F

GAPE MAY HEAAIO.

THE OLD HOME DAYS.

AM INDKPKNOKNT WKEKLY.

■t 306 Washington Stract, Cape May. N. J.

Sixty yun and mor* have faded nloM you anchorod by th# door Where th* wide back poroh wu xtieded by the ancient >ycat*ore, WaYiaa soft, through Memory'* bane. In th* dear home days!

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mm i ■ i eu •» m. 3., a* a 11th, 1901.

■v The Shah of t*or>la is r-aUI to he an . expert rheas player. Poaaibly the 1m- | preesion that he I* expert arieea from : a disinclination uinotiK hie courttera 1 to take chances on beating him. The train -robbers who held up a ] Southwestern express car politely ibade the railroad men ••good-bye." ! ’The picturesque traditions of highwaymanry have not wholly vanished, j

In SwttzerlBnd t£e studies of many ] years have determined the fact Anally j that the glaciers are not ot^ly ateadlly j receding, but that their rxtdxQfreces- | sioh Is becoming greater each] Them arc only a few glaciers that still j grow. The Boveyre glacier ,in Canton ; .Wallis Is the only one that has increased since 1892, The famous Rhone glacier has receded almost 800 yards j since 1876.

The state which has the smallest number of non-English speaking residents is South Carolina, with 63 only. Georgia has only 200. Tennessee 700, and Arkansas. Virginia. Mississippi and Alabama less than 1000 each. Rhode Island has 17.000. while Kansas has 9000 and Kentucky 1900. Florida has 5800 and Minnesota. In which Scandinavians are numerous, 75:000. Iowa has 26.000 and Missouri only 15,000. As an instance of the observance of the Sabbath in Scotland, an Engljsh paper tells of a postman haring a route, between Stirling and Blairdrummond. He was observed to ride a bicycle over his six miles on week days

and to walk the same distance on Sun j Jubbouse. "Here'

it ( who

toil auf

That was just like fatber'e way*

In th* old home day*!

Se hr hitched the oxen to yon la the path the water wore. Hlowly slew yon round and drew yon to the open kitchen door, Where the crowbar made yon worry a°d tne heavy Iron mace— Aad 1 laughed to eee you hurrv a* yon wrlgglrc Into place: And he eald: “I'll bet It Stay*!"

In th* far home day*!

And youetayed, O stair of granfte! of onr home and life a part; Sot a throne upon the planet touche* *o the truant heart. A* fond memory backward giancea through the labyrinth of year* Hound the* troop the pictured fancies ‘rcld th* laughter and the tear* And we thread tbo tangled maze To the old home days! f - Oh. the orchard aad the garden, and the elms arrayed In state! Still one giant, like a warden, towers beside the open gate! How ha captured ns and swung us—oh. the mad and merry wight' - Through the tangled branches flung ns till w* shouted with delight! Oh. the joyance of the plajN

* in the long home days!

Paarefnl boars! The twilight shadow* of the hareatt evening gray Brought the blossoms of the meadows In the odors of tne hay. And th* cows from out the clover tinkled that the day wa* done. And the beo* went droning over with their golden armor on Through the sunset's fading rays

In the sweet home days!

Hung above you on the trellis were the Concord* In the dew. Growing sweeter for the (bailee as the jocund summer Hew. And you heard the water tumble where the river breaks In twain And the rumble and the grumble of the grinding of the grain,

And you watched each changing pha-o

Ofiho old home days!

Dear old doorstep! Ob', the prance* of the children on the grast. And the gambols and the dances of the laughing lad and lass. And the aoqg* we sang and chanted as the hours of evening sped! —Ob, the sacred spot la h ton ted with the face* of the dead

And the echo** of the lay*

Bungin the old home days!

Hemorls* throng. The heart Is swelling till th* pala has found relief Holy aorrow's pearls are *elling Irom the blessed fount of grief For th* music hushed and vanished, for the voice* round the door And tne footprints that have vanished from the path forevermore,

At ibroorh blinding mists we gr toward the old homedaytl

to renrh and enable otier warriors [ behind them to attain, with theU ] sposr* and long wwords the men bold {

lug the square.

"All this look place In a few min

utes. Then

to work

way

leaden ball from the rifles.

'The result is matter of history. Our casualties were nine officers and 61 non-commissioned officers and men killed and 85 wounded. The trlbes-

guns got i withered i

t place 1:

e gatllngs and other ork and the black mass : r In their Are and th< ,

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id 85 wounded. The tribes- j HTThs Bepairing Department is equipped with alltbat is Needful to Insure .bou 2000 raw »nd wound' j ri„.-01, u Wnrk. Unndit Perwndl 6np.rri.ion and h.. Stool lb. T.t'

the field.

that

called by the lone

bolo occurred.

was then that the Incident re- i by the ‘lone Filipino with his |

for Oyer Half a Century-

Spectacles and Eye Glasses

'ra'^r JdTn'ibuok°h™*bn"' WATCHES, CLOCKS, 80UVENIB8 and 8IL-

vanished, thff-men not engaged In at lending to the/wounded and the anl- | male were drawn up awaiting orde® ;

iplng I

wildly : t him !

