CAPE MAY HfflULD. All lUPKPtMOKBT ONtlKUY.

PablUhed Every Saturday Marnlnj at 506 Washington Street, Cape May, N. J.

V. L SCULL. - PiMMir mi PnfrtftM.

• UBSCRIPTIOHt ollar Par Year in Adaanea.

gained at fl» peat oBce at Oape May, K. t.. aa second-class natter, March . 11*. 1901.

Tie second largest Irrigation ditch In the United State* has Just been completed In the state of Washington. The main canal is 40 miles long, while the branches have as aggregate length of 350 miles, the ditch being 65 feet srlde and eight feed deep, and irrigating no leas 'can 20,000 acres.

A census of Berlin. Germany, gives . the population at 1.901,567. The Increase In population in the last year Is only 12,857. as against an increase of 42.493.for the preceding year. This falling off in the year is attributed he the movement of the inhabitants to suburbs as a result of electric traction.

A national school inspector in Ireland was once examining a class In geography, and, haring reason to correct an answer to a question regarding longitude, proceeded to ask for a definition of latitude. There was a •light pause, and a young lad answered : •'Please, sir, we hare no latitude in Ireland. The government won't allow us any.*'

Many different kinds of contrivance designed for the purposes of massage are now on the market, but the most remarkable thing of the kind thus far iavented has been newly patented, states the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. It is in effect an artificial hand, the fingers being of rubber. Massage of the scalp is frequently tried nowadays as a remedy for baldness, the rubbing having a tendency to strengthen the growth and Iiqprove the health of the hair. The artificial hand described is quite as gentle and effective as the fingers of the human hafiS. in the likeness of which it is made, minus the thumb. While performing a miid rubbing action. It gets at the roots, so it is claimed, without tangling the hair, and. the rubber fingers being smaller than a person’s fingers, they reach the surface of the pcalp to greater advantage.

These^ belated sowers are on every hand. Sometimes they struggle hard to overcome their handicaps, to meet the urgent present need by stealing time from sleep or recreation, to learn that which will redeem them from mediocrity. Sometimes they stifle their longings and revel In gold-bought luxury and princely vices. They have - succeeded by money-rating, but In their hearts they sadly and bltierly know that they have failed; there is gall In their every cup of nectar, reflects O. S. Marsden. In Success. Sometimes these wasters of (he springtime are ground beneath the wheels of poverty. unable to gain even material comfort. despair being their only -pop tion. Sometimes they are mocked by high position, where their shortcomings -ar*- in the public eye and the gubH/fprlnt. and the humiliation goads them to desperation. Whatever their final fate, bilsiness success or business failure, the memory of their wasted seedtime, the misspent spring, mare

•very act. , The

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Continue^. ' There ,w«*h tgl* track over the field*, pot'(Sifined enough to be eallofi a; fops*tic but just deer enough for him/to’discern by the trodden look ef the abort grass. He was within a couple of hundred yards of the little river, and was looking out for any sign of Nell’s pretence in the Uttle kitchen gsrden on the other side, when be became aware that the questionsble Jem BUckels was in sight, punting slowly down the stream, ss he had done the day before. Catching sight of the gentleman. Jem drew his punt to the shore, and with his black felt bat on tbe back of his bead, his short day pipe in his mouth, his hand* In hit pockets, be landed, and sloutbed along toward Clifford. “.Well, air, I warned yon as" how it were not a wise thing to put up at the Bine Lion." said Jem, with a swaggering insolence which made Clifford want to kick him. *’X ’card of it op at Fleet yonder." and be Jerked his head back In the d’rection of the old ruined castle up the river. ‘T a’pose there’s been s grand pretence o’ buntin’ about the place, and how they’ve fonnd nothin.’, They’re gettln’ used to these littlerecenes by this time." After one glance at CUff^d’s face, the man let his eyes wander elsewhere. Looking shiftiU- and Idly shout as be spoke, bis attention was suddenly arrested. just as be finished his speech, by something on the ground, apparently a few feet from where Clifford was standing. The latter noticed the rapid change which came over the man’s face, the eager look of Interest and ss (onlshment with which'be stood gating bpec-moutbed at the one particular spot on the ground. In spite of himself, Clifford turned his bet* and looked, too. There, on the grass behind him. not three feet from tbe track be had followed. was his own watch, with the chain still attached to it. lying halfhidden in the stnbbly growth of the

field.

