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CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY. 19. 1883. ; i --- - ■ ■'Ax. . I i. ;

NUMBER 37

Stltrt SEsaUmro. Fr-s» Mma »•« UcHm' UipilM XO&X flUODS THAN SOLS. ■TT. a. xrrncn. "This war I" aaid Mr. Holmei, with I a partly affected, and a parti; real impatience. "It will never ceaae demanding ; it will rob na of everything. In- < . creased taxation, increased prices — .es- < sening incomes — contributions here, • and contributions there. Nothing will I Jinjeft of us in the end !*' < "If '.he nation's life is sated, the cost < trill not be too dear," was answered. "All that. a man bath, will he gire for * Itia life. All that the people have, will the; give to sate this nation." "I hate not held back, so far Mr. Browning." There was a tone of selfaporoTel— something a little boastful — < nbr.it Mr. Holmes. "No one esn say that I hare ibfosed to contribute my I share How much do yoa supppae 1 J havo given to -the Volunteer Refresh- t meat Saloons, during the past year ?" c The person with whom he aaa con- ■ rerslug — we have called him Mr. Iirown- ( —shook his bead saying, "1 can't * imagine." "You'd hardly credit the sum. Six * hundred Abllars I Yes, six hundred dol- I1 Ism 1 That's what I've given iu this di- f rection alone. It cost jak about a hao- I dred dollars to give a meal to one regi- r ment of n thousand men. So yon ace. " I've fed six thooMnd brave soldiers on' their way tbrongb our city. That's Sl something towards helping the country. n 'Ygf » have done nobly iu this," said r< Mr. Browning. "If nil would but do n as well, according to tbeir means " "Yes, If aH would do^ as well," refunded Mr. Holnsn. "But mil won't do ss well Its not taking merit tor myself. I've only done my duty. When the slate is in dtngsr, every true clliten '' will spring to the rescue. " " And Mr. Holmes leaned back in bis c chair, the image of dignified self-appro-

val. "Then there Is the 'bonnly fand,' " remarked one of the little groap who were conversing. "If there waa nothing besides feeding the soldiers, on tbeir way through, this would be a light . matter." • "Light m a feather 1" broke in Mrllolmea. "Yea, there ia the' 'bounty fund,' as you My. Well, I've done my part In that direction aieo. The time waa when we put our names to subscription papers to the tune ot twenties and fifties, sod thought it liberal. Bnt, s change has corns o'er the spirit of onr dream. We most go np to the hundreds now. The public know what I have contributed to the 'bounty fund ;' for the committee is gerrulous." "Yea; I mw your namedowu for five hundred dollars. " "As I was Mjing, we are np to the hundreds now," resumed Mr. Holmes. a "But I am oot the one to flinch or make wry bees. I decided on the nmonnt at once, and Mat a check to the committee I like money as well as nay of my neigh - bars; end I have reason to do so, for I worked bard enongb to get it. Bnt what will our money be worth if this accursed rebellion should prevail ?. If our country Is lost, what of tha people ?" "True enough, Mr. Holmes -what of the people ? To save this government, it worth the uerifice of every dollar we possess," with a hint, involuntary sigh "And I sometime* bar." replied the ether, "that it wfll take the last dollar. I wm conning up, only to-day, what it has coat ma ia actual gifts of money, to say ao thing of the losses in bathes sad depredated values. Tha earn almost frightened ma. Pour tbooaaad dollars 1 lib true I am not speaking boastfully— I doet take neurit to myself. I only declare the fact. Hnadreda and thousands around ms are doing as much or mora. Trokvere h. being foarwi