They were In Mooee lines, propp themselves on their rifles and disci

Ing the battle. A thousand yards away a superb Fuzzy-Wurzy rose amid the

hillocks of slain and looked wll upon the scene of carnage about

He was of uncommon stature and

iportlons, even for these big athn of the desert, and evidently

a chief. His actions attracted Immediate attention. He gazed a( the thin, grim ranks of the conquerors from the north who were blazing the way for the advance of civilization Into the wild fastnesses of his ancestors; scanned the horizon on every side In

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vain for a trace of the Mabdl's mighty | and reputed invincible cohorts; looked !

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—W. A. Croflut, In Springfield Republican.

P Tso Warriors and Their Last Charge. ^

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U-

By JOHN W. HARDING,

Author of "The Gate of the Kl**.”

j

"Heard the latest from the FhillpI pines?" queried young Lieut. Gay at the Raconteurs’ club, as he glanced up , from his newspaper at a number of | the members who. cigar In mouth. I were enjoying the' post-prandial Jour j of dolce far nlente, utterly Indifferent. 1 In their contentment and comfortable | surroundings, to the wind that rattled and the rain that beat agaii thfe windows of theb- Fifth Aven

e'a a slaglc Fill]

day. and when asked why. replied that I who has the sand to charge be was not allowed to use his machine i American column!”

on Sunday. An investigation followed.

-Wow!': chorused his credulously. "And what

jUe '

le gentl "He iai

listeners. Inhappened to e Tagalog?"

, or I suppose It Is safe tp

; say wasn't a Tagalog. but a Moro,” re- ! piled the lieutenant, "though 1 sup- ' pose all Filipinos are alike tff us here. I As to what happened to him. the dis-

f2.790.272.G06 was Invested in Ameri Pj^* 1 1 *h’' ea 11 t0 ,hc imagination.

ing 20 j

The Census report on manufactur- i shows a growth of 253 percent in j

iterception by the war office authorles. who had learned of his departure. "WA had made a forced march of 18 hours and were nearing the wells at Abu Klea. .Not a man had-bad a mor-

drop to drink during

alltbat time. Most of us were on the verge of prostration from fatigue and the torture caused by the sand and fine dust which clogged our mouths, ears, and nostrils, causing ah Intolerable thirst, and penetrated onr worn and In many cases ragged clothing. The

sblng in at breakneck speed ua of danger, and wp-berely time to form a square'about our and animals when two mighty,

surging torrents of black humanity

years' time in t^is"country. In 1880, I

can manufacturers; in 1900. capital investbad grown to, J9.874.661.0S7. The wages paid those employed in the manufacturing Indus tries in 1880 amounted to $947,953,793; in 1900. $2,330,273,021. The value of the products In the first-named year was $5,359,579,191; In the last-named

year. $13.040.013.638. ■

' The success of irrigation in our own \ountry in the end will depend upon a wise use and equitable distribution of the water supply, as it does in Egypt, tays the Dea Moines Registei and Leader. Great uemands will, be made upon the available water as soon | aa the arid lands are. all in the handf. of cultivators, and new problems of

government will be up in every weat j n ghtnlnR imuk. Then’s’ slight, elegat • era state. Ib Egypt when the supply man of medium height, with clean-ci for the season is known tha irrigation features and n gray pointed beard reofficials determine how much water | recalls a slmilai

is ail it says:

• Manila, Sept. 27—Three companies of Infantry. commanded by Capt.

mick of fhe 10th regit

ree minutes after the first horde got within range we could scarcely see each other, owing to the smoke from the rifles. There was no wind. The atmosphere, heavy with the terrible beat, as it seeSied to us. appeared to

Ell A. Helmntck of the 10th regiment, left Camp Vicars/Island 0/ Mindanao. Thursday, to reconnoitre the Moro Torts snd recover stolen arms They enrounttretf only slight opposition. The column captuyad. and destroyed the Butig forts. A few Moros weTe killed. The American troops had no casualties. A fanatical Moro, armed with a bolo. charged the column alone." There was silence for a moment, as ,each man. Impressed by the dispatch writers' laconic reference to the Incident, mentally paid his tribnte of plfy and r^pect to the battle-frenzied patriot of the distant Isle who thus superbly bad defied fate and the might of his country's conquerors and, armed with a useless sword, had courted awarrior's death from half a thousand

lightning holts. Then‘Y sllgfc

shall £e given to each acre of land, • what days the water shall be taken, and bow it shall be employed. If It shall become necessary In our own arid bell to exercise any such authority, le order hi dry years to make the water reach all who are dependent up on ft. It is easy to see that bufldinp dams and reservoirs-and canals Is not

all there is involved in

problem.

r and very ex-

traordinary Incident which I witnessed

in the Soudan In 1885."

