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The Literary Instinct.

There are two things the literary
artist craves-praise and money. Or
the latter it is interesting to speak, be-
cause the matter Of money making IS
changing the whole course of ltera-
ture, and a few great fortunes made
have beckOned all sorts Of stragglers,
halt and crippled, into the field. In
view of the fortunes made by Hail
Caine and Marie Corelli it is wholesome
to reflect upon the $50 that Milton got
for paradise Lost" Shelley never
made anything out of his poetry;
Browning for twenty years and over
paid to get his work printed; the great
est of English novelists earns his live
nhood by reading for publishers, and
although we have no data, ii would De
safe to guess that Mr. Swinburne could
not support himself by his poetry. 10
sum up. in Stevenson's words again,
What you may decently expect if you
have some talent and much industry
is such an income as clerk VIII earn
with tenth or perhaps a twentieth OF
your nervous output" Week
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-09
PlTH AND POINT.

No grown person should ever hate
child.
Any man who has money can nave
Autographs printed claiming Ols
show.
The trouble with having a good word
FOR everybody is that when you pay
compliment it doesn't count
We hope we are not lacking IN sym
pathy, but when they tell us that a fat
woman is delicate" we laugh.
After a man has been engaged three
or four weeks he begins to find oppor-
tunities to take sides in her Quarrels.
We don't know what 1t requires 10
become skillful at repartee, unless II
is to think as quick as when the OaDy
has the Group.
Ever notice how people reach over
the preserves after the pickles: Anu
how they insist on passing pickles III
stead of preserves to others !-AtchlSon
Globe.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-09
THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.
wesk Men Magnify While strong
,,o,. ovarcome All Obstacles.

The Young man who, after making |
ND his mind what he wants TO 90 III
the world. begins to hunt up obstacles
in his path, to magnify them, TO Drooo
over them until they become noun
tains and then to wait for new ones 10
develop, Is not man to take hold OF
great enterprises. The man VINO stops
10 weigh and consider every possible
danger or objection never amounts 10
ANYTHING. He is small man. maue
for little things. He walks around an
obstacle and goes as far as ne Gun
easily. but when the going gets hard ne
stops. L.,
The strong man, the positive deci-
s,vo soul who has a programme ana
who is determined to carry 1t OUT, GUS
his way to his goal regardless OF dii-
fcnlties 1t is the WARBLER, the weak
kneed man, the discouraged man, VINO
turns aside, who takes crooked PAIN
~ his goal. Men who achieve things
WIN get things done, do not spehu
time haggling over perplexities or won
dering whether they can overcome
them. A penny held close TO the eye
will shut out the sun. When man
lies down ON the ground to see what Is
ahead of him, a rock may hide noun
tain. A small man holds petty diin-
culties So closely in view that grea.
objects beyond are entirely shut out
Of sight. Great minds keep their eyes
ON the goal. They hold the END so
nersistentsy in view and 1t looks SO
GRAND and desirable that the inferno
date steps, no matter how perpiex'
inc are of comparatively little lmpor'
lance The great man asks but one
question. Can the thing be doner mol
How many difficulties will l run
ocrossYv If it is within the reach OF
possibility all hindrances must be push
ed aside.-O. S. Marden i'll Success.
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MYSTERIES OF NATURE.
Some of the Many Things That Find
No Ready Explanation.

Some of the Many Things Thnt r1nu
No Ready Explanation.
Whatever opens up new doors or
windows for us into the world about
lis. whatever widens the field OF our
interests and sympathies, has some
sort Of value, says John Burroughs IN
Country Life In America. But mucn
Of the so called nature study opens no
new doors or windows. 1t anords no
mental satisfaction or illumination or
aesthetic pleasure. 1t is mainly potter
ing with dry, unimpOrtant facts ana
details DO YOU know the edelweiss
flowers or our own matchless arDutus
after YOU have merely analysed and
classified them? No more than you
know a man after having weighed ana
measured him. The function Of things
il always interesting. What do they
do? How do they pay their way In the
rigid economy Of nature? How do they
survive? Why do the roots or trees
flow through the ground like run
nels of molten metal" often separating
and uniting again, while the branches
are thrust out IN right lines or curves!
Why Is our common yellow blrcn
more often than any other tree planted
upon q rock? Why do oaks or chest
nuts so often spring up where pine
or hemlock forest has been cleared
away? Why does lightning SO com
monty strike a hemlOck tree or pine
or an oak and rarely or never birch
Why does the bolt sometimes scatter
the tree about and at others only pillow
a channel down its trunk? Why does
the bumblebee complain so loudly
when working upon certain flowers
Why does the honeybee lose the sting
when it stings a person, while the
WASH. the hornet and the bumble0et
do not? How does the chimney swai
low get the twigs it builds Its nes
with? From what does the horne
make its paper?
l have never been greatly interested
in spiders, but l have always wantet
TO know how a certain spider managed
70 stretch her cable sQuarely across
the road in the woods about my hegn
from the ground.
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Queer Tastes.

