VGML XXVI. NO. 49.

OAPE MAY CITY.

CONGRESS HALL,

STOCKTON HOTEL

'&KU

THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL IN THE Wi

SEASON 1897

C.APK MAY,

Hollt of brick, iltuatKl on » blof w!

vlded with erery comfort end oc. Th'- room

Inifly filled ; the cntaluc end eerTice uih-xc iiwI, >nd there U a lovely'elx acre lawn paaaenger elevator, electric belle, firat-claea laundry, Ore-eacapiw, and the on triplet* arraog menu for 800 Oueeta. Congreaa Hall hat been recently

X. J.

-■Ill >ok over the Ocean, and pn

re airy, coey and charm

>, repainted an i nt In exi’cllent condition. The aanltary arrxugcmenta

the moat approved pattern and are now perfect. £I>WAB1> KXIGHT CAKK.

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS DIRECTL-Y FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFULLAWNS. 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 or

allowed on the premises.

e the for.

HORACE M. CAKE.

Perhepa

pete In nttrnct

buttery am) the empty oil barrel. Poedbly thh. tuny need an explanation, but words

inndeqnntc unc. if you would

>f the remark, you

to fc vt no empty lot and expcrlmn.l a irr.tu fire of lojnt; then, nr 1» uu aliiHMt white led boat in i t in the old piece of zinc from I».d ekx-irir liattury. In a few the ordinary red and yellow II lie ali-t thronph and through hut Intensely brilliant blue onua, ddy Unutiful. This part of the

oil h

iqoi

Nothing luij 1 r

MARINE VILLA ANNEX

Finest Location in Cape May.

I HAVE TAKEN THE

PAGE and TATHAM COTTAGES IN CONNECTION WITH MARINE VILLA ANNEX.

Mrs. F. HALLENBECK.

hat the curtain

' ' r 1- 10 the real play. The oil barrel.

It is M-urrcly uuoiw.ry to nay, murt bo cmpiY—that la, tinltwa you have engaged a quarter as thm ..t a mudy dceort for tbo dl'.plar. Knockout the two enda, make your log Are javoarly level and aecare and

barrel on end th«vu|Kin.

for a few minute*.

1 m u mere is a crisp crackling, with an Intermittent, faint mar. Pretty Boon a tongue of llnme from tlie lire below shoots up through tho barrel, annus to toko a swift survey of the situation, and then sinks tmek. In a moment another long, investigating flatno darts out M tho top, os If to confirm then-port of tho' -

Evidontly the coas ‘

In another instant,

then- shoots np a column of flame ID, It, If. f..’! high. It Is as if a legion of devils was in.aping wltli a mighty whir of their ovll Wi<9. Fifty or fio" - -

of sparks, streaming upward if they

Charles Nelson** hesrt will carry weight •O the end it lu rare with time. An onnee of load Is the handicap, and the most daring of surgn.ua would shake bis h the South Side cyclist were to ask to be relirtedof his burden allowed I ont his race like other men. If three Skiagraphs of the Injured i__- . ebost mb he trusted, the bullet which pl.-reed his brats! on tbe night of July 1 In Washington park lodged In the septum of bis heart—the fourfold partition of muscular fiber tliat divides the Inmclor of tliat organ Into auricles and ventrlc* right and left. There It threbs up i down 100,000 times a day, bidding d nnec with every pulsation to tho law to of doctors that tbo touch of hoetlle metal to a man's heart lirlngs death. For Nalson lu.s g..no hack to his boarding bouse, and except for the pain attendant up. tho healing of Die wound in tho outer wi of Ids thorax, he has nothing to remind

black spot, which, according to l

nly black si

Marine Villa

*Srd NEASOX,

Capc u May,’ W, J.

' Open Unm October Ut FOR ILLUSTRATED ALBUM, ADDRESS,

Mrs. John M. Rogers

Loot Distance Telephone No 2-.

OWNER AND MANAGER.

***THE GHALFONTE.sfs

Under New Management- Appointments First class. Open all the Tear.

