AN ELECTRICITY YARN.

tfHY C

ALWi

OJENTESKY’S GARDEN WAS <AYS AHEAD OF SEASON.

laa of a MyMary Thai • OBrai* of a Haw A' mpaar for Thraa Ta*rath* Court, ta l>a«lda C

MlchaoUt QuentMky. a Bohemian,

la belnc sued 1 ley company : LrlcU«; and Jti

J^r to ascertain the actual amount.

Used

i Qucnteaky, a

ta being sued by the Borden town Trol-

?ny of elec-

for the larcenj

lcU?i and Judge John McGee. In or-

tln th

trolley company, la oblig<

jndlclally determine what number of amperes of electric current eauale one month s natural growth In a sandy soil upep t^e nine-inch Raphanua^Satlrua. /or tnSjune radish, says the veracious

indent c

npont^b nlne-ii 'or tnSjune radl

Trenton correspondent of the New

York Sun.

ieatlon*ln the case de-

If an acre of sown radish seed pluckable as marketable radishes In ala weeks by nature’s own course, what amount of electric current was

.phanus Satlla marketable the relatlvfc

lueed by itnre anJ

ms seed to be pluckable la radishes In 19 days? Also value of radishes duly' prodi unassisted and unmolested nai those produced by the- Inject

a loamy soil of a manufactured electric current, and those produced

terrestrial magnetism ooilug

ed by stural-

ly from the earth’s bowels, and cap-

rilllag

to

aei

producing premature but refresl

radii

through sgid loamy soil and Into the seed of the Rapbanus Satitus. thereby producing premature but refreshing

radishes.

find the court seems to be a trifle perplexed over the matter. Mlchaelli Qucnteaky Is a’ 20th century farmer In every sen word. He has a small ph Crosswicks road along the 1

and it!

ring ei ■ detec ax the

e. but It w lem was i

ihe road. Finally, just to please

ner

tendent of the road agreed

qdjrod to run the Bordcutown branch of the road. Finally, Just to please

farm*r stockholder, the superincut of the road agreed to send a

lineman to examine, the wires all about Qucntcsky’s place. The lineman reported that the feed wire was tapped In a most Ingenious manner. The comphny officers were all excited at once and a force of men were before Quentesky’s truck patch In a short time,

with Farmer Hart at their head. The big feed wire runs thi great elm tree than stands front of Quentesky’s gate. 1 is Insulated with a cherry coating Is kept from sagging against the

>ugh a

a Just In The wire

lentesky’s permls-

this position by Queutes alon. and. in fact, the trpll recall that the Bohemian s

even superintended the )<

nation this thick branch was found to be hollow. In the hollow of this dead branch some one had run. a regular elsed trolley copper wire and Upped the feed wire. This wire was traced the other end of the dead branch into a second and smaller tree.

om t: and 1

a the tr o fount

ler tree were

the shape of a gutter and In this gutter running to the ground was traced

the copper trolley wire.

The copper wire being further followed the trolley men found that

intesky had connected It t-boexd and small motor

irrel-t

Itch-be is hldd

; to a • which

i\lp

ind. By following t! the electrician fount

iriect network

com]

The

id that of live

the wonder

try farmers how Quentesk: to have vegetables on the m beb*rc the »outS9m crop north of old Mason and D! But Quenlesky allowed his to do the wondering, whll on producing early vegeti growing rich on the faljul he received in an early ma For three years past the t pony’s electricians have be to explain how It happened tjulred a greater amount current, proportionately to of the line, to run the B branch than It did to run road of similar length ant the country. After many efforts to locate a serious the electric currents direct feed wires, the Several exp clans sent over jUe^foad a ihQ conclusion tllat the feet Upped at some point, and person or persona were steal electric current dally to rut

tesky’s truck patch. The truck patch the soil

it a d* ice of

(uentesk: t of ordl

depth of six

»ky rdl-

bls, truck rlthelecof each una their this elected reread in this hea, peas pany baa tolen and icmnt due many

tow

l required aeed Into

N-

distributed tunoaf the sev«

les along the line, hi that none of then

’ !