Speaking Of mysterious tastes, tha'
Of a man who was recently before the
magistrate at Greenwich is not very
easy of explanation. Three weeks ago
a legacy of f130 was left to INN. 1ne
first thing he bought, it seems was
set of billiard balls, and he now mas
nothing else left to show for the tl0o,
which has disappeared at the rate OF
f4S Is. Sd. weekly. Why billiard balls
It is q singular and rather interesting
form of craving. 1t is perhaps true
that a billiard ball is one OF the very
few perfect objects produced by man
1t is all of a piece, it is thoroughly no.
mogeneous as regards material, and II
Is or should be, faultless in form. Yet
only a strong strain Of mysticism IN
the character would account for man
hungering and thirsting for Dliilaru
halls above all other earthly things
London News.
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WhOIesaIe Banking.

mo personal accounts, large or
small. wanted here. We do business
only with large corporations" This
was the reply the president of one OF
the S25,OOOOOO Wall street banks gave
to an inquirer as to the minimum de-
post that institution would accept 1t
was a notification that this was dis
tinctly a wholesale bank" Such an
answer would not have been made i've
years ago. But this is new age. The
billion dollar trust and the $25,OOO,OOO
bank are to Wall street what wireless
telegraphy is to electricity-wonde
The vast demands of modern industry,
often requiring the negotiation of a
loan of S5,O00,O00 upon few hours
notice, with frequent calls for stu
pendous accommodation from transcon-
tinental railroads or syndicates financ-
ing foreign government bond issues,
have called into being these new banks
-veritable incarnatiOnS of power, hold
ing. indeed, the safety and happiness
of a people in their Enthusiastically
Evening Post.
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THE USE OF CHARMS.
Peculiar Amulet which Is Common
Among the Koreans.

Peculiar Amulet Whlch 10 Sc..
Among the Koreans.
The people Of all nations are super
stitious, and belief In charms ana
amuiets prevails among people Of ev-
cry rank and grade, educated or lgno-
rant. refined or vicious. When a man
declares. az have no superstition" con-
tinue the subject, and in a few min
utes he will state, while l am not
superstitious, yet l must say l always
did believe" etc, demonstrating that
he Is about as superstitious as the
average of mankind. Charms and am
ulets are made Of almost everything
from a repulsiye collection or human
fingers. human bones, frogs, toads'
snakes. pieces of glass, stone. iron,
dried blood, bottles Of water, ETC., 10
elegant and artistic combinations Oh
gold and precious stones. For many
centuries scraps of paper with quota
t,ons from the Bible, from the Koran
| and from the Vedas or combinations Oh
! letters or figures containing some mys'
tic Significance have been used all over
the world. 49,
The abracadabra of the ancients, tne
letters being repeated and placed IL
the form Of triangle, was In genera
use Written on a sheet of paper
folded up and worn on the person. Il
was supposed to keep off fevers ane
hu,,o GOOD luck to the wearer. TIT
Koreans have n most peculiar form o.
th,s kind of charm, consisting OF III
figures l to 0 inclusive placed IN III
form Of d square. thus:
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-09
Builders terial,
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
teption to our stock Of Fertilizers,
particularly our high grade Sweet
Potato Mixture and Pure Fine
Ground Dry Fish. -,
Call and inspect our stock before
bu vi e, as we will be pleased to SHOW
YOU our goods and feel sure ina
duality and prices will be satisfactory
MARTIN & MASON co.
Harborton. Va.
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Radiation From Sounding Bodies.

