VOL 19. NO. 11.

CAPE MAY CITY. FHIflAY koKNING. JC1.Y II. 1S1H).

PRICE 3 CENTS.'

BESSIE AND WILLIE.

IMui Qtvy h»J Ixr-n

bwlslilc nf h Kick nafbbor, whrre *1» : * | wm'Ii.' tvmain nntil late. But Mrs. t>v - *aid Delia arev •'.■an I >« *«. the tnUup. the , ' ' ; wild atitual nr tln> tame .me of whom . , . . “‘• DrW 1 ,W '' «“>«“« -hr ftit*wt..iu.-.l tlie hart fe»r She Rot t'-niKhl. . | up and w,-nt t.. the door. There otood • „’ - v ' rtl and tben-e .au cud : driniin-traveh-r on the thnwhold. aa'l," Kaid Aupt Betsrr Blatchford. . - "1- Mr-. Nitpmt'e {dmce iimr I »' THK-Ji la-Al-mK I* Vwttinc awaj k* if her ncedltw trrre “hi he. takiUK off hie cap in sjnte the I . THIA*. « ALTOK, I roprU-lor. (U ad.--f al^t lightning and her dhow. •«»- Workod hr dectridlv. ‘ "®«e your heart, nor said Mm Delia looked auher enough. She war IUb, ‘ Mu ^ Ii / n |“- »?'*«> wile, away a till, frrah cowiilexiutml girl' of IT or ] How ever came you IS.wiih large hrowff cj-ee. a forehead -i ^ n |«Hot organ hen." add the naturally mrhiig riugv mmac man. glancing backward at the nfhuth dim outline at .. ..

break ’into gracion*

■ _

■aft wap* and finirhing off the family ironing, but her laU ri had'dmm < hiwd by the anlici]ati.aiof the.-a.nmg -tang-

ing echo-J* that wan to conn'. , It D m.-re than likely that Aunt Bot-

wj knew all thia. but ebe eat there like a determined Fate in a brown calico gown and fluted cap frilla. Aunt Ibtsey

’ Redlier-Y farm. She

kindly allow me to bring

it in b. re?" ado-d Mr. Ivw Wayie, with

bu. muet iugraimury air. “What, in all the rain?”

“Oh. if ir aafely packed in rubbei wrainanga. It won't injure thi» nice new carpet,” wi-1 the bland traveler,

•that remind* me of one my mother luu. he quartz mill bytthe river! JPi-t finiahed up in Nantucket." . altlniugh -by <v>urte»y railed j ''Yes.” aaid she. -you may fetch it in.

h-T.idc-eNwaa Ui tvality only a distant 1 nev.r seen a parlor organ. There waa 1 relation wbNrVflot taUm in and brought - * ,nin r »®>e by with one in plum lime up by old Mm. Blatchford, would have 1 ^th a monkey -at the end of a long

been turned over th^the tender merci«, String'

of the town poor bourfh i "<*. tbi* it quite a diff.-rvnt affair. '"D«dia'# a good yHTefumgh," said the I wince.1 the mune man. "If J could sleep

spry' worker as ever j > ,, t‘ight in your barn"

-lidve in girl*larking ; "Y'on ne»-dn't do that,”said Aunt Bet-

around the i.eL;blwrJ6o«l the bull time, j Be ?'- pnffatiatod by the humble air They're a deal heUe/off-at home, aewin' ' aD,, B»annrr .-f ,th» chance visitor, on tbiTr patch work or cut tin'Tag* for a ! "Tbere's a sj«n- Iwdroum ojs-mn' out of iH-wknchen carpet." | the kitchen tliat you're welcome to." ' “B.ut 1 proiUH-d the schoolmaster, j ' Many thanks, madam." bowed the Aunt Betsey.■* aaid poor Delia, her dim- ! ■««» “A* I waa about to remark, if pled face failing like the barometer be- ‘ J' 00 kindly give me house room I fore a storm. Hob to call for meoit j should like to play a few aim for you on half past T’- And he will see me safe : Hii* instrument, just to show you its

home afterward.” j ton* and cumpa» ”

