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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-02-13
Achievements of the Negro.

Forty years ago the negroes OF the
south did not own a square foot OF
ground nor a roof TO cover them. Now
there are 10000 farms owned by ne
groes, valued at $350.000,00O; 10000
homes outside the farm ownerships,
valued at $265,0O0.000, and personal
property valued at S165,000,OOO. So,
starting from nothing, here Is an ac-
emulation of nearly $SOO,OOOOOO.
When the work began, not per cent
Of the negro adults Of the south could
road or write. Today 40 per cent can
do so. Fifty per cent Of the children
are attending school, and with more
facilities more would attend. There are
800 colored physicians in practice, 300
lawyers and 10000 schoolteachers.
There are 100000 books in the homes
Of colored people, and they own and
publish 45O newspapers and magazines
Christian Work.
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Origin of a Holiday.

The second week in August, II not
one of great historical Importance IN
old Amsterdam, is certainly one OF
martyrdom for the nervous and sensi-
tive. An ancient custom prevails ac-
cording to which the juveniles OF the
town are allowed to beat their drums
for several hours during a whole week
while parading the exchange. Inc
story goes that about 200 years ago a
plot was formed to blow up the ex-
change, but small boy, happening TO
LET his ball roll under the vaulted toun-
dation Of the building, discovered the
barrels of powder which were to do the
wrecking. So it was decided to reward
the lad, and, on his being asked what
he would like, the urchin said that he
wished to be allowed to play at SOL
diers with his companions round the
building, all being armed with drums,
and to make as much noise as they
liked during several hours of the DAY
for one week every year. This custom
is kept up, and, as all manner OF In
struments are called upon to represent
q drum, tin kettles and saucepan lbs
not excepted, the din is something to be
remembered.
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An Unsntisfied Ambition.

It is said by an old historian that
when the Spanish armada sailed along
the south coast of England in queen
Elizabeth's reign the Duke of Medina
Sidonia. admiral Of the armada, was SO
affected at the sight of Mount Edg-
cumbe, a beautiful mansion, viewed
from the sea, that che resolved 1t Tor
his own possession in the partage OF the
kingdom, which the Spaniards precon.
ouered in their hopes and expectation.
But. as the author quantity observes
"he had catched great cold, and be
had no other clothes to wear than those
which were to be made Of the skin OF q
bear not yet killed"
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STEAMSHIP SUPPLIES.
Tons of Good Things Carried In the
Liners Lnrder.


Liners Lnrder.
In these days, when the telephone Is
40 common and 1t is so easy to tell the
marketman or the grocer "oyer the
phone Just what is wanted for the
davis table supply, not many people
stop TO consider what happens when
hundreds of human beings are con-
fined to one dwelling absolutely ana
entirely out Of reach OF markets ana
bevond the power of the telephone to
make their needs known. At the hrst
thought one says, There Is no such
community or place." And probably
there is not on the American CONT
nent, yet sailing on all the seven seas
are great steamships in exactly that
situation. Every bit Of their food ana
drink must be provided before they
leave port and provided in sufficient
Quantities to last till the destination IL
reached.
To supply a steamship for long voy-
age with food supplies sufficient for a
small army of passengers in all classes
and a crew of 300 requires q lot OF
Thought and system. There are SO
many things that must be included
For instance, take inventory OF the
larder of the White Star liner Republic
ON a recent voyage from Boston to the
Mediterranean. For the trip, when
extended to Alexandria and required
n whole month, the following quaint
ties OF provisions had to be put aboard
and of these there were enough vegeta
bles only for the outward trip: Forty
thousand pounds of beef, 1000 pounds
corned beef. 800 pounds of lamb, lO,OOt
mounds of mutton, $4,000 pounds porH
loins. 400 pounds Of sausages, l'eo'
mounds Of veal and about 1000 pounds
Of miscellaneous meats, 5000 poundi
of chickens. 1900 pounds Of capons
1900 pounds of ducks, 1900 POUNDS o
fowls. TOO pounds Of geese, l'4o'
pounds Of turkeys. 200 quail, 200 snipe
600 SQUADS, 200 grouse, so mallar'
ducks. 200 plovers, $500 pounds OF fish
300 pounds of turtle, 1000 pounds o
Holsters, 100 gallons solid oysters,
barrels of oysters In the shell, 12O bar
rels of -four, so pounds Of yeast, 20
gallons of milk, 100 gallons OF cream
900 collons of condensed milk, 30
mounds of unsalted butter, 1000 pound
pressed butter, 5000 eggs, eco quart
OF ice cream, 780 bushels Of potatoes
barrels of beets, IS barrels OF carrots
80 dozen heads of celery, GO dozen cat
hayes. Is dozen caulifowers, doze
cucumbers, 10 dozen leeks, 100 doze
heads of lettuce, 80 quarts OF musf
rooms. 7 barrels Of onions, 10 doze
oyster plants, barrels Of sweet pota
toes. 20 bushels of parsnips, bushel
of parsley, "a dozen of radlshes'
bushels of turnips, 10 crates OF tomi
foes. 10 barrels Of table apples, 10 bal
rels of cooking apples, IA punches
bananas. 5 fifty pound kegs Of grapes, ]
boxes of grape fruit, boxes of lemon
60 boxes Of oranges, "a boxes OF pear
120 plneapples.
Besides these supplies Of fresh FOOD
the steamship carried enough OF IN
staple food supplies and preserve
> foods for six months, so that In case
accident there would be no lack.
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Nothing Is New Apparently.

