•AMOK •AT.TMB THC mON PtBN Th« Lom U »1&,000—«»rv« Imb.d a»d In th* Band Tb* N* but*. Robert t^mpbell. hee'^lT l*de& »KU terkac ram that pter and Theatre on the Ocean from at the Coot ot Decatur atrect laat »>t day moraine while hundred* o< apec latoc* looked on the work oCdeetruc Uon unable to do a thins to atop 1: Driven by a heavy oortheael »“* and carried ak>n« by the unuauali. hlsh tide that came In. the crafi plowed completely throusb the atruc lure, nwklcs a total wreck ot il The bulldlns waa one of the attrac lire points of CWpe May. The Teasel that worked the de» truction of the pie.- waa one of the barcee Chet U carrins atone for th. coutrurlloo at the Jetties by the Go' ernmeut at Ootd Sprlns Inlet, aw bad been anchored Inside the inlet The eaceedlusly hl«b tide of Tburs day nleht caused It to break Us an chor chain and the reflux tide Carrie* It throush the Inlet Into the oceaa where U drifted at the mercy of the elements all nlsht and was toaseed about and carried from place to place until early. Friday mornius. whe headed for the Cape May beach waa driven slowly, but relentlessly, on Its course of destruction. The crew on the barge were taken ashore about 6 o'clock In tb< Captain Sooy'e crew of Cold Sprint lift-earing station and as there warn no tray of checking u* progioaa the vessel waa adandor.ci! and allowed ti

drift at will.

Darin* the greater part of tb< morning the beach waa lined will a Urge crowd of spectators, who regardless of a high wind and drixxUng rain, or of business dutiet watched the scene of devastation b the pilk«s Hid heavy Iron stanch lom th.1 supported the pier as the bergv pounded Us way through. This la the third, time the Iroi Pier has met with serious dlsaster^be first time being several years agt when a heavy storm wrenched away about two bunderd feet from the end Inclodii* a theatre which waa replac. by the one that met destruction Fri day. The second misfortune happened two years ago. when the whole front. Including several stores and thi broad arcade entrance, were destroy* by Ore. The front was immediately placed by a much finer building and undorttedly the peart destroyed las Friday will he quickly replaced structure vsecli more Imposing, bon pier was the property of Victor Denlaot and vi-s erected about ty yean ago. The loss is about 110. 000. The loss of the barge and car* .Is estimated at about 15500.

THEMIRAQL Cendltlsne That Make PeaelMe TMe BeeuUfid llluelen. A bon l that natural pbenomenon. tbs mlragv. mocb mystery clung In days of ok!, but srlencw explains It as ready as tbe rainbow. Th# faU morgana of the strait of Messina and the specter of tbe Brockerr nothing more U> aober reality

mere mirage.

n-lrare may occur at any pl*re v iij,. i*, jicr ♦tr-tnm of alt I* placed above I be liiihlur airotUUi. tbu» refracting tbe rays of light, the com ton eorface of tbs two Ur*turns act

ig as a mirror.

In loaning mirages distant objects ioV au ,extravagant Incroaa# la ver Gcal height without alteration Id

UAL MTATt

TAANMU

thus magulfled -Into and plnuarira. and a ship Is someth abnormally drawn out until It appears twelve or thirteen times as high as “ la long. Rocks are seen drawn up ten or twelve time* their proper height House* as well as hnman being* and animals appear In Ilka exaggerated shape. Another form of mirage la when a ship or tome other object near the water nee ms greatly elongated and a second inverted Image meets It from

above,

Bometlmee the proper Image of the object 1* elevated far above the ssa. while the recond Image strangely appear* Inverted beneath It. th* whole surrounded by a sheet of sky which la mirrored and repeated within It In 1882 In the arctic region Captain Score* by recognised by Its Inverted Image In the air hi* father's ship, the Fame, which afterward iwoved to be seventeen miles beyo'^’h# visible ho

risen of bis obeervatlou

One August evening In 1806 Dr. Vince saw from Ra magate. at which place only lb* tops of Dover castle towers are mraally visible, the whole of tbe CMtlc_.lt appeared as though lifted op and bodily placed oa tbe near tide of tbe Intervening hill. Bo perfect was this Illusion that the tin It ■elf actually could not be teen through

th* figure.

Some forma of mirage are lateral a* wen as vertical, arising from unequal density of two contiguous vertical bodlea of air. Thus on Lake Geneva a boat has been seen double, tba two

Image* aome dlataoce apart.

From Court House Oa—tfThe Ld owing an dobs Cap* May county real ntato transfers; Frank G. Bdwards to J. Henry Bd mauds, |L Lota ITSt. 1731 and 1734, plan A. Cape May Real Mat William H. Hand #t ux to George It. Undivided H In 117, on Sewell plan on north side of Congress atrceL Waal Cap* May. Samuel £. Ewing et ux to Joseph H. H-nca, tl. Confirmation deed of Iota «g» Bod 437 and H of iot 438, block 37. Miller Farm. William H. Thornton to Joseph Me. i’hersou. Agreement to convey for 1*00 lot on south aide of Bdredge avenue. Joseph H. Hanes to Joseph Graves. 1100. Lot* 434 and 437 and southwest 1* of lot 438. block 37. MlUe Farm. Emma J. Scull et vtr toF rank R. Hughe*. Agreement to convey for 13760 premise* northweet corner Bros way and Fourth avenue, lot 141, Miller Farm. Samuel Ewing et ux to Julian R Caldwalder. Ij, 858. block 17. Miller

Farm.

Cap* May Point Jerome B. ‘Garde 11a. ExV Martha a Burn*, deceased, to Charles C*aaedy. 370. Lot 173, block E.

