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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03
Practical Financierins.

Raynor-There's q dangerous new
counterfeit FIVE dollar bill announced:
Better look through your roll and see
II you have one Of 'em. Shayne-Not
much! Pll look at every FIVE dollar blu
take in, though, you can bet--Cns
cagO Tribune.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03
Accounted For.

"Phizzer has started up soda water
Fountain"
"Why, how could Pnizzer do that!
He hasn't a penny Of his own"
. well, 1 heard him say he had the
fountain charged."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03
NEW YORK, PHILA. & NORFOLK
RAILROAD

Time Table in Effect June 0, 1904.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor.
folk and Old Point Comfort.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03

The COW Gree of Venezuela yields a
palatabls grayish milk which hardens
into a toothsome gum.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03
Builders
Fertilizers &C.,

We desire to call the attention OF
the public to our large and wei
selected stock OF
Sash, Doors, Blinds, MouldingS,
Builders Hardware, Shingles,
Laths, Lime, Bricks, Locust
Fence and Gate Posts and
Building Material generally,
also Paints, Oils and Painters
Supplies,
and all else that tends to enhance the
value and beauty Of your buildings.
We would also invite special at
tention to our stock Of Fertilizers,
particularly our high grade Sweet
Potato Mixture and Pure Fine
Ground Dry Fish.
Uslj and inspect our stock before
buyiu Q, as we will be pleased TO show
Won our goods and feel sure that
auality and prices will be satisfactory
MARTIN & MASON CO.,
Harborton, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-09-03

The finest human hair is golden, and
red Ia the coarsest.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
Hard To Inherafand.

In the Midland Hotel-and several
others here too. for that matter-the
parlor rooms are marked by letters in
stead of by numbers, says the Kan
sas City Journal. This led to a funny
mix up last night in the Midlands ele-
vator between the rather deaf negro
operator and a testy traveller, who was
in hurry to get to bed. This man
had been assigned to parlor U, and he
started in the elevator for it. AS he
entered he said:
u"
The Senegambian, not hearing we'll
looked at him for further remarks, but
none came. The elevator went on up,
and the darby turned to the traveller
and asked:
What flooah, boss?"
Gu" the man answered again.
"Yasser, OATS me, but wah you want
to go?"
~! u" the man repeated testify
Cant Won hear?"
"Yasser ah done said dat am me-
began the negro.
Then the man found his senses and
said:
Il want to go to parlor U; can't you
understands
The negro took him back five floors
and dumped him out.
Never could understan' some folks,
was all he said.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04

President Roosevelt told the following
story to d party of friends who were
at luncheon with him a few days ago,
after the conversation had turned on
the campaign w. r. Hearst is making
for the Democratic nomination fol
President, solemnly affirms the New
York World.
Lincoln used tc tell this story" the
President said. 1T is about a man
who had a fine trotting stallion. The
stallion could go around the track in
2:4O, and had beaten everything in
sight.
Its owner brought the stallion up in
front of the grandstand and was sur
rounded by admiring friends. In a few
minutes a farmer came along who said:
You think that's purity fine affair,
don't YEP
Yes, said the man who owned the
stallion; I do
"'Wall, I'll bet We 500 I've got a
Durham bull that can outtrot your boss
in mile race
"The upshot of it was that the match
was made, after much bantering from
the friends of the man who owned the
stallion, and a $40 forfeit was put up.
when the time came for the race
the man who owned the stallion refused
to race. Why? asked some friends.
" Well said the man, there will be
no glory in beating a Durham bull, and
think of my position if the Durham bull
beats mel! "
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
RetOrt Courteous.

During the trial of an accident case
against one of the city trolley com
panies an elderly lady was summoned
as a witness for the plaintiff, says
Lippincott's. The attorney for the
railroad company put her under very
severe cross examination and tried the
best he could to make her appear as
ridiculous as possible. But he reck-
oned without his host.
Madam" said he, do l understand
you to say that you were there al
the time the accident happened?"
How do L" she began.
stop" he cried. Don't indulge III
any long dissertations. Answer my
question, yes or no. If you don't,
shall be Obliged to ask the court tc
compel you to answer. Listen. Dc
l understand you to say"
Quick as a flash the old lady re-
Piled I'm sure I don't know what
you understand me to say. You may
be an IDIOT
After that courtesy ruled the day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
Such Is Fame.

Gee, but the admiral is an unosten-
tatious old citizen" remarked a mar
at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and Thirteenth street yesterday al
noon to a casual acquaintance from the
West, says the Washington Times.
What admiral? Which is hep
queried the friend.
That man walking there near the
edge of the gutter" was the reply
He is Admiral Schley."
well, I'll be jiggered! 1 have seer
pictures of the admiral many times
but have never seen him in the flesh
before. Reckon I'll take a good peep.
Whereupon the Western visitor hast
ened along the avenue until he passed
Admiral Schley, and in a covert man
ner got n good look at him. The visitor
was the only man on the avenue who
even turned his head to look at the
man who two years ago was the most
talked about individual in America
Such is the fate of celebrity In city OF
celebrities
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
OLD ACE PENSIONS.

