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MAT HEHAU>, THUK8DAT, BECEMBEK 8, 1908

CAFE MAY HEEAub LE.WU T. STEVENS AN INOECENOcNT WtuKLT Eubl'AAcu ttvvjr i'buriUAjr AiUiiuuuu

tUUjlcA At UK) 1‘Ott Mat. N. J.. *a •ocuuU i Ur, MatcU U. 'iHUL Thu Cttiw Moj UaU) Uktlcu «<Ulj U«ilUU», nur,n h - Jut) u-iU AU^us

•tuicr ouitoruu. au »or ua.ua. Uuu or jou pnuuuA, kUuuu CAKE MAY HERAL1 614 WaAnington su, u*t)o .n. KHONaS: uut. ju! A, AL/Awne. x-a

ortMsr uut uuuttut'A* ,*a»u)a cvutu fii.bt* tuc c

A>ei juuu)-. ja JxuV tor i. -Jilt »U u nauiy ct-ryoruuuu.

SPIRIT OF T«« PRESS What Other Editor* Hava te Say Con

earning Topic*.

State Wealth Five Sllllon* . rotu Nawara ttvMUiic bier rue u*uto» ot tout maaaa<1 valu•uuo ut yruvonj' in Naw Janwr stvaA •u me rapwrl ot the bUtlo ■ .ji—.IHJ.I.IUI approxauatUM two bUutu. .utura, out u u 'tor/ tar *uJrt ot in* w«Miih ot uie aute. it oo«. tue 1118,000,000 of exoiupt ,.upc»y, »uica utuer u ■ ...an ol uuire Uulu two .iuua. U Uooa not include ttrat-cuA. oru-oud yroyerUea, wtUch ia worui, .i a >oj) moderate eatimte, 6600,01^., jj>i. U inn* an exinMueiy amen valu .uuu ou rtyartan proyorty on Un .iuuaou and .Now York bay. It taka* -o account ot the auue'a riparian do nuin or the value* ot the aoaooaai ^auctm*. Alanulaclurara are UshU) mAco*a,aiid to are the crop* anaualu xiAod aim fcc-d. banug* bank depoa w are not uaaeased. Heal eetate 1* 01 aaaeeaeu at loo pcf cent- ot 1U uuc, too averase in the Male to ot aoove 80 per cent. J , nAAca*od only 12.4 per cent, ot Un

THIS Mils Curious Custom That Prevailed

In the Middle Apes.

,cu taiue in poraonal aa in raw nic, it tollowa that about 81,300, ),ooo ot peiaonalty is not included tne bUiie board s XiEures ot prop j laiuuuon*. The real and actual lue ot ail property, Ot whateve. .u, public anu private, in New Joti. ia not anon ot live union doi-

Th* State Vote Analyzed,

a .nowora Star:—

io vote m New Jersey on Coni and the leaialaiure was power -illj- anecleo by tne presidential vole ou tne oujct naiol, the latter i was not at ail aitecbed by bthie i Oiaie ami local potlUca, as Taft'S urmous piuraaty snow*. Mr. latt go% eery Hepubbcan vote and a laxfc' .ocr or uemocrauc vote*. Wmi. u* Ion mure man 20,000 ahead ot to> nopuoucan Assembly vote and aboui ...rfov auead ot urn Kepubiican piu.oiiiy on uonareasman, ne puued ..cacts along, gaining tor them a .uousanus ot, votes they otherwise ■•ouid mx nave gonen. The Tail ..luacy saved oar oner. In the aeconu congresA nisirict. As it was, his p(u.osuy, compared with that ot UHHjMu uu immeuAeiy. In loot, when Hooae- . eti coition me btate by 80,688 pin .only, urn HepubUcan Asaembly piu .ably was 12,0s7. Tati secured a lar D or pinraniy, but tne HepubUcan As somuiy piunutty this year is 60,001. ut aooul 12,000 less. Taere were oe creases in too HepubUcan pluraUUtm in munniic, camuon, cape May, Cum -ei.'mni, uiouoester, Mercer, ^lldolc-

