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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20
ANCIENT SIGNALING.
The Method Invented by the GreciHn
General Itneas.

General Ineas.
The ancient Greeks and Romans
practlced telegraphy with the heip Oh
nots filed with straw and twigs satu-
rated In oil, which, being placed IN
rows expressed certain letters accord
ING 70 the order in which they were
lighted. But the only one Of their con
trIvonces that merits a detailed de-
scription was that invented by Gre
clan general named Kneas, who Hour
ished in the time Of Aristotle, intended
for communication between the gen.
erals Of an army.
It consisted of two exactly simila
earthen vessels filed with water each
nrovided with cock that would dis
charge an equal quantity OF water Ill
given time. so that the whole or any
part of the contents would escape III
precisely the same period from Doth
vessels
On the surface Of each fOated a piece
of cork supporting an upright marked
into divisions, each division having
certain sentence inscribed upon IL.
One Of the vessels was placed at eacn
station. and when either party desired
TO communicate he lighted a torch,
which he held aloft until the others did
the same, as a sign that he was all at
tention.
On the sender Of the message lower
ing or extinguishing his torch each
marty Immediately opened the cork OF
his vessel and so left it until the send
or relighted his torch, when 1t was az
once closed.
The receiver then read the sentence
on the division Of the upright that was
level with the mouth Of the vessel ana
which. If everything had been executed
with exactness, correspOnded with that
Of the sender and conveyed the desires
lnformation.-Spa Moments
How Picture Was Sold.
One Of the pictures disposed Of at
| the JaluzOt sale was an immense mill
tary canvas shown at the salon in
1877 by NJ. Jean Paul Laurens, "The
! Austrian staff Marching Past the Body
Of Marceau" E520). Perhaps the chief
interest in the picture IS a curious but
true story told about it. When shown
at the salon 1t was much admired but
no one felt inclined to buy till at last
| NJ. Turquet, then director Of fine arts,
to encourage the painter purchased 1t
out of his own pocket. Soon after a
man called upon him, saying that he
knew he would like to get rid Of 1t
and offered a handsome sum. NJ. Tur-
ouet accepted at once. but his visitor
added that there was one essential con-
dition to the bargain-"Make me a
knight of the Legion of Honor The
official was shocked, but the visitor
went on: You need not mind. am
not a Frenchman, but an American
citizen. Give me the red ribbon and
say it Is a reward for services rem
dered to French art" The official was
persuaded, the picture changed hands
and the buyer became and is still q
knight Of the Legion Of Honor. lie
eventually parted with the picture tc
NJ Jaluzot.-Paris Letter to LONDON
Telegraph.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20
Encouraging.

"Close up, boys; close up" said a
colonel to his regiment. IF the enemy
were to fire on you when you are strag-
Cling along like that they wouldn't kill
a single man Of you. Close up"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20
Contracted Chronic Diarrhoea While
In the Philippines.

"While with the U. S. Army in the
philippines, l contracted chronic d.
arrhoea. | suffered severely from TINS
terrible disease for over three years
and tried the prescription of numer-
Gus physicians, outbound nothing Ina'
lid me any good until tried Chamber.
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, two small bottles of which
entirely cured me and l have since
had no return of the disease. Her
man Stein, PIP n. Union Ave. Pueblo
Colorado. For sale by
B. S. Ashby & Co.,
Aecomac, All County Agencies
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20

Artist-Tve Just finished old Cash
ley's portrait, but l haven't done him
Justice. Friend-Haven't you? Artist
No; he's paying me handsomely for not
doing it.-New York Press.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20

Old mems eyes are like old mems
memories-they are strongest for things
q long way off.-EllOt
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-01-20

The wonderful
growth of our bust
ness has surprised
even ourselves, and
but emphasizes the
fact that our business
policy is correct.
Reliable goods,
low prices,
liberal terms,
and courteous treat
ment are the factors
to which
we owe orr success.
This policy has won
for us fully two thou
sand patrons in the
short period of five
/ years, and the fact
that the majority of
them are in the city
of Baltimore, where
competition is very
sharp, shows that we
have lived Mp to our
| Icy.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18