There was introduced in the Massa-
ago a bill providing for a pension of
81 per week to be paid to every male
citizen of Massachusetts who shall
have reached the age of 81 years and
who applies for the states bounty.
1t is provided that the applicant shall
be of good moral character, that he
shall have resided in the state for
not less than ten years preceding the
application, and in the state at one
time and another for at least twenty
i've years; that he shall have paid a
poll tax for twenty-five years in all,
and that he shall not be addicted to
the use of intoxicating liquors.
1t is not likely that an age-pension
law will be enacted in Massachusetts,
or elsewhere, for some time TO come:
yet it appears that there has grown
up a considerable sentiment in favor
of such legislation not only in Massa-
chusetts but in other parts of New
England as well. With respect to the
bill in question, number of business
men and others have presented argu-
ments favorable TO it's passage. Among
other things it is claimed that the
evolution of industrial methods, the
introduction OF machinery and the in
creased demand made on the energies
of individual workers, have all con-
spired to leave the man of above sixty
years of age comparatively helpless
and useless. There is nothing for the
old men to do whereby they may earn
living. If such old men have been
good citizens for a quarter of a CEN
fury, it is argued, the state owes them
something.
But, ought the state be held RESPONSE
BILE for the thriftlessness of it's citi-
zens? An age-pension scheme would
put premium on improvidence; a
small premium at first, it is true, but
once the wedge had been entered it
might be found possible to drive it
further and largely increase the pen
sion rate and the burden upon the tax
payers. That has been the history of
all pension legislation in this country.
$50 - StNiAi - NNoBhChs -
no telling to what lengths it will lead
If the men of Massachusetts were as
sured that the state would pension
them in their old age, the incentive to
frugality and economy would be les
sened. Again, why should there be
discrimination against women in the
pending bill? 1t provides only for
men.
Modern science is exerting itself to-
wards the end of prolonging life. We
have improved surgery, medicine hy-
giene, food, shelter and clothing. Sta
tistics show that the average of life
has, indeed, been increased during the
past half century. And yet what is
the good of all this if it avails moth
ing to those who live longer by rea-
son of scientific progress? If advanced
age means uselessness, idleness and
the burdenng of state and individ-
uals, why strive for it? These are
questions that the advocates of age
pensions ought to be able to answer
in satisfactory manner.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
AN INTERESTING LITTLE BILL.

