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CAPE MAY HERALD

THE SUNBEAM.

to with bn,hi Ti 4 of ktftllh Md jo».

1m liko I hot oDcbcom, forth iUt aai Ion, _ oor Ubor u oodod, to Um Ijjht oborr. honoB, in Indiocopolii Km.

Addrooo oil CommunloWI**'* t THE HERALD, CAPE WAY. N. J.

INACOTTON-CA-R

By ALBERT W. TOLMaN.

borne In Verooo to* been •old at ooctlon for K300. Don’t need •nleonie* tn moke lore nowadaji.

‘A quotation from the St. Looli TottDtotMtrb Bay*: “Advertlsementi tor ITettrrc preacher* read: ‘Tonne men. •r tnen with atnaU famlUtt, pre-

Entertntnlne ai oor crandmotben nndcrrtood It aeem* to be a lost »r{. •ays the London Week'* Surrey. It tlaappeared at the tame Um* a* the political talon. Qnantity in pneats, not inallty. aeemt now to be the ideal.

HE ion* frel*ht-ahed wai filled with *ooda of every deacription. Ttiron*li the open door* on one aide you looked into the dark interiors of a lino of empty

; cars; throu*h similar door* on the other side you aaw a row of loaded lipjers and express wacont. Horeman Carruth, whose duty it waa to brin* i order opt of all tbit confusion, teemed' to be everywhere at once. dlrecUn*. , exhortin*. reprovln*. -bu eyes, cart and ton*ue aU buty at the tame time. “Here. Jim. put those steel rods In the corner of that B. A A car! They're ' coin* up to Caribou. Come on with i those tierces of lard, boys! If you don’t move faster, they'll melt before

One thin* about Governor Folk that ! you *et 'em ont of the shed. Hnstle. some people do not like is the stay he \ everybody! These cars'll be pulled

has of dlacoverin* that a law is be- , «t fieven-" , T »rTho<tT Howirthe steps from the office at the

to* violated when everybody ela* cpptr na ^ ^ , brd . bmDf Cnows it. even though bis official at- clerk, with a small brown note book tention la not called to the violation, j in hla hand. This be passed to the sbsetvts the Chicago Daily New? ; foreman, who immediately raised hi*

voice in a shout to a black-haired

_ _ . . „ . . . , I young Irishman, who was taking tc3. Laurence Laughlln. in the Allan- cent of the Incoming frel^t two

tic says: Great capacity which has { doors awty.

shown its effect in literature, art, moale, oratory, or statescraft will not the less come to the fore in industry.. la this country, where our resources are almost untouched, and where chance* are open to all, great managerial pow *r can no more be prevented from ae

"Here's a Job of blind checking for you. Dan! Go down io track five with this cotton book, and count the bales in those eleven cars for the Leadbetter Hlllt. Get back aa soon a* yon can. I’ll take your place at the door while

you're gone.

Daniel Hairtgan received the book from the hand of his superior, walked

cumulating large fortu^s’than great rap*,, ^ ^ «nd'atAn>*d oratory or great learning can be pre ; into the freight yaph It was quarter vented from winning success and fame P«*t eight en a foggy April morning. It is as silly to carp st'great Indus : ^ when tn.i re .« i, v. everything to damp and sticky. A trial capacity as It would be to can thick mist bong over the yard. Irrisi. . at gpat lUfrsry ability- ; ble shifting engines puffed here and

! there, with much clanging of bells

The buying of farm* by dty peo ; and shrill of whistling, pi* 1* -a very noticeable feature ir ^Ith senses on the alert the freight

Western real estate markets, point. ’

«nt «h. fro»» and switches. His •ut the Massachusetts Ploughman j g^tination waa the extreme end of Tanns that were a part of the fre« the large yard, a full quarter mile from public Hnd when their owners too* | the abed. Presently the square end of possession-are now valued at one bun fly.car that wy lo be UlHed ap- •„ - • ■ : . „ T . peered through the fog. Harrigan condred OqUars per acre, more or less ggjmg jg, book to make sure that be ■nd even at the advanced prices many | had the correct nnmUr. went »P to buyers believe them good investment, the door, and broke the little aeai of

and likely to advance still further salable value because of the gdod

_ The interior was filled with cotton a | bales, each weighing, about five hun-

they return in standard tarn dred pounds. -They were covered with erop* at present prices. Every ad- % burlap, and encircled by steel bands Vance of Western land tends to im I P°t on under hyflrauUe pressure, typl-

