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LEE AND MCCLELLAN.
An Incident Of the First Meeting Of
the Two Soldiers.


The first meeting between General !
George B. Mcclellan and General ROD
art E. Lee happened in Mexico during
the war with that country. McClellan
was n lieutenant of engineers, ana Lee
was a major on the staff OF Generai
Winfield Scott.
One day Mcclellan was walking
ncross a field when he saw Genera'
Scott and his staff approaching Oh
horseback. AS they drew near Ma.
Tor Lee refined up his horse ana askeu
the lieutenant If he did not know
that he was disobeying orders. BIS
tome was sharp and angry. Mcclellan
answered that he wac not aware OF
opv disobedience and asked for an eA-
y1anotioD. Lee replied that all officers
had been told to remain In their quar-
ters. awaiting orders, and asked loi
the lieutenants name.
Mcclellan gave his name ana salu
that no order Of that kind had reacneu
him., But Lee In peremptory tone
ordered hlm 10. go to Ehs-qaarters ana
remain there. Then he rode on anu
reioined General Scott and the stan,
I who had not stopped. Mcclellan Went
to his quarters, as he had been directed
TO do. but was quite indignant at Tue
way in which Lee had treated him. 1oi
no had not knowingly committed
breach Of discipline.
He had Just finished telling his Drotn
or officers the incident when he was
J Informed that an officer was OUTSIDE
the tent asking for him. On gong ou
he was much surprised to see MaJol
lee. who saluted him with respect
lieutenant Mcclellan the mao
said. 81 am afraid that was not cour
J teous In my manner to you HUI
5 while ago, and l have called TO apo
oglze." ~ -,,h+
e az assured him that it was all right'
n said General Mcclellan In telling ID
n story. land he rode off after MAXIM
lie low bow, leaving me IN admiratio '
'e of a superior officer who SO promp.i
ID and generously repaired an error
!! Chicago News.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
FAST SHIP BUILDING.
Giant LsvIathans Of the Lakes Turned
Out In Ninety Days.

GIANT LeNlAknSno W ~
Out In Ninety Days.
10000 ton leviathan Of the lakes
can now be built almost as quickly as
carpenters can put up an eight room
house. Any one Of several shipyarus
can get out one Of these monsters Oh
marine commerce within ninety DAYS,
and the record stands with loooo
ron vessel that was launched n1ty-
three DAVIS after her keel was lald.
Ono hardly realizes what this means
until he knows of few OF the things
that go into the construction OF sucn
n vessel. Take the steamer lhoniaS
Il Cole for instance, launched early
IN 1907 by the Great Lakes Engineer
inc works. This vessel Is the giant
OF the lakes and is 605.5 feet long,
She Is So feet beam and 81 feet deep
and in n single trip can carry as great
a load as 300 freight cars, or lZ'ooo
TONS. In her are 9,5OO,OOO pouhds Vi
iron and steel. What does this meanI
II means that II every man, woman
and child in Indiana, Michigan, WIS
consin and Minnesota were to join IN
carrying this material to certa'h
Mace each person would have to trans
port one pound. In the mass wouiu
be 100000 rivets, ranging In size ironi
eva-eIqhths to one and one-eighth
inches in diameter.
One who is investigating lake snip
building for the first time Will be as
tonished to discover that the moderl
? freighter is in many ways huge pr
vote Yacht. They are almost wlthou
,xception owned by men OF wealth.
and their cabins are fitted out ever
4 more luxuriously than those OF pas
! sanger boats. for while these latte' al
D intended for the use of the public I'd
= messenger accommodations or freigh'
: ers are planned for the friends an
: Families Of the owners. So above ID
z deck which conceals 1O,OOO TONS vi VI
o tho vessel may he floating palace
O The keenest rivalry exists Det"ee
4 owners as to who shall possess ID
n 6nest ships. and fortunes are expen'
d cd in the fitting of cabins alone No'l
ing that money can secure Is Is, omitte
n In the words of builder, The mo-
" ern freighter is like a modern note
N only more luxuriously furnished
s. There is an electric light syste
D. throughout the ship, the cabins a
ne equipped with telephones, there
lie steam heat there are machines for Il
d, making of artificial ice, kitchens WI
IN tbe latest electrical cooking device
to elegantly appointed dining room
Id there are staterooms which are IKE |.
apartments in palace ana otn
st things which one would not expec.
u see beyond the black and forbidden
be steel walls Of these fortune makers
a the lakes.-J. o. Curwood In heao
lly Magazine.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
Handsome Dogs Are Good Dogs.