For tbe first moment Clifford stared without speaking or moving, dumb with astonishment. “My watch! How did it get theref he stammer at last. The man “Aye. hot give a good guess, if I dared." "What do you mean?" "Why. that this is tbe way Miss IfeU Claris goes to see Miss Bostal at Shingle End. and that nobody bnt her ever uses it. That is what I should make ao bold as to mean, if I could speak

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mind. And I'll wager Miss Nell has been along here this morning. Oh. abe don’t get around tbe swells for nothing, she don't.” Clifford sprang at the man and pinioned him by tbe throat. “Fan lying cnrP’ ie hissed out, savagely. "Ton deserve a thrashing for

this!"

Bnt even as he flung the fellow

prawll

bank. C when he saw tbe evidence round pretty Nell.

s to attracting to Oxford by

means of scholarship some hundreds of students from the colonies, the United States, and Germany is very fine and large, buj when I try to Imagine 1 in a -definite shape the practical r» salts which will follow to any of the cnimtrles conceived, 1 am sorry to say that I cee nothing at all. states writer in London Truth. A tinge of foreign education is no doubt s good thing for a young man. The Gennanx, Americans, and colonials who come to Oxford will no doubt learn something that they would opt have learned at home. But equally ' sebstafitisl results would have followed from giving the same number of English students scholarships in Ger- - many cr America, or even sending the colonial* to thoce countries. As we have been hearing so much of late about the need of improving the edii , cation of our owb citisena and the superiority of the educational advantages enjoyed by Germans and Americans. 1 should havs thought (hat Britadn might have benefited more if] ^ •ending her sobs to those coantries than by inviting toe pons of those countries to enjoy out file ole* educa-

tional arrangements.

CHATTER V.

To tiring a woman into focus, by means evewnf a scandal, has always been a sure way to bring upon her more than her fair share of tbe admiration of the,-other sex. When, therefore, the object of public attention is gifted with unusual attractions of person and manner, the havoc she makes in susceptible masculine hearts is pro-

pTTrtTdu'alely great

Clifford was not a particularly weak man. and be would have scorned, a week ago, the idea that be could love a woman the more for being under suspicion of theft. But It is incontestable. for all that, that the stronger the suspicious circumstances grew which

If she were not the thief, tl

I if

tnoeed she who bad taken his watch IjgHed her by her Christian name. Bat and money, jand dropped or _ thrown-j ^ knew, ana in tbe midst of her agl-

hls own feelings Of tender in-

terest.

If she were not the thief, then who coold It have been? And if it Were she who bad taken his watch oney. and dropped or thrownaway the former on her way between Shingle End and tbe Bine Lion, what was the cause which had prompted the

«ct? .

The.case for somnambulism still seemed strong to Clifford, for this would have accounted for tbe frightened look of half-remembrance which he bad seen more than once in her face, when the theft was being (Us

cussed.

On the other hand, she had certainly been wide awake when be saw her start for Shingle End across the fields that morning, at the very time when •be must have been carrying the And If not somnambulism, then what other motive could there be for this yMAMg * « horrible temptation on the put of * beautiful amiable and apparently candid and good girl? Was abe the victim to that doubtful disease termed to afford magistrates an excuse for discharging weB-eonheeted thtevsa "of superior odocatioa?" Wes AM. • fUl A •TdeptoBmpdae?" Or, again: Were tbe difflcnltica of r node not

i ted them te

tiis of a mlagrlded 'determination to

ctear raem away, even at the aaerlflee

of her honesty?

Each supposition seemed to Clifford more improbable than the last; and when, after compensating Jem Sockets for his roll in the mud by throwing him a half-crown which had been left In his pocket untouched by tbe mid-

night thief, he caught sight of Nell on the opposite hank of the river, he was again ready to throw his doubts to the

winds.

