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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-03

Methusula was all right, you bet
For a good old soul was he,
They say he would be living yet,
Had he taken Rocky Mountain Tea
VIM. p. Bell & Co. and Hal's Phar-
! macy.
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For Sale and Rent,

/ will sell 10 the right party my
stock of Merchaudise and Livery and
rent stOrrnOuse and Stables iOr term
# years. IL is one OF the best OppOr-
tlnities Win the additional manufac-
turing to take place here. Reason for
; .lling--VanU TO give more time to my
wholesale and brokerage business.
.atrons vii understand that my hotel.
livery aid store viii te lrn with the
same interest until and after they are
sold.
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For SALE-A young mans driving
horse. years old, good locker and
can step down the road and is always
ready. Reason for selling, am over
stocked. If sold at once he can be
bought cheap.
Geo. G. Bonniwell,
HarbOrtOn, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-03

| have purchased a new fun
eral car equal in quality to any
On the Shore and can furnish a
full supply of Caskets and
Ccfins in all sizes and prices.
am prepared to fill all orders
including nice work as cheap as
any one Thanking the public
for past favors.
Very respectfully
J. W. BONNIWELL,
Bloxom, Va.
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EOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

On the public school question the
gOvorner makes a direct and heart
stirring suggestion. He recommends
that the special appropriation to the
primary schoola be more than doubled,
increased from 5000, 900 to $450,000.
That is straightforward, clean-cut
and business-like and honest fulfill
ment, so far as the governor is con-
cerned, of the pledges he made in the
campaign and to which the Democra-
tic party committed itself by nomi-
mating him. He is especially en-
phatic and urgent on the subject of
improving the public schools in the
country.
Whether he meant it or not, the
governor has arranged his recommen-
dations on the educational system ex-
actly in the order in which the great
body of people in Virginia believe
that they should come. First, he
brings the public schools and espe-
cially the primary and high schools
in the country, which he discusses at
some length; then as really part of
the same system he dwells on the
the public and travelling school libra
ries as outgrowths and developments
of the State library; then on the nor
NAL schools and the development and
mental equipment of teachers; fl
nally, in a paragraph, the State UnI-
versity and cOllePes
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-03

For SALE -225 bushels clean seed
oats.
J. j. White,
Metompkin, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-03
Will Be Married

And you will need Wedding Present
for the occasion. To get it you must
come to me, if you want the best, for
the least money. My stock of Ster-
ling Silveware, and other articles
suitable Tor wedding presents is un-
usually large AMI complete, as also
my stock Of Watches, Jewelry, Silver
Novelties and everything belonging
to Jewelry Store OF the first-class
(now in my new brick store between
PostOtiice and Hotel.)
The reason that my pricesarc so low. 10 IN at
keep down cxperses-buy close for cash aid
am satisfied with much smaller profits thai
you pay elsewhere. You save more Than J
make on each article you buy from me My
long experience teaches me that this CthUc
is best for me as we'll as my customers. | an
Kruduate optician and refractiOnist and fit
YOU properly with glasses--making no charge
for examining your eyes.
mo. VI. DUNCAN.
-Jeweler an Op;iciau,-
New Brick Block. 0nonoock Vo
Main ST OH"iNONN'
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Notice to Creditors
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
Accomack G. H., Va,
January 20, 1906

To the creditors Of Charles G. Biv-
ems, colored, deceased, and all others
concerned: You are hereby notified
that pursuant to decree Of court, |
have appointed the 10Th day Of Febru-
airy next, at my said office, for receiv-
ing proof of all debts and demands
against the said decedent or his estate;
at which time and place you are re-
qnired to attend and prove your claims
and 10 claims presented after that date
will receive any attention. Given III :
der my hand the day and year and first
above written.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-02-03
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