In the most characteristic OF Engiisn
dogs with the English bulldog as an
unfortunate exception Of glarlng sort'
common sense principles in the canon
Of Judging are distinctly marked III
the case of hounds any good eye can
nick out the best animals. This was
curiously illustrated not long since ID
private when an artist taken over one
of the bigger kennels OF fo1hounds
nicked out the prize and pedigree dogs
one after the other He went purely
by his own sense of what was strons
and comely. of strength and beauty
met together" as Shelley says ID d
very different connection. - LONDON
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
TWO MINUTE SKETCHES
Alexander 7. Stewart.
Nv ROBERTVS LOVE.

n chant prince. He was the ilei-
IL chant king. For forty years
4 Ne he reigned with undlsputeu
title. He was the greatest ana uoS'
famous merchant of his time IN tne Gu
tire world He built up the first reaiiy
creet retail store and wholesale estao-
i,Sbment In America. His retail mousse
was the largest in the woriu at 'ne
time. His name was powerful aoro",,'
and throughout the United States ~
wos household word. spoken WIFI
owe and wonder. Old men OF today re-
coll the name Of A. r. Stewart as al
insn;ration TO business ambition III
their youth. Men in early miduie lno
remember that the same name was
more familiar to them than that ol any
o,hor business man when they were
small boys. roors
Mr. Stewart died thirty-one years
AGO leaving no children. HIS wiuow
died ten years later. The maghlneen'
marble mansion in which he llVeo Oh
fifth avenue, New York, has Deeu
RACED and replaced by commercla'
t.s-
structure. Eleven years ago his sue
oossors IN the great store on Broad
wav assigned, and the stewart s'o,o
building Is now a WanamaEer es'ao,
rSbment Even the body of stewart
was stolen from its vault i'll New ioih'
and there is still dispute as 10 Wne'n
or II ever was recovered. The stew.
orr name and business and fortune al
have disappeared. but his fame lives'
r. Stewart was a Scotch lrlsn
man horn in Ireland and educated Il
Dublin university. He was classlca
scholar devoted to books IN MS ear!
life and with no idea of entering traue
When he came to America, at the as
Of twenty. in 1928. he became teache
IN New York. Two years later he II
turned TO Ireland to claim legacy
about $4,000. and upon the ADVICE
friend in New York he bought
dublin stock of laces and o'ne
goods which he brought back to Anne
loo with him. He opened small shol
advertised his wares and sold u
goods at an enormous proht' Inns su
cess revolutionized Stewart lie u
voted his life to trade.
At the outset Stewart MADE up L
mind as to his course in business
determined to be perfectly honest he
err to misrepresent his goods, alwa'
TO watch every nook aud corner OF
business and to add more custome
bv pleasing those he got. 1t was
boast in old age that in all MS care
he never permitted willful misrep'
sentation to be made in his store
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15

British bred animals. whether they
be horses. cattle sheep or even pigs,
are superior to all others in quality ana
stamina. There Is some strange anu
admirable power in our soil which puts
q stronger fiber and more enduring
stamp of excellence into the live STOCK
bred In our Islands than are found Ill
the same breed or species In any other
mart Of the world.-London Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15

