vmstmrnmsmamemmsmmmamem and* flciujyj Me&g ^ Bf jjlj ' thirty tiroes, weren't they?" r v "More, I should wy," mid hii wife. / ss&am pence for the lone of eighteenpence,and you loafc your boots after all. "That is only a anpdHtem/ 8am, pausing, giving his wife time to digest this fact, "but I put it before you g as a lair aamnfoof ms^iy oJhenL Some tilings we^^lpi^iy tim^i^l paid more interest than the money wo borrowed amounted to, and ^me wo pawned for - a VJuarW what^ ^iey wort* worth arid never saw again. As for the money we got, whe^aiid it^go to"?'1 "Oh, don't talk ;aMif ItV1 rettirri&T firmly, "and I've an idea the thinking will do us botli good. Now hero is what my calculations amount to. Our furniture anything* wgre worth quitch hundred pounds, hut the whole, of the jnoney lent on them docs not amount to forty." "Oh, I'm sure wo have had. mure than forty pounds I" said Mrs. Swigglo. 6J^ "Ah 1" said Sam, "but you reckon the sums, lent on the some things over and iwenaga/n,1 wiile I don't. I could hot mako my figures right to do so. You can't say that he lent you throe' pounds oiid on your boots because you pawned them* every Monday and took, thorn out on Saturday' No"; our retortion ' only rice or — r- * **-. «-w " V-W ;

<v. h" a- p. » ^ ,j" Saib- couwniied, "for goods worth a hundred, and which wo have now lost, apd that would ho bad enough, but ' tlferq, fy . WHO lipfeiroL wo have, I reckon, paid quite fiftocn pounds interest mid taking that off the forty, wo have had just twenty-five pounds for everything in this house. I have made a fair and liLeral- calculation. I have dealt kindly with our relative, for really I don't think we have had so much." /'And yet;" said'ilrs. Swigglej' "we always seemed to be having money from aim.?? "That is tho delusion* ofc.it," replied her husband. "We were always thin]dng of whirt w© w*'oro getting out, and never 'of what we were puttln p-in. I haven't worked very well I know since wo took to pawning, but( J 'have worked some ; and if j*ou remember, most of the money on 8athrday«werit to take things put, and wirieye* got anything like the atnountback on Monday. Look how we have lived loo— not halV ,ik> well as before we took to going to tho corner." "But we have drunk harder," confessed Mrs. Swigglo. "That's true," said Sam ; "but tho money seemed at first to come so light to hand, and we did not miss all the things we took but you nco tho end of ik Here we are, beggared — ruined." A long pauso endued. Both were thinking, and the tears -of repentonco were in their eyes. When Sam spoke again his voicfe was husky with emotion. "Sal," he *aid,% "do, ydu remember that morning when I first proposed to begin this sad business?" "Yes," said his wife. "Wc were abusing our relations and IViends then; hut who is the worst friend wo ever had?" Mrs. SwigglCrhaJf smiled through her t%- ' indrf^'*'1 •j * ■ *

wo never did before. Wo know who in our bad relation." "About tho worst wo could have," returned Sam. "It was no kindness to lend people, like us money — but it's all fair business, I suppose ; and yet that business would be a poor one if it were not for the public-houses, which dkoinr tho mischief and ends it. And now, who is- our best relation ? Why, Ifenry there, who Triurshown us tho madness of our ways." But Henry Warner disclaimed all credit, and bade the awakened pair give God the glory, and pray to Him for further help and strength. "You cannot." he said, "stand alone, nor will you be saved by man. A terrible evil has held you in its toils, and it is oply by fervent prayer, trusting wholly and solely c to the grace of Almighty God; that you can be saved. I am but an humble instrument in His hands." "It hardly seems natural,11 said 8am, Mfor there to bo for a wretch like me," "There is hope for nil," j replied Honry Warner, "who throw* themselves upon the. mercy of our Lord and .Saviour. Believe, and thou shalt be saved." Wisely and well, and even eleqnonfly 1 — for fervency in the cause of good gave eloquence to the rugged mechanic — he 1 spoke on, until fully awakened and repentant, .the unhappy couple, with 1 tears in their eyes, sank down upon their knees and prayed for the strength 1 they needed. Refreshed, hopeful, and 1 almost happy, Henry Wamor, with his 1 own heart singing with joy, loft for tho J timo. , < Lon^ and earnest was the conversation 1 between Sam and his wife that morning < on tho iubjeetjif th^ir "bad relation," ^ andrlri tho end it was rasotrad tot both <

