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CAPE HAY. N. J.

Eviction In the Coal Region. That was a pathetic qupy told by

John Coll, a miner, before tin* cool strike arbitration commission at Scranton. Pa., the other day, and If it repri'scntM a condition preralllng to uny

extent U is un appalling rovelnUOtu It appears that he had suffered from

many accidents while pursuing his calling as a miner. He bad lost oh eye. Ids skull had been fractured and I one of his legs had been rendered almost useless. His testimony was that be bad received no aid from the mine _ _ j owners midi his fellow workmen made

Kntcrr.l Ui the port offi.-e ot Calk May. | up u sulwcrlptlon for him. To this the S*T J„ as secbml.cUov tgail mattet. Match u. ; mine owners added $50. but took the lyu. I amount of his rent out of the collec-

; r - — tlon. He Joined the strike in common

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1V03. with hts fellows and was refused work

v- ‘ . j when the "strike ended. Ills rent bad

1 pine Into arrears during the strike, and

A Motive Power Famine. | UvuuBc . not ^ demand Then.- Is now what an offli-er of one ’ WM tur i 10d out on thL . Uire mounsf the great railroads terms a “moUve | 8ldc on n ra i n j. day. with his Power famine." and transportation of j ( ., ck toifc hllt „. lfe - 8 m „,hcr. who U

‘ blind and a hundred years old. and flve

freight Is congested at many points throughout the country. Whereas a 'few years ago American locomotive builders were seeking every opportunity far the Introduction of their machines on foreign railroads, going far ill did. to Sou tli America. Asia and Africa. they are today (unable to meet the domestic demand, although their faclli. ties have been grimly increase! . There Is also a scrloii^ahprtagC of freight cars, though it is staled that all the car bulldcre are busy, with orders far abend.of their ability to turn . them out Hence the freight blockades and delays of which we read dally In tho press ^dispatches, due to lock of motive power and rolling

stock.

Tills situation, which Is a source of great annoyance, financial loss and In some instances real distress, was mainly created by the vast volume of business offered to the railroads that they

are npimrently unable to handle expo- gallant Virginiandltlously. This is due In large measure mlrer shall kiss

children. After hts eviction he had to take bis family ten miles to u cold, damp, empty house. His wife, already slek. Soon succumbed, leaving her Utile family helpless In the hands, of her crippled husband. Her mother Is dying nmianay be dead at this writing. Periinps this was an Isolated case, but even so it represents a condition Abet ought pot to exist In this country. In vtety of . such revelations os this. It Is well timt the anthracite controversy should be sifted to the bottom and that there should be no “aetClement out of court" until all the facts are brought to

light.

been visiting 1

Sharp, at Petersburg. Kx-Muyor Joseph Q. Williams and his sou, Ixmls C. illiums, were visitors to the Quaker City on Monday. Mrs. Frank U. Wheeler Inis go -e to Michigan on a lengthy visit, where Mrs. Wheeler is about to come into won of a large estate. Mrs. David 8. Menvin, who has been quite ill for three weeks past, is now recovering gradually and will soon have ucqipred her usual health. Mr. Jere Callnher, of Coshen, of Mrs. David W. Ko.li' n, of this city, is confined to the house with rheumatism, and is unable to do manual labor. John M. Ireland, of Rio Grande, has 'sold out his household goods and sill go to Massachusetts, where, it is reported, he will embark on the sea of matn-

rnopy.-

Mr. ad Mrs. Charles Fiizgendd and family are now located at Cape May

o the unprecedented production of the fields and mines of the country and corresponding activity In the Industries engaged In working up tho material they supply. The abundant harvests of the season, the reopening of the anthracite mines and the check upon transi>ortatlon by water cauapd by the winter weather are putting upon tho . 200,000 miles of railroad spread over the wide area of the United States a burden of labor with tvhlcb they are struggling viflh insufllcient equipment. While pcrliaps no human foresight could foresee the great activity In commerce and manufacture which was to

The Vlrglnlu Antlklsslng Law. The Virginia legislature proposes to regulate kissing by law, and fur_lbat purpose n tijll Is now pending before tt. It Is put forward as a health protective measure and proposal that no

nonresident adpretty and coy.

though not unwilling, Virginia maid or matron unless be ran prove by a physician's certificate that.be has no contagions or Infectious disease or weak

lungs.

