VOL XXVI. NO. 37.

CAPE MAY CITY. FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 13, 1897.

PRICES CENTS

CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY, X. J. ” EbIU of brtcV, ■Mutual on a blr? »>ili a clear oulljok over the Ocean, and pre vlded with every comfort and eo. • The room, are airy, edey and charm loglj fitted ; the cnlaine and aervice unexcelled, and there I, a lovely aix acre lawn peaecnRcr elevator, electric belle, firKt-claui laundry, flre-e»capes, and the moe oomplete larranR, n.euta for 500 Gue»U. Congree, Hall lie, been recently renova lion, repainted an i ut In excellent condition. The aanltary arrengementa i the moat approved pattern and are now perfect. EDWARD KXIGHT CAKE.

Marine Villa 23rd NEANOX, Cape May, N. J. Open Until October 1st. FOR ILLUSTRATED ALBUM, ADDRESS, Mrs-John M. Rogers Long Distance Telephone No 2. OWNER AND MANAGER.

HOTEL COLUMBIA,

CAPE MAYtCITY. N. J..

MRS. S. FOSTER, Formerly of the Wyoming

-STAB VILLA.- ecus a ue to

U CAPS MAT. H A OCEAX STREET mad REACH A VEX HE. Directly on the Beach. Finest Rooms. EXCELLENT TABLE. ,T. I. BICHARMOS.

Star Yilla,

ORIOLE Directly on BeArb. Xear CONGRESS HALL Bright and Capacloua Row bin EXCELLENT TABLE. MODERATE RATES. •MRS. FRIEND.

STOCKTON HOTEL THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL IN TiSe WORLD SEASON 1897 MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTLY FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFUL LAWNS. RATES, $3 AND $5 PER DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK

Corner rooms and suites with parlors and baths extra. Con-

certs mornings 10 to 12.

Hops evenings, 8.30 to 10'.30. Dogs not taken dr

allowed on the premises.

HORACE M. CAKE.

MARINE VILLA ANNEX Finest Location in Cape May. I HAVE TAKER THfc TATHAM COTTAGE IN CONNECTION WITH MARINE VILLA ANNEX. ,ton«. the Marine Villrthis season. Mrs. F. HALLENBECK.

^THE GHALF0NTE.9*Onder New Management, Appointment, Flrst-elats. Open all the Year. IWThoroujihly IIe.ted.-b3; CHAR CCS R AT.TOX. of IUb ('onlinenfnl Hotel, Prop.

South Lafayette St, Xear Beach, room *- ^ ubk MRS. M 8- FIELD-

13APJE MAY, UT. J. Open Spring. Summer, Autumn, liaa b«n renovated and la now firat-claia 1. all ita appointment.. Kine»t Location on the 8 .u h Jcrwy CoaaL The WlNUSOK alwaya haa enteruined ibe beat of Cip- Mjy’a vUltors and will icon !nue to K- HA 1.PI TV, Proprietor.

THE COLONIAL, capemay.n.j. rm FULL OCEAN VIEW. ' All Modem Conveniences. New House. Shady Piazzas. W. H. CHURCH.

BE GOOD TO ONE ANOTHER.

Who are wntcliM and rlHTiabnS tenderly IlJ father end mother. Who are eomforttd by the love that lie. In the kindly dfy>th> of a alator’a eyee Or the helpful word, of a brother.

Words epoken on ytor kvjit aitalnat you aner. If they made the faee of a mother sad. Or a tender airier', heart leM plad. Or chocked a brother's laughter— will rlw> again, and they trlU be hoard And every tlioughtlm. footlah word That ever j .air 11]. have .puken After the lap— ,.f j,«r» and ymra Will terlnit Worn you auch hitler team

