VOL XXVI. NO. :t!l.

CAI‘K MAY CITY. MONDAY MORNING AUGUST lo, 1897.

PRICES CENTS

STOCKTON HOTEL

THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL 1^ THE WORLD

SEASON 1897

IN^TH

CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY, K. J. ' Bnllt of brick, dtutlrd no • bl'-P -•‘•h * <li»r ,.jl1>ok orrr the Oc*»o. »nd p vRIcd with rrery comfort cod co. -Tic looma are air;, ooa; and char tefflf fitted : tbe colaloe aod arrvlcr bi>- «■ riled, ai d there ia a lovely aix acre lav ■r*—|t" elevator, electric bella, firat-claaa laundry, nrr-eaca|»«, and the m complete arrang n.rnta for 600 Gueata. CoogreM Hall haa hen ivccntly reno tico, repainted aa i nt In exoellent condition. Tbe aanltary arrangement* are the moat approved pattern and ar* now perfect. EDWARD KXIUHT (TAKE.

arine Villa

83rd SEASOX,

Cape^ May^ 5f. J.

Open Until October 1st.

FOR ILLUSTRATED ALBUM, ADDRESS, Mrs John M. Rogers

C Distance Telepbonc No 2.

OWNER AND MANAGER.

HOTEL COLUMBIA, cape may:city, n. j.

MRS. S. FOSTER. Formerly of the Wy-n

Star Villa,

aw. CAPS MAT. H. JOCEAN STBEET ud BEACH AYEKUE.

Directly on the Beach. Finest Rooms. EXCELLENT TABLE. IF. I* RICH AR DNOX.

ORIOLE Dlr.ctljr on Brncb. Year CONGRESS HALL BrtKht «nd Capraclmna EXCELLENT TABLE. MODERATE RATES. MRS. FRIEND.

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTLY FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFUL LAWNS. RATES, <; AND $5 PER DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK

Comer rooms and suites with parlors and baths extra. Concerts mornings 10 to 12. Hops evenings, S.30 to 10 30. Dogs not taken or allowed on the premises. ^ HORACE M. CAKE.

MARINE VILLA ANNEX Finest Location in Cape May. I HAVE'TAKEN THE TATHAM and PAGE COTTAGE’S IN CONNECTION WITH — MARINE VILLA ANNEX. !o« ready in rec lve my fonncr pationa. 1 ahall nut manage the Marine Villa Uila aeancn. Mrs. F. HALLEN8ECK.

-stTHE GUALFOXTE.9^

RUNNING INTO DEBT.

Xev Voiik, Aug. 16.—l?r. Talmago In Ida wrriuun for today allows bow running Into hoiwlrn debts and akeptlolam bavt undone young men In town and country. Tbe text Is Proverbs .

the slaughter."

Tbiw la nothing In tho voice or manner of the butcher lo Indicate to the ox thi there Is death ahead. Tbe ox thinks be going On 10 s rlob pasture field of dovet where all day long bo will revel herbaceous luxuriance, but after awhile the men and the boys with sticks and sionca and shouting, and drive IiIib through liars and Into a doorway. where ho Is fastened, and with well aimed stroke the ax fella hit anticipation of the redolent pasture field Is completely disappointed. So maoy a young man bus been driven on by temptation to wliat he thought would be paradisiacal enjoyment, bnt after awhile Infiaenoe* with darker hue and swarthier arm close in upon him, and be finds that In- *•!> nd of mnklng an excursion Into a gar We are apt to blame yonng men for being diwtroycd when we ought to blame tlx Influences that destroy them. Society slaughters a great many yout the behest: "You must keep ' . anocs. Whatever be your salary, you must dress as well as others, you must give wine and brandy to as many friends, you must smoke as costly cigars, you mu give as expensive entertainments, and yi must live In as fashionable a boarding

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Under Ne» Manigcmrnt. Appointments Fiist-elavs. Open all the Yi

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CIIIKI.1S \l i I.TO.\. aTtki Co'jUneiiUiI Hotel, Prop.

