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§yrup«ffigs t^^O'odrfSenna acts Gently yet promptly on me bowels, cleanses tt>e system ej|ectually, assists one in overcoming Kabituat constipation permanently. To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine. Manufactured, by the CALIFORNIA JtGSraupCo. SOUS BT COOMB MUCaSTS- m rMTTU Interesting New Notes Continued from Pint Page pinna. He no w has about 3000 chickens, chiefly Leghorns and Wyandot tea and 166 head of cattle, Jersey and Hoistein. Last summer nearly 600 Quarts of milk were bottled far the use of Gape May and macfa more could have been •old. Over 76 docens of eggs waa the average daily product of bis poultry department daring the summer and. the flock is much larger now. The Hotel Cape Mav^waa largely supplied with dairy and poultry products from the Farmstead-by-tbe-Sea. and its guests would have bunted long before they could have found a hotel in which auch exceptionally fine food was provided for the table, if, indeed, any ether could have been found. Thi» great farm iawaafected on the most approved scientific principles and every precaution is taken to secure the minute attention to every detail in the proper oare and sanitary surroundings for each animal. The manager, Mr. J. P MacKiBsic, is most diligent ' and energetic aodis|ecurihg maximum 1 results. 1 • ft ft The annual meeting of the Cape May 1 County Bible Society was held here 1 Wednesday evening, November 18th, i 1906. The business meeting was held 1 at the Methodist Episcopal Church, at 2 o'clock p. m. The following officers were elected : 1 President, Rem. Dr. James McLeod; 1 vice presidents, Joseph R. Wilson; j John W.fcMeeray; treasurer. George 1 ^pgden; secretary, E. P.. Stites ; depository, Miss Emma States. A resolution passed to re-bible the county and t to employ a colporteur to canvass the ' county to discover where bibles are needed. This has not been oone for ten years. c The Rev. Marshall Owen, pastor of > Centenary M.| E. Church, Camden, j preached the annual sermon at 7 :30 p. j m., subject,^' How we got Our Bible.'" ft ft ft Dr. John D. Prince, of Passaic County, will be elected speaker of the * House of Assembly now, sure. J. J Frank Burke has had the colossal nerve to write to each of the Assemblymen. ' demanding that Prince be not chosen S speaker because, (forsooth, , be did not 1 vote far the absurd bill prepared by J Burke in the .last session and was not * amenable to the Bprke demands. Dr. Prince ought^to De elected unanimously. He is a; member of the faculty of Colombia University, a man of culture . and high principle and it iR greatly to • the credit of Passaic County and of r the State that men of this charactrr are chosen to represent the people. The appreciatiPn in Which he is held by his c eelleagues indicates the high character ,u •f the members as a whole'and guaran 1 tees the consideration of the public business from the standpoint of the public welfare. n a a a C The Grubb literary bureau continues t to work overtime and through the Phil- p adelpbia paters is exploiting every- a body and everything connected with h the fight on Congresoman Gardner and "Old Brains" is down in Washing- — ton attending- to his dut ies -as - Cos?. « gressroBn. wholly indifferent to the as- p, spults made upon him by assailants, « Aired and othermjse. An alleged At- 0 huitie City dispatch, with an office ear- n mark, pretends to give an {estimate of c Gardner's work and ability, from which d it is to bt icferred he is an incompe- a '•tent —a rather ahallbw conclusion after a his many yearn of representation, for It would mean that hia large constituency have been stultifying themselves p right along —Camden Courier. G ft • w v A beautiful memorial church has been erected in the South, by N. Z. 7 Graves, to the memory of his mother and father. The dedication will probably occur on Thanksgiving Day. Dr. w lames Mcl eod will be present B' ' ft » » u The Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian Church held a Bundle and Tag Social Tpeaday evening. w • S «• ft T The Orowelj f^rtr at Cold Spring has bi been pleased for ten years by N. Z. H r