No “Merry Widow" HaU u Leslie's Woeaiy. vo uoiuig couege presidents

i regulation ot the

o..i snail wear. 1*0*1 dent Mila tiaoto, ui iAiwuer Coeoge, Muwaukae, one wt toe oeat-known Inatiunions to. .burning tor women In the West, late .y aamoulaned me rich *(ixla Alton trom wearing Mg •Merry Wm oW nais and other gannerus In the extreme ol taaiuon. If they refusev. u> uoed hoc aomonlllon, wouia uruer toom to don a college

umlurm ot

c-Leop material. Her object was

PROSECUTED FOR .HOMICIDE. A Hull That Killed a Man Found Guilty, Esntenaad to Doath and Ex»eutod—Fat* of a Coak That Was Charged With Having Laid an Egg. Among th* many curious customs of Oat' past la recorded a singular feature of the Jurisprudence ot the middle agaa, whan animal* were Indicted for tajurias inflicted upon human being*. Th* custom was not • abolished In Franc* until the middle ot the eighteenth century, and th# French court records show that at least ninety-two •en 1120 and

1741.

Biblical precedent for than# proceedings for In the twentyBrat chapter of Bxodns one flnda. “If an ox gore a man or a woman that

thay die, then the and his flesh ■*<stt i

As early Instance of th* custom was In 1814, when a boll escaped from a farmyard In a village in France in the duchy of Valois aod gored a man to death. The Count of Valois, being informed of the case, directed that the bau he captured and formally prose coted for homicide This wae done, and eridaoc* was given by penmu* who had seen th* man attacked and kHlad. Th* ball was thereupon sentenced to suffer death, which waa Inflirtad by atrengolatloo, after .which th* carcass was suspended trom a

tree by the hind

In 1886 a sow was executed in the square of Falslse for having caused the death of a child, and three yean

condemned to death

having killed a man

and her six young

, tried at Lavegny on the charge of having killed and partially eaten a child. Tbs sow was convicted and condemned to death, hot the little ones acquitted on the ground of their me youth and inexperience, the had example of their mother and the absence of direct eridaoc# of their having partaken of the atxodons feast One of tbs most grotesque trials took place In Basel farmyard cock was tried on the absurd charge of haring laid was contended In support of the prosecution that eggs laid by edeks were of inestimable worth for us* to car magical preparatlona, that a sort would rather poeiwa a cock's egg i the elixir of life and that Satan ployed witch*# to hatch aoch eggs,

from which

CITY DIRECTORY.

MS) AC—Frederick J. Mel vin Jan, 1,1910

Unannan Vp^A^cy

lounc'J—Wm. B. Shaw ... Jan. 1.19111

Sim. H. Moore, ..Jan.1,1911 , Joe Band Jan. 1.1910 SUlwiUBand ...Jan.i. 19101 Jas. J. Doak ....Jan. 1.1911 Joseph B. E!w*U...Jan. 1, UU Sant F. Ware ...Jan. 1,1909 Louis C. Sayre ...Jan. LUOS r. & Towuasnd. .Jan. L1909

Recorder—J. W. Thompson, Jan. 1.1910 Aaaasaor-Ohaa T. Campbell Jan.l 19W Collector—Bot Needle* .. .Jan. 1,190b Treasurer—I. H. Smith Jr., Jan.l,19W aty6o2a!t**'-‘«>o*.F Corley.Jan.LUU dUg. Inapectm, W. T. - im

me ueaiu v. a later a bone » at DUon Mr hi 1467 a abw at

The prisoner's advocate admitted the facts of the case, bnt contended no evil Intention had been proved and that no evil result 4iad taken place. Beside*, the laying of an egg waa an Involuntary act and aa snob was not ' ihable by law: also there was no record of the devil having made a compact with an animal. The public prosecutor stated in reply that th* evil

of the swine which drowned the aea of GelUe*. So the poor creature was convicted not aa a cock, but aa a baps th* devil In the form of a cock, whereupon the bW and the egg that waa attributed to It were ea*emnir burned at the stake. Even stranger than this were the proceedings Instituted in 1446 and 1487 against certain beetle* which had made havoc In the vineyards of SL Julian.

behalf of

th* vine growers and tha beetles re- " ely, but by a singular colnd tha Inaacts disappeared the mischief

The New A caucus u» Hopu. the a tote House o held at Trenton ou i Jon- U. l£rtucc, ot f WUi l/Cfcto hm toiru seas.nn in House in Januoty, was tcieca. spenser. Hr. Krince is a profeesor ot n la ng no* ea ta toe ootui.i.na on

loo much contrast between

- j wooitoy

j .ysconiin btoie University, at Manx waa fit 1446. In 1487, bow- ! oou, a similar order, so far aa V*'- icy reappeared, and a complaint

reupon addressed to the vicar

cIUJC ^ ot tha bishop of Manrlenne.