"Well, let him go away again,” said j "Well.” said Aunt Betsey, who never Annl Betury objected to a treat which she could get

Delia could hardly see the glitter <4 ' ^

the knitting tie.-dbw 1 tin nigh the bars that blurred hiT vision at these cmc- , "Theire'* to lie a dance out in the old liarn afterward.” die ventured to add, "and 1 ironed my pink calu-o dress so neatly, and my Inert are all dime up! Oh, Ann! Betsey, Id work so hard at

"iu» your heart la

| twinkle c f the • in the bfasimue.

“It is.” frankly confessed Marcus. "For if Di-l|a Orey could lx- qnalifled to ■ five mu-ir IrtSons w. migtit bo married and take the WeirselU a, a U-my at opce '. —aday add Koreling tehtsd. don't yon ■re: And she D the deareatfittle thing." Mr. Ives Wayte langbed. "It's, a

guikl as done,” said be'.

It wa» a dn-art. rainy night toward the close of that dreariest month of all the j-ear—theted November—when there came a kn-s-kwt Mrs. Blatchford's door. Sim was all alone. .Thomas Bates, the * hired man. Iwd gone to see bis brother off on lhc*t.suiur for Florida, where he was intending to start an orange. .rvhanl.

"that I was to deliver to Miss Nugent." "i/ue*» you'll hardly deliver tt tonight." said Aunt Betsey* "A jmrlor organ, eh* For Hatildy Nng.iit? Well. 1 wonder what folly shell be guilty of

“Would you

for nothing, “it would be rsther a joke for me to hear Malildy Nugent's organ afore she heard it herself, w.mldn't it. now? 1 guem. young man. you may put it up if it ain't too uinch trouble ” The musir man driid himw-lf U-fore the .fire. lie refresh.'d himself with a plate of Aunt Betsey's excellent dough-

.- . not * “•el • drink ut her cider, and {ben.

the carpet rag* all the rest of the week j cheered Wall in mind and body, he apif You would let me go this once to sing- ! l Ju ' < ' himself to busine** and s.sm set ing school.' 1 j the melodnm np in the little sitting

Aunt Betsey wbeoled lierw-lf round in ! room,

her chair and •r.-dD.-liasharplrthre.mgh I "H ain't lad h».Vin'.” said Mr*. Blatc-h-

the moon like planes of her big ralrer f 1 " 11 - viewing ii meditatively. bowed spectacles | Mr. Iv.s Wayte sat down before the ! p riid —B.»tou Transcript

"Wen. Well, go if you want to.” arid 1 instrument, and touched it with a master -

she. tartly. "Though all Uri* musir is hand

nothin' but.dear waste o' time. In mv He j.lay.d -R.<k of Agi-*.” "Sliining yhunj; days if we could join into the 1 ^'re. Brn.* . Addrew." "Killarney" psalm tune, in church it wa* all folks ! "* ,i * f ' w such age vam veterans of

expartel of us. 1 ” j melody.

“EverjUsly plaj s artj sings nowa-| "Kin you play •Old Jtorin the Bowf ” daj-s.” ventured Delia, whose l-iftiest and i suddenly d<->uuiide.l Aunt BetM'j with .brightest juqaraiwn waa-for a mrlodeou I something like tears in her eyes or a cheap parlor organ at her own j "I think 1 ran,” said Mr Ives Wayte. "Hqmph'” ccmimented A'unt Betsey, he evoked the sadly sweet chords of "They'd a dial better play ,« wash- ‘he.oH time lay with "CTcacsndo” and board and aing calling home the cost*! "diminneudu” like the wail of a human

Pointers YVtihoot Charge. The dealer who says advertising does not pay has expected it to make a fortune for him in a few weeks. ' When a newspaper once grti the reputation of not being a paying medium fee the adrertttet ita race ta,run. - Advertising is a gear in the machine of a well regulat.d store. It cannot aril the goods itseif. It only delivers the cna-tom.-r. as it were. More jimdiiisa nicn sttnlut.- their suecess to the judiciou* use .if, printers' .ink than to any other one thing! Are you doing all you ran to tsi-ure trade? Eternal advertising is the juice of trade. Some argue that it ts <-»J*-n«re to advertise. Ii is the must jir.^tahle expense you can have if you handle, it

jeuperiy.