>rm , I ctl specimen* of the thousand sent I yearly from Southern plantation* to

________________ New England mlUs.«

Aa the staple was quoted'at twelve

“I would hare been a fanner, had j cents a pound, and aa from forty to

edges, and coaming la an undertone aa he mede hit tally. “Sixteen—seventeen—eighteen—" Hi* head bumped against a cross-beam of the roof, and be stooped low to pass beneath It. “Nineteen—twen—“ The last number was never flniiLcd but died away in a muffled cry of surprise and consternation; for the twentieth bale was not there! The two banda that he thrust for*Vd. expecting to strike burlap, touched nothing. Down pitched Harrigan head foremost into a cavity Just large enough to admit hit body. He caught unavalUngly with hi* Angers at the coarse bagging, but so well had the hydraulic pres* done ita work that he could grasp no alack in hit frantic (latchings, and his course was not arrested till he struck the hard wooden floor. The sudden shock doubled up hi# finger tips and drove back bit bands. His bead came down upon the planka with a stunning crqck that made him for the moment half-ln-secsible.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Inent. But as he pWhf might on the sharp top of fee, steel band his fingers slipped off. -Down be ■fell, and again hie hand* tested on

the floor of the car.

Harrigan at last realised that bit life waa actually in peril. If be .ould upt get out now. when his strength was practically unimpaired, what chance would be have later! With j numb fingers, swelled by the inrushing bipod, he fumbled, once more up an4 dons the cotton. He found, the band on which be had raised' himselt i before, and strove to repeat his at-,j tempt; bnt he fell heavily back. UAal

that

car was being loaded at

Memphis, there had been found in the shipment one bale considerably broader

laced at one >m the door, i waa put at between the racant, as it

_ > admit an-

other bale. This formed the cavity Into which, two weeks later. Daniel Harrigan was ua!acky enough to fan. For perhaps thirty seconds the young - * “re, recover-

Irtai

the t pull) falie henc

>n his right reined, and e quick, so r . The full g upon the d the neck draggled Im* of his

Tb of h.

any science of fanning been knowx sixty bale# to those among whom my early boy- con, " lU had an average value of hood wse nested - Hnr.ee c-ree'es I three thousand dollars. A mistake hood wax passed. Horace Greeley ^ u* uUj, resulting in the addition wrote in 1SG8. “Farming, aa under j or omission of a single bale would Mood and practiced by those among makes differencex>f perhaps (00. whom I grew ep. was a work tot T** lMm * fw® «b* Leadbetter Mills

“"ir “ r.fr

w> Charm*. And. in temperament , , nd lt waI customary for the railroad Horace Greeley eras a firmer ail hif , to take careful account of all goods Ufa. He was born on a poor Uttb ! before delivery. Then, in case a shlp-

fsren in New Hampshire, and his hood experiences of the vocation wets those of terribly hard work and a meagre living as its reward. It is xx

ment ran abort the company would be able'to show that the blame must be

placed elsewhere.

The task of counting the cotton was a responsible one. and Foreman Carruth had pot hla best man on the