'tST Thoroughly Heated.*^!:

riTARLCK M AIsTOX, ©f the fonliticntul Hotel, Prop.

the stars, which a

liavo dlsappoarod. and ns i to get hark to their places, that ruaring column of aim

rally liright Hume leaps a swirls Into a writhing, twisting spiral of flcrec fin-. 1 lie loveliest colors play through the Bam.—rose and pale green and a 1aml , cm s. u t <.f white. Round and roand they go In lung wind blown. Imping currm until one holds one’s Drouth with terror and admiration i f them. Around tho brink of this pit uf fire, at the very edge of the Is.m l. there Is a ring of flame about an In. 1. high whlcli Is not wparatud from Uie li.ry roluinn, but can be distinctly seen.

itirfiusMw tho rest In brlUtatiry

IS tin- s.

.** tlio m

All thi-rhaj-sudy al. Id oil Isirn L* Yes, even on. Rut word, aiinul is.iut such a fiery wonder. As tmunc ought to f.-curu the

' i and try

barrel and tlic use of u

bullet which c

1 lost 1U

rle that .

sharply defined and clmr

shadow records usual metal when snbjeoMd • Irregularity, experts

The spot Is

Id outllooa. ly made by hits of to the X rays Th

soy. Is certain ovh . pellet Is InilMvlded In mnscular tissue, whose movements blurred the Image. In two of the Skiagraphs, the front view end

** the shadow of the ballet me place—almost exactly

HOTEL^COLUMBIA,

CAPE MAYiCITY. N. J.

Be.OT.ted ..d Improve,!. lew Brnteremenl.

Con Ten ten fly Located.

MRS. S. FOSTER, Formerly of the Wyoming

Star Villa,

CAPE HAT. M. A

OCKAY STREET and BEACH A YES HE.

Directly on the Beach. Finest Rooms. EXCELLENT TABLE. .F. JL BICHARDSOY.

ORIOLE

IMreotly on Renob. Year

WNURESS U \LL

EXCELLEST TABLE. MODERATE RATES. MRS. FRIEND.

HOTEL DEVON

id lArr^cool'rersudaL* 11 '

South Lafayette St. Near Beach, jhwalshad rooms, good ul MRS. M- B FIELD-

Open Spring. Sommer, Autumn srpointiueMS Finest Lo DOR always has mu ruined the

MAY, J*. Has been renovated and 1* n ,v first-cli.. _ itiou on the S 'utb Jersey Coaat. The WIND>c«- of Cape Msy * vi.icora

K. MA-LtPl.-X, JL*roprietor. >

hlnslly, Isiwmer, tb.re came a bright ^ut In the dark side of the barrel It frew ceu while It was aunomiocd tn oxciltsl tones. Tho flam os wore eating iheir way through the wind. In another seound there was a luuilcr .-mrkle, and a hundred tiny blue tongue* darted out between tl.o stalls, ai.d licked that outer surfarc of tfco barrel ex iRTlinentally. They aauued to tan..- It with unt-tlou, and evidently they found It good, for they spread them selves over It lind lupj»»l It Hcrevly, hungrily. A redbot heap iUm]ii«1 upm tho log*. T he bom 1 was no longer erectly symmetrical It suddenly swajod and fell lu a fiat lojisc Uwido the heap of logs. Tlicre great ■Ab!” from xho York Sun.

Ouroaneul at Knchau ounclndea his last report by compinng that port as It w yuan, ago, when he last knew It, with what It Is tisluy. Tho time largo Amerimu firms of tlmt day, he soys, hove dlsoppsircd. hut tlielr places have been taken by the Hussion linns, with their brick Uo’ - tnric* • *’l here Is not much differoneIhe number of place* of business, except that tlio Innks haio tllmlnlslied from four to two. Will. It is often too evident that business Is n..w dune on a smaller orale, and that fortune* are nut no uislly made

and lost as they were tlicre

•'There ore many more dwelling bouses on Nnnud hill, but most of thorn are Inhabited by lulsaianarloa. Thu new race on arse, with a recreation ground In the middle. Is an lumumao boon to reaid.-nu, o Is the settlement at Knling, on the mountains, nine mike away, where most uf tho ladles puss tho summer. Steam laimchee, which were then unknown, run buck word and forward to tho anchorage, and, thanks to tiie new arrangements regarding the i- yment of opium llkln, tho river Is Ires,’ Irani the pest of opium smugglers and llkln runuen., one as dlsrv ataldr as the oilier. The telegraph has I n introduced and line aided to rovolutiaL.xo

falls In t the ornn way hot' of rllw.

