ranks From All Sections Seek to See President -HINOTON—The retl ppwWwit of the United Eutea nirlTed In 'Wnah inR too the other day. He admitted It. “I come," be announced, as be ^■d off the train from Keokuk, “to take poawmion of the White House, lit,.!, was elected by fraud. I win ire out the usurper." -Welcome." nald a cordial secret rtice man. “Permit me to escort you tie White House." Whereupon the self-styled prealn! was whirled to police headquirr> Kventually he held forth In pomp tli-' psychopnthlc ward of the afhlnrtoo Asylum hospital. In the lost few moolhs this loatltion baa welcomed a few other preslnts. the Queen of Canada (who bad me to ask Secretary McAdoo for $500,000 for coronation expense*), the iw! Aurust Oracle of the People (Indudltif Mexico), numerous cr-ek-brained Tentnra. miscellaneous “chums" of the president (who Just wanted to chat Ith him), and sundry other members of the batty battalion. One chop—educated and ostensibly tntrlllcent—came all the way from illf.imla to arrest the president. He ran the secret serrlee gauntlet at the ainn station and calmly walked up Jo the White House before guards iU-1 him. Another sage came from New York with a weird tale of the shootug of in German spies on the Brooklyn bridge erery day. He wanted President 'ilwa to have the same system started In Washington. Kafir-eyed plain-clothes men stem the tide of cranks at the Union station, uly the cleverest ernnk can get near the White House. And it takes a sane *o t- get Inside. *

_ shattered dream, menace the future of kings and coetiumta. with

Vhy One Treasury Official Is Short on Vacation I HIOX It. NEWTON, as assistant secretary of the treasury, has had ocea- : to <U«|M-nse a few hundred millions for the erection of public bulldu . itct such fiscal gymnastic* are not helping him one bit when It comes to recovering that *50 of the Newton family's money which went up In

smoke a few days ago.

As a result Mr. Newton, who sits alt day In the home of the greenback and talks amiably with foreign gentleV* men atxrot MUoo-doUar loan*, faces two alternatives. Either he curtails a vacation e- he floats a personally conducted Liberty loan of his own to fi-

nance a much-needed trip.

It happened like this. A few evening* ago Mr. Newton wended hi* way

tverd to dine with his family, end Mrs. Newton called his attention to article* of which she thought the Bdistant secretary was In need. One wua a pair of gar.era. The other wn* the roll of Mils—$» » Mr. Newton artred upon the garters and tbongbtfully placed the bills !. tie- garter box. Then Mrs. Newtn© proceeded to Impress upon him the

■nt n*-«-d of the vacation.

Next morning the frn^l Mrs. *' -wion asked If Mr. Newton bad put that y lo a safe place. No wife would trust ev*o an asaiatact aecntary of tr.-asury when It comes to Ms ewn household ffnenccs. !!er suspicions . full' josttfled. Mr. N«wroo nearched his pocV.ru, racked his brain, and « remembered he had jpit the facoey in ttw garter bos. Amt a careful • was later dleccrered. hed cast the grrter box Into the fireplace. -a* a case of money to nahes, of raeadon to the four winds, and Byron ;on back to figuring on the exjwndlttavs of hondreda of millions In new

mt not a cent for vacation.

■dV.

upon the chess board of his gigantic ambition. It requires a rare tight of mind to Imagine what night have been the state of Europe *nd the real of the wortd today had Napoleon. at the climax of hla Belgian paign. overthrown hla enemies -an tabllahed Wmaelf and his dynasty firmly In power. History aa It won written up to the evening of his doom had failed to Indicate any limits far his

possible away.

Waterloo was a battle of "Ifa.* Such an authority as IJentmaa* Colonel Sbuttleworth. U. H A- as sens that If Napoleon had enjoyed the advantage of a small runabout motorcar he would have irlmophed most certainly. If Grouchy had rome up Instead of Blurbcr the day must have belonged to Franc*. If Ney *~' displayed more military itcumrc the preliminary fight at Quaire Bras the backbone of the EngUfa resistance might have been broken. Napoleon himself contended that If somebody

had not without authority, ordered the forced

unsupported charge of his splendid cavalry, he would have won. The “lf“ Is everywhere in every story of Wa-

had been heavily supported by troops different might hare been issue, tor the cuirassiers stayed K m the crest frantically storming the squares which mowed them