Always move a little ahead of the trade. As one local advertiser is wont to aay: "Anticipate their wants.'' Don't wait until Christmas before' yon advertiae holiday goods. Always get in your announcement* in season. It i* a‘ mistake to think that any*reputable newsjiajier u indifferent as to iu advertising bringing the investor. a profit. This jwper would not receive a c.*nt from a disaatisfic-d juitrou who had given its columns a thorough tret. - Your husineeB won't move along mile** you keep pushing iL One way to push it is by advertising. Select a new*-' jwjicr with a large and growing cirriilatiou. like tlii* |ap>T, for instam-c. Change yemr ad. at least twice a week and leave nothing to what is railed "luck.” .and you will always he what is called ''lucky.* Did you ever know that there is an anti-advertising sixioty? Well, there i*. It is coupiM-d of doctors, and some doctor* in this city are 1 nit-mlicr* of it, tom Hlill you often see tlie names of d'Ators in the new-s|iajirr>. don't you? and m.wtly in connection with cases of Iheiis. Tlies.. memliers are not opj» sad to haring their nani.w in the jiatiers in the way of fre-o "irnffs,” hut t.i advertise, they bold, is an evidence of wnakn.ws. Now, how's thaL k The announcement of the double engagement of BKinbere 'of Uu- graduating chie* at BiWton university shovs that coeducation is often a factor in mntrimony. It wsius to be raining iu Dond.m a great died nowadays. All Hu- yopng aw ells, and Him* who are old enough to know better, go alxrat in Cambri.lge au-I Brookline, and even iii'B.wtou, with t.uuis tronsers turned away up around the bottom; and this whether the w eather is wet or dry. or whether they are walking upon the grass or ujun.the driest of sidewalks The tronsers are simjily to be turned up at the bottom, and that is all there is of iL Even the tailors and the furnishers, when they r-xjinm the good* for sale, exhibit them with the I-atom

turned up.

The turning up is done in an artfully candM* way. and <mc begins to suspect tliat there is a s.Tre-1 about it that only the b.wn swell knows, so that the improperly inroad up trousers betray the apurtooa article of *w*lL The tremsers are actually made lung enough tote ujsui the ground, so that when they are turned up the edge will descend to the ankle. Tins uirtvly nusleratcly amusing fashion ha* no particular interest, but it has occnrred to me that it will tie an in L-resting item in the twenty-fourth nr fifth century to the sociological studivt of the curious customs of the preswni

That's the sort o' music‘that pays’

Delia sighed arid abandoned the ques- . Consent to go to "siiiging school" sufficient of a victory for the prree

And when Manus Wayte,

the village JH-lagogue, called for .her at

the stiff, rust ling, jnnk dress, the freshly ' iqd laces and a little pair of bre.wii xm glove* ..vst frilled ribbon wnst

"tleenu ’most like ’twi* speakin',” aaid Mrs Blatchford. "1 never knowed there waa so mych in the jwrlor organa. Be they very costly, mister:" Mr lve» Wayte named the price. * beMtated—shook her head

gt«l deal o' money.” said

"But. art'-rall. what’s money? And she. dmlful find o' music. I'm certain she could learn to play that