out like water "And blood If' said s low, clear voice, that poneirated like a sword. The j spoaker was a woman. Bbe bad been a silent listlner. "Yen, and blood I" answered Mr Holm-s. It was bnt so echo, faint and failing. i "Which is more precious than gold." i Tho voicrjwaa still low and clear, cutting down to conviction like the thrust of a ; sword. "And life," added the speaker I Her calmness failed. There was a throb i her voice. She arose, with a quiet, i repressed manner, and went from the I i "Who it she f" asked Mr. Holmes, ' with a shame look on his face. , 1 "Her name Is Edgar f I "Not the widow of Captain Edgar ?" ' "Yes." 1 1 He dropped his eyes. A shadow j < crept over his face. > • ' "More precious than gold !" he said, j ' np after a few moments "Yea, . ' yes. And what a rebuke ! I, Boastfully ; ' talking, in her pretence, of my golden | < offerings, when she had given blood ' and life, in her brave, heroic husband 1 ' and treasure may come bock again, j 1 not ao blood and life." j - "She has given gold and treasure an well as life," said one. "In losing her 1 husband, the has lost all. There were j f truer, kinder, better men than Capt. j Edgar. While he lived, the world's I t rough placet were smooth for her feet ; | fc and if (le had been spared, they would j \ have been kept smooth. But, as I have • j aaid, ia his lose she bat lost ell ; and < c her bands, unused to labor arrj8 reaching ont, and Marching for the , .means of Mlf-eapport." "Has she children ?" , "Two." "\ f _ "Widowed — fatherless !" c ► -"••And-pwr."- h A long silence followed. In breaking p it, the sobjeqt was not renewed ; nor 0 there soy more parade of money- ' p contributions sn^sMrifice for the war. , the jews ib faleetihe. « THE jaws IH PALESTINE.

The miaevjr'of the Jews in Jerusalem , is greatly increased by their idleness. Comparatively few have any occupation. Only one of the race of Israel cultivates even a garden patch on Mount Zion ; and with the exception of the convert Mesballam, and the small colony at Jaffa, there is not a Jewish farmer in all Palestine. The whole nbmberW lewish mechanics and trades-people in Jerusalem is 239, or one is 24 of the Jewish popnlation. These few mechanics sre mostly industrioas and thrifty, and their enterprise contrasts strongly with the indolence and wretchedness by which they are surrounded Most of the mechanical trades of the city are in the bands of Israelites. Th^y are the masons, carpenters, smiths, tinkers, stone-cutters, tailors, cobblers, timbers, bakers, distillers, book-binders, silversmiths, clock-makers and painters: ss well for Christians sad Moslems, as for their own people.^ There are A dozen merchants, a dozen pedlers, twenty keep* c.«-/»f shops, three money-changers, five aerobes, and forty •' Melaodim," or leathers. But the msH of the people prefer an idle life, and accept witbont shame the charity which nourishes them in tbeir isxiness. Scarcely any of the growing children art trained to useful labor ; and the sentence " By the sweat of thy t face shall thou sat bread," hM no significance ia tha city where it has beeo preserved as a Divine rule. Few era too prond to beg, bnt many art too prond to work. Those occupations in which tho women generally find pleasure, are here neglected, and few realize that description in the Proverbs of the virluooa bontewife. In this general idleaeaa there ia vary liule difference *betweei the saxaa ; tad whether it be the liflaence of climate, or tho contagion of I example, tha skilful mechanise who come frem Barope too* lost theli teal, aad I become loftfiwrt fflta the rest

| Ail attempts to remedy this obstinate j aversion to labor on the part of the | Jews in JeruMlem, htvc thai far proved fruitless. Sir Modi Mootebore established and liberally endowed a school ' for the training of youog girls in useful industry. As Dr. Frankl saw this acnool, nearly all the pupils and nearly all the teachers were stretched asleep npon the divans, and the pieces of work provided were piled up in a separate j I room. The maidens of eight years ol , age were more proud of their condition ! as bridti, than of 'any production of thair nimble fingt-ra. It was so ia every ' scoool that Dr. Frank! visited. There . the same slackness in study as in : and only a very small portion of ! j the children were gathered even to ibis \ | iio um of ease. To a visitor fresh from i the schools of Germany, snch utter in- j | difference was sad and mortifying to the j last degree. Not more satisfactory are the schools of Tiberids and Bufet ; and > fact, iu no Jewisbschool in Palestine ! it any useful knowledge imparted. Ex- ! | cept in the memorized lessons of the i the culture of the Jews is but | better than that of the rode Falla- j j or the roviog Bedonin. — A'urt/i j ^ American Review. THE LIGHT-KOUSX KEEPER. I A distinguished traveler narrates the j incident : " Being at Calais, I clfmucd np into j the ligbl-honse and conversed with the j ] ' SeppoM,' enid I, ' that one of j 1 these lights should go out !' ' Never ! ' ' !' be cried, with a sort of | . conaternnlion at the hypothesis. ' Sir,' | said he, pointing to the ocean, • yonder J ] where nothing can bo Men, there are i , ships going by to every part of the : world. If, to-night, una of ray burners ! i to go out, within six months would | 1 a letter, perhaps from ladia, per- | ' baps from America, perhaps from some j 1 place I jever heard of, saying, on snch I ' | a night, the watchman neglected his ( post, and vessels were in danger. Ah, ] air, sometimes in the dark nights, in the | ■ stormy weather, I look to (be Ma, aud 1 J — . . .WW. ... luc pen, Uliu i I

