CAPE MAY lirKALD. THURSDAY. APRIL «7, 190$.

FI AMINO CRB6K. F1SIUNU CKKKK. April SB —Jeuw II. Bbaw tnd vifc of Holly B**oh tint«J Ihrir »oii» HvrUrt ond Honry o*rr Sunday Mm. Beulah laard and aon Oaoar of |lt. Molly arc vial tin* Mm Cynthia Matthrwa. / * Walter Shaw viaited hU fraudpar•nta, C B. Bhaw and arifa, Sunday. Mm Hannah Woolaon made a trip to Philadelphia laal week. I^moel Bchellenirer and wile entertained her brother Albert and Mr*. Katelle Woolaon Sunday. Jacob Barnett and wife entertained Kev. and Mr*. Wella and family Sunday J. K. Biahop of Philadelphia apent Sunday with C. 8. Sbaw and wife. Miaa Maud Yearlcka of Philadelphia visited her father Sunday. vra Beulah laard and aon and Mr*. Cynthia Matthew* apent Sunday afternoon with Monroe Matthewa and wife at Erma. John Bate of New York la apendlng a few day* with relative* here. Wm. McKean and family rial ted Cape May relative* Sunday. ^ WJUets Johnson and wife entertained W. Hemmingway and Mrs. Bhena and daughter Sunday. Daniel Woolaon, Jr., and family of West Cape May visited hi* parents.

SOUTH SEAVILLE. SOUTH SEAVILLE, April 26.—Hon. E C. Cole of Seaville waa doing boalcesa here Monday morning. Mm. Amo* Wenlxell and Mrs. Lydia Crandoll of 8. Dennis were shopping here recently. J. P. Collins did business in the Qna--ter (ity Monday. Annt EUssbeth Townsend la improying slowly from her Ulnees censed by a fall recently. Sunday was a red letter day in the M. E. Church. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reed of Somer■ville, Maas., are malting the round* ol the village and renewing acquaintances. Oar yachtmen are putting their boats in trim for the oncoming season. Master Perry Cord of Glaaaboro la on a Tint to hi* air ter, Mrs. Horace Payne, Jr., for a few days. A Miss Minnie Sayre of Clermont waa a shopper here this week. Hon. Lewi* M. 'Craw’s auto la aeeh

on our Mias Gaace of 8. Dennis was shopping here Monday.

DIAS CREEK.

DIAS CREEK. Apnl 26.—E. 8. Errio aon is patting np a new wire fence in front of his property. William Cabaley visited hi* nndr, Wm. Lawrence. Postmaster Donglaaa is on the sick list. ) . Frederick Kicm, one of the gate-keep-er* at the Philadelphia bail park, is n- w on duty. Weak-6sh and king crabs have made their appearance. Griffin Gandy of C. H. waa the guest of T. H. Learning and wife Sunday.

BALTIMORE FIRM TO DREUGE- • Vina Contract to Remove 11,000,000 Cubic Yards of Marshland. Th* Baltimore “Sun" of last Tuesday

--said:

“Mr. Frank A. Furat returned from Philadelphia last night, where be secured a contract to remove 11,000,000 cable yards of material at Cape May, K. J. The contract waa awarded to the Fnrst-CUrk Dredging Company, of Baltimore, which was recently Incorporated, and ia an annex to the Maryland Dredging and Contracting C«0gEhy. fir. Fnrst la preridant of both organisation* •The work is to be started in July .when Mr. Font will have ready a new type of dredge. Invented by Mr. R. P. Clark, of TexaaTwbo la the vice-prealdent of the Fumt-Clark Company. The boll ia about ready to be launched, at Oranga, on the Sabine River. Louisian*. It is 167 feet long 40 feet beam and 14 Cast depth of hold. Arrangement* are being made by Mr. Furat * to have the hull towed to Baltimora. where the Maryland Steel Company la building powerful machinery for it By permission of that officer Mr. Pant has mammoth drudge after M Alexander Mackenala, chjaf of th* United States Army Engineers. “M/. Furat said last night that the p rev* ■ant* to Cape May ineluda the i lag of a harbor of safety, th* filling in of aem of land that la now yaiaala upon which, whan reclaimed, it is ed to boOd New Cap* May Ctty. Tbe «ct i* U> the heads of Pittsburgh oaf Mis and ra&road man, whom* a graft future for the naort. A boulevard, IM walk and the eruettoa of rnWmii and d ta the general piau.

