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9 in war times.
Tha man who did the most talking about war has not
enlisted yet.
The m.-.n who does the most bragging about his goods
has either got a poor quality or a poor variety of them.
We don't have to blow to sell o\r goods : once inside
the establishment, the finely finished and nicely selected
stock speaks very loudly and correctly both for quality
and finish.
The prices are but a mere shadow of the prices asked
at other stores.
Tell yo?r neighbors' children to tell their mothers we
have mattings for 12?; cents per yard. Baby carriages s?
cheap that if we told you the price you would swear they
were not real Hey wood's. Iron bods all sizes at ?3.50.
Everything else in proportion.
. Stay at h- me one Sunday from Old Point or Buckroe
Beach and come in and buy a bed. room suit with the
money you didn't spend.
Tf people don't buy our goods after seeing them it is
evident they don't want any.
My big Double Stores are crowded with bargains.
"Will you have some of them? Credit is yours for the
asking. See us and leave your orders; they will have
prompt attention.
And now asking a continuance of your patronage and
thanking you for past favors, I beg to remain,
Yours very tru*.}-,
m. .Fi LASH,
The Accoiiimodator,
2803 & 2805 WASHINGTON AVE.
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A SPIRIT WARNING-.
Hnrry Uobart and his pretty sister Dor?
othy were almost inseparable Thoy wcro
Orphons. Thuir parents died when thoy
wore too young to remember them.
Brought tip iiy an aunt, they hud happy,
uneventful lives until they had reached
manhood und womanhood. With youth,
health and riches, their future scorned
without a oloud. Harry was now SI, Dor?
othy two years younger.
In faroff Singapore tho Hobarts had an
uncle. Ho was a bachelor and wus in busi?
ness there. Thoy received n. letter from
him some two weeks ago. saying: "I am
alone in tho world. I would liko to have
my brother's children with mo. You.
Harry, havo attained man's ostato. If
your aunt approves, I will tuko you as
partner in my business. Dorothy can bo
queen of our household. You shall bo as
my own, and when I leave this world, nil
I have shall be yours."
. Barry had often expressed wish to seo
a little mure of life than oouid be seen in
tho small suburban town where they now
lived, and on receipt of their Uncle John's
letter ho was eager to leave Boston and
sail for India.
Dorothy begged and pleaded in vain for
him to change bis mind. In spito of his
deep uffocrion for her, her brother was
wild to got u glimpse of foreign lands.
"Go with me,slstor," said Harry. "Undo
John wants you, and Aunt Lucy can live
horu with tho servants whilo wo uro
away."
But tho affectionate girl would not leave
her old aunt, wiio had been a mother to
hor. It almost broko tho heart of tho lov?
ing sister, this parting, but her duty, slio
said, was with her aunt.
Tho day before Harry left he sut with
ids sister in tho library talking of the fu?
ture. "I will stay one year without you,
Dolly. Then you must either 001110 to mo
or I to you. And remember this, if any?
thing happens tome, if I never return und
death overtakes me, I shall watch over
you, my dear one, and in sumo way warn
you If danger is near." So with many
kisses, with tears and promises of future
meeting, the brother and sistor piirted.
Six months passed.
Tho two lonely women had received
many long letters from tho absent olio.
Ho wus well mid happy; "would bo per?
fectly contented if only my Dolly wero
with mo."
About this timo tho fair Dorothy had
two suitors for her hand. Ono was an
Englishiuun, n man of lino appearance,
some 20 years older than the young lady,
but graceful and fascinating and of great
wealth. The other gentleman was young,
fair, with an honest, open countonuueo,
but poor, nn artist almost unknown to
fame.
Tho girl favored young Arthur Alien.
Her aunt urged her to accept tho elder
man. Times wero hard, money source.
Many largu bunk robberies occurred. Tho
robbers wero experts and escaped detec?
tion. Wealthy inuusiuns wero invaded und
jewels stolen.
Ono evening Dorothy was returning
homo from tho city. She hud been to her
bunkers to get a diuinond necklnco she
wanted to wear at a reception. All her
valuables wero in Mr. Bassott's sufo.
Darkness lind coino on before slio was
aware. Tho road was lonely. Suddenly
a soft light above her head attracted her.
