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A GODLIKE FORCE.

Il am we'll"
Do you appreciate the force of that
declaration? Do you realize the power
in such an affirmative statement?
Suppose:
Suppose you say to yourself: Il am
feeling out of sorts. l am sick" Keep
on saying that to yourself. Say it until
YOU begin to believe it. You know just
where that mental process will take
YOU. 1t will land you in bed You will
have suggested yourself into a real
sickness.
There is a reason.
And because of that reason the prac-
tice of suggestive therapeutics" and
many other things finds place.
We have long been reminded of the
scientific truth that the mind influences
the body. But we have been slow to
appreciate the fact that the mind in
fiuences itself. And one Of the ways
in which the mind may influence itself
is by the way of auto-suggestion.
The mind can hypnotic itself.
This possibility makes it tremen-
dously important that we should be-
lieve and affirm and suggest to our
selves the best things In many cases
the affirmation makes the difference
between success and failure happiness
and misery, health and disease.
OF course there are limitations to the
use Of this power of suggestion, and it
may be carried to the extreme of RI
diculousness.
But
The potency Of it. the possibilities of
1t, ought to be thoroughly realized and
studied and understood by every hui
man being.
Note this:
Darwin tells us that at first the
eagle could not fly 1t wanted to fly
1t tried to fly. 1t kept on wanting and
trying to fly. Through constant de-
sire and through constant trial the
eagle evolved the faculty of flying
Every desire and trial added, as 1t
were. feathers to its pinions until one
day 1t was able to soar in the skies.
So also is the human soul.
The mind suggests to itself the posi-
bility Of something it greatly desires
1t keeps on desiring and tries again
and again to do or to be what it wants
to do or become There comes day
when. through desire and use. new
faculties appear or old faculties de
velop until the suggestion becomes q
fact.
We have some of the divine Omnipo-
tence residing within us.
Let us study and develop our god
likeness.
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Heart to Heart
Talks.
TO THE GUM CHEWING GIRL.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.
Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.

TO The GUM CHEWING uiNb'
My dear young woman:
Do not get the habit.
want to tell you that the evils or
the gum chewing habit are clearly ex-
planned by DR.. John S. Diamond OF
Bellevue college, New York, and he
ought to know.
He says, for instance:
That If you chew gum habitually you
unduly excite your salivary glands.
You actually swallow some pints OF
saliva every day. And if you chew
during the hours Of digestion you neu-
tralize the acidity of the stomach.
Now, says the doctor, you delay d.
gestion, which in itself is bad thing.
and you run the risk of microbes.
Besides:
DIR. Diamond says gum chewing is
"a neurotlc manifestation" That is to
say. your nerves are tangled. out OF
tune. You have developed a sort of
Jaw unrest, which is no trivial affair.
"Pish~ you say.
All this talk about stomach and
nerves does not touch you.
But say!
Do you know this: Gum chewing
persistently followed up will destroy
some of the beauty Of your mouth and
chin and sooner or later put ugly lines
In your lower face? 1t is the honest
truth,
Now, think I see you sit up and pay
attention. That warning is worth
while.
1t stands to reason. The machinery
of the lower part of your countenance
was not made for perpetual chewing.
1t is geared to work only when there
is the right kind Of grist. Oyerwork
and strain will rack the working parts
lust as they do any other kind of ma
chinery, even more so, because mus
cles and nerves and blood vessels are
delicate.
Something also might be said about
your face in perpetual motion. You
run a great risk in permitting your
best young man to see you under such
circumstances.
OF course where every one in your set
is Of q like chewing disposition and ev-
erybody chews and chews and chews,
why. perhaps it is not well to be too
finical.
But
lust remember, will you please, about
the coming of those ugly lines and
creases about your mouth?
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Word PAINTING.