Graves. It adjoins the Farmatead-by-the-Sea. ft ft ft We note among the lists of the inmates of State Prison who are seeking pardon or parole, the name of Charles Sims, who committed the atrocious assault upon a West Cape May lady a couple of years ago, and was convicted and sentenced for it, but most people in this section who recall his offense, will agree, that he is not entitled > o his liberty a minute in advance of the expiration of his sentence. ft ft ft Councilman-elect Adam Suelxe and Walker Hand, will start on a gunning trip November 24th to Hazelhurat, Georgia. They will alao attend the formal opening on Thanksgiving Da* of the Dentor a Gunning Club, there. ft ft ft Gunners had a beautifol day day on Monday upon which to begin the slaughter of the innocents. Reports are to the effect that no .very large bags resulted from the day's gunning. ft ft ft The Board of Freeholders went to I Stone Harbor on Monday to. discuss with the officers of the Avalon Improvement Company and the officials of the Borough of Avalon the ad viaE ability * erecting a f state road from the mainland to Avalon. The Board * Is not likely to consent to the building of such a road at thelpresent time. B The attitude of some of the members 1 is that Hie borough and the real estate S interests should first construct the road ' as was done by aN the other resorts in ■ the county and when developments j warrant it, it is altogether probable that the same course will be pursued 1 as has been adopted with all other re- | sorts. The'opinion seems to prevail s that those interested should first build 1 the road as an evidence of good faith. ft ft ft , Six months of the year there is pract tically summer temperature and cli- , mate in Cape May. Three of.thc other , months are, for the moat part, mild , and pleasant The severest weather . we have occurs in January, Febrmary and March, but it is not continuously . cold, even during these months. There ( are many winters when sleighing "snows are rare and when skating is enJoyed but for a few days in all. As compared with winter in Philadelphia, i for Instance, our experiences at Cape "are far less severe, the differin temperature being between 7 to 10 dergees continuously. The weather at Cape May during winter is usually as mild as that as far south South Carolina and the flora includes plants usually foand in that latitude. ft ft » Rev. Thomas B. McLeod is expected to occupy the pulpit of his brother to(Sunday) morning. ft ft ft We, the people of the United States, drank $81, 'XX), 000 worth of coffee last year ; which is evjdence, at least, that all our money did not go for rum.— Call (• ft The official vote as returned by the various counties shows that Taft carried New Jersey by 88.088. This ' beats the Roosevelt plurality in 1904, when New Jersey went Republican by , The only Republican pluialily i in New Jersey that ever exceeded this i year's Taft vote was polled in 1 896, 1 wl.en McKinley ran for President the 1 first time. The Republican plurality in that year was 87,691. Taft's yote here came near smashing , the record. — Jersey City Journal | . Jersey's a Republican state, all | right, all right! i ft ft ft I The New Jersey Legislature will J convene on the second Tuesday of Jan- , ,uary. This falls next year on January , I2tb. | ft ft ® | | Governor Port has appointed Eld- I mund Wilson, of Red Bank. Attorney- ( to succeed Robert H. McCar- 1 tor. Mr. Wilson is a lawyer of j J prominence in his section of the Sta e j , and will no doubt Imake an excellent , head to the State's legal department, j , » ft ft Governor Port will have at least 122 j < «ppointam«nts to make during, tne i * coming session of ;the Legislature, of j 1 which 95 will be with the concurrence I ' of^jhe Senate. This does not include a number'of commissioners for 'various , commissions existing and to be created , the, session. No Governor in i any other state has as much patronage < as the Governor of New Jersey. i ft ft ft I The State Board of Equalisation presented its annual report co the a yesterday. It shows a rated li valuation in the State of $1,848,001,178, a an increase over last year of $8<- f d The State Game Commissioners t were inspecting this section of the 0 this week and held a meeting at E the Windsor Hotel Monday. f " ft ft ft h The Supet vising Principals of Cape n May County met at the Windsor Hotel p where they took dinner. A b business meeting was held at the School Building.