Billy Parker watched the sight ex- citedly. Even if he couldn't play. and if neither side had scored. and if there were but twenty minutes left to play in. Yale could hold them now and then make touchdown. Lined up on their own 30-yard chalk mark the crimson eleven was crouching for final attack down the field. Their quarterback was skipping men on the shoulders and giv- ing final directions. The Harvard tsands echoed with a long, imploring
 Harvard! Harvard Harvard,"
 There came a quick. snappy signal. Harvard gained three yards. Another and they gained two. Twice more and a crimson halfback shot round Yale's end for ten yards. Both teams were fighting every inch At the end of every play men were lying on their backs on the hard turf. while rubbers with bottles ran out under the deafen . ing din and sponged their heads with water.
 Harvard, Touchdown! Harvard!" Billy Parker could see, as everybody in the grand stands could, that Har- yard was making her last. desperate attack of the game. His fingers itched to be out there. A constant uproar of cheers filled the air From all four sides of the towering black grand stand blue and red flags waved out incessant- | ly. No one could hear the signals of 1 the quarterbacks in the steady cheers But with ten minutes left to play something important was going on in the Harvard line
 Those Harvard backs were suddenly beginning to make big holes in the Yale ! line. A certain easy play was going every time. Billy Parker had seen a man run out from the Harvard side lines to take somebody's place. It was the man who was making the gains Every other minute the ball would be snapped back this man would take it ! there would be a smashing kaleide- | scope of plunging crimson jerseys and the new man would be around his end Smiths end. once he had made two yards. Then ten. Then fifteen. The ball had moved from Harvard's 30-yard | line to Yale's 35-yard line. Billy. jump | ing from his seat. and crouched, trem- [ blingly. to watch the play. He saw big | Dale. at center. push and shove. and Thacher. at right tackle. punge for
 ward. and Smith. at his end, jump ir ' each time and lose his man.
 "Oh. stop it-please stop it," Billy
 Parker yelled in a pleading voice. A coach told him to dry up.
 And then something happened. Billy
 Parker. crouching on the side lines
 caught Tommy Nolans eye as he sal on the bench behind him. Tommy's
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18

B. Dickinson of the Harvard football team. Billy Parker saw him coming
 the same time that Miss Baxter did.
 Ten minutes later he had telegraphed to Tommy Nolan to cut out the tutor
 ing he was making up and join him in any perilous climb he knew of up any scraggly mountain where a young man might meet a grisly death that could get into the Boston newspapers, and
 where there weren't any girls. Which
 Billy Parker did because because the moment Miss Baxter saw Dickinson she said. "Oh." in a very odd sort of a way
 and went up stairs in the hotel and put on a new dress, made of white with
 pink spots in it. for dinner.
 Billy Parker told himself that he had
 made a fool of himself. and that he
 hadn't been able to draw anything bet
 ter than a bob tailed flush in the game of life. and that it was all over; and
 also. if she wasn't happy, that the next time he ever had a man named Dick
 son in the middle of football scrim- mage where the referee couldn't see
 him. he would make a new start in life with one less to buck against in the census. You see he thought a good deal more about Miss Baxter than he thought he did. which wasn't at all
 conducive to Hopping ambitious scrub halfs on their backs under their own goal posts, or to blocking off visiting upcountry college tackles from getting around his end with the ball. or to | keeping other men. like Smith. who i had been freshman end and captain.
 and who hadn't any such reason for a slump. from getting his position.
 Which had good deal to do with 1 the reasons Tommy Nolan didn't feel called upon to give when he asked the Dean for a days vacation. Nor did he tell the Dean where he was going,
 which has a good deal to do with this story. as will presently be seen.
 From your seat in the grand stand
 at a Yale Harvard football game you
 can look down on a sight that you can see but once a year. And that is great 1 oblong of chalk marked grass with a 1 white goal post at either end. far down ' in the middle of a high amphitheatre
 of towerig tiers of seats. packed tight with cheering. excited people-gradu- ates and undergraduates. with red
 bands on their hats or blue flowers in
 their buttonaholes. girls with crimson flags and girls with blue flags. and whole sections of excited people in
 winter furs and blankets. Massed sec
 tions of Yale or Harvard undergradu-
 ates are shouting. and drowning out
 their bands. and listening cheerfully to
 hardworking young men in their shirs
 sleeves who jump up on the low fence
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
DEAFNESS CANNOT se euarn.