A MOUNTAIN DAISY. It was in a corner of the conservatory behind the palms during one of the meet fashionable functions <fT the sea son. This ncomi a favorite situation with fate while weaving the web of -human destiny. Fred Trevor, toll, dark, self contained, with power apparent in every look, movement and feature, stood with hands crossed behind him before the magnificent woman he bad just seated. "You know. Mis. Aldcn," as he leaned toward her, "that my knowledge of the social tenets is not profound.” "You have only to follow your instincta, Mr. Trevor." - "And you are the gentle mentor who warned me against the sin of flattery?” “If I have paid an undeserved compliment, it Is to society in assuming that it has attained to your standard. ” ■‘You're incorrigible, but I'll aecrpt the verdict and carry out the thought I had in bringing you here.” She made no answer, save to withdraw her eyes from his and gather in the folds of her dress to make room for him to sit down. "I want to tell you something of my life and then ask your advice. 1 am not assuming that the story has any special interest for you, but I have a selfish desire for your opinion after I have told M." "But don't you know, as a genera!' truth* that, with the average woman, the man who is rich, famous and honored glorifies bis antecedents, no matter what they may be?" "If you were the average woman, I would never have sought this opportunity, When I first faced the world alone, I Was a little, ill fed. sallow, ragged and'half drcssedbny in the Cumberland mountains. I did not know that there was such a thing as a railroad, a steamboat, a book, a hereafter, music, culture or anything different from the detestable surroundings from which I longed to escape. My father bad been killed in defending an illicit still, and mother Just seemed to go With the mountain fioweni which I had gathered for her till they ceased to bloom that fall. During the winter I was kept alive despite kicks and bruise* by a family that bad me as their sole rclie in ‘toting’ water and gathering jd. ‘In the spring I went away; made up a-little bundle and stole off in the night. Till the evening of the next day I hurried over the nd clay roads and paths, terror of being caught and taken back crowding out every other thought and feeling. But hunger and exhaustion be denied, and at last I went stealthily to a little cabin where a girl of my own age was 'kcepin' house in a hollow stnuiii, just outside. She put her frouxlcd head over the wall of her primitive abode to conduct an examination. ‘Whoisyou uns, boy?' 'Whar's you' par?' 'Whar's you' mar?' 'Whar moot you he a-gciu?‘ were questions that 1 answered as well as 1 could. Then she said wisely, 'I ‘lows tbet you is nmned sway.' • “This would have put me to flight, but she sprang out, told mu to take her place, and while I sat in the- cramped quarters die brought me all that I could eat and a paper of food to carry with me. After assuring mo that she would have her ‘par’ shoot any one who might be trying to recapture me, she pointed the nearest way to a town, walked a way with me and said u we parted, T reckon you uns 'ill bmr ter kirn back some time an marry me fur all them wittles an fur tell in folks we uns haven't sawen you when they come* s'archin.' I promised her, of course. ” ‘ ‘But you never told ns that yon were engaged, ” laughed his brilliant listener. "Where can we find your mountain daisy?” "I wish I could tell you. The incident was one of the events of my Ufa For the first time I knew the sweetnon at sympathy. 1 have grown to almost detest the people from whom 1 sprang because of their ignorance and lack of ambition, hut the little girl of the hollow stump has always had a warm place in my memory. Y'ou know most of my exiierieure in the far weot. Before 1 bad been there six months I found the old man known as Hermit Ben lying unconscious and apparently dying in one of the mountain gorges I brought the aid that carried him to his shanty, procured a doctor and was bis "be recovered. He felt toward me as I did toward the ignorant little girl back in Tennessee. I bad been good to him without any selfish motive, and be no eooner was well than he announced that I was his boy Jim. This was my protection, for, despite the fact that be was a recluse, Ben was known as a bad man when interfered with and respect that-was belgbtby the mystery with which be sur-

rounded himself. Sinn thing bsd made 1 him at enmity with the world. Fcr year* fie told me not lung, though from the first he showed me all the affection of a mother and care of a father. ' 'It was soon a matter of common re- ; port that Ben'* new boy was to be a j gentleman. The hermit himself took ; charge of my primary education. Ho j wra* delighted with my lack of knowl- j edge and my endless list of simple questions. for it showed him that ho was working on virgin soiL Ho molded mo in accordance with hi* own conception of man hoed, forever impressing upon me that ingratitude was tho cardinal sin. When I could comprehend, be told me that I would bo rich, that I must (pend money generously and that some time he would let me into tho secret which would place at my command all the Immeasurable power of gold. “When it came time for me to go cast to college, I suggested that I should go back to tho old olace in the mountains "ana see u I‘eouia do anything W the girl who had been kind to me. No act of mine ever pleased him more, and when I left him It was with unlimited credit antborized by one of the greatest banking institutions of the west. I did not find the girl, but learued that she had first been employed and then adopted by a widow whoso husband had fallen in tho war. I left money with a lawyer, telling him to find the girl and have her educated. A year later this money was returned to me with notice that he could do nothing fur m.-, I wrote for further information, but could get no reply. ‘‘Before my Untfactor died he told me of the rich gold find ho had worked without sharing his secret with any on a. You know how It proved a verita bio mine of wealth, built up a thriving city and won me the title at a bonanza king. He also told me how a heartless woman had wrecked his life and asked me to never abandon the search-for the little mountain girl until I knew what had become of her and whether it was within my power to help her. You have no idea bow man and boy, thrown together as we were, could build a romance upon a foundation so ifiender." “I think I understand. And you have found no trace?" ‘‘Kane that I could follow. After that fight when tho strikers tried to destroy tho machineiy at tho mine, my wounds threw mo. Into a fever, and throngh all the delirinm I talked in the dialect of my boyhood with the littlo maid I had never seen but once. That shows yon the hold she bad upon me, and even yet I have an Ideal that must either be shattered or confirmed before I can bo content. Now for your advice. Should I marry before I have seen this

girir’

“Not with my approval, Mr. Trevor. Go to the end of your foolish dream, or it might haunt you and some woman might suffer.” ‘‘I bad hoped for a different answer from you." And his eyes told tho old, old story. "But I'm your friend and can give no other. This is our waltz." Within a mouth Trevor received n letter in a yellow, blotted envelope. The scrawl only said: ."I reckon you uns her f urge tied me. I’m bark here again, an I hcv beam you uns was

rich.”