Do the sapient solons of the Old Dominion suppose that there arc any young women, middle aged or old ones, for that/matter, In Virginia or elsewhere who arc going to wait for a man to flash a physician's certificate on them when the time Is ripe for osculatory demonstration? Kissing I In Virginia Is very much the same as It Is elsewhere, only, according to tra* the} - have a rather superior

come by reason of the “bumper" crops, | brand In the Old Dominion. A kiss Is the present freight congestion may in something that one has to take at the port at least-he due to the failure of , opiwrtune moment to get Its full zest the carrying companies, wittingly or j and flavor, and It Is preposterous to otherwise, to grasp the situation In suppose that one Is going out bunting

time to. proviso a remedy, since every year when/there are abundant crops In the west we read of something like the same difficulty In moving them to ■ the castejn markets. Tho marvelous development of the country Is an accepted and gratifying fact Are the great railroad corporations and the makers of railroad supplies keeping In

step with It?

In view of the large measure of Success ottalni-d In {he experiments In tea grown In South Carolina the agricultural department yill broaden the scope of Its operations In tills direction. It Is now proposed to establish a tea farm In Texas to see If that hopeful and expansive commonwealth cannot raise, better tea than the- Palmetto State. There.Is very little that Texas cannot raise, from disturbances and long homed' steers to olf gushers and statesmen. Within the area of that state, which, with felicity and originality, Is called by Its Inhabitants "an empire In’ Itself," oil soils and climates arc found. Between the humid-mead-ows of the Sabine, where the moss drips dew perennially; the rainless heights of El Paso and the superheated lowlands of Hidalgo there is a spot for every product on earth. If Texas could not somewhere produce a passable tea. It would be a proof that her loyal suns have altogether misjudged

Reviewing the matter seriously. It may be said that while It is probably pondhle to' cultivate tea over at, least one-third of the art a 6f the United States. It Is hardly practicable to hope to bring within the space of a generation an American tea to the point where it will" be" liked by tea drinking - people, though ultimately this country ought to be inCU-pendcnt of China. Japan, Ceylon tr India in producing the material fqf "the cup which cheers,

but does itot Incbrtote."

Hamilton W. Stable's little story about a certain Boston religious week"•fr, told at the recent Mark Twain dlnnVv^ In New York?, wasn't half had. ^Thta^rellglou* paper. It seems, was at first called . the Fireside Companion, but .when modern ways and especially modern methods of heaUojj wege introduced the Flrqslde CompaiAo(i became the Christian Register. ( “*v

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more or less danger of being Imposed upon. Here, for Instance, U n Pullman car porter sued by a New York worn. At) for breach of promise.

doctor's certificate when he has a good chance and doesn't want to

miss 4L

The penalty for kissing In violation of the proposed law Is to be a fine of from $1 to $5., 'But who Is going to tell about it and give the minions of the law a chance to bale the cnlprits to court? Kissing and telling arc no more regular In Virginia than they are anywhere else. — ,

Becently published correspondence regarding the evacuation of Shanghai by Uie troops of the powers la not likely to promote good feeling between the British and the Germans. As a condition to evacuation the German .government obtained special pledges from the Chinese respecting the valley of the Yangtseklang, basing Its demands upon the alleged desire to preserve the open door. Prince Chlng, president of the Chinese foreign office, told British representatives that be knew nothing of the pledges, but as soon as Germany discovered that the British.government knew -what was going on it promptly backed down, thus exposing Chlng's duplicity. Germany, of course, was seeking only to undermine Great Britaln'* Influence In the rich valley.

The Philadelphia police Save unearthed u business man whff turned burglar at night for the soke of the excitement. Life In the Quaker -City has usually been regarded as rather quiet and unexciting, bat It bos not been supiKdKd that it would drive a

resident to that extreme.

Why waste time'bunting bears, deer, rabbits and the like when some of the western railroads are offering $1,000 rush for defunct train robbers? That would seem to be the most exciting sport, and. Judging from recent news-' paper reports, the game la quite abun-

dant.

A woman la advertising In one of the Missouri papers "for s borne In a family where there are no children. ~bo washing and good wages." 8he neglects to say, however, whether she prefers axmlnrter carpet for her room or

oriental ruga.

Tbs life of a man at Neenah, Wls.. baa been saved by a suspender buckle, which stopped a bullet fired at him. la the suspender buckle to supersede the corset as s Ilfs saver?