To heap the gratters out of the Ben

and a half feet long, something under s yard wide, and twenty-two to twenty-six inches thick. They were end. three abreast; and as the

r tb* system of 'blind checking”

numbers were set dawn in the note book beaded to him, and he wes given no Inkling es to bow mny balea he srua expected t* fli suit of his labors was n

slier toget sllpp

ife clinking HU watch hung dang-

be e

thini heels posit Ha dal < be s that that perm toncl

■ous es wet] low should ■ose change y the first

> his

eir normal

te any speBnt when ly over so t he fofcnd confined to

proje

side, while I just crept at the open nebes from anything, a

e difficulty

•r away, to o no uvaiL d him that

iff to pres#

lime striking bn his head. A train rumbled by. shakier the ! ground and making the car tremble j him. He heard two brakemen i out to each, other, and tried te ] attract their attetfion; but hla voles j was smothered in that narrow cavity. | A heavy, painful drowilness was 1 creeping over ,tbe freight handler, a j strange; dun apathy, that frightened | him. HU strength was gradually ebb- j ingawsy. The part of h!» body below, . or rather, at now rituated. above h!s waist, was losing Ita feeling.. The I blood surged through hi* braifi So i strongly that it threatened to deprive him of consciousness. Insensibility ] was coming on. and Insensibility meant j

death.

Harrigan’* toes were almost on the • top of the bale over which he hod - crept. He had only to raise himself a j .

little more tnan two feet to have bU | A « a *P»hot taken during

boo Holes touch the ceiling behind the > beam he had crawled under. By press- j ing the backs of hi* heels hard against |

this beam he could get snffleient iever- | SLIDES DISPERSED WITH.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOj;

Bbjsvt: J«h„l«kln> Utiro

I. JeboUki 21. ' King s bear the roll

n«ys ;

vet Tin (vs. 21 28), Bo that he mlgbl ind rot be obliged

.« ... ..-uf* thr.rugb secondhand report*. Took it out." etc. The princes had filed the roll among the public recurdi. -r joi for s.if» keeping *'JeUudl.*‘ An under officer, descend-

t of

prince* had bad him to read ibe r -stood." T!..- k the prioc.i si.-o.: 22. ''WUiterl.il distinct bonse. for the differ-r.-December. The

the h«-!

'*nt to Bamch b

>11 to them. “Prince* ng sat on a rug and respectfully alcuin i»e ” Great men had

■r apartment*.

v'lnth t

! the j

i.nai.“

rainy season.

rier. a pot n;

f-.rm

middle -i

23. ’’Four 1V.. margin. ifcent attache-!

cut it.

- Use

•lied »|>." po.nts by iU A -ilifi-r form of tKxik j.d cot tear parcbmenl ’’Penkalfi-" Bcribe'i

MATOR WEAVER. OF PHILADELPHIA. automobile ride. Mayor Weaver’s senrr. ffona

ure* In the pari bn"* king (v. 22). As of three or four colun. (v. 2fi imply that was read throng!:

age to trip himself out The distance waa trifling, but there seemed abso Prelecting Apparatus For II-

Inttratlag Dectnret.

was trifling, but there seemed absolutely nothing he could grasp to lift

himself with. ' A new form of lantern has recently Again be fait blindly alone the bale j made its appearance, which differs in front of him, and thrust bit fingers markedly both In Its optical principle* Into the spacM between it and the ad- 1 and in the resnlts attained from the Jacent bales on each aide. When cot- ordinary projecting apparatus which ton leaves the compress, the bnrlap | the lecturer U accustomed to use. on the edge* that have been lowest In j Limited as it U to the utiliratlcn of the prees U tigbt to the point of buret- ' slide* only, the ordinary lantern renin*. while that about the upper edge* ' der* it impossible to use directly ills much looser. Fortunately for Hare j lostrations from books, sketches, specrigan, the two corners turned toward ! linens and modtls. Photographs of

him, aa the bale stood

those round which the covering was lose.. This apparently trivial circum-

stance saved Ida life.