The sky was Ii Hod with stormcluuds. The
light was clear, a faint outline of u bund
appeared, pointing toward n thick clump
of trees. For a moment tho girl was be?
wildered. Then, hearing oaths and fout
feceps approaching, slio rushed in terror to?
ward tho friendiy thickot.
"Where is eIio?" cried n deep voice
"The bird has flown, and wo havo lost the
diamonds. 1 wish I could lind hur. I
would nioke that dainty throat bleed."
Almost fainting, the pour child readied
homo at last.
*" "Aunt Lucy, Harry is dead!" cried sne
us she sunk into a chair. "I have had a
warning."
She related her narrow oscapo and the
strango warning of danger received.
A few weeks after came a black border?
ed letter telling of tho death of her dear
brut her.
Three years passed; many changes had
come to sweet Dorothy Hobart. Sho was
alone in tho world. Aunt Lucy and Undo
Juhn weresloeping their last sleep. Young
Allen was in Italy pursuing his studies.
Dorothy had promised her aunt that she
would marry Mr. Elsworth, the English?
man. "He will bo a kind, good husband.
Pronilso mo you will accept hini. I can
then dio content." So tho girl, against
her will, became betrothed.
Tho day before tho wedding *orothy sut
in the library ulono. Tears wero in tho
pretty blue eyes. Slio was thinking of her
brother, and nlso of tho absent artist lover,
for she had given hor heart to him whilo
promising hor hand to another. On a sud?
den a faint, soft light shone near her, and
again tho shadowy hand appeared! Tho
light glowod, and tho hand pointed to a
folded paper near.
Dorothy, pale und frightened, glanced at
tho letter. It warned her not to murry
Mr. Elsworth. He whs suspected and was
being watched by detectives. The letter
was unsigned. On her wedding day tho
poor girl was ill with a fever.
When, a mouth Inter, Dorothy arose,
pnlo and hollow eyed, from her sickbed,
Elsworth was convicted of robbory und
murder. He it was who, with an accom?
plice, tried to steal tho diamond necklace.
Ho wanted the heiress for her money.
Dorothy went abroad, met her former
lover in Paris and wusunltud to him. Hur
brother's spirit rested in peace.?Ez
chango.
The Talk of Bees.
Do bees talk? is a question asked by a
writer in Tho Rambler, who observes that
there is vory little doubt that bees com?
municate with ono another by means of
cortaln sounds. Ants may be said to talk,
but it is a sign language only, worked by
touching ono another's antenna). Any
ono, however, who has had much to do
with bees will tell you that tho sounds in
a hivo. und those produced by individual
bees, vory in u way which !s no doubt un?
derstood by other members of tho com?
munity. Particularly is this tho case when
tho young qnocn is Hourly ready to move
off. Slio begins to utter u series of faint
barking or piping sounds, quite distinct
from hor ordinary noto. And justiiefuro
she moves off this sound is changed to a
delicate piping. How this sound is pro?
duced is not clearly understood. Ordinary
boo sounds, however, arc produced by the
vibration of tho wings.
Gave Himself Away.
"Old Bullions says ho isn't rich at all,
but I know better."
"Hmh! How did you get your infor?
mation?"
"From himself. He told mo not long
Bgo that thoru was no such thing ns luck
iu businoss. You never henr an unsuc?
cessful man talk in that strain, "?Cincin?
nati Enquirer.
Hojuck?Why are you consulting tho
dictionary? 1 thought you know how to
spell.
Tomdlk?I do. I am not looking for
information, but for corroboration.?Lon?
don Tit Bits.
The age of whales is ascertained by size
and number of lamina: of the whalebone,
which increases yearly. Ages of 300 and
400 years have been assigned to whales
from these indications.
On the wall of n house uncovered In
Pompeii tliis sentiment, evidently sorutoh
?tl by n diner out, was found:'"The man
it whose bouso 1 do not dine is a bar
Jarian."
ACCOKDANUB.
IT? who with bol<! nnd skillful hand sweep*
. "'or
Tilt" organ keys of some cathedral pile.
Flooding with musiu vault nnd navo and
oisle,
Thorn-li on his oar falls nut a thunderous roar.
In tho composer's lofty motive free
Knows well that all the temple vast nnd dim
Thrills to its base with untbcia, psalm and
hymn.
True to the changeless laws of harmony.