dawn by squadrons Aa It fell out

were almost totally destroyed b> fire of the stubborn squares, and

by a counter attack of nuuwed English

ipital Crowded as Never Before in History

The order for this charge of the lunch horse--ct least In the form II was delivered—was afterward repudlby Napoleon, who declared that Ney “acted like a madman." and that be “threw the cavalry away." Some- •* In the course of thl* action the rr- cavalry, the Horae Grenadier* and the lighter lancer*, and Hussar* been brought In. Whether they charged by direction of Ney or on the •(ration of Guyot, their Immediate inlander, is not certain. Napoleon cried that they hud been ordered to leave him under no circumstance*. This destruction of the whole mounted reserve Napoleon told Boorrienne coat

him the day.

In the waning day the Intrepid Ney. gathering the wreck of D'Erion'* corps, did carry La Have Balm-, on the English left, but It

too late. The Prussian* were

nlrcwdi pushing hard. Napoleon wn»

play his last card. Cavalry

OFFICERS Director HENRY S. RUTHERFORD Vice-Director AUGUSTUS HILTON

Clerk

F. W. FOWKES S*« Me City County Collector JOB. L SCULL Ocean City

Solicitor

JOSEPH DOUGLASS Cap. May Court House County Engineer LEANING M. RICE Wildwood

John H. Stratton Pale* Levi Dickenson Er__ Chas. Shields Cape May Walter Rutherford Coid Spring

DANIEL SCHELLENGER Erma Sept, of Weights and Measures DAVID W. ROD AN.. .Cape May City

Steward of Almshouse LEWIS T. DOUGLASS Cap* May Court House

Superintendent of Soldiers’ Burials JOHN W. REEVES.. .Cape May City

Custodian of Court House

LEWIS S. SMITH

Cage May Court House

Farm Demonstrator

J. ARCHER STACKHOUSE Cape May Court House

Countv Phvslclan

Dr. John i>. Douglstr, Cspe May C. H.

Before the wain battle Napoleon bed tsateu the Pruaslnns at Ugny and ‘ had dispatched Grouchy with 80.000 troops to prevent the defeated ormy from marching to Wellington'* eld. In this mission Grouchy failed and the emperor ever after censured him bitterly for the failure. Ney. meanwhile, attacked the EnglUh nt Quatre Bras, but while hi kept them from aiding Blurber and his Pnm-

slans he yet failed to break

the roll of Wile—$50 worth of | Wetllngton. retreating.

took up port Haas on the plateau of Mt. Rt. Jeon, or Weterio.. Blucbcr.

at Wavre. left Thiel men to bo

whelmed by Grouchy while with hie main anny he marched to WfUllugUnfia naslotarice. Thu*. In the language of Creasy, “he risked a detachment and

won u campaign accordingly.'

There Is eerie variation In the estimate of the strargih of the opposing force*. Creasy give* Napoleon 7LW7. Wellington 0T.655. end Bineher something over 10.000. only part of whom, of course, were employed on the main field. Captain Beck* and Colonel Hlmr give Nupo- . !„„! 74.000. agreeing In substance

VERY department of the government Ic engaged In drawing recruits to t»»e n|th number comt^th.ttal capital. More than 15.000 clerks, alone, have been brought here j nm|l)Jp)1 by wMUngtop ana Blucher. »> I'nlted State* cost Itself Into the war. The regular public buildings | ^ trnoJ ^ however. WelUng-

tim had but 24.000. Tlie balance of

b.« force* romprlard Dutch,

gtana. Hanoverian*. Bruuswlcker*.

and the like, whose loyalty

- ... their utmost capacity

In the 4,ig Stole. War and ill B* r Ming the corridor* of every BfiiJtf D < pi that occupied by the three 40 MlkfS All

■ cublnet member* are flUod

-»» and busy people. Outside. ONE E2B-

town, vacant office bulldlnr*

n rented. The other day I — ^ ' Un J Fitzgerald, chairman of tounC <mumlttee on appropriation*, . .

