waul Stitr* ha» accepted <1 aitWild!

WEST CAPE MAY HOIKS. Mr. JacobXToraou lost a valuable horkc on Saturduv. Howard Stitc* li ualioii at Wildvood, Harr> - B tew tun it apenrfini! a lew day* amonj; triendv in Philadelphia. Mr. Chaflcs Teal, ol Philutlelphir is v.*itiiiK his parents Mr. apd Mr*. Elr Teal. Gcors;e Hiiih<-rtord is making extensile impioYctuenU at the Acme _ Cottage. Captain Samuel Ewing i* slowlv improving, he'is now al in hisVoom.

FISHIHG OUEX Mm. Lemuel Mchellanger spent a few day* at 8*s Ule City. Fcniou Vearick*, of Dlaa Creek. 8uudayed with bU parent* here. . Walter 8baw ps*a«l Friday night with Israel Wool*.m at West Cape May.

of Cold Sprl

^v_yThiladelphla.

infield EUlretlgc is visiting' li n Dr. Clarence LMredge,

J. M. Jones, ofCamdcn ha* rented tl<c Geo. Rutherford cottage

•I Phil i. Mr.

Eldrcdge avenue.

Mr. Swain Reeve* and wil^ were • tlic guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H.

Reeves on Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Siipmington, ol

a.lelphia is visiting her paren's,

and Mrs. Thoa. Eltlredge.

Among those on the sick list arc Mis Daniel Stevens and daughtei Ma. Mrs. Thomas Hughes, Lizzie Eldrcdge and Howaid Hughes. Mr. John Bennett, son ol Pilot

and Mis H. B.- E

Bennct ha* accepted York, where he

will report for duty on Monday.

held i

a situation in New York,

on M<

The Chapel Sunday school festival on Tuesday evening which was a great success. The proceeds aic to be loerl for the purpose ol buying singing hooks. Qur enterprising grocer. Geo. C. Edmunds is a duck |

He recently’

hese wild duck chat by the provender he

must have set his decoys .on

■r clam bed.

*

; gnnncr of

small icpute. lie recently went —one- ol these wild duck chases, and judging by the provender he brought

Mr. and Mr*. William Cummings entertained on Saluiday: Mr. and

Mrs. C. V’.'Reeves, Mr. H. H. Eldredge, Mr.

Strain RccVfs, Mrs.Jiynes Eldredge . and Mp.. Jane Ann Crowell. Alter

rnjoyable evening was spent,

uday:

Mi. and Mrs.

and Mrs.

t Ek

nng w

tmptiuus repast of'clams, oyster and onions were setved in thei

natural state.

Mr.- Joseph Channels, who lor

1 has been agent Ot

ntny yeais past

the W. J. R. R. freight dept.t. on' account of the close confinement, resigned lus situation. Mr. Channels has alread engaged in the express businces and with the energy at.d push be po»'es*c*, as well as the many friends he lias made through his courteous and obliging busipes* methodsj tbefc will be no doubt Ql -of'i.U iiearrenture.

t Uusaa

White Grape* >

CAPE HAT POIKT.

We are gl

William Peteison is slowly recovering, alter a severe illness. Mr. Horace Corson has had a • slight attack of grip. Mi . J. •Wc-lry Corson was a visitor in the Fouith Ward, Cape May,

this week.

Miss Adcladc Peterson is convales-

cent.-

Services at the Baptist church, Sunday 'evening at 7.45 o’clock, Thursday evening at eight, and Sunk day school at 2 30. Mr. Aifinbn Wright is to lecture • Sunday evening ou “What He Saw In Kentucky/ 1 ' Mr. Samdel S, Edmunds has purcltascd a fine trotting hoise. Cruse .says he is 30 sccond%llkfer than the town clock. Mr. J. N. Reeves is building an addilion to his barn.

T' C. Chert*

work

is going to do some for Mr. George

carpen •Waltci

Lankennu Villa is undergoing some interior rentfvntion. Mr*. Swain Woolson. after a year 61 severe illness is Oeginning to rapidly improve.

Mr. and Mr*,

viaitinj

s. Swain Reeves wc

ing in West Cape May this wee

Wilbur'i Choe..UtejHnrl« at Bogans

codtt'hodee.

Work has been catnmeDced on Uw new

V. E. Church.

Dr. J. Morgan Diz U Improving from bts recent aockbun., Many of <mr people are subscribing to the Capz Mat ^Izbald. Lawyer Lewis T. .Stevens was here last 8*tnn!ay trsnaseting k-gsl battue**. A. U- Springer Is still undecided as to whetlier tie will rebuild the electric light

Hereford Lodge of Mi poitaut commauication nlU,: ' ' - A mass meeeing.