The so called n rays, the new form
of invisible light discovered by Blon-
blot, in France, is found to be given off
by bodies under strain, as in compress
sion of bending. Hence a Migratory
body. such as a tuning fork or bell,
which is undergoing rapid alternating
strains, is a source Of the rays, which
also emanate from the vibrating air
surrounding a sonorous body. The rays
orc detected by their property of in
orea sing the brilliancy of a phosphOres
cont substance. When the revolving
di,k of a siren is made slightly phos-
,,horescent it is seen to shine out more
strongly every time the instrument is
soupded.-Success'
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Inst AZ Easy.


A Baltimorean fond Of arguing re-
lipious questions and of 'pinnlng
down" those with whom he came IN
contact asked an east Baltimore min
lister, in the course Of conversation
several days ago. if he believed "aii OF
the Bible"
81 do" instantly replied the good
man.
"Eyery bit of it?" insisted the ques'
toner obviously.
81 most certainly do" was the pas
tors reply.
do you really believe the story
sbout BALKAN and the ASST asked th'
man with a slight smile.
"Most assuredly l do" responded tn'
clergyman unhesitaungly.
"And YOU firmly believe" insisted tn
inouisitive friend, that the ass Ia
laam rode under the tree spoke Ike
person" ...
Eyes, do" asserted the ministe
with Just the slightest suspicion o
irritation in his voice.
"Weu," asked the questioner In al
Pve-got-y ou-nOw tone, "can you tell HI
how it could be possible under an!
circumstances you can imagine for al
ass to talk like a person"
"Ah, that is easy" asserted the min
ister laying his hand on the man
shoulder. 1T is just as easy, III
friend, for an ass to talk like man ID
If is for a man to talk like an ass
The man had nothing more to say
Baltimore Sun.
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Dtdn,f Need washing.

The Aino, an uncivilized tribe on the
island of Yesso, are not at all fond OF
bathing. Indeed, they share the chi
nese idea that it is only dirty people
who need continual washing. They DO
not regard themselves as dirty anu
therefore dispense with the uncieaniy
habit.
you white people must be very
dirty" said an Aino to traveller as
the latter was preparing to take a
plunge into limpid river, las you tel
me YOU battle in the river every day.
"And what about yourselfT' was the
question in turn.
"Oh." replied he, with an air OF con-
tempt, 81 am very clean and have new
er needed washing"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-09
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
ore Meets with Natures Surprises
There at Every Turn.

Probably no area of equal extent
contains so great a number of natural
objects capable Of arousing wonder,
enthusiasm and awe as are 1ounu
crowded together in the park. us
many scenic features Of restful charm,
found alongside areas of never ending
activity, with weird, grotesQue sur
roundings. surprise one at every turn.
Yellowstone lake, the largest sheet OF
water I'm America at so high an eleya-
ton. with its indented shore line ana
40 square miles of surface dot'eu
with forested islands, presents to lov-
ers Of nature series of picturesque
landscapes unceualed upon any other
inland waters. The far famed 1ails
OF the Yellowstone, with their unique
and marvellous rock setting, ana the
Grand canyon, with its majestic out
lines and brilliant coloring, are worthy
of all the praise bestowed upon then
and merit q separate descriptive arti-
Gle. More than score OF WATERWAYS
and cascades, some of them OF eA-
ouisite grace and beauty, pour the Wa
ters of mountain torrents and plateau
lakes from the uplands to the low
lands. Many Of them well deserve u
visit. but their fame Is obscured ny
the real marvels of the Yellowstone
Again. the fossil forests, so seldom
visited tell a most interesting story Oh
a buried plant world, of explosive erup
lions Of mud volcanoes and the graz
nal piling up Of erupted layas ahc
ashes. All these, enticing as the!
seem, appear insignificant when com
nared with the hydrothermal phenome
ma displayed in geysers, oolllhs
springs. hot lakes, solfataras ana mum
berless fumaroles, which have galne'
for the park the appellation OF the won
darlsnd of America. UnquestlonaDi!
n IS this hot water treatment Whlci
the region has undergone that has lie
welcomed most Of the objects OF lnteres
and made the park famous the worn
over. Even the lake owes much OF II
attractiyeness TO its hot springs ah'
naint pots. and the Grand can|ol
would lack its brilliancy OF colorlh
and its sculptured buttreSsed wall
but for the long continued actloh
hot as we'll as cold water'-Arnoi
Hague in Scribner's.
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"f" Stops for passengers on gnsl
OF notice to conductor.
sc" Stops only to let of passengers
from Cape Charles and points South,
and take on passengers for points
North of Delmar,
SD" Stops only to let of passen'
gers from points North OF Delpar,
and take on passengers for Cape
Charles and points South.
Trains 81 and 90 will stop at al
stations on Sundayfor local passen'
gers, onsignal or notice to conductor.
r. B. Cooke. j. q. Rodgers.
Traffic Manager, 6upt
Norfolk. Va. Cape Charles. Va
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HOSTING ROPES.
The Threads of Wire Upon "nicn
so Many Lives Daily Depend.

