VOJ. XXVI. NO. -lu.

CAI‘1- MAY CITY. SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 24, K97.

CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY, K. J. ~ Built of brirk, •llutlrd on * blrf »iih a clear outlook or. r the Ocean, and pn elded with every comfort and eo: - ^ Th< rooma arc airj'. »>»y and cliarn Itifly fitted ; the ruielne and icivlce unexcelled, and there la a lovely six acre la* ■ raasengerelevator, electric lella, first-clasa laundry, flic-eecapcS,' and the iri , omplete arrang, im i.te for BOO Gueste. Congress Hall has been rvcciitly n-novi d, repainted and put In excellent condition. The sanitary arraiwemun the moat approved pattern and are now p--*'—*

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SEASON 1897

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTLY FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFUL LAWNS. RATES, S3 AND S5 PER DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK Corner rooms and suites with parlors and baths extra. Concerts mornings 10 to 12. I ops evenings, S.30 to 10.30. Dogs not taken or allowed on the premises. HORACE M. CAKE.

MARINE VILLA ANNEX Finest Location in Cip i M ly. l HAVE TAKES THE TATHAM k COTTAGE 1S.CO«SECTIOS|WITH MARINE VILLA ANNEX. t manage tte Marine Villa Uiia aeaaon. Mrs.-F. HALLENBECK.

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hind. Hut 1 kapt

1 didn't

er nnid* hcrsr.it. m,tl j could give yon cents' worth in one of thua* little wood ea.dishea. Would you like S ceuU

worth:-"

“If you phono. I would." rtwpnndei Alco. touched hv the gtrl’a thoughtful

uoaa and kindly iiilcrcut.

The jiini was put up aud paid for wit!

i T- » fCO NTINTKD. 1 Ls-iughiug tnwarxny m spue or “* ■*■ ‘ ' awkward kmc

the crackers.

•'There is nothing eUe?" askeil «hi girl, with shopkeeper's courtcay and i

smile.

The boy thanked her mid was gam amid a profound silence from the loaf ora. He was lighter hearted m

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CAPE MAYXITY, N. J

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MRS. S. FOSTER. Formerly ot the Wyoming

Open all the Year.

ider New Management. Appointments Flratnh

rarrhoroughiy n e .t,d.-^j

< HAKMiM M Al,TO.\. ofthef'opttnfntHl Holrl, Prop.

South Lufayctte SL,

Ur Cheerful, he

Near Beacli, MRS. M 8 FIELD

••n’cM. mnnyrerlnl Jot Wojlnt. under his rough extoriot, Aloo went Into the dining room, whan- the family were at bmekfoet. and, seeing a newut place beside a toll, rather good looking girl, ho asked if be might take it. She looked np at him with laughing eyes, tor she had etvduntly overheard her father'a remarks, which bad been quite enough, and promptly ueseuted, getting up herself to wait on him. As he ate his breakfast aud felt the physical man aatrabed, hoje mounted

higher and higher, something of hi* old » w »v, and thci confident bearing returned to him. and eomfurtablo foa nnoonaciously he showed in hi* b.-aring along \ the edneatiun and hret-diug of a gentle- " ha < v When be mnniod to the stare, the ! w..uM km proprietor was poeaibly a little !.«> Jnlhan I'm warm, and showed small euthtuiestu '* uld* me when Alec inquired partiouUrlr about I ‘aiti'

the place* whirv be might Upd work.

Mr. Higgins bluntly told him be might "hu hailn go to Dan Piper or Frank Duvis or Ji«> ■ ► 1 '>' acf-d

Fries, though he, the proprietor, did not know that they wonted anybody—in fact, was under the impression they itad all the help they needed. But the young

man might go und see. Aloe handed out 60 OMitf of

mainod of his dollar, and a-ied if that would settle their accounts, ami Joe Higgins said ho supposed n would have

•- Whet had caused the change of

manner Also eonld not imagine, but mw tbo man-WotchTBv him furtively from under bis bushy Ho went away very mooh less InipefuTnmi happy than he bad been an hour before. J ' erward he found out that a suspicion had entered the mind of Joe Higgi becouw* of bis somewhat iqdSpeude

uiannex) that be was ■ city fellow Then cm- of tin, loufen

maaquerodiug as a tramp for l..i

:i " '‘■'‘me Iv'tul wont i ground and the heel Hap- • r aud yanked the whole “Ut of his hands. Ho m,, » irt of frightened, but

u or. I hod s«-u.

didn't do that agur Ho

; for * ° gingerly tried to put the scythe ! round the grass and yauk it oil. "1 .Itdu 't say nothing, but I let him « ck away there till I got round. He'd j kind of haggled up the grass fur a few