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 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case Of Deafness (csused uy catzrrh) that cannot be cured by HslE Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free
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Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA RAIL. WAY COMPANY.
 AH
Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the An nual meeting of the Arizona and Cal ifornia Railway company. will be held at the office Of this company in the city of Prescott. Territory of Arizona, on Wednesday, the Fist day of November, 1906, at 12 o'clock noon of said day. for the purpose of electing a Board of the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. Books for the transfer of stock will be closed November 9th, re- maiDing closed until December 9th. 1906. Dated at Prescott, Arizona, this 18th day of October 1906.
 (Eigned) F. NJ. MURPHY, WALLACE FAIRBANK. President
 Secretary.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
The Republican Sunday Story The Lady and the Football By EDWIN oViATT

above the grand stands and wave tho arms and sing out:
 "Now-are you ready? Long cheer everybody in iti"
 An hour later. if you are a Harvard man. you are yelling and waving your hat and wondering if those "Elis" are ever going to stop pounding that Har- yard line long enough to let Harvard make a touchdown. If you are Yale man you are jumping to your feet and getting into that iovons snno:
 More work for the undertaken" or that railing. long Yale cheer with the nine long ".Yales." on the end of it. and calling out to your tattered line down there on the middle of the field to hold 'em! Yale! Hold 'emi" That is you do all that if you know what a big thing it is to win Yale Harvard football game. and Billy Par ker did. All that first half. while the two teams had been fighting in a deaf ening din of cheers and songs. but with no score. Billy Parker had squirmed under his gray blanket on the side lines. and called himself names and stared out at his eleven on the field: each
 
 bending to their knuckles till the big center snapped the ball. then heaving upward and forward against the crim- son line. while the swift halfbacks shot to right or left and stopped suddenly under an avalanche of striped Jerseys. If he hadn't thrown away his chance on girl. Billy thought to himself. as the stands roared again, and the sec ond half began. he could have gone out there and done something. Smith was getting tired. But he couldn't go out. He didn't have the sand If things had only been different-if Dickinson
 A quick. stinging yell broke out from the Yale stands. and Billy Parker jumped. The Yale fullback had kicked long. low. beautiful punt. and Smith the Yale right end. had tackled the Harvard Quarterback on his own 3O- yard line. Every Yale man was on his feet. yelling:
 "Yale-Yale-Yalet"
 The sidelines were dancing. Coaches were hurrying down the field to each other. blowing through the substitutes Billy Parker nodded to one of them. Martin. the head coach, who had a long series of brilliant plays on that field to his credit. and who ran past him. chew ing a cigarette exultantly. We've got 'em." Martin grinned.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18

