CAPT. ©••ON, AGED *. YEAR*. TO MEK NORTH POLE.

Rout* Will B* by Way of String •tralta—Submarln* to Navlgat* Undar Floating let WJI B* Taktn Along. Now Tort—OapL B. B. Gabon la (0 year* old. but bo la planning to go In aoarcb of the polo, or tia Vile wbaro tbo polo aho'Ud bo. Ba la on* of tbo organltan of tbo Band Hollow North Polo E2t>lorlng club, which la planning to lit out an exploring Bool, constating of thro* Teaeels. the flagship to bo constructed on tho lino* of the "Oaua*." and the two auxiliary Teasels to bo used as tondTbo route will bo by way of Bering straits. Tbo point of Anal departure has not boon Anally dacldod Upon, but probably will be somewhere between Point Barrow and Bank's land, the plan being to take adrantage of the Japan current and to drift aa tar north under Its Influence as poe atble before sending out tho several exploring praties. First the party will establish a wireless telegraph station at Cape Washington. Melville Land, one at Frans Joseph Land, one at Spitsbergen and on* at Point Barrow, They will also have one of the vessels start from Point Barrow and proceed toward the pola, carrying as an aid In steering a gyroscope of special const ructloa, which will enable the navigator to keep his course regardless of tha compass, and will further Indlcata tha distance traveled bv registering, the arc through which the vessel travels. In a given time. A specially constructed submarine beat will be taken, fully equipped for long Journeys under floating Ice. It win carry a wireless outfit by means of which tbs flagship may be always kept Informed of Us movements. The flagship will be equipped with a special telescoping mast of great height, which can be used for observation purposes and from which photographs may be taken to indicats open water

scope of large power, with photographic attachments, will be used tp obtain picture of water, sky snd otbpr pht> IMjpena. A large kits will be used provided with a mirror which may be pbotegrephed. when In proper postdon. from the deck of the vessel, and the photograph*, when enlarged, will show the conditions ahead tor a considerable distance. A powerful siren win be used for signaling purposes, eed a hlgh-power searchlight for use |n 4m Arctic night. Than will be sleds of Improved ceostrRcdcs for over-ice Journeys and A balloon ajqship equipped with s powerful angles. This slrshlp is designed to ascend **d descend as often as dsslred. without any loss of gas. es»i with great rapidity, and will be capable of carrying tan tons. A snf Sclent quantity of explosive* win be taken to Mow np tho tee to make a chaunM and roach open water, jf the distance Is not too greet. Tbs flag ship srfll be equipped with Bt* amglnas pad gas producers, sad oil fuel will be paad ns far as possible. E. K. Ashley.

Ocean End el Jackson si. Cope May. N. J.

Modern in all H» era

E .Jtoients. Rooms enauit with bath. Electric ted. Ocean View. Short walk from Railroad 'he management gins* a rate of go per day, up.

ISAAC H. SMITH CLOTHIER:

AND

FURNISH H

Opposite Reading; Depot.

608 WASHINGTON 3T.. CAPfc MAY. N. J

DAYS OF SOMNOLENCE. •h* Thinks of Ultimate Questions of Accusing Conscience. It bos been said th.it *e are contlnosll j arraign Ins ourselves bciore the bar of our mentality; that there ncems to be no end to oar Introspection nod to self questionings coupirulag the Correct mode of life and mc;-ij.ls of trotting our bodies. When we ore not worrying oxer the problem of-too much or too little sleep we are fidgeting about the food that nourishes our structural formation and the -amount exercise necessary for perfect

health.

We speculate about the proper allowance of ftvab olr, our recreatloa. the quality and quantity of our literary pabulum. In abort, we seldom give ourselves a motnenfs rest or peace, and the burning questions of the hour seem ultimately to revolve themselves Into tne following queries: “Do we worry too much T’ and “Is our sense of humor declining?” —— In the good old days we cared nothing for modern “problems.” which grow thick as blackberries. Person* accepted themselves and others for vyhat they were and wasted no time on wild speculations. They ale. they drank, they slept probably as nature dlqtatsd and gave little or no heed to their Internal economy or mental balNeltbcr were they murWdly Inquisitive concerning their own degen-

eracy.