The matter-was finally si one of thoa; unexplainable the manufacture and meas electric force, and the coe tinned quietly to do buslne trying to secure further co opinion or to learn the whj fore of the “leakages.” One day. two weeks ago. Hart, a former stortcholder who was much concerned Increasing expenses of tl house, by reason of tha amount of electricltyrifwai to generate to run the b who was familiar with tne the supposed leakage of happened to pass Quentei patch and he remarked tt advanced beyond all notioni The fine condition of the truck excited Fanner Hart and be made some Inquli his own and Quentesky s

; 1mse of

the first he use Little in i was the . He was 1 shot as i firing at no aim. ed bio In XChlcb he * »lf-poas«s-or h,lm to iportnnit i sur.iHn

1 not come forgetting h. Hlckok and fli

WAYS OF ENGLISH LAWYERS. legsl Main, on Iks Olhsr Bids Bseslvs Small l*av for korvloo*. i barrister's fees arc small, and y are always pi^ld In advance, and sum Is* recorded under the title the brief. A friend who had a Urge practice showed me hit fee book recently. The largest Hem .was_S8 guineas, which Is leas rage was about *6C ulated b to the service performed, and Ingent fees are allowed. A barrister may accept a case for nothreturn- the fee In cases of charity, but be cannot, without vlolathls oath, directly or Indirectly, accept any greater compensation for a legal aervice than la allowed In the regular schedule fixed by the benchers of his Inn. If he does so he Is debarred from practice. It Is a common custom In America for a lawyer to undertake a suit for the recovery of damages or a tflalm any kind with a contract that he shell receive a certain percentage of the amount of money recovered. In England such an act would be considered disreputable, and any barrts found guilty would be expelled from his Inn. The fees are regulated by the amount of time and labor required. and not by the amount of money Involved. A barrister may receive a fee of *250 In a case Involving only *500, and he may ijeceive a foe of 125 in a case Involving $1,000,000. All legal basinets originates with solicitors. They bring to the barrister’s offlee a case, all prepared after certain forms and written In manu-

queqta the barrister to undertake the case, and the fee. Is marked plainly

upon the brief. If the

barrister does not care to undertake the labor for the amount of money allowed, or for any other reason, he advises the solicitor to go elaawhere. If he accepts the responsibility, the solicitor leaves the amount of the fee In coin with the brief, so that the barrister has his pay In advance: This la the almost Invariable custom. The only exceptions are In cases of cloa. friendship between the solicitors and barristers, and there la a large amount of litigation In which both are Involved. Then It la customary for the barrister to make up his bill at the end of the month or the end of the quarter, but the fee In each case must, nevertheless. be written upon the briaf and recorded In the bo&ks of the court. It Is customary, also, for the solicitor to leave a fee for the barrister’s clerk at the,same time, which must be a certain percentage of that paid to the barrister. When you dine at a hoUl or restaurant in England It is customary to Up the waiter an amount equal to 5 percent of your Mil. for tha same re‘son. The waiter rseeivea no compensation from his employer, nor does the barrister's clerk. Hls pay

gets ! hls

LEWIS T. STEVENS.

M. A. SCULL.

DONTIIHU RISK: BE INSURED

IN ONE OF THE BEST

lUrely from hls clients, i

If hls principal has no clients he g no pay. On the other hand. If principal has a very large and profitable practice, hls fees are enormous.

—Chicago Record-Herald.

Tk« Playful CfcamaU. Nearly all animals are fond of play, and sometimes their play Is almost a systematic game. If you should come acroas a lot cf goats playing football, with chosen tides, espial ns and all that sort of thing,' you would be speechless wtth amaaement. and yet a tourist saw something on the Alp* that Is scarcely lets astonishing. It was In summer, end s flock ol to Is had. climbed ufc to where the show never melts. evldenUy to play

•J^EWIS T. STEVENS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, D06 Wtshlngtbn Sl, Care Mat, N. J. Master and Solicitor In Cbanoery. Notary Public. Commissioner for PsoosylTanie. Surety Bonds secured for oBoials and fidelity purposes.

