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JQR. WALTER 6. LEAMING, DENtlST, Oxpicx—Con. Quo hex and Ockak Sir. Cap* Mat;City, N. J. I* Attend an cx Daily.

j the finu-1 cotton land in the world that j go with iL If the had the entire right ! to the homestead she ought to .give np ! "Mr. Ocorge Forsyth, what have you | "My brother David has rpoken for tne." ] .Then there was a jiatuo. Tlte prir , runnier »tejii«.-3 to the sideboard and j tilled liis gltisa: e» reral of the jury folj lowed him, and the other* Chewed away | with tdlent, thoughtful inU-ntnetuL "Dr. Lorenzo Zavala, will yon speak | for the defendants. I The doctor turned his chair «o as tp j fa.'e both the Itrothers and tlte jury, bnt ! "Men." be said, ‘ - I have known the' j late David Forsyth fur twenty years. I Itave Iss-n his physician and lieen his friend. I saw his wife die, and watched his children grow to what they are. When the gi.-l mother left them Mary Was U years old. David 10 and George 8.

"Win yon be plainer, doctor/’ "If yon desire. It is known to me , how they were then poor, her father a j trader in silks and lace and ladies' fine j goods between San Antonio and the

, outlying settlements.

j good'i

sons lie had p

THE FORSYTH WfLlCASM

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CAPE MAT CITY, K. J. OPEN JUNE 28IF, 1N»0 Remodeled and Improved.

J. F. CAKE, Proprietor.

tilings the • muUiplitvUmaie. doctor, and

I calculate this case is one of them." Tlte Kjacitker was a Texan alcalde of half a century ago. a man with a grave, hantb- .me fju-e and one of those ghpuitic antedilnviau figures only funnd in the

bracing atmosphere uf the prj lush freedom of the woods.

••The seiiurita wiU help you to a fair fiettlrmreit; she knows her own mind. Santa Jose! few women know ns much." Hie doctor gave his opinion decidedly

looked with yearning tenderness into her brothers' faces. David pretended to be reading. George stoqpod over and epoke to him. With a sigh she turned to the alcalde.

"Too much—too much,’' grumbled all "Two tliousand dollars,'' _ reasserted David;'and George added, “Bare value." "I will buy it at tw# thousand dollars. Will yon ask my luidhers if they have

any daughters, alcalde/'

■•Gentlemen, yon bear? Have yon any

daughters/'

David said surlily that he had no children at all. and one of thc-jniymim tnnttered, with a.queer laugh, that he was sorry—didn't mo how his ain was "a-

going to find him ouL"

George said he had two daughters. "Ask thoir names, alcalde.'"

"Mary and Nellie."

The ]>oor sister's eye* filled as she looked in George's face and said: "Alcalde, I give to my niece Mary ten thousand dollars, and to my niece Nellie ten thousand dollars, and" I hope you and the good men present will allow the

gift to stand. I know my brother David _ will never want a dollar while there is ‘

one in the country he live* in. George is" extravagant, and will have always a ■liar 'Toad for a five-doUar piece; bnt his boys can learn his own or their de's trade;" there are plenty of ways for them. I would like to pu’t the girls id dependence and, beyond the ne-

s Directly on the Beach, Table Service'First~€lass.

Hus Attends All

. trains.

Terms Keiisonable.

George E. Klingler,

Proprietor. ^

iti by day and st hou-e helped I their one ser-

ind doing cheerfully the work

with her own hands. She plaited the j .

straw, and made hats, also, which sold ; cessity of marrying for t

for much, atfd she worked np the rent- David ruse in a fury and said he would mints of Jace and riblHius into one thon- ] listen Uo longer to such nonsense, sand pretty trifles for the fair women in "You forget. Mr. Forsyth, that you San Antonio." | have pm this ram.-into our hand*. I think "Alcalde, these details are irrelevant ! you will have more Selim- titan make the and impertinent." said David angrily. , enemies of thirteen of the best men in j “Evury man tells bis story in his own j the neighborhood. Gentlemen, .would fair way. Are yon willing to listen, men?" * you like to retire and consider this mnt-

ind. 1 There was a ‘universal articulation | ter?” - '

| which evidently meant "yes," for the " "Not at all, alcalde. I am for giving . , doctor smiled graciously and went on: Miss Forsyth all her father gave her."

English, albeit his j -For her two brothers the little Mary "And I." "And I," "And I." cried the . stuiui, I cool. 1-rs.iu and courtly, dig- ; worked, and alwuvs Worked with a glad j whole twelve almost simoltaneotuly. I uihed ntauner fully proclaimed his Mcx h.-art. They had been rent to the north- j "1 shall contest this affair before Ota jean Ulieage. - Then lie-calmly helped ern *tat« to m-h^.1, and David was edn- San Antonio court." cried David pas-

himself U. an obve and a glass of cham- ; cated for n lau v.T and George for an ! sionately.

