COMPRISE TWO Clflti tN OMt.

There •til! rxl.u In Italian citl«n » life of the «wf» Ibnl !• tlle'inct and charnctrrietlc. and of «hlch the more forelsnar and tourt»t l» rnilreiy unaware- Particu'.arly la thla the caac tn Rorenfe Uouni lo the top floor of one of tbea* rtlm. Me palarea stand in* In aom* *l<K>ray. innlesa atreet often approached by a atern, forUi< din* do*'rway and dark, atrep atalr*. and you will hold your breath with wonder at the aurprlae that await* you. For here before your eye* •tretchea an unfamiliar city, a red and-*reeu city of wide espanae and raryln* altitude*, a city no leaa arch! tecturally beaoilful than the one you hare left below, and cnllxenod. too. most uaeipected'y by verdure. In the very heart of the city, on It* topmost apex, there la no trace of *rline: the air 1# pure and wholeaotno. Indeed. Ita breese* are charted with no small au(*estlon of sea and B tain breath. Aa for the smoke would expect to And banging above the roofs of a densely populated It la conspicuous by Us absence, and only at the hour of meals does I faint blue column rise for the brh apace Into ih. atmosphere.—Ccn

DEADLY WATER IN THE DESERT.

“One of the chief dan*era of travelera In crossing such dreary and arid waste* as the tar famed Death valley In Nevada arise* from Ignorance aa the character of the Infrequett pot of water along the route," said T. E. Smalley. a mining engineer of Denver. "The tenderfoot growing faint under a blazing sun. arm want to quench Intolerable thirst when he cornea t ■hallow hole, whose water, clear crystal, seems absolutely pure. can with difficulty be restrained from drinking It by some experienced panion. who knows that one draught win probably cause serious If not fat*; Illness. This water, for all Us a ing purity and cicarnets, la loaded with arsenic, aad many a man has ' his life by Its use. "Curiously enough, the only water In the desert that Is safe to drtr foul looking and Inhabited by bogs and snakes. When you come to muddy pool, on the surface of which Insects are disporting themselves, ever repulsive It may be both to eye and palate, you may drink It with Impunity, despite lu looks, aa a man will who la craty with ihlrst produced by burning sands and merciless ■

Happy French Baby. Nurseries are unknown In Prance, and year-old Infants take their place at the dinner table, eating whatever they take a fancy to. “My daughter adores fish." said the proud mother cf a tiny baby to her table d'hote 'neighbor. French babies lare neevr supposed to be in the way. Of course there are seldom more than two In the same family. A hard ■working professional man confided to a friend that his wife and be given up attending the theater be cause their little boy cried at I left behind. When In l/indgn Mme. Alphonse Daudct was astonished hr-.i that children were not Invited to luncheon, dinner* and r tiona. A clever Frenchman attributes the amiability of bis nctioi the fact of early Indulgence, children's tempera never having spoiled by contradiction.

NATURE Ah A SCULPTRCM.

favee of Apes ‘Have vet Up to Washington in Hie Name State. Seattle, Wash.—From the most northwesterly point ot the elate which bears the name of Washington. Itself :he moat north* eaUu-ly In lha Union, i likeness of the father of hla Country uhleeled by uaorv through a multiof year*, looks out across the r io Pridah territory, a silent war it the n-i.on’» «- itroat. This sr»a sculptured rock upon the beach '- such a replica of the profile of Wash ington that It might have been the

WAEHIMOTON BIRTHDAY DANCE

The Qlris of The High Eehocls Give Event at Windsor. The itfH students ot tkfce Cape May High School gore a dance to their trinod. at the Windsor on Waahtegtoo'a Birthday night, at which about » hundred Person* were prei Jolly good time was bad, there were uatiy outside visitors «*. by Invitation Ui enjoy

Queer Notions About Bees. The idea that bees know their keeper, says the Suburban Life, has led a foolish curtom which prevails In o tain parts of Europe. When the k« or dies some one goes out io the hi* and whispers in each entrance the solemn fact. In order to keep the bees from leaving II; In some Instances the hives are even draped In black. A .certain beekeeper died In Austria. Ad, aa the coffin that contained his remains was carried from the bouse to the hpg-se. his bees In large numbers clustered on It. Every one present was deeply touched by this mark of their grief, litre realising that It was the fresh Ysm.sk op the coffin that had attracted tbqm, and not levs tor their departed >«*• VALUABLE TIMBER If! ALASKA. Trawler Tells of Vast Fu-est Wealth

In the Territory.