OF INTfREBT TO OLD BOLDIERB Oft THEIR HEIRB

Certain Old Beldlar* Have Land Claims Coming to Thom From

who tarred 80 day* or longer In th* Bin War of th* Rebel Hoc, angawho t west after tbe war and made Moaataad entry In any state In th* Union for either 40, 10 or 1*0 ■ before Jana i*nd. 1874. baa a n coming to him from the Gov-

done nfreb oake the w ireTtrircan

Grammar School Commencement The third grange a r school con menccment of the Oape iMay Cit}' public schools. (Annex) wlU be halo In Allen A. iM. E. Church, Ji 18*8. at 8.80 o'clock P. M. HThe work at the annex has been very success fully carried out under asaimant Prin-

Ih the many valut Supervising Prin-

cipal Moyer, which have done

to facilitate matters and a general success. There

didstes ft* the high school next year Tbe following Is the commencemeni

program. ♦

Chora—"O Columbia Wo Hail Thcc"

Demise: u

Invocation. Rev. W. W. Johnson Declamation—"Haste Not! Best Not" Thomas C. Washington Solo—"No One’But You " Mary F. Matthcwi Recitation—"The Present,” W Both Holland Essay—"Character and Reputation.'' Mary F. Brown Essay—"Student Manliness,” /WUlfep.^. DeShleld* Chorm—"Dream On,”

^ Letlic

Presi-nu'.lon cf. Claas—Assist Principal. J. Hyland Fortune, A- M. Recept-jn of Claas—BupC Principal,

. it B. Moyer, A. U

Confer ring of Diplomas—R. Btites.

President of Board of

Annual Addroa—"Our Advancement as a Race in American Ctvttitatkm' —Rev. G. W. Parka, D. D., Pastor Union Baptist Church. Philadelphia

nine way. Any one on a hot day by placing his eye user to a baled wall may see lateral mirage* of object* at a dlataoce and nearly on a line —

the waJ.

Mirage* are vary frequent on deserts or tbe large sandy plains which abound In tbe southwestern stale* territories. Many a panting wagon tain baa poshed on In Joyous baste at the sight of a green grove or limpid i.k« only to be croeUjJJlsappotmed the fading away of BV vision, is il any wonder that the nariva and Indiana regard tbe phenomenon as the work of evfl and tantalizing spirits! Lake Ontario Is famous for oeantl ful and wooderfnl mirage*, during whMh th* opposite ahore of the lake to plainly visible from eitber side.—

It doe* not mkke any difference whether he proved up oci hit homeateed entry or sUnply left R. There were thousand* of old aoldien who went to Kansas and Nebraska after 'he war and took up y ac-.e homesteads and when the grasshoppers and hot winds came aioog Dknply left th«dr SntBea back east. Bach of throe men have cUiins. Under a Supreme Ooort decision thee claims are assignable. R. Peal*. Judge Buittflnc. Balt l«kc , aty, Utah, perfect* the title to these claims and will pay tbe hi sheet mar et prtoe for asm*. If the eoidier to dead the widow or

George T. Week* et ux to Laura Oliver. 81. Small atrip of land on aide of Central Road at Ctold Spring. Isaac H. Smith to Daniel Schellec.sr. 3600. About Jo acres on south side of road from Tabernacle M. E. Church to Flahlng Creek. Joseph Bowker to Fred L. Temple. 550. Lot on northeast aide of Holly Beach turnpHce. near drawbridge Fred L. Temple et ux to Claude P. me*. $1. Same as last deed above.

Memorial Services. Order of Memorial exercises of John Murray Poet No. 118, O. A. R , department of New Jersey. Sunday. May 30, 1908. Annual sermon at the Franklin Street M. B. Church at 3-30 p. m.. by Rev. J. E. Cook. Mtooday. May 31, members of the P«AL patriotic cMlsens and friend* will nwx laaonlc Hall, on Broad street at 8 'clock a. m.. at 8.30 g m., will ceed to Mount Zion and Union Bethel cemeteries to bold aenricro and decorate th# grave* of their fallen rede*. Comaker* at Mount Zion will be Mr. W. E. Tranks, Prof. W Moore and Sgt. Chari** Kay. Unkn Bethel. Rev. W. W. Johnson and Prof. J. Ryland Fortune. Returning will arrive at Mhaonic Hall at 12 M., where dinner wlU he served by a committee of ladles. U Y. Oox. Adgt. - E. J. Trusty, Oomansnder.

Pnbarribe for tbe Herald

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An late of Man Oath. What Is regarded as the quaintest oath *111! In use~li that taken by tbe high court, lodges In tbe Isis of Man. erms of which are as follow*: "By book and tba contents thereof and by tbe wooderfnl works that God bath miraculously wrought In tbr beaveo above and tba earth beneath k> ■lx days and six nights I do a wear that I will, without respect of favor friendship. Ion or gain, conaanguln or affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of this tale Justly between party and party aa Indifferently as the herring backbone doth lie In tba midst of tbe fish. So help me God and tbe contents of this book.” v ,

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Dedication Regular Army Monument. On Monday, May SI, Memorial Day. te monument to th* regular army on gaged In the battle of Gettysburg will HUcated on tbe BadtleHeld by the Taft wlH partietpe Excursion tick be to3<t by the F from all principal sUtioos.Uay 17 It 30, good to return until Jane 8. inclusive, at rednoed rate*.

Jonas worked so hard and denied dmeeif so much In order to pay bis tfa insurance that be had neither tbe hne nor tba mans to lie Rick, and be outlived all the beneficlarlea. who were 1 while engaged la tbe relatively aithy business of lying back and waiting for him to die. Moreover, to Chinking of tbe matter be became cco vtoced that be had a good deal of fan.

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