New Form of Ballot Needed

un iunl Hank Register:

tony of toe marhlnns in New Jar

‘•e j hate been voted oaL The rest o.

-aeui wiu nave to go. With the eep —ration ox general and iooal eieMioo* iutuy abouid also go a revision o. ^ ‘mxiot. Anew form of hello, be provided, where ail the oe- > appear on the same ticket .an snoutd be no beUota ollowec

outside of the polio. This plan he*

-eon adopted in most of the at of toe Vnlon, New .Jersey Being of the most backward of the state*

to safeguard Ms

tr for the mlseh:

the proceedings ftTitaT 1 in

Las

xie to Apco*^ua ».~ne tweuty

b ouaiit to be bate to to-

wer bats, in any longue wmen luiaa.

adores* the tiunr Uua wiutor.

Frof. Frixme r* ‘to t year. He waa iorumriy

New’ York - Hiuyerstty, ‘He rocU.id to* degree of Fh. H. from Joa.i Hopkins linivers.ty, baiumore, aula .known as a prouxtc wilier on nut toncai *nu nistoric-togto suojecut 1j3 tuat Hosa Baird will probably favot has oeen a retouent of i>mptoa Town'ic-gtalatioa that will take ship, ior several year# and acwed oujiia toeir power to drew Juris*. Other too local aclujpl board bexoic scr>ingj Republican bosses will not Jain Vito in toe AsaemKly H»u6. In’ too ton j xtolrd l/ hi* at Of is.t toe •'nux" old net give’ buujcause it would a rooonkniyxou, but the people sat of the political ocganlaetiona in down upon me ring Then no was;oral counties. Boas Baird will atop ax AgA.n aominnted in the Tml of IDbr.'mHbing to punish Hatch, and Jury and aerecteo, sarvlni last wlr.ior, aod commiaaiona is the moat effaotlve me

was tl . coosldreed for toe fit erehlp. He -is independent anu to* kind of man ihai'ia getting to tof yrt by reason of direct prHnariea— the people'* weapons. He Will probably be choaeo BUke Eenauir next *'

Now that the Japs have thoroughly mastered the intripata sjrieiK* of baseball, possible liileroatlooai dlv eenalons may yet be adjusted at the faomeplate with the casunUiris limited to the umpire.

evil in

camdea County much good may other parts ot tha state.

Th* Beat Job Printing Th* best Job printing don* in Cap* May 1* don* at th* off loo of th* CAPE MAY HERALD, No. 914 Waah>n street. Ws have th* lataat da t>gn* In type and th* speed and f»

cllity

and it ti

Cannon 1* sure Congress will give the people “tiro Mud of tariff revision they voted .tor.” And that— t go on. Bade Joe. Free of Pilot Morae, who ran

tasted that there was a right of way' bese fields which would be to their detriment Consequently the lad to begin again, but bow It la not known, owing to the mutilation of th* records.—F. C. Evans in

Ke^Xaafc Poet

t scheme to' the distribution by chance in modern times h generally attributed to one Benedetto Gentile of Genoa, who estabUshad Ms lottery la 1B2Q. The proper lottery, In which each peraon takas part • of tickets coating each

In the middle a*es. Such a lottery waa oatabUabed ot, Florence aa early -MO-Haw Tort American.

Ladyllk*. Too aay you acted like a perfect lady throughoutT” “Sure, yer honor, n b* tip* bis hat to me an’ ma not rtn’ him, ! ups with a rock an’

Fricndshlq Council, No. ». D. of A.-

•t an, In Jr. O.U.A.M. Hall, Cold Spring Tha John MaorayPostNo.,40, O. A. Bia*uoath* third Fridmyof soon month at 7.90 o’cloak p. m„ at Franklin street

school bulldlu*.

Mayflower Bodge, Mo. 868, Independent fder of Odd Fellows—Meeu each Friday at the Auditorium, Jackson street. Ogallalla Tribe, Mo. UT, improved Order of Had Men—Meet* at 810 Washington

BOARD OF EDUCATION. Samuel R. Btitaa, Prealdent 1908 Dr. A L. I-each W10 A'lUlam Bt'ter Clerk. 1911 Howard a. Otter ..,1911 William U. Sheppard William B. OUbcrt - George 8. Douglass 1908 Uitber V. Ogden - 1910 Dr. V. M. D Matey 1909 BOARD OF HEALTH. Or. A L. Leach. Prealdent.Sept L UOr Dr V.M.D. Mercy, Health offloer •• 1911 Robert, a Hand ” 1908 William K. Sheppard “ 1911 William Porter, Secretary “ 191b George L. Lot ett i*U Board of Trad* Preaidant, Lntbar C. Ogden; Secre ‘try, A 0.

COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Justice Supreme Court—Tho*. W. Trenchard. Bap. 1914 Circuit Judge—Aden B. Endicou Rep 1911 aw Judge—James M. a. Hildreth Hep. 1911 Prosecutor of Pleas—Ernest W.

Lloyd,]

Sheriff—Hobert R. Corson. Rep

0. A Weather Bureau, *14 Down St. Gao. L. Lovett, Agent.

Jorooar—Wm. H. Thompson 1908 Joroner—Nathan A Cohen, 1808 ounty Clerk—Julius Way, Rep... 1810 urrogate—Chaa- P. Vanauian....l9i2 County ouperiotendenl ol ochools, Oscar 0 Barr 1M« County Collector—Joseph L Scull, Rep 1808 ounty Board oi Elections —Learning L. Hughes - - ■ - 1909 Jouutx Board of Elections—Henry F. Daugherty, Rep X910 oounty Board of Elections—William J. Tylar, Dam Uio County Hoard oi Elections—Michael H. Keanu, Dem. ipoh erma of Court—Second Tuesday in April, September and December.

Church Directory sr. uaxr’s a. c. cncncn. Rev. Father D. H. Kelly, Rector. Rector’s office boure—9 to 11 a 10 8JX) p. m. Dtrino aarvica* at St Mary's Chore A Washington street during

days at 1M and 9 o'clock A Devotions, Sunday and Friday avaninga at 7AO o’clock. All aarvloas will b* held in Chapel Confessions—Saturdays, and Thnrw daya before the First Friday, from 8.80 . p. m , and from7 80 to9.80 p. m. r. U. CBDBCB OF THK ADVXKT. Lafavattc Sl. between Jackson A Deoaiur Rev. Arthur Hes*. Hector Sundays—Celebrstiou of (h* Holy Com iunion, 8.09 A nu. Morning Prayer Uumv and bermon. (oa the flm Sondp] of each month ceiebretlOn ot Holy tom tnunionman a. m. Suuday School 8 p.m Evening (Choral) Service and S mon 7 JO p. m. Weekdays-WeJnesdays.BTening Pray in 7 JO p. m. Saints Day's, Celebration of tit

BOARD OF C. OSEN FREEHOLDERS B. Smith, -’alenno Jan. 1,1910 W. 8. Johnson Ocean atr .Jan. L1910 John P. Fox. Ocean CHy . .Jan. L1910 lylvester bpcooe, Uoehen..Jan. 1,1911 . D. Ludhun, Ha Dennis . .Jan. L UHu X Schalianger. Erma Jan. 1,1908 J. T. HennaU, Cape May ..Jaa. 1,1919. JL B. Rutherford, Cape May Jan. L1909 uharies Bam.Sea Uie City. Jan. 1,1911 CbasCloaUng, bealnleUity, Joe. 1,1911

tntoony B. Smith, Director

Samuel Townsend. Clerk Stats Senator—Rob. E. Hand. Rep.18 Idyman—C. E. Stille. Rep .19

TAX COMMISSIONERS.

. Marshall, Seaville ,_19t. SUlwdJ H. 1 ownvend. Cape May Court

l

BXTTIST CHUBCB. 3 on Ba.“day i

og at 7 JO.

tiunday morning Workers Meeting n<

10.00*. m.

Sunday School at 2.90 r. «. Wednesday evening Prayer Meeting m

T JO o’clock

Young People’* Mae lag Friday

la^al 7 JO o’clock

g Satnrday ei

riRsT a. CHoacH. Rev. James Borns, Pastor. 'Freachlnc ou Buoda) morning at 10 S0. in the evening at 7.46. Meetings at 9*. ■.and 6.80 r. *, « Bandsya. Handav School at 8 w. u. Epworth Laagne Sunday evening a 7 JO o’clock Mid-week prayer service Wedneed*' evening at 8 o'clock. Class meeting*, Tueaday, Thursday d.Friday eve.iiu :s.

Rev. J. W. Lowden will condhct the service* at >be Old Spring Preobvteran Chorch Sunday morning at 1020.