Mrs. Bradley, when questioned by a
fellow traveller in the Pullman car in
regard to her home, launched forth into
a rather long and detailed description
of its charms. Her little girl, Grace,
who had been reading when she began
to speak, soon closed her book and lis
tened with great interest.
ut must be very pleasant" remark
ed the chance acquaintance, somewhat
perfunctorily, when Mrs. Bradley fin
ished, and Grace, her eyes cleaning
with enthusiasm, said: ooh, it must be
perfectly lovely! What place is it,
mammal"
"Why, our own home, Of course"
answered the mother, somewhat embar-
raised.
ooh, DEAR" said Grace, signing, chow
much better it sounds than it looks?'-
Youths Companion.
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ate officers The women were the
beautiful bellies of the Mississippi city.
For many weeks General Grant the
enemy, had Unanswered at the outer
gates. Though he had retired tenn
porarily, it was but to devise and ex-
ecute new plans for taking the city.
By reducing Vicksburg the Union
forces would control the Mississippi to
the sea, cutting the Confederacy IN
twain. The Importance of holding this
position was paramount in the Con-
federate cause.
Christmas is Christmas, whether III
war or In peace. Fair women ana
brave men will dance tonight, what
ever may befall tomorrow. General
Martin l.. Smith. temporarily In COM
mand, was a central figure at the ball.
Another officer present, unmarried,
handsome. chivalrous, daring, was
General Stephen d. Lee, only twenty
nine years Of age and a noted leader.
Shortly after midnight-the begin
ming of Christmas day-a muddy, be-
draggled, uncouth soldier In gray burst
suddenly into the ballroom. The In
truder rushed between the Waiting
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WHAT'S THE USE 7

Why is man born with the closed fists!
Because he wants to grasp everything
And why does he die with palms out
stretched? To show that he takes MOTH
ing along with him.-Talmud.
The quaint saying of the Talmud IS
a good one for this day and AEGEAN
age of graspng commercialism.
Some one has aptly named the dispo-
sition Of modern men to- gather to
themselves more wealth than they
need or can use as money madness"
There's method in that madness.
Note the cunning of the monopolist
who gathers to himself the ways and
means Of production. See how his con-
verging lines of transportation and his
watchful execution match that OF the
spider that weaves his converging webs
and lures his victim.
Money mad, these moderns.
And some of them, like lunatics in a
cell. grasp at the straws Of their mat
ting to weave them into a golden
crown. And some of them grasp at the
notes in the air Of their dusty cells,
seeking substance. Some Of them raw
age the world and rob their fellows
Some steal from earth and sea and sky
Some sell their souls to the devil.
Listen to the marching chorus of the
money pirates, the granting, sweaty
chorus of grab. grab grab!
Poor fools!
Yet a little while and the grabbers
shall pass away. Whose, then. shall
these things be? The lawyers viii
reveI in the loot of it, heirs will quar-
rel over It, harpies will fatten on the
funds, and prodigal hands Will SOW thu
surplus wealth broadcast over tht
earth.
Even now lustful eyes watch for the
first symptom Of the hour when thu
fists Of the lucre loving lunatics shall
relax their itching palms.
Poor fools!
Our brief Anglo-Saxon phrase put;
the lesson Of the Talmud In fewel
words. Our ancestors were accustom
sf to say. There are no pockets II
shrouds."
Poor fools!
Soon the grabbing hand shall lose 1t:
[ cunning and the lying tongue cleave q
the roof of its mouth.
In the language Of the street;
What's tn use?
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Pretty Bad.

Boston Bill-rm getting weary Of
this blaSe, nomadic. peripatetic exist
ence Aren't you. pal? Omaha Red (aft
or -Why-er-you see. Bill
it never struck me in dat light before
Is it really as bad as all dat?-Puck.
Extravaganza.
"Thls is your little sister, Tommy
said the father, showing him the baby.
"You will love her dearly, will you
not?"
"Yes, Of course" replied Tommy, in
specting the latest arrival, but it'll
cost a great deal to keep her, won't itr'
81 presume So"
"Yes," said Tommy, with long
drawn breath, land when / asked you
the other day to buy me white rab'
bit you said you couldn't afford 1T
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Heart to Heart
Talks.
DREAM STUFF AND SOUL STUFF.
BY EDWIN A. NYB.
Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye'

