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One of the Essentials at the hippy borne* of to-day k a vast load of information aa to the beat method* of promoting tpalth and happiaea* and right living and knowledge the world '• 1 beat product*. Product* of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have . attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well- Informed of the World; not of individual* only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the beat the world affords. One of the product* of that da**, of known component part*, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the WeD-Informed of the Woddasa valuable and wholesome family laxative is the wall -known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Seooe. To get its beneficial ., „ effect* always buy the genuine, manufactured by the Odffornia Fig Syrop Co., only, and for aafetsyvdl trading druggists. FISDHf CREEL The old Footer Homestead has exchanged owners Mr. .and Mrs. Richard Warrick, of Hartford. N.. spent the week with relatives hero. Mrs. Harriet Shaw has a'boarder. Herbert Shaw is suffering from a Mrs. Cynthia Matthews has a fine new pomp bouse. Several from here attended the meeting of the Pomona Grange at Palermo, Saturday. Some 2fine fgt porkers are being ■laugh tered. Mr. and Mrs. George Matthews drove to Cape May Saturday. M. Mrs. Durell Hoffman and Mrs. Ohas. Matthew* fcspent Friday and Saturday inJPhiladelphia chopping. Mr. Hoffman and son Wesley Joined them Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Jacob Barrett and daughter May Hemingway, spent part of last week at Hotmeuburg. Mr. and Mra. IV m. Essen called dn Mrs. Essen's «fiator. Mrs. John Snyder, on Sunday afternoon. Downs OroWeii and friend. Norman Davis, visited bis aunt on Sunday evering. Herbert Bobbins, of Moo res town, was an over Sunday visitor with hiB friend, Mia* Louie Vanaman. Mr. and Mrs. John Matthews, of Morristown. spent last week with her , mqther, Mrs. Lvdta Var.aman. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ford spent part of last week and .Thanksgiving with Mrs. Ford's aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foulks and son spent Wednesday with their friend. , John Snyder, and rook home some fine game. Abe SbepoanL of Erma, called on L ./ Miss Danelia Hoffman Sunday last. • Ask Joe Ford if a woodcock with a broken wing can fly? Was Joe after the woodcock or the wood cook |after j Joe? Mr. and Mrs Enoch Miller and family took tea with Mr*. G. W. McNenll Sunday evening. Miss Rena Miller visited |her friend Lillie McNeill, at Erma, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mra Vanraut called on Mrs E. Miller on Sunday. Mrs. Edna Cobb and husband called oa her aunt, Mrs McPherson,' Wednesday afternoon. Miss Geneva Shaw spent {Monday night with her friend, Rena Miller. Miss Ethel Otter and aunt, Mrs. LL. Sheppard and daughter Mary hsther, were calling on Fishing Creek fnende Tuesday. S. , HOUSE PARTY Cape May never presented a more favorable day for Thanksgiving than the one just passed. While climatic conditions nhave laid low the beautiful foliage, still the old rity has her natural advantages, iin atmi ipbere that cannot ' e survassed — balmy to old and young— a su.. that never shipes more brightly, that inxmed to join in with j the delight* that made Thanksgiving one of those days long to be remembered. There w onejady held in the highest esteem o' ali.Cape May that is perhaps the happiekt one in our midst, for this Thanksgiving her three children and grandchildren were under vha parental roof, the first time in | fourteen yeaca, have all been as- j semhled in likj manner. The objective j point was the home of Mrs. S. A. \ Foster, Perry etrcjjtrthat brought her son, A. W. Footer from Chicago ; Mrs. U. S O. tletc.aud son Schuyler Foster from Washington, "Mr. L. L. Lewis from New'Ytok. Mrs. Bessie F. Lewis aud daughter Oarmalita have enjoyed these comforts for the past few months Mrs. Foster is also entertaining Mr. BaoielJJ. Bishop, of Philadelphia, a well known summer vaster and M and Mrs. R. W. Lyle, of New York City. Mr. Lyle is President of the Great Eastern , Clay Company, whose plant at .South -River employes one ttiousand^nea>nd turns "out 150.000 ions of finished jproduct^per- year. Mr. Lj le is highly pleased with' Cape May and takrQffrantage fogevexy opportunit to"5f wjd fajavneattan hate in preference' to .other Jcraay resort*.

SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS AT CENTRAL POWT. At a meeting called br County Superintendent Barr, of Supervising Principals of Cape May County held at the Windsor last week, it was decided, after epme diacuaeion.- that a central examination system for admission to the higfi schools should be established, the examinations to be held loo the . third - in May at Tuckaboe, 1 Dennisville, Court House, North .Wild- J wood and Weat Cape May. The examinations are to be held by the principal t in charge at each place aaristed by '' two other 8 to ' be appointed by toe * Board of Supervising Principals. The j question* are (o be prepared and papers f marