fesa,^a!;rfim«t^ya»"giasssK5i5;;i3;5gK;g

I IN THE CHINA SEA!

| year* snj aemor, welcomed me cordially iuto hla circle. I respected the great truth* expounded by my

l friend. My daily life and were not in dieoord with a nan’a rule. I had no Tie

A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.

habit*

chnrohman'a rule. I had no ricoa; not became my principle* were ac atrongly against them, but I had inherited a rugged will from my father, and, like him, I considered a man who allowed himaelf to be controlled by

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS

“' ,A " U "• 1 | ,„u. . loo..

rCorraioBT w* »« noumr na***ii'a som.i Mr acquaintance continued gradi

CHAPTER L rranTiso our jr hare been

i been

r plenty of y

aa not a ladies' mai

umber of ;

IKK WORLD.

may hare been indigestion or it ' apartment houae.

have been lonesomenes*. The ’ I atood off and studied it.

e did not taste as it should. Either | »t aloud.

namental finishing that my landlord. wh^ r fike nn mys*elf°Ir«^ U but whoerer he was, cculd hare for hu i Dg 0 at inthair ohoten life-work

t in thair chosen life-work, and who had no need to grind, but

who were the fortunate sons of wealthy

i did not taste aa it should. Either I »t aloud. men .

stank

Watching Lhe people coma and go. j ticn. It read thus. | c i l00 society. I was the recipient ol Some would man in as if all of life i many gracious bow* and handshakes must be crowded into the next half' j | from the substantial men and women hour, hastily give an order, swallow; ARCHIBALD CRICKMOBK. | ; of the Park street congregation

if mastica-i 1 K | !l 0 f whom

bHill.

Laics! Happealnt* Olcaocd From All • Over the State.

rsTsicia* sso soaosos. 1

j j I also became a member of the 1 ‘ ‘ ~ te Club, a club composed

swallow; |

mastics- 1 ic I

! thaiij j U* lepeo-. : ime it I - i would | :

aannter leisurely in, scan the entire j " pUc, • mf. Krutioinng ,U« I

pick out the table promiaing the moet j ^ mfcki) ..11, —if I h»T. . mut T pleeewit boure. 1 bed been elbo. toom .lti o^mlp e.ett the er- , 0 { „ id hoprfuli, the j.ht I P'opo.eed lot tuembotehip b, Artitm tint ot thur dtuner. • : tor. »ho hud come to eitoue otj eig. i Leogetoo. then it jooog le.per, whoee i It was at noon. I had finished my ; success at the bar just about equaled

midday meal in a restaurant in San; ; ..Y on 'U make plenty of oalla, doc

pl“Sr’ol“e~'oee“o‘«d.'»e.e«d

V.° hk^tj upcetUtn proepeoU in ,oef oI ‘j .omiog gt~th.ee.

1 1 ^

{ 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. ! j ^Golden Gate •' I of many of the prominent and most ol

the rising men of San Franeisoo. In •That will leave me time in which I the comfortable club-rooms I •Dent

havi

__ai prospect

♦■in gam»walled'‘life.lit

about to

t>out to start as a professional man. I ^°>.^oLi.r- si I ““ -

„7S 0^,“^: ssutuxz.’ b ««* U> t-enty-rix year, of age. I ! “d

tioe.^

>e, and s "aeeii

lara and

attachea to twenty-aix years had come West to build uf

location. No mistake

there's old Doctor been here tweni

That old fellow, sir.

'rolled up wealth. But he never no snob office as this. That Fll

adt

snty

iust had bet

And then, you eee, the advantage yon hare. When yon are dashing around making'them calls, my old i, in a white apron, answers the

SW’TSJ!? i°;J »* 'tkifptoh.

I had but re

olden Gate of the great Western •lope, and had spent the first few

days “si had had

S^l.^p^JSThe'^ v W h ' U lS7'£i .molum.ut. th~~I. ol .bleb I ^ h ““;' “iJpichtiaiel^..t..b..otia. -” k ~ 1 *5-g- w It had not been so np to the second ^ J.,,.-*}.:,,,. i:w a ♦k,.- 'Yonr little c-.M.-i.-'isiStSSa'SH'S

ing my sol tremely lib

gS;

S£S1^o“ t S^an^e 1 I Unghed at hi. picture-e^mclally

the horse.

own sucoess as a physician,

mn^ston and I had met at some of

•octal gatheringa, in which I was

beginning to be—or, at least, to feel like—a familiar figure. My legal friend was possessed of no more of this world's goods than I was. But, being a shrewd, capable fellow, his practice gradually began to show signs of life. Langston was a gay man; at least, his mind was always at ease, and he took a hnmorous view of life. He was a favorite With all who knew him. I regarded him in the light of a brother. Ononr evenings at the Golden Gate Clnb, Langston and I could almost invariably be found at the same

table. ’

When I was not at the Golden Gate

ig to my professional duties

attending to my prof<

lounging in my comfortable office,

lied moments

reading, my unooenpied mom were generally spent talking to other new friend, Phister by ns

who k< ‘

by name, drug-store

w«U good

prosy, it is true,

le, an agreeable compan-

who kept a well-appointed drag-store near my office. He was a good fellow, somewhat prosy, it is true, but.

liberal as to my alloi

after I entered the university, be succumbed to a sudden

ing.

to

imbed

attack of pneumonia, leaving tirely alone. He left no lari

After settling np his

After settling np t

myself with enough money^to

> through "*

tie I

rge estate,

affairs, I found

leave to me

as “working capit

I had not j

college and now possessed

on the wl

ion.

My associates at the boardii louse remained almost strangers ne, for I was there very little. I

said, modestly. “And if no one tees generally got my breakfast there, and fit to employ me, it will certainly not sometimes my lunch, but Langston be my fault." j and I were extravagant enough to “Fauld! Pshaw! I see the money, j partake ofiour dinner at the Golden

pouring into your pockets now," re- j Gate.

plied the sanguine janitor. Langston had more of my confi“It must be an edifying sight,” I dence than any other person in San answered. “It would do my eyes good j Franeisoo. If the time ever came

ustonce." ; whan 1 needed legal assistant

Cla-tde L. Stilli tecretary to Governor Franklin Murpresident, wav arrested Saturday. A» i mark of the confidence he had in Stillman the Governor only a short ime ago made him secretary of the rarnish works. When he disappeared in examination of his accounts proved ^satisfactory, and as a result hi* ar est was ordered Stillman was arrest'd in New York city and the charge if rinheriting $40,000 He had been mi*»ng from Newark for several days and t i* said haMpcm much of that time n flic Tendentun district in New York •tty. It was learned by the detcctiv* hat Stillman had been at the Hoffman 'louse and also at the Empire Hotel. He was traced from an apartment on •Vest lotst street to the Bingham While he was seated in the dining room >f the Bingham. Dcctective Duggan calked in and arrested him.

Just when John Clacy. of Plainfield. iad succeeded in having the marital ics between him and his wife dissolved ;he separation had al-

jiisnru oy ms wile s ueatii 111 r.ngiana. 'Jlacy left .his wife and daughter in Unc^Hved'Ti^Plaiiifk-lil "llir.mgh the ong process of the law he was notified »y his lawyer that the decree had been jranted and he paid the fee. when in :he next mail he received a letter tell•ng him of his wife's death.

In an address before the New Jcrsc> Sanitary Association. Professor John B. Smith, the State entomologis'

Thomas H. Taylor, fhc popular boot and shoemaker at No. 418

1 all repairugbtly and

Washington street, do

ing neatly thorougbtly at reasonable prices. He has been ing business in Cape May fot

Rips in uppers sewed

doing elven y

oy machine with silk to match. Lost or broken eyelets or hooks reolaced.

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^omethlo^ alMolDtely ne

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excursion*, etc.

Contain* all the virtue of the best whiskies without the deleterious effect. Made from the pure vegetable matter, and gnxranteed to contain no poisonon* or narcotic drug* of any'

description.

| If a beverage U not desired, a Bean may be taken in the mouth sritbont water and the most erhilerating effect will be experienced.

each, and can be procured from any druggist, fancy

?or sale on dining One box sent post-paid on receipt of ajj cts,

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Smith, the State entomologist, ex ■*—-

used his conviction, after'careful re-

search. that the mosquito will carry dis- j -asc. He told of experiments whicli j -bowed that the germ attained a degree i

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ibom the infection. I Fannie Pierson, who a days ago ,-allowed several pieces of broken ass. died at her home in New B'uns-

• wallowed several pieces ol broken | glass, died at her home in New B-uns- I xick. The plass was broken off from | 1 preserve jar and cut gashes in the 1

/oung woman's throat. The efforts 01 two physician' did not save her life. She suffered excruciating pain.