Trevor shuddered. His romance had died a cruel death. But gratitude was his strong point Belnctontly he went. When at length he rode to the front of the old cabin therq was a woman in a Unary dress, her back to him, while she threw food to tho noisy chickens Just as he reached her ride she turned with, ‘‘Well, yon uns did kim back,

hey?"

“Miss Aldcn," gasped Trevor, as he crushed the ‘‘mountain daisy" against his breast And the promise of tho babyhood was made good.—Detroit Free Press., According to the remarkable compilations prepared and published by the Chicago Tribune the sums represented by tho embeuiumcnis, defalcations, forgeries and hank wrecking of tho past year In tho United States amounted to (9,400,O'.!!, an average of about (783,890 per month. Tho losses Inflicted In this way upon tho oonfldenoc of the public were not as great as they were In 1894 and fall far below the figures at 1894, (95,984,119, when these forms of rascality wrought most destructively Ip the history of too country. Tho nearestdpprosch to tlie record at 1894 was that at 1884, when the public was victimised to the extent of (29,154,000. Tho figure* relating to the operation* of embrselcrs, forgers, etc., vary at course greatly from year to year, so that it is difficult to determine from a record of this character whether Die world Is growing bettor or worse. Tho record by states si New York occupies first plane, i Hampshire) second and 1'onnsylvanla a close third- Tho losses ore distributed as follows: Stolen from banks, (8,990,0701 by city anil county official*, (1,898,9701 by agent*, (1,040,000; by forgeries, (841,000; from loan associations, (479,087; miscellaneous stealings, (2,900,000.—Philadelphia Lodger.

The Washington Post thus quote* a

Nothing Is worse than fog at sui. A storm may eausu dlsonuifort, an aeoldrnt nmy cause delay, hut In neither caso dots the traveler feel so helpless as when hit vessel Is completely shut In by danse fog. To lessen the danger which then exist* Professor E. C. IMekerlng, tho director of tho Harvard college observatory, suggest* In a pamphlet pint received a method of determining tho jiosltlon of a vesssl In a fog. hired Upon the velocity of aound. If two fog horn* of different pitch bo plaood ut equal distance* from the middle of a channel or entrance to a harbor and bo aoundod slmultamvmsly at regular Inter-

ne evident

captain.

will b.

able to lo-

Boles Penrose come* of good old Philadelphia stock. He haa the Philadelphia accent, too, and will make tho galleries laugh when ho says'Ol’ln voting upon the affirmative side of a question. Ho I* a fine, handaoxne young fellow, athletlo acdpver ( feet tall, only 80 year* old and unmarried. He looks enough like Fred Dubois at Idaho to he hi* brother, only ho Is larger. Penrose Is said to play a strong bnnd at whist and other card games much In vogue and is sure to bo popular. Ho Is a little coocntrio in his dress and insists upon wearing a brood brimmed, bell crowned silk hat of the vintage of about 1809. He also wears a sack coot of unusual length, which Is known in Pennsylvania as tho Penrose coot. He may lay these aside when he domes to Washington, but he wont bo the same Boles Penrose without them." The Too rarer Expedition.

by Gvsrnanand Austrian scientists will be commanded by J. von Payer. It will bo Eelbourn? whlS wili'lSi^ncxt'amm^ tnd spend the winter in Vlotorla Land. Von Payer will not accompany this, but W*" ret out with the i ' *“*—

eato his iMdti„n with fair accuracy tiy m. ing when the sounds of the horns era beard. U the lw., sound* are bunrd at the same Instant, tho wsecl will be in the middle of the I'hatniel, and If tiny are board afn-r one aii .llur It would be pooslblo to Judge from‘Die Interval butween the two how raui-h the vesre-l is out of the middle of the channel. For vessels passing one another Professor Pickering Buggosta that ■sq;li ele iilil whistle or blow the •rived from the other vessel. Then If they are five tnll.-s apart each will whistle every 60 scuomls, and the lU.tnnro In mile* between the two vessel* van always bo determined by dividing the Interval In sec-

ond* by ten.