We are such stuff
AS dreams are made of. and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
All of us, young or old, rich or poor
all of US have our dreams, and these
dreams are not all Of sleep. The best
of all our dreams are the day dreams.
To the young these dreams come ike
glitterlng pageant Of beauty-castles
in Spain-seen through the ever SHIFT
ing kaleidoscope of early hopes and as
plrations.
alas that dreams are only dreams;
that fancy cannot give lasting beauty
to those forms that scarce moment
live"
With the years comes disillusion.
I The mirages rise. The rivers of fancy
lose their runnels in the sands of life's
desert places. The feathery palm trees
of the distance fade away. The cas-
ties in Spain disappear like an unsub-
stantial fabric.
But we must not cease to dream
Because our life is such stuff as
dreams are made of, because life In Its
fullness of meaning is in the reaching
always after our ideals, because soul
without its visions is dead.
Because no man really lives If he is
not always striving to make his best
dreams come true.
Did you ever realize the difference be-
tween great souls and little souls? The
little soul has few dreams or, disap-
pointed. ceases to dream. The great
soul dreams on and is always going out
10 realize his dreams. The ideal is the
mental conception Of something su-
premely good, supremely to be desired.
He dreams of what ought to be and
finds realization and happiness IN
striving after his ideal. His dreams
may not come wholly true, but II he
has seen his vision and pondered 1t and
been dominated by 1t he will find par
tial realization. and IN finding part
Of his dream he finds his happiness.
Those who never dream are not So.
They go to their work like slaves whip
ped to their tasks. Life has no spon-
taneity. There are no enthusiasts in
their life, and they constantly ask
themselves whether life is worth the
while. The man who has no vision
has no abundance, no fullness Of life.
lie IS already dead.
Therefore, my brethres, let US go OH
dreaming the beautiful dreams. Some
sweet day we shall wake up and fud
them all come true. Let us dream.
Because dream stuff put into terms Of
action and character Is soul stuff!
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-06-06
a Mole Catcher.

A farm manager at Fodderty, Ding
wall, Scotland, watching a mole catch
err at work, saw sea gulls lowering
over and occasionally alighting upon a
turnip field in which the observer and
others were at work. A particularly
large and handsome bird attracted his
attention by the graceful way it foated
slowly over the drills, intently scan
ming the surface of the ground. Sud-
denly, steadying itself moment, it
dropped, dug its bill into the heaving
ground and rose with a mole for its
prey. Resting a few minutes, it grace
fully began again a further search for
prey. In few minutes a second mole
was unearthed.
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NOl4lAhuSN'
General, l have to report" said the
intruder, that sixty-six gunboats and
transports have passed Lake Provl-
dence. and more are still passlng!
General Smith turned very pale. A
moment later he cried in loud voice;
This ball is at an end! The enemy
is coming down the river. All non
combatants must leave the city,
Then the commander turned to the
bearer Of this important news, thanked
him for the service and apologized for
his harsh reception.
On Christmas day General Lee NOV
ed out of Vicksburg with six regiments
of infantry and two batteries to check
General Sherman in his landing on the
Yazoo river, thirteen miles distant.
General Lee occupied the bluffs and
other high ground along a line OF ten
miles. There, on the three days fol-
lowing Christmas, was much Dioody
skirmishing, and on the Doth was
fought the decisive battle Of Chickasaw
Bayou (or Bluffs, as some authorizes
call iN. Lee defeated Sherman, who
finally assailed his we'll placed forces,
and the northern general abandoned his
attempt to get into Vicksburg. Thus
the city was saved to the Confederacy
for more than six months.
| The man In muddy boots and drip
ping clothes who broke up the ball
and brought about the sanguinary con-
hict at Chickasaw bayou, a brilliant
Confederate victory, was Philip II.
Fall a soldier detailed as q telegraph
operator. Lee S. Daniel, another Con-
federate telegrapher had co-operateo
with him in saving Vicksburg. The
details of this important service, fur-
nishlng one Of the most romantic $40
ries Of the war between the states
have been supplied recently by General
Lee himself, the only surviving leu
tenant general of the south.
Telegraphers were scarce IN the
south when the war began. Most OF
the operators were northerners ana
went home. When young Daniel ana
Fall enlisted at Vicksburg the dis
covery that they could handle the
| Morse key and code caused them TO be
detailed for telegraphing. Horace b.
Tibbotts, a rich planter in louisiana
owned a private telegraph line, run
ming from his estate a few miles south
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The Iron Crown.