s horse' after shot

ton

patch end early vegetable He was Informed that / could grow the nine-inch r days, and that he had pes beans oa the market oven southern crops reached tl and. further, that It appar no difference ,to Quentea whether the spring was K On again passing Quentc the next day Mr. Hart sa soli of Quentesky’s patch blackish and-loamy, wher soil thereabouts was of th loam and aandy. He al be says, that Queutesky's , was raised perhaps two the level of »h«: remain small farm and this, too. Hart’s curiosity, ester the farm Snore closely, but the wile; • feigned _ Xu age and succeeded In farmer stockholder of the p-iy at a'safe distance - gates. •■3’gnm. ’txlc’t nafrl. 1 ■aid Farmer Hart, talking concerning the advanced Quentesky s radHSus. peal •Well, l-m fired no Gulne got." added Ml. Hart, t hands together with a whi next Instant he eras off u company's oftce . Firmer Hart told at ralishafi and argu d with . m -e that want nat'r'l 1

a few * tele-

rapld'y on II Into the were some jnntd d».y rttle llttlo lr through and could neck of a ck out the nick. Hs ota of the y some of en frith a imembered quire this i well with at a man,

target.

They had fount

InclU they

of boys intent on coasting. And that la precisely what the chamois Intended, for two or three of them at a time would crouch down at the beginning of the descent, work all four legs to get a start and allde over the surface of the snow to the bottom. When they reached the bottom they would rise, shake themselves and

rtar.. what rarthlv latarnd of -rvLahr* <-«wU ha«W ! v tat loasesti-m Ik erqli tl ■ Mcst.-lv* **>*>-* al’ki

lown t , but what

climb up the Incline again, only to repeat their trip down. This they did

time and time again, their

ottom,

lown It with the r rising about

The coasting ground was about 160

to bottotr **■-

chamois would shoot down

C-red of sleds, the aem In a powdery <! There could he ni

that they did It for sport, -and they *•;

'«*» a* boys X-bistimmUheU

well-pscked. -**-<Upc

to eajoy it as much s enjoy coasting down hi” —Tacoma Ledger.

Small Men Hvs [ _ _ One of the 18001 interesting and trustworthy statements In.respect to old age U the report oa the habits

-

by the

jljgl BY STEVENS & SCULL, 5o6 Washington St, Cape May, AGENTS FOR The PHILADELPHIA UNDERWRITERS’ FI Re insurance policy which is underwritten by The Insurance Company of North, America and The Fire Association of Philadelphia The Philadelphia Underwriters makes a Specialty of Insurance upon Dwellings and Household Furniture, Stores, and Stocks of Merchandise, Churches, School Houses, Public Buildings • and Contents. Also, insure* Loss of .Rents caused by Fire. 'Total Assets of the Two Companies; $15,890,542.29.

gMttwtonl Sttii.

-VR. WALTER 8. LEAMINQ,

fito 11a.m. S to 0 p.m.

(M floor.; Can Mat, N. J.

JAMES MBCRAT, M. D. Cob. Tamar iuro Washixotok Sts. (Opposite Congress Hall.) Cape Mat Cm, N. J.

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TUB HISTORY

Cape May County Tbs Aboriginal Time a.

LEWIS TOWNSEND STEVENS.

diopter. CONTENTS:

I.—The Indians and the Dutch Explorers

- “ ■* Whaling. .

»nd Their New Homes.

6. —Maritime Tendencies and Cattle Own-

7. ——Anaent Loans and Tnca.

I— The Religions ConmweisieS. -T

□ —West Jersey Society Rights.

in—Jacob Spicer and His Sayings. 11.—Aaron Learning and Ills Time*.

II— John Hatton, the Tory. 1 *.—Preparations far War.

il—Tbe Revolutki -

17.—The County in 180a ik—The War ot iSis. ' in.—Praeresa After the xn:.

sa—Noted Men of a Generation, si.—The Decade Before the Rebellion, is.—Opening of the aril War. sl—First New Jersey Cavalry,

si.—The Enlistments of 1S6;.

C—Ofcnty Officials

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