HOTEL DEVON

South Lafayette St,

Near Reach,

V HANTukHKN 1 r W ' r00 “'' ttb,, MRS. M B FIELD-

CAPE ML AY, 3V. J. Open Spring. Summer. Autumn. Il» been renovated aod ia now first class U its appointment*. Kin-sl Loc*Uim ,m the S nili Jcracy C'omL The WINDdl ala ays baa etpi ruined the brat of Cvpc May's vi.iiors auj will' non Icueto

R. HAEPI]>f, Proprietor.

THE COLOMAL, cape “ y j n - j '

FULL OCEAN VIEW.

id there a bill from

bundle of lank hills. You will only have to make the deception a little wbllo. ' a few months or In a year or two yon a make It all right. Nobody will bo he by It, nobody will be tbe wiser. Yi yourself will not bo damaged." liy that awful process a hundred thonsond men have Kvn slaughtered for time and slaugliSuppose you borrow. There is nothing wrung ahuut borrowing money. There la hardly a man who has not sometimes burrowed money. Vast estates have been built on a IUJtrowed dollar. But there , two kinds of Inrrowed money: Money borrowed for tbe punioar of starting or ' tug Up legitimate riilcrpriae and expense and money borrowed to get that v ' you con do without The first Is right, the other is wrong. If you have a lough of your own to buy a coot, er plain, ami then you burrow money for a dandy's outfit, you have taken the first revolution of the wheel down grade Borrow for the necessities; that may lie well. Borrow for the luxuries; that tips your prospects over in the wrong dlree-

othiT suvet to own I a: meeting

whom you owo. If yumig men knew what Is the despotism of being in debt, more of them woulu keep out of it What did debt do for rd Bnrun. with a mind towering above the centuries? It Induced 1dm lo take bribe* and convict himself as a crim-

inal before all agex WTiat did Waiter ficolt, broken hearted ford? Kept him writing unt

gave out In paralysis, to keep tbe sheriff awny from his pictures and stntunr ~

ter for Mm If bo hml lulmlod the

which bo had cliinelcd over the flrv-jilaoo at Abbotsford. "Waste not, wont not." The trouble Is. my friends that people do not understand the ethics of gnini ' debt, and that If you purchase goods v

no expectation of |«ying fi "

si jus

which

inch money,

urv and I buy sugars and coffees s with no rapacity to no Intention of paying f< • iislKinesi than If I go

9 the mcrime of tils

chant's tlmu and 1 toko the time of inessonp* to transfer the goods to my house, while In the other case 1 take none of tbe time of the merchant, and I wait upon myself, mid 1 transfer the goods without any trouble to him. In other words, a sneak tlili f Is not so bad as a man who contracts debts lie never expects

to pay

Yet In all our cities there ora families who move every May day to get Into proximity to other grocers and muatabops and apothecaries. They owo every body within half a mile of wh.-ro they now live, and next May they will move Into a distant port of the city, finding a new lot of victims. Meanwhile you. the honest family -In the new bouse, am bothered day by day by tbe knocking at the door of disappointed Inkers and butchers and dry goods dealers and newspaper carriers, and yon ore asked wIhw your predecessor Is. You do Dot know. It wasarrangedyou should has gone to aoiuc distant port of the city, and tbe people who have anything to sell have sent their wagons and stopped there to *011011 the “valuable" custom of tbe new neighbor, and be, the new neighbor, with great complacency and an air of affluence, orders tbe finest steaks and tbe highest priced sugars and tbe best of tbe conned fruit* and perhaps all the newspapers, /.nd the debts will keep on accumulating until bo gets his goods on tbe 80th of next April In Uiu.fnrnlture cart.

died Into bankruptcy by Arab*, those nomads of city llf*. They chest tbe grocer out. of the green apple* which make them rick, tbe physician who attends them during thslr distress, and the undertaker who flu them out for departure from the neighborhood where they owe everybody when they pay tbe debt of nature, the only debt they ever do pay. Now our young men are comlna un In

this depraved sti

and I am solicitous about to warn them against bcl on the sharp edges of debt You wont ■ young

lu jus

will h

misdirection, that It is late justbow many letters will he detained for lack of pustage stamp* through the forgetfulness .if the senders, and that It Is poaslhle to tall Just how many people will **" “ v ~ — - by slipping un on orange nrds, there are no aceluveta. * ne most Insignificant event yen ever heard ul is the link between two eternities—the eternity of tbe jsist and the eternity of the future. Head the right w.,y, young man. and you will coroe out at the right goal. Bring me a young man and tell mo what hU physical health Is and what bis mental callUr and what his habit*, and I will tell you what will be his destiny for this world and hi* destiny for the world to oome. and I will not make five Inaccurate propHfci.w out of tbe 600. All this makes roe solicitous In regard to young men, and I want to make them nervous in regard to