The speaker was Stanford Hylish. a visiting HITRlish journalist and exwar correspondent, to whom the courtesies of the club bad been extern The entire company was attention

medl

1 the Irrigation

\A well known writer on domestic subjects in English periodicals hat something to. say on the "nether side' of the much vexed servant problem .whh-h may prove of practical value in Its solution. She suikcsir that, though differend servant*' sometimes take nndue advantage jK small privi ***** accorded them, tie average man or woman In domestic .service will show appreciation of these by in creased effort and interest, the monotony of the rotiiine of household duties the never ending warfare against Just aad dirt, might be enlivened at tunes, this -writer suggests, by the gift of an Uloatrated magazine, a light, refresh-' tag novel, or an boar's outing in nddip the.- regular "night off." Instead

b the kitchen or hastenent

daring an unoempied half hour.'a

brisk walk on the sti

fdiately, -and Mr. Hylish, on

ended,, m IpYbtlng

don at Khi

■toura. I was

operations, begui

wcue of Gor with the col-

Jitewart. which made that famous dash across the desert to Metemneh when 1500 Tommies and tyuejackels at Abu Klea fought off 10,000 tribesmen whose valor is Immortalized in Kipling’s barrack-room ballad ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy': " 'An' era's to you. Furzy-Wutzy. with 'ck ead of V

Alb*

1 British square'.'

column was made up of regiment, mounted infant

a camel turps of guardsmen, and a detachment of men-o'-war'a men, with a troop of the Nineteenth Hus acting as scout*. We hurried along .with nc Jour screw guns and a temple of gatllngs. Rig Col. Fred Burnsby, The Ride to Khiva' fame, was of

IcUtg

1 broke colnma

the expedition, and rejpii

tbVrrat. caring noth!

premonition »f

Rid.

mightily'

ling (if he had any his fate) that it was to

mark the debe of his adventui

reer. Not having been able to get

himself wnt to the front, he

cured several months' leave of ab-

.... .. , ■•try®-* <rttb « mkura. - - the remainder of th® workday, and U^aratlve, orders to tat would be apprw late 1 as' a personal 1 talegrapfsd to every point of poo

lion to the reg at moving In t:

suppe

he was wounded as he doubtless wan, ; unless he had been simply stunned by . a bullct--wfre astonished beyond meas- ! tire. Not quite knowing whether to j take him seriously they we* reluctant

WIU.IS J. SINCKC*T.

o. user SCSSKIST.

- little :

e know!

rsiy they » esidep. perhrf athetic adm

J spear d amid 1

pprlse lad Gr

concentrate the powder amt

dense, acrid, chokl

which it wa

lere. fccavy

1 It seeSied to us. appeal

powder smoke ikinfe pall th

was Impossible to see U

ihlng tribesmen. The screw

bad to be clea

could be phi

Gatlings, they h;

pieces and cleaned. Bluejackets Inside the square were doing this ex-

guns

be cleared of sand before they

into action. As for the logs, they had to be taken

leces and

pedttiously,

old pane

told off to look after the animals were

raised their rifles, there ling fire, and the warrl.

forward snd lay about 100 y*i

n men 1 rack! inf

(miration for .•as out for

blood, and evidently not disposed listen to argument. His poised meant death to *ome one. an cries of Don't shoot; 'It Tm a toss with the bujt!' 'IxioL out: 'e's as mad as a March hare!' snd 'Give it to the poor beggar;'It can't be helped!' a doz-

r pitched trds from

the detachment of guards.

"That sight, while soldiers and sailors, exhausted as men rx[ely are. were dreaming the battle over again, or of those they bad left behind in the peaceful towns and villages of England, I lay slepless fropi nervous excitement, watching the sentries silhouetted In the violet night and the great bright •tare that twinkled seemingly so near to earth as to be almost within reach, vision of that solitary warrior.

ircsslon he made upon

me. recurred with depressing persistence. and. though I have seen many terrible scenes of suffering and heroism in war. as it frequently has done since, and probably will continue to do when I am alone with my thou) until at my last bivouac I fall Into slumber that knows no dreamlng."-

New York Tribune.

ffl. <s. Bengkei^i? § Sons, * - - ^piumhers - - ©as and §team Lifter'S. SAS30YJ11EV W®IBlK A SgjeOMaW K ts t i m n to ti Kurxajfiheci.

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Gjlpb May, N. J.

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The v such u

nights, no the

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CAPE MAY. W. J.