The corners gave him something to grip. Numbed and swollen though hla fingers were, he found that by pressing them hard against his palms he could gather in a very respectable handful of the bagging. This gave him urchase enough to lift hit weight. Raising his banda very gradually and hardly daring to breathe, inch by Inch he worked himself up and back in agony, clutching the coarse edges with desperate caution. To slip back now would be fatal. Little by little he pushed hla toes beck over the bale behind him. He lifted one of hla heels, and it touched the beam. In a moment it seas pressed behind the firm wood, little more, and he would be safe! Shifting bis grasp with almost imperceptible movements, he raised his body slowly and painfully. Red light* danced before his eye*: th» roaring of the ocean -was In his ear*. Dp, up, up! If he could only keep his senses a few seconds more! His bod* was now well over the tops of the hales behind hut he did not dare te let go yet One handful more, one buried, violent thrust that sent him back from the edge of the dangerous cavity, and, safe at last, he fainted dead sway on the top of tb* qotton.—Tooth's Com-

tbese various objects mart first be

made, and from the nrgatlve a lantern

tilde prepared. Even thoufeh the resulting slide may be sharp and 'dear La every detail. It still present# the

defect of presenting its subject

black and white tones. Attempts at coloring, although sometimes success-

ful, are often the cause of many griev-

ous errors on the part of the artist The apparatus which we are about to describe, and which has been recently introduced by Philadelphia Instrument

makers, projects on a screen not only

the. image of a lantern slide, but reflects as well pictures in books, specimens of insects, or other natural objects, mechanical models and the like,, atfd this all In the natural colors of the objects. The lectuter is thus enabled to make use of the countless illustrations In magazines and books, of an innumerable series of color prints, sketches, photographs, and of working models that can he shown in motion

gradual pro-

A tent can be made by children

easily and quickly without Get three old sheets or sh

and some safety pics, and follow this

plctue and description:

Tie the rope between two trees so that yon may walk nnder it without touching your head. Throw a ah ret or shawl over It Tie four strings es ion*

tbs txjti m rosmos.

as yourself to each corner of the sheet (one on each corneri. On the other end of each string tie a pointed stick. Drive these sticks Into the ground as f*i from the rope aa you can. Tbs sheet will now make a good roof. Two « sheets are now used for tLe sidq* of the tent Each sheet makes an end

nd one side.

Use safety pins to pin up these sides. The bole at each end of the tent tmdre the roof it necessary to keep it cool and comfortable. Most tents are very stuffy and hot but this tent is aa aatis-

24. “Not afraid.'' ''outran ibe bum- ■ i ble fear of Joslali at the reading of tbe iJ«» a KI W 22: 111. JoilKb bu, garment* in grief that the book had been lost, his son cut* God's book and burns It Throwing the fragments of the roll on the fire, he put* there. In symbol, his royal house, his doomed city, the temple and the people of the land. “Hi# servants.'' His immediate ,personal attendants who did cot share the reverences of the princes (v. 10*. 23- “Nevertheless." This aggravates the king’s sin. “Elnathan." A man of first rank and father-in-law of the king (2 Kings 24: 8). “Delalah." Of this prince nothing more la knows. "Gemariah." A scribe of the temple, a mac of noble blood. From a window in his official chamber Baruch read aloud the prophecies of Jeremiah, and Gemarlah'a son Mlrhalnfa. reported this to him (vs. JO-12'. “Made intercession.” These princes would have aided the king in following his father's step*. We learn the Same from the basket of flgs'(Jer. 24:1). It is the more remarkable to find Elnathan thus Interceding after the office he had performed In

Jer. 26: 22. —

26. “King commanded." He waa not satisfied with burning tbe prophecy, but now desired to kill Jeremiah and hit faithful scribe. He hoped to

Bew (a Uft m Cm* Wlodow. One of the cars that wag run down town on a Sixth avenue elevated train Wednesday morning had apparently Just escaped from the painter*' brushes Consequently ail of the window* stock, and tbe passengers who had ^lodged the heat of the subway not so'sure that they had gained anything. men and men tried in vain to lift

Tbe guards did not aeem to care much what happened. At One Hundred and Fourth rinpAB tall man with a a harp eye got ■** # car. He. too. bad a Jug at a window. It stock, but that didn't atop him. Ha took oat bis handkerchief, rolled it up until it looked like a rope, and then around one of the window One tug. and the- window •a U It had never meant to