i feel as if tho eye of tho whole world ' were looking at my light. Go out ! ' ' Barn dim I Oh, never I S i That keeper truly felt the responsf- , 1 ; Jrility or hia position, nis duty was to 1 ' keap lights contiunully burning daring • , the uiulit for the guidance of vessels 1 i I The Christian is a light- house keeper. < j . The world is enveloped in moral dark- \ i ness. This is not merely an incident or ' 1 > attribute of its condition, but its essence j ' . and principal element. It is a darkness I ' , that pervades and overshadows all hu- ' man society. WASTE OflciEMEPOLmCS. r In s free country like ours there is s 1 prodigious waste of mind in the exeite- 1 ' ment and discussions of party politics. ' The mental efforts devoted often tos gubernatorial, and especially a presidential election, woold be sufficient, if turned into the channel of literature and , science, to raiM onr conntry at once to ] the highest rank in the scale of know- ; ' ledge. Did IbeM periodical excitements < prepare the mind to engage w ith greater ardor in literary pnrsuits, they ought 1 not to be viewed as a waste of intellect; but tbeir tendency is decidedly the reverse. N<r men are so little likely | to became eminent iu science or liters- J tore as strong political partisans. The ' organs of combaliveneas and sell es- { 1 teem soon become so excessively devel1 oped as to stifle the reflective faculties, i In few eases, indeed, theM electioneer- ■ ' ing battles mnit bo fought to mvo the < 1 liberties of tha conntry. ; bat in general ' aa impartial and uncommitted man will 1 ' aaa that there is scarcely anything to | ehooM between the rival caadidates as ( to gvaaral character. And whan he > perceives how sharp aad furiosi the con- ' , test between the partisans ha will be re 1 , minded of Dr. Byrcm's couplet rr spooling dispute* about music : 1 Strang* suck 4Mb- ranee there ahoald be < I Twist twaudte dam aad tWaadla da*. < J*. JKf*i teoffc, i

