and he
held the office for sixty-two years.
Cato Censorius transacted business
until he was nearly ninety and re-
tanned to the end all his old time vigor.
Gorgias Lpntium. the teacher Of
Isocrates and other distinguished men,
was in excellent health at the age Of
1O7 years.
Chrysippus began to write his work
on logic In his eightieth year. Clean
thes taught his pupils up to his ninety
ninth year.
Sophocles lived to be nearly a hun
dred, and during his last days he wrote
the "Gdipus ColOneus," one of the
greatest tragedies ever written.
Arganthonius began to rule when he
was forty years old and held power
for eighty years. and In the third book
of the History" Asinius Polio tells
us that he did not die until he was past
his one hundred and thirtieth year.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
In Frozen Russia,

In Russia. where the cold In winter is
very intense. the markets are very curl
GUS things. The meat Is frozen, the car
casses of dead animals, as sheep and
pigs, stand upright outside the stalls;
everything, even game and poultry, re-
Quires to be thawed before 1t can be
cooked, and the market peoples dress
is as picturesque as 1t is warm and
comfortable.
Then the rivers are frozen over all
the winter long, and so thick is the ice
that every one can skate anywhere and
any time. Stalls are put up on the ice
and busy markets held there.
In the Asiatic part Of Russia the peo-
pie live chiefly by hunting and fishing,
and the fur of the Russian animals Is
very beautiful-the ermine, fox, sable,
sea otter and others.
At the end Of the winter, when the
snow melts, the huntsman pursues the
elk, wearing long shoes, in which he
can glide over the snow very quickly,
while the poor elk sinks into the snow
deeper and deeper every step and is at
last overtaken and killed.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16

In Paris In the revolution of 1880 a
law student was soundly kicked by one
Of the kings officers for tearing down
a copy of the ordinances placarded on
the wall. The officer was armed, the
student was not; so the latter ran
away. Nearly q half century later in
1879, the officer called upon the STU
dent to bid him goOdby, having just
resigned the presidency of the French
republic on account Of radical differ
ence with the majority Of the national
assembly on questions of state policy.
He combined with his adieus also a
graceful word of congratulation on
the students election to succeed him in
the presidential chair. The student
was Jules Grevy; the officer was Pa
trice de MacMahon, who died ripe in
years and honOrs.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
MARINE ART.
Virtues and Defects of the Ships
That Sailors Paint.

virtues and Defects of the ships
That Sailors Paint.
II Is an axiom with sailors that there
never was man who put In three
years before the mast who did not
think he could paint ship better than
the most skillful landlubber that ever
welded q brush. In the homes of re-
tired sea captains specimens OF this
kind of marine art are often displayed
on the walls to admiring friends and
are handed down as family helrlooms.
A good place for the man who has no
seagoing relatives or friends to see
such pictures is in some Of the win
dows of ship supply stores on South
street in New York. Sailors buy them
occasionally.
Ships that sailors paint are absolutely
correct In every detail. From a brig to
a full rugged three master there is not q
block or tackle missing from stem to
stern or from masthead to water line
No marine painter could get In half sc
much detail II he tried But the ships
painted by sailors look as if they were
caught fast in frost tipped waves
There is absolutely no life or any sug
gestlon OF motion about them even
when represented as going under full
sail. When a sailor tries to get In BIZ
Of landscape as a background, as he
usually does, he makes matters hope
lessly worse. AS a general thing 1t is a
lighthouse or fort looking for all the
world like little images that children
take out Of their toy arks.-New York
Press.
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His Two Purchases.

A story is told of a Louisiana mer-
chant who came to New York deter
mined to secure a bargain. He wanted
cheap cloaks, and after trying in vain
to suit himself at the wholesale houses
he bought job lot at auction. He ex-
amined the goods hurriedly and had
them shipped home. In due time he
was confronted by an excited head
salesman who said the garments were
out Of style.
"They didn't look that way" said the
merchant.
"But they are" replied the clerk.
The merchant persisted that the
cloaks would sell, but they didn't. In
desperation he returned them to New
York to be disposed Of to best advan-
tage. On his next trip to New York be
again visited an auction house and
bought lot of cloaks, When he re-
turned home and examined his pur-
chase he saw that he had bought the
same lot as before.-World's Work.
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Reauties of Red Tape.