The iron crown of Lombardy, so
called from the narrow iron band with
in it supposed to have been beaten out
of one of the nails used at the cruel
fixion, was probably first worn by
Aglluph at his coronation in 591. The
historic crown after gracing the brows
Of such sovereigns as Charlemagne,
Henry of Luxembourg, Frederick w.,
Charles V. and the great Napoleon was
in 1866 given up to Victor Emmanuel
and is now preserved with great care
at Mona, near Milan.
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jefferson Davis Living Daughter.

One child still survives each Of the
war presidents, jefferson Davis Of the
Confederacy and Abraham Lincoln OF
the Union. Mrs. ]. Addison Hayes Of
Colorado Springs, wife Of banker, Is
a daughter of jefferson Davis and the
sole remaining member Of the Confed-
crate leaders family. Mr.. Davis died
In 1889 and Mrs. Davis in 1906. Their
daughter Varina, more Familiarity
known as Winnie and celebrated as
"the Daughter Of the Confederacy,"
died in 1893. All are buried In Rich
mOnd Va.
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Breaking Wire.

Anybody who has tried to break
piece of wire without the aid of pair
of pinchers will probably agree that the
operation is both a difficult and pain
full one. There Is a method, however,
by which it may be easily accomplish
ed. By bending the wire into loop
and pulling both ends as tight as pos
sible an injury will be caused to the
wire, which on being Strengthened Will
Immediately break. BY this means
wire up to No II gauge may be sue
cessfElly dealt with.
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GUNBOA1o' ment
II was simply frantic" he said many
years later. 1T took less than half
minute to call up Fall, who was right
on his Job, but it seemed hours to me
before he responded. 'Golly, old fell
low. what's up?' was Falls greeting"
Operators show nervousness on the
wire. Just as men do speaking orally
Fall knew that Daniel had something
startling to tell. The man in the woods
swiftly licked off his news:
"River lined with gunboats and
transports - almost a hundred j just
passed my lookout-counted seven gun
boats and ffty-nine transports chock
full Of men,"
God bless you, Lee! Goodby. We
may never meet again." answered Fail,
who made q dash for his skiff.
The night was dark, cloudy, cold
and drizzly. The sharp wind tossed
the Mississippi's surface into angry
whltecaps. The frail craft which Fall
was pulling across, right in front OF
those terrible batteries trained down
on the stream, rocked frightfully on
the tumultuous current. Fall feared
that his red light would go out That
meant that his own side would ami
hilate him with cannon shot before he
could reach the eastern bank.
He did reach there safely and broke
up the ball, as related. Up at his end
of the lire Daniel shortly tried the
wire again, but found no battery
Later he learned that the huge fotilla
had landed men at several points be-
low and cut down the poles and chop
ned the wires for mile.
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Lee and WASHINGTON.

General Robert E. Lee was indeed
fully Washington's equal as a hero and
a gentleman and much his superior as
a soldier, says the London Times. 1t is
only in the larger political or semipo-
litical sphere that he stands lower, and
there perhaps only because his oppor-
tunities were so much smaller.
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couples, who
shrank from his
N u d d Y boots.
s t a | k / Il 6
straight up to
General Smith.
he saluted.
"W ell, sir,
W hat do you
want?" the gen.
eral inquired
some what all
grily, while the
startled dancers
paused and the
merry IN u S ! c
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girl who lived on the plantation rusned
into the shack, crying:
"Niarse 'Arnhart, yo' an Marse Dan
fol better come out hyah! All heahs
boat a-comin'."
"Come. now, Artie," said the major
shufIilng the cards; "you must DE
dreaming"
"No. sab. All heahs it say choo-choo-
pat-pat-pat!'
BY this the girl meant the sounds OF
the steam escape and the paddle
wheels. Earnhart and Daniel went out
side and listened intently. The major
carried I'm his mouth the stem OF a Dig
meerschaum pipe, which he was pun
ing placidly. The placidity evanesced'
however, when presently there came
TO the ears Of the two Confederates
the "choo-choo-pat-pat-pat' which hau
been caught by the keen ears OF little
Artie. The men had not heard that
sound for months. They ran to the
hank of the river and peered far up
stream in the darkness. They watched,
md In short time their eyes be-
held coming around bend In the river
two miles above the huge black hulk
Of Il steam vessel.
"Gunboatr said Daniel in WINS
per. at the same instant snatching the
meerschaum from the majors mouth
Some sparks were flying from the
pine. Daniel extinguished the fire I'M
der cover
The men stood still, watching. Short
" the black monster was abreast OF
them. her engines putting, her paddle
wheels patting the water rhythmically
with each downward chug. BACK OF
the first black monster was another
and another and yet another. Seven
gunboats the men counted, and vessels
were coming around the bend seem
ingly without end. Fifty-nine trans
ports loaded with Uncle Sans blue
coats they counted. Satisfied at last
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VI LANE L iONA
dence to De So
to, La, across
the Mississippi
directly opposite
Vicksburg. The
d S t a nee be-
tween the sta
tons was sixty
five miles. The
upper station,
for m Hilary
purposes, w a 8
established In
the woods. Dan
lei was placed
there as opera
tor, with Fall
nc oDarafor of
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! H0N 1BECRAPHERS SAVED V|GkSBDRC |
A True Story Of the Civil War
By DAVID J. WALTON Copyright ''O' 0' u W. -''''