>n» held an Im1 Monday er6

uder the ansplLiterarv A**0

the

ay c

- . -

unconstitutional latter-day .slavery

ces of the Macedonia

ciatinn, was held in liaptist fhurch, Fri the purpose ol pi

■const itul

;ion, was held i

[Hist Phurcli, Friday evening, fc

pfotgstiag again*! th

condition* existing -fn comity. South Carul-i

At a meet lug .if t tie Board of Health on kxmdar evenluc a coramlltee i jawed of Meaera. L. T. Steven*, A. B. Little and George L. Lovett was appointed to Investigate U* ultby eouditlou of X»tkmal Hall.

Mrs. Jennie VV.s.lsou,

was with friends ht-i Tuesday. 'Ralph Yearlcks and aisle, Maud*-, visilod friends St Uurlnlgh Oil Wedi

d»y. .

Mias Mamie Jatne* spent BatnnUy eve-

spent • byre

Harvey Snyder went to Phils attend the funeral of his uncle.

ning «)th her par

Harvey Snyder wont to Philadelphia to

Mi** Etta DouglAsa, of Burleigh was

visiting friends here this week.

n spent a partIra. Claude Eh

Ud fudge

i.lTatGi

reeu Creek <

week with her sister Mrs.

at South Deuula.

Thus. Hemingway and wife wheeled to Green Creek ou Sunday laau OurTioy* crowd bsis with West Cape May team fast Saturday, winning by a

score of 14 to 0.

Mrs. Hellish Irard U spending a few days with her mother Mrs. Cynthia

Matthews.

Among Uiotw on the sick list we mote Mr*. Emma Shaw and daughter,

Mrs. Henry Shaw.

A number u( our people attended

s.-cUl at the K.

Thuraday evening. Mis* Kate Vanaman has returned home from Holly Beach; after taking care her sick slater Mrs. Harry Thomas MU* Maud Yeari.iksand Etta Doug!*** and Ralph Yt-aricka spent Samrday evtxing with Mr. aud Mrs. Albert Msttbea*

at Uuid Sprii

Several of the young people of this

place gathered at the home of Daniel tYin>1*011 on Monday evening, niuslc vocal and instrumental waspie principal fe*tu e and a very enjoyable evening was passed

>y all present. S. R. Giildin^’s tine clothing. Fon Sai.e.—One Rrlrigcratoi

Idwood last everting.

national

bank a III probably be ready to transact business before June. Ill the State Senate on Wednesday Senator Baud voted against the proposed change of the Constitution to allow biennial session* of the Ijaglslature. During the pest few days flocks of sprig-tails, shell ducks and bmad hllls have made tbelr appearance In Cape May county waters. In the State Senate Wednesday a resolution was adopted, by a vote ol 14 to 7, for a constitutional amendment callh g for biennial session* of the Legislature. By the bill Introduced In the Bute legislature on Thursday Cape May bo-

goorl as Dew, only ui size S It. high, S l

'lie Kclng erator, j*ed three monih*; ft.. long and 5 R. T.''Campbell.

Will cxchanj

typewriter lor boiler I water. Apply to ' Sol

Remington

d’ puo

Nkedlls..

Atlantic Laundr;

ige good

writer for boiler Iced 1 pump hot.

Hew te Carry • Gem.

rh~* an- only two directions te dch the muzzle of a gun can safely be pointed; three are up or down. A shot fired In air can scarcely Injure any one or anything and one discharg-

ed Into the ground Is

■ .ground Is equally hai re fore. In nil the differ

position* which the gnn that It is pointed either up or down. Sometime* a man will be seen who irrles his gun reversed, holding It by the muzzle while the fore end rests on the shoulder and-the stock projects behind. Happily, this practice la not common, for ft la extremely dangerous, and many men have been killed by carrying their guns te this way. If a man stumbles or steps In s bole or a root and falls, hla likely be thrown for-

-tly toward >ugb be dls-

rery

ward with the muzzle direct!} his body and may easily enou;

charged..