By placing two different fog whistles on a long steamer, one at tho bow and tho other at the stern, and arranging that the sound* emitted by both should be beerd together by on observer standing at the bow. many collisions might bo prevented. Instruction* could le given to sailing vessd* to keep quiet so long as both signals were hoard se; an.tely, fur they would then other laud noise when both whistles were heard together, for they would then be In front of the steamer. These various sneth - od* may b»- combined Indefinitely, and they sect i to I*, worth the ounslderntlon at navigate • — Nature.

Only

. The bnl».ns were on fiat grout Ing u valk?, when tin- travelei Arab greyhounds, oocustonud tol oessfully with hyenas and ether prey, ruslud toward the balssm tho female* took to flight. Tho i tho contrary, turned to face tho dogs, growled, beat the ground with their hands opened their mouths wide and showed thetrglittering tecth nnd l.*.ked ut their adversaries i»i furiously nnd maliciously “that tho hound*, usually bold and buttle burdened, eliKwii: back. By the time the dogs were cncoSSugvd to renew their attack tho whole henl had made their way, covered by the tvar guard, to the rocks, ex-

cept a O-mouths-

left b

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down from tho cliff mar, advanced toward the dogs, kept them in cluck by gesture* and menacing sound*, picked np the baby monkey and carried it ui tho cliff, where the dor.so crowd of inofikeys, shouting ism. The march of the baboons is not a mere expedition of tho predatory members of the community. The whole nation "trek" together nnd moke war on tho cultivated ground in common. Their communities aro numerous enough to reproduce lu rolls laturo tho movements of troop*. Tlietribe often numU-rs from 2.70 to 800 individuals. Of these tho females and young aro placed In tho center when on tho march. whUo tho old males march in front and also close tho roar. Other males scout upon tho flanks. It bus been noticed tliat those remain ou guard and do not feud

Mien 8pucimur.

Leprosy In Kuropo. Leprosy Is not so rare as wo have thought. A leper was tho other day picked up In a faint in a street of Paris and taken to tho St. Louis hospItaL There were already there six leprous patient a Dr. Hallopaux, who treats them, my* that leprwy regains vigor as an Invading disease. In Franco there are no isolated cases dotted ever the delta of the Hhone and tho Maritime Alp*. The leper*’ hovpinds at San Kemo and In SjioIii and Portugal are never without jwtlen!*. Ixqxvisr gain* ground ' In Turkey, but still more In Hie Ionian isles. There are now WO le|»-rs lu Crete. Norway 1* the musl b-prou* i-oiintry In Europe. It has actually hurt h-|.-rs. The progress of tbodl*>siso In Sweden Isiilanning. The last statistics gin- llic number of Icq* era at 402. There an- Um.bOO In British India. Indn-Chltm. T..iiqiilii. China and Japan aro Infested with l.qirosy. So art Haiti, Trinidad, Guiana. Venezuela, Ibw til and Paraguay.—Pan* 1-otter Spider* That Cxtrh Illrd*. W. J. Itainbow, mi Australian nutnral 1st, gives a description of the large bltd entrapping spiders of hi* country. Rep roach tallies of this pen us ulibuiid In tropical* and subtropical region*. Their well* aro ‘ ‘ two kinds of silk—one yellow, viscid and elanllr, tho other white, dry and somewhat brittle. The latter Is used for tlic framework of tho web, the guy* and radii, and tho former for the concentric rings. These snare* are at vaflcd heights, sometimes within wadi, again It) to 13 feet from tho ground, but always in a position exposed to tlie ray* of tho sun. The diameter Is also variable, from about 8 feel upward. One seen by Graffe In the Fiji Islands construct* a web 80 feet In diameter. These Kiuire* are strong enough to cntrap small bird*. In the autlior'* opinion the web Is not set for such game, and the spider does not fund on her ornithological victim. In tlie case where she lias been observed with her lung* In the body of tbs ensnared blrddt I* prolcildc that It Is for the purpose of hastening the death of the bird In anlcrto pin-vont Its Injuring the web in lu struggle* to escape. Spiders of the.genu* nepinLi ore csudly tamed. Although jxocKlingly voracious, they can •list for many day* without food or water. Chronicle.

a crusade of rouitusy by Issuing the following circular: "The co-operation of the men of Cbtr.-go I* earnestly solicited in a crusade of courtesy. Tlie tendency of men and boys to retain seau In public conveyance* while women and girls arc com pc! led to stand Is growing to such an extent that even the presence at elderly and feeble women Is gradually bring Ignored. It is believed that tlie attention of the avenge man need only bo railed to this stats at affair* to Impel his aid In eradicating this growing and humiliating evil. It Is alto believed that due oounewy shown to woman in this ru*i«ct, regardless of ago or personality, will be elevating in Its effect upon ssr conduct."