"Although tha hatdwood men ot the United States may have to witness with alarm the depredation of the area of oak and walnut in tha Appalachian ranges and tha lower Mississippi there is plenty of the other sort left on tha continent." remarked E. H. Martee of BpcLzr.s. Wash. The world has no Idas of tha resources from a Uipbennaa's viewpoint of tha great untouched Alaakan forest*," continued Mr. Martas. "Up from Valdas and aUetchlng on shove lha Tsnana river tha forest growth of Alaaka. mainly pina it is true, but

Washington Rock.

work of a Gilbert Stuart. But Nature aa the sculptress, using as her tools the lapping waves ot ages, has sot up Ms monument to the greatest American, in honor of the country, and the cute which bears his name. Had the International boundary line been moved five miles to the east vard. as It passes among the Island* hat form the arch 1 pal ego lying be ween Vancouver Island and the male and, this sutue of Washington would bare hewn on British soli. But erl deotiy nature bad the boundary dispute between Great Britain and America settled long before the question nearly Involved the two nations In war half a century ago. Washington rock lies at the water’s edge on Waldron Island, the most northwesterly :f the Ban Juan group of Islands to he northward of Puget sound. British forces tried to hold all these stand*, but they were routed by the American troops. Crumbling forts and indent blockhouses today remain to remind the people of the struggles of varly days that now have been almost forgotten. Not far from Waldron Island Nature is* become a shipbuilder and ha* -alsed an Island not of the water oak* so Ilk* a modern battle ship. jvcp to the fighting toils, that easels, not knowing It to be of earth ind rock, have been known to salute vtth their whistles what they rosed sms a majestic representative of be American navy. Battleship Island, ir as it la sometimes called. Mote's aland. Is located at the entrance of he Btralt de Bars, the main channel between Vancouver Island and the-' >an Juan group. The tides have performed another Tuocr feat In converting an 1mm •colder on the beach of Soda Island atn the likeness of a Chinese, with' -tsss hat ilka an immense rice bowl .ver his head. The aUe of "The think." aa the rock is called, may be eallred by comparing K with the beep that stand beside U, end which x>k Uttle larger than rats. The Island in front of the Uttle ummer resort on East sound looks f It might hsvs been brought sert he Psclflc from a Japanese lake. IU tun ted trees are oriental. Its bulldogs look llge pagodas, and It seems tn est In e summer sea for all the world Ike the flowery kingdom. Betwi be Island and the beach Is the ft volte resort of bathers. These Islands of San Juan are beomlng known tar and wide for their beauty, and each year more and more •eople visit their summer resorts or un their yachts Into the sheltered :arbors and cover* that are almost is numerous as the pebblw upon the •each. Many strange* characters of lays gone by still remain upon the ■lands and tell of the troublous times jf the long ago.

Sheriffs T‘e Bute Senate cn Tuesday hod .. Kiup over the £UUe bill owl.;* bcerd# of freeholders \o c ract with sheriffs to feed tha prisuurs in the county Jails. U et first illed the bill, but reconsidered Cl si the is Ur r.vutnr. and then •assed '.t by a tare majcrlty. Nearly very Locator had his say about the ueesuic, most of them derlcrlag that 1 was s circumvention of the 1AW by which Lhorifts were traced upon a .alary Avals. Senator Gehhsrdt. how •ver d-cured that it was found necessary In the am slier counties jrovide some such plan for the earn ! the prtnoaars since the Sheriff Is he only available person who could property feed them. The freeholders isd undertaken to mqke contract* Nr-ints are In the JaU building the ccunties own the serving fa*1th outsider*, but it had been focn<’ ^practicable since all'the kitchen an ilUlcs. Senator Hlnchllfte. of Pasaal aid the bill was aim ply s means la iviog sheriffs more money, but Ecn •tor Gcbbardl said the! was not tine la the tueaeure had passed the -louse it Is now up to the Governor

The Pcwer cf Party Bocsca. rc-m the Philadelphia Record.

Govemcr Hughes Is not tmprcjsc. rtlh the p'.ea cf the party bofsei tut If ouvectlo!!* are cot thorough r reirvzcmauve it is the fauit p. be people themselves. The power ol be political organisation la compuri on with that of the geaeru! vettaj ubllc U s good deal like the paw;, f a amsll body of regular troops omparcsl with an unarmed crowl.

The Gov trace aaya of these boast

Those who sit In the seats of party ■ower generally employ the teethed; {'the blacklist and the boycott. The a oat heinous offovse is insubctdlna ion ot their w18. That la treason. Sc ar ns they may, they reward thee; ollowers and they punish their op •onenta. He secret of their strength s their virtual contrcl over the nomi at ions of pony candidates." Th‘ !ocorner has very good insight. He ouches on the reason why ihe'wkaes bject to direct prlmwries. and thr. a tbe very reason why real populo:

.overnment demand* them.

DENNlAVIhlt Captain Lrwi* Douglasa la node* the card of the family physician at this writing. Miss Dorothy Hemphill has (won entertaining her friend. Miss Buth Watt, of Lanadownc, Pa., fpr a few

days.

Mr. Mead Tcknllo of J*blladelpjb. i» Veen spending, s few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Tpmlln Mr. Joseph Cre «•, of Cold Sprlog. and Mrs, Jsy Mecray, of Cap* May. made a hnslnees trip tn our town asl Tiuraday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Cax.il areal last Fri‘ day and Stturdoy In Philadelphia. Mla.i Roxouna Gandy ape;.I the wee uod wl'h friends In New York City. Mr. Jan.es Will lams oatnr'.slac. la troth' - sad family of PoAraburc. ror L’Rg . , Mrs. Belle Corx>.; eutortalbed her Utfhtc.". .Mss TeaMe 11. Cora >u and friood. Mr. Whit, of New York and two sons Mr. Burton Ctraou c-' Cope May Court House and Mr.ilarry Corson of Philadelphia, over Sunday Captain Harry Chester has teo: ipendlng several dnya with his fan. Gy here. Jbete Cudlam. Jr., of Court Houv«. ipent Sunday and Mcnu_y with ■fWea here. Miss Riley our popular High School, teacher spent Washington’s Birthday v PMladoijdda. Mr*. Lixxie Hand of Cape May has ;eea risitiag Mr*. Carrie Bush null, .his week. The rnembcp cf the local Women’s .’hrlstlsn Temperance Union held '.heir regular monthly meeting at tbe tome of Miss 1 ranee* Holm.s on Monday afternoon. There 1* a good aopHy of water t the Johns go pood sod a good -.henoe for tooting.

COURT HOUSE. Misses Marie and Lydia Spring' ipeat part of last week with friends t Chester, ¥a. Eugene C. Cole. Esq., was trans: .log busincta at the county seat l IfWt of the week. Monroe Erricsyn wan a recq-at v tor at Goshen. Mr. F.

Mr. and MV*. Howard VanArisdsn spent part of the week w Mend* and retstlvee at Dennis'111! Pclmer Way spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Lewis ourg Pa., apd w.tneaaed « basketball .ame between Buckncil and the C yf P. teaira Mr. Alexander R. Springer spent part of last week on a business trip

Boms Stats Appointments.

