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VOL XXI. NO. 33.

CAPE MAY CITY. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9/1892.

PRICE 3 CENTS.

ATTORNEYS.

TAMES M. E. HILDRETH, COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW

J. s

SPICER LEAMINQ. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

ttOUCITOH AND MASTER IN CHANCERY

47 Washington Street, Cate Mat Citt, N. J.

f THE O.VI.Y Japanese Store

IV C APE MAY

IMPORTING DIRECT FROM JAPAN. « Cups and Saucers, Genuine Japanese handdecorated after dinner Cups and Saucers TZnick At njHAfkAblj L.« Prices, 15.-, 18c, 2>lo u|.4o W 00 tv

M ISC'F.I.I. C VEtH'S.

JAMES i. DOAK,

W CARP EATER ASD BUILDER.

M'

ORGAN HAND,

Solicit or, M»»l*r And EiAmlucr Cbanocrj, Supreme Court Commission and Notary Public. Cape Mat Cocrt House. N 4.

H/

ATTORNETrAT-LAW, SOLICITOR, MASTER AND EXAMINER IN CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. PH YKICIAXK. JAMES 11 ECU AY. M. D.

Cor. Washington and Decatur Sts., CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. OrncE Hours:

“ 7 to 8 "

B*a<DS»r»-Ttn Deroo.no. LAlsrette BljR. WALTER B. LKAMINO,

DENTIST,

Obpicr—Cor. Hcsues ard Ocean Sts. Cape Mat Citt, N. J. Is Attendance Dailt.

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Jaceson Streets.

4.

thorough repslr-

S EA CREST INN. _dAPE MAT, N. J. BEACH AYR™ ONE BqCARE BEIXJW E. B. STATION. Boom. ^. MRS. C. E. MUNROE. YOMIXG. HOPTH LAFAYETTE BT. F.MUrRed and renoTntcd •• and HO per week. ■KH. A. FOSTER.* "lOLLINb COTTAGE,

Pic OM tllbeoe Whiay And rthtr Unaafr P. COLUNS. Proprietor.

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HE ALDINB, .TUB BTEEST.TtSAR BEACE ATBNCB. CAPE MAT. N- JThro. Mceunr. Proprieto J^KKXTON YIK.IA. Open for the Season. .Kear Use Beaek. Flae PUaaa and Han Parinra. MH». J. A. MTKRB. T3IER AVENUE INN. ores st-L tbs Year. Csstral UkaTwr. Pitr At nut, tear Waikiiytm Strrti.

j •*— itacR

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. at 25r

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STOCKTON HOTJEJs,

Washington, ai UOAUD1M. JOltSES AlsrKClALTY. An riunurr auunns-nl if Carrlsses., gu.rf Horae, and carrlul IMirera, ran be tamed at all houra for I rrraW Parties. Exci WILLIAM IIEHENTUAL. P TO COTTAGERS For Nlioe* RepalriiiK, tbor oughly and neatly done. briuK your work to THOS.1I. TAYLOR. Urn popular shoemaker. Decatur street, second simp from Marry A Mecray'.di 11-4 store. Charties moderate.

BAPTIZED BY FIRE. "That remind* me of nn Incident," sab!

with mine materially, but I'd like to tell 'had been accustomed to the management of boraes in rural t«rt» or on the pMw.' who had been nt home on a horse's back all her life ami seldom essayed any gait but a 'gallop,' yet who could lay it over

any rider in this city for grace."

Uncle paused to polish hi. glasses, then Mrs ? Her name was Cnptola. Did 1 ever tell you how Cappiewnn her husband.* "It was an early Sepffmbcr morning in the late sixties. The summer rains hail made vegetation rank and the buffalo grass was then thickly matted. I,town and dry as powder. The night had been gray and still and given place to a skylike copiirooded in "h^Sr? S * * tn '" Kr *" nr “ "I bail been giving orders fur branding a and as 1 eah.r up ou the |!orel, iTli«w.wi on tlicsigr swinging Herfis-t and snapping

lo r. utd Uwh'irbn'n^liratv ln of the big 'Home' ranch and b

lover. His bridb bis arm ami hew

'• 'Please. Cappie. yield to me this ti " 'lint I want the gloves and whip.'

ifltanccd

rn.stly l»-ggiug [Tie

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it Improved passenger elev

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Hotels Oriole

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ENT JERSEY KA1LB0AD.

flMK TABLE IN KPKKCT JUNE Jit. IS®

•I'srlor Car attached,

rralnt will learc Cape May aa follow, for

PHILADELPHIA:

Jf.. ACCOM Mlltl AT tan : as Hate •.