- MERSON was pure intellect
Though he lived in America
during the nineteenth century
As for nearly eighty years, he was
not materially Influenced by the SUI
round;ngs and the events or MS liine
and country. He dwelt in his own
world of mental contemplation. FROM
time TO time during his long lie ne
gave to the world the fruits OF tnose
CONCENTRATIONS in lectures. essays anu
noems. But so far as eXternals go any
of his essays or poems might nave
been written in any other age or III
any other country He was not mere
,v American; he was universal.
Perhaps no writer ever lived the
sum of whose literary work is so de-
void Of yulgarity. All of the Emer-
soniah output is simply thought re-
fined TO the uttermost. There is no
bumor save in the way of sarcasm
and the sarcasm is lofty and DeneVo-
lent ,,
Emerson was a supreme idealist. lie
never climbed toward ideals nor crop
Cd in the dark after ideals. for he was
the exponent of ideals already attain
ed. The great commercial world rag
Cd around him. but he held aloof, con
tent to live simply and frugaily' ricl
IN his own wisdom.
The great lesson of EmersOns liz
and teachings lies in his conception o.
the inherent nobility of the humal
soul He repudiated utterly ana VIII
calm scorn the age worn conception o
man as sinful and filthy maggo
crawling about the earth asking aim
of a superior divinity. The godlines
residing in humanity. the inherent pos
sibilities Of the human, the inevitaDl
evolution of the soul Of man from low
or 70 higher the divine dignity OF III
upon earth-these things Emerson Of
raved and felt and taught for NOR
than fifty years.
Prize Money In 1852.
To the English victors OF Havan
belonged the spells, and very ricn an
important these were.
Besides the nine Spanish men-of-wa
found intact in the harbor, whlc
added to the three sunk at the ell
trance and to one or two others cal
tured outside in the course OF the OF
erot,ons formed about one-ffth of tn
naval power Of Spain and seriousl
crippled her for the rest of the wa
no less an amount than 100000 wa
realized in prize money by the ca
ture of this wealthy city. VI ID
great sum we are told that Albemar
and Pocock as commanding >respectlv
" the land and sea forces received
less than f122,697 each, while Comm
dore Keppels share amounted to
much as f24,539. and doubtless \
brother, Major General Keppel, recel
cd an almost equal sum. Thus u
Keppel family benefited by this ext
dition to the tune Of considerably oV
e. 100000. and it is recorded that Ge
oral Elliott with his share of the pr
money purchased the estate of Heal
field in Sussex, from which he art
ward took his title. Such were I
solid rewards obtainable In war IN I
eighteenth century, when the pror
sion of arms was for the success
soldier considerably more lucratl
than 1t Is today.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
MOUNT FUJlYAMA.
Japanese Pilgrimage to Its Tempest
Swept Summit.


Swept Summit.
To the people Of Japan the mount
Fujiyama is sacred. The meaning OF
tho word Is honorable mountain.
During that brief six weeks of summer
when Fujiyama's wind swept SIDES are
c,,mbable. writes A. II. EDWARDS III
.Kakemono," the pilgrims come In
thousands, in ten thousands. Ihey
dress themselves In white from heao
70 foot They carry long slaves OF
nure white wood In their hands, each
stamped with the temple crest, ana In
bands and companies they climb the
mountain. "a.
Always the leader at their head. his
staff crowned with a tinkling mass OIL
bells. like tiny cymbals, chants tne
HYMN of Fujlyama. For six shor'
summer weeks they come. Ihen tne
winds rush down, the snow falls, tne
tempests rage, and Lord Fujiyama lives
alone.
No human being has yet stayed
winter on his summit, and even IN tn'
summer weeks the winds will blow tue
lava blocks from the walls OF the res
houses and sometimes the pilgrim from
the path.
Fujiyama stands alone, not one pea
.. among a range, but utterly alone. his
inc straight out of the sea on one SID
and from the great Tokyo plain on IN
other his 1865 feet In two long cur'
ing lines of exquisite grace rise up an
.. ND into the blue, and not an men o
one foot is hidden or lost. IL Is d
,, there visible as a tower built on a tre'
less plain. 1t dominates the landscap'
. # can be seen from thirteen provinces
= and from hundred miles at sea u
D. male white peak Of Fujiyama noa'
!. above the blue.
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A Civ Of Happy Homes.

Dublavin took a walk In the GENE
terry. where he noticed on the tomo ,,
stones Good Husband" Good wife"
Good Sem
at is evidently here that the nap
n,est homes are found" he reflected
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
An Admission.

Alice rather like that young
Thomson. He has such a good. hrm
mouth and chin. Hazel -GooonesS'
Has he been kissing you too?-Kansas
City Independent.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
His Inference.

evidently a Turkish bath Is a
scheme to keep one perpetually dirty
T Judge from what you say 'na'
you've never taken one
mo but I'VE seen a Turk."-E1
shange.
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ALWAYS Strong.

Church-They say the human voice
is stronger in the morning than II Is
ot night. Gotham-I can't see any dlr-
ference in baby's. - Yonkers STATES
man.
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KEEP THESE - THE MAN
WHO GAVE THEM WILL
NEED THEM SOME DAY

The souvenir hangs in the boy s
library, and his grandson has olten
heard its history.-New York Tribune
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15

A slip of the tongue is worse than
that of the foot.-Spanish Proverb.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15

GENTLEMEN who have been over
the country tell me that. as an un,
dertaker, | am as well or better ntteo
out than any other person IN the
country. My hearse and funeral car
will compare favorably with any on
the Shore. ~
ICARRY full line of Collins ana
Caskets, ranging in price as follows:
Collins from s. 90 to s25 90.
Caskets fro Z sl5.O0 to Sloo'
In my office / have both the Acco-
mac and Northampton, and the Dis-
mond States phones. All persons
wishing to communicate with me oy
'phone concerning the purchase Oh
collins or caskets can do so al my
expense. l have deposited money
| with both the above mentioned com
panies for said purpose.
Embalming especially guaranteed
J. S. Bunting,
J Tempersnceville. Va.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

~ RO8ERTVS LOVE
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-15
He WaS not
merely Amsri-
can: he Was
universal.