In the profile view of Nelson's thorax the location of the black spot shows that the bullet penetrated 2% Inches of cartilage and muscle before It was stopisd Where it entered the thorax, the pericardium, which Induces the heart,, tourhes the sl.-moin, Iteclf less than an Inch In thleknoas. Tha only ooncluslon that can lie drawn, the surgeons say, la and a half of Its path Tbo ex"* “ ,ruu “ r

rails of

lie walls of tho anrlclus are even thinner, ’go that unless |i hdgod In the fibers of tbo heart it Would be Impossible, the surgeons fur the lead to plunge forward an Inch and a half without puncturing one

• Itloeof the heart. That It did

ore the wall of the heart at any In It* flight Dr. Hall of tbo Chicago hospital thinks unlikely looanao of the relatively small fat-morrhags Nelson suffiv.d after the shooting and because position of the bullet In the skiagraphs—a

lateral line drawn through

of theca

The scheme had lie real Inocption at the biennial meeting of the International StoUirtlool Institute recently held at Bern, Bwtuerland At the Instance of Dr. Guillaume, the director of tho .t-n.o—i nan, of tho federal government, a committee of distinguished statisticians, scientists, travetare and geographers was appointed to begin work by oolleoting all Information possible as to the beet methods of taking this world census and to report to the Institute at lu meeting next year. The first step in this Important ootnmlttes's labor was to enlist tho IntenMand aid of Id Hung Chang. They mo* him when he was In Berlin and secured tha promise of hla Influence In Chins In nc nation will the work pf census taking be mare difficult than In Chins where the people are as the tends of the eas. Anything approximating on amulets eonsus of tho population of the earth at the preeont time Is without doubt, an impra•lbaity. In addition to the pdes there are many spot* on the earth that here ~ ” been visited by the expiates s-d

on of the earth l! ,700,000,000. These Professors liebm and Wagner of tha Univerelty of Gottingen, and their rxtlmsks ■re hosed upon the beat Information. Yet both frankly acknowledge that they hare had to flU up many of their columns with nothing better than g j observations of trarelr guesses mentioned In treaties given by each countries as Chins Perais Arabia and Turkey. In Chins for Instance, they ■*.*. that their figures may be 900,000,000 more or less than the actual number of people In 'Africa they may be some 00,000,000 astray, ‘ ‘ Asiatic Turkey. Pends 81am and

Turkey, Persia, 81am and Afghanistan will also be asked to give their minqiiiii to the agenu of the Institute, with • view

'* a be settlement at 1‘agi Ala anchorage Is what has suflcral most by tbo chungml condition of trade. Then the luirbor woe almost always lull of soiling ships, which remained tlicre for months together, oflording a good livelihood to storekeepers, shljm’ chaiflUcre and the proprietors of the dork and n jimctloe to two phvslclatis etoamer* mil In, fill up and are off _ i In a couple of days, bringing no loco! business to the little community at the anchorage. Cousoquently tho storekeepers'

Uitatud a staff of 90 Karopean* U hut one left"—London

tiie heart.

The theory tlmt the bullet lodged pericardium Is equally nnlenable. Dr. Hall thinks—and tho fact that the bullet did in it ponrturv either uf the lungs, which approach wlttitn^n Inch of tlio bole In tbo ■”—— *~>vr»—that it did not encounter

■ Side wall*. About tho only mu Id have pushed even an e organ without rupturing the repair last the Junction ‘ '

• imrar -* *

1 11 Uaboock, the heart s]

either of tl

and this Dr.

riallst. Is In __

ble |"ilnt wh. re the bullet normal l"»rt the point where tbo eepta Join usuaHy flutters up and down midway

son'« chest.