The governor goes at the public
road question with characteristic
vigor and directness. He brings in
his strong epigram on "our enormous
mud tax" He recommends, as a first
step, the establishment of road de-
partment consisting of trained and
Scientific men, and liberal appropria-
lions to enable them to supplement
and cooperate with local authorities
and the employment of convicts to
prepare material All this can be
done at the present session and it
need not involve enormous expendi-
ture. Of course we shall have some
clamOr over the creation of new Of
fees. That always attends every for
ward movement or step toward inn
provement and development. If a
road department is wisely organized
and properly provided, however, it
will make good long before the next
election and give the people visible
and substantial results which will
command their endorsement.
Improvement and enforcement of
the pure food laws, help for the Con-
federate veterans and preservation Of
the war records are discussed earnest
ly and appropriate legislation and ap-
preparations for these purposes are
neutrality-suspicious..
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SATURDAY, February 8, 1906.
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pqHntered at tie Postoflce st AccomAO W IL
Va. IS second class matter.
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Baltimore Pulverizing Co.,
Baltimore, Md.
Dear Sirs:-I used your Special
Sweet Potato Mixture last Spring
along side goods of higher price,
and can say that had better results
from your goods than | did from the
higher priced goods.
Very truly yours,
S. G.. Hickman.
Baltimore Pulverizing Co.,
Baltimore, Md.
Dear Sirs:-1 used your per cent.
Potato Guano on Irish Potatoes with
the best of results. also used your
Special Sweet Potato Mixture beside
a high priced goods and from your
goods dug barrel of Potatoes from
rs sprouts, the barrel containg 81
Potatoes.
/ remain yours,
J. II. Miles.
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George r. Taylor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

Very Graceful in Its Movements
How It Anghts and Performs
other Maneuvers.

"Themocking birds movements, says
an observant writer, In the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, excepting in fight, are
the perfection Of grace; not even the cat
bird can rival him In airy lightness, in
easy elegance OF motion.
I'm alighting on fence, he does not
merely come down upon Il; his manner
is fairly poetical. He flies little too
high, drops like feather, touches the
perch lightly with his feet, balances and
tosses upward his tail, often quickly run
ming over the tips Of half dozen pick
cts before he rests. Passing across the
yard, he turns not to avoid taller tree
or shrub, nor does he go through It; he
simply bounds over, almost touching it,
as IL for pure sport.
I'm the matter of bounds, the mocker
Is without peer. The upward spring
while singing Is an ecstatic action, that
must be seen to be appreciated; he rises
into the air as though too happy to re-
main on earth, and, opening his wings,
floats down, singing all the while.
at is indescribable, but enchant-
ing to see. In courtship, too, he
makes effective use of this exquisite
movement. In simple food-hunting on
the ground-a most pTosaic occupation
truly-on approaching a hummock Of
grass, he bounds over it, instead Of go
ing around. In alighting on tree, he
does not pounce upon the twig he has
selected, but upon a lower one, and
passes quickly up through the branches,
as 1.-THE as a serpent.
80 fond is he of this exercise that
one which l watched amused himself
half an hour at time in pile Of brush;
starting from the ground, slipping easily
through up to the top, standing there
moment, then flying back and repeating
the performance.
Should the goal of his journey be
fence picket, he alights on the beam
which supports it, and hops gracefully
to the top.
Like the robin, the mocking-bird
seeks his food from the earth, sometimes
digging it, but often picking it up. His
manner on the ground is much like the
robins; he lowers the head, runs few
steps rapidly, then erects himself very
straight for moment But he adds to
this familiar performance peculiar and
beautiful movement, the object Of which
1 have been unable to discover.
AT the end of run he lifts his wings,
opening them wide, displaying their
whole breadth, which makes him look
like gigantic butterfly, then instantly
lowers his head and runs again, general
ly picking up something as he stops.
"a gentleman in South Carolina, IA
miliar with the ways of the bird, sug-
gests that his object is to startle the
grasshopper, or, as he expresses it, to
flush his game.'"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