A typical instance of the war office
methods is furnished by correspond
ent on one of our stations. An officer
having occasion for the use of a screw
driver made application for the supply
of that humble but handy implement
from the government stores. His appli-
cation was banded about in the usual
manner from officer to officer and final
ly reached the upper authority, from
whom a reply filtered back by the same
devious ways to the effect that screw
drivers were only supplied In tool
boxes and not singly. Nothing daunt-
ed, the officer at once applied for
box of tools and after the usual cir
cumlocutOry tactics was Informed that
boxes Of tools were only supplied
to carpenters shops BY this time the
officer, who had quite forgotten what
he had wanted the screwdriver for,
had thoroughly entered into the spirit
of the campaign, and his next applica-
ton was for a carpenters shop. He
got it.-London Tit-Blts.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
GaIiIeO's Wit.

Galileo's wit, according to biogra-
ply, got him into trouble when he put
into the mouth Of Simplicio, the foolish
opponent of the Copernican theory in
his Dialogues" an argument that
Pope Urban VIII. had himself devised
and insisted on Calico incorporating in
the work. Calico made Slmplicio quote
1t as an argument he had from very
eminent and learned parsonage" The
enemies of Calico persuaded Urban
that he had been made game Of" and
this was the offense Of which Calico
was guilty. 1t was not for upholding
the theory that the sun stands still and
the earth moves that Calico was tried
by the inquisition. Urban himself had
supported the COpernican doctrines
both as cardinal and as pope.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
A DANCE IN THE KLONDIKE
Joaquin MiIier's story and the Way
He Ciinchcd 1t.

At one of his lectures Just after his
return from the Klondike Joaquin Mil
Ter told the following story: "One night
l was invited TO dance in a miners
cabin, and while Bill Dalton scraped
away on his fiddle we Just hoed it
down. But the miners tramped in and
out so much between dances that be-
fore midnight the ladies declared the
floor was so slippery they couldn't
dance another step unless something
was done. Then something was done
that never was possible in mining
days in California. Each miner gal
lantly opened his buckskin powder
pouch and sprinkled gold dust on the
floor And this was repeated through
out the night. And in the morning,
ladies and gentlemen, those miners
never troubled themselves about sweep
Ing up that gold dust. They just hitch
ed UP their dog sleds and rode away"
At this point of Millers narrative
there was a slight agitation in the au-
dience, an ominous sign of incredulity,
but Miller was equal to 1t. With a
wave of his hand toward one Of the
boxes, he said, And my old friend up
there In the box, Captain John Healy,
will substantiate what | say
1t was q master stroke of the poet,
for the house burst into applause and
greatly embarrassed the modest mil
lionaire mining and railroad promoter
of Alaska, who unsuSpectingly had ac-
copied Miller's invitation to attend the
lecture in the afternoon.
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Cause For Rejoicing.

Judge Shaw in his latter days was
reverenced by the people of Massa-
chusetts as If he were demigod, but
in his native county OF Barnstable he
was reverenced as god. One winter
when the supreme court held special
session at Barnstable for the trial of a
capital case Judge Merrick, who was
one of the judges. came out of the
courthouse just at nightfall, when the
whole surface of the earth was cover
ed with ice and sush, slipped and fell
heavily, breaking three of his ribs. He
was taken up and carried to his room
at the hotel and lay on a sofa waiting
for the doctor TO come. While the
Judge lay groaning and in agony the
old janitor Of the courthouse. who had
Helped pick him up. wiped off the wet
from his clothes and said to him.
Judge Merrick. how thankful you
must be 1t was not the chief justice"
Poor Merrick could not help laughing,
though his broken ribs were decorating
his aesh.-George +. Hoar in Serb
ner's.
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Where They Eat Tobacco.

