CAPE MAY l:r.KAU>, THURSDAY MAY n. r^oj.

KAim* IN BK1KK.

04(1 ■ and KnUa of Town Talk Told la a i<la« or Two. -Fly tlinr. -Hoop rolling. —N«*(# going up. —8unitnor weatbpr. —Thunder abowrra. —Oprn troll*; car« —8*aabnr* dapi now. —Clean up tbr lanea -M'oxjuilor* arr bare —Now for cold aupperm. —Slrawbarr; abortcakr. '—Wild violet* are prolific. —Coru planting baa begun. — I’lentv of flab in market.

FOR THE CHILDREN

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—Property ebanging hand*. —Open doom and window*. —Refrigerator* put in order. — Decoration Day approachetb. —Getting warm for theatrical*. —In two months wheat will be cat. —Tbr conductor* and brakeiDen on tbr Wrat Jersey bare donndd their white

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— Farmer* up the county report the strawberry crop na the largest and finest in year* Shipment* will begin this —CU-rmont young people hare tbe dancing ferer. While yon are cleaning houae let as clean your Laoe Curtain*. Troy Hand Laundry. 810 Decatur at. —DecnisTllle'a old mllL beyond repair, and rapidly going to destruction, is the oid*wt landmark In the village. —Charles K. Hand, a member of Turtle Gut Life Saving Station. No. 38, caught the Brat drum Ash of the season with hook and line last week. It weighed SO pounds. -Usyflower Lodge. No. fcS, 1.0. O. W., will attend divine service in s body nt tbe Pint Baptist Church Sunday morning. The pastor. Bar. H. P. Crego, will preach a special sermon. Strictly all hand work and no Injurious chemicals, Troy Hand Laundry, 810 Decat or at. —Tbe fleet of steam and naphtha launches at Cape May this year will be much larger than ever before. -The Cape May County Freeholders met at tbe Dennisville Pond recently to consider plans for n bridge to replace the one washed away, and decided to put up. a substantial structure, with solid abutments placed upon piling. —Harry Richardson, of Philadelphia, has purchased of Fleming >. Carr his InJtaivit In the Cape May Honeq on Jackson street, and will conduct it hereafter. —Mr. John M. Rogers, of Wilmington, has purchased the lot on the northeast corner of Bench avenue and Queen street. —The Sunday-school of tbe Church of tbe Advent will on Saturday bare an outing to Town Bank, if tbe weather will permit. w —Tbe congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Ooean City have decided to bnlld a handsome edifice on the site of tbe present chapel. —John J. Kromer will Cape House and Carlton at Cape May Point this season.

Finch one in the <H>;npnuy must be supplied with pnper and pencil, and thru yon asg all together to suggest ten l**itera of tbe alphabet, which are then to be written down at tbe bead of each one's abeot of paper It) tflh order In which they were suggested. -Now tbe players must exercise their wits to make up a telegram of ten words beginning with tbe letter* in the order given. After ten minute* or so call. “Time's up,” and gather up the paper*. Display a prise for tbe one to be adjudged aa beat, and then read tbe telegrams aloud. Let the company decide which Is best. Here are some e xamples: Suppose the letter* were A L W K B E T O G Hf One telegram: Alice Dane will know by evening that Oscar gambles horribly. Another telegram: Another lad will kisa before Edith thinks of going borne. Lota of fun In this game. Try 1L

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To ace the scarlet i*linger la to remember him always. He cannot be confused with any other bird. Tbe body of tbe male tanager la a flaming red. His wings and tail are Jet black. There 1s no mixing of coi-

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Tbe female to (dive green, dusky and yellowish below and attracts no special attention. Tbe scarlet tanager nests from tbe Missouri to tbe Atlsntlc. Many have beard of tbe scarlet tanager who bare i him. Ilia favorite haunt to In tbe open woodlands. Tbe neat Itself to a neat, shallow basket of roota. constructed much aftar tbe manner of tbe rose breasted grosbeak. Tbe nests usually contain three or four eggs. They are of a dusky, greenish blue, thickly spotted with purplish brown. By October tbe male has loot hto rich drees, and old and young, clad In plain, unattractive plumage, betake themselves to their winter borne In Central

LAST OF THE SEASON. WASHINGTON. Low-Rate Tour via Pennsylvania R.R. May 18 to tbe date on which will b» ran the last Personally-Conducted Tour of tbe Pennsvlvanto Rallfoad to Washington for the present season. This tour will cover s period of three days, affording ample time to visit ell the principal point, of Interest •t tbe National Capital, including tbe Congressional Library and the new Corcoran Art Gallery. Bate, covering railroad transportation for tbe round trip and hotel accommodations, 118.00 or 810.50 from Trenton, and proportionate rates from other points, according to hotel selected. Rates ooner accommodations at hotel for two days. Special aide trip to Mount Verson. aj _ All tickets Rood for ten dare, with special hotel rateeafter expiration of hotel

For ilinerariea and fall information apply to Ticket Agents; or address Geo. W. Boyd. General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station. Philadelphia.