FRENCH EDUCATION. Fhe Byatam Meeulte la Oiwat l^vet-

It la through a government examination that entry must be made to a civil wrvice position, and there ia nothing short of a mania in Prance for drawing a public salary. The result baa been the most uniform and stereotyped system of training that youth* were erer subjected to. There are nearly 400,000 paid officials under the French government Pot every voter one person bolds some sort of a public office. The French characteristic of thrif. has resulted In giving a vast number of people small Incomes from their investments. Economy rea|cbee little short of a national disease in France. This army of small Investors baa Incomes insufficient to lire in idleneea, but large enough so that with only a small addition In th* way of a salary the financial problem of life M solved. That is the reason why there is aucb a universal desire among the middle class for government employment and why the Incentive to obtain an education enabling one to pass a government examination is so overpowering. There were recently vacancies for four clerks In the office of the prefect of the Seine. For these position* there ware registered 4.336 applicants. Washington at Its worse sorely has nothing comparable to that Every one of these 4.000 applicants, however, cook) have passed an examination along certain stereotyped lines which would hare delighted the hearts of our rivil service reformers. The result of the French system of edocstion has been to produce an ex-, traordlnary uniformity of mental type and capacity, especially among the middle classes. The French systetfe of edocatiou Is Intensely national. Its plan M exactly th* opposite from our own school system. With ns the local community controls primary schools. In France the local community baa do voice in the matter. The French ay*tem Is the moat centralised, the moat strictly regulated, the moat autoentte

era tic ideas of any school system In

at Europe" in Scribner's.

Governor Carter of Hawaii received Che following letter a few days ago. It was written and sent in all sMouaaesa: ’The governor at th* government of th* territory, greeting-Will you be kind enough, the man in power, not to give the crown lands to Li Ilka ulanl. now petitioning the United States congress? Will you kindly bold the crown lands of Kamebameha in tbs name of Knannanamokaueahalkuikawalknmookahi Ke*moknhalepobal? I desire to see yon. I am the Hawaiian woman that hoisted the American flag when the Hawaiian flag waa lowered, end I waa the one who made a speech at the time the Judge sailed on the Alameda last year. I am your*. Kaa

Keamoku

This ia the long-

est name that baa yet appeared even among Hawaiian*, among whom names

of many syllable* an not

A French count was kept prisoner In his own bouse in Paris for five years. His Jailers won bis two servants, who wanted his property. The nobleman U Count de Bamplgny dTsaoncourt. He is sixty yean old. HI* servant* w«e an old man his wife, who bid been in the coant’s service for twenty year*. When the police broke into the h«ue a few days ago tfrey found the count and the two servants. The count declared that the couple bad kept him In a constant state of terror and bad pnvented him from leaving the place. They bad further compel led him to take doses of ether and to make out a will leaving to them the whole of his property, th* estimated value of which Is over $300,-

One of the many private pension bill* which passed the house Recently provided for Increasing the pension of Edmund G. Boss from $12 to $30 a month. No one recognised the name, and the bill went Jh rough with the mass of otbera, but the man was once a senator of the United States and one of the nine-

conviction

In the impeach[a served In the In a Kansas cavalry Of late yean Mr. Boos baa lived In poverty, working as best h* could at th* printer's trade In New

A London dealer la year received from India the skins at «*00 bird* of bats of th* feat men gad to most th* export naad. At tha asm* thno ha got ahaut half a mE> II* MtiM t*4 **» mtf a» ««aai aaffibar of ttsas at *rfaaa tap-

da0' it* recent recotfl for a third of a jeer was doss to s million skins an told, rowing mainly from tbs East an *. West Indies sad Brasil

1. K- Jerewe’e Tie. I gather from tbs fashionable novelist nut no man may wear a made ap tie and be a gentleman. No true wo man could erer ear* for him, no really classy society ever open its doom to him. T am worried about this thing because, to confeds the horrid truth, I wear a mad* up tie myself.—J. K. Join Today. >•

"Wouldn't It be a great Joke if t bird should"— ,

Tow is the time to make your Selections. I have a fine line of Japanese and China Mattings. The Price yon cannot match either in this city or Philadelphia, taking grade for grade. A few Rolls left over at a reduction of one and two Dollars less on a Roll TERSE WILL ROT LAST LORO.