Perhaps there is nothing more pecul-
lar about the Eskimos of Point Bar
row than their methods of using tobac-
co, which, Of course. they procure from
the whites They know good from bad
tobacco. When they get hold of few
plugs, they show a marked apprecia-
ton of 1t. The habit of chewing the
weed seems to be universal. Men, wo-
men and even unweaned children keep
n quid, often of enormous size, con-
stantly in the mouth. The juice is not
spit out, but swallowed with the saliva
without producing any symptoms of
nausea.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16
A Continuous Smoke.

In the Philippines the use of tobacco
is universal. The native child acquires
the tobacco habit as soon as it is able
to walk. In the northern provinces es-
pecially 1t Is no uncommon sight to see
a child five or six years old putting Wig
orously ut a big cigar. The women
smoke fully as much as the men and
commonly smoke cigars where the men
use cigarettes. In the northern parts OF
Luzon immense cigars often couple Of
feet long and as thick as the wrist are
used. Such a cigar is suspended from
rafter of the house by a string and
smoked during the day by all the mem
bers of the family as desired.
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THE GERM THEORY.
De Foe Gave a Hint of II In the
Early Eighteenth Century.

Early Eighteenth century.
De Foes journal of the Plague Year,"
published In 1922, contains two pas
sages which grope toward bacterlology.
De Foe himself pretends to disbelieve
the theories. But his way is to seem to
doubt what he IS really eager to adj
vance.
Having shown that contagion was al
most certain in the case of people liv-
ing in the same house, but often avoid
able by segregation and precautlon
against physical contact De Foe says:
This put 1t out of question to me
that the calamity was spread by infec-
tlon-that is 10 say, by some certain
steams or fumes, which the physicians
call efIluvia, which efIluvia affected the
sound who came within certain dis
tances Of the sick. Others talk Of In
lection being carried on by the air only
by carrying with 1t vast numbers OF
insects and invisible creatures, who en-
ter into the body with the breath or
even Mt the pores with the air and
there generate or emit most acute pol
sons or poisonous ova or eggs, which
mingle themselves with the blood and
so infect the body"
In another place is this passage:
81 have heard 1t was the opinion Of
others that 1t (the dlsease) might be
distinguished by the party's breathing
upon a piece Of glass, where, the breath
condensing, there might living crea-
lures be seen by microscope OF
strange, monstrous and frightful
shapes, such as dragons, snakes, ser
penis and devils, horrible to behold
But this l very much question the
truth Of, and we had no microscopes at
the time, as | remember, to make the
experiments with"
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HISTORY OF THE ANCHOR.
Various improvements That Have
peaa Made I'm Ita shane.

Various improvements That Have
Been Made In It's shape.
The ships anchors in general used up
TO the beginning of the last century
consisted Of long, round iron shank,
having two comparatively short,
straight arms or hukes, inclined to the
shank at an angle of about 40 degrees
and meeting II In somewhat sharp
point at the crown. In large anchors
the bulky wooden stock was built up
Of several pieces, hooped together, the
whole tapering outward to the ends,
especially on the aft or cable side.
About the beginning Of the last CEN
fury a clerk in the Plymouth naval
yard, Pering by name, suggested GER
tain improvements the most important
of which was making the arms curved
instead Of straight. At first sight this
simple change may seem of little value,
but consideration will show that this Is
not the case The holding power Of an
anchor depends on two principal con-
ditions-namely, the extent Of useful
holding surface and the amount OF
vertical penetration. The latter quail
ity is necessary on account Of the ma
ture Of ordinary sea bottoms, the sur
face layers of which are generally less
tenacious and resisting than is the
ground short distance below.
In the year 1881 chain cables began
to supersede the hempen ones, with
the result that the long shanked an
chors hitherto In vogue were no longer
necessary, and anchors with shorter
shanks and with heavier and stronger
crowns gradually came into use. In
consequence of these changes a COM
mission was appointed in the year 1888
to inquire into the holding power of an
chors, and a principal result of its Ia
bors was the adoption Of the so called
admiralty pattern anchor which con-
tinued to be used in the navy up to the
year 1860 The invention of the steam
hammer in 1912 made the welding OF
heavy masses of iron comparatively
easy and reliable process, so that from
this time onward the strength of an
chors fully kept pace with that of the
chain cables which had come into gen.
eral use.
A number of patents for anchors
were taken out prior to the great ex-
hibltion Of 1851, and, public attention
having been called to the models there
shown in the following year commit
tee was appointed by the admiralty to
report on the qualifications of anchors
of the various kinds. Practical trials
were then instituted. and as a result
Trotman's anchor took the highest
place, Rodgers anchor being second
on the list Some of the tests to which
the anchors were submitted were Of
doubtful value, such, for instance, as
facility for sweeping" Nowadays,
however, at all events for deep ships
in shallow harbors, it is considered an
advantage for an anchor to offer as lit
tie obstruction as possible above the
ground. Science Siftings.
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YANKEE DOODLE.
The Original Version Dates From
the Time of oliver Cromwell.

