V

Capital. •aes.OOO.

HMIlftMOfMV!

■ with Uriah bao4

1’wopiTS ano Surplus. *1800 MY W ‘ lOOX. Whaa lyt rt«h. Hf quit th* road lor foo l Wbaa I CM rVh.^ni^fljra jrl^ ^ “ ahouM?" **' *' “ "‘ C ““ 0 I’ll f’ta to aprral th« foapej far aad wlda,

bo haa a bona wbarola Iba (alUfal wife To (mO aad eloiba lb. poor on arary aldai i rough .can of loaoaoM labor .panda I’U adrorttaa that I ha*o foada to aparo bar ilia; la doing good to othara ararywb.ra, I flra aoma yoongar maa my timaworo whaa I fat rich.

1 hou art alraady rich in raw>uroa grand

CAPE MAT CITT, H. J. j aiu.. ~ * Thou art alraady rich In raaooroa grand—

OFFICERS: DIRECTORS: i

^VgaTULT H W&LBa, Praatdeot. Savckl F Eunaapda, | Tbat’^lma 4 baal^lVooaoM^MvaaMtnraT* Qlra wbaf*Uoa haat. fl»a fraaly what U

F. EuoaaDoa. Vloa Praaideat. Wam.xT B Wat*, I I'll lighten ail bar ' ~

BAXCaLf. ELDaapaa, | Thai tine baa .11 tooaoon bagaa totram Olra wbat Uoa b

wTESS.iS&e. ! aw^rawuKK'i.

~ STgraBt. Solkllor Lawa T. STaraga, Vibaalg^ricE -Char a. W. ScarB. li

JL L. Hatxm, Oao W Moacac

Searff. In Batn'a Bora.

Aooounia of MorchanU and Indtrlduala aolicltrd. Certlficataf _ ± __ —! I the mitigation of miss neryy.

rUflcataa of dapoalt heap

THE HO/AESTEAB East Corner Washington and Jackson Sts.

Mom Mitt Herr/ TurnoJ iho Tahiti on Hor Cow-Bo/ Loror, Tint Snubbing Him, and than Falling in Lota with Him.

By MAY BELLEVILLE III:OWN.

CAPE MAY, N. J. THE CAFE ' s thoroughly up-to-date in all appoii.i uients. Handsomely appointed parlor* for ladies. -

"W

Cottages served with Choicest Wines, Liquor? and Beers J. J. EATTY, Proprietor

ariuia t. acacagar.

CQ. (s. Bbngi^brip § Sons, - - ^Ixcrnbors - - ©as and §(eam ?i(teps. eassuTasir ®®ibb a apieiMiYY Estlmtitee Kurnluhed. *1© Wa* hi noton St., Caps r..Av. N. j. TRE ALDINE J:.e ezoalUot. Rab», S3 per day. upward; *10 per^^k,"op^ 1 ^ Cul ' THEODORE MUELLER.

M. C. SWAIN & Co.,

llAWUFACI UREBS OF

OFFICE tP RESIDENCE.

Corgie and Queen Streets

CAPE MAY. W. J.

Twenty-five Years Experience.

ARTIFICIAL. STONE PAVEMENTS. CELLARS

FLOORS, &c.

OF ANY COLOR OR DESIGN.

mt of the postoOce was

its with Jingling spur

ridgi

I’ holatera,

er and befrihged leggings, but

crowd about the c

highreckl

belts and full

lug sombreros, cartridge- ' holatera. as well as leaih-

leg*

gray and weatherbeaten cottonwood building was a de-

corous one.

Even those who came and went through the swjrg doors of the Cowboys' Rest down street did so In a subdued way. Had a stranger, expecting vociferation aad reckless shooting, questioned the state of affaire. Umber Jack, the erstwhile Bad Man of Wax-

ilaaNai

git after ye. She don't 111 when she's sortin' the malL"

The men lounged and talked, exchanging tobacco, the news of the range and frequent libations Suddenly

!office door opened, and there

ss Narvy'H s a racket

sun caught the ripples of her red hair, turning them to copper; her mouth was eet In a grim line as she looked sternly across the crowd. •'Ton Samuel Smith!" Her roles drifted commandlngly even into the interior of the Cow-boys’ Rest. “Your broncho's scratching itself against the

boys' ao's scratching Use south wall fit to knock the hous* over.

she snapped. now; I'm the |

tire.''