port to Fall, who kept skiff In which
TO row across to Vicksburg. At night
n red light in the bow Of the skif pro-
tected him from being fired upon by
the Confederate batteries on the
heights Of Vicksburg.
Early in December General Grant
had ordered General Sherman to as
semble at Memphis large force OF
men and munitions, proceed on trans
ports down the river under convoy or
Admiral David ID. Porter's gunboats
and capture Vicksburg. General Sher-
mans plan was to disembark up the
Yazoo river, which empties into the
Mississippi a few miles above Vicks-
burg. and attack the city from the rear.
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3 r Il W as a
sound Of revel-
ry by night In
vicksburg, the
famous Confed-
crate strong
hold. 1t was
Christmas eve
In 1862. "The
light" to con-
tinue the apt
Byronic quota
ton, IS h o n o
Ger fair wom-
en- and brave
men" The men
were Confeder-
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He had about
10000 men and
strong artillery,
In addition to
Admiral Por-
ter's hotilla Of
gunboats.
At about $40
o'clock on the
night be I o + e
Christmas OPP
orator ID n n lei
and Major L. G..
Earnhart were
playin "old
sledgep in their
little s ha II t y
lookout station
near the riv er.
A small cOlOred
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Notice to Creditors

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
Accomack G. H., Va,
May 81, 1908.
To the creditors Edmond Drum
mond and Littleton D. Wharton, (col-
ored,) deceased, and all others con-
cerned: You re hereby notified that,
at the request of the personal repre-
sentatives of the said decedenst, l have
appointed the oath day of June
next. at my said Office, for
receiving proof of all debts and de-
mands against the said decedents or
their estates; at which time and place
you are required to attend and prove
your claims.
Given under my hand the day and
year first above written.
SAM'L. T. ROSS,
Commissioner of Accounts.
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De Soto Daniel was instructed to
keep a strict watch Of the river, which
by the fall of Memphis had been open
ed to Federal gunboats down to the
vicinity Of Vicksburg He was to re-
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that there were
no more vessels
In the fleet, Dan
lei leaped to the
back of the lit
tie bay mare he
kept close by
and dashed for
the telegraph
station thre Q
miles back In
the woods. His
dear old home,
Vicksburg, was
In imminent per-
Il. 1t was just
after midnight
when he reach
ed his instru-
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Undertaking.

GENTLEMEN who have been over
the country tell me that, as an I'M
dertaker, am as well or better fitted
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 and
Caskets, ranging in price as follows:
Collins from $500 to $500.
Caskets from $500 to $3.50.
In my office | have both the Acco
mac and Northampton, and the Dia
mond States phones. Ali persons
wishing to communicate with me by
'phone concerning the purchase of
coffins or caskets can do so at my
expense. l have deposited money
with both the above mentioned COM
panies for said purpose.
Embalming especially guaranteed
J. S. Bunting,
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Il am WELL
Do you appreciate the force of that
declaration? Do you realize the power
in such an affirmative statement?
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Why is man born with the closed fists!
Because he wants to grasp everything
And why does he die with palms out
stretched? To show that he takes noth-
ing along with him.-Talmud.
The sun., 1908-05-03

InEde Of half an hour all that street
IeadinE from Perkinss place down 10 the
heart Of town was staked and the claims
usmed. Solly Peters called his the Star