, THE CHARLESTON NAVAL AFFAIR. - The following is the official report of j I Rear Admiral L. S. Dopont oftbe recent) □ aval engagement, off Charleston Harbor : I j Fu« Smr ffimn, Povr Rovai. Had- ■ hoi:. Fob. 2.— Sir • 1 have to report that i 1 about 4 o'clock on the morning of the 31st ' uil . during the obacnriiy of a thick base, i two iron-clad gonboals cumo oat of (Jbar- , leston by the male ship channel, aoper- j j ctrired by the squadron, and commerced a , I raid upon the bioekading fleet. Molt of I the latter was of tho light elans of par- | r } chased vessels. Two of tho heaviest men- | . of-war-^the Powhatan and Uanaodttijroa— 1 beicg atHffti port coaling and repairing. I The Mercedita *m tho 6rst vessel attack- |' I od. Her officers ami crew had been par- I ticularly .watchful during tha night to look I J out for suspected vtssrls, and at'3 o'clock j 1 had slipped her cable and overhauled a 1 1 troop steamer runniqg for the cheque! by j mistake. She had returned to her anchor. age. and Captain Stellwagafl had gone to j i bis room for a short time, leaving f.ienl. C^jyn. Abbot on deck, when one of the iron I c. |d« suddenly appeared, j Her approach was roncealcd by the base and moist of the utmosphere. The vessel was immediately hailed, and | an Older given to Bre. but the irou-clad ' I being close aboard, nnd lying low In the I ' water, no guns could be brought to bear. < i A heavy rifle shell was fired from the ( enemy, which entered the starboard tide of | i tho Mercedita, passed through hrr cunden- ; j ser the steam drum of her port boiler, and i expluded against her port side, blowing a | | hole in its exit some four or fi>e feel square , j killing the g naer. and by the etrapr or , ] r'esrn a number of the men. and rendering , j her motivt power apparently useicu. „ I Unable to use his guns, and being at the r Huwey of the vnoroy. which was lying along '| I aide, on bis starboard quarter, all farther . [ resistance was deemed hopeless by Capt. r , Sl ell wagon, ond he surrendered. Tho crew i and officer* were paroled, thoogh nothing t | snid of the ship, and the execotive offi-U cer. Lieut. Coinoiauiur Xbtuui. > « i gone on board tho enemy's gunboat nnd s i made '.he arrangemont. I t The iron-clad, leaving the Mercedita In p fste. 1o sink or not. next engaged the , i , Stale. Capt l.eroy, who was aDo [■ {.attacked by the other. Tho firo gal- t returned, but a shell explwdtna in 0

_ ihe forehold of this vessel she waa set no ( , I Commander I^roy kepi off until It was j | ! got under, when lie started again for one of ( i the iron-clade. ordered a full head of ttenm I ' on. and determined to try and ron her down. I gons had been trulucd and depressed | ■ a plunging fire at the moment of c. lbs , ■ and t>>e ship had acquired a speed of j I ] twelve knots, when a shell or shut from the t : enemy passed through the steam chest, i wholly disabling the boilers, and rendering ] t | powerless. Ten rifle shells struck the ! I State ; two boast on the qoarter | a deck, bat most of them struck me ball. be. , ing near and below the water line.. In the ] a meantime the Auguata, Commander l'ar; t rot ; tho Quaker City, Coin. <'r--i!y, aad c the Memphis, Acting Lient. V. aimouph. t np a Are upon the e^emy, diverting a tbeir alteotion fro'm the Ke/wt-rc State, a which was soon after lake* in tow by'the c Memphis and drawn awny from the fire. | c The Auguata and Quaker City were both | j •truck in their holla ; tha Momfhis only in ! ' her rigging. I The Doosatouic, Capt. Taylor, gave I chase, and a ahot from her struck the pilot ' , bouse of ooe of the irou-cladi^doing, it it I, thought, some damage, and carrying awayli one of her flege. The rebel veaaela then passed to tho , northward, receiving the fire of our abipe, . and took refoge in the Bwash channel, behind the thoais. Tha only casualties were en tho Merrid- 1 and Keyatoae Stain. Oe I be Keystone 1 State they are very large. About onefourth or her crew era killed and wounded. E and among the former, the medical officer i of the ship, Ataistant Burgeon Jacob II. t Gotmold, who waa scalded to death whilst | rwndsriog surgical aid to one of tha woan> d«d men. Nina of thoM who perished from the escape of steam when the boilers a aad steam chimneys wor* pens Dated, and ' g among ths wounded the greater number | received their iojarisa from lb* aaaie caese. Aa tha Mercedita was ths oaly v**m! ' 7 which sorraadsrad. I bava directed a Ooo.-t « of Inquiry to azsmia* into Ibo circaowtso- J ce« Of. lbs com, as wall m iota the tennj I under which tba vurnaadsr waa mad*. TUifrj.