The last letter and paper were handi out to the We that came and went, but the crowd loitered outside as a moral support to Tom, who entered last and alone. The minutes went by, t no sound was heard from within. 'I tell ye. "boys," gloated Jack, om's the one fer Miss Nervy. He ll give her Jest tiat mixcher o' firmness an' blarney that'll ca'm even a redheaded woman. Why ain't we thought o' this afore? While he's courtin' her. we boys kin bev some liberties when

we come to town—"

The door opened with explosive suddenness. Tom, with petrified face, came hastily down the steps, and Miss Nervy appeared so quickly behind him to almost tread on his spurs. 'If any of you men want to buy goods here, come on! If not. got away

from my premises!" Her

more reproved the owner of the fending animal, who was Smiling Sam to all but Mifs Nervy, and who meekly led the pony away. Juno Mlnemt her father had named her. and he bad fondly hoped that in

Ight be united the uty of her goddess

godmothers. These she came to pos-

his only daughter

wisdom and the beauty i

she

HOTTEEa ooridoki (FORMERLY* PIER A VENUS INN.) UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. RENOVATED THROUGHOUT, OPEN ALL THE YEAR. . BOARDINO BY THE DAY OR WEEK. 130 DECATUR STREET, CAPE MAY CITY, N. J, A. R. CORDON.

MEGRAYS’ CENTRAL MARKET, Corner Washington and Ocean Streets, 6tn Washington Street, 217, 219, 22* Ocean Street

only In a moderate degree; also— from Minerva, perhaps—she inherited a temper. Her father, taken himself the plains of the eening sun. wh:re in the heart of the great grazing country he established a small store at a trading point on one of the great stagelines. He died white his daughter was yet young, the genera! opinion upon his taking off being epitomized by SI Merristalk when he said. “How glad the old man must be to be good an' dead.

ban

an’ whar Miss Nervy can't boss

fer a spell.”

‘'Blamed «f she don't try to rcggelate ©very livin' one o’ us." Limber Jack would complain. "Jaws us ef we don't change oar shirts, er ef we run our

bosses ti

game. Allays two kinds

wrong—them we do. an' them we don't do—so anyway she’s sure to skin Despite their fault-finding,'the men who frequented Wax Law secretly admired and gloried in me poseesfii

Inge is e don't

of J and

contraction of

CHOICE BUTTERS - Sharpless’ Gilt Edge • A SPECIALTY. Country Produce, Fresh Daily from our own Farm. nsa, crams, claxs act tzs&apih. dsesssd poultet. fc^-The Largest Market in Cape May .City.

CIGAR EMPORIUM, Ocean and Hnghea Streets, Can Mat, N. J, IMPORTED, Key West and Domestic Cigan, “ Turkish and Domestic Cigarettes. BRIAR AND MEERSCHAUM PIPES High grade smoking and chewing tobacco*, And all articles for the Smoker

A FULL LIKE OP PtNB STATIONERY. IT Morning and Evening Paper* served to Cottages and HbUhrt XJ. <C. THXSl Others wouM as* your •‘AD" If you had It hare. Think H etan Kw tua*. — a * TUW.

Nervy. Tne very fearlesr.noJi high temper that rendered the if her name a fitting one ?m to respect her. She was businesslike; the goods ia store were Irreproachable;,,

as postmistress she was accurate; her arraignments. If scverC~were usually acknowledged to be well grounded, id. above all. she was a woman. Today the crowd that awaited the sorting of the mail displayed, wila all its decorum, a suppressed excltemeaL After much dlscustion of ways aad means whereby Miss Nervy's severity might be lessened, some of the more daring ones bad hit upon the scheme of furnishing their goddess

with a suitor.

‘‘Love.” declaimed I.imbet-Jack to the camp-fire circle—“not the. pbllan-

“not the. p:

dertn' flirtin' that most o' us ha* done,

iqoashly love, the name p aited, which

Nervy, to'rds the whole a

lost

but raggelar. equashly love, that means

to the aame the hardest-hoi

lyin’ up 1

means us. We'll choose a likely duck to b'slege our fair poztmlzqj*- * a '

1' Prorldenc

post—softens h means Miss world, which

a likel;

trust

the res* to him an' Providence," After much deliberation, Tom Ketchum, who had b^n Nervy Ten until Miss Nervy wrested away Lilianrels, was selected as the Horatius at Was-

baw.