Kl!. I rtcknu he'd pulled it off with i .o. - h s hands. Issikod as if he bed. When ■ ? rld natural sgalu. i 1 round then-. I jwUtely asked him I bo ’ u * ‘ mJ be«ikind to him. Hi I to step , ami he did very porliu-ly, j 1110 “orntng. hi j too. for lid's o perlite sort o' fellow. ; wn '' ru" of hois, amioontldeooe. Befell | a " <l ,1 "' 1 1 lic k ed over what he'd ! J 11 ® * a . , lf dl ' 1u ’ , k,, “ w tow »< j tratn; • d down, imd it w as no easy lob | “O anything in pnrtioular he eonld soon ■ ni itlicr. Then 1 says: '1 gne* you'd i haTB ' “* mi "K llle d farm work didn’t I ! K'l .me. sonny. 1 gm*s vou'r* |«luirs' a great amount of aklll. Thai rusher tins! out. Lf yon get n ,t.-d np I h< ’ 8hoo!l1 ‘ ir,,d hc tu, ' w - bo« h-' was you ken come aronnd Uiutorro'. ’ ' , prepansl for Mint. Nothing could be j "Andy, lie was mad, and wanted to j , , r ' ? 10 fa ” ci "' 1 - ,lu ui hoeing potatoes

Hut I tohl him 1 S ld h:id "“r'-'ved that. When Mr.

fellow hsikis] awful sort o' sorry f,,r him, nothing ueuv, and ho iouU put the scythe, " hang it in the barn, i to the liam und hung

1 didn't

nay

Try for

i» patbetio f luughti it. Everythe young

{one w IH.11 lie Walked seemed to lie an u that be tuight turn t h a curiosity to a f or daif he did. B to-ly iu the villai

fxi«-rien :■! If he I

t .loured ho

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K. MALsPITV, Proprietor.

CHA1TKR VIL JoxAruAjr rweautY how au» TBIEll TO MOW. BeTore night of that first day Aloe' rival became a matter rf general iu rest to the town. The ensjqt i u tha r. Higgins hud conceived olNtim it the morning ses nusl to follow hiiu? •'Who's that young follow wiBi th. thin face and the white hatiiia you've got hero?" asked Mr. Stillings the village sexton, a short, bcuty, smootli faced man, a pen.of tho higluEit cou•equeuco iu the village, und much u•pucted.siuoe he was cmisidernl wealthy. ue around and want cl to get u Job haying for me. but 1 t. Id him 1 didn't have no haying myself. I put it Then ho wanted to know who I iut to, and 1 told k:m Frank

o him a job. He struck me

ft luokt:

K>"i

i1m» y-ikos. and

Mil- no.ini very mucu us if she hadn't heard anything that had Inm u said, she work<-,l away , steadily. Hut hey manuur made Mr. Higgins a trifle unoomfortahle, und he tried to rally her about the young man. She remained glum. However, which made him still more uncomfortable, and h« bad a private wish th.it they shouldn't eecAleo again. ■ In the meantime the !..y himself had fallen into a smte ,rf intense despair, wero talking atom* him. Ho bad not meant to go tear tho store again. He dare not ^■eud his money for n lodging

ho had failed. Why i" might go and buy 1 a piece of oboes oullzcd that ho w

taw- him and

hadn't dou good humor described In had shone w

should

dtyci

tell leim

ip. thou

iimo on. Don't bo bashful," cried irsl r,. iikrr. "We won't hurt yon. i up hem to give us mowtu lessons, rhuoklo -f laughter went muml tbo 1 tup >.!' h.Y sisysI. only hi- dare not

ask- -1 for a dime’s worth t, sunny?" aslosl Jon Hignmuter, where be lay at los I lack. "Crackers and : got no cheese left. Will

Finchley in

at oueo apjilted his policy-of assorting his km u ledge, hoping that by quick observation ho e.,uM make It good. Uni mowing didn't sem at all like hisong potatoos. He couldn't get the knack of it at oik He knew he was failing, but he kept at it in sh.er desperation until Mr. Finchley had come aud taken his —ork out ut his bands. That gentleman -a--. a- 1 tt with anything like tho

and gentle sarcasm ho had his slory. His facia had had re expression thud his eyes >'1‘ brilliant anger. He hud hat ho hud oferibed to him-

self. but the feeling of Aleo was whal Adam's must have been when he was driven from the garden of laden, though possibly Adam felt more defiance and in-

dependent resolution. CHAFTEB Vm.

K IS lltlUlLM.En IIV 'UKUSTB. night thosiure Was bghted op,

i*.r stood invitingly nent and the village W about on tho stops

outside, or w ithin tho door on tho long, grimy settee, aud tho various barrels, kegs aud boxes. Somebody was telling

d the company seemed to bo

genial, though never more than one

spoke at a time, and two or id most of tho talking, while were content to be amlieuoe or

whispered awkward commentaries to

ich other.

Alec hesitated and stood a moment looking at them, wondering if they on nil t ••ell tig ot gratitude, ana ion Ut look bank aud wonder how he could ever relay her. He felt as if he must thank her in more than tho

and the double

ie had

ed iu the ut

Fairly away from the store and tho hate-fnl crowd of loafers, he began to think what he should do for tho night. Ho sat down on a stone in tbo light of a

window and ai '

'Idsboth > hack door ie appeared. ^ "This you 5*climbmg for a pound < Tbo loafer

Alec

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be a-cumiug up hero to wmk .u haj aj_ Any relation o' yours. Joe?" “He's about the same relati at as your bull oalf." answered Mr. liiggnis gravehis reply was followed by a guffaw of laughter all around the store. "I Judge they're both equally high stepping, " commented Bout, a homorOUS old miM-r who lived m a nutshell of a bouse which was as black im-ide _ _ hate, though they said bo was worth fdo.UOu. and the Uat men of the village borrowed money from him on their laud till poo Ble said Jokingly that betoiv lie died Bent would own the town Bant's remark also cum--i a gutTaw

of Uugbtar.