Jt la said that J. Plerpont Morgan ins very proficient Jn mathematics When a schoolboy. He seem* to I&ts

PERSONAL INTEREST Gossip of the Resort In Which You

May Be Mentioned.

AMeriii*n Francis K. Duke will have

Iris office at the City Hall.

LutherOresse will Jiulld a handsome

new home ut Green Creek.

Miv Kdmt Bailey, of Ivylund, is

Miss I'M mi Bailey, of loong I'upc May friends. Lewis C. Gibson, who im

>u, who has been con-

fined to his home with grip, is now aide

to be about again.

Miss Beta Norm is staying at the Cape May cottage of Mr. and Vrs. Chao.

rson, of this city, It • mother, Mrs. Joscj

permanently. Mr. Fitzgerald is in ebargi of the electric light plant, owned.by the Cape May Real Estate Company. K. T. Koch, secretary of the Berlin Ink ami Color Co., and Mr*.. Koch, of Philadelphia, have concluded a pleasant holiday visit to Mrs. Koch's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Edward F\ Townsend, of

this city.

George Everingham, of Ocean City, formerly a resident of Cape May, was among the visitors here early in the meek, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Everett J. Jerrell, at their Corgic street resiJohn M. Vance, of Holly Beach, formerly of Cai>e May, has been elected Grand Master Mason of Graed Lodj

•odge

Ac-

Shaw, daughter of Captain is Shaw, of Rio Grande,

of New Jersey, Colored Free and cepted Masons. He assumed office Tuesdai

Missi

and Mrs. Silas

married last week to Mr. .Smith Endicojt, by Key. Charles H. Elder, of Wenton. The bride and jjrjxnii will reside

at Rib Grande.

Mr. Thomas Case, formerly chief engineer for Independent Ice and Coal Company spent Christmas with his wife and child, who ore spending the winter with Mrs. D. Horn. Mr. Case now has charge of a large ice plant in

West Virginia.

Miss Elizabeth Blattuer, chief telephone girl in t<>c "centraT'fcf the Delaware and Atlantic office, this city, has concluded a Christmas vacation. Miss Doughty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Doughty, of West Cape May, has

' iled her place.

Former .SheriIf James Shoemaker has

again been selected for a position in the State Senate by tfenator Bobt. E. Hand. He will fill the position of assistant supervisor of hills. It will be his ninth year of service in the Senate, he having been first appointed by Senator Ross. Mrs. Charles A. Johnson, of Bayonne, N, J., and Mrs. Harry F\ Ettinger, of Chester, Pa., daughters of Mayor and Mrs. Thomas W. MiUet, of this dty, who had been enjoying the holiday season here, returned to their homes on Wednesday morning. Captain Frank G. Edwards, a leading spirit iu the Cape May Real Estate Company's management, is of the Denqisville family of Edwardses of Cape May county. He was, however, born at Bristol, Pa., and has always resided there. He has begun his third term in ; the Pennsylvania House of Representa-

tives.

John Halpm, who was elected. President of Council oh Thursday, is oue of Cape May’s prominent grocers, and has been in business for ,twe tjr odd years, always conducting enterprises which required much (bought and activity, lialpin's market has become one of the permanent fixtures in the resort’s btudness life. Mr. Halpin is serving the last year of his second term in council, lie was first chosen iu 18113 -and 'served until 1896. His second term began jn March, 1900. ^

The entertainment committee of Mayflower Lodge, No. 258, I.O.O.F., which has been planning to^ive a burlesqnc initiation as the entertainment for January, has found it necesssry, owing the busy holiday season, to change the date and make the burlesque the attrsetion for March. The January number will be the progressive novelty, which has heretofore beeu planned for Mari*. linford Halbruner, of Cold Spring, did a good job when he completely cured one of John l}. Brown’s line black horses, which/required the services of an expert- While not holding a license

NEW SHORT STORIES CHOICE MISCELLANY Trc(<ssi»nat ITa.'ils.

Senator llanaa'a I‘o»,er.