•o cc A. M —Exprcs*. connect* at I Hojfy lleach.'arrive. at ^bUadehihia aT 1 ILW •2.26 Holly Beach; at Sea f.le Junctluu for Sea ’-'-■tty. Ocean City. Avalon. Prrrmont and Harbor, and at NewAvtd l.» Atlantic tnd Somrra Point, at Woodbury for Samvea at PhlladelpliUJ, 10 p. M. ‘A AFxt'. M.-F.xpre»» arrive* at Philadel 4,4a)»<lelpha7aOP.M. 5 nn P. M.—Aceoinniodatmo and Eaeurmion. ,UU Connect, at Court Uoum fur AuglMea. “ ' ' load and Holly Beach, at Sea fair Junonr Sea Dir city. Uceau City. AvaUiri. uiml and Stone Harbor, arrive, at Pblladelphia S.I0 P. M. rn nn f M —Minvllle ArcammodaUna. 1U.UU Saturday only, arrlvln* at MUlvIUe

*3J)0! 4.00^ Interinedite^.laUoU

•5.00 IfoJ

it (I la*, boro for

wrusfbury lor Salem, and

^ulaTNlP.M.

r ,. M.—AccoramoualOKi and Kirunlon w kiio^HSa'liJilyiSScAanlvlSi^S'SSS

delphla at a.uu P. M.

yw-, P.M.—Express, Connect, at Court y.UU for Anghwna. Wildwood and Holly ■Uach: at Sea l.lr Junction for Sea f.le City, .valou. 1'e.rmunl and Kiony Harbor, and ar. Ive. at PhlAdelDhla ItJb P. M. PROM PHILADELPHIA. .iPWf'.-ar !3 : .-.¥srr?. “■SfWi’-lTS i .‘SSSSSS 1. Sriurday onljb ^Sna^d^ Exjutm.^S N.

Phtladalphta^W^lwct^a A

talirs LEaVE PHIL, via. Ve.llbole Par :3sisag uUmaa Pi

Itainam-e only. M» and If JO r. N.

raam uxavx fuila. aaoan sraarr erarios

and Wa.hl.rton, SSO. 7Al.U a.«_ UJE tLimited E>PariorCara. Veatil BM OUM IJU. J I6.4AI.SJT.SAJ.7.4U r. -- Limited of

sight. For J. B. WOOD,

•Ptsinlly for the purfxwc, if you will give up rilling at the fair.’ " 'That wonM lien cirrumetancr,wouldn't if *' fla*btxl Lnplola. *1 -could shake t hem midvr Ml** ilaU-*' now and say "There! ju-t *00 what I got for b iting you win the prim." No. Hal. it i.n't the glove, or the whip, but a mean liule ambition I want to gratify. That woman called me a hoyden, an uncultivated little heathen, and miid I couldn't ride a little bit. 1 don't mind the hoyden ami heathen. 1 supfKw, 1 am both, but 1 can ridcAmd mean to do it.' '• ‘Utile gjrl. you hurt me when you talk

so thought Ira-dy.'

“ 'And you hurt me cruelly,' she cried passionatelr, a* she turned her flashing

d to arknowl-

ought you

r. and—and that horrid prim Puri Oatca you get ashamed of me . to make me over by the square

So you—I think—ym:

ed to cultivate the little ». but they always died, r thcrultivating procrNi.

.rtola Iregati

ets, but Henry caught ild bird. Hove you I a woman umiM met

t know you as well a* I do, and they nit me to marry Mi« Oatca They are iking for flaws in my gem. and I don't ve found one. It i* Jfh a little thing 1 ve asked you. Y>tir father Is away; there i. no .me to attend you. as you utterly rvfn*e my eAort unless 1 d.-wrt my

ivrs and drv>s, and 1 do wl.h you J try to win them over, child.' Henry paused, feeling that be was making a bad .'ever!' Cap n plied angrily, as .he dber hand* away. 'They may take lived’maybe I would have been dlfTereutprunes and pri.ims as Mias Oatc, |k» Ir—but I’ve only bad daif. and be likes best a* lam I never would have thought riding aFxbe fair, only when we Mere