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erjiet* Conner, oi -.inngs. was playing vvhh some rompanions. one of whom bad a rifle. In some way the rifle was accidentally fischarged. the ball knocking out

Ten-ycar-o .aurcl Sprin

:e me

e the little ag capital.'

)t yet opened an office. That- . mj be my work that -** —

iking off the aomewha

ttjt w o,~ »«. i p~a »r S^t.Wh,?'. b.l_l,...l ■lr.ll^d..t U th. ».Uur~.t. —dri tn.dkn, to “TSiLnK «"• <” *• asp* •* <V '>'1 t Bat tteithor ol o. tk. oil.

Sidney Van Brunt, the pioneer fisherman of the North Jersey coast, is dead. He was eighty year* old and a

IebIEsipteBoobei, Sold BHD M6E6 M. B. SCULL,

Offices: HERALD Building. 506 Washington Street, CAPE MAY, N. J.

the northern sabarb, where many new bouses were being built, there were 1

the beginning of my career.

CHAPTER IL

A WDX1QHT KTSTXBT.

a this direction I turned my steps,, I did not know a soul in San Fran-i cisco, save those whose acquan I had made daring my present

sojourn. Pat I was full of the pluck, j mine of wealth i •f youth. My ambition was to be-' j- did not find the oome a successful practitioner and. : outstretched arms to

some time, to be the owner of one of the beantifnl fruit ranches that make'

pluck, j mine of wealth in my new abode. I ““ ‘ populace waiting with

I one

e beantifnl fruit ranches that maki

California famona. -

littl.

aeeuriuL

* a trifle higher than I had expected

; but, after somethin)

experienced little difficulty in uring an office. The rent, after all, 1 a trifle higher than I had expected

ithing of a Ui-ventilated

search among dingy and places, I fell in with the Janitor of a fine new flat, 1

me at what was really a reasonable figure the four front rooms of the first floor. This would leave him and his

Vile the four

good-natured who offered

mabli

e him

rear roomi—all they

needed for their comfort. The rooms

y decorated and well li)

* were some Franeisoo,

d for t

Were finely 1 -and as fiaU

elty in San Frs

and concluded the bargain, reasoningto myself that the very novrity of itself

Would serve as an advertisement.

I expended four hundred dollars is-

v new abode furnished. The

lighted;^

iething of la nov- >, I paid a deposit

getting my new abode furnished. The front room, which, if ooougied by a family, would be the parlor, I furnished neatly but not expensively as ai

reception and waiting-room; next to this ay consul ting and operating-room then a small, cosy affair of a library.

fm which

tnsnts, cabinets, skeletons, relict and the various trophies incident to. Stu-

dent life.

I had a good lot of books, of which I was very proud. Part of them were medical works I bad purchased during my college career, but the greater portion of them had been my father's. Back of the library was my bedroom, t Hiving arranged these things to my aatipfaction, after a careful survey, I

considered myself the physician on the hill. I

hill. I listeaed with

_ _ pride to the landaAorj remarks of my friend, tfes janienil his estimable wife, who fain

Id b«

would believe me already 'on tha roed to professional glory. In fact, I had

yet to earn my first dollar. Next door

to my flat a motherly aort of

tor, I mad* an engagement

boarding-house to taka my meals

there.

Nothing could exceed the prida with which 1 contemplated tha perfecting 'of my plana. Tha last thing in the pienon thereof was a sign, which

welcome into

their circle that most distrusted of all men, a young physician. Success, if such a thing existed for me, was coming very much aa anodes* always comes, with alow and lagging step*. It is true, now and then I had a call.' Not much of a call, generally, but nevertheless, a call. A servant burnt her hand, and' I attended the injured member—for which service I waa ni

lid. A boat ss kicked ii

jr which service I was never itler in a stable on Nob Hill

and I

n the knee, a

was .

a dislocated patella. A Chinaman, rushing around late on Saturday

night with laundry-work -for patrons; slipped and felL The weight ofhis basket, together with the shock, proke his arm. With a fearful ado he: waa brought to me, and the fractnrei bone was auccessfally set. For this,, as for everything else I ever did for his class in San Francisco, I was paid h, consisting of ten-cent pieces' ickela. These are fair sample*' work I did daring my first three or four months in San Franeisoo.