'Aunt Bctsrv thinks that music is use- i there instrument, and it sort o' sounds Iqas an-1 ■npaanriral. mad she won t have '"‘'♦ 'to Imt them old faahiuurd turn-* me fording awav mv time St ringing ; that folks used to sing when I was a gal! herd, she says.” | My money's my own. I gne». to do as -Oh. Deha—and «k.— I.ac mi on the j i m * mind tor half defiantly "And 1 mehrirem that I hav* been giving yon at i ' rUI ' 1 “. v - Hr Mnnrman.’if yon leave Dr. Bartlett's that meludrun just there where it stands, ••They win all ha of -no mr.” said 1 and cart up aa.Aher for MaLidy Nugent, ith a little tremor in h?r voice, i I ' u take iL and Jiay yon cash down fat ••Dm* she know that [»- .pl. s-.m. tim.-* it.” said Mrs. Blatchford.- "There nowT. their bring by the aid of minder j "Well.” said be, "sine* yon desire it. 1 «*d WaYte. j think it might be managed. Th< instru "bhr don't believe ft!” j mentis here That remnisforniinething.”' -‘ Tr 'V yaw. have .such a taste for it. I "•*'» proper Bghtijsaid Mrs Blatch “ i n twit- a -If—idid 1 f(ird - "Delia has Wn a goiri. hard work-

not let the'thing I Ifrl Play that lari tune over again, re a melod«m-it | Mr Mustcman—alie’s cornin' upthepath re one by the quar I " ,,,r > hwad the gate latch .Tewk "

give yon music well take solid comfort out See if we don't r ' roll Marcus Wagte heard the tidings with gnat joy. Little Miss Barton ' '

The l.l*l.l..li>* tool Seswn.

Now is the time for inhalntanU of the rural districts to conjure up the anoual thunder sti-nn scare and ll^yho the khade of Ben Franklin by cotrrerting house* and barxu into the rembUnce of coloaaal metallic porcupine* Scoffing nrighlsm conaule them with jeer*, hut per ha |* erect wooden rods to acare awsy that "hardy jierennial.” the Ughtning rod agont. Something is to lw said on both sides of the question. It is quit* certain that a well grounded network of conductor* will avert to a very great extent danger from lightning, but it is extremely likely that the aaxne result is not attainable by the average rod that thrusts its pant s few inch.-* above the chimney top It is well to remidhber that a few tall trees around a house form a very efficient and artistic system that is always well grounded and never needs

overhauling.—Electrical World.

Irwin W Bowler, of Bland.m. while fishing in the Maiden creek, was attack<4! by two wild geese. He was standing in the middle of the stream, when one of the geese suddenly flopped upm him. knocked off bis hat and sent his re si and line flying into the water Aa Bsoder grabbol f.» his luit he rronri-d a blow which almost broke his arm and sent him sjirawliug upm his back. He waded out, but had no snuner reai-ned the hank when another guuss attacked him and dealt him such severe blows that be was compelled t.. re-treat He finally crawled up a tree, where be waa reecued oisn- | pletidy exhausted — Philadelphia Teh-

Kisspla* I'sssewgvrs Ss'rt kj a Uroaw. J. J. Tilford. an employ* of the Louisville. 8L Louis and Texas railroad at HaqwiHe. dreamed Friday night that the west end of the switch at that jdace had been left open for the ride track, and that the fast freight train was nsarly doe. Ai this pvsnt be woka up. and was so impreased by his dream that ha gut up and went to uvpstigate. To his sur prise be found the switch act for the side track He art it nghL thus saving many Uvre There ware sixty men sleeping In the care that were then lying on the sidetracks Heataomead the«

accident at Butte, Man., re

! a jwcnliar mtlV The

•Flewty of %«**•*• And plenty of p**- tojriJ' -ud Iva# Wayto to hi. eourin rit* tha old Lexlngtoo foundry, whan a h.w. .h- “ TRrr bodily into ■Thai 1. It. exactly." said Marcoa. . ^ttox ^saei [ the street, about ton Caat below. Tha U. i mwL- * W*- • SpS«-ttc -n—-■ | »Wk Uvka Ur mm. and O- -Su »•

"Vary well, j upromise toto* wet It Bar* b I -Wrtto ufahgB yvm. Mark. »«.” ad- 1 wsre^e m, dad Mi,^f»** Wayu, with a mt& rouClBi.

dor injuries A suit for d.

| ages win js-obahly b* brought against tWatyby** Pym.Hjrf ttriiltUe cm*.