McLeod, D. D..MlnUter Sunday aemoes at 10.80 a. m., a 7 JO p. m. Sunday school at 2 SO p. m. Prayer meeting Wedneoday 8.00 P Y. P. 8. C E Friday at 7A) p. m. Strangere always welcome. FIRE ALARM CALLS. TThe Fire Department has rearreng its fire alarm boxes and tbe following are tbe number* and sew location of 25. Washington street, near SctaeUengar 1 * Landing. 82 Wa«hington street, near Union. 47. Washington street and Madison avenue, 64. Lafavettc and Bank etreeta. 68. Broad and Elmira streets. 66. PittiiborgaodNewJersey avenoea 69 Stockton avenue, between Jc*“ aon and Queen etreeta. 72. Franklin end Washington street* 76. Howard atrggti opposite Stockton avenue. 82. Colombia Avenue and Garner street* 84. Ocean street, near Beach av 91 Sooth 1 Afayette and Grant street*. 92. Broadwav and Beach avenue. 88. Perry street, near Bndre 94 Perry street and Beach svenu 96 Washington and Jackson street97. Columbia avenue and Decatui

96. Washington and Ocean streets.

hsou long continued become* second swnkiin nreeta.

nature. W# are today what we were Cape Maud Lodge, No. 90. F. and A i accustomed to do yaeterday and th* -CommunhwUona second sad fount day before—Lyman Abbott Tnredaysof aoch mouth at lodge ream.

Cor. Washington and Ocean Sts.

Aaron W. Haim.. Cape May Oty-..l91U

grttmiflui Sards.

JAMES M. K. HILDRETH Ooumsullob-at-Law cean Street CAPE MAY, N I. Notary Public

^KWI8 T. 8TEVENB COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 614 Waxhisoto* Sr.. Cap*May. N. J. Master and Solicitor in Chancery. Supreme Court Commissioner. Notarr Public. ’ for Pennsylvania.

W H BRIGHT, FIRE INSURANCE I* aur Part ef Cape May Ceaaty Holly Beach, N. J.

OUR INVITATION It you have never had any dealings with us, please consider this an invitation to give us a trial. We will open an account with you, in which your deposits can be payable either on *deman£ or 14 days ntjfice. On the latter accounts, we pay THBEE FEE CEHT. IHTEBEPT Call and see us-or write to us and we will gladly open an account with you Security Trust Company

CAPE MAY, N. J.

M. C- SWAIN . MANUFACTURER OF Artificial Stone Pavement, Cellars, Floors. Etc., Etc 7QQb3 MHD 8705SS SSWQSS®* AST colo a oa cuisi a sracuLir

All Work Guaranteed and Best of Reference Furnished Office amd Residence, 337 Windsor Ave. Cafe At ay. A. /.

WALL PAPER Big Reduction In Spring Styles Before Decorating your Room look at my New Stock. You can save money by it BURLAPS, LINCRUSTA WALTON. W. LENOIR 626 Washington St. Cape May, N. J.

MECRAYS’ CENTRAL MARKET Cor. Washington and Ocean Streets 602 Washington SL 217,219, aal Ocean SL Meats, Groceries, Provisions and Fruits Choice Batten-Sharp! ess GUt Edtfe-A Specialty Country Produce fresh daily from our own farm Fish, Oysters, CUau and Tempi The largest market in Cape May.

Contractors ft Builders YORK BROS. P. O. Box 661. Cape May, N. J.

James J. Doak Carpenter & SBuilriet Jobblna Promptly attended to No. 833 Washington Street CAPE' J. Local Phone 97

Edward A. WUaon’s Preparation of JypophosphlUa and Blodgett! from the original formula is tit* Sovereign - for Consumption, Asthma, _Jo; Catarrh, La Grippe. Goughs,^Golds, and all Throat and * ** ‘ people aay they have

ed many after they weie a iacurtMt by their phy-

aan tartify trom hi* own *xpt,l£ooe aa to Its vain*. Write at onoe—delay* are dangerou;

I. EowTork City.*-Y

Office tniShop-Cor. Corgi* and Jefferson Sts. CAPE EAT V. 3.

ship trust trill again pul out

Pierson and ©on.

Cor. Washington and Union Sts. Where you will find choice Grocies, Vegetables, Provi sions, and fruits. We also handle “Micheners Star Hams’. Looa.l Phone.

WILLIAM L. JOHNSON -t-i-Catrer" -t<-

^shomas XX)• & .S 0I) COAL WOOD & COKE omce 820 WASHIMOTON ST* CAP* MAV Both. Phones

U9m. S. ever?*

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