Sometimes one may

wber will

across the back of the neck,

arm over the stock and the other over the barrels. sometltuesNvIth the hand

resting on the muzzle. This Is certain i see him. The man was shown to give a very uncomfortable feeling j proved-to' be • laborer from Clerk)

boy <

I be

Beach Count aiilsed at M

1 noil, 4r. O. U. A. M., was

organized at Wildwood li Wildwood’s proposed

ot (In place of the first) and I* put Atlantic, Burlington and Cumber-

a part of the Second Congressional

district with Al

land counties. For alb.—House and Lot- Lot over bslf an acre, with fruit and shads tress, on Mechauic street. West Cape May Must be sold to settle and ertate. Apply to S. S. Weaver, TUI Franklin street, Cape May City, or P. <). Box 723. U Thomas H. Taylor, the popular boot aud shoemaker at Xo. 416 Washington street, docs all repairing neatly, thoroughly sod al reasonable prices. He has been doing business lu Capo May for eleven years. Kips in uppers sewed by machine with silk to match. Lost or brokon eyelets nr hooka replaced. What Brt«ktvLrd HIM. While crossing the Isthmus of Pi tna'by roil some years ago the eond or obligingly stopped the train for Campion to gather some beautiful crimson flower* by the roadside. It was midday and Intensely hot. In bis “On the Frontier" Mr. Campion tells a peculiar styiy of this flower picking Experience, ' I refused offers of assistance and went alone to pluck the floijgrs. After gathering a handful I noticed a bed of plants knee high and of delicate form and a beautiful walked to them, broke eff a flue spray and placed It with the flowers. To my amasomet ! 1 saw that I had gathered s withered, shriveled, broi 1st weed. I threw It away, carefully selected a large, brigl and plucked- It. Again I had ta my hand a bnnch of withered leaves. It flashed through my mind that * sudden attack of 1‘anams faver. which was very prevalent and much talkvd of. had struck me delirious. I went “off my head" from fright. In s panic I threw the flowers down ant} was about to run to the train. «1 looked around. . Nothing seemed strange. <4 felt my pulse. AU right I was te a perspiration, but the heat would'hove made a lizard penqilrs. Then I noticed that the plants where | stood seemed shrunken and syUtixJ. Car, fully I pat my finger on a fn-sh brabciv Instantly the leaves shrank and began to’ change color. I bad.bcco frightened by sensitive plants.

LEWIS T. STEVENS.

M. A. SCULL.

DON’T iUN t RISK: IE INSURED

IN ONE OF THE BEST

Lord Sbaftesbary which the amber of “Collections and Recollection*" relates: One winter evening Jn ISUT- he was sitting In his library ,ln Uroaveoor square, when tbs servant told, him that there was a poor man .waiting to

(n and

to any one who happens to be walking ! well and one nf the Innumerable ruby the side of tbe person carrying bis dplcnts of the old earl’s charity.

have been

side of tbe person carrying bis gun In tbls fashion and opposite tbe

end. While the '

pleasant to be » gnn pointed at your 1 Forest and Stream.

er of a It Is no-

ser TVrddlaa -Tower." An accommodation train on a distant railroad was drugging along, when a long, lean and sallow woman. In whet be subdued bridal flurry, s tbe aisle of tbe cm said seriously to a lady sitting opposite

her:

Dear met It's a kind of a aolenu? thing to be travrllo with two boabands. now. ain’t it 7" “I do not know what yon mean." re-

plied ' '

dplcnts of the old earl's ctarlt

He skid. “My lord, yon and I have come to

what I have beard." Ic sp hat at the public bonse which

Ued tbe lady.

"Oh. mebbe not. Well yon sec, my first husband died ’boot n year ago an buricJl over In Patrick

St week I

in my second

te Patrick ‘county on a little weddin tower, an I thought I’d kind of like to have my first husband buried te tbe graveyard nigh where I'm goto to live now, nn my second husband was wimp, so we ink my 6r*t^husband Up. an be'i te the baggage car aloug with onr other things. . My second husband Is aettln out on the platform takln a smoke, nn I been aettln here thlnkln bow solemn It Is to go on a. wed din tower with two husbands. It's s turribie

of blzncsa when

of IL"—Lai Magas! na.

1 yon co 1 r Lee In

Llpplncotfs

Tbe Electrical Engineer, os to tbf reason why certain cables lose their conducting properties and hare in some Instances to be replaced. A learned KreochnjAn has submitted the tul.ji-ct em-ca. In this paper die states that when cable* Jose tbelr electrical I Top ertlcs It la becauae they are always caed for one kind of enrreot only, ettber posttire or negative. U used sometimes' for positive nnd sometimes *tor negative, they wlU. lie states, preserve their condnrtlre qualities Indefinitely. Experiments with nine w!*es running from Iteris to Dtjoo demon strsted this, be say*.

very good to . me. a tell yon what 1 hi

thp p

be frequented be bad overheard * Irishmen of desperate character plotting to blow np Clerkcnweil prison. He gave 1-ord Bhafresbary the Information. to he used as be thought best, but made It s condition that Ids name should not be divulged. ’ If ll were, his life would not be worth an boar's purchase. - Lord Sbaftesbary pledged himself to secrecy, ordered bis carriage and drove Instantly to Whitehall. Tbe authorities there refused, on grounds of-otfl ' Hal practice, to entertain the Information without the name and address of the InformanL These, of course, could not be given. Tbe warning wag. reJected. and the Jail was hlnwn np.