“I s'pose It might as well be me as any one," he remarked, in tones at resignation. "1*11 die some time, anyway, either bV shootln' er brocchobustln’, an' ef itll help the gang any to have u come by rod-hoaded lightnln,' all rlghL" “He's never balked at a proposition fr'm a bob-cat nip." said Umber

‘•St*?

XU;

Jack, exultantly; “an’, ef he Miss Nervy to 1'render, he'll I

to her. We don't want to s’preka her. understandln\ merely to—ei—to mitl-

sued an ultimatum. “Such of you

In now-

No, Thomas Ketchum," holding up

ling hand, "you

ilar

tpect any mall may lie file, remember, mm," holding up a u ain't had even a

-single file, remem!

etchu "you

from s whiskey-house In s

warn! 1 clrcul

year. You stay out" "But I want some terbacker," ex-

' squa

Jrly snapped shut. "And If yo

rse is done

> place And 1

ok

dogge What

e Jaws r busl-

ic. get back to work! Town *

for you!"

Tom's spirit was broken. He took his share of the work in a dull. :god manner that hurt his fellows, atever Miss Nervy had said or done had been as an acid that bites deeply. A smothered aversion to the woman came to life, and among those who frequented Waxhtw, and loitered to trade with Mias Nervy and lirten to her vinegary speeches, the “Flying Flag" men were conspicuously absent. One usually transacted business for the outfit, and oven his visit was brief. At first. Mits Nervy ignored the absence of the "Flying Flag" contingent, but finally curiosity—a failing common even to goddesses—mastered her. She was handing a sheaf of mail across the

counter to Uml “The 'Flying

us a needt

illy. toN

They're raos'ly takin' turns at nnre-

n Kot

car of mi

r Jack, lag" seei rest” £

led

sarcastically. "Has the foreman really

got them toVork at last?”

in" Tom b

los'ly U hum in

their spare time." ichalantiy, as he

oe quel g her f

got a boys don't know much to d Vermillion, ‘st's been 1 he fixes up some mashes now We re a 'A h<

fer 1 Jack 'at got clawed up with a wll'-cat, an' los’ his sporrlt. So's when a cayuse 'at Tom was breakin' fell on him two weeks ago, an' smashed some ribs, he kind o' give up an' got a fever. We to do; but Bob a hoes doctor, :es up some mashes now an' s all sorry. \oric doctor! What a pack of fools!" scolded Miss Nervy. -^Tea'll kill him amongst you.” Jack was at the door, but he turned, drawled, gently, "Oh. no. Miss Nervy; Ms death won’t be at our door. We all knows what’s killed Tom. He allays had more backbone an' life than any man on the range, and no man cr gang o' men could do n up that-a-way." 'Who's that?" asked Sam. later In • day. pointing across the prairie, buckbcord drawn by a rangy sorrel

Waxhaw." said Jack, “but I cant aee who's dririn’." ;t then a tarn of the road brought the slanting sun direct on tho figure on the driver's sent. It was a woman., end even at that distance they cou.d see the glint of burnished copper. ' "Mis* Nervy." cjnculated Bob. "Now we're in fer »?" “I don't see It that-a-way." answered Jack, eyelne the approaching figure sternly. "We jl^ieot her In a body, an’ rafnly ask her to go back to Waxhaw. whar her talents'll be more appreciated. Tom’s hed 'nough o’

wll’-cats."

As Miss Nervy Jumped nimbly to tho ground in front of the group, Jack ad-

vanced a trifle.

Miss Nervy—meanli

They ain’t nothin’ fer ye to do here.’ For a brief moment only Miss Nervy looked at Jack, but It was tong enough to shrivel him Intel nothingness. . "You boys think?" The repetition was snarled with telling effect. Turning. she drew a bulky package from j nndpr the seat ^ the buckbonrd. ’Ton

boys have been thinking a good while, and now suppose you do something. Mister Jack, go to the oock-shanty and ring me a kettle of hot water—hot, Und you—for herb-tea. Samuel Smith.

“ > Kete

itiel 8ml

you take me in to Tom Ketchum. and let me see how near you've all come to killing him. Bob VemllllOB,

been a doctor

BUSY HUPSKWIVES. Pe-ru-na a Prompt and Permanent Cure for Nervousness.