j beetiu. and watched the alcalde as ho ' architect and builder. For eight tears "Youil rlunk better of it. Mr. Forj smoked and waited for the expected [ this father and. sister worked together ryth. IX> you mean to say you brought ! ayuntamiento, or jury. j solely for there beloved boys, sparing all twelve men here to help vou rub your

j In half an holrr the twelve men hail comforts to themselves. '.So thev paid sister, airT'

I dropfied :n lit- twos and threes, nodded all their e»f>enres liberallv and saved be- ”1 mean tosav that that Mexican. ZavcooUy to the alcalde, and helped them- ; sides abont 110,000. | ala, has robbed' me. I sltall call Urn to

| selves to the liquors and cigar* on the j -Bnt when the young men came back ! account."

| sideboard. Now and then they spoke in : there was great sotrow and disappoint- 1 Tlte d.ytur laogbi-d good naturedlv,

j monosyilaliles, and the composure, ment. They had been eilacatcd beyond and answered;

| gravity and ntter absence of hurry gave | the simi>]o trader, the self dent ing sister We have each our own weapons, my j a kind of dignified, patriarchal earnest- and the log house on the -Wacluta friend. I cannot fight with any other. the proceedings that were emi- nrairie; so much sorrow and disappoint- | Besides I marry me a wife next week." ‘ 1 ' that the sister at last liegg.-d for And the doctor leaned pleasantly on the

the capital alcalde's rhair, and with a joke hade a them." 1 friend after Triend “Good-by." thing? It Mary Forsyth carried out her inten-

She settled strictly and carefully

which qnite made :

Opposite Congress Hall, 2 Squares from Station. CAPE.MAY, N. J. J. B. WILSON, Prop’r.

j netuly Aineri

| “l* for the lack of ceremony. j them that thev should go t. ; After a lapse of five minutes the al- and ditiflo the 810.000 betwe ; calde touched a little lall, and said to [ "How do vou know such I the negro who answered it: | j g a lj e :~ mu,] George.

| “Zip, tell the gentlemen we are wait- j j ing, and send Tamar for Miss Mary." |

I "The gentlemen," who were sitting , it?"

1 under a gigantic arbor vita, oak in the , The alcalde read the document a

garden in close conversation, rose at nodded to the jure.

Zip s message and sauntered slowly into j -Yon have forgotten. Mr. George,"

the present" of the alcalde, who nodded said. "It is easy to forget such money, how to buy and sell by instinct, and if t rather stiffly to them and motioned to- The doctor is right." j were a bom farmer I could plant com ward two chairs.. They were evidently | "After this the father heard little and cotton and tun, them into gold; but men of culture, and brothers. Some of ; from his sons. Thev married and forgot j 1 am not a farmer—I never made a garthe jurors leaned toward them with the self denial, the’ hard labor and tho deh and got a decent mt*l out of it. j salutations, others simply ig- j love of so many, many years. The old calculate 'twill be best to get John Doyle

nkr.l on. with failing health; but j for bead titan and put my money in

' ’ "fist his ambition and j cattle-7

THE WINDSOR.

•CAPE MAY'. N. J. Twelfth Seascnr-lbUO. Capacity 300. Location mouirsmc. One block from lie New DcpoL Nearct House In ;be Fnrf. Sbielly Pint (lass In all ils supoiutlenu. YVAl.TF.H W littFVN Pi n. a.

THE ORIOLE, Foot of Perry Street, CAPE BAY. Tf. J. C. P. WILLIAMS, PROPRIETOR

b of ber nieces, Imught her

I homestead, and then sat down to consider ; what she should do with her $8,000. 1 i "If I were a Frenchwoman and San | Antonio were Paris," she said, “I would

■ trading. I know

noted their pre

Bnt every one's interest was aroused

when the doctor, hearing a footstep, cared little for money it came on every j Just as she .canto to this decision Dr. ■petted the door and offered hia | venture. He did not try tomake it, bnt | Zavala drove hurriedly up to the door.

“ ' " 'Mary! Mary!" he cried, “come

hand to a lady who entered. A calm it came and came. He made oh silk and browed woman with large, steadfast cotton and bind. Whatever he tonchcd

eye*—a woman who it was easy ‘ ‘

could be a law unto herself. | --Bat ns money came health went; be She looked inquiringly at the two gen- was Mck and, suffering and could not Ucmeu. who were evidently her brothers, bear his daughter awav from him. Ho but finding no response to the unaltered was jealous of her love, also, and he suflove in her pleading eyes, dropped them f.-red her not a lover. This is one thing and calmly took the seat her friend led I allow not myself to speak about. I tell , ‘ c i L i to - you, alcalde, this woman allowed There was another jctusc. Then the j through many years one great, sublime akJde laid down his cigar and said: sacrifice. Upon my honor, senoro!” and "Men!" ^ the little gentleman laid his hand upon "Squire!" his heart-and bowed to Mary as if she "We have got a little business to set- had been a queen. Ue between David and George Forsyth -Not for myself; that is one infamy, and their sister Mary. Y'ou are to judge one Vandal too great to be believed. As fairly between them, and they an? will- i , u y «st<T. as my friend, I honor Miss ing to stand by what yiiu lay. I calm- | Mare Forsyth. As my wife? 1mpossible they'll explain their own business ble! Does not all San Antonio know that besL David Foroyth. will you *i>eak for ! I adore alone the incomiarable Dolores