Apparently there were schools OF
shorthand as early as the third century,
and in Egypt. A recently discovered
papyrus, according TO the London
Chronicle, was a contract between
shorthand teacher and man who
wished one Of his slaves to acquire the
art. The fee was 100 drachm@, 40 to
be paid on apprenticeship, 40 at the
end of a year and the balance when
the slave was proficient. Shorthand
writing was then presumably not so
easy of attainment as it is now. Among
the other documents of the OXrhyn-
chus papyri is the account of q fatal
accident and of the body of the victim
being examined by the coroner OF the
day, in company with a public ply
stefan. That dates back to the second
century of our era, in which, judging
by other discoveries, the formal invita-
tons to dinner might be literal render
ings of ours at the present time.
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laps AND THE MULE.
WHY the Combination Does Not 1e'
on Well Together.

WHY the Combination Does NOT ~e'
on Well Together.
$50 the japanese rice growers are not
willing to tackle that interesting nauVe
institution, the American mule Win
ont the aid of home folk" said an Cd
servant man to the New orleans
Times Democrat, "and l can see wnere
they are right about the matter. Inc
American mule is a long cared, quick
heeled, supple Tinted mystery, ana no
man. no matter how wise he may De-
can do anything with him unless ne
have special training. As matter Oh
fact the white man in America Is sad
" deficient when 1t comes to WORK
ing knowledge Of the mule. UP TO the
present writing the American negro Is
the only living person who can claim
ANYTHING like mastery when 1t comes
to the mule. Somehow there is some
thing in the nature of the black man
and the mule which makes 1t easier Tor
them TO get along. Just what 1t is do
not know. But even the black man VIII
have his ups and downs now and then
with the mule, and / have seen some
very interesting instances Of this KIND,
one of the most amusing being that OF
an extremely hard skulled negro who
never wanted better weapon than his
head in any sort Of conflict with man
or beast.
zone day he fell out with his mule.
Ordinarily they got along well togeth-
er. But In some way-the mule on the
day I'm question made the negro mad,
and the fight began. In the first place,
the negro broke his water jug over the
mules head. This did not feaze the an
imal. Grabbing the mule by the ears
and taking a good, firm grip, the black
man landed with vigor between the
mules ears, using his head as a weap-
ON. The blow was n knockout blow all
right. but the trouble was that II
knocked the negro out also. Both mule
and negro fell to the ground like dead
In a short while both were up again
and after that they were fairly good
friends again The Japs are right. They
Will need special training on the mule
proposition and no mistake, and the
negro Is about the best man they car
get to do the training"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-02-13
CANADIAN INDIANS.
An Old Trader Gives Evidence TO
Their Unvarying Honesty.