- MERSON was pure intellect
l. Though he lived in America
during the nineteenth century
A for nearly eighty years, he was
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-18
THREE HUNDRED POUND
SNAKE

A remarkable snake Of the Python
species, found only in Java and Borneo,
has just been brought to the United
States by the British steamship Hudson,
which arrived at Point Breeze to load
for China and japan. The snske,
which was sold to John Edwards, of Phila-
delphia is "a feet long and weighs 800
pounds. For years 1t hsd been known
by the natives of Borneo to live and feast
on human beings and animals in the
great forest of the interior. 1t had been
known to catch q wild horse and after
crushing 1t to death to devour the re-
mains at one meal.
1t was finally captured by druggiug
the remains of a wild horse, which it de-
voured and was soon put to.sleep. Osp-
tain Fenton, the master of the Hudson,
stated that the big reptile wsS slowed in
the hold of his vessel for three months,
during which time it ate nothing, but
simply slept. Tho Chinese cook pow
and then saw signs OF life, but Captain
Fentou warned him Of the consequence
if he did not keep away from that part Of
the vessel.
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The Sultan Suspected.

Constantinople, Aug. l7.-Oonstan'
tinople was filed with sinister comment
today aimed at the sultan, as q result o
the death yesterday of Redjeb Pashs, thu
minister of war in the new cabinet, which
WAS reported as due to appoPlexy, but
which is believed today to have been
case of suicide or murder by poison
The death Of Redjee, regardless Of III
cause, has brought to public attention
the dissentious that have already cropped
out in the new ministery and the seem
ing impossibilty OF the sultan's working
10 harmony with the cabinet officials ir
every question affecting the country.
Despite the sullan's acceptance of the
new conditions forced upeu him and bis
attempts to appear happy in the face Of
being shorn of power, he is in a mos
evil mood and the young Turks are al
ready accusing him Of connivirg tc
oAtrthrow the new constitution and to
return to the other regime of sbsolutlsm
just As soon as possible.
The sultan thinks Grand Hssha
Vizier Kimmil really engineered the
movement which forced him tn grant the
constitution. l. ke several of his fellow
ministers, Kimmil was but o few months
ago a fugitive from the suItsn's ven
geance.
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uNIvERs[TY NEWS ITEMS.

President Edwin A. Alderman, who
was advised by bis physicians several
months age to suspend work and go
abroad, has just returned to America
after sojourn in England, France, and
Holland, and is spending few weeks
at present with his wife and little son in
Massachusetts.
Dr. Richard Henry Whitehead.
dean Of the Medical Department. ,retorn-
cd to the UOiversity yesterday, after
two or three weeks In the woods OF
no thern Maine.
Professor William Minor Lille, who
was in Europe last year on leave OF
absence, has re turned to the University,
and will resume his duties at the open
ing of the next session, September 10,
as professor of law and Is dean oil tue
University Law School.
1t is likely that the number OF stu
dents in the law school the coming ses-
sion will be unusually large, since all
who enter aft the next session will be
required to spend three years in residence
work for graduation.
A great need of the University at
present, though it is one not frequently
thought Of, is the need for a large num-
Der OF additional rooms in the college
ss student dormitories. Hundreds of
young men have written for rooms 10
college during the summer, only TO be
told that every room 10 college during
the Summer, was already engaged.
Since the Stats has so we'll provided for
its young men by reducing the Univer-
sity fee, by building an excellent din-
ing hall fer the special use of students,
and by other means too numerous to
mention, the important mattsr OF rooms
at low rates OF rent for every man who
desires one should not be overlooked.
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Woodward ( L1tlrOp,
10th, 1th, ,F.& .Sts., NV.
Washington, ID. c.
Continuation of
AUGUST SALE
FURS
l-3 to Nearly l-2 Less
Than Regular Prices