There was always a boat moored to each side of the river at this point, so Clifford ran down to tbs water's edge, and panted himself across. Jem Stickles burst into a mocking, Insulting laugh, but Clifford did not care. As bis friends. Jordan and Otto Conybeare would have said, he was by this time “too far gone." NeO had disappeared again by the time be got back into the garden, and he had to look about for some minutes before he perceived her, crossing the fields, this time In the direction of Fleet, at a great rate. She bad a basket on -her arm, and she was walking so quickly that Clifford could at first scarcely believe that the figure which had got over ao much ground in ao few.mlqptqs could really be that of the girl be had seen In her uncle’s garden a few minutes before. He waa determined to show her his recovered watch, always hoping against hope that a fresh development of tbe mystery would bring a&ont the longed-for explanation. But before be could over-take her. abe disappeared from his sight over tbe crest of the rising ground at Fleet, and when be got upon the tell In hia jpsc, she was nowhere te be seen. - ‘ It wasfiSot for some time, after exploring, right and left that he saw Nell with an old broom in her band, emerge from.a poor little cottage which stood by itself on tbe marsh b£ low. She set to work very vigorously * sweep out the dust of the cottage, tbe doorstep and the bit of paved ground outside; and Clifford had stood for some seconds at a little distance, warned by the expression of her face that abe waa in no mood for conversation. when she at last raised her «ye» and met tea A shock of pain convulsed tbe young man when be saw what a change thg past few hours had made in the girl Instead of tbe placid sweetness of the day before, there waa in her eye* suet a world of sadness, of terror, that Clifford's heart smote him. and he wished that he had'suffered bis loss quietly without a word to anybody at the Inn. She stopped in her work when she iw him and stood erect, waiting, in an attitude which had something of defiance in it. "Ton have something to say to me. I suppose?" she said at once, coldly. Clifford did not Immediately answer. ut his band went Invol the chain of bis watch,* aw wearing. In an Instant her face became as white as that of a dead person. "Where—where did you find UT’ stammered she. And abe trembled so violently that tbe broom slipped out of her hand and fell to the ground. ‘T found it on tbe grass, on the other side of tbe river.” answered Clifford. who was qnlte as much agitated

as she.

The blood suddenly rushed back to her cheeks, and she began to breathe so heavily that Clifford thought she was In danger of a fit of some sort. "What—what are yon going to do?" •he stammered out. waving him back with a gesture which was almost fierce, as be moved forward as if to support her. "Do? Nothing.” said he. “Ton are not going to prosecute me for theft?” asked sbe. In a tone which she meant to be hard and scoffing, but which was only h pitiful little makebelieve, after all. “Nell oh. Nell how can you say sufT a thing * me?" cried Clifford,

hoarsely.

He did not even know tlttt~be had

iew,;

tation sbe cast at him a shy glance. In which there war a gleam of something that was neither displeasure nor annoyance. He saw' It. and bis heart went out to the girl; he was ready to kneel at her feet But sbe recalled him to bis senses with a very unit mantle remark: “If you will excuse me, then. 111 go on with my sweeping." And with great vigor and energy she resumed her task, leaving* Clifford afraid to come within tbe range of bei operations, yet unwilling to retire. “It Is very good of yon to cojne and do the old woman’s sweeping for her," be remarked presently., "It isn’t for an ©Id woman, but for a young woman. And I ought to have warned yen not to come so near, for she’s got scarlet fever.‘and yon know that's catching." answered NeD, with s warning gesture to him to keep

away.