BY STEVENS & SCULL, 5o6 Washington St., Cape May, . : J 1 AGENTS FOR The PHILADELPHIA UNDERWRITERS’ FIRE INSURANCE POLICY WHICH IS UNDERWRITTEN BY The Insurance Company of North America -and The Fire Association of Philadelphia The Philadelphia Underwriters makes a Special!)- of Infiiirance upon Dwellings and Household Furniture, Stores, and Stocks of Merchandise, Churches, School Houses, Public Buildings aud Contents. Also, insures Loss of Rents caused by Fire. Total Assets of the Two Companies, $15,880,542.29

ytrttHiral C»rtU. ■JR. WALTER 8. LEAKING, DENTIST, Office Hoar*:— Omits, m. 2 to 3 p. m. Cor. Ocean snd Hngbea Street, (2d floor.) Cape Mat. N. .

J AMES MECRAY, M. D. Cox. Pexbt akd Wabhikotox Sts. ' (Opposite Congress Hall.) Cape Mat Citt, N. J.

Office Honrs;—

8 to S.a. n 8 to 4 p. r 7 to 8 - -

J^EWISf. STEVENS. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 306 Washington SL, Cape Mat, N. J Master and Solicitor te Chancery. Notary Public. CommtaakxxTT for Pen navi ran Ia. barely Bond* secured for contractor*,

official* ai

and fidelity parpo***,

D.FOGER

Agent for Palmer Engine, both Marine and Stationary. 1 home power up to 60 horae-power.

Brown ‘Villa, 228 Perry Street CAPE MAY, N. J. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Large Airy Rooms; Renovated Throughout; Excellent Table; '/£)pen all tije Year. Mr*. E. W. HAND* Prop

WE GOT EM. “UWANTUM” YOU don’t make a mistake when you get them. We stand back of them; No mistake is made. Price is the lowest, Terms the best, Call and see all of tbe rest . DOUBLE WORK HARNESS AT S10.00 ; '«a.00 14.60 BRIDLES *.90. t-M UP lines "• a.so ■ g.re **" M “ TRACES '** 2.00 ?AIR - SINGLE MILK WAGON.HANMESS *15.00, NO SETTER MADE ' x u TRACKS X. SO WAIN *• - LINES I.T* SINGLE CARRIAGE HARRESS PROM *8.80 TO SS.eo This'harms* is * aamplo harness worth .50 per cent more than we are selling it for. Now is the time to get a Lames* at half price. 'We have sold s number of thia make and are - not afraid to offer it to you at this low price and stand back of it. Call anil see it. V?e know yon will take 4set wheAybu aceit Walt er A. Loy#tt * cape May, N-j.

CLINTON SOUDER, DEALER IN (^Furniture, Qtrpels, Oilcloths, Mattresses, M.-itting, Window Shades and Awnings. 811 313 MANSION STREET.

WANTED-ATONCE! ■ LL THE orders I can get, at H Tin Roofing; Repairing or Pirintingthe old one. Arc your Rain Spouts in good order ? Do they need repairing or re-

painting?

I will do your work reasonable, and guarantee you a ,

good job.

f*. O. BOX S41. ’RHONE **.

CHARLES A. SWAIN MIM MOTIONS. 0. It. (0. Ladies' and Gems’furnishing Rends AGENT FOR STANDARD PATTERN& 618 Washington. St. - Ca*»b May. N. J.

E. S. HILDRETH, • Successor to Geo. lilldretti, 32-34 JACKSON ST- CAPE MAYV^

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in .

ILLBDURNE FLOUR, Ml FEED, HAUOOD, ETC. FLOUR IT PHILADELPHIA WHOLESALE PHICES.

BARE MAY, li. 4.

tmm mnmx&oN* OCEAN STREET, X . .BARE *

S^rOpen all the year. An elegantly located family Hotel’ll

Nka* Beach and Raiulqad Station. “ R. J. CRESWELL, Prop.