I had plenty of 1

mexpeeted events; but in my

prosaic, humdrum life there was noth-

”— j| * that such

in cash, o and nicke of tha wi

I time for reading, 1

and I greedily devoured the latest novels and botika of travels. A portion

tudy. I was:

1 day I managed, to spend in

was not a reolnae. My nature detided companionship. And in pursuit of this I met with a steadier growth of snocessthan in the practice

of my profession.

Within a few blocks of my office there was a magnificent church, where the singing was grand, the music superb and tha preaching vary

Hare I was wont to betake myself

and sit calmly and

rastfully listening to tha

quietly, —

peals of the great organ, as, under a master hand, it sent forth melody un-

I had always mi ing well. I did n

walk

.. .... not a walkiag fashion-tpUia;

kept a boarding-house. Acting upon my clothes wara stylishly out and althe advice, fraaiy given, of the jaui- waya fitted me. To be truthful and tor, I mad* an engagement at this aa modest aa possible, pt

a point of draaago in for fadi

*•; and

of was a ai

I bad already ordered, of a brassworker downtown. I gaxed with pardonable pride at tha shiping affair when I bad screwed it to tha doorpost. It saeaed to me tha moat or-

rt as possible, permit me to

I.waa talk broad-ebot

bad-looking, athlete, and

ouldered

At school I had

say that

**>4 not' _ been an athlete, and now poaaaased, aa ralloa of those days, sundry medals and prizes won in the athlatao arena.

prize* won in the That all this had anything to do with the pleasing reception I had in the Park Street ~

Che

Jbnrch, I would not

as to believe—much ti

be it a* it may, I wla received.

iny and many a ti

over our coffee and plan for the fntnre; and when the walls of oar castles became dangeronsly high, we wonld tumble them down with a laugh and find companions forawhiat-

ble.

Matters nearly a

progressed in this way for year. Gradually my little ^ew, and with care I could ’ income. My circle oi increased as well, and I myself in a sphere which

began to feel myself in a aphe

might in time becomes useful as wells*

” main ambitioi

a paying one. Myi

waa to have a practice that would enable me to live well and keep a

span or fast horse*. It 1 business-like, I thought, f|

well and

lorses. It looked mght, for a doct ^ throu

the streets, as if the patients depended more on the speed of his horses than on his akilL

_ residents' can

gun, squinting into the trets.

Coal barges are gradually disappear•ng frpjn their moorings on the Jersey ’ side of the Delaware river, where they •uve been ^WfXsevera! weeks past,

awaiting cargoes of coal.

sard and r<

fortune, swept here and

of unexpected

there by tl te; but in n

ing to indicate store forme.

>att

Perhaps it was better that it wai One dark night in December, a

I had my dinner and made a few important professional visits, I was

thrown on my own resources to pass

y tha time, by f ‘ ‘

•way the time, by the fact that Langston had a very pressing business engagement out of town. As was usual at such times. I wandered into Phiater’s. Phister was talkative, and, aa that suited my mood, I sat musing, unheeding the flight of time. The wind began to blow, and the rain

came down in torrents.

“Crickmore," said Phister, peering from behind his colored bottlaa out Into the night, “this is the worst San Frautnsoo has had in five years. Yon are lucky not to be out in this.'

- -a,

’ “Posaibly,” I aiM, with some doubts. “I am lucky to be in here, and then again possibly I am not.

that I bare got to go ont in

Ton forget 1

the rain to get

“Not a bit of it, doctor. Just yon throw yourself down on the lounge back here in the office, and snore

ouldnt go out

away till morning. I wt to-night for anybody.”