A good story was told of Senator narwn's power by a well known member of congress who accompanied him from Cleveland to Washington. Several senators and representatives were on the train, and tn the same sleeping cor were several members of the Bonded Warehouse ussocU^nn. The whole purty got out at Pittsburg for un airing, and while they were walking up and down tho station platform their train pulled out and away. When It finally dawnod upon them that their sleeping car had reglly gone, the members of the Bonded Warehouse ossoeiyjon became exceedingly anxious ancrliqrriod to the office of the dhTslon superintend-

ent of the'lkillmRn company. ntn —u , , frontli.mon " unit

“I am sorry, gentlemen,” said ^ su-Is-rlntondenL "that ydnr train Would huvo left you, but all that I can do Is to give you accommodations In u chair car from here to Altoona. There you will be able to get a sleeping car

through to Washington.”

“What time can we get to bedV was

asked.

“One o'clock."

"Thar will never do,” said one of the party. “Our tickets call for sleeping iccommodntloos from Cleveland to Ington, and we must have them.”

car acco Washing

absolutely Impossible." “But Senator Hanna”— "What! Senator Hanna: Is he left?” "He la.” “Gentlemen, be seated. I will see what can be dooA" In flve minutes one of the best steeping cars in the Pullman service was ready, and the party came on to Washington rejoicing.

austere manner and not the the Jess wni/he ready ti

one would choose for a practical Joke.

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Joy a Joke on himself and to tell It. This Is one of his stories. About the time that John L. Sullivan was at tho zenith of his glory Mr. Gray was traveling In the west and compelled, through missing a connection, to wait an hour or more at a little Junction town in Kansas. As he strolled back

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traded the attention of the station loungers, and within ten minutes some report had spread through the twn which drew half the Inhabitants down to the tracks, where they stood ^ln groups staring at the Judge, who was -quite at a loss to understand their curiosity. “Fifteen minutes later It was explained. when a gaunj and gawky countryman approached him and asked: “Bo you really John Sullivan, the err

The Carstnl Stenographer. “It was an hour after midnight when there came a furious ringing at my doorbell," said Abe Gruber, delivering hts "latest" to a number of friends. “The next minute I pokpd my head out of an upper window and inqulred as to what the visitor wanted. “ Thls ls where Mr. Gruber UvesP “ 'Yes; I am Mr. Gruber. What Js

nr

“ ‘You delivered a speech this evening in which you mentioned Carilss McGlbneyr •• q did.’ “•Was he a Protestant or a Roman Catholic?* “ ‘He was a Protestant. But what 1 — “Thanks. That's all I wanted to know. I'm the shorthand reporter that took down the speech, and I couldn't tell from my neftes whether you sold he entered the ministry or the monastery. G'nlght,’ "-Few York Times

>UiI.l«b Was Bnrlrd. Tho question of H!r Walter Raleigh's burial place has lately been revived In England. Throe churches claim both the head find hod; ot the gallant courtier. Immediately after the execution, which took glace In Tothlll atr.i t Westminster, on Oct 20, 10:8. h.a wife placed the bend In a nil Inig and redo off with It In a mourning each. Tills treasure she kept for twenty -flve years. Tho body was burled In St. Margaret's church, but shortly after the execution Lady Raleigh wrote to her brother. Sir Nicholas Carow, asking p.-riu.salon to bury her husband in his church at Reddlngton, where she desired oho to be buried. History Is silent from that time on. It Is known, bbwever, that her son treasured the bead as bis mother had, and, according to the London

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is finally buried with him a

Dally Chronicle,'tradition says that it

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Horsley. Surrey. Dr. BrushllcM, wl

has made a thorough study of Raleigh history, Is of tlie belief that when investigation Is made the three bodies— father, mother, and son—will Ik - found buried together. He has suggested to the British Arducologlcal society to Inscribe the stone under which bis body 1* supposed to be buried In Margnrefs, London, with his name and coat of anus. No English memorial to this “universal genius" exists. Thi west window tn 8l Margaret’s, dedicated to his memory through the enterprise of Dr. Farrar, was the gift of this coun-

: try.

Harrlos-ea Expedited. Only recently the complaint was made that the preparations for a wedding were becoming so elaborate, troublesome and costly that young men preferred tofmnln bachelors rather than undergo the ordenl. In view of this

iplnlnt It is reassuring to learn that, !ng to the perfection of system esllsbed In the county building, wedgs may now be performed there h tlfc greatest dispatch. A conple, s refbrted, may seek the marriage license window at any time In the dny

and Then depart from the county bulld-

• space of eight mds. The gain

tng man and wife In the

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yy H, THOM IVON, Furnishing Undertaker PRACTICAL liMHALMER Cape May, N. J.

