CAPE MAY CITY. FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 25. 1S90.

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A MISTAKE

Before he went •wmr to m»ke Lu fortune Samuel WedUagh h«d been rvry much in tort with Coe* Eastman. It waa a boy and girl attachment, and a yerr romantic one. The boy waa a tall, blue eyed fellow, with a nnall waiat and curly goldeu hair that lay. in thick tittle ringa all over his head. He pras at very manly and very youthful in appearance, and it would have been hard for a girl nut to fall in love with hW. if be had tried to make her. Cora was a little brunette with big black eye* and a good color, and he thought her

beautifuL

He longed to offer her his hand and heart and get her to engage heraelf to him before be left home; but be reflected that he had no right to bind her by any promise until he was sure of that fortune be was going to eeek, and when be gave her a little forget-me-not ring he only spoke of it as a token of friendship. However, when they parted she knew as well as he did that he loved her, and looked forward to the tuual finale of a

wedding.

Time passed on. The young people wrote at first once a week, then once a mouth, then occasionally. "Absence" —nays the modern poet—’•makes the *rt grow fonder of somebody else." Young Wadkagh went a good deal into society abroad, and Cora had plenty of admirers. He got into a convivial

m»n and carried to the house with his

own hands.

••For Miss Cora," he said to theaervsnt. "Don't make any mistake." "Not I, sor,“ said old William. "I know right well which lady IPs for." Now old William had been in the family manv years. He well remembered those old data when this gentleman was spoken of as Mr. Sarnoel. Miss Cora's sweetheart, in the kitchen. He had no doubt whatever that the letter in bis hand was meant for his young lady. The "bit of a girl." her niece, he still considered a child, and so with slow and solemn stein he made his way to Miss Eastinau’s own room, rapped cm the door, opened it and entered on tiptoe. -Miss Cora." said he in an awful whisper. "Master SamuweU—1 mean Mr. Wadleigh—tould me to give you this - quite private, and tobd particular about

"Thank you. William," said Miss East man. and when be was gone she sat looking at the envelope rather dismally. At last she opened and read it "I thought so." she commented, with

a little groan.

On the evening be bad appointed in bis letter Mr. Wsdleigh rang the door bell a tittle apprehensively. He had a carnation in his buttonhole and a lag

bouquet in his hand.

William opened the door. His smile

•~s confidential.

Miss Cora said if you would take I l» tb-HtoW !«.to.

pasred and Saiuel Wadleigh found him- "And why

bered Core Eastman.

Certainly Core did not know h*mTho light haired youth had changed into a man of 40. All his curls'Vcro gone, and his head to his ears was as smooth and shiny as a billiard hall. HU waist -*a?gunc, too. He had the proportions of an alderman. However, he w%s still people call a fine looking man. As ^ura, she had all her black hair and 'wrinkle*, and had kept her trim little but she had changed curiously. ‘ rr at oner, but she waa not TTBe same. What does Time do to ua’ When does tie do it? How does he do it? If we women could hBtidpd out! There was nothing,to sigh • Eastman's case. She was a tight, little women of five-and-thirty. bora's smiles? the dim . . about to appear when sbe smiled? the soft brightness of the -eves? the way of looking and moving'.

All gone—vanished'.

It did not occur to Mr. Wadleigh that he hod filtered much more—it never does

He told Mias Eastman

that he was flighted to see h

'id polite things

_ the time whether this epuld he the charming youth who used to set her heart bmtiug .fay a touch or a glance—this very nka person, pertly, well to do. well mannered, but not in the least interesting. She compared him unfavorably with Mr. SweetsmUe. the charming new clergyman who had just had a call to their church, and who had taken both her hands in his only yesterday and said. "What we should do without yon in the Sabbath school.

_ of events threw Samuel Wadleigh a great deal into the society of his old love; the families were connected and moved in the same circle. By degrees he met small nieces and nephews who had been children when he went away, and were now young ladies and gentlemen—among them a certain little Core. Miss Eastmans

and with all her witching ways, her half-bidden dimples, her smiles and her

. Sbe sat opposite

_ table, and he could fancy all the years rolled away, and be the boy who gave the girl he loved the forget-me-not ring. He remembered her a pudgy little child in white fur walking with her maid in the park and kissing her hand to aim be charming girl!" by said to

” over again!" And

made the younger

and talk to "her old friend,

Mr—Wadleigh. u

Core had heard of him as the gentlo man who had been her sunt * admirer and lived single for her lake, and she

* to him She felt that be atic history, and that Aunt gbt to have been more oonstapt. she was. as we have Saul, very

nice.