An Old Trader Gives ENhuehcc W
Their Unvarying Honesty.
Saws a man who has had some TWEEN
tv wears Of experience In trading with
Canadian Indians, "In all my WOODS
life have never known but one Indian
liar" A cache, or provision station Is
left unattended with perfect safety
for on the entirety of its stock may de-
pend the life of many man.
He who leaves provisions must ma
them ON his return, for he may reach
them starving, and the length or his
out tourney may depend on his certain
ty of relief at this point on his In jour
ney. So men passing touch not MS
hoard, for some day they may be IN the
same case.
zone comes unexpectedly upon a
birch hanging from tree limb says
the old trader, cor O whole bunch OF
snowshoes depending beneath the fans
of a spruce or a tangle of steel traps
thrust into the crevice Of tree root or
a supply of pork and -four swathed
like an Egyptian mummy lying IN STATE
on a high bier. These things we have
passed as reverently as symbols OF q
peoples trust in its kind.
1.-THE same sort Of honesty holds ID
regard to smaller things. 1 have never
hesitated to leave in my camp firearms
fishing rods, utensils valuable from O
woods point Of view, even a watch OF
money. Not only have never lost any
thing in that manner, but once an In
dian lad followed me some miles after
the mornings start to restore to me
half a dozen trout flies l had accloen
tally left behind"
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CHEERFUL FUNERALS.
London Now Runs to Gaudy OoiorS
In Trappings of Woe.

In Trappings of Woe.
Many people find it difficult to reailze
that the old fashioned funeral, with It's
somber hearse, black horses and lis at
mosphere of Grape and black bordsreo
handkerchiefs, is now almost thlng
Of the past and survives only among
the poorer classes.
Perhaps the account Of a Seventh
Day Adventist funeral, In when the
body was borne in blue ana SILVER
hearse and the mOurners attenoeu
dressed in bright colors, may nave
seemed extraordinary, but in reahty
the event in question was not much Ill
advance Of modern fashion.
In the north Of London, for example,
an enterprising firm of undertakers,
Messrs. Beckett s. Sons, has provided
q number of many hued hearses TO
suit the taste of everybody" Il nave
hearses in chocolate and gold,' SAID
Mr.. Beckett, land others In blue anu
cold. There is also pure white hearse
and another in white and gold
The dealers most magnificent vehicle,
however. is a hearse entirely covered
with gold, even to the Wheels anu
this he states, is in constant demand
He. however, draws the line at green
and gold hearses, as he does not con-
slider them quite in keeping Win d
funeral.
The manager Of one of the largest
and most fashionable funeral compa'
MES in London also bore witness 10 the
growing taste for "unfunereai tuner
ais"
"At modern better class funerals he
remarked, "black is now rarely seen
We keep in stock large quantity VI
colored velvet coffin coverings. Gray
is popular and looks well. crimson
velvet too is used at military funerals
to on increasing extent. l have ever
had orders for q child's coffin TO p'
covered with yellow velvet. Inc ap
sence of the mutes, black pals, Diaci
gloves and black ostrich plumes d
modern funerals helps people, l think
to restrain their feelings ON such occa
sions. There is now none Of that WIG
abandonment of grief that was one
feature of so many interments.
"Black clothing" he continued !
seldom worn now at fashionable ruhei
ais. Ordinary morning dress is NOR
usual. with gray neckues for men an
S,hdned colors for the women mourn
ers. 1 have even known lounge sun
TO be worn. Light carts are someulue
used instead of hearses, and at
funeral of a duke shooting cart wa
used TO convey the coffin. Gray horse'
foo in many instances replace the Oh
fashioned long tailed black animal
London Nail.
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pthI. Translated Into Sheetswa.

1t is announced that after the great
est difficulty the translation Of the New
Testament into Sheetswa has at last
been completed. Sheetswn, 1t may be
necessary to say, is Jargon spoken by
100000 debased tribesmen OF the west
coast of Africa In this connection 1t
may be interesting to recall from DR.
John Foxs recent report for the Amer
lean and British Bible societies that
altogether the current translations Of
the Scriptures into languages and dia-
lects amount to $50. At the beginning
Of the nineteenth century they num-
bered but little over fifty. In this re-
spect at least there is no neglect Of the
injunction to carry the Bible to all peo-
pies.
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ALONG PlCCADiLLY.
There the Tide of Social Lohoon
Flows to the Fullest.