Dr. 1). J. Hamilton, the Scotch surgeon and pathologist, cltus more than — where rupture of the hrart walls rewult In liuniedlan' death. The markntde nf nil and the one that approach.* nearest to Nelson's caa. I* tlmt of thopriteflgMer Poole, who was shot In tho heart In New Jersey while bsttilng with liaket In 1885. Ho recovered, to all ajipearanore, In four days and wanted to finish the In terror tedountAst, hut id days later he eolbpwd suddenly and did ' ‘

Ingtxi

Hoisted at tho ti

admiral a

izzentop of a chip at

.. <1. tne Hag of the lord high Im* fore. It signifies that tha aboard, while on admiral of ■ts it at tbo main. It Is then

properly called the groat union, as also when displayed ashore. When flown from

' d the pi ck staff J,

jack, a name

which tlio gnat union often paaset. Again : lorms the Jack of the seamen, which i* Bag luring the colors of the union »nrreuindid by a border of while, one-flfth the breadth of the flag, and which, hoisted "t Iho fora. U-ouniea a signal for a pilot, ind hence Is often called the pilot ' ' The origin of tho word “Jack" known. Tho meaning, as understood today. Is "S'liiutlilrig shown," and In this sense the application of the word is now limited to the union flog, tome hare

derived from the Jock or worn In early time by i»e of Englishmen being . ihe (rose of Sc George,

which Jackets, when not In use, were hung In rows, side by side, thus displaying the blood red croae which wo* at once their hsnnsr and their shield. Others regard

The aooumpUmhment of this will require

e large amount of diplomacy os wall as of money and the wldoat poaalhls kaowlodgs

of those half barbarous ioc*nt8r In the beginning of the next century, SI

the present rate of exploration, there will hardly be a square mile of Africa tlmt will bo unsafe for ■ traveler with a small guard, and an enumeration eon be made which, If not accural*, will at least be of enormous value. By 1900 Husslawlll hare pushed her two transoonUnaata] railroads nearly through Asiatic territory, and th* wild regions of Tibet will be open to the traveler. In the year 1900 many keen and Intelligent observers will be sent Into all these regions to make the great astlmaU

"f the hitherto uncounted million. It Is believed that a census of such m*g-

Itade con be taken on the same day or eok or month ell over th* clriUsad world. Tbo effort will be msd. hay, n

kerabntceli tbe'tnr a bi who bad the honor of a special Invitation

jnequr, the tu

the napne

was tha first to hoist blum. Whuk-vrr lu dcrivai Ing remain*.—Good Words.

THE COLONIAL, 0iPE .

FULL OCEAN VIEW. AM Modem Conveniences. New House. Shady Pisrrai.

W.H. CHURCH.

Tltu

On Ido stoutly tlvnies that the soldier U the highest typo of humanity or that obo- ** Is the highest human virtue. The nee which Is exacted from the soldlor is very much Ilka slavery, and It Is no moral not and teaches no virtue. ‘There U no servant, groom, artisan, form sborer or hireling of any kind so lazy, so Impudent, so Insubordinate and so uBelov as tbo young rasn who has recently corns ont from bis term of compulsory eervloa When Ixird Wolrelcy utun the proposter —s declaration that the'education given _ conscription teaches a lad 'all the qualities calculated to make him a thoroughly nsefni and luyal citizen.' has ha the least nt I. the-actual moral state ' yards end barrack rooms _. of the continent! When the ynutb has hud purity and *tn character and of mind enough tha contagion In which bo has been «'»'!■ d. be will tn nine Instances out ten be a spoil, d agriculturist, a nisi

student, laborer.