The luxury and elegance of furs is
we'll set foltn In this August Sale-the
r chest and most beautiful sho wing we
have ever assembled. Great care was
exc rcised in the selection Of this superb
stock, absolute frsnkness dictates the
selling policy.
Ev'ry Garment. Neckp'ece, and Muf
was made up in advance styles t, our
special or fer. The new Rug Nuts, the
new cut sleeves, and Q new length
garments are shown for tle first time in
Wasting t)n. Nothing newer or better
will be shown later, aud for the same
garments, or garments ofequsl style and
value, you will have to pay from one
third to nearly one.hslf more when the
season opens.
You can readily see the advantage in
buying now. You Tu1 no risk, as we
guarantee the quality and style, and, in
add ton, will store and insure them un-
til fall free of charge.
Included are Blended Squirrel, Rus
sian Mink, Eastern Mink, Sable Fox,
Black Fox, Black Lynx, Black Wolf,
Caracsl, Russian Pony, Labrador Seal,
Beasom Seal, Persian Lamb, and Real
Zeal.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Estate Asiicplture and Medical College
TRLACKSRURG. Va.

ASthVc ASiiN"i'"'N ''''"
TBLACKSBURG, VA.
Fifg-dx l0stru tots, thOrOu thlY equipped
Shops. Laboratories, aud lutirmary. Steam
heating and electric lights in dormltorles.
Library II, 900 solu nes. Farm tf llUJ acres.
Degree courses in Agriculture, HOrfi 'ulture,
Applied Chemistry. Applied Geology, CiviI,
Mining, Mechanical aud I'll 'etrical engineer
ing, Metallurgy aud Metallo Haphy, and IRE
paratory Veterinary Medicine.
School OF Agricultural Apprentices.
Total cost Of session ,fnine months, inclut
ing tuition and other fees, board. Washing,
uniforms, medical attendance, etc S216.0O
Cost of State student, S22O.GO.
The next session opens wednesday, sep
tember 23Td, 1908.
PAUL b. BARRINGER, NJ. d., LII. d.,
iS27 w2m-m Pre-ident.
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THOMAS BURROUGHS, P,
A VICTIM OF LEPROsY-

son my travels in Venezuela" said 3
New York man, al stayed In q hotel
with young man 10 whose family there
was the tsint Of leprosy, though be sp.
psrently did not have il. One night
sitting at dinner he became angry at q
waiter and brought his hand down on
the table with full force. He instantly
realized that he did not feel the blow,
and sat looking at his hand, his face
whitening with horror. Give me your
kuife, B)b,' he said to his chum. He
grabbed the pocket knife in frenzy and
stabbed the side OF his hand with vicious
cuts from 6Dger tip to wrist. You may
not know that leprOsy appears 10 the
side of the hand, nambness being sign.
Inc man did not feel the cuts. He
AfOse from the table, knocking over bis
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POTO1AC CACADEr1Y

No. 212 North Washington Sueet,
Alexandria, Va.
The fortieth session will commence sep
tember 16, 1908. A full classical and mathe-
mattel course taught. Also French, Ger
man, Spanish, Bookkeeping and Typewnting.
Catalogues, giving full particulars, sent upon
application.
JOHN S. s.:BLACKBURN,
augl 60 u Principal,
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chair, rushed out ibt> the courtysri of
t1e hotsl, and We heard the quick bang
Of a revolver shot, telling US how he had
conquered toe leper's cure by ending his
life."
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IRxANDRIA "a TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 1s, 1908
AIexan6ria Gazeffe.

PuRLIsHED DAILY AND TRI-wKKKLY AT
GAZETTE BUILDING. $40 d 3l2 PRINCE
STREET.
Entered ct the Postcffice Of Alexandria, VIZ
ginia. as Becond-class matter.l
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List of Unclaimed Lsttsrs.

The following is list of the letters remain
ng in the Alexandria. Va, postofice up to
August 10, 1905:
Baldwin, r A & Sons johnson, Salaria
Battle, Mrs Annis ~ Long, Mrs EV
Chspslton, Jas Henry Lower. Edw E
Cox, Ralph r Mcknight. Lance
barley, Lizzie (spec) Myer, 60
D D1dson, Annie + Riehmond, Mrs Allen
Dot, Matte f Sutton, Samuel
Elgin Pros Trien, CT
Furley, Theodore Watkins. Roy w
GGthr.e, N r Willis, Ashby
THOMAS BURROUGHS, P. n.
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DeWItt's Little Early Risers, safe, cas-,
pleasant. sure, little liver pills. Sold by
w. +. Creighton N Co.