>f By O. HENRY. e * - • [Copyright. 1»0S. bv the & 8. McCliuv Co.) d ESIDES many other things. L, Baggies was a poet He was o II called a tramp, but that was e only an elliptical way of sayc lng that be was a philosopher, an artist a traveler, a naturalist and • discoverer. But most of all, he was a poet In all bis life be never wrote a line of verse. He lived his poetry. His d Odyssey would have been a limerick g had It been written. But to linger with the primary proposition. Baggies " was a poet Baggies' specialty had he been drir v en to ink and paper would have beet sonnets to the cities. He studied citle as . women study their reflections b D mirrors, as children study the glue am e sawdust of a dislocated doll, as tb me* who write about wjid animal study the cages In the soa A city t e Baggies was not merely a pile of brick '• and mortar pqppled by a certain num ber of Inhabitants. It was a thing wit! 0 a soul characteristic and distinct ai « Individual conglomeration of life, witl i- Its own peculiar essence, flavor am a feeling. Two thousand miles to thi h north and south, east and wesf Bag Q gles wandered in poetic fervor, tajdnj j the cities to hia breast He footed 1 on dusty roads or sped magnlflcentl; In freight cars, counting time as of m • account And when he had found thi 8 heart of a city and listened to Its se e cret confession he stray ed on. restless d to another. Fickle Baggies! But per a haps he had not met the civic corpora B tlou that could engage and hold hit B critical fancy. , Through the ancient poets we havi learned that the cities are feminine So they were to Poet Baggies, and hit 1 mind carried a concrete and clear con J ceptlon of the figure that symbolized . and typified each one that he had wooed. Chicago seemed to swoop down upon him with a breezy suggestion of Mrs. Partington, plnmes and patchouli, and r to disturb his rest with a soaring and i beautiful song of future promise. But r Baggies would awake to a sense of , shivering cold and a haunting impres- , slon of Ideals lost In s depressing aura , of potato salad and fish. Thus Chicago affected him. Per- ' haps there are vagueness and Inaccuracy In the description, but that Is i Baggies' fault He should have record , ed his sensations In magazine poems. : Pittsburg Impressed hfin'as the play • of "Othello" performed In the Busslan i language In a railroad station by Dock . stader's minstrels. A royal and gen- | eroua lady this Pittsburg, though. homely, hearty, with flushed face. 1 washing the dishes in a silk dress and ' white kid Rllppers and bidding Rag- ■ gles alt before the roaring fireplace and ] drink champagne with his pig's feet and (fried potatoes. ] , I New Orleans bad simply gazed down j < upon him from aA balcony. He could I i see her pensive, starry eyes and catch | ( the flutter of her fan. and that was all. | i Only once he came face to face with , her. It waa at dawn, when she was j | flushing the red bricks of tbe ban- j | quette with a pall of water. She J i laughed and bummed a chansonuette j | and filled Baggies' shoes with Ice cold j - water. Allons! " | \ Boston construed herself to tbe poetic j Raggles lu an erratic and singular . , way. It seemed to him that he had ! ( drunk cold tea and that tbe city was | a white, cold cloth that had been bound , tightly around his brow to spur him ( to some unknown but tremendous rnt-u- < tal effort And. after all. he came to , shovel snow for a livelihood, and tbe , cloth, becoming wet tightened Its knots , I and could not be removed. , Indefinite and unintelligible ideas. , yon will say. but your disapprobation ] , should be tempered with gratitude, for | , I these are poets' fancies — and suppose j ( | you bad come upon tbetn In verse! j , One day Baggies came and laid siege j . the heart of tbe great city of Alan- ! j hattan. She was the greatest of all. | i and be wanted to learn ber note In the 1 > scale, to taste aud appraise and class!- j j fy and solve and label her aud ar- 1 , her with the other cities that 1 | given him up tbe secret of their I ; I And here we cease to | j Raggles' translator and become his | , chronicler. Baggies lauded from a ferryboat one ] morning and walked Into the cor p of j | the town with the blase air of a cos-'! | j mopolite. He was dressed with care: . to play the role of an "unidentified , 1 man." No country, race, class, clique, ] I union, party, clan or bowling asso- , elation could have claimed him. His , J clothing, which had been donated to , piecemeal by citizens of different i but 8a me number of inches | around the heart, was not yet as un- , comfortable to his figure as those speel- | of raiment, self measured, that - are railroaded to you by transcontl- \ Dental tailors with a wit case, suspend- < sUk handkerchief and pearl studs 1 a bonus. Without money, as a ] poet should be. but with the ardor of ] an astronomer discovering a new star ' the chorus of the Milky way or a who has seen ink suddenly flow , his fountain pen. Raggles wan- ' Into the great city. Late In tbe afternoon he spew out of ' the roar and commotion with a look ' of dumb terror on his ^countenance. waa defeated, puzzled, discomfited, J frightened. Other cities had been to as long primer to read, as country maidens quickly to fathom, as aend-price-of-aubscriptlon-wlUi-answer reto solve, as oyster cocktails to - J swallow, but here was one as cold, j, glittering, serene. Impossible as a four carat diamond In a window to a* lover

outside fingering damply in his pocket I J ids ribbon counter salary. The greetings of the other cities he | had known— their txftesptm kindliness. their human gamut of rough charity, friendly curses, garrulous corioslti and easily estimated credulity or idBlfference. Tb!s*lty of Manliat .] tan gave him no dew. It was walled s. agsliwt him. Like a river of adamant, a It flowed past him In the streets. Nerer a an eye waa turned upon him . No rolee r. spoke to him. HU heart y earned" for tr the clap of Pittsburg's sooty band on y his shoulder, for Chicago's menacing ■ but social yawp In hia ear. for the a pale and eleemosynary stare through i tbe Bostonian eyeglass, even for the k precipitate but anmallcloua boot toe r of Louisville or 8t. Louis. ■ On Broadway Haggles, successful suitor of many cities, stood, bashful. ' 5

i Be experienced the polgAant humiliation of being ignored. oi oetng ignored.