So In* who on those changing chords of life,
With ?rm, sweet touch, ploys the Greut Hns
Of truth and love and duty evermore
Knowest, too, that far beyond this roar and
st rife.
Though ho may never hear In tho truo time.
These notes must all accord in symphonies
Bublime.
?Anno I,, ltottti.
THE COLLECTING FAD.
To lie Illicitly Artistic It Moat Run to
Dresden China.
It has always boon fashionable to bo a
collector, whether of old china, rare prints
or pointings, stamps, manuscripts, etc..
but the fashionable woman of today Ilnds
nn inmiunse resource in getting together
?11 sorts of odds nnd onds. There aro two
things In particular, however, which aro
of general interest anil promote no etui of
rivalry, not to say hard feeling. One is
the collection of Dresden china figures of
all sizes, preferably the small ones, and
there aro three or four collections In New
York which aro of great value as well as
of beauty.
Miss Romson's collection Is widely
known and comprises tin astonishing num?
ber of those small figures. It has been the
work of years to gather them together,
and sho has soino marvelous specimens.
This stylo of collection is really much
more interesting than almost any other,
lor it does not have to In) put away in cab?
inets or cases, but does duty to ornoinont
a room.
One fad Is to have nothing but these "tit?
tle statuettes on a wide mantolpieco, nnd
of courso, with careful grouping the effect
of each figure is not in tho least Injured,
but, on the contrary, greatly enhanced by
being with thu others. When thero aro not
enough to cover tho mantelpiece, a small
table is t.evoted to their use, or If they are
in a cabinet it is a cabinet made expressly
to show them off to the best possible ad?
vantage.
Like a collection of souvenir spoons,
many of these pieces of Dresden have some
especial association and represent the gift
of some friend or mark some visit to some
interesting foreign city. Nono of tho llg
ures is large, soino are minute, and each
mid every one, is perfect in its way and a
work of art.
The silver collections are extremely in?
teresting. It is tho fad to have lots of
small pieces of old silver. Bits of old
English and old Dutch workmanship are
greatly prized, nnd many of the small and
apparently uninteresting pieces have a
large intrinsic value. At least uno table
In every fashionable drawing room Is sot
asitlo for these small silver pieces, and it is
astonishing what a lot of different objects
are represented and what exquisite work
munship is to bo seen.
There are small sedan chairs, different
musical instruments and every conceivable
and inconceivable size and shape of box.
A few spoons are added, but theso tire all
rare ones, and besides tho articles already
mentioned there are. always to bo seen the
most minute pieties of silver furniture, so
dainty and fairyliko it seems impossible It
could have been manufactured out of sil?
verware.
Tho children of fashionable folk now be?
gin to collect silver at a tender ago. For
a baby of 2 or 3 years it is quite the thing
to have already a number of silver articles.
Of course each one of these represents
money value, but It must bo a little aggra?
vating to tho child, because it generally is
furniture or something of that sort that is
bestowed upon tho Infant, and yet baby is
taught not to touch them, but simply to
look ami admire. In tho meantime the
tilings aro kept in mamma's drawing
room.
Thero are different, shaped tables made
to hold these, with plush tops and a rail?
ing around, and of course the silver arti?
cles show to great advantage against tho
dark plush. They are rarely put into tho
glass tables wherein repose proudly family
miniatures nnil odds and ends that have
been picked up In foreign travol.?Now
York Press.
Inventing For a Living.
The crazo for inventing has permeated
every class of society, and with the rich
promises of money returns the number of
recruits is annually incrensod witli star?
tling rapidity. If it bo true, as many as?
sert, that there is hardly a village or coun?
try hamlet, where literary aspirants cannot
be found In numbers, while tho larger
towns nnd cities are crowded with them,
the country would soeni to be going literary
mad. But there are even more inventors
and would bo inventors than budding poets
and novelists, and yet their numbers are
not oppressively burdonsomo. In every
walk of life there are people who carry In
tholr heads a vague idea of soiue inven?
tion that tlioy will some day patent and
then make their fortune. The majority of
those crude ideas never take definite form,
E good proportion of the balance die iu tho
vain attempt to limko a working model
and another fair percentage is rejected by
the pntont ollico. Of tho comparatively
few which pass final inspection only a lim?
ited number over make tho fortunes of
their owners. Soino, like ordinary novels
und books of poems, do nut pay for the ex?
pense of putting them on the market,,
others bring in a small sum in the course
of a year or two, and the favored few make
thoir inventors wealthy?often beyond all
conception.?George Ethelbert Walsh in
Cussior's Magazine.