Miss

rill, a

t ridimi

>11 will w

l the

iira-kingly. 'murl her grace; but I chip and"gloves

Then we will discuss the matter 1

further.' *

- Adios, then, senor, until this aft. sin. and remember,' she called a* s! lulled ou Beet's back and tunasltog ftertudayl mean to show that d.-ul b 1 timeb money a* anybody. 1 don't ca ' if you do y. ' "

' and w

rr tlfa she rude 1

saucy ki

ray.

u her

'I felt

■lid come out all right. In hi* summer* Ids stock ranch, only two mile* away. Henry bad seen Captola grow into a willful but lovable girl, and liad yielded up all the strength of his great heart to her. Iml die was too young to marry he was itiug'fur h< r. His mother and sisters come from the Quaker City to 'in 7’ the possible addition to the family, were horrified at her UDConvrntionalitic*. particularly her going about by her •If. Tiie special grievance was over the

"Mi— U

and a.

city girls

ride for the prise, projs-rl v room-. Captola suddenly rp.jiiir.sl sad«lles, a piereof . wtirned, and brad.les her riding alone. Henry feared that she would defeated by Mis* Oates, who was extncly graceful in the saddle, and In? -w that Mould nearly break the child's heart. He was not snare that Cap had a thoroughbred Kentucky mare of her faadded to her M anlra.be an almost conventional habit Captola was so nearly perfect that 1 verily brlirve sbr could '

1 her

saddle standing

brad." and I'ra lrZarali stopped to chuckle quietly at the remembrance. "When afternoon came the lair grounds were crowded. Half a doxen young ladles in prim lilack ale I blue cloth habits, cl.iinurypot lists, lung gauntlets and veils, which they wore then, werv gathered near the judges' stolid and their eacort* Were chatting with them, waiting thv order to

clear the ring.

" 'When. I* your' laxly Gay Spanker. Henry!' asUri bis slater as he drove up With his motbes^JIenry frowned slightly, but before he ruuhl'Kfiswer a little but* of comment called the attention of all as Captola rode up unattended. She wouldn't even let me ride my old cob beside her, so I was there before her In the bnggy. “Lord, but ehe was a beauty. Her slender black marc was as mettlesome a* could be, and tossed her long mane and tail Im-

patiently ns she obeyed that little hand, with its touch of velvet and grip of steel. Cap Mas as slim and willowy a* a cotton! wood sapling in her close fitting black vel.ad put up all her curia

. '■ velvet bat, around

S« Oates looked like a thundercloud, sd expected to see the .child on her mustang and In the old Mack ^calico

x little black

■ oral, a

to her insti _ . _ 11 knew the clouds bad

' ....-tournament began: up and down,’ cround this way and back that, under the coppery-sky the ladle* rode, then paused. The judges Mere undecided. *0 they went through the paces again. No decision. The ladies would please change horses. “Cap was off K.mdo in an instant, but many id the ladies demurred. Mis* Oats* E isitiecly refused to mount anything but -r own thoroughly truinod animal. The contest narrowed to Cap and two other plains bred girl*, but even they dared not mount Hondo. Cap rude each of the aix

-hanged the seventh

d la<

»> Hon

' T'nclc. don't you snici! the pni

leasily.

replied; 'but it's a. 't rraeb *•* ■

s thinking

iefite!'

tk: it

of the schoM h<

-pliwl hurri.-.lly os the judges call. •Sch.a.l U-gan in Henry's district yc*t<;rdsy and his sister let her little .laughter go wit b Kcrac Williams today,’ and then "I looked at my watch—3:30—then over to the nort h. The smoke was rolling up black and thick. I could ix-e nu eating line of nsl. Tiie sun was beginning to took like a yellow bate and the air was dense and heavy with the odor of burned rind should riae—just then

pufl lift

my I

Yes, the schra

If the

heard a shout of urnrd to see the judge band led whip toCap. She turned i.s.k nt me, and over beyond

"TheGUI school hou*.

Hondo reached lisped Cap. as

with I.

rr whip

that moment the prairie fin-. *0' *1 a thing, ha/lnot been noticed. In lent all was eoufudai. Miss Oates <d. Miss Merriam. Henry's sister, and*bis mother tA.c.1 white. In lant Henry was out of tl.c buggy-

lay 1 take her, Cappie? Nellie b "Cap slid down. The aaddle was flung ni.mntisl^niiilU' of the whip Cap thrust in his hand Henry was off, followed by half a cold nose was thrust against her face. "With a servant of joy she threw her arms alxnit Iln-t's neck. The faithful little mustang hod broken itu lariat rope and followed *ls mistiesa. Catching Uic-tmil-

He fashion in the

ping out of her velvet tearing oft her gantlets

she ji

Ing n>|a- C. halter, tb riding skir

i.d it

moll.

e ford; t

“Cap reached the sehra.l house. The Ole uanls wen- forty feet wide and the teacher nd his pupil* had burned Uie gras. alsaU lie building and felt safe in the K-bool-

-Cap aski-d for Nellie " -Siie cried to go lion

j'clock.’