1 time he experienced the poignant Jiti I mlliution of being Ignored. And when I he tried to reduce this brilliant, swiftly ' changing. Ice cold city to a formula he ■ failed utterly. Poet though be was, it offered him no color, no similes, uo points of comparison, no flaw In Its - polished facets, no handle by which he could bold it up and view Its shape uud i structure, as be familiarly and often coutemptnoualy had done with other towns. The houses were Interminable ramparts loopholed for defense; the people were bright but bloodless specters passing In sinister snd selfish array. Tbe thing that weighed heaviest on Haggles' soul and clogged his poet's fancy waa the spirit of absolute egotism that seemed to saturate the people as toys are saturated with paint Each one that he considered .appeared . a monster of abominable and insolent i conceit. Humanity was gone from j them. They were toddling Idols of { stone snd varnish, worshiping tbem- | selves and greedy for, though oblivious of. worship from their fellow graven ! Frozen, cruel. Implacable, 1mi pervious, cut to an identical pattern, they hurried on their ways like statues ! by aome miracles to motion, | while soul and feeling lay una roused ' the reluctant marble. I .Gradually Raggles became conscious of certain types. One was an elderly ; gentleman with a snow white, short beard, pink, unwjinkled face and stony, sharp blue eyes, attired In the fashion of a gilded youth, who seemed personify the city's wealth, ripeness and frigid unconcern. Another type a woman, tall, beautiful, clear as steel engraving, goddess-like, calm, clothed like the princesses of old. with eyes as coldly blue as the reflection of sunlight on a glacier. And another was a byproduct of this town of marl- ! onettes— a broad, swaggering, grim, i threateningly sedate fellow, with a jowl as large as a harvested wheatfield, the complexion of a baptized lnand tbe knuckles of a prize fighter. This type leaned against cigar signs ■ and viewed the world with trapped contumely. i A poet Is a sensitive creature, and I Baggies soon shriveled in the bleak [ embrace of the undecipherable. The I chill, spbtnx-llke, ironical, illegible, unnatural, ruthless expression of the city I left him downcast and bewildered. ; Had It no heart? Better tbe wood pile, the scolding of vinegar faced housewives at back doors, the kindly spleen of bartenders behind provincial free lunch counters, the amiable truenienec of rural constables, the kicks, arrest* and happy -go-lucky chances of the other vulgar, ioud. crude cities than this freezing heart l-ssiYess Baggies summoned III- m- n id •ought alms from ihe ; u-rcgai-dle** tlio\ ..-.I oo without the wins of cj e> el.-.rti t.«that tbec wiv ..f existence And i'j.-ii lie -aild m '-.-u-elf that this fair but pitiless dr.- of Manwas without n cool. Unit Its Inwere iniii-lklr.s moved by Wires and spiln-.— anil that he was alone In a great wilderiieus. Baggies started to cross the street. was a blast, a roitr. a hissing and a crash as something struck him and hurled him over and over six yards from where he had been. As he was coming down like the stick of a rocket the earth and air the si ties, thereof turned to a fractured dreafii. Baggies opened his eyes. First an odor made itself known to him, an odor of the earliest spring flowers of paradise. And then a hand soft as a falling petal touched hia brow. Bending over him was the woman clothed

like the princess of old. with blue eyes, now soft and humid with humau sympathy. Under his bead on the i pavement were si lira and furs. With , Haggles' bat in bis hand and with his face pinker than ever from a vehement burst of oratory against 'reckless driving stood the elderly gentleman who personified the city's wealth and . ripeness. From a nearby cafe hurried i the byproduct with the vast Jowl and . baby complexion, bearing a glass full \ of a crimson fluid that suggested de- , Ilghtful possibilities. "Drinff this, sport." said the byproduct holding tbe glass to Baggies' lips. Hundreds of people huddled around In a moment, their faces wearing the deepest concern Two flattering and gorgeous policemen got Into the circle ! and pressed back the overplus of Samaritans. An old-lady In a black shawl spoke loudly of camphor; • newsboy slipped one of his papers beneath Buggies' elbow where It lay on the mtiddy pavement. A brisk young man With a notebook was asking for names. A bell clanged Importantly, and the ambulance cleaned a l«me through the crowd. A cool surgeon slipped into the midst of affairs. "How do you feel, old