i thi*tr'r 'iir\by'<lud'b j &"W1,VU a mo4th m WKr m] *n t <uJn*m t of tljdr ftfiuW, and Anftlfy to > fctek the aid of their true relation to ' give them a fres h start hi life. i r-All tliw w d<tn,j dpnk ;ww ttbandoned, the pledge »|gn©<|i *nd with "Hie help of prayer, long and "^earnest, they fought through the reaction which jji. many caaca follows the use of stimulants. Whten & man who is of sound body chooses for a long time to roly upon crutches in the place of his natural snsattsrywrs course you will say that no sound man is insane enough^ 4$auqb a thing ; but 1 tell you that stimulants aretonly crutch esv and the poorest and most ruln<^jofWytcri{^:&nd the taking of tfioin'only1 Keeps "our digestive organs idhv/apcj in most cos** evehtually depriyci them of. their ' action, or destroys thorn. The Veforpiatiori of Sairf and 1A wjfe was not -believed in at first by all his relations who had no connection with that 4.J<mqlc" at tho corner. They held dlo£ from him with suspicion ; but as time advanced, and the wise resolutions of himself and wife held good, they gradually' rallied round him. With timely help; in addition to that givn by Henry "Warner, such articles as could be foscuod from the "bad relation^' were brought to tho house again, and Sam paid thcrii by instalments all that they advanced as his work increased, us it is sure to do with a «obpr man. It was a long time before Sam cot his ( but won done at last ; ana when * ^ *- d**""1* * i - v v . , \j^ X ~

*** *r ( /u 4.11 tnt> relations who — really helped them, to a tea. In' the evening Sam gave a -lecture on his "absent rqjq tives," who, however, was still doing a thriving business at tho corner, and illustrated his subject with figures boldly drawn upon a largo sheet of paper; and pinned against tho wall, which wofe the facsimile of what had once, been roughly . chalked up^n the table, lie said some hard things about the "uncle" at the corner— not so mudi against the .man himself as the system he lived by ; and Hie concluding words were these — "If you wish to find out the shortest way to ruifJj trfko to dririk ; or if-you have a lot of furniture, plate, and linen which you want to get rid of for little or nothing, or at a loss, go and deal with your' 'up'ele at the corner/ But if you wish to live happily, and keep a homo oyer_your head, shun the public-house and that very tSTd felafiohV " Let all who read this take Sam's words to heart, «uul learn a lesson from his experience. — British Workman. « ♦ ♦ "THE LEAGUE OF TWELVE onk ok the eftects of tub dime novel » literature op tub dat. Several months ngoa bad littlo Detroit boy nnmod Willie Allen read with great pleasure a dime novel.en titled "Bonanza Dick or the League of 1-wolvo," in which there was ft graphic account of 12 brave boys who formed a league, armed themselves with rifiosand scalping knives and became trappers and Indian slayers in the Far West, beyond tho Rooky Mountains. After reading, this narrative several times and loaning it to another 1 rlmrrawwl yojiti'"*"- *--- *Va nnilio ,rof V

u.v.s.uQiiiy .ii.. -v .. . *»»... ... desitv %w organize a simibir club, for the purpose of slaughtering buffalo and perforating' the hide of the noble man of the plains. Recruits were carefully selected from tho bad boys of their acquaintance, and after organising a "lraoub ok twelve," with Mklloy as Captain, the gang began a systematic course of pilfering for the -purpose of raising money to pay for guns and ammunition, Allen was employed as a clerk in C. C. Chadwick's coal .office, and showed tho bovs how to get into a room in the warehon*^ nor of Front and Second 800 pounds of ' paper and l>ooks, tho latter being the lodgers and daybooks of tho Northwestern Transportation Com^pony for several years bAok, were stolen and sold to rag peddlers, Mnlloy attend: ing to tho wilo and distributing tho proceeds among the gang. Allen also sold a lnrgo amount ofooal from Chadwick's yard nehr by, and turned the proooods into the common fund. Tho league met at regular intervals in the rendezvous, and -had their names inscribed upprt a stolen ledger in what appear* to have boon rod ink, although the members of tho league solemnly declare that the writing was made with "tho point of a bowio knife dipped in tho blood from tboir own arm*." TtublRLE OATltl OF FIDELITT wore administered, and about throe weeks ago the league decided to start for the plains. Most of tlie boys bad guns and ammunition; and sOroeof them carried knives and other dangerous weapons, A start was effected ono evening, and under Capt. Malloy's f ho gang marched a* far out of Town as the Grand Trunk Junction,