"The teacher told me afterward that he thought he had been struck by lightning when Cap got her breath. “'Idiot!' she Mazed, to let a little city, brad six-year-old child go half a mile across the prairie iiv herself. Why, she isn't tall enough to *cc over the blue stem iu the buRalu-s' yalluw,' and she dashed away. "At the ranch <*ily the frightened bouse-kee|«-r apiwaml. Nellie had nut come! Cap rushed In the house and grabbed a handful of matches and a blanket from a pill- that Mas airing ou the porch. This she dipiasl In the watering trough as she flew by: then she jumped ou Urvtagaiu. aitb the dripping blanket before ber. " "Tbs little mischief has gone dow n in that ravine where we found the rabbit's

lie thought as she dug her heels In Hret's learning sides. "Sure enough, as she neared the lank of lie ravine, she saw a head of damp, dark url* and a little girl came clambering and ryiug up the sleep I rank*. Cap slid to the round aia] guth^nsl the frighten.*! w-aif 1 her arm*. It was too late to ride from lie fire. With all the strength left her she iruek Bret a stinging blow. ‘Go borne if ou .an,’ she eried, and the snorting mus* uig fled la-fore the flames, now hot upon

> the

The

u-l the

■ matches and threw in lire leaped up and nu vartl the creek. Dowi ■*, hand* and feet blis

I in

•pL dragging the wet blanket 1. her. The oncoming flames swept to edge of the ravine and hungrily licked the bits <g dry grass left. They singed 1- hair and nearly cooked her face. She Id Imrvly keep the frantic child under blanket and could not save herself.

kle died away toward .led a little and then

•Th.

"Ju.t a

Mind tl

nd all taken the bridge road, p round, hut Itret ami Cap ha*l g> own over the rocky hill ami a

“Henry and Ms men rode right Into the Jaws of belt In the blue stem aloug the creek, and bad to retreat till the flames had exhausted themselves at the water's

tdgr.

"We found Brat first. lfv had KtumMtd In a dog hole, broken his leg atfd died In 1 1m- lire. After a search of' four awful hours M-e found Cap. Through the gathI ring gloom lira crying of the child guided us L. her. Tiie wet blanket bail saved Nellie, but u»r Cap was nearly dead. Slie

had lost all her yellow curls. Her face

Mas Ml-lered ami ber eyes swollen shut. The waist to her new habit was irretrirraMv ruined and her skirts nearly burned off. 1 as m an.lfring a little in her mind, ru Henry galnrrvd ber up in bit

cuim- gal he red ber up it

. .11 ber blistered little h about bis neck and said sorrowfitUr. 'If I'd had a mother maybe I’d be dlfferrm.' " Thank God. you. are your dear, loving little self,' Henry replied, with grave tenderness, as he drew her disfigured face

Close to bis loving heart.

“It wa» a baptism of fire, but it burned lot* of draws out of several natures and Mazed a safe and sure way for two of the best people I ever knew to tread. "Yes." concluded Vnclt Zarah. "I shalk always insist that -knowing how to gallop was in this Instance a very desirable accomplishment. even If not aooording to tha 'English' method-"—Washington filar.

The workmen of a new line of electric lights in a western city began to dig a fioatUole in front of a Dutchman’* dwelling, when the master of the house came out and forbade them to continue the work. After a good deal of wrangling the raru anuounred that they could not waste their time in talking, and prepared to act to work. Thereupon the Dutchman called hi* w-ife. and with a dexterous and unex peeled movement succeeded in flinging over the hole the men were digging a large, 'flat slate, upon which be established the

lady.