I said to myself, "Whet, all this for one year!" I was afraid of getting worldly under ao much prosperity. I resolved to Invito all tin- congregation to toy bouse In groups of 96 each. We began, end aa they were the best congregation In all tbe world and wo felt nothing was too good for them we piled all the luxuries on Uie table. 1 never rompletcd the undertaking. At tbe end of six mouths l was In finan rial despair. ITotmd that we not only had not the surplus of luxuries, but we bad a struggle to get the neorsritle*. and 1 learned what every young man learns. In

e of a

fulness, who gathered all 1

snipped! There is u

hirst, haven rouM somewhere that yon can call your ow n. U hether It bo the beck parlor of a fasM.m.-iLle hoarding house or a room In the fourth story of a cheap lodging, I care not. Only have that one room your fortress. l*-t not the dlsflpetor or unclean stop ovtv the threshold. If they come up the long flight of stnirsnnd knock at tho door, meet them face to face and kindly yet firmly refuse them admittanor. Have a few faintly portraits on the wall. If you brought them with yon from vour country home* Have a IMdo on tha stand. If you can afford It nod can play

hnrpn

The Mcbtoris Woe*. When a young man willfully and o choice, having the comforts of life, goo Into the contraction of unpayable debts be knows twit into what be goe*. Tb< creditors get after the debtor, the pack o: hounds In full cry, and, alas,.for the reindeer! 'X hey jingle Ids doorbell before he — •' tornlng; they jingle his tas gone to bed nt night.

doorbell after hi

up. They attach his goods. They cash nr a note at 80 days or a note on maud. They call Mm a knave. They he lie*. They want him dlsclpllmd In church. They want him turned out of ink. They come at him from this ad from that side and from befot and from behind and from alovc an from beneath, and bo Is Insulted and gibbeted and sued and dunned and sworn at until be gets the nervous dyeis-psia, gets neuralgia, gets liver compbdut, get* heart disease, gets convulsive disorder, get* eon sumption. Now bo Is dead, and you say. "Of course they will let him alone," oh, in. Now they are watchful to see whether here ore any n mien usury exiense* at the Olisequir*. to eee w hi tber Ibcre Is m.y tireleas handle on the casket, to see whether thpre is any surplus plait on tbe shroud, to *«-o whether the hearse la costly or cheap, to see whether the flower* rent to the casket have been bought by the family or donated, to see In whose name the decaf Hu n they nins-u-k the In-reft household, Iho books, the pictures, tho carpets, Un :halrs, the sofa, the piano, tho mattresses, the pillow cn w hich he died Carnal !» fur the sake of jour good morals, for the sake of yourlniuiortai soul, for Gad's sake, young man. os far as possible keep out through Irveliglun. Take away a j man's religion and you make him tbe prey of evil. We all know that tho Bllde Is the only perfect system of morals Now. If you want to destroy tbe young nan's morals, take his Bible away. How will you do that? Well, you will caricature Ills reverence for the Scripture*, you will lake all those lucidenta of the Bible wbh' am lie tnaile mirth of—Jonah's whnl will caricature ccoutrio Christians, or In ^insistent Christians, then you will )«■» off os your own oil those hackneyed argu nt* against Christianity which are oi ns Tom Paine, as old as Yultalro, n> <ln. Now. you have captured hit

Bllilc,

i have

a hi*

Tho way Is comparatively cloa loan tho gates of his soul are set open I vltnllon to the sins c-f earth and the so w* of deni h, that they may como In at ivc tbo stnho for their ennuiipiucntA steamer l,6Uu tulles from shore wll oken rudder and lost compass and hu. liking 60 gallons tho hour Is better off an a young man wbun you bave robbed m of bis Bible. Have you ever noth IW despies My mean It Is to take aw . e world's Bible without proposing a sub:k man and steal Ms medicine, meaner an to oome to a cripple and crutch, meaner than to como to a pauper steal Ms crust, manner than lo oomo poor man and burn bis bouse down. It 1* the wotst of all larcenies to steal th(