Chinese Cookery.
The Cbineso are a nation of cooks.
Thero is scarcely an individual in their
vast community who is not more or less
compotent to cook himself a rsspeotabie
dinner.
Chinese tradition points to n date some
thousands of years before the Christian
era at which an inspired ruler of old first
taught mankind tho application of ?ro to
food. But, without wishing to be irrever?
ent, we think it desirable to confine onr
Investigations to periods of greater his?
torical certainty.
Tho peasant sits down to dinner cooked
by the"* hand of his wifo or ''uughter-in
lnw. In large establishments the cooks
aro invariably men.
Half a dozen coolies will squat round a
bucket of steaming rice and from four to
six small savory dishos of stewed cabbage,
onions, scraps of fat pork, cheap fish, etc.
They fill their bowls a discretion from the
bucket. They help themselves discreetly
with thoir chopsticks from the various rel
ishus provided.
On ordinary occasions even o wealthy
Chinaman will sit down to some such sim
plo faro, served intioed on a tablo instead
of on tho ground, but in almust equally
simplo style. It is only whon a banquet is
substituted for the usual meal that eating
is treated seriously as a fine art, in a man?
ner worthy its importance to tho human
raco. Then tho guests will assemble be?
tween 3 and 4 p. m. and will remain
steadily at tho table until any hour from
It) p. in. to midnight. Pipes are lighted
betweon tho courses, und a whiff or two of
light tobacco smoke is inhaled into the
lungs, while within easy roach of tho ta?
ble, if the festivity is at all on a grand
scale, tho deafening noise ot a theatrical
performance continues almost without in?
termission.?Now York Ledger.
HEB BLUNDEB,
Carolyn Vemet wrw of that order of
women to whom their admirers are wontt
to apply such adjectlvofl as "regal," "mag?
nificent," "imperial."
Many lovers sought to win her, and
many woro disappointed when rumor an?
nounced her engagement to young Frank
Keudo.
To bo suro. Frank was handsome as a
princo and brilliant as to wit and talents;
was poor, rculn't even "expectations."
Knrly orphaned of both his parents, ha
wns educated for the law by a rich uncle,
who made it understood that said educa?
tion was all ho meant to give Frank.
His presumptive heir was another neph?
ew, Frank's cousin.
Well, those considerations had their
weight with Miss Vcrnet, and she had
hesitated before accepting the young law?
yer, but his attractions of mind and per?
son proved too much for her worldly wis?
dom, and it was an engagement.
Only she stipulated that it should bo n?
moro until Frank should have suffioient
income to support her In good stylo.
Of course Fruuk must needs go away to
seek his fortune. Ho went to Europe.
There was u tender parting between tha
lovers, at which Carolyn was tearful and
j despondent, Frank brave and hopeful.
"Don't think of my absence, dearest,"
ho urged cheerful. "Think of the time
when 1 shall return with a fortune to offer
you."
"Roturn when you will, Frank," sobbed
Carolyn, "you shall find me true. I will
wait for you faithfully, dear Frank."
Frank Reade wont to Europe, and for a
month Carolyn was inconsolable.
However, this did not last long, and at
the end of a month Carolyn had so far re?
covered from her grief as to accept an in
vitotion to Mrs. De Smith's soiree.
At that soiree sho mot Albert Ronde,
that fortunate cousin of Frank's.
Mr. Reade was a rather good looking
young man. She saw at once that he was
destined to become her adorer. Besides,
ho was Frank's cousin, reason enough
why sho should like him.
Still she did not spunk to him of Frank;
neither did Mr. Reade allude to his cousin,
but Albert was ignorant of Miss Vernet's
ongagemont to Frank. Ho began from
their iirst meeting to devote himself to
her. und Miss Vernet, not being blind,
ospocinlly to such attentions, did not mlB
tnko it, yet she did not discourage him.
And when occasionally she heard some
comment from "society" not flattering to
her constancy she said indignantly:
"Of courso she must go about with
some one, and who could bo a more proper
escort than Frank's cousin?"