much to do with the eubject. that there was nut left In

! :u;..a a alnglc building for rent. The rent* of mmrtiuent b..u**w "J the aviation con**, and many natives have fell corupelliil to ---- . quart ora to make room for the Influx of war boomer*. Houses of the

rr:-.!*. ) imc e d riu; on the marset. are now In su.-h demand that an j BIi ” 1

gone, first line corps shattered, he derrd up the dauntless Imperial Guard. The emperor and the guard hod turned the day on many a field. The fierce

their towering bearskins,

nrecned almost Irresistible. Pawing before him. they boiled him with great about« of “Vive rEtnjwreur.” while he. pointing toward the English line, cried it: “There Is the rood to Brussel*-" But the guard went to death, and in the lart charge It was ever to make. With Ney. hatlras. covered with mud and Mood, at It* head, on foot—for his fifth horse of the day had been killed under him—It climbed the hill In the face of a furious artillery fire, only to encounter Muttland'a brigade of English household troops, to -whom the duke himself Is said to have shouted the ordiT. “Up. guards, and at them!" Tb* fire which followed was too terrific for even the veterans of Napoleon's eagle*. In the darkness, for It was now nearly eight o'clock, they wart-red. reeled and fled, with the British cavalry sol wring them aa they ran. Someone raised the cry of “Score qui

lost. Only Cham-

UST OF MEMBERS

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF TBi COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

Cl tie*

Cap# May City—Jamas J. Doak Ruebea Ludlaa Ocean City—J aroma S. Rush Frank H. Ware Arthur D. Barrow*,Police Justice Sea laie City—Alfred S. Steelman Edward C. Stevens Wildwood—Girard JUvtzay H. C. Schliebting B. C. Ingersoll J. Charles Fach M. L. Bran in Georg* L. Shaw

Boroughs

North Wildwood—A. M. Ely Stone Harbor—S. E. Herbert George J. Hummel West Cape May—David Hughe* Woodbine—J. S. Levin Morris I*vin

Township*

Dennis—A. E. Holmes, Dennisrfll#

Thomas J. Darrell, Belleplala Middle—L. T. GarreUon, Cape May Court Houaq

„ ... . ... Luther M. Swain. Swainton Name. Address, District Represented | Lower—Frank Eldredge, Cold Spring Term Expires on January 1st of . Upper—James Shoemaker. Tuckaho*

the Year Opposite Name.

OCEAN CITY

Address, Ocean City John P. Fox 1®U* John E. Townsend 1®12 SEA ISLE CITY Address, Sea Isle City Theo. E. DeBow 1W$ James F. Eustace 19-0

WILDWOOD

Address, Wildwood

Augustus Hilton 1919 Charles W. Saul 1918

NORTH WILDWOOD

Address North " Hdwood. John W. Young 192b Floyd Hewett 1920

CAPE MAY CITY

Address, Cape May City ^

John T. Bennett 1919 Woodbine.

Henry S. Rutherford 1918 |

UPPER TOWNSHIP Townships

„ „• (. id 7”' T " l * k ” Denni. Roll. Oca Vi,. Hope W. Gandy Middle .. .V. N. Erricaon. Dial Creek DENNIS TOWNSHIP Lower Chas. C. Bohm. Cold Spring Address. (Peermont) Avalon Upper George Hoff. Tuckahoc

Levi Wentzell 1911

ASSESSORS OF CITES,BOROUGHS AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

Cities

Cape May City J. Allen Wata Ocean City Dr. H. T. Foulda Sealsie City Wm. J. Fox Wildwood Lyn- H. Boyer

Boroughs

Avalon R. W. RosenbawmCape May Point Norman Rigor North Wildwood Robert Bright South Cape May...Albert J. Rudolph Stone Harbor Hugh McMurtrie West Cape May Harry S. Fishar Wildwood Crest William E. Zeller

Israel Eisenberg

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP

Address. Cape May Court House . J920

peut." nnd all bronne’a regiment of the guard re- , Stillwell H. Townsend muim-d compart and defiant, moving LOWER TOWNSHIP slowly In the welter of blood, sneer- Address. Rio Grand*

lug at com mauds to surrender, prefer- Jm. p. MacKissic 1918

Ing death to Ignominy—and finding It. !

Napoleon wa* swept off the field, to J U-come In a few weeks an exiled cap- |

The regular meetings of the Board are held on the First and Third Tuea-

re. dav of each month at the Court House. The loo* of the French was never ^ May Court House, at 18-38 A. M. known. All records disappeared with

the destruction of the army. In dead

STANDING COflMITTEES

uml COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS TOR

the Prosidan* ..00n more. At suen .

root was purchas'd the delivery of Eu- j I*- ALMSHOUSE—Fox. Bennett. Gandy. ■ I S. H. Townaend, WenUelL Tatoolng Horses’ Ear*. : BK i DG ES—Wentxell, Bennett. Fox A* a mean* of identifying horse* Eustace. Gandy. MacKiasic, Saul 1 other unhnaU. many breeders tat- pjgLIC BUILDINGS — Bennett. , „jo n number on the InrUle of the ear Wentxell. J. E. Townxend of each animal In their atuda. flocks or gju^Eustace. Hihon. DeRnw

j d,.uU On tha momlu* of June Ifi. IU2 year* ago. the two unnle* were drawn up opposite each other, with a valley between. The Prussians were

at Wavre. 12 mile# away.