“Ho come around to ** me this morning, too.'' said Jonathan Tin. lilsy, one of the biggi.t farmers of the regido. as ha aat oum tort ably cu the counter on tha oppoSU aide of the store ftum Joe Hiaina. HeobuckledookiuuuiLf a minute or two before ha Wauou, so that all eyes were jtoed'on hiuiT^.Liriugly. “I wa* mowing that tun acre lot on the oidobill up above my house," be said at last, “aud I didn't have only Andy and Jim and myself. Felix and .Sibley were down finishing up a little hoeing in the garden that had to Is- dam be fore we got fairly into haying. Well, along come this city crack and says he wanted a Job. I asked him «f lie could mow. and he says. 'Yes, 1 gueas so. ’ I kind o though! be didn't know anything about it, but 1 said: All right. You dou t look right strong, and I reckuu you'll blister your hands the first day. but I 'll give you a dollar for the rest of today. ’ So 1 took him dowu to the barn and ground bib's scythe for him and fifing it for him, as he didn’t aeem to take bold very smart. When I give it to him. be stood there a-bolding or.mi.rt fill T .... • I 'd

After a pause Mr. Big- I du ,, r be

1 the iiiformsti.m that 1 i w as so had (fast night .Hilda't get tlie trackers i'' would call 'Lisbeth.

lie] lowed:

mg city swell w

in keep him alive. Myrhunl tonight I couldn't think 'way down off hero just s guffawed at this, and

possibly could. He felt himself in a very nest of meiniiw. Ererybody and everything seemed to have changed since morning. Th.- morning scmmivl agee ago, eo long he could hardly remember it. Be felt as if he were in uu entirely new

and disagreeable world.

'Lisbeth w alked dine-tly towatd him, bearing be felt a little bit I from

he -at eating, and a more ana loortel fooling about life came a. he remembered that there was

e tavern, whose side standing invitingly

open, revealing a mow of old bay beyond. Ho w ould go and sleep on the hay. An ln,ur later he was fast asleep

in the tara.

•'ll A WEB IX.

uqialbY nmid all tlio hardness. But I stepped

itartiisscd him, aud he only felt the

more like running away.

Vill yon have these round onea," skill, taking a cover off a large barVi would you like thiye soft aoda its?" indicating a box. toward which she immediately walked, followed by An--, w h . was vaguely comforted

by the soft Koie < f her voice.

"Mnkin a mash ou 'Lisbeth!” wbl*Jsmd one of the meanest luikiug of the loafers. Akfc did not look around at all, but Um girl gave the offender a quick, threatening ! '»A. winch slic d.siributed around to the rest of the i-orupany as well, and nufaughter follow id i], e sally, i Their w-ns a dead sileuee while 'Lisbeth

His waking ou the uxamw was very

different from the fit4h waking in Asliton. The binis were singing just as loudly aud noisily, but Abe did not seem to hear them. The gray morning^ light streamed through tliecracks of the barn, and the cows and horses could be heard munching their hay or now and then bringing their feet down heavily to

shake off some insect intruder. Alec lay half bunod iu the bay. look-

ing np into the dark, dusty, cobweb woven roof, trying to put tho dull, lonely ache'out of ins head loniTeuuugh to think what he do, could do. The

^pto. now that be bad

il and failid.^Uu knew that clearly atmosphere into which he had

the previous ot

ing. Mr. Higgins seemed at first to be htsYriend. but he. too, bad grown cold and gruff. ’Lisbeth seemed kind, bat she was only a girk What could a girl

'Ho would have set out on his northward tramp immediately, but there seemed now on more before Jiim than there was behind. His skill at mowing be did not wish to put to the test again, and besides tliis morning be felt ao stiff and bis tack and limbs ached so persistently that it seemed as if he could not even climb down from his bed on the bay. .He was hungry, too. for berries for dinner and crackers and jam for sapper small food tor a healthy, motive

the ground ull I took up Then ue took his under his arm just as I did miuc. and kind of easy aud graceful, and 1 thought met,be h - could mow,

after all

"Well. I tell you it was fun to am!

him when ■ waited till

hght, easy tone, "1 like j young man. Never before in all hia life these S jda crackers ever so much tho bad be faced a prospect ao utterly dreary

they cost only a cent a pound and barren.

(ID b£ COa ilXL'Vx]

"litre me a .pound of thoea," said Alec gloomily, and the girl proceeded to

weigh them out.

"I heard you ask for some cheese,”

she busied herself with

■re not nn tW„ „r ousieo nereeu with

'* "* but we have e- —- — . 1.. — <■■.. ■ 1.