1 *CSS5tk' Moon UpLi' to and wid he wwttod to go homo. Ifoow walk throu li ruin and mud with aHwivy grin on tik shookler. Captain 'Malloy was greatly incensed at Mobri' behavior, and. declared he would *pttai*h any mutineer by KfiooTiNu UIM UEAL ii riiia mcKa." Mallpy bad his shot-gun ready for use, and looked so fioroe and desperate tliat little Moors stopped whimpering and trudged along until the gang became thoroughly exhausted and crawled into an old freight car, where they slept till morning in their wet clothes. When day broke thotr Captain wanted to resume tho journey, but several of the boys kicked and said the guns were too heavy, so a, council of war was held, and the league decided to postpone their departure for a ftw weeks untU tliev oould exchange their guns for revolvers and dirk lenives. The gang accordingly sneaked back ipto Town and resumed their thieving operations on a more extensive scale. One night they boarded a vessel, stole a small anchor and sold it. Another vessel was stripped of , it* sails, and other daring robberies . were committed under the direction of Capt. Malloy and Willie Allen. how tjiev were iiktkctkd. T)io movements of the league were so cloverly concealed 'that the Police did not become aware of its existence until a few days ago, and then only by accident. It appeals that Albert Young hud not been home for nearly throe months, l>' Hm--1* 'own to*"~>bv ; « ». 4'ltaA*^. w A b OX"- to. i— - f-' t- ~ V - V

dmaii ^ - i by Young's parents to iw«v v. and when ho was arrested YoUng supposed it was for hiu share in the .stealing of the books and papers above mentioned, and from what ho said about the cote Culver decided to arrest Willie Allen, the ruling spirit of the league. Allen was* 'taken unawares, and supposing that "tue game was up," concluded to 'save his bacon by making a clean Lrefiat of the whole business. Culver then obtained tho assistance of Patrolman Sillsbee, and after several days' search the principal members of the league were arrested and locked up. Willie Allen pleaded guilty to the theft of tho books and papers in the police court yesterday afternoon, and was sentenced to the Reform School until 18 years of age. Robert and Alex, Beatti, twins, aged 13 ; Willie Benson, aged 13 ; Albert Young, aged 12; Eugeno Mnlloy, aged 13 ; Charlie Moors, aged 13 ; John -Millar, -togadlT, and. Louis McDonald, aged 15, all pleaded not guilty. The Beatti boys and Charlie Moors were released on their personal recognizances until Saturday morning, when nil tho casus will bo tried. Malloy's father keeps a saloon on Griswold street. Ho is tired of doaling with his obdurate son and wishes to liavo hira sent to tho Reform School. Young's father is a peddler on Sixteenth street. McDonald's father lias a saloon on Larned street, and Charlie Moors and the Beatti boys nro the children of hard-working, respectable widows. The other members of tho league are so small that it was not considered worth while to arrest them, j They will simply bo "placed on record." — Dbtrcit News. « — I » * r "KEEP GITTIN" . . ""*/ . *~m >u »»- **"x red « r

that cfass ot people who icel tnnt Dame Nature insulted them when she refused to allow them to bo born rich. Even tho hen has to Scratch for tho worm. I • i but these x>coplo expect tho worm to crawl within thiir reach and then ask for tho privilogo of being oaten. "My friends," said Plata Johnson, in one of his oratorical moods, "do worl* am so eonstertutod dat wilo dcr am jest 'bout 'nuif fur everybody who is wlllin* to work, dar ain't a morsel left fur de man who sits under do trees, an' "speots do amdos-tn drop into his mouf. Now, Pse vy day* a*v I wv ttlton ef kV %4W» .. _ hang nil Ut> fllllM until it was shook down— tint is, oh course, a sound, sensible apple. Don't stan' roun! do corner ob de street wid do wild expectation dat de man who libs dar is goin' to come out on do cold sidewalk nn' ask you to bo his sob -in-law. I've soon many a man loafin' roun1 dj^ Forty 'Second street depot as though he felt sure dat if he stayed dar long nuff, Mr. Vandorbilt would come out and hand him a check for $1,000,000 an' say, *Yonng man, take dis small pile an' ho happy.' No, do bettor way am to git your eye fixed on somothin- and den keopinoviu\ keep inovin,' Do whole philosophy of lifo iR in de little words 'keep gittiny and after a while jou are sure to fin" yourself soinewhar.'V-N, Y. Herald. 1 to i * "Buy. whore you can buy tho cheapest," is good enough advice; k but wo notice n<fW'R-days most evorybody buys where • thoy can get trusted. " A young lndv said to her lover; "Williatn/iow far is it around tho world? "About twenty jnohe* my darling," reEliod he ah his arn^ oneirelo<l her waist, ho was *11 the world to him.