1. you'v< su'd bet

-tor long enough; :

r go back to bosses, and you can be n by taking care of mine. The reel

I yon clear c II let you kne

5 per. The men

lounged on tho crisp buffalo-grass that sloped away from the houses A bush fell over the group as a woman came walking briskly over the grass toward them. Miss Narvy stood before ihem.stern as ever, but with no trace of

•p bu

from the h

t briskly over the grass towar Miss Narvy stood before then its ever, but with no trace 01 In her glance, and looked at the

men. who rose to their feet at her com-

es at Hooyer's Ford. That's I mile. Can one of you get him hero tomorrow night?” "Great Caesar!" ejaculated •Tom ain't that bad, Is he. Nervy?" For a moment the men saw almost a gleam of mirth on her face. “T. m's better, but I can't leave him yet awalle, and as I've been intending to marry him anyway as soon as I'd got In my annual report, and the postefflee in tpector'd been here. I mlgjt as well have It over now. and then nobody can say anyth lag about me taking care of him.” Th% stood watching her trim, erect figure as she crossed tho grass, hurry ing back t

Vail.”

long. done

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The

been'

by the

er gases

times several hundred miles

— - j Mrs. Lulu Larmer. Stoughton. Wls.. two years I suffered with nerJuble and stomach •llsordeiR un-etm-d that there wai nothing to I me hut a bundle of nerve*. "I was very Irritable, could not Bleep. I rest or compose myself, and was .ertaltily unfit to take rare of a household. | "l took nerve tonic* and pills without j benefit. When 1 began taking Peruna j i grew steadily better, my nerve* grew stronger, my rest was no longer fitful. I nnd to-day I consider myself In perfect j health and strength. I "My recovery was slow but sure, hut | I persevered sud was rewarded by perfect health."—Mrs. Lulu Laemer.

Pb/m:

ter* at Galesburg. IH.. was for ten of the leading women there.

living, was lltsl !>raska Weslcya n ilty at Lincoln. Neb.

In a letter written from 401 Slxty--venth street. W- Chicago. III., sh*

jitVr"

bed figgered. but the Job * President of the Nebraska Wesl 'n wo hoped fer. Miss j University at Lincoln. Neb.

»nld not be without Peruna for ies Its cost.”—Mrs. Anna B. I'le-

highest speed which matter haa j “Health and Beamy." a book written 1 known to reach is that attained , by Dr. Hartman, on the pfcses of .-aoption of hydrogen and oth- j tarrb peculiar to women.^vill be sent from the sun. which Is at free by The Peruna Medicine Co.. Co-

lumbus. Ohio.

up ag;

that

Ukrly to Get Even.

Old Friend—What became c i beautiful full-length portrait of y

i and your first husband? Mrs. Twotimes—It is hr

That "magic wand" which locates | suitable places for wells has turasd

again. This time it is in Gt-many ^

little hazel twig Is be.zg Mrs. Twotimes—It is hidden away up

uzed with sucoess and much discus.ed ; in the garret. My second husband has

' never seen it yet I'm keeping it for a

The farmers of India, when fuel 1? scarce, cook an egg without fire. The egg is placed in a sling and whirled around for about five minutes, until the heat generated by the motion has

cooked 1C.

■ 1 i r P r >» e .

•'Yes^TThe ever again gives roe a ten-cent bottle of perfumery for a

Origin of e “Baker’s Dozen.’’

~i." pr “Jro, r.aSJ o ;^; e and then i Hittory jr or a baker Ln the olden times

:o give short weight ia bread exposed

1 him to considerable penalties, and thus

moving fast and wants to stop he i the custom arose of adding an extra straightens out his fins Just as th 1 *° ,he dozen as compensation for rt/wer of a boat does his oars. »"F possible defioencies in the rest of

the batch. I he extra article was ong-

A 1* i, uid u, be th, ! yi'U "'SK" d “ ‘"' n "" ' h “" largest specimen of her sex In the j —— —————— world. Being unable to enter the i Paying the Freight. a railway carriage, she takes i A New York lawyer tells the falloiv-

of a darkey preaclfcr in

An infant in Missouri is said to be the smallest human atom, weighing

only i pound.