of the varsity line next to Thatcher at tackle. He got on his toes and swung his arms and lunged in again past three scrubs and two ends and tackle who had been told to stop him, and started with the kick and slapped the scrub quarterback on the ground with a thud while the fellows on the grand stand rattled their feet and jumped up with the play and yelled 'Yeaa-a! long | cheer for Billy Parker" It was then ' that Tommy Nolan. chewing his pencil on :he side lines. where he was taking notes for the News, heard coach, knocking the ashes from his cigarette, say to another coach who strolled back smiling from the scrimmage;
 That dub Parker. at varsity right end. is a wonder. If nothing happens to him he will make the fastest end next year this college ever saw"
 Tommy Nolan. who took life serious ly only where Billy Parker and football were concerned. told this to Billy that night from where he sat on the window seat in Lawrence with Billy Parker's S pipe that Billy couldn't smoke.
 There's some sense in that. for coaches" said Tommy Nolan. Don't you go and let anything happen,"
 "Shucks," said Billy Parker from the study table, where he was making marks on the edges of a Mediaeval History for lated deference, what could happen?'
 Girls" said Tommy Nolan.
 "Girls?" Billy Parker snorted.
 "Yes. girls" said Tommy Nolan. They'he the deuce. For instance. know one fellow who got engaged to a girl just before a boat race. Her name is Pipkin. Just like his Pipkin. He rowed No. that year for Yale. He just sat in his seat and imagined all through the race that she wouldn't marry him if he didn't win. He got groggy at two miles. of course. and kept saying Stella to himself every stroke. 'Stella,' How was that. Coo it from the coxswain. The COX thought the captain was yelling 'starboard'-he couldn't hear in the internal din of the Presidential gunboats. and steered into a fiagpole at the finish.'
 Billy Parker looked up at Tommy Nolan and wrinkled his nose. Quite so.'' he said musingly.
 Don't you go and let anything like that happen to you. that's all" said Tommy Nolan.
 "Shucks," said Billy Parker
 And nothing did happen.
 That is; not until the next summer, which was just before his last year on the team, when something did. as fol- lows:
 Her name was Letitia Louise Baxter
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
By EDWIN OVIATT

, and she was brown haired and twenty, and every evening danced in the hotel hops, or sat out twO-steps on the hotel piazza. accompanied by small ilickers of cigarette light in the nearest chair.
 Billy Parker met her one morning on the piazza of the mountain hotel where he was staying through August. and the moment he saw her he knew that she had looked deep down into his soul and understood him. And Billy Parker. who had never known any girl in his life before. knuckled. Every day for a month Miss Baxter let Billy Parker walk beside her around the golf links behind the hotel and carry her golf bags. and TOW her under the afterglow of the sunset on the dinky little hotel lake in a boat that had to have the cleats shortened so that Billy Parker could brace against them; and tell her about Yale, and what a fine place it was, and what bully fellows went there and how he could look down from his window seat in Larance and see the fellows playing nigger baby on the campus below: and especially what a great football team Yale had. and how Yale was going to leave the Harvard eleven that year in a small round pool of precipitation on Yale field that Nov ember, and how he was going to help do it.
 Which for thirty-one long August days, was bliss for Billy Parker. He had never met a girl like that before.
 When something happened.
 This was on a Saturday afternoon. and immediately after Miss Baxter had looked up very much surprised and pained across the cleats in the rowboat. and had heard some hurried things said by Billy Parker in a very hurried way. An hour later Billy Parker stood disconsolately on one leg on the hotel piazza. She had been very nice about 1t. and said she was sorry and that he could call on her aunt any time he was m Boston and have tea. with a lemon in 1t. That would have been all right. and there would have been some hope in it. if something else had not happen ed. too.
 But the afternoon train from Boston set a young man. in a straw hat with a red band on it, down on the station platform in the middle of dress-suit cases. and tennis rackets. and golf sticks, and crimson sweaters. and a wiggly Boston terrier and admiring natives, whose name was Winthrop
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
SANTA FEE PRESCOTT AND PHOE. NIX RAILWAY COMPANY.
 Stockholders Meetinu.

Notice is hereby given that the An nual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Santa Fe. Prescott and Phoenix Railway company will be held at the office of this company. in the city of Prescott, Territory of Arizona, or Wednesday, the 21st day of November, 1906. at 12 o'clock noon of said day, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for the ensuing year. and for the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. Books for the transfer UC stock will be closed November 9th, re- maining closed until December 9th. 1906. Dated at Prescott, Arizona, th.s 18th day of october 1906.
 (Signed) F. M. MURPHY. WALLACE FAIRBANK. President.
 Secretary.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
CONCRETE WILL NOT
 FAKE PLACE OF STEEL
WeIl-known Civil Engineer Says Pro- tected Steel Frame Construction is Best and Safest.