David was a keen, shrewd lawyer, and knew how to state his case very j fri.-n plausibly. Ho said that his father, i

flay as I sat reading by my

bed he said to me:

ptaustuiy. «„ said Utal nis tat Her, uu- •• -Doctor, that is a jatifnl story,

duly influenced by Dr. Zsvala. who had (,., iru,.. We think it a grievons wrong design* on their sister's hand, had left 1 not to give oar sons a trade or a profes not only the homestead but $30,600 in won. but we never think what is to be-

gold to Mary Forsyth, and that they come of the iwor girls.' ' their share of the money. j' -| said. •Oh. we expect them to mar-

The men listened gravely, with keen, sidelong glamva. When he had finished

one of tbem said:

"Very good, Ktranger. Now what do yon mean by ■unduly influenced/ * "I mean that this Mexican passed whole tlay-s with my father, reading to him, talking to hiffU and in other ways winning his affection in order to influence him in the making of hi* will.” "How much did old Fonvtli leave Dr.

Zavala?' -He left

but"-

“Bot," said David angrily, “he had a deeper scheme than that He induced my father to turn everything bnt his homnfead into money, and to place the whole sum in the San Antonio letuk to Marys credit. We have no objection* Mary's having her share, but .we do ! see why ohr share should jM to that Mexican whom site intends t . marry." The doctor smiled aarv.i .ically, and Mary, blushing with in.li; tatioo, half as if to speak, bnt a slight more-

it of Zavala's cycb 1

- 'But they don't, - doctor,’ be said, •they don't, doctor; and the most that do afy left by death, ill usage or mixfortmv to fight the world some time or other with no weapon bnt a needle, doctor.

It is a sin and a shame!'

•• •If*. the way of the world, my friend? I said. . "-I know. I spent thousand* oFdollars on my boys, and then divided all I | had between them. If Providence had

nothing, j not 1.1:-. *ed my work extraordinarily or

| if I ha 1 .lied five years ago what would

’ have tkvumc of Mary/ i. gentlemen, I said:

•• •Sqi.:

“Of a “And you an- willing that mho should ave the hottest cad and $10,000/' ••We are willing she should have the jo of the homestead for a moderate rent We are not willing to give np all claim to it Why, there are 800 acres of

know that

made more money; they [hough: they had got all yon had, and have not visited you or written to yon lest yon should ask anything of them. Do justice at once to your loving, faithful daughter; secure her now from want and dependence, and give her at length leisure to lore and rest.' "And my friend, being a good man, did as 1 advised that be should do. For that he died in good peace with his own conscience, and made me for once, tenon, very' happy that I gave good advice, free, gratis, for nothing at all." “So yon did not profit at all by this

willy

"Not one dollar in money, bat very much in my conscience. Santa Josel I

am well conteoL"

"Mias Mary," said the alcalde, kindly,

"have yon anything to my/ 1 Mare retard her clear, grey ryes and FYje Frees. ”

in the -timber too ill with the dengne "What do you need, doctor?" "Need? 1 need you .and a couple of men to carry him here. Do you know that it is Will Morrison?" "Oh, doctor! doctor!" "Fact. Heard of yonr father's death in Arizona and came straight homo to look after you. Poor fellow! he's pretty had." Well. Mary did not need to hire John Doyle ns head man, for Will, who had loved her faithfully for fifteen long years, was the finest stock man in the state, and within three muni- the doctor and his beautiful Dolore* danced a fandango at Mare and Will's wedding.—Amelia E. Barr in New York Ledger.

One secret of graphic description is the introduction of slight details which soond ns if they were drawn directly from life. This was understood by a colored preacher who sought to bring before his audience the scene at the crossing of the Red sea. "S'poso you'* de children of Israel stud Use Mtales; Jarsey is de wilderness and Bridcsburg de promised land. Well, I brings yon-down to de jibber and waves my hand np toward Tacony, and de water* roll backward toward Philadelphy, and we all goes over widout gittin' "When de las' pickaninny gits' over I waves my hand toward PhUadelpby, and I wave* my hand towaid Taoony, and de water r-o-M-a back from toward Tacony—and dey was tubin' for shad dere de nex' morninT—Y'onlh's Companion.

A Mirk!) flos* Safe.

Hiram Ricker, Hr., bought a new safe fur the old house at Poland Spring. The man put it np, explained the combination and went away. Three weeks later. I said, "How do yon like yonr safe/' "Like it!" said. he. “Like it! It's a great safe. Sore thing against burglars! No uae to foul with that safe! I put all my money in it the day the man went away, and there ain't one of ns 'round there that's been able to open it aince, and the money's still there. For a safe it's first class, bnt for a bank to drew on it's dryer than-a contribution box."—

Lewiston Journal.

Small Boy—There's one thing in the Bible sis says she'd like to change. Minister—Impossible! What can it be,

my young man?

Boy—Her age, sir. — Detroit