that he n capable OF taking gcod care
Of himself in debate and he can
make an interesting and Informative
speech. His experience on his Phil
ippine tour last summer was not alto
gether that of lOve-making. He
studied intelligently conditions in the
islands, and when the Philippine tariff
bill was up in the house he had an OPP
portunity to display his knowledge Of
the whole subject. He does not hest
tate to speak plainly about the Phil
ippines, and declares that the United
States will be well rid of them when
they can be properly governed by
their own people.
Mr.. Longworth is now advocating
very important measure which, II 1t
becomes a law, will distinguish him
as a man who has accomplished real
reform. His bill provides for the pur-
chase Of land and the erection of en-
bassies and legation buildings for our
representatives in foreign lands. His
own travel abroad in Europe and in
the orient has impressed him with the
very shabby showing the United
States makes in the matter Of homes
for her diplomats. For posts in Eu-
rope very wealthy men have to be Sc
lected as ambassadors in order to do
credit to the government in the mat
ter Of embassies and in entertaining.
Whitelaw Reid, at London, pays $780,
600 a year merely for the rental OF 3
mansion, or twice the salary he re-
ceives from his government.
Compared with the generous sala-
ries paid foreign ambassadors in
Washington and the liberality Of their
home governments in purchasing for
them permanent quarters here. the
United States cuts very sorry figure
abroad.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

rthrong as to ruin gowns and tempers.
Since the Roosevelts came to the
White House a different system has
been in force, under which there is a
judicious division of invitations, so
that everybody who ought to be in.
'Vited will get at least one invitation
to each reception. The capacity of the
old mansion is limited, despite the
>wide-famed East room, which is sun
ipOsed to accommodate thousands
Every function at the White House
proclaims loudly the necessity of an
executive building where the presi-
Dental offices could be located and
large hall be provided for official re.
'ceptions, leaving the present mansion
exclusively for the private use of the
president and his family.
The idea of a grand executive build
ing is at present kept in the back.
ground, although the insignificant ex-
'ecutive offices where the president
does his work were erected as tempor-
airy quarters in expectation that con-
gress would take up the matter and
provide a proper place for executive
headquarters. There is not a day
passes that the inadequacy of the
White House Offices is not emphasized.
There is no more beauty about the
building than there is about the aver
age country railroad station. The
rooms are uncomfortable, ugly and
not very heslthful.
The worst feature about these tenn
porary quarters is that the president
is separated from the public by only
one or two doors, and noises in the
outer ofhces penetrate easily into the
cabinet room or into his own office.
The deplorable Mrs. Morris incident
could not have occurred in a building
that had been constructed for protec.
Zion as we'll as use of the president.
She raised row within ten feet of the
presidents room, something she could
mot have done in properly construct.
cd building.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
THE INK AQUARIUM.
Brilliant Sleight-of- Hand Perform
'ance Which Any Boy Can
Learn to Do.

Present a glass full Of ink to the view
of the spectators, then prove that it is
ink By dipping visiting card in it and
showing the card. Now announce that
there are live fish in the tumbler that
just thrive on ink, and you will prove
they are there by changing the ink to
water, so that the onlookers may SEQ
them. Throw handkerchief over the
glass so as to entirely envelop it, repeat
an incarnation and then suddenly whisk
the handkerchief away. The audience
will be very much astonished to find the
glass filled with water, clear as crystal,
with several fish swimming about IN II.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

for that matter, in the army, navy and
marine corps can put away their dress
uniforms in cedar closets and chests
and fortify them with camphor and
moth balls. The odor of these moth
destroyers and preventers is first no.
ticed on New Years day, when every
Ofhcer Of the army and navy and reve-
nut cutter service within the city is
expected to put on his finest dress uni
form and repair to the White House
TO greet the president and his wife.
During the Spanish-American war
al order was issued requiring officers
TO wear their uniforms while on duty,
and they all became so accustomed to
doing so that their official clothing
was in use most of the time. Gradual.
by the order came to be ignored, and
to-day army and navy officers holding
positions in Washington go about
their duties in civilian dress and the
blue and drab uniforms which are
costly AFFAIRS are kept safe from
moth and rust. When the New Years
reception is on It is no exaggeration
to state that the odor Of moth balls
can be detected a square away from
the White House. Then come the Off
Cial evening receptions. which are
given fortnightly, and again the Off
GERS must turn out in full regalia. so
that the sweet odor of the flowers dec
Grating the executive mansion and the
delicate perfumery affected by the
ladies must contend with the sharper
and more insistent smell of camphor. !
These official receptions are now
over, and the thrifty officers can once
more don civilian dress and attend |
evening functions in the formal black |
dress suit. Officers as a rule grow
very tired Of the color of their uni
forms and are very glad to lay them
aside for civilian dress.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