M > % JTY AND COUIt TRY. 1 would really st-utn tliat to make a very \ rftffirif . i>F^Wrr* , WODlfifi I IKIf'Ii 1/i LIl^* hltii /"if fa lb f 1 icil float into your ear as you *Um the ride of Broadway, or the main ahopphig street of any of our large dries. The burden of, the conversation is always bargains, bargains, bargains. "What was the price of thisf' or, 14 Where c an this be bought cheapest?" or, again, "Isn't that lovely I I wonder how much itnosta?" This is only one of the petty ramifications of the commercial spirit, whioh, in excess, will eat the heart out of any nation, or of any nature. The spirit of trade, the dominate purpose of giving the least and getting ihpjnoet, it is pot limited to our great business exchanges. It 1* all abroad, poisoning our spiritual atmosphere, tainting our social relation*, weakening the spring* of noble and disinterested action, and breeding a host of inen and petty vices In the ' Individual. So for from being confined to our great cities, it appears to |>osoess the homeopathic quality of gaining potency by subdivision, of growing stronger as it deals with more minute quantities./' . , Many country-people, who take the city papers, fairly gloat over the enticing advertisements — with prices attached — of "great sacrifices," "unexamplad opi f.hn .. M «.* f tap

upon to umke good the unpnnw.x..ed promises of the tradesman. To add to the trouble occasioned by those vicious iwlvortisementa, countrypeople have the most erroneous ideas in regard to city life. Every woman living in the country or in a small village knpws by painful experience the burden of her own cares. She has usually no conception of otli or ( cares as heavy, and other duties as absorbing, as her own, though entirely different from them. She is apt to fancy her city neighbor living a life of luxurious idleness, spending her time in a round of pleasures; and to feel it rather a virtue to supply a motive to this aimless life. She does not take the trouble to inform herself about tho state of the case before 6he passes judgement and acts upon it. iShe does not try to understand, or care to remember, that city lifo, while it enjoys certain immunities, entails peculiar duties and suffers myriads of. luUrrupUon# j «vnd tlifvt tiluc, ttVivoH is sucli a cheap commodity in the country, comes to be very' precious in tho hurry and bustle of city life. There are cases where money to buy j tho bare necessities of life is hard to get, ! and when tiic only thing left to a woman j is to make it do its very utmost. But j such cases lie entirely outside the question at issue. I am not talking of tho necessaries of life, but of its luxuries. Possibly, a woman has the right to spend days and days in laborious bargain-seek - seeking, if her time and energy are worth absolutely nothing Jo herself, or to anybody else. But when it comes to i weighing against a few of our petty dollars other people's time, and strength, and comfort, the aspect of the matter changes. Nothing but necessity will redeem this from a gross imposition. — i5K. * ^ r »■ , & • w

cnginceron the juehign Valley road broke the valve of his steam pij>e a few days ago, and could not stop the j shrill screaming that followed. The pro- } longed whistling caused much commotion among people living along the line of the road, and many ran from their houses to ascertain what was the matter. The engineer pointed to the whistle, which the fircmun was vainly endeavoring to fix. but his gestures were not understood. Stationmen, flagmen, trackmen and others had an idea that the engineer was crazy v and began to predict all sorts of disaster. The Mngino Q «.»V, 4(v^.. _ _j4 there the fire was drawn. All this time, and until tho steam was exhausted, that insatiable whistle tooted awav like mad. When n man in a Vermont grocery store was sitting ujwn tho edge of iLo counter, and his feet slippod and lie raked tho whole length of his back on the counter's edgo and sat square down in a hushol l)osk«t of eggs, which j&tood right where ho couldn't miss it, the grocer was horrified, and exclaimed : "Was it an accident?" and the victim replied, "Sir, if you insinuate that 1 skimiuy hack, and got ruy&elf into this mess on purpotc, I'll jam your head into the remains of those eggs."^ — Boston Post. • All the charms possessed by some men are what hangs in front of their vests. > A Prnnrylvanian boasts that bo makes a soap that would "wash a politician's character white as snow." There must be a good deal of "lye" about that soap.