"Learned that on the road out West," he said. “If you use your handkerchief as,a tackle the window haa to

cl* in your back it Half of the past with unvarying a

I JOU. - a tried the plan a-New Tort

In on* of his delightful books Dr. eaaopp remarks tha try people toofenap. ~ to largely ti

d to *

on the screen, as well ss apparatus for experimenting in'chemistry and physics. specimen* of plants, flowers and moths, all in the delicate tint* of the

By the use of anfi mirrors the object is illuminated and reflected on to the omen. By use of an Illuminating 'lens, a cone of light from the condenser It projected upon

ited. The lent 1* used either for spreading the light over the entire object or condensing It upon a small portion when a very brilliant light and special detail* are desired. When the lana to shifted toward the light tbe rays art distributed over the entire object; when the lens to drawn toward tbe object the beams condense

Frits HJmmeltdorf, a butcher in small Western town, kept his money on deposit at the one bank tbe town boaMed. While not very well vereed in the intricacies of banking, he waa vary proud of the fact that be possessed a bank account and never failed to write a check when he pelted to pay ont any a me—, ever email. Oaa day. through tome mistake, he drew a check for an amount somewhat in excess of hia balance at the bank. Next morning WOHam Jones, the collector for the bank.

chopping hamburger steak to tha of “Aeh, dn Lieber A agnatic," which he waa vary earnestly whittling. .“Mr. Hlmmeiadorf.” said Jones, “yon have aa overdraft at the hank amounting to KB.” “Aeh. las dot so?" said Frits, alowly. “Tail tiH I get my check book, nd I gif yon a check for it"— Wilder, to Harper's

“Are yon entir led with year

i of It may be tainted.

aria np ita tail quite BUS. Ittn a “If them to any qoeetlon about it Mdar. so thnl ynar hand cannot get why don't yon accept too* and ■* sa-

“ The eat to taU t* hare

sssawra&s

hid them.” They had at the counsel of the prince* hidden themselves (r., 19). Now. though a diligent search wsa made, the Lord did not permit them to

be found.

IL Jeremiah restores the word of God (vs. 27-32). 27. “Word—came." That word was not burned, neither waa Jeremiah hidden from the eye* of the Lord. 28. “Another roll." Tbe entire book vres rewritten, and this I second manuscript, to far a* can be I known now. to the one we have to-day. Disaster to not necessarily defeat. The destruction of thto book waa a great disaster. No copy existed, end no human memory could produce it But God re-1 r.spired the prophet, and tho f econd edition waa feller than the first 29. ''Con cerate g Jehotekhn—tay" iR. V). It la doubtfni whether Jeremiah king again met. Note the coc-

Impious king, boiling with

against God and His prophet, and the heroic man of God who does not shrink, but firmly speaks the words of Jehovah even in the .face of death. "Raying. Why,” etc. “This was no doubt an actual message which the king bad sent to Jeremiah to frighten him. "King of Babylon.” Xebachadneszar. who had been once and collected tribute and gone. He should return and destroy the land. Nothing hot the repentance of Jeholaklm and hto people could prevent it SO. "None— throne.” Hto son. Jefaotochin. attempted it for three month*, but tbe land was occupied by Nebuchadnezzar's, army, and Jerusalem waa in a state of siege, and be was taken captive Ct Kings 24: 8-17). No child of Jehotochin succeeded to the throne. “Body^

A repetition of the

phecy of Jer. 22: 19. Of Us fulfil] nothing to known. Tbe phrase, “he slept with hto fathers." means that ha died <2 King* 24: «. He was fettared by Ketmchadnenar (2 Chron. 98: 6). “Day—night.” In the East the thermometer often falls sudden! “

sundown (Gen. "

leuiy aftee Plumptr©

beftg taken to Babylon ta with the other captive*, died c Journey, and that bis body was left bahind unboiled aa tbe army marched. 81. “I will punish him.” He waa slain, hi* kingdom destroyed and hto son carried in chain* to Babylon. Tbe Inhabitant* of Jeruaalem were sot punished for tbe Bag-* crime*, but for their own rins. “They hearkened not.'' They might have been saved from the threatmted evil if they bed repented, threatened evil if they had repented.' “ — word*.-.