Kltebee Wall Sag. A bug for tbe kitchen wall to easily made of white oilcloth and bound with very atrong braid. Tbe bottom of tbe bag to made In a doable box plait and does not break through. Tbe chief merit of tbe bog to its number of pockets, one pocket for some parti colar article that to always going astray la a kitchen and causing any amount of time and trouble to And It when j needed moat. Let one pocket be devoted to string, which to always In de-

Tbe game of tbe bird dealer* to played as follow*: Tbe children stand In a row, leaving two outside. Tbeee two represent the bird dealers. Each child represents a bird, one being a crow, another a crane, another a canary, and so on. One bird denier says to tbe

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-“I wish to buy a bird.” “What kind of a bird?" asks the second dealer. ”A bird that can fly fast,” says tbe first dealer. “Very well," answer* the other dealer. “Take what you wish.” “Then." says tbe first dealer, “I will take a robin.” As soon as tbe word to out of hto mouth tbe “robin” must leap from tbe row and ran around to'eacape. If tbe denier catcbe* tbe bird be put* It Into a cage, where It moat stay till all tbe other birds are caught

Place tbe spectators at some little stance on a level on fbe opposite rifle of tbe table to where you alt baring spread unperceived a handkerchief across your kneea. Take a drinking glass—e tumbler with no stem to pref-erable-end, covering It,with paper, mold tbe covering as nearly as possible to tbe shape of the glam. While uttersome cabalistic/phrases > drop tbe a Into your handkerchief unobserved, and as tbe paper retains tbe >e there to no difficulty in making the lookers oa believe tbe tumbler to be still beneath It Passing tbe glass In tbe left band beneath tbe tgble, you now crush tbe paper down wlt^C-^wr right when tbe glass will appear to have been sent through the table. If a doth is over the table tbe trick can be e easily performed.

John Koopman, a strawberry grower of two mliee west of Carthage, Ma, has received MMXK) paraffined pasteboard strawberry boxes, which be will am for hto crop this year Instead of tbe asual wooden boxes, says tbe Kansas City Journal. It to cl.ilmetf they and will net ab-

' KTEUBBUKU, May 10.—»r. Fituon of Owrl.rook visited Mr. Wm. Matthews over Sunday. Mrs. Wynne of Camden to spending a few day. with relative# st Lower Bridge Mias Irene Van Gilder baa accepted • position for tbe summer with Misses Lewie and Conrar at Ooean City. Hi** bars A. Van Gilder visited her ai»t*| in Lsnadale the first of the week. Kev. H. M. Wapiet and wife were very welcome visitors among friends here on Hatnrday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wmton hmltb and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Corson are gnesU of Mrs. 8. Van Gilder. Mr. Burdett Tomlin and wife called on friends here recently. Among Sunday visitor* here were noticed Mrs. Bail and daughter of Philadelphia, entertained at Wm. K. Van Gilder's, Mr. McCntcheon and Miss Jagoers at Wm. Westcott’s, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adams st Capt. B. Steelman’s, Mr. Walter Ssck and Mias Mason st R. E. Van Gilder’s

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE. CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE. May 10.Wm. Weeks and family of Atlantic City spent i-unday with hi* parent* here. Mrs. Daniel Hand ofXewark is spending s few days with her mother here. Ml** "ary Townsend of Goshen visited friends here on Saturday. ' 'iases Edna and Gertie Whlldin of Chpe May are spending s few days with relatives here. frank Corson and wife -of Goehen spent Sunday with tbdr son here. Elias Broadwater and wife spent Sunday with relatives in Millville. Garner Hand of Burleigh was s Sonday visitor here. *

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DIAS CREEK.

DIAS ( REEK, May 10.—Lewis Norton and Atlantic Oty have moved to this village for tbe season. Job Heritage and KlTfe were over-San-day visitors at Nathaniel Norton's.

THE BABY'S THROAT.