Two strangers In a first class railway carriage got Into somewhat friendly conversation. Th* windows had Just been let down on account of the doaeness of the day, and the desultory chatter consequently turned to the subject at ventilation. T make It," said one of the two, T make It an Invariable practice to advise people to sleep with their bedroom windows open all the year round." “Ha, bar laughed the other. “I perceive that you are a doctor." “Not at all,’* waa Use confident reply. To tell you the truth, strictly between ouraelvea, I am—a burgiarH— Birmingham (England) Post.

war “Game wardens lead a strenuous existence, It ia said, and 1 know that some of them bare to be pretty shrewd to carry out the work for which they are appointed," said M. L. Ferguson. T waa told a story in a little town out on the other edge of the state the other day which bears out this statement “A game warden found a mas spearing pickerel through the ice. At the side of the little shanty In which the fishing was done lay a large pickerel The’game warden stole to the hot and throw 40ti^u)e door. “'Did you spear that pickerelr be - T did that’ “ ‘Did you know U is against the lawr “'WeU, you see that the fish isn’t

hare been spearing catfish and that pickerel kept getting in th* way. X had to Jab It lightly and lay It out on the ice until 1 finish fishing. Then I

will put it back.’ >

“Th* game warden walked offi."—

Milwaukee Sentinel

The Oote on Which You Insured your life should always bci a bright spot in your mem ory. It marked the beginning of absolute protection for your family. Write for laformaBoe of Folicic*

The Prudential Insurance Co. nf Anmricn. 0“ ,rr * rt - *• '■ HT Incorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey. JOHN F. DEYDBN. President LESLIE D. WAK%Vice PreUdent. EDGAfe B. WARD, ad Vic* Preaidrnt FORRKSTF.DBYtfHN. jd Vice Prerideot. WILBURS JOHNSON, *lA. Vie* President and Comptroller. EDWARD GRAY. Secretary. H. E. RiCHAKDaox, Aaat. Supc. Cape May Court Honac, N. J. 901

|Ulottii|gs! Mottings!!

CHARLES A 8WAIH. Local Phone. 65. 305-7 Jackson Street, CAPE MAY, N, J.

FACTS TOLD M I leHappeeiagsor ToM-OUner Matter* of Interest. Read the Hxbalo. Easter Baskets K price. Hogan’a Maple Sbelbark id a* an only at Hogan’s. Largext Stock Easter Baskets la Jl at Hogan’s

and etc. are doing extra stunt* for Easter. -A “May Party’’ will go to Town Bank on Saturday, to picnic all day on th* sand Ola. While you are cleaning hou*e 1st us clean your L*oe Curtain*. Troy Hand Laundry, Sib Decatur at. -The Monday evening bell at the Winderas largely attended. Cape May’s out in fore*.

Letter of Appreciation. John Mecray Post. No. 40,6. A. R.. ha* .received the following letter:

Cap* May, N. J. Mr. A. Footer, Commander of John Mecray Post, Dear Birr—My family and salt wish to thank you. and through you th* mem1 of John Mecray Post No. 40, for all your klndpeas and for ooedneting the services t th* grave of my husband. It had always been kia wish to be buried

A Popular New York Hotel, situated at Broadway and gad Street, frosting oe Empire Square, sad lees than BOO fast from the 04ch atn the famous Central P*rk.t enjoy, ooe of thfraurtea In New York City. Within two minutes' walk from the Empire are two stations of the new Subway, and the station* of the Bth and Mh avaane Elevated railways. All car Unas of th* Metropolitan Traction Company either pass or transfer to the Empire for one tare. It ia within six minutes of the Grand Central station, and within twelve miautas of all ferries. The Hotel Empire waa built to WBt, and has been, since its opening, under the maoof Mr. W. Johnson Quinn, who

and moderate charges. Th* rooms are Urge, airy and beautifully furnished, and

York will be repaid for their trouble ta Bending a postal to the management for a fra* “Guide to the Metropolis”

TOM. WATSON'S MAGAZINE.