There the Tide of Social LONDON
Flows to the Fullest.
Piccadilly seems cold and blatant Dy
contrast as one charges down IT, YET
even here, be the sunshine ever so
bright, the visitor Is crowned III Tue
nearly haze that tones, attenuates, UNI
fes most IL not all Of London, that
haze that has tantalized and deteateu
how many artists! Even over Plccaoli-
ly. even over this the most mundane OF
all London streets, 1t throws its saving
glamour. Indeed the whole splendid
avenue might serve for a studio, not
for its values alone, but for the COM
plexity Of the types that throng IT, IL
is the quintessence Of London, the us
tillation of all London humanity, to be
studied nowhere so narrowly as from
a bus top. Perfect Du Mauriers in the
original approach, pass by and are lett
behind or stand In groups looking from
the club windows. Phil Mays in the
life swarm beneath one, and characters
from Thackeray and Dickens Jostle
unsuspectingly on the Sidewalk Ane
clubs alone which never look so thor
oughly clubbable as when hastily
glanced at from a passing bus, viii
store ones memory with a hundred
recognizable types. All England, all
the empire, indeed, sooner or later finds
its way to Piccadilly. One cannot pass
down it without a sight Of some gilt
tering, turbaned, alien figure, males
tically isolated, maJestically UNDECIDED
Regent street may claim a grander
sweep, and by virtue Of its shops a
more devoted femininity, but 1t Is along
Piccadilly that the tide of social Lon
don flows brim full.-Sydney BROOKS
In Harper's Magazine.
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THE WEATHER MAP.
Its Preparation Involves 4" "re"'
neal of Work and Expense.

IL. prsparation Involves Gfens
peal Of Work and Expense.
The weather bureau is now highly
equipped organization under chief
willis L. Moore, the offieer third In
rank in the department. The country Is
covered with its stations. Its reports
issued twice daily, have come to be
looked for In every portion OF the Unit
ed States by all the people, whose daily
life ia to a certain extent Influenced by
them. and the value Of Its work in the
saving Of life and shipping on the
coasts as well as the saving to the
crops through timely notice of sudden
changes, such as frosts, etc, is meal
culable.
The work which the people know
best is the general forecasts of the
weather, which are conducted on the
best obtainabie system; forecasts
which. though founded on an order OF
things as subject to law as the courses
Of the stars, are far from having yet
reached the precision Of astronomical
science. though the results obtained are
unriyaled In their excellence by those
of any other nation. The preparation
Of the weather map involves the daily
sounding Of the heights OF the aerlai
ocean above simultaneously by observ-
ers all over the country and the joining
of these sounding stations on the map
by contour lines which indicate the ol-
rectioa Of that great aerial oceans now
This direction cannot Of course be de-
termined with anything like the GER
tainty attainable in the deduction OF
the path Of a star, yet the result,
though still a probability only, 10
very useful enc by which we all guide
our daily lives. VIII it be greatly bet
ter for us If 1t is ever otherwise ana
we come to the time when we know
long in advance what the weather Will
be and this and many other like uncer'
families are wiped out from the variety
of our daily life?
These general maps are prepared IN
the office at Washington from dispatch
es sent by local Offices, and the ou
reau's use Of the telegraph service
alone costs 100000 per annum. II
distributes in the shape Of cards, maps
and publications nearly 55,OOOOOt
pieces yearly, and in cases of specia
agricultural industries, particularly
susceptible to destruction through
changes in weather, special services
have been established, notably for cot
ton. sugar and rice In the southern
states and for fruit and wheat in Call
fornia. - Professor S. P. Langley II
Scribners.
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urchanreable,

"Td like to exchange this" said
woman who the other day entered
retail bookstore,
The clerk unwrapped the bundle and
glanced at its contents.
'T'm sorry, madam" he said, but
we can't do It"
"Why notT" she cried. you've al
ways exchanged books for me hereto
fore"
al know" replied the clerk politely
but firmly, "but we can't change this
It's The Leopard's Spots "-Philadel-
phia Press.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-02-13
Life spnn of the Human Race