now pass aroun’ the hat an’ collect

j freight charges*”

unable to enter the |

door of a railway carriage, she takes >

ing good story of a darkey preacke

North Carolina, who prefaced the p;

ng of the collection plate with.—

"Salvation's free, brethren, salvation's :ree! It don't cost nothin'! But we i lave to pay the freight on it. We will A remarkable sea monster was re- :

cently caught in Port Fairy some fishermen. It measure

six inches in lengt

that of the screw tall shaft, no testh. ' People In a nose like a rhinoceros, a head like [ every walk an elephant, two dorsal fins, four side i of life have fins and two steering fins The skin ' bad backswas black and very soft. The most ! kidneys go 1 experienced fishermen say the sped- '■ wrong nnda men is new to them. They cannot [ ibe back be-€ hazard a guess as to the species. The ! '

Fairy bay by freight charges* lured nine fed | IN EV£RY WALK of L1Ft . ad a tail like

In a certain office et an Australian railway station there may have been seen a very Ion* list °f names of women who have at various times t the looking clerks to let them without payment, tickets to various

They have forgotten

them, or spent

of 1

begg 1 hai

have forgotten their

f glove dll cm

places. They purses, or lost

last penny on a new pair ious reasons. They

iprt day bout fail

names and addressee lie, with amount of the borrowed money writ-

ten opposite.

the very npxt day and refund the money without faiL But there the

the

;^r"ncS S “ quickly dlsappears. -•-< Head this esm testimony and learn bow it can be

done.

A. A. Boyce, n farmer, living three

^' 0 “ 5 ami a half inlies from Trenton. Mo.. ,. e . r ! tnys: "A severe cold sell leu in my -LItheir , t , rrs aC(1 a et .rt 0pe <| so quickly that 1 ’ was obliged to lay off work on account

of gke ocUing in my back nnd sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all. and every makeshift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect My back continued t

weaker until

u who has made a study of the type feminine. His show window is a triumph of an and artifice. This Solo mon is a vendor of shoes. He employs

the looking glass as a bait f Intne shopper, who, he docl

;t for tl oclados

not pats just have sharper 1

los, "can-

one. oven though she may c passed a dozen." But be is foan the ordinary shopkeeper and has observed ^hai, while a woman stares Into a mirror-decked window, she does net nocoerarily obrerve the goods therein. Indeed, naually she is so taken with her own reflection that the mirror Is thus a distraction as well as an attraction. Therefore he has arranged a group of mirrors

matter where she may stand, she can-

r^^pn m shi

long virta of dainty shoes bnt no ccanterfelt pjfcsonU

not catch

ot los

might of her face in any one

them. Any position she assumee a

; ot dainty sh<

self.—Pittsburg

ilt pgfcs Drfpa

Is red octet tment of h

patch.

Hla hi 1 latere

idustry of whom we read so

interest.

"Are you Intireeted h» these cap-

tains ot Indt

much?"

“I don't knoJ.” responded Senator Sorghum, refleflvely. "that I am as much interested in the captains as I am in the pay%*ters."—Washington

Star.

. .• ...

1 knot." ret pom refleflvelr. "thi (rested in the cs e payV««ra"—

Mrs. Boy 1 Pills adve:

My bacK comiuuwi to **»» intil 1 was unfit for anythin*

noticed Dosn's Kid

-ertised as a sure cure for J

such conditions, and one day when In Trenton sb? brought a box borne from Chat. A. Foster's drug store. I l

lowed the directions carefully when

taking them and I 1 more than surprised

gratified to notice the back ache dls-

must say I was

uppearing stopped.”

gradually nntll it finally

medicine which cured Mr. Boyce x mailed on application to any part

ted Slates. Address Foster0.. Buffalo. N. Y. For sale

be l

of the United

Mllburu Co.. Buffalo, h

by all druggists, price 60 cents per box.

A Somnambulist;

A good story is told at the expense of a police inspector of New \ ork, who. when he was new to the butane*•* of a patrolman, once, with great official :cal. grasped and held a citizen on his beat who was addicted to sleep-walking. "Hold on!” kried the man. "You mustn't arrest me. I'm a somnambu"I don't care what your religion is!" exclaimed the ardent officer. "You can't walk the streets in your night-shirt!" union of energy and wisdom the completed character ar.d the

owerful life.

He who forgets his own frisqds merely to follow after those of a higher degree is a snob.

The

makes

most powcrfi