"Too"re not afraid of catching It, ao why should I her -Well I have to risk it, or there would be nobody to look after her. And I wouldn’t ran the risk Just for

».«

hotly. Then, with what seemed to him an inspiration, he added: “I want to talk to you. 1 wont to know whom yon are shielding." Nell started and stopped for a moment in her work again. "Shielding! 1 am shielding nobody. I wouldn’t shield a thief."’ If Clifford had been as suspicious of her as be was, on the contrary, sure or her Innocence, be wonld have bad aK bis duobta swept away by tbe burst of

soul capable of no wrong, the whole matter more mysterious, but It soothed him. He heaved s great flgh, snd^Jn _»pltc_of her wanting gestures. came nearer. I “Nell." he said. “I had been waiting to hear you apeak like that. Those are the very words 1 have been longing for you to say.” "Well, now they are said, you had better so back to Stroan to your friends/’ said sbe, coolly. "And try to

over the p’ace by this time that Nell Claris la a thief, or the accomplice of a thief.” And the girl, having finng this speech at him with all the dignity of outraged pride and innocence, suddenly broke down at the end. and burst into such hitter sobs that Clifford's bean waa Wrung. But aa he sprang toward her. she sprang back and made a rush for Ibe door of the cottage. Clifford, however. was too quick for her. and placing himself between the girl and the refuge sbe wished to reach, he spoke to her In imploring, passionate tones: “One moment. Vou must listen to ujc- All the world will be against you, you say? Not all Nell, not all. I will take your part. I will show them what to believe. Take me for your husband, Nell and then who can dare to think of yon except aa I think? Who can dare to say a word when yon are my wife?" The girl stood transfixed. He waa pleading as eloquently, as earnestly, os if It bad been for his own life. When be paused, letting bis burning eyes speak Us lore, as be watched her startled, blnahlng face, and fancied be could trace tbe feelings of a mi lenient Incredulity, pleasure and doubt aa they struggled in be£ heart, sbe presently shook her head, and turned away ao that she should not again meet bis'eyes. "Do you know what yon are saying r* •she asked In a matter-of-fact tone, after a short silence. “And do yon res Bonsem "It is not nonsense. It is my firm Intention to make you my wife " "Ah. but it's my firm intention to be nothing of the kind. 1 am very much obliged to you for your good intentions. and 1 qnlte see that you think yon are doing a fine thing in offering td marry me. But" and she drew herself up. and flashed at him a defiant look. "1 am not going to be married like that, and out of pity, too, to a man I never saw till yesterday r These last words came upon Clifford with a chock of surprise. He had forgotten what a abort time it was that his acquaintance with Nell had lasted; it seemed to him that be had known

"As to that. I have known you for a very long time. Nell" he eald. gravely. “I have known you Just as long as I have looked forward to meeting a girl exactly like you. And I bare always intended, when I did meet her, to take no rest until f bad persuaded her to become my wife. I think yon may take this as an answer to the suggestion that there is any ‘pity’ in the case. The ’pity* will be for me if you won't hare me." ^ Now this waa rather prettily put, and Nell looked mollified. She took her broom In band again, and affected to go on with her sweeping, although tbe pretense was not a very effectual

one.

"Unfortunately," she said. In a low voice, which was not so flippant as she could have wished. "I haven’t such a vivid Imagination myself, and I can't pretend that I have known ron long enough to be sure that I should like y6u for a husband.” Her tone was not so discouraging as her words. Clifford, woo. much to his

vno. mu

own surprise, was quite in earnest, pressed his suit with proper eagerness. “1 don't want to rash you into mar-

he said, t it be li

asked you to be my wife; give way so far as to become engaged to me; end If. before I go back to town next month. I have bored yon so much that you bavq to bresk the engagement in disgust, you rend me abont my bus!-' ness and refuse to receive any letters from me. At any rate, people won’t be able tp say unkind things when tjicy know I wanted' you to be my wife." But Nell persisted. „ "I won’t even be engaged t<f you." "Why not? Don t yon like me?" Although her manner betrayed that

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aa had not said any of me silly things to which sbe had tried not * listen. She should forget them at once, and she hoped be would do the same. And It •mused her to think how disgusted tea relations and friends would lava been if sfie had really been ao silly as io listen * his idle talk, it be had returned to town engaged to an innkeeper’s niece.. To te Continued. ffie census returns show that a dear .majority of the people of New Jertey lire witten twenty miles of the New 'Tort City Hall

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