Is the country to be treated TO an
other chapter of the shipbuilding scan
dal? If so some of those who were
| interested in promoting the shipbuild-
ing trust will likely have some very
unpleasant experiences.
1t has been stated in the public
prints a number of times that Gov
Odel, of New York, lost a big lot Of
money in that trust. He bought some
of its bonds and when it went into
the hands of a receiver the bonds be-
came almost valueless. He had them
but a little while and paid big price
for them. 1t seems he was misled as
to their value by the statements that
were made by the promoters of the
trust He sold his bonds and pocketed
his loss the other day, but it appears
he isn't satisfied to let the matter pass
in silence. He is going to have the
whole shipbuilding trust business ex-
amined by a special grand jury and
there is a bill now pending in the
Legislature of New York which, if ii
becomes a law. will aid him greatly
in the work.
This bill is causing uneasiness to
great many people. Its author is the
district attorney of New York city and
the ostensible purpose of it is to en-
able him to get evidence against men
who run big gambling houses-to make
rich young men testify against the
gamblers in whose places they lose
their money. Under a recent deci-
sion of the state Supreme Court such
persons cannot be made to testify.
But it is said the proposed law could
be used to make the promoters of the
shipbuilding trust tell all about the
affairs of that concern. That is why
the bill is causing so much uneasiness
outside of the parties at which it is
aimed. All along 1t has been spoken
of as bill to reach the gamblers.
Now it is believed that it is also in
tended to reach the men who know
the inside history of the shipbuilding
trust and haven't told what they know.
The bill is a disturber of the peace of
mind of a good many people.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-To Our Friends and
Customers, Georgia Steam Laundry;
A Dainty Desert, Belsinger e. Gross;
A Ten-Year Record, NJ. S. Gardner;
All Kinds of Insurance, w. T. Hop
kins; The's Place, Open This Morning.
Business Notices-After the Per-
Torrance Tonight, Sommers' Cafe.
Time Nearly Up-At LattimOres.
Reminders-The Delmonico Com
pany.
Warburines Produce Good Spirits
Rowlinski, Druggist.
The Refrigerator That Is Guaranteed
Odorless-Lindsay & Morgan.
Sweet Maiden Soap-Henry Solomon
& Son.
Savannah Theater-"Nancy Brown"
Saturday Night.
Auction Sales-Furniture, Etc, by c.
H Dorset, Auctioneer; Old Hoss sale,
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, l. D.
LaRoche, Auctioneer.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of
Garbutt & Goddard of Wayne, Bank
rupts.
Medical-Vinol; Herpicide
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Record (Dem. }
says: Ex-senator Pettigrew of South
Dakota threatens to bolt the Demo-
cratic party if Cleveland or Parker or
any man of that sort should be nomi-
mated for the presidency The good
man has had some experience in bolt
ing. Like that wise person in the nur-
sery rhyme who jumped into the bram-
BILE bush and scratched out both his
eyes, he leaped with bag and baggage
over to Bryan and Populism and now
he thinks that by another leap he can
scratch them in again.
The Washington Post Qnd) says:
"Of course, If Judge Parker should re-
ceive the nomination. as now seems
likely, the Southern states will give
their vote accordingly. The South is
still solid-more's the pity-and can be
depended on to rally to a butterfly or a
figure of speech or anything or person
bearing the regulation brand. But it
is amusing and instructive. both, to
observe the situation at it's present
stage of development and to note the
unanimity with which Mr.. Cleveland's
Southern friends and enemies alike
see him in every bush.
The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
THE so-called Democrats of South Da-
kota met in convention at Sioux Falls
and adopted resolutions reaffirming the
principles of democracy as enunciatcd
by Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan and
pledged their support to William RAN
dolph Hearst. They were likewise ad-
dressed by ex-senator Pettigrew, after
which Jefferson and Jackson turned
over in their collins for shame at the
use of their names in such an outfit
ance of the country laughed outright
at the comical grotesqueness of the
whole proceeding"
The Memphis COMMERCIAL Appeal
(Dem) says THE protective tariff
has been very justly called the mother
of trusts, and of course the Republican
party is the daddy of the tariff The
growth of the trusts is therefore due to
the ascendency of the Republican
party. The idea that Mr.. Roosevelt
has struck terror into the heart OF the
octupus is absurd in the face of the
facts and figures. The truth is that
his administration has been the golden
era of the trusts. 1t required impu-
dence of a rare and stately order in
man, who has had one suit against a
railroad merger carried to a successful
issue, TO arraign a Democratic Presi-
dent for not prosecuting the trusts.
During the Cleveland administration
the trust was In its infancy. During
the Roosevelt administration It has
boen deadly nightshade that has
reached its p ,rfect flower
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04

Saint Patrick was a Methodist? The
Methodists have two eyes, two hands
two feet and one nose. says the New
World. So had st. Patrick. There
fore st. Patrick was a Methodist.
st. Patrick was Baptist?
The Baptists believe in baptism; St
Patrick believed in baptism. There
fore St. Patrick was a Baptist.
st. Patrick was a Presbyterian?
The Presbyterians believe in some
sort of a priesthood. st. Patrick be-
lieved in some sort of a priesthood
ST. Patrick was a Presbyterian.
st. Patrick was an Episcopalian?
Episcopalians believe in bishops. st.
Patrick believed in bishops; he was
one. Therefore st. Patrick was an
Episcopalian.
st. Patrick was an American?
Americans are good fellows, all round
good fellows, you know. st. Patrick
was an all round good man. st. Patrick
was an American.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04

The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
John Wesley Gaines of Georgia, has
not given up his fight for better cur
rency, not intrinsically. but from a
sanitary standpoint. He is bound to
get Congress to authorize the constant
renewal of all bills which have become
in any way worn or defaced."
While Georgia must pass on to
Tennessee the credit of being the home
state of the eloquent and energetic Mr..
Gaines, she can and does sympathize
with him in his efforts for clean pa
per money, and she wishes him sue
cess i'm the fight he is making in behalf
of a hygienic, as well as sound, cur
rency. Many persons have been dis
posed to laugh at the solemn asser-
ton that paper money harbors and
contains germs, saying fippantly that
they are willing to risk the germs If
they can only get hold of the money.
Yet it has been asserted on high au-
thority that, not only are germs of
the worst diseases present on soiled pa
per money but that the handling of
such money is a positive menace to
health. A government analyst recently
examined a section of 81 bill. He
found on it many different kinds of
germs, and estimated that if the whole
bill was infected in the same proper
ton as the part he examined, it was
lodging place for no less than 193,00O,-
600 germs; and many of these were
germs of loathsome ailments, including
cancer. In New York a week or so
ago the police dragged a dirty, foul
smelling old beggar out of a tenement
house that was on fire. He had been
hurt and had to be taken to a hos
pital. The probabilities are that ne
had not had a bath in twenty years.
At the hospital the attendants re-
moved his clothing. His legs and
part of his body were ''plastered with
81, 81, IS and SO bills" amounting to
several hundred dollars in all. Imag-
inc those bills going back into the Cir
culation. and being handled by people
who wet their fingers in their mouths
as they turned the bills over! And the
PROBABILITIES are THAT NHSiG dlG lNllo
of thousands of bills in circulation
which, if their history were known,
are not less loathesome than the bills
taken from the body and legs of the
old miser in New York. Isn't the idea
enough to disgust anybody with the
dirty PUPPY. greasy, foul-smelling old
bills?
We have often referred to the fresh
ness and cleanness of English paper
money. Torn and dirty bills are not
permitted TO circulate in Great Britain.
The treasury never issued a bill the
second time. When a bill comes back
to the treasury it is destroyed and a
new one is put into its place. In that
way the paper circulation is always in
good condition. at only the additional
cost of the paper and the printing.
There is no good reason why a similar
system should not be adopted in the
United States. If a nation were to be
judged by its paper money, we should
stand convicted of being a very dirty
and ill-smelling people.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
Personal.