Looking Into a child's throat Is • practice which should not be overlooked or slighted. Commence when tbe 1 is an intent nnfl do it one week. This will answer while tbe child to very little, but as tbe child gs older this should be done twice a week, especially when a contagious disease like diphtheria to prevalent; also be i never to neglect this precaution when tbe cbDd appears 111 with no ap•nt cause. If this examination of tbe throat to made regularly aa a part of tbe dally or weekly routine tbe 1 becomes as accustomed to tt as be does to baring hto face washed wtll not mind in tbe slightest opening hto mouth and baring a spoon pnt in. An early discovery of tonsflitto or diphtheria to frequently tbe means of saving not only one life, but more. If there are other children In tbe family. It to also very Instructive to mother and se. They become so well acqualntwlth the normal throat that tbe slightest Inflammation or exodate to easily detected.—Marianna Wheeler tn Harper’s Baxar.

THE CAPABLE MISTRESS.

Hake With Serva&ta. Tbe capable mistress to generally tbe most considerate, and tbere to no qoeetion bat that she to tbe strongest factor tn tbe production of whatever good service to given In tbe household Today. Nevertheless she to sometimes Inconsiderate, and In this way—abe can “turn off work” so quickly herself that abe often forgets others have not tbe same faculty. Girls in a new place are often slow Just because they are so nervously anxious to please. A capable mtotrees. Impatient because things are not moving so rapidly as abe knows they can more, does not always give a maid the two weeks* trial, by which she could do herself Justice. Again, tbe capable mistress comas into tbe kitchen to make a cake. Everything to heady to her band, and abe. whisks up tbe cake tn a few minutes, telling Ji

Mottiqgs! Mattings!! Now is the time to make your Selections. I have a fine line of Japanese and China Mattings. The Price you 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 NOT LAST LONG. CHARLES A. 8WAIH. \ Local Phone 68. 306-7 Jackson Street, CAPE MAY, N, J.

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Tbomaa B. WanamakRobett C. Ogden and Rodman Waoamsk trading aa John

John J. McConnell, Jr.. Alexander McOounell sod Catharine Hanley, both L.

Notice to hereby given that s writ of attach ment was issued out of the Capa May County Circuit Court on the twenty-first day of April, nineteen buiylred sad five, against the landa and tenement* of J J7 McConnell, Jr.. Alexander McCon and Catharine Hanley, heir* of Elisabeth L. McConnell, deceased, which descended from tbe said decedent to her said heir*, at the suit of John Wanamaker, Thomas B. Wauamaker, Robert C. Ogden and L Bodman Wanamaker, trading as John Wanemaker. for tbe sum of Seven hundred dollara, and that the same was returnable, and was returned Into Court oh the twen-ty-fourth day of April, nineteen hundred and five, duly executed by tbe Sheriff of aaid County. ■ Morgan Hand, J alios Way, Attorney of Plaintiffs. Clerk. Dated. April 25th. A.D. 10*. &-U

On account of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, at Portland. Ore.. Jane 1 to On? to her 15, and various conventions to be held In dUeeon the Pacific Coast .daring

Company will sail roano-bip tickets oa Ified dnt**. from all at^toos on its llma.toSewFraoetooo.nnd Los Ang< April • to September; to Portland. Beattie, Tacoma, Victoria, Vancouver, and Diego. May II to Septembers?, at greatly

A Popwlar New York Hotel, situated at Broadway and 63d Street, fronting cm Empire Square, and toe* than 300 feet frtMD tbe Mtk street entrance to lamohs Central Park,the Hotel Empire enjoy* one of tbe moat desirable position* in New York City. Within two mUrates' walk from tbe Empire are two *101100* of tbe new Subway, and the stations of tbe 6th and 9th evanne Elevated railways. All ear Hues of the Metropolitan Traction Company either peas or transfer to the Empire for one faro. It to within six minutes of the Grand Oenwtthin twelve minutes of

The Hotel Empire was built la 18M, and

it of Mr. W. Johnson Qnlan, who baa Juat completed improvements costing rer $300,000. The reatauMLat hna always been noted for its excellent rooking, efficient service and-moderate charges. Tbe rooms are large, airy and beautifully famished, and the rates arev contains a long distance to lock and automatic lighting devices. Any one contemplating a vtoit to New York will be repeid-for their trouble in sending a postal to the management for a * free “Guide to tbe Metropolis.’'

TOM. WATSON'S MAGAZINE.

aria.** Have you ever beard that Hon. Thou. E. Fateon of Georgia has begun the pobltoalouol a onagnalne ? You know who Mr. Watson to ? Hoto the