And of all thU Mr. Wadleigh never dreamed, and little thrills went through him. and be made.up his mind that fate Mbs ”■ ” lovely of girl " ‘ to all his ranged him to pay •The elder Cora U a vary i isn." be said to himself. “She has quite times; she has none of tittle ways that so would hare of reminding me Beall V, come of those first

mantelpiece. Yet all the

conscious of a certain tremor, rather inward than outward, and his ems

burned.

Ten minutes at least were given him in which to quiet himself. Then a door opened at the end of the library and a figure entered—Core. He started np and'advanced toward it. It was Core certainly, hut not the one he cipected pot his’ new love, but his old. E ■topped—stood Still. She aflvanced; she held his letter in her hand. It suddenly dawned upon him that William had

ade a mistake.

"Prey be seated," said Mise Eastman, id he was very glad to sit down. "I beg." said the lady, "that you will ivemca little time. 1 can not fonnu,te my ideks as I desire to. I" "Oh. take time, take timer said he, and walked away to the window. It was all np wijh him, he felt. She would shortly exclaim. "Samuel, I am yoarer and perhaps fall into his anna All the mistaken spinsters and widows in ths plays did that, and be must make up his mind to it- There had been a tacit engagement between them. It had ne been broken off. He had written Cora Eastman. She was Core Eastman. Nothing could alter that, and he could not injure and insult her. After all. she was a nice tittle woman, and of tha proper ags for his wife. She waa -pretty still, she was good. He had not the strength of mind oat of this fix, unless it had bee enough to warrant him in cutting bis throat. And at this moment she spoke. ■•Samuil." she said—shehad not called m Samuel since his return—••Samuel, I have found words at last Come and oat down in a great chair

opposite her.

"Yon cant tell how I fed." said she. ‘Yon tell me I must have expected this letter, but I did not I thought you had forgotten. If you had aaid a word—one

rery constant for years, influence. I've altered;

ao have you. 1 did not know yon when 1 first saw yon. tint still had I guessed I should hare thought it my duly to try _I—1—it must come out somehow. I am engaged to be married to our pastor. Mr. Sweetsmile, and I feel that I have cboarn for my happiness. Don't feel ‘ bad. Samuel I will always be arts

The vexing and much vexed question. What is the legal definition of a bay window? aoems to be drawing toward a solution. "How many windows shall a bay window contain?" is ttik point made. These windows are all built of frame, and the difficulty with the inspectors is to keep builders from ovrreteppfag their legal rights and constructing frame hack buildings under the disguise of “hay windows." The claim is made that a bay window must be all windows —that is. windows on the front and rides: others think that a window on the front it all that is necessary. The latter view is taken by the bulldere of booses in rows where the hay windows of adjoining houses are so dose aa to

prevent the possibility of privacy.

One builder who is building a row of houses in the upper section of the city thinks the law is doing him a wrung by compelling him to put three window* in his bay windows, which adjoin each other in pairs, divided by a brick wall. He is not expected to put a window in the brick wall, but in the frame wore opposite, adding to the expense of the boose and altering tha shape of the room. The main reason for compelling builders to construct windows on all rides of the bay is prevention against fire. This argument is answered by the builder*, who «ay that the frame apartments having the least number of windows born the slowest. When windows become broken the draught is greatly increased, consequently the danger is aggravated. To the looaeocas of the building laws many of the complications constantly arising can be attributed. Tha ordinance of 1682 to regulate the erection of oriel or hay window* throw* no tight whatever on the subject. While the ordinance regulates the construction of front bay windows, not a word is said about those on the rear of building*.—Philadelphia

Inquirer.