The Original Version Dates From
the Time of oliver Cromwell.
The lively strains Of yankee Doc
die" are heard at every patriotic cele-
bration, says writer in Golfers Week
ly, yet perhaps few of those whose
pulses stir at the sound of the familiar
notes are aware that II dates from the
time of Oliver Cromwell and crossed
the seas with the Purltans.
"Nankee Doodle" was one Of the nick
names bestowed by the Cavaliers on
the hated Roundhead, and a verse writ
ten upon Cromwell's entry into Oxford,
riding on q small horse with plume
twisted into a sort of knot called
"macaroni," runs as follows:
Nankee Doodle came to town
Upon lit.le pony
With a feather in his hat
Upon macaroni.
The transition from Nankee to Yam
kee-which came from Yengee, the In
dian word for English-was very easy,
and the ROyalists used it as jeer at
all New Englanders.
When the COlonials in Boston, pre-
pairing for the coming war. struggled
muskets into the country, concealing
them in loads of manure, the Tories
sang to the old tune of Lucy Fisher"
Yankee Doodle came to town
For to buy a flrelock;
We will tar and feather him.
Iob
When the British forces marched to
the battles of Concord and Lexington
their approach was heralded by God
Save the King" but when the Yankee
farmers" saw the foe in full retreat the
strains of Yankee Doodle" accompa.
MED their fight, and from that hour,
wherever the stars and stripes have
foated, the once despised tune has been
heard.
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Music the Kernel of Welsh Natu

Music the Kernel of welsh Nature.
Music Is the very soul and kernel OF
the Welsh nature. A musical ear Is the
national birthright. Every Welsh
preacher who migrates to an English
church finds the greatest difficulty In
abstaining from that Il. peculiar
intonation of his serlnoh which Is
known as the hwyl and which Is often
strange and Objectionable to English
ears.
A remarkable and subtle fact which
will be interesting to English readers
and at the same time significant of the
sensitiveness OF the Welsh musical ear
is that it is positive discord to many
among the Welsh congregations If the
minister, in giving out the first verse
Of the hymn, does not so pitch his voice
that it shall be In harmony with the
KEY in which the tune has prelimina-
rily been played by the instrumentalist.
-Westminister Review.
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A Prisoner In Her Own House.

Mrs. W. II. Layha, of 1901 Agnes
Ave-, Kansas City Mo-, has for sev>
eral years been troubled with severe
hoarseness and at times hard
cough, which she says, Would keep
me In doors for days. l was pres
cribed for by physicians with no
noticeable results. A friend gave me
part of a bottle Of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy with instructions to
closely follow the directions and |
wish to state that after the first day
I could notice decided change for
the better, and at this time after
using it for two weeks, have no hest
tation in saying l realize that | am
entirely cured" This remedy is for
sale by all medicine dealers.