^ * I r » a* Iv&f v IV 1/11 J*v JHCf- VO I i.y fc C! Jf* I lv fflHl W® %WyCw\ WWpkvTwi VifpV^ maklhg'ii ne Goid Fll Imjpr,' and a com pleto set of New IxistrumcmU fordoing m^kin<U QfJJentoiKork. siod % m il ii tfcd to t f mebOtf Somers L. Irwin, OF MILLVILUC. would call the attention of the people of CAPE MAY COUNTY — to the fact that he i» prepare<l to Ao all kinds of Blacksmith nig at the lowest prices, and on short notice. I constantly have in stock a large and varied assortment of • - * 4 ' • * * V ' I y .

C*±- frji fly which I can recommend as of the best qnalj^r. I am also prepared to inanuiacture all kinds of Fine Tools. Give me a fcall and test my work. f®Orders by mail will receive immediate attention. S. L. Irwin , mch6 lyr. MiLLVILLE. S. P. MURPHY, Wateh Maker | Jeweler. Particular Attention given to Cleaning and Repairing. All orders by Moil will receive prompt and careful attention. • S* P. MURPHY, ; apSly. Millville, N. J. F.L M'lilH, I Co J ; "^aww^acXwYC-vs o^, t\w\ ' "WVvoVefeoAe awA. TSLtWvV "S>mxVcy% v\\ Harness, Saddles, Bri- \ j dies, Collars, Wliips, Bobes,, Blankots, A:c.. . t- . r-» * * , •*' . r

> V . *■ I A FULL LINE OF j . V j SHOE MAKERS' ' 1 STOCK I AND FINDINGS a heaps on ha n d, 0 Main St., near the Bridge, Millville, N. 1. All Orders by mail will receive prompt and oarefiil attention. tnchfiljT*

■ fro deep, situate on Lafayette Street, Cape May eity, TOR SALE On Easy Terms. For particulars enquire at the office of the #3** 0

|b. I am nappy w announce tnai 1. If the nerve of the tooth is afire, it can be aaved by proper medication, and tho tooth preserved permanently ^ The process is wmpk and pnhrieas. 2. Tooth-ache from an expoaed nerve can be cured immediately. 3. The most extreme sensitiveness m the teeth may generally be overcome before work is done upon them. | 4. TliO(<e who think their teeth are ] too much broken down to be rej mired., ! will be much astonished to see the ad- • ranee Dentistry has made in this dii rection. ^ 5.^ If St Is really necessary to have Artificial Teeth, they may be made very life-like and useful. 6. Teeth may be extracted without pain— often with pleasure— under Gas. T. B. WELCH, Dentist ujn791y VJNELAKD, K. J. - - .... - . m _ L.VC • jai •tooril ^ j f ■ n | ^ Nc ci*t:er 1EKI2K cr bo* bdec«auSiac. lyg(v^^ElH»SaS5eJ8 laf Kctm." a UiT xad £a«o- i ; ritoMd Ttus toW.Mfawyr'iniT Id Da. ^ For lale-by Johnson, Holiow*y , & Co. Ptxlla. jultTSh* G. B. Langley Co . DEALEmS IN I ' • % . " Wovly, AetA, aw& Gvo.v\\ a\\ VuvAt. MILLVILLE. NEW JERSEY. ' " 5tf

I MW BEPABTtltE JN THE Shoe Trade. 1 <r » I liave added to my stc»ck a full line of : S\\oe% uvuV ! Fl>R LADIES' AND MISSES* WEAR, i They are the same class of goods that : ore sold bv dealers in fine shoes on Eighth Street, Phil*., being smtdc by the fiuue firm that supplr them. [Meware ' Weylman A Wocdman.l For quality, , *tyle, and beauty of finish, they can not f 1H> exc^ledt EVERY PAIR BEING FULLY WARRANTED. I HAVK ALSO IN .STOCK A FULL ASSORTMENT OF OTHER GOOD MAKE OF SHOES FOR Ladies" Misses' AND Children's Wear, from the cheapest to the medium price. In abort I propose to keep h regular Family Boot and Shoe Stwe where all, children and grown ixs>ple will receive |>ronipt and polite attention. Please call and look through my otook whether yon wish to pureha*e or not. *5 I am sure an examination of the same will insure your patronage. Respectfully Tours, TTw. L Jfoorr, lilhifif, New Jersey xnchSmo. a