Bible which has

d food ni

Dal 1

What a generous and magnanimous business Infidelity lias gone into! This splitting up of lifeboats and taking away of Ire escapes and extinguishing of lightlouses. 1 come out and 1 say to such peoile, "What are you doing all this fori" ■Oh," they say. “just for fun!" It Is such fun to au> Christians try to bold their Bible*! Many of them baveli loved ones and have bean told tliat there Is iiirroctlon, and It Is such fun to tell u there Vvlll tic no resurrection. Many of them have believed that Christ came tel carry the burdens and to heal the wounds of tbo world, and It Is such fun to toll them they will have to be their own savThlnk of the meanest thing you ever beard of, then go down 1,000 feet undorI It and you will find yourself at the top of a stair* 100 mile* hug Go to tbo bottom of the stairs, and you will find a ladder 1,000 miles long; then go to the foot of tho ladder and look off a precipice as far as from here lo China, and you will find tbe headquarter* of the racannooa 'at would rub this world of lu only oom rt In life, tto ouly peaoo la death and lu ily bopa for Immortality, fa laughter a young man s faith in God, and there Is

lucii mom left to slaughter,

w, wbal haa become of tha slaughtered? Well, some of them ore In their fa-

friend* You shall basal

patience and honesty and Industry. Car- i tain Hoes of conduct always lead out to ' certain aunnnai i. There la a law wb

tola even thoae things that seem bap- guod health and goo

r4 1 has* been sold by tboae who ghrtattan agamplaaalhimaudopportunity

health, waiting

hospital, others an In the oesuclety, or r bodies are, for their souls have

retribution Not much pros-

pect for a young man who started life with

Kvcry night after

iitiracU. Nobudy else will Your help w 111 not come or four flights of stair*

nig man. and think of v You w ill find that from now are the mllintiry. who nro the or- , who are the jsiets of -tho strung mm-hant* i are tho great phltanonntry—mightiest in

of tbe country rhureh and su level with you.

Jlcrsohel • i.rti.d his living by playing a vlolli\at parties, and hi Uic interstices of the play he would go out and look up nt

'» >'*ur eye. In yoc

again en: |ssl' '"wii equipped

i only the God of tbo whole >C could nfiortl t.. equip him linn ody—a ve-ry isiir afiair eennparrd

Issit bended uji stream with nothing hut mighty God help them they will go under lleware of the Wine Cop. Ah. when I told yon to toko ran of yourself you tulMiuderstood me If you thought I iLiaiil you are lo di |ien<l u|«n

thin panoply, and )ou shall not be pu confusli.n. Sill pay* well neither In world n.>r themit, but right thinking . right believing and right art log will t transport through Iho next. 1 newt shall forget a prayer 1 Inal young man make some 16 years ago. wo* a v. ry short prayer, but It whs a niendous jirajert "O Ixinl. help us! find It so very easy to do wrong am liutd to do right l/irtl, help us!’ '1 God uiid reached hUbrnriT And there

' wrong ntxlwu hard to do rtglu i letter ono day, only ouu imrailoh 1 shall road:

s-ould ►,

ak He < or£« yoa

- bo had u

with barely sufficient to keep bln. tnplo of week* Hu had been tenderly reared, •lerhups I should say too temh riy. and was not used to earning bis lit lug and found It extremely difficult to get any position that he was copabluuf filling. Aft-

s in t

s dlnx--t

itindoy evening In

Brooklyn yusir your ebureb with aUmt *8 left of bis small capital. Providence seemed to had him to your desir. and he determlmd to go In and hear you. "Ho told mo Ms going to bear you that night was undouhbdly tho turning |siiut In bis life, for when hr went Into your ehun-h lie fell des|H-rate, hut while llstenthe Tnaetery 1 truly 1x1 lev* from what tills yoliiig man told me that your sounding file- depth* of his heart that night alone brought him luck to his God, whom

That I

■ r lea

log.'

iltltudca I am

not i reaching un almi raetlon. but a great naliiy <> fricudh** young maul O prodigal young man! O broken lieartod - tig man discouraged young tusn. mill'd yonng man, I cuinrocnd to you Christ this day, the Uat friend s man t*var bad. Hr meeta you tbla morning Deaplao emotion rising In your soul It ia. divinely lifted. Look into the face of Christ I.tfl nro pmyi r to your father's od. lb yourhueither's God and this mornig get tho pardoning blessing. Now, hlls 1 gpeok, you arc at tbo forks of the •ad, and this i* the right rood, and that tbo wrong road, and 1 see you atari on

lo right road.

Ouu bob bath iBurniug at the cloac of Continued on Page :