man?' asked the surgeon; stooping easily to his task. The princess of silks anj satins wiped a red drop or two from Raggles' brow with a fragrant cobweb. "Me?" said Raggles. with a seraphic smile. "1 feel Hue." He had found the heart of bis new city. In three days they let him leave his cot for the convalescent ward in the hospital. Fie had been In there an hour when tbe attendants beard sounds of conflict. I'pou Investigation they found that Raggles bad assaulted and damaged a brother convalescent — a glowering transient whom a freight train collision bad sent In to be patched up. "What's nil this about?" Inquired tbe head nurse. "He was cunnlD' down me town." said Raggles. "What town." asked the nurse. "Noo York." said Haggles. An Unexpected Customer. Mrs. Lane, having discovered that there was a ready sale for the products of her clever fingers, spent all her time making small articles of fancy work for a store In a neighboring city. Naturally, with so much business on hand, the minor details of housekeeping were sometimes neglected, particularly Just before the h oil days, when orders came thick and fast. One morning long suffering Air. Lane, clad only In hia nlghtclothea, appeared at his wife's bedside. He held In his outstretched hand a small decorated object which Mrs. Lane recognized vaguely as some of her own work. "Bess," demanded the Intruder, "what does thi« contraption sell fi>r? I want . to buy It" , "What is It?" asked Mrs. Lane, feeling pleased that her husband was at last showing interest in her work. "it's a kite shaped thing with a ribboo tyll all feathered out with safety pins," replied the would be purchased. "What's the jirlfe?"

"Fifty cents. But why in the world ' do you want It?" i "I want It for the safety pins," re- ; plied Mr. Lane, "because every solitary i button has been washed off all my un- ' derclothes."

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i Franklin's Diplomacy. > In old Lyme, Conn.. Is one of the oelI ebrated Franklin milestones which In I 1776 saw WasMpgton pass Into Lyms I on his way from Cambridge after the I British had evacuated Boston. Frank- - Un measured the mUes by a machine of hia own Invention attached to his chaise, the ancestor of our cyclometer. In "Old Paths and Legends of the New England Border" Katharine AC Abbott I gives this story of a visit Mr. Franklin ' made in Lyme: 1 When on one of his frequent Jour- ! neys over the post road from Phlladel- • phis to Boston he arrived at an Inn not 1 far from Lyme one frosty night. Franklin found every Inch of the blazing log pre-empted by vUlage politicians swapping news and thereupon 1 ordered a peck of oysters for hia horse. The entire company followed the land1 lord to see the miracle. When mine ! host returned to say that the korse re1 fused to feed on oysters Franklin was discovered ensconced in the warmest 1 corner, quite reconciled to a meal off the oysters himself. Pauline Lucca and the Emperor. The Emperor William I. was an enthusiastic admirer of Mine. Pauline Lucca, who In 1863 was appointed court singer for life at Berlin. When appearing In opera the great sluger 1 always had a cup of tea without sugar during the performance, ber mald1 awaiting an opportunity to baud it to | her In the win^ One night the maid asked "an old o«cer"— as she afterward explnlusd-^tandlug lu the wings ' to hold tbe ct® while she fetched an ornament for Jfme. Lucca from ber dressing room, but before she came back the singer had run Into the wings for ber tea and fouDd the Emperor William holding the cup for her! "The emperor smiled and banded me tbe cup." said Mme. Lncca. telling the j story, "and never did tea without sugar taste so sweet!"— Westminster Gasette. SEVEN YEARS OF PK00F "I have had seven years of proof that Dr. King's New Discovery is the best medicine to take for coughs and : colds and for every diseased condition of throat, chest or lungs," says W. V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. The world has had thirty-eight years of proof that Dr. King's New Discovery is the | beat remedy for coughs and oolda, la grippe, asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemorrhage of the lungs, and the Early stages of consumption. Its timely use always prevents the developments : of pneumonia. Sold under guarantee ; at All Druggists- 60c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. nov Tbe New Paint Store John Little has opened up the business of selling paints at the corner' of - Jackson and Washington streets and it is just tbe place ro buy frech paints. X s-a-tf