Governor Fort UK week namet ever si state officers, which were oof armed by'the Senate this week. Charles P. Brown, Vercer. mane ;er of Soldiers Home K VlueUnd; rhoaoa* B. Holmes, Mercer, Commit sloner cf Reports: Gilbert L. BogerL f Passaic, and Amos D. Deaae ol Camden, reappednted managers of tin. Yiueland Home; Annie E. Gile *n£ Richard C. Jenkinaea, both of Essex, ■(•appointed as jtaoasen cf the Vlne.snd Home For FeeMe J#lndod Women; Alfred D. Carnagy, of Meroec. reappolcted as manager of the Stau. Home fer Girl*. Treotou; J. DuPraU White, of New Ycck, and Franklin W. Hopkins, of Lurgen, reappointed to tbe - HudaonPwllxsdes Park Oocmission; Speaker John D. Prince, to succeed Ererttt^ »Jf^la»oiFas Slat Public Library dfemlssJoecr. Tuckahoe Gas Co., Officers. The Tockahoe Gas Improvemert lompany has Veen Incorporaied with.base officers: Prooldent, Christopher fRod; rice preaideot. H. W. Gandy; -ccretiry. Captain Junses Bxfth; and

urer. Ulhcra 31. Bess.

Mr. H. “Dywcsar-d. of Clennont.

•peat Suvdiy with friends here.

' A number of cur young people were

tit driV.ng on the holiday.

Mr. Redman.Stiles and family, of Xir Creek, were oalertalned by Mr and MYs. Georgs Stile* last Sunday.

Fublle Menaces to Morality.

Perhajx It U a waste of words to morallxs over social scandal*, but each new domestic upheaval'in what Is

l our best society (meaning our

w salt bleat) exerts an evil go Car beyond ita sourc^ that the tmpulas •" plead'for a higher standard at walg among tha richest people is hard to resist. 'It must be admitted

Utile flood has resulted from tbe earnest remonstrance in the peat.. The young Hone tn society.

The Cape May Otraod

ng the advisability of levying a gen»ral mercantile tag which 1» authorized by law and prevails in most re-

sorts. '

l"efr

e..wreaci,«, tf . _ _

A party of foreigners Who are making a tour of this country railed retec Ur at the state depoatoeot --=» were received by Secretary They had a very limited knowledge of English and the conversation was conducted mostly In the sign language Finally the spokesman ot the party

Arose, and. with a profound bow. said; ,

"Mr. Secretaire, we will not further (

l the forests

s simply Indescribable la their 1 luxuriance. It will be many yean " c la board

any public duty

they were unaware that the pothey hold, by the grace of the salty, carries an Inflnenos which, tf exerted for em, maaaoes the very existence of the social order. Tot this la the main (ralh.—New Tork Tin—

Secretary Root to known I* Wash's the polite man. Be did sot

smile, hut In

id to Ms vtoil arms the proper Engltoh plain Us Moaning.

it drat cultivated tn this land I by the Indians, has reached Its ettmax * — ~ a yeti It is used at po- <

the asase that It to seduloaaly guarded from the outside world, to anknoi to the CUeese The bouses of t commoa pSWo are so bum that they are capable of accommodating a d ~’hsa thsaa are ooagt

doors are talked about by the C bsdara their nafghbora. who will sobmi _ silently taking In every word that to •aid. Tha result to that there are ho secret* to Cttrtng. . Everybody know* everyth lug about’ everybody

Your House is Insured

You protect yourself against its loss. Have you protected your family against the loss of your income ?

The house can be replaced ; your earning power cannot. Secure Life Insurance

The Prudential

State House Chat

Governor Fort promptly denied -he report that he had vetoed the .111 pro riding an appropriation of l8»00 lo pay the expects of himself md staff to Woahinjtsb "during inauweek. But It to quite olgnlfloent that h$ did not say he would approve of the measure In truth It :s exceedingly doubtful If the Gover■■or will attach hi* signature to the as It will come to bhn from the Legislature. Corridor gossip emloating from a fairly reLnUo aourtc la to the effect that the Governor Actually dictated a veto message, in antidpatioo of, the Colgate MU com-. Ing lo Mm, tut the fapure of Asaamo!y Clerk Parker to promptly certify to by the House made it impossible for him to put toe veto to to play before he left for Chicago. locilentoRy. the Governor I all mated to -» frWhd what he purposed doing with MM and tM* frtoad Indented to mother friend In like manner and the report -.rept Into a newwp.v ver that the Governor had already sent tbe bill to the morgue. He .eued the UH yesterday. ~

Reolutiors of Respei '.ecolctlcra of *yn)pnthy adopted by -Olumbla Lodge No J!. 1. 0 ■je death of Erether CbarU-< ;n. who dopartou ibis life February

19G9.