New Year Styles The January Suinlunl Patterns just receive,! by us coulain the following novelties. JDrop Shoulder 'IDatitt Strapped Shirt liatits 5)1 ante Carlo Shirt Wait! Costume

Standard Patterns are Scam-Allowing and slwolulely reliable. Viait our Pal* tersnu Department tin: next time you come lu our store. DRYGOODS NOTIONS Millinery LADIES’ and MIEN’S Furnishings

0. L W. KNERR 618-20 WASHINGTON STREET. CAPE MAY. N. J.

over tire slow, old fashioned wedding, which requires weeks for preparation and a whole day for tbe-ccromouy Itself. Is obvious. A man may now get married In less time than !t Xnkcs to ride nroupd the loop. Spme^niprovcd method .of courtship on tig- lightning express principle doubtless will soon be fortbcomlng.—Chicago News.

As Aslocrat.

It has been discovered that the new Jim Crow car law of New Orleans makes the conductor such an autocrat ns be la In no other city, says the New Orleans Picayune. Perhaps the most objectionable feature of It Is that which authorizes and empowers the car conductors to pronounce which of tho passengers are whites and which are negroes. There Is no restraint on these irresponsible persons clothed with such extraordinary functions. A ear conductor under this law can. upon bis own unassisted Judgment, without taking any testimony or making anvinqulry, pronounce that any iHirsdh to

, uud penalties- for refusing to accept his decree. In the same way be can force a negro Into the compartment for whites. e r.«-. Of Raffia. ! vegetable pro tar to Madagascar Is the stance known as raffia, which the natives weave on hand looms Into a vari-

goods. Under the name “rnbanns" a striped and colored variety of this material Is sold for curtains In the American market. Becently a new use has been found for raffia fiber Infbe maun-

New Savings Bank Whv don't von Buy your £lothing and Furnishings j^"Boots and Shoes at I. Tenenbaum’s price* are the lowest in town. The largest assortment to select from. Come and con-s-’sr.iS, hsn.'s

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‘ I. TENENBAUM, The leading Clothier, Shoes and Hatter, 421 Washington St. CAPE MAY, N.J.

cul ut Tamatave, Mr. Hunt, suggests tt might prove valuable for making other kinds of paper.- The raffia plant

facture of cigarette paper, and our conMr. Hue tor m raffia plan baa long been grown for orpMfi'ebta purposes In European gardens.

Aa to Street Names., Some one said, "Look up and down." Despite this dictum most people do not carry their heads in the air .when walking the streets. Now. if the' contractors who lay concrete walks would only stamp the names of the Streets into -tbs cement (as they stamp their firm name and date of the laying) at the street intersections, what a remarkably convenient Inexpensive and durable way It would be of naming the streets, so that people could see where they were without an effort— Chicago Tribune.

It is about twelve mouths since the boring operations In the Simplon tunnel let loose the unsusiieeteJ reservoirs of water which have been flowing ever Since In a deluge that almo.-t defies imagination. According to the Tribune

do Gonovo. the stream has been ccnso-

acqualnt himself with its people Lord I Ifw over Bin Milner is following the example which I tunnel at the

Sir George Grey set in Sooth Africa ! a second, day and night—that is to nay, many years ago. It was a red letter! every ..week for the last year has seen day In the history of a household on | the absolute wastage of 120,000,000

the veldt when Grey called and took j K* llon ® of water. coffee and spent half an hour In talk.

The chair be sat In was sure to be pre-1 A French Pndd'nbcad wtuon. saved as a memento. Bot this regard i Bertlllon. the expert, has at last vlnfor him had a very amusing contrast, dlcatod hts claims for his system of dein an experience of hts at a tittle np; <notion. A mysterious murder was country hotel Whan the bill was being - committed In Paris lately, and no clew

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paid, one of Grey's companions drew was toft by the murderer except cwattention to a rather excessive charge tain finger marks on a window pane, -which the landlord put against the eggs The streaks were photographed and he had served to the party at break- enlarged, and Bortillou Identified them fast Grey, who Ukad hit little Joke, as belonging to a man who had underlaid on taking leave of the landlord, gone the anthropometric system eight "By the way, «gg« seem to be rather years ago. The man was found and arscarce up here.” “No,” said the land- rested, nnd the murder has been proved

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