New York. November Especial cor respondence of The Republican)- Buildings should not be constructed of reinforced concrete throughout Such is the verdict of a well-knOwn member of the American Society of Civil En- gineers who has just published a book dealing with the San Francisco fire. The writer made a thorough investiga- ton of more than so buildings in the burned district. and has come to the conclusion that the protected steel frame type of construction Is superior to all others in fire-resisting qualities That there is great doubt about the ability of reinforced concrete buildings to withstand the severe heat of a con flagration is shown by the following paragraph in a current issue of a lead ing engineering weekly:
 An Engineering mistake.
 Are these buildings an engineering mistake? Are the engineers and archi- tects and contractors who are putting them up. building wisely and safely for themselves and for the owners; or may they look back some day and be filled with sorrow and regret because of the destruction of life and prop erty?"
 Light has just been thrown upon this question by tests of reinforced concrete columns recently conducted in Chicago. witnessed by many well-known engi- neers and experts of the Chicago build ing department. The tests were con ducted with a number of columns made from concrete mixed according to stan dard specifications. Each of the col umns was subjected for three hours to a temperature averaging I.60O deg. F. At the end of that time. under load tests. it was found that the columns had lost more than 70 per cent of their -original strength.
 Various lengths which had been cut from the columns before they were tested were then covered with three
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18

inches of porous terra eotts ard sos-- jected tO identically the zzHss Asss Sss.t load tests. Upon examination tsss css1s umns were found tO be in tsFfrrt eerss ditiOn. not having lost apF pf ths z original strength.
 Concrete not Firs9seef.
 These tests proved that snp-uie<zeS concrete columns are no nsors ksePrOOS than steel, and that if they are ss Siah- stand fire they must be protected with hollow tile in the same Ssy 8hst ths steel beams and girderz 10 asF bts skY scrapers are now prOtects-.
 What will happen ehea Ere attacks buildings in which concrete s,siE-sns are left unprotected from fest ts yss to be seen. There is no such .io0ts ta regard to buildings Of lhs yvosrctsd steel and hollow tile type.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-18
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 Billy Parker of the Senior Class stood five feet seven inches in his foot ball shoes at varsity right end. and had never enjoyed himself as much as when he was getting a very large as- sortment sf football bumps on his body and lot of football mud on his face.
 Though he had been three years in college he had just one ambition. AnG that was to keep on playing varsity right end so well that the coaches would never think of putting anybody else in his place. and so that no opposing half back would ever want to try more than once in one half to~get around his end on play that was supposed to be starting for the other.
 See that streak of greased lightning at right end?" fellows would ask girls in the grand stand. That's Parker. You ought to see him in a champion ship gamei Why. last year."
 And then Billy Parker's shabby blue Jersey would be seen skimming down the field under practice punt. and the crowd of men on the bleachers would sing out 'Yea-a-al Parker," when he dOwned his man ten yards from the scrubs goal post There was only one thing that Billy Parker didn't care for, and that was girls. This was why fel- lows sitting in the grand stand had never seen Billy Parker anywhere girls could look at him except when he was following down the field under punts. and mixing in every scrimmage that wasn't any of his business and jogging back to his place in the line. with his sJubby arms doubled up and his curly hair pushed back over his forehead, ana every bone aching in his bumpy little body.
 Girls had never interested Parker He had never understood how fellows who might play football bothered themselves by coming out to the field on football game days with dozens of soft-eyed. laughing. daintily dressed young women. who didn't understand the game little bit. and who said "Oh, dear," every time anybody had his col lar bone broken. He had heard them from the field.
 That was Billy Parker when his jun for year opened. One afternoon that year he wiggled out of a scrimmage where he had had his arms about the legs of a scrub tackle twice his size who had the ball, with his face all grimy, and jumped around to his end