Owing to this anl.'lme indifference our forbears were undoubtedly health ler mentally and physically, and If we moderns did.but ask (suer qucstlonv and take ourselves less sotvinoty tUof,would be greater inclination to coin te a sense of humor and leas time analyse Imaginary troubles. Some ms one longs to shriek from the housetop* that It really does nol amount to a tinker's lightest curse If It be right or wrong to go Uatless or brsakfastlrsa. If R be sinful to lake r holiday or If Jt be criminal to sleep eight hours. “Hands offr shriek our souls, and a frenxled desire ocisse u# to take our chances and live the life that nature Intended. That most things right themselvs* re ms a forlorn hope, but let ua fondlx Imagine that some time we may s»ap our fingers at nasty problems and re turn to the bovine Indifference of othet days and Ilia delightful apathy of our

agent sad steward, who went mi the eetates shout it mils* frotr Oranada. sank tatters to tbs village

-Oh,'. ^ -yes gro tne new agent of the decal estate. Wall, your tatters are mil safe. The villagers rarely write letters, and a I Neva te ride on my donkey tear miles to the railway sta don to catch the mall trola, you don't suppose for one moment, do you. that I as getag-to undertake this ptlgrtmaa every day with your stupid 1stten? I has* them all hsro to a broken Jug. and whsc the Jug gets full 1 shall take a ride to the statist ad post

African Natives' Drum •Ignais. All through the continent of Africa the natives have a very perfect systesn at Mgnaltog with drums, by which

HOTEL 8AOAMOBH. BAGAMOBB. LAKE GBOBGE

palatable unlees mixed with other

vegetables or gooked with meat Before rooking canned good* place to a colander and drain off all Juice and rinse with col-.l water The arming mn«t be supplied with good, fresh butter, milk, salt and pepper Leave no canned goods to a can that has been opened. Remove at ooee This may rvb the vegetable* of some food value, but It Is safest and best to

do so.

Hot dishes sometimes leave whitish marks on varnished tables when as they should not be. carelessly opoo them. For removing they pdur some lamp oil on the spot jib® rub It hard with a soft cloth. Poor on e little spirits snd rub It dry with soother doth, and the whole mark win disappear. leaving the tab’s as bright si

before.

Long Nocked Boll**. Eastern standards of bssuty differ, flka the customs, from those of the In Malacca, we are told, the small waist and velvet eyes do not count, but Instead the length of the neck la the criterion of beauty. The girl of Malacca at a very early age Is fitted with s toftgl collar, which npeto her to keep her bead erect, and she grows the collar to Increased lu size, and by this means the seek to gradually elongated.

DONT NAG CHILDREN. Mak* the Homo a Place of Charm a or Ropes*. The** two brief Jtomllles. culled fron recent magazine, nwy contain oev ml helpful Ideas for mothers: “The greatest detect In home disci pi In* to continual nagging. Childrei

storm of fault finding grow (« it by repetition, and It makes m helpful Impression on their minds. Be asntmsnt to aroused by reproof glrei to public. A saosttjvg chjld bates rid! cule and loathes comment that to on sparingly bestowed before the famll.eg the tomCr friends. “If you And that the habit of critl ctsm to creep Its over you, that yoi are readier to blame than to praise to reprove than to reward, cgll a halt Remind yourself that fruit and flow an ripen to the sunshine snd that af faction has before now been srtntei killed. Not the things In a home, bu: the people to It make the home c place of charm and repose. •‘Hers are twelve don'ts: "Don't worry children. “Don't worry about them. GnapUgn ngels atm exist, even

tath century.

“Don't lose your temper with chO-

“Don't giv* gray when you have de-

Wed on any plan fof them.

“Don't leave them too mack ivjtlj

"Don't get Impatient at t

"Don't Indulge them foolishly. “Don’t fovret to gocoornge them aud praise their lirtts efforts to please you

“Don't show favoritism.

“Don't disagree about them. The tether and mother should always he In

unison to their training

“Don't target that they are God’s

children, lent to you lor

NURSERY NOTES. A hot bath up to tho neck may save the life of a child to conrutetooe If ce. If you have no tberhand. last the beat of the water with the elbow.