"Now, Gretchen," he said, "dat iidi There you ahtanda till 1 comes back mil eiu enJunction." With many charges to hia wife not to stir from that slate until his return, he de1 rafted to get the injunction which should force the workmen to cease their labors, nod the stolid Dutch frau stood like a statue of immobility, her hand* on her hip* and defiance fraiiiU*! upon her fare. No sootier had the husband disappeared than the leader of the gang directed hia men to take the slate with the frau on it nnd lift It from iu place. It was a prelty wlth perfect politenesa the corpulrn ‘

reside naif a!

d been 1

teapot 01

The wi _ | forward, nnd while^lie Dutch wife held U. the IctL-r of her husband's orders with silent fidelity the men set up the tall fade, li w as well In lu place when the house holder was seen returning Iu breathless baste, waving In bis hand the coveted in-

junction.

Wh '

in be can* panting up 1 shnrent aiflt then with 1

demanded of bis wife.

in lieljdcxs Indignation

—Youth's Cunifrauion.

rtriCTcsqu* Hawaii.

The' scenery of windward Hawaii charming and picturesque in the extrem Three huge volcanic mountains—Maui Dei, Manna Kea and Hualalai—rear the snowcapped domra against tire sky toll bright of 14,030 feet, forming a triang toward the center of the island, the elopes clothed with dense forests of riche tropical growth, and grassy plains mhli trend gradually awa^to the blue I'acifl They arc seamed with numberleas ravin or “gulchea," not to call then

raryii

o'a.oiTiw'

in width fro re nearly a mih

, small and quiet, glide peacefully

Other*, fierce. Impetuous mount ■uts, hemmed in by high, pit ck*. dash headlong over bowl n-ciplce till they lose thcitisclvu

Nearly all are i

olden

.nd l

waterfalls leap from the bills In

nil direction*, and everywhere trees and porks are covered with exquisite ferns and trailing parasites of all shades and kind*. The "gulches” widen out at their extrem- . ities and tire sea sweeps Into them with drowsy, booming music. Many a Journey

(Ulchn

Hilo and Iran

dxty-flve stream* i»t be crossed in a distance of thirt) les. Having ridden for a few bundred -d* aloug a lofty upland, the brink of s jH-nduu* precipice it suddenly reached

v. and iu

nail,

ru** iu a few sceouds; poor wingless mat » to trust to the unshod, surefooted ast under him to scramble up and dowi e narrow, scarcely Minding tracks cut t on the face* of the mountains.—Aslalii

“A great many year* ago," said an attor ncy, "our road had an unnecessary damage suit brought by an exceedingly faithful and coiH|wU-nt engineer. m Iiusc arm had been loru MI by the driving wheels. It was almost a clear case against us tram* the start, there having been a wreck wherein the engine was dumped into thi river, the engineer thrown from his cal and drifted into the revolving wheels of his engine. I ala-ays thought the mattci might have fawn compromised l*ul for tin hrusquerir of the management. We had a great battle in the courts and Mere com pelled to pay at last the largest amount of damages ever recovered fur a similai claim—loO.OOO. Well. sir. after that mar said:

and

. I don't know what to do with this money. Just you build or buy me * good home and give me a lifetime Job in the roundhouse and I'll return the amount of my damages. 1 am a plain man. with steady, simple habit*, anil I would ratlin work for a living than be tempted into ex travagascc and perhaps dissipation by Uib money which I never earned.'" "And of course you snapped him up!'said a brother attorney. "Of course I did nothing of the kind. T< have a man in our employ who could no< be discharged by the com papy would bt disastrous to diacipline and a dangeroui precedent. Do you seel'' And they all saw. But an unbeliever who sat near by said to himself, "Hat*!"— St. 1-ouls Republic.

men and one of them was hurt. A Iris.' took place.' and an old clergyman who bad seen the fight was called as a witness. "What was Salsou doing!" was the Oral inquiry. “Oh. be was slashing around,” replied the obi man. “Well. sir. what is that!” "He was just knocking about him hen and there.” "Now, air, tell us plainly what did he dt to this man!" silked the lawyer, with » note of vexation iu hia voice. The clergyman thought a moment and then answered slowly: "Why, be enticed him." "Enticed him! How!" "He ciiliced him with a crowbar. He used the crowbar to fiersuade the man, U entice him, and by a aeries of pokes and

trend gentleman.—Exchange.

A I oral 00 schoolboy brought to hit teacher a letter from a physician ataling that “this hoy is until to attend school fox MX da}*." The loug and rather exact period named aroused the teacher's suspicions, and ha discovered that the physician had written "3 or 4 day a” Thi* the boy had changed to "304 days."—Yankee Blade

CAFE MAT Cm . N. J.