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6UAINT AND CURIOUS

It is stated that the largest steel : plate ever rolled was one recently < turned out by the Parkg&te Work*, j England; It is 80 foot long. 10 feet six j inches wide and 7-8 of an inch thick. In Egypt nets are spread along the coast. In wfilch hundreds of thousands ; of the birds which-come from Europe, j all worn -out from the long flight

squealing and j across rife o&ean. are caught, slatigh- 1

plunging madly. Meanwhile officers ; t ere d. and sol6 for two cents apiece,

were rushing along the rear of the ] lines of the square, shouting amid th*

din Into the ears of the men

foes.

having ,tl of the : t

wounded.. and

been and j

Mu !] I "r-

!w at their Invisible' fo.

“Suddenly, on the left rear of the square, where the heavy cavalry and camel corps men bad formed, an Immense black mass which had broken through the terrible circle of Are loomed through the smoke cloud at the very barrels of the rifles, ahd. hurling itself upon\the square with resistible force of an avalanche, through ^he lines. Some of the ymen, true to their Instincts, and lacking the infantrymen's train-

;t snch an emergency, broke rushed at the enemy. The

others and the infantry stood their ground, and by dint of terrific fighting closed the gap. Many of the hapless cavalrymen thus shtu out fell, pleroec

their ' ~~

r the bullets of tl

r comrades. The

before Col. Burnaby and many oth.r gallant fellows bad been killed. Burnaby. you may recall., received a spear thrust in the throat. Gen. Stewart hlmself hsdVnarrow czcafee, his-horse being 'slain under him.

•'Meanwhile one

bloodiest hand-to-hand fights

annals of warfare was along the line. Ever

capped from* the first by exhaustion through he was. knew that not only his own existence, but the lives of the entire command, depended upon the square being- kept Intact. Tommies and tars fought like demon*, and for the first time I nndcrMoed how the expression to swear like a trooper' probably had -it* origin, for while they fought they swore continuously and horribly, snd thr curees of the woundhare been frightful to hear. What were •vv against.’ as you Amarisay. .will be belter understood

say.

v- wh«m L tail Ton in j and"ahsotate'y f, ■a thq»*».lT** upon 1 H^etatsiy taps’e,

the bayonets and de-

tafis’ed .th*jp*ehr«a li

mg. the material used In irtiou of the new Christ's !

Horsham. England, were miles of hot water pipes. 98 miles electric wire. 20.000.000 bricks. 1.5< 000 tiles, five acres of wood floorii

100,000 cubic feet of stone and 56,000

tons of cement, sand and breeze. An American inventor of infinite re-

, sources and sagacity has utilized rats to lay the telephone cables through

ventl rats were turned idult with a ferrot af-

ter them, to which was attached a cord. Through 700 feet of the conduit the merry chase was carried, and the rats emerged Into daylight at the other end Just a few feet ahoad of the ferret whlch war probably impeded some-

what by the cord.

. ^he.con j Hospital >

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many months. Cases were recorded

the Paris Museum of a rattlesnake which refused food 26 months and a ! YWV/frvnjP'”

python which fasted 29 months. But j

the Word belongs to a Japanese_py- j n

which arrived In Paris.In Nov'em-

It diei ii

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Country Produce, Fresh Daily from -our own Farm.

nss, OTSTZgg. CLAXS AND TZSSAPIN- DRESSED MD1TBT. flg^The Largest Market in Cape May City.

n Paris, li

j in April. 1902. s food for two y

laying refused food for two year* i Ocean and Hughes Streets,

and three days. During f-

CIGAR EMPORIUM,

Caps Mat, N. J.

Uwm v her. II

having refuse

five months ^

s' us weight had decreased ; IMPORTED, Key West and Domestic Cigars, ilogrammes t>> 27. j - .. Turkish and Domestic Cigarettes.

BRIAR AND MEERSCHAUM PIPES

time 1

a 75 kilo

A telegram from Marseilles relate* j a terrible accident which caused the High grade smoking and chewing tobaccos,

**> ' hc ^ pany^ says the Paris Messenger. His duty wa* to examine the working of the lamps In a number of carriages 1 at the depot, and in order to facilitate I bis /u»k he p’aced several coils of wire roqnd hi* neck. He went from ■ car to car In this way. when, -while ! cros*tag the tram llne», he Mumbled \ and fell. The ground being damp,

damp, a and the

A POLL LINE OP PINE STATIONERY, jy Morning and Evening Papers served to

HOWARD F. OTTER, No. 019 Washington St.. Capo M.y City, N- * GENERAL UPHOLSTERER.

RBHOVATOB OF FUKHITURB AKD MATTBBSSES.

vnmv null, imam u> mat tiri i obulit. CARPETS MADE AMD PUT ODWN. tu. w#m SMaercv evvaaet*

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