6ETTIN0 EVEN. She had refused Mm, and he stood :vili ling bis mustache and looking qoixxical until she was to a tearing temper. “What are yon standing there forT she demanded, stamping her foot. "WeB. I gm wondering." be sgld. slowly, “whom are yog going to marry, since yon won’t mgrry mer “It’s none of your business," she flamed angrily. *t)h, yea It Is," he drawled. “At any rate, I'm Interested I shouldn't like ton to marry a fellow I didn't think well of, you know, since 1 came near marrying yon myself." 1 ft seemed to her that she should taint with Indignation. “Ton never came near manffln* a" she at length managed to gasp "I didn't think even of marrying you. and aa to whom I do marry, yon have nothing to do with it I shall anybody I plaasel" That's Just 1L" fce thoughtfully; “suppose you don't

nothing toft to her hot roving byater

For throe Sundays to succession the pastor of a Philadelphia church was gladdened by the appeArance of a backslid!Pg husband to Me wire’s pew. Then suddenly this gratifying exbi billon of an awakened conscience ceased. One day the pastor met the delinquent In a street car. “1 have iiul'HNtal— 11 chiir some time," said the preacher. "No." was the candid reply. “I had to give « op. My Wife gqt ae — Melons I couldn't

“Yes.” said the man; l '.'she got It

Into her bead that I was'up to awful deviltry outside (bat I wa

'ing to atone for by going to church. Nothing I could say or do coaid con rince her otherwise; po, to show her that I was living s square life I had

to stay away from church."

Whan RHey and Carman Met. . imes Whitcomb alley snd Bites

Carman, though comrade* of long

ground, was walking t “is avenue with a friend.

Li

FULL LIME OF TBUMK8 ALWAYS Dll HAND

A GAS RADIATOR

Should be in Every Home

CAPE MAY

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Both Phone*

mdmmsss}.

We Make Harness

and make Itngbt. The quality of U» leather and the other materials used, i> the best obtainable, and 1U cut put U ►•ether and vtltched by skilled bauds. Double or single Harness, for farm delivery or road wagons. Pine carriage “-rnees i« a apectsHy of ours, etc. WDon i porget the Place. W. A. LOVETT Car. Washington and Perry Streets CAPE flAY, N. Jj

HIS PASSPORT NO GOOD. Italy ri«We The! “One* an Italian A|way* an Italian." When on my fimt visit to luly after an absence of twenty-five years, forplsbed though 1 wss with s passport from Washington with tbt great red seal of state and with my naturalUa Uon papers, I wss amased when I was arrested and put to a den of a prison reeking with filth and vermin because _ had paid no attention to the Italian laws regarding the matter of military pbMggtJom i was under tbejmcfr*sloo. as l am euro many Americana are, that when once I bad sworn off my allegiance to the king of Italy and American cltlxen I such and not be required to fulfill the obligations of (to Italian cltlxen. The experience was not amusing, and yet as I look back upon U there was a ridiculous sids to it When with groat dignity and pride I pulled from my pocket my passport t expected to see the little Italian offletet Jrasp for breath and humbly beg ray pardon. Imagine my feelings when, gtenrtng at the my papers and the Signature nf the secretary of state, T at the same lime exclaiming. "Son ettadtao Amcriiwno" ("1 mm an A mer lean citizen”), be turned his back upor ill most Indifferently. “Fe ntonte: fa nlente” (•'That's nothing; that’s nothing") I was led away by two carablnli-ri end tnrned Into a targe ? I found seven prise who were to be my companteos for that day and night. Tho next day I was taken before the prefect of thfi province, and then It waa learned that I was not obliged t» serve the regular throe years to tbe ltolfam army, not

. — I. W 11 * »y tavmtr experience lu the State ci hew York to conduct lug public sale*, an. confident of giving satis! set Ion in all salv. Will attend to the make-up and printing of posters. Address, „ „ J. W. MARSH. P O. Box M%. Wildwood, N. J. ol5-0n

ECZEMA and FILE CURE FREE t

that was hot recogntred—trat Pecans* 1 was the only male to my famOy< 11m Italian theory Is “once an Itattaq always an Italian." The gorurmapnl does not rerogulze the change of allegiance on the part of any of Its eatk Jecta.—Antonio Mangano to "Cbartttas and the Common*."