pie in this ten-mile square territory
nave no franchise, they are the wards
of congress. The two district commit
tees Of the house and senate look
after affairs in Washington just as the
branches of councils or boards of al.
dermen would do in any other munic-
ipality. It seems to be a rather
trifiing business for bodies represent
ing the entire country to have their
time occupied in discussing the open.
ing Of streets, the laying OF pave.
ments, building schoolhouses, etc. The
system, however, cannot well b.
changed, the sad experience Of a ter
rltOrial form Of government 20 or 25
years ago precluding the thought OF
changing back to that form.
Just now there is a good deal of talk
concerning the prohibition of the sale
Of intoxicating liquors in the district
or the imposition of an extremely high
license. The great capital of the ma.
ton, supposed to be the center of
statemanship, art and literature. is nc
better of IN the matter Of common
drunkenness than MANUFACTURING
center. A United States oficial has
written to the excise board stating thai
conditions are deplorable on account
of cheap beer and the bucket trade
He declares that most Of the alleS
fights, assaults and other violations
OF the law are traceable to cheap beer
and to the habit OF rushing the growl
err" The matter will be brought up
before congress and an attempt made
to cut on the trade in cheap intoxi,
cants and to do away with multitude
Of low groggeries where the colored
element OF the city get their inspira.
ton for all sorts Of misdOinSs
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

the way across the continent and
wherever his big system of railroad
goes, and who is a Canadian Yankee in
with, humor and enterprise Mr.. Ham
is one of those rare characters that a
big corporation gets hold of some
times, whose personality counts for
more than the name of the company
He has made 90 trips from Montreal
to Victoria in the interest of the Can
adam Pacific railroad, and they have
resulted in a wider diffusion of knowl-
edge regarding the wonderful terri
tory this system serves than has been
accomplished by any other means.
Mr.. Ham personally conducts tours
Of homeseekers, Investigators and in
vestors, with an occasional party of
newspaper men, across the continent,
and there is scarcely a mile Of the
S,000-mile trip with which he is I'M
acquainted He can give the depths
of soil in every section, and the acre
of the big 1,000-mile square wheat
farm in northwestern Canada, and can
tell within a thousand feet of the out
put of the lumber in eastern Canada
as we'll as on the Pacific slope.
Wherever he goes a bright light is
shown for the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, or, as many of the natives in
Canada are in the habit of calling it,
the &c. P. r. railway" While Mr..
Ham was in Washington he did not
neglect to cali attention to the ad-
vantages Of his home country of Can
ada as a winter resort as well as sum-
mer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
A Femiiv ARair.

othello had just smothered Tesdss
mona.
"She had wakened him twice TO walk
the baby, three times to hunt burglars
in the cellar and twice to close the
back pRrlor windows so the rain
wouldn't come In" explained his
friends.
Fearing, however, to make the tra-
gedy too somber, Shakespeare wrote
up q different version.-N. Y. Sun.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

stork-in the pic
ture, renderedst still
more quaint by
being depicted as
wearing a Dutch
cap, and smoking
a long tobacco
pipe.
A m ong more
ponderous quad
rupeds that are
taken as emblems,
the Republic of
Liberia has the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

national animal
to be taken as
representative of
Japan has been
much felt by
artists called
upon In recent
times to draw
fancy pictures
Of affairs relat.
ing to the jap
an e s 9 nation.
France, next on
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

In this instance,
a distinctly mar
tial appearance.
He has a mill
tary helmet on
his head, and
wears q decora-
ton Of some
kind hanging from
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
A Rrida,s Sad Fa+e