While the longest ropes are used for
hauling purposes, some OF the most III
teresting data In connection with wire
ropes are obtained with their use ior
hosting purposes. Hundreds OF tnou-
sands OF lives are literally each day
hung by a small wire thread as tne
men are lowered into and hoisted from
the bowels Of the earth, and In many
cases the only means Of communication
hetween the surface and the under
ground workings, which are from
few feet to a mile In depth. ID by
comnaratiyely small hosting rope
Think Of hanging from the end OF ca
HE only q few inches IN diameter ana
q mile long, being hoisted at rate
which Is faster than that OF the aver
81 90 railroad train and some Idea OF the
hoisting problem can be gained. 10
the honor Of the wire rope manufactur-
orc Il must be said that very few SHAFT
accidents are due to the breaking oi
the rome. excepting where the cage ID
overwound and unwarranted demands
are made upon the rope or which are
traceable to false economy on the part
Of the users of wire rope. No part Oh
mining plant is more carefully In
snected and watched than the hoisuns
rome. and very few mine managers VIII
take any unnecessary risks IN the
ho,sting of men. The skill Of the wire
rope maker is taxed to the utmost e
proyide ropes for hoisting from grea'
depths. To make rope Of practicable
size that will be sufficiently flexible
and that will bear even its own weigh
Is no mean problem, for In such case'
the weight Of the rope is often muci
more than the material lifted; hence
we have taper rope intended to give
varying section dependent on TN
amount of rope off the drum or reel
Mines and Minerals.
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Herbert Spencer had passion TOT
generalization. II you remarked II WIS
fine day, Spencer would answer
"Yes: anticyclonic conditions ike
those of yesterday seldom break up
without warning of the advent OF a
depression from westward Ii you
observed that Mrs. Jones was a pref
ty woman, Spencer would reply her
father was a west highlander and her
mother an Irishwoman, and intermar-
riage between highlanders and irish al
most always produces physically hand
some but Intellectually inferior chill
dren-"
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SETTING THE CLOCK FAST :
A Pleasant Sort of Deception 'on'-
mon 10 Many People.

A pleasant Sort of Deception COM
mon 10 Many People.
IT is common thing to find the
clocks in nine out of ten househoius
either fifteen minutes or half an hour
fast. and should you happen TO be III
hurry or mention the fact that you
have to be going you are at once reas-
sured by the fact that you have no
cause to hurry, as the clock Is 80 much
ahead Of the time.
Has 1t ever occurred. to you why
clocks are usually put ahead' some
nhvsicians have said 1t is due to lazl-
ness. for 1t is such a satisfaction 10 inc
lazy man to find when he mas 10 get
IN at 7 in the morning and strains MS
half closed eyes to look n the CLOCK
that II is half an hour fast and he mas
80 much more time to doze, with tne
result that he oversleeps himself any
how and misses his train or boat.
Said matchmaker when asked
about the subject:
Yes, 1t is a peculiar thing with most
people to put their clocks fast, ana
while there may be some satsracuon
in II when 1t comes to doing little
longer. there is really no advantage III
1t, for when you wake up say at U anu
glance at the clock and 1t registers nan
mast G. the fact remains that 1t Is a
half hour fast While this may make
WON fool easier knowing that you still
have thirty minutes to doze, CONFESS
1 don't see much advantage in 1t.
"Why not have the clock right! IL ID
the same thing in the end.
Suppose railroads were to put 'nh
into practice. how many trains do yot
think people would miss thereby! Ihi'
putting clocks fast is really only
pleasant form of deception which PEG
ple like to practice on themselves, Blu
It does more harm than good. New
York Herald.
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THE WONDERFUL SUN.
Some of the Things We Know ABOUT
That Mysterious Star.