So sho continued to "go about" wltb
Albert Ronde. Of course you see the se?
quel. Cnrolyn loved Frank. Under the
fascination of his presenoo sho had yielded
her selfishness, but now that he was gone
worldliness had resumed its sway, and
ambition began to suggest that Albert was
n better match than Frank.
"Society," that astute and considerate
body, had long foreseen tho event and was
not in tho least surprised when Miss Ver?
net authorized the information that she
wns soon to marry Albert Reado, and so?
ciety thought It a very sensible proceeding.
And Curolyn married Albert Reade.
Thoy wont to llvo with Undo Jenkins,
who gnve tho bride a set of diamonds and
did tho handsomo thing generally, and
somebody was good enough to send to
Frank in Europe n paper oontainlng the
marriage notice. What a crushing blow
to all his hopes that notice was he never
told any ono. Ho did not return homo,
nnd society wns left to forget or remember
him as it would.
It ohose to remember him, for Carolyn,
riding on n ferryboat about two years aft?
er her marriage, heard a lady and gentle?
man at her side conversing as follows:
"I suppose Marin told you about her
friend Frank Rondo's good fortune?"
queried tho lady.
"No. What about him? I understand
that, ho was rather unfortunate at one
timo."
"You menu about his engagement to
that Miss?Vincent, was it?I suppose.
Yes, he did take her inconstanoy very
badly, Maria says. They say sho was a
great beauty, and men ore siliy about a
pretty fuco?begging your pardon, mon
ami I"
"Granted," laughed tho gentleman.
"Proceed."
"Well, you know, as soon as he was
safely out of tho way she married a rich
man, some relation to Frank Reade, I bo
lievo."
"Yes, I have hoard all about that"
"Well, now comes tho sequel. Frank
went to Switzerland on some wild goose
chase, und while there saved the life of a
certain rich, benevolent, childless gentle?
man. Well, the benevolent old gentleman
Insisted on taking his brave young pre?
server home to England with hiin. Then
he adopted him, and now he has capped
tho climax by dying and leaving his Im?
mense fortune unconditionally to Frank.
Now, won't that be a bittor pill to the
faithless beauty?"
Carolyn heard no more, but she had
hoard enough, and Inter tbo story had
plenty of confirmation. It was a bitter
pill to hor. But tho worst was not yet.
In tho course of nature Uuole Jenkins
died ?nd was buried, and his lawyer came ?
to read the will to the bolr presumptive.
With sereno satisfaction Mr. and Mrs.
Reade iistonod to tho following:
"I give and bequeath to my nephew,
Albert Keado, all tho property of which I
die possossod, amounting"?
Hare the lawyer paused to wipe his
spectacles.
"Amounting to $5,000, invested in"?
etc.
That was nil. Undo Jenkins' apparent
woalth had been all a sham, and Carolyn
had sold herself for $5,0001 She had lost
not only a true, loving heart, but- what
was of moro value?a princely fortunel?
Cincinnati Post.
IThe Ungrateful Epicure.
Tho opicure garnishing his midwinter
I meal with cauliflower guesses little of the
sedulous labors that purvoy them for his
] palate. I onco sat near such a one in a
New York restaurant, writes F. Whitmore
in The Atlantic, and saw him fastidiously
degust the tender flowers and growl at
thoir costliness. "It's shameful, simply
shameful!" he declared. "Tho growers
must bo a parcel of robbers!" And he
glanced at mo us much as to say, "You
feel with me, I'm sure." But I did not.
I looked at his smug choeks and glutton?
ous lips, at his soft hands and bulging
waistcoat and wished that he might earn
bis tidbits in tho sun. "Sir," I thought,
"you are defioient in imagination. Yoa
reason hastily upon abstruse matters.
Tho gentle cauliflower is unvengeful, but
there Is indigestion in it unless It be gen?
ially absorbed. You are gazing on a pur?
veyor unaware. Ho wishes you no ill, but
he Is jur.t. Ho mildly disagrees with you
ind pruys that tho cauliflower may do
likewise."
Nlcaraguan Soldlxrs.
Says the Bluctlelds CXioaragua) corw
spondent of the Chicago Record From
a native I gained tho knowledge wh oh
taught me how to catch and determine the
rank of these Nicaraguan soWtew.
o <I{ ho wears one shoe he is at least a
can bo no question as to I > - -Mlga
dier general, beyond per. ..
"I don't believe 1 saw anyuaag more
lofty than a captain."