“Well, I’ll aee. But if* early yet eleven o’clock. It may stop-

by midnight"

But it did not stop: If anything, it got worse. At midnight, Phister began to prepare to leave for hie epsrtment upstairs. While he was fussing around with his lifftte, cash and straightening.t

eat dreamily look *

_ up shelves, I

lily looking at the rain. l*»

Marseille*, France, is the human hair mart >. Y

was thrown to the ground and his arm j irid collar bone were broken.

Rancocas'Tribe. No. 137. one of the most powerful tribe* of Red Men in South Jersey, has decided to purchasi the town hall at Clemcuton and mfci changes that will ‘ J ' it into one of the in this section.

. Very few dogs arc now being poisoned in Gloucester CHy sihee the Health Inspector has refused to pay for dog'f tail*'unless he orders the dogs buried.

Gloucester City wood caping a harvest and sa

dealer* a they do n

ing a harvest and say t if coal never colics to town.

An Elmer firm has ’received an order ior 1300 dresses for the Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Insane at Nor-

An owl is annoying Clayton peopl a: nights, and each morning early one or more^ residents; can be seen with a

George Martindalc was sworn in U* tecond lieutenin! of Company D, Third

Regiment, N.IG. N. J.

The Camden Freeholders received two carloads of coal. One will be used -for the jail and courthouse and the other will be sent to the — •*" :M

iugs at Blackwood.

The hen houses of C. J. Heines and 3. W. Parry, near Marlton and Highland avenues. East Side, weiw robbed. Heines lost twenty-five choice Brah-i-as. Parry liad twenty-five common

fowls taken.

d the

county build-

robl

Bt

The Intelligencer Publishing Com pany, capital $25,000. and the Rivertor Manufacturing Company, capital $50,

1 articles of incorpon * ity Clerk’s office at C Ar*. Relics to Order.

In Rome and Naples there are fao 'rtes In which “ancient' art relies ire made to order. Statuettes of Aphrodite In bronze are manufactured there by the gross, and re cently several worthlcm objects wert palmed off on unsuspecting touristi as being priceless relics which were unearthed In MacedtAiU. One fao tory even succeeded In selling as unusually enrioua relic to tha mu seum at Athena Unfortunately tot the unscrupulous manufacturers,

when the expe

I It they aa bogu

1 notified the Italian authorities.

Lost Towns In Texas. Washington county, Texas, fa a curious county. Thirteen towns that used to flourish within Its borders have disappeared from the face of the earth. The first county seat of Washington county was Mt. Vernon, and It went the way of flesh many years ago. Some of the towns were the rivals of Sodom asd Gomorrah and were wiped out by Area.

SAMUEL E. EWING .i. General Contractor ... HOUSE MOVING A SPECIALTY. Post Office Addrsss, Cap; Kay Court House, 17. J.

Cor. BROADWAY

B. BEN STEAD,

Choice.goods handled only. Strictly pure canned goods etc. Goods delivered to any part of the city. WAY mod MYRTLE AVE., # *** ^ * ^WEtT CAP* MAY, H. J

J. IX OHAIGr,

— RSl'AIRER OF—

Vetoing J^acb-ines El @rgana

420 Washington Street.

J. R. WILSON & SON,

Mattings, Oil Cloths and Linoleums. —or, ■'wV-A-arcxyaTOXT jlxts PmoAXtraa Sx-xtxzErra

Paint! Paint! Paint! *^*^wzssrs^s SFILSSf*'? ffi __.prop*rly, apply them thoroughly and rapidly, ana cxerdsc

V-v 'furnish estimates, and promptly sttend to all orders. A compete* ic of Paints, Oil, Stains, Putties. Fillers, Brushes, Vsrr

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103 Jackson Street, ^ Gape May, N. J.

PRlflTir.ll HflllCF C

PfllCTICU HOUSE, SIGN AND DECORATIVE PAINTER. AGENT FOR J. E. PATTON’S SUNPROOF PAINTS.

<** T also give special attention to glass coo tracts, and handle exclusively the pr*. ' ducts of the PITTSBURG PLATE GLASS CO. They are of finest quality usd mm . ower iu pnee than the common grades, which give nothing but dissatisfaction. Alf kinds of plate, white, window and colored gUaa carried in stock. '

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WM. S. RHAW, GENERAL CONTRACTOR^

Dkai.kr In

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