Arrangements arc being made for car-

efficient despatch of telegraphic communication between Tory Island and the mainland, which promise to be of great advantage to ship owners and homeward bound passenger*. It is proposed that steamers paaeng on either ride of Tory Island will throw overboard receptaclee something like a small buoy, containing the messages to he sent by telegraph, and a boat’s crew will be in read loess to pick them np and convey them the nearest telegraph office. By this rens it wfll be possible fora passenger „ intimate his arrival to his friends twentv-four hour* before he could do to now from Liverpool, and twenty durare before he could do to from any port on the Clyde. The matter has been taken by Lloyd's committee, who undrr-

a mintmrai of la. each and ship owners' advioeeat a minimum of Cd. each. It it a^srtad that the arrangement will soon be carried out.—InduStriea.

Tuesday a gentleman, a stranger in these parts, had oodariem to Croat the Huntington bridge, and waa accompanied by a friend. Whan midway of the bridge he pulled a large and valuable diamond ring from the tittle finger of bit left E.nd to exhibit to his friend. In handing the ring over it slipped from his hand and fell, and striking the floor bounded into the river. The friend stood where the ring- fell till its owner went and secured the services of several men to dive in after it He found two who upon the offer of handsome pay for their services consented to attempt the rescue They webt out in a boat and after many attempts secured the ring, which was in handed over to its owner. He paid __ promised sum and went on his way rejoicing.—Hartford Courant

Ten minutes before this Mr. Wadk-igh would have fancied th^ be most rejoice

at this termination of. Here he wax out of again. All he had t.

look grave, accept the poritioo of\fr. nd

and brother, and retire after all. he had been ref

angry. He had been informal that he is 'no longer aa Adonis, and he was rt; and somehow Cora, in her excitemt under the influence of emotion, d in the of theUbrary. looked charming /bat some portion of his old love eprungrto life agai *' **“* *“

knew be could not g-

er; I am quits flee.

; Osn

but it is an c ood match.

will aae that at once.. . deliberating tha proa and cons foe three days and nights ha began to take Cora ant to drive behind a pair of very hand —horae*. to send her bouquets, end to invite her to the opera. Aa ahererided with her Aunt Cora ha naturally invttad the other lady as chaperon. did not aay that, bet plainly aha m

stood it, for ah

| if I ana faithful he v •S Uirr aenrible.* thought Mr. Wad- I deserved itr-Mary Kyle Dallas ! iFigh. and at last, wtian ha had. h* fan Fireside Companion.

rfOlfreiri - ' 'a. fr lo was ro l.tr poritioo of \fn.t re gracefully; be efused. and be ft

Now that ha

idiot." hi- said aloud, and Cora answered; “Oh. dear, no! 1 aha!! always remember vour truth and constancy very tenderly." Be bov d and took bis hah Ha bowed again as 1 retired to the door. ‘Aa he went along the passage to the central ball if the Urge house he heard the front door..lien. "William, where U sun tier sal (Kora a

man-of-war Nettle, which brings up a subject of the greatest .importancenaroelv. the pombility of making armor snch aa will break np the splendid forged steel projectiles which hare hitherto held together almost without exception The result of the Nettie and other recent

made with faces ao hard aa to defeat forged steel, and that it appear* possible steel faced armor in the future may ^omr of them in the manner that Schneider admits such {dates defeat indifferent projectile*—New York Tele-

Tbe West Chester. Pa.. Local New* reporta that Truman Forsythe, of that village, a few day* ago found in his cellar a potato of last ymr'a crop that had two small ooea growing inride of it There were no ape

don't yon go theft- Mr. Samuel is in there offering of hiaaelf. Poor gentleman. I'm afraid it s tha day after tha

(air; bat snch is life."

Then Oors giggled and ran upstair* Mr. Wadleigh never proposed to ti youngest Miss Eastman. Later he ms ried a showy widow who admired him intensely. She had no young Samuel Wadleigh with hyacinth!ue locks and

u of two well formed and healthy

about the sue of a walnut Potatore often form on the outride of oM caree in cellar* this time of the year, but that the growth should take piece inside is something of a novelty end only one or two penons to vhom the ••curio - 'waa shown could recall having aeea '

for tUa time of the year. He mys that with the skins come reports of great havoc bring made a

feel." can by an electrical brake be brought obscurely that asai ■ Cora East- to a standstill is a space cf WO fast- ‘sarier and cheeper.