very wonderful and In some re-
snects mysterious object Is the sum-
typical star, the nearest one' ana not 81
far AWAY as to prevent us from study
ing it in detail, and yet presenting COZ
ditions SO different from those we can
obtain in our laboratories that TO
considerable extent 1t dehes our rea-
soninqs and renders our conclusions
merely conjectural.
Certain facts, however, have been es-
tablished beyond any possible douo'
and must necessarily form the founda-
tion of all reasonable theories anu
opinions.
We know, for instance, that Its mean
distance from the earth is very closely
o. OOOOOO miles; that its diameter Is
about S66, 500 miles, or 1892 times that
Of the earth, and its bulk about l'5oV'-
600 as great.
We know also that its mass is ABOUT
23OOOO that of the earth and that con-
seouently gravity upon its SURFACE Is
about 2715 times as powerful as mere
A man who here weighs 100 POUNDS
would weigh more than two tons upon
the SIN. and there a squirrel would not
he able to jump any more friskily than
an elephant here.
Experiments with burning glasses
make it certain that the effective tell
perature of the suns surface taken as
whole doubtless the actual tempera
ture varies widely at different points
is much above any which we can pro
duce by artificial means. Not even tn
electric furnace can rival it. Carried Z
the sun and kept there for few hours
only, the earth would melt and pas
into vapor. The estimated Temperature
is about $4,000 degrees F., but canno
be regarded as exact. - Professo
Charles A. Young in Harper's Weekly
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Worlds Fair Scenic Route
Saint Louis, Mo.

SHORTEST QUICKEST and BEST ROUTE vesto GOsa
Lighted Trains with Pullman Sleepers and dining
Through Carolina with direct
SPECIAL RATES FOR SEASON OR FIFTEEN DAY rChEl0
E,fteen dav tickets from Old Point Norfolk $23 w.
Sleening car accommodations engaged upon appcatlon
SPECIAL COACH EXCURSIONS
tboved dates tickets good days at rate OF $l1oo
Correspondngly low rates from other stations
Snecia accommodations arranged for parties - ,,..
Stopovers permitted within limit at e. & u ceieora'ou
IISE THE & O. ROUTE and purchase your tickets &C
cordingly .;ous ord otber informa.
ton, address 90 D. Nor,o,k Va
w O Wartheu, ID. P. A. Richmond va.
n Fuller Genl Pas. Agt
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A Waste of Money.

But" expostulated Jones' III youu
only nav me what you owe me l could
pay Smith what owe him."
~ know it," said Robinson. but
Smith wouldn't pay me what he owes
me You and 1 would merely impov-
orish ourselves to enrich Smith.
Town Topics.
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OninOus.

as the boss going to give you the
raise you asked forT
"Well-er-Pm afraid to say. toio
him l thought my pay should De COLL
mensurate with the amount OF WORK
do. and he promptly agreed Win
me."-Philadelphi Press.
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Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After
Ten Years of Suffering

az wish to say few words in praise
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy" says Mrs: Matte
Burge, Of Martinsville, Va: u suffer-
ed from chronic diarrhoea for ten years
and during that time tried various
medicines without obtaining any per-
manent relief. Last summer one OF
NV children was taken with cholera
m0rbus. and procured bottle of this
remedy. Only two doses were requ,l-
ed 10 give her entire relief. 1 theh ue,
did not use all Of one bottle before l
was well and have never since Deeh
troubled with that complaint. one
cannot say too much in favor OF that
wonderful medicine" This remedy Is
for sale by all medicine dealers.
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rhex Loved Each other SO.

Ethel Ito Rose, who has just tola ner
a funny story)-But, my dear, that's an
awfully old joke. Rose-ls IT reaii!'
dear? Well, of course you ought 10
know.-New York Telegram.
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Back Pay.

"What did he get $500 back pension
for?"
"Why, he was shot between the
shoulder blades. ~ onkers Herald.
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NEW YORK, PHILA. & NORFOLK
RAILROAD

Time Table in Effect June 9, 1904
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
folk and Old Point Comfort.