Whereas, It ha* pieaeed Almighty God, the Grand Architect of the uni verse, to remove from this Lodge, to the Grand Lodge above, our Brother. 1 Charles S. Corson: therefore be It Resolved. That wMle we bow In bumble submission to tbe Divine will of One who la too wtoe to err and loo lender to be unkind; yrt we do sinGerely grieve with those who mourn, iad we would point Ms sorrowing widow and family to tbe Divine Healer, who ha* promised to pour In tbe cf gtodnOM for that of mourning, -tnd to bind up tbe broken hearted. > It further Resolved, that In the death of Bro•her Corson, 'this Lodge has lest a r.emter who. was over true la the .rinciple* of our Order. Friendship. IVuth aad Love. That Ma family has ast a kind and loving buwband and 'other, and the community wherein ;* rcAded, a devout Christian gentio•mm. Be It further Resolved. That these reaoluUan* be .preod upon the rnlnutee of tbe Lodge uMJshed -In the Cope May Herald nd tbxr a copy be framed and forrarded to tbe famUy of our departed rother, also.that our Charter be draped la mourning for ninety day*. Dated Cape May. February 8. 1909. Signed. C. EDWARD HUGHES. W. M. LBW18 N. SMITH. JOB. A ROBINSON. JR. FRANK S. GALLAHBR, Committee. Ittost:

NOW

IS THE TIME

Although Governor Fort does not say so for pobtlcatlon. It 1* knowthat he iosks upon tbe 98000 appro

and its restriction to ese by

htmaelf and staff, to the sxdcatoc jf the rank and file of th# mUBtir men, as cairylng a poUOcai* pitfall which ha propose* to sldeatop. 'He .saltoes that If ha,, with a salary of 810.000 per year And Mspereooal Staff

among men well able Id pay

Lake advantage of ppUlc funds to *nAbie them to participate to the toxc--uratioc of Mr. Taft, there ViU be a lot of criticism from those woo will

COLO SPRING. A meeting of the Dedmo Club was :eld M the home ot Mr. and Mre. Samuel Towcaead. Cold Spring, on laturday eveoing, Feb. M. 1909. The object of tbe Dlclmo Club to to protbe knowledge of words, aa to proper pronunciation and defltitiai. We would advise that other DC cl mo clubs^Fo formed ca we find It to be enjoyable, aa well as bene tidal. The evening at Mr. and Mr*. Town,a<r* was ptoasantiy spent in the llacuasion of the words received to Lbs part seven weeks, and also In .totalling to a recitation by MU* OUr Ayuglaas, a rending by Mrs Harry to, and a selection .by Mrs- U«Fdiyn HEdreLh. After the meeting -■uroed. refreshment* were *ervc<

WEST CAPE MAY._

Mr. and Mr*. Coleman Camp, risl:ed Ms mother at Court House on Saturday and Sunday last. Some of our boy* have started In

-XL baseball already.

Ocean ear of Jtckson SU Cnpe Mar, N. J. Modem io all its appointioent,- Room, en mit with betli. EMcoie liehted. Deliahtfolly htmted. Oceen View. Short w*tt Irws R.ilrowt Sution. The mMujeoenteimeemteotp.soperdey-hp.^

OIL HEATERS Linoleum, Oil Cloth, Stove Boards. Stove Pipe and Coal Hods. I have a stock on hand, Prices Reasonable.

CHARLES A. SWAIN 305-7 Jackson £t. Cape May, N. J

See Washington THE HEART OP THE NATION Three-Day Tours Pennsylvania Railroad Maid. 18. April L & 29. May 13.1909 Round Trip Rate, $10.75 or $13.25 FROM CAPE MAT According to hotel selected. Cover* necessary expenses for three day*. Ticket* good retorniog foe tea d*r*. Dcta'led Itinerarie* sad foil information of Ticket Scent*, or J. R WOOD. Paaa’r Traffic Man’gr GKO W. BOYD, Gen Paa. r Ag’t.

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