j inveatigation bat beuu asked for by Capt. r Steel wagon. j I received this iatelllgcace oa, Saturday. at 3 P.M., by the Augusta, which ship' immediately returned to- Charleston. The ( Mercedita soon after arrived, and the Key- • tone State in tow of tho Memphis, when | the latter vessel was at once lent' back to her station. The James Adgcr, C intra andor Patterson, was also towed back arsbe waa coming into Port Royal, and orderod to Charleston ; and tb» Powhatan, through I the eommet.dalile zeal of Capt. Gordon, was got ready by D o'clock P. M. j I bad the channel aud bar buoys lighted1' when aha passed out safely. I forward herewith copie* of lbs reports Copt. Steelwagen. Lieut. Uomnrand-r Abbott, and Commander Leroy ; alto; the reports of tho rasoaltiav ob board tliti MerI codtta and Keystone Slate. On board the Mercedita lh?ro mprw four I killed and three wounded. • (Un the Keystone Suto ftvenly killed aud twenty wounded. Very reapectfolly yoor obedient servtnJ, S. K. DvrovT, Rear Admiral, Ac. , Hon Gidvox Wt!.l.M.8sc'yofihsN,ty,. IHPORTAECE OF DOMESTIC ECONOHT, Domestic econosny should be a study In these wine*. Look over the price or srtjt cles o»ed in s family aod it will bo' seen that most of them ar»» eoormonaly high, nor they likely to be lower for a long time coine. There hat been no suffering yet for money has been abundaot. but tbiecsn i not continue forever, and while thn cost or will probably increase the nexttwelve months and mpch longer, the means of living will decrease. H is q„jte plafn. therefore, rhel if profits of trade fall- o!f aud besiaest diminishes, there wil|;everttoally be suffering and privot*t»n. unlets we resort to the strictest frugality and economy. change of habit* will unavoidable, • shall delay as long aw possible, but necesnty wilP rnmp.-l retrenchment, aod the sooner we look forward to that point ' the wiser it will be in us. | Ws have no doubt that such a change' w*V is tfcw end- prove beneficial. IV watlefolnoss. extravagance and excess (if ! the American people, in eating, drinking • ud dressing, bare not had a parallel in the history of the world ; and all this has ngaiost health, happiness nnd morals. s» a nation, wc tread in the Tootatepr of the old nations, wo shall have to follow * OT i oe Oiu nations, wo snail bare toTollbw-

lliom »t»o as families and individuate: If go. therefore, among the .rural and' •laboring classes of Switzerland, Franco. Germany, Sweden and Rostia. wo may tako lessons in oor fotnrw modes of lifr. In and vigor they are among the first peoples of the earth, yet their expeoditarerr nothing in comparison to ours. Indosd the waste of a common American town of tec thousand people woold almost support as large * population in the rure.l districts j or Europe. Never shall wo come to their j for our country it new and differently j situated, bnt the next generations of J Americans cannot hops to !ls* m we have, j uad there we could lake lessons in economy / j that would be very oseful to os. Wo e^sT3 discover — os we shall be forced to by sims ( means — that s family can bs subsisted trpciT>, ! s very small portion of what* Amshcsns \ are accustomed to cxpeod ; osyj tfrM they \ can bs fed on what is now, io many isstsoI thrown ont tbeir bsck< doors to thw dep. Those or ns who take these lersonv sod practic* upon them first. Will b* the « | best off in the end— Ke*buryf*rt Herald. ; Ths virtocs which, when nothing oU •trucks an unprejudiced decision, ths world- | at large stamps with its approbatiso, lt| ^jost those which religion inculcate* ; sctivdt. i indssttr, -considerate pradsnee, snosUsts- \ tiona charity, amiable temper, inflexible io- ' tegrity. bigh honor, unaffected purity. Valso the friendship of him who rtamlsby yoa io the sto^m ; • worms of issoeU will ABSvownd jourisths ssnsbins. U wars bssatifuh szprassios of our he's upon tbs death of hia soa, -that bis child in this world shegld bs bis ssesstor jm tb* skies. Elder- born is glory, tb# jsoier of lbs boDMhold.is lb* Mnior in heaven. It is hinted that lbs Jaipur csv* disco vsrsd among tbs Wblts Ifosnulns Is * great ctU. » NOTicfi or asrri,BHBN*. ^«AAffl^3s«sisrs sr ""CHTTIWOT. reb. Sth,' ; u.—if ixit. AdslssTitijj.