The greatest Roman Catholic heir
ess in England is Lady Margaret
Crlchton Stuart, only sister of the mar
gus OF Butte. The father of the mar
gus was the original study for Dis
raeli in 'Lothair." The biggest part
OF her property consists of ground
rents in Jerusalem.
Among the literary relics of John
Howard Payne, which are to be sold
next month at Philadelphia, is rather
extraordinary item. The love let
ters' of Payne and Mary Wollstone-
craft Shelley are included among the
relics. The correspondence was sent
TO washington Irving, with letter
from Payne, in which he SAYS he
thought Mrs. Shelley had been using
him as a catspaw to further her ac-
quaintance with Irving.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04

| antitrust law, or in other words TO
run amuck." the melting away of
great fortunes would be more rapid
| than the accumulation of them was
A Cleveland man has recently had
constructed for his use and pleasure
an automobile of 300 horsepower, capa-
bic of seating comfortably twenty
| eight people and making a speed of
| forty miles an hour or more. The ma
chine will climb any grade up to 90
per cent, with ease, and is luxurious
| ly fitted. A description says that it
will prove almost as convenient as
a Pullman car to those who travel in
it. 1t cost $4,000, and is almost as
large as railway locomotive. This
great automobile is doubtless a fore
runner of a means of transportation
that may revolutionize travel before a
great many years have passed. Good
| roads are being built all over the coun-
try. A bill before Congress proposes
| national aid TO good road construction.
Meanwhile automobile builders are
steadily improving their vehicles and
reducing their price. Is it not easily
to be seen where this evolution will
lead? When the country becomes COW
cred with network of good roads, and
the automobile builders have produced
safe, fast and reliable low-priced auto
carriages, what is more natural than
that a large percentage of the travel
should be over the improved country
roads in such carriages? Here is
| vehicle, especially constructed and cost
ing more than a similar vehicle would
If it became a type, that will carry
as many people as a parlor car. 1t
embodies both locomotive and car, and
the cost is possibly not more than that
of modern parlor car The opera
ting expense will be less than that of
| locomotive, and the comforts of travel
| in the automobile will not be much
less than in the car. There will, of
course. be no speedy change from rail-
road to automobile travel, generally
speaking, but the trend seems to be
in that direction.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04
The Earl of Leicester had on his me-
why He Wanted the picture.

Ever since Senator Fairbanks, OF
Indiana, has been regarded as a strong
candidate for the Vice Presidential
nomination he has suffered at the
hands of photographers. A day or
two ago, according to The Springfield
Republican a man with camera call
ed and said he would like to have
the Senator pose. Mr. Fairbanks con-
scented, but the man wanted him 10
come outside, explaining: II want
you to take a seat in a brand new
automobile and be photographed there.
] guarantee that your picture will APP
pear in the advertising pages OF every
magazine in the country. My firm is
pushing this automobile in great
shape" As soon as the Indiana states
man recovered his breath after hear
ing this nervy proposition he mad the
visitor elected IN a hurry
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-04

Mr.. John c. Shumway of Illinois
finds himself in an awkward and EN-
barrassing position, through no fault
of his own. He is a leading citizen
of his town, Taylorsville. and a men,
Der of the Illinois Worlds Fair Com
mission. He has been a member of
the state Senate and is prominent po-
litically as we'll as in a business way.
Recently there appeared in the papers
a statement to the effect that John
c. Shumway of Taylorsville, Ill.," had
been arrested in st. Louis and tried,
convicted and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for having burglars tools in
his possession. Mr.. Shumway was as
tonished to find his name thus brought
into prominence and set about to find
out what it meant. He discovered
that a disreputable fellow of the name
Of Alexander had appropriated his
name and been sentenced to the pen
itentiary under it. The real Mr..
Shumway is now trying to have the
court records corrected so that. Alex
ander's real name will appear in them.