Science has given the human race
only a limited span of existence. rms
was one of the prospects which distress
ed Darwin, and it has weighed on
many other sensitive minds. Some
100000 years or so Is about the aver
age estimate. The discovery Of ra-
dunn naturally led to the question
whether the existence Of the metal in
the sun might not indefinitely prolong
that luminary's active life. Much dig
appointment was therefore felt at the
results of Investigations undertaken
by a Cambridge scientist. AFTER some
months exposure Of very sensitive 80
buttons to the sun he was unable 10
discover any Of the signs characteristic
of radium rays. The verdict there
fore. was that the discovery OF radium
affords no reason for altering the cos
mical time scale. But Sir William
Ramsay's proof of the transformation
of radium gas into helium reyiyes the
hope that radium may, after all, De Il
constituent Of the sun. 1t Is well
known that the spectroscope reveals
the abundant existence In the sun OF
helIum-this metal, indeed, was discoy-
cred In the sun before 1t was known to
be terrestrial property-and 1t seems
possible that all this helium may be
transformed radlum gas. SO that once
more it appears premature to limit the
existence Of the human race to any
definite number Of million years.-Har'
per's Weekly.
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Perfect Confidence.

Where there used to be a feeling OF
uneasiness and worry in the household
when a child showed symptoms OF
Group. there is now perfect confidence:
This is owing to the uniform success or
Chambers ms Cough Remedy in the
treatment of that disease. Mrs. M. L.
Basford. of Poolesville, Md, in speak
ING of her experience In the use Of that
remedy says: 81 have a world OF con-
fidence in Chamberlain Cough
Remedy fer I have used il with per
feet success. My child Garland is sn6,
iect to severe attacks of Group and II
always gives him prompt relief" Fol
sale by all medicine dealers
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-02-13

A young man, an admirer or the
great poet, attended one Of Victor HUI
COS receptions, became engaged In ar
gument and lost his temper. Hugo SOL
emily rebuked him, and he subsidized
Presently the guests retired. One OF
them, however, had forgotten his UNI
brella and returned to get it. Looking
through an open door from the vesti-
bule, he perceived the young man on
his knees before the poet sobbing OUT
his apologies for his disrespect while
Victor Hugo, with almost regal d1gnl-
ty, extended his hand to him and babe
him rise.
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THE Willy POSTUM.
How the Cunning Animal Leads HE
Pursuers Astray.


Pursuers Astray.
The possum will usually go home by
q tree trunk road Through the open
country on the boundaries Of his range
he trots along without minding his
stems. The dogs may have all the fun
here with his trail that they can. de
intends only that they shall not find his
home tree nor even the vicinity OF IT,
So as he enters his own neighborhood
swamp his movements change The
dogs may be hard after him or not. II
they are not close behind he knows by
long experience that they may be ex-
pected and never so far forgets his pre-
clous skin as to go straight to his nest
tree.
Instead he trots along a boundary
fence or in the stream, leaping the
crossing logs and coming out likely on
the bank opposite his home tree. Far-
Their down he jumps the stream, runs
hard toward a big gum and from a
dozen feet away takes a flying leap,
catching the rough trunk up just out
of the reach of the keen nosed dogs.
He goes on up little and leaps again.
touching the ground ten feet out thus
leaving a blank Of twenty or more feet
in his trail.
The stream or fence has puzzled the
dogs. but now at the tree they begin
to worry. They circle and finally pick
I'D the scent beyond the first gap only
to run instantly into a greater blank
one that the widest circling does not
cross, for the possum has taken to an
other tree. out on the limbs of this to
still another and on like squirrel from
tree to tree for perhaps a hundred
yards, on, it may be, to his own hign
hollow.-National Magazine.
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To Fight Fog.

Sir Oliver Lodge is a man talked
about in London. He has conceived
device for fighting fog by electricity
The current is to be shot from ia
masts. Electric light poles will do. Sir
Oliver believes his invention will be Of
great utility pending London's acquire
ment of the ability TO consume its own
fog making smoke.
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Cl.ddarh wedding Rings.

The Claddagh wedding rings are alb
solutely different from the ordinary
plain gold finger band which a cyn1c
once declared to be "the sign manual
Of a mans impertinence and wom-
ans folly" Those used by that pic
turesque colony, the Claddagh fisher
folk. are in the form Of two clasped
hands holding q heart. 1t Is q quaint
pretty and symbolical design, and, odd
" enough, the very old specimens are
thought to be the most valuable.
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And Then Not Do II.

"Many people are entirely too hasty'
A man ought to think two or three
minutes before he opens his mouth at
ALL"
"It altogether depends. He ought TO
think two or three years before he
opens his mouth to sing."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.