THE - RIGHT THREAD.

ie n stog'-c or double

thread when working to Mo silks The rules that govern the us* of the flngle or double thread are bfieod upou the gewotl principle that the finer and more delicate the wqytt and materia) the finer should be the thread.

r banAcrchlef very email deal;

mull or for a very

heavier fabric me a single thread of Mo throughout; otherwise the work

rule for Urge design* or heavy materials to use two threads of flto. at least fW PM outer edges. Frequently the

480

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AUCTIONEER yoz th* taut or Property ef Every Description

O. L. W. KNERR,

Diteate. losmui relief. Doo’l rr. Write V. W. WILLIAMS. 4 tan .v-nn* New York, brio

r)sipciaa. Pile* and Ski: —-t suffer loug--

400 Manhal

ALL LAND IN HAND* OF FEW

Fewer New Yorkers own their owhomes than the rekldenta of any othc city In the world, say* a writer to U. National Magazine. Ybe reason ta \ ■Imp!* one: th* land U eq valuable that none but thq very wealthy can at ford its purchase. Of the m.«S7 tan. Me* living on Manhattan island on’; IS.316 hold Utla to the houses the; occupy—and If you win bring that Ut U* pad and pencil into play again you will learn that *4 out of every 100 tarn Me* mak* monthly payment* to a landlord. Whan these families move, aa they are constantly doing. It seam* only necessary to lake tha tanlly pbo to graphs from off the manta)—ao com pletqly has their method of Ilf* been systematised. As for the landlords, they are mightier in wealth and tonante than any feuflal lords of old—*»

la of dwellings house a greater

la a city of the rise of Hartford. Onqm.;

A Killing CamplteteM. Ha—You are a perfect duck taC a

«W.

m*—Baltimore American.

NOTICE OF SALE OP LAND* Capa May County Circuit Court.

-mu. w. rnte* 1

By virtue of an order made in thr above stated cause by Urn grid court, on the twonty-neveuUi day of Septet? bar, IMS, -tha subscriber, auditor ap pointed by the arid court to the arid

at public vendue, at my office. No. 614 Washington street, to the c*ty of Capa Uayte arid county. oc.TUEt PAT. th* TWENTY-NINTH PAT of DECEMBER, U0I. at two ^^ock to tha afternoon at said day. all that certain lot of piece of tend ritaato

to Ua County of of New Jersey,

n of tbs toads of tha provamant Company,

aa tot No. tf. in seotfcm Mo. O, de ibad aa follow*, actuate on the -ue-t.rid* * nrtty-u** U* distance of ooe hundred and

The History of -:Cape May Cov n f. FROM THE AE0RIGTNA1 flMli TO THE PRhifcNI DAI EMU R ACING

AN arc Dc:.uv;...Thc Wh.. the New < Progress t-

8y LEWIS it-vvcrv^ STEVENS Phget. 4(1 illustrations. 31 Chapters. 5 SMI I fSrpAlD OX RECEIPT OP *2.00 B? LEW'15) T. STEVENS, Publisher W'a*hlngt« - St. Cape Mav, N. ^

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t t.ll Phone 97x

The Daylighl Store ‘ Time Tells ”

t> ■: > t-’.H and still, ■ ' ■.’/<• .Wav | uyiug public ( bougiu here look hen new, wear well, and ■1 !iol<*. :h« ir l odv and color

vpecleu of a

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Save your doctor bi '

practical plumber do \ ur

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la?- MAY, N J

B- b, CUR] lb Plumbing-, Htenm and Gaa ' ittiiia Au. otr4jts reo'ivk PkOMiT ATT'..' ;io:< SHOP—Dela-yatr Ave. f ('nti. AHOWARD F. 01TEK GENERAL UPHOLSTERER Bac-Ier In FURNITURE and MATTRESSES WINDOW SltAl):.5, AWNLNCS. and BEA^i TENTS A SPEkl-t M 4l2WEshlngion ^tv^(*» ’ . Capv H*t

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Dealer In

£ime, SSrick, Sand, Cement and S&uiider* ' Oalaphone Xo. £0. SCaterials. Sti Stmt-a Sr4t

SAMUEL E. EWING General Contractor.. HdUse moving a specialtg

DO YOU HELD THE HERALD? . IT IS TO THg INTEREST OF EVERY

man who visits .or' owns property ia Cape May lb be a reader oi the Cape May Herald. In its columns you will find ^roughout the 5-ear much matter that will interest and be of value to you tor the trifling cost ;.f one dollar pci year. It you do not already takeRhc Herald cut uut and till in the following coupon, enclosin'! check or a one doltlar bill, and

mail saqie to “Herald, - ’ Cape May, New Jer&y.