Mrs. Rlifkins-I am afraid my darter
is awful unhappy with that new hus-
band of hers.
Mrs. Gab-Do tell! Have you heard
so?
"No; but I've seen him on the street
every day since he got married, and he
walks along just as chippy and indie
pendent as ever. He doesn't look sub
dued bit."-N. Y. Weekly.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

A boy Of IS went into the jail at Jack
sonville, Fla, and asked the authorities
10 allow him to serve out the sentence
Of boy who mad been imprisoned for
yagrancy. The justice who sentenced
the boy was appealed to, and was 90 af.
fected by the lads devotion that be or
dered his young friend'a release. Ds-
tgolt free Press.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
Striving to Plense

ut grieves me to find that you pre-
fer saying disagreeable things about
people," said the considerate woman.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "and
1t grieves me to find such a universal
preference for hearing disagreeable
things. "-Washington Star,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

indeed, he has
two places. The
American eagle,
the emblem OF
the United States,
is shown as hav-
ing feathers grow.
ing in such a
away as to form
a stars and
stripes pattern.
He fg n very
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
Honeat Confassion

"At any rate" said the woman who
sneers, II am not a parvenue."
Neither am l." answered Miss Cay
enne. But hate to think Of the fool
ish investments have made trying to
become one. "-Washington Star.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

The bright clerk was lacking up the
new calendar.
"It's right pretty" commented the
boss, "but you have it crooked"
ooh, that's all right" laughed the
bright clerk. at was given out by a
crooked insurance Chicago
Day News.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
A Canadian Yankee.

NE OF Cdndud :
brig hit railroad
men was observed
in Washington re.
Gently, and the
capital city is all
the better for his
visit. This is
George H. Ham, a
special agent OF
the Canadian Pa.
cific railway, who
has left a trail of
glad hands" all
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
War Notes.

"That young Mrs. Potter has a queer
hobby" said Mrs. Henpeck. when
ever she sees a wedding notice in the
paper she clips 1t out. wonder what
she wants with them?"
Probably" replied her husband,
half-hoping, half-fearing she'd catch
his meaning, probably she puts them
IN a scrapbook. "-Philadelp Press.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
Grown Wise.

"Is yoh husban' lookin' fob work."
eyes," answered Mrs. Pinkley.
Hes done foun' out dat its less work
to go out lookin' fob work dan it Is to
stay home an chop wood an carry
water fob de wash tubs. "-Washington
Star.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
Keen Observer.

Bessie-oh, Tommy! My new baby
dolly is almost human! When
squeeze her she begins to cry, and
when l put her up to bed she closes
her eyesl
Tommy-Huh! She'd be more hui
man If she closed her eyes when you
walk the floor with her, and began to
cry when you put her to bedl-Puck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
washington GOSSIP
ODoR OF MoTH-BALIs CLINGs
ROUND THE UNIFORMS.
EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS
White House ofices Uncomforta BILE,
Unhealthful and Ugly-Represen-
tative Longworth Laboring
for Needed Reform.
IA s M NGTON.-

The scent of the
moth ball will
soon be out Of
Washington at
mosphere. There
is only one more
reception at the
White House and
after that the ma
jority Of the
young officers,
and old ones, too,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
The Mystery of Life

1.-THE Millyards keep house on $40 a
week"
That's very different. The Mill
yards can afford to be beggarly.
They've got money to burn. We are
poor, and If we try to live on less than
$50 a week, we shall certainly be
ruined. Puck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01

portrayed as very much on guard on
some rocky cliff of our island. We
will notice some other creatures in
this way which serve as emblems Of
countries.
Like the king Of beasts, the king
Of birds finds a place in our gallery;
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-03-01
Reforms at the White House,

R + S | d e n T
r 90 s E V Ell I
has worked a re-
form in the mat
ter CT evening
receptions at the
White House. In
the old days the
invitations issued
for each reception
would fill the ex,
ecutive mansion
with such n