“I can conceive nothing so appalling .. die world as would he tho forcing of the military temper down the throat* of lu entire multitudes. Militarism Is the nrgntion of Individuality, of originality and of —— liberty. It* somber shadow Is spread Kuropc. lu gorrotlng collar of etuel it on the tureut of the people. The whole people sweat, groan, parish, under the hardens laid n]«u tivsn for the malntensnoe

Over and semtiurvatlou." “ ^ — Washiuglon »«•.

coming from that of the sov-

Jaoques), who

s notional

The Empress Eugenio gave tha name Mnrcchal Kiel to the lorely rose which is an called. When General Ntel n-turnsd freim the Franoo l’russlan war, where be had signally distinguished himself, . ,,001 man proem hid him with* bosket of lovely yellow ruses. To perpetuate their beauty •he general had a cutting struck from one of the blooms, end when a rose tree had grown from tills be preaented U to the Kiuiirass Eugenie. She was delighted with the dainty gift, hut was much - Print! tu lenni that the rose was ki by no dlatlnotive name. "Ah," abs "I will give Its name. It shall be tbe Morocbal Nlel." Thus tbe cicpnwsaohler-

q mu II Led the general with the fact that h* bad been raised to tbe coveted offlo* of marshal of Franco.—Philadelphia Ledger.

relieving roc of my money > tbe trouble to disap-

*n impmalco.

Did that lawyer get a clear view of ease?" inquired tbo litlRaDt'sfrlcnd. No, I’m afraid he didn't i told Mm

that my trouble was about money, and .. , . - - jroiteiav«.a.ite sfSsSpSiSvt'insnifst

nng roc of hit mnn»v —* »y. --

attention, a:

It, altogether 'lUustrlou*

yoong grandee of the oast attached to tha enlt of the cm ha tea dor extraordinary, U Hung Chang. This'youth calmly onnoonoed to her people that he would like Jo buy her. whatever the price might be. when It was explained to him that American girls were not regarded ns marketable oommodlttee, and that In any event her family did not dealre to port with her, he greatly disappointed; but, gracefully ntim, Ms AUmbwal, he asked Ire to to

on "act of homage," such

In hla country to 111 l uisia

of the blood royal

This courtesy, of ootireo, could not be lused, and a day-was appointed for the ceremonial, the young lady and her friends feeling naturally very curious and a trifle nervous a* to what this “act of homage" might consist of. At the time appointed the young oriental noble arrived, accompanied by a numerous retinue of friends and servants, quite like Aladdin In the elory of the wonderful lamp All ware clad In the most magnificent garments. They drew up before the bouse where tbe girl was staying, while the rejected suitor, or rather the would he purchaser, with a ■mailer following, entered, his attendants Issuing an enormous horseboe or half eirelrt of flowers. This he laid at tbe young lady's fact, while he delivered an equally flowery oration In hla native longue, which ramdated for her benefit by hla Interr. It war

Ing but very p

Times-Herald.

At the Firth at irk stand three tall end elegant hotels bleb are of the very highest rank In New York and are patronised by wealthy and fashionable people. Atone of thoM hotels on tbs seventh floor, with owe 11-knots end hi one of them a ashstand, caste, with board for iwo. *11.80 a day; for one person, *8.60, ind for two persons, without board, *6 a fay. This Is a small and chap room. If t man and hla wtfrwant to lire somewhat ilegantly, they will hare no trouble al all in paying $60 a day at either of there hotels faring tbe park. You get the luxury, bow •v-T. when you descend to th* lower floors the hotel and find that you/pay not for your little room, but for the beautiful parlor*, tbe oumfurtable lounging and writing room*, the army of well trained eervanta always ready to attend your slightest WSDIS, end all expecting a tip; the really good oil painting* on the walls by first rate French artlsu and the general air of a ulet.

Tbe reetaurants at there upper clere hotels have price* which appall an eocoasnlaal men from tbs week A dish eg strawberries costs 60 can te; three boiled potato** are W cents; for a few stalks of asparagus they charge 76 cents: any sort of a stack —" you from $1.60 to $9.60, and tbe ■“ “■ — In tho whole acheme fa

r exactly the same price — of half p ' '

that two can eat f

abelare reeort. D Is very difficult In 0. there line restaurants to figure out ai kind of a tail meal for fassthu $9, al UUB.UjUUyn»fal of mj Mafa dlsW