Her/ again, enter* the “If." The night «>f the ITth had been storm;

I v*he around was nuft. Finding tin - ———— - -

! of .run-, Oimrult N. 1.-0^ U.U ""ob" “ “J” ABDITING-S H. T.™o»i G->d?.

1 dels I'd the atari tl>c U. - to the trco.d of its iwdlgre*. Fig DeBow.

Sion tmtR nearly nan L he urea which are to identify the animal nNANCE _s, a ], Eustace. S- H.

tad^en able l.gin at dayhtvak he | -e put lu the M.o„ed Jaw ; .f_. pune ll Towr .,. nd .

, , , , th 1 WHUni«^ i t-tnde for the P-rtw-e. «d after «h. Fox. Bennett. ZSSZ ! Sf w-w rooid W- Sd O. ! LIGHTING Hilton. M..Ki„ie. I.

v.as no income tax lo annoy one. Since this ceased to be a haven : with aid. Into the puncture*. When the akin and a!*, rtlice Mr. Wllmm nu.mej a widow whose huaband bad : X***™ heaU aver this Ink the animal l. umdc « lot of thrM. pimple h-ve ahandooed thrtr p-l.ee. and P«e j ^ Cob I pmrtad for Ufe. . leaving their WaMOngtoo windows plunked sod the ground* right ' With some kind, of hormiksochw

lecrcatkm Keeps President Pit for Hard Work

LIGHTING—Hilton,

Townsend.

ROADS—P.J’-hcrford. Bennett. DaBow, Eustace. Fox. Gandy, Hilton. MicKiwic. J E. Townsend.

S. H. Townsend, Wentxell.

TAX COLLECTORS FOR CITIES. BOROUGHS AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY. Cities Capa May City.. .W. J. Fmdersoa. Jt Ocean City E. W. Burleigh Sea Isle City Lewis Stemmeyer Wildwood Robert J. Kay Boroughs Avalon Walter A. Smith Capa May Point • •• J-£ Hua North Wildwood...... P. L-,Peterson South Caoe May.C. Marshall Rudolph Stone Harbor....Clarence O. LeUkua West Case May Harry T. Ludlam Wildwood Crest IL " - Ura Woodbine Dr. Joseph Jaffa Townships Dennis H. M. Carroll. Denuisvilla Middle.WUleU Corson. Cape May C-H. Lower....Scott Seymore. Cold bpring

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR OF CITIES. BOROUGHS AND TOWNSKIPS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY.

Cities.

Cap* May City A. G. Bennett Ocean City T. Lee AJama

> tacking n-gimonta farced the siockal.-,

- y M«ee the Bulutlan by Prnddant WDson In a few hour* of seme 1 ., ot a( the gate tVOonel Maedannell ran ; r. hlcm which lu the old day* before thv war would have been given j through Flench infantryn- u with nl* ,»ru month* of cumddcratlan before a decidua was rvttrhed. Mon t. u nd Colon** Macklnnon daslird

Numerous ajwcial boards have been UI , under heavy fire with the Gtvca-

gtve-a S]>eriul problems fur *.dutiun. | dirts to the relief.

S.i.lum dots any buurd teach a dcd- | At one ..’dock, with every cannon Mua without the president * a»l»t- 1 IU i both fcldts lliundertng. Napaletw unce. t nually » tk-nrd will became ; mnnehed his first grand nt«n<-k against deadlocked uftcr considering a quew the Britiah left venter. For this lion for erver.il week* and wUl rush to ^ circled IROlXI Infantry sot portthe White House f.< the iwe-lJeuf* , by KaDsrmans home and led br jvlec Sviiuctlmr* the president will Sfj. “the brnwm of the brave." The

- • •* ’' — 1 Dutch Bvlgians In the first One fled In

terror before tbe furioe* onslaught of

5. tl. townseno, ncn«ei.. I —i r f-r...

discharge of PRisoNERs-s. h.

Townsend.

BURYING SOLDIERS AND SAIL-

ORS—John W. Reeve*. te rvcord-s for refl-trsti-n- Ap- B q A RD OF SCHOOL ESTjMATE—

the office of the iHWrd 't»eif to

rvudvr ids a**i*t«aee-

Then after the whole «ttur' — *" Iwen laid before tbe president

ly few hour* and announce a dlcvdothat of the Ixatd. More frequently U

he res<-uastbility hlrwlf.

a It P'obt me for ee: S :M be gv

he will S-'tne- • jirtMit-

s ! bough:

I Washington

he-** veteran*, but the Britiah Infantry behind held firm. Horton, conv maudlug the thin red English line. <»aly : 1.000 Wrong, took advantage of the 1 French rccuent of deployraeat to loose . devnstali’ g volley, after which the

t ruce horse* and

prevents the substitution of one horse for another, or “ringing." a* It I* culled, and make# It i««*ib!e to Identify animal* with ccrlalniy wherwrr they are fonAd.—New Yvwk Herald.

Why Thunder Rumbles

Thunder is the sound made by the • shining, which In turn, t* a muoxw-

tary electric current thn-u The air In the path of tl ‘-

hented very quickly, expnuo. u.... o... tl„. surrounding «lr. Tin- c«u*e# a sound wave to travel outward from all latrt* of this path. Sound gw* ut the

rate of 1.000 feet for •wu%>

t--l'.ig i-K«ce than thl* In heated air.

The ramble l* made by -•nly

VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS—Saul.

Bennett.

Boroughs.

Avalon K. Needham Cape May Point IV.trkrupp North Wildwood ....T’.or.ia* Lorsoa

I South Cape Mav— Stone Harbor. .M»ri# fo

..j West Cape May " COURT AND COUNTY Ot-FlC. J<5 , Wildwood Crc»t— Address: Cape Msy Conrt llou^ Woodbine

s current U

I all of who.

He Is away Ftvi.eh reel!

,f clothing he

fairy <

: the j

e o'clock Wclllagt. o'* fitec* t- r.- distant .uttered nevvn-ty frrna the ' Iftvr tbar «h

ueul. and fresh troot* apfoxir- AH thunder

-..e horizon ttheM,- were the path could I , costing Ufo although Nafo* I at all point. tB , ld ,1- y were Grouchy's j with the Oba-

.. citoHTor tried s charge of j air.

hetmrtcd ] “1 hear Fllckn s In tA-rtK i picture tbewtre. I that they | it.-us man tn tow i advance j “As to ho» ''

Supreme Court Justice HON. CHARLES C. BLACK Circuit Court Judge HON. HOWARD CARROW Common Pleas Judge HON. HENRY H. ELDREDGE Clerk of Court* and County Cork A. CARLTON HILDRETH Deputy Clerk of Courts and County Clerk STERLING W. COLE. Sheriff ROBERT S. MILLER Pnroty Sheriff MEAD TOMLIN Surrogate EDWARD I- RICE Prosecutor of the Pleas EUGENE C. COLE i County Superintendent of Schools I Secretary of Vocational benoo-s AARON W. HAND

. Reiner

Township*.

Geo. S- Robinson. Dennlsvill# D. D. Burch Jerry H. Wootsoa .Wm. S. Eldredge, Petersburg

CITY. BOROUGH AND TOWNSHIP CLERKS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

s 111

William Port%» . .Harry A. Morris Irving Fitch • nu- n K. Whiteaell

- Wildwood. -

BorOugl-w

! Avalan R. W. Rosenbawm r. !f V. Por t H. H-Buma \ -rth Wildwood.. .George A. Redding c -ath rape May Elvin R. MarUn si.me Hwr'.- r lao F. McCraven W >t Cam Ma: .... Theo. W. Reeve* j Wildwoed Cre-t. .Harry L. Nieke-

: Wxi

RINT

... .L. C- Abrams:

Townohipa

Dei nis .0»inan M. Geary. iKr.'.lsvtna Middle...A. T. D. HoweP tb*» C-reah

.r,-- Lovrer.Chariea C. R*mr»0k.CajP# May ttv * ttpoer J#*»e T. Y<»une.lieo»-*v • Point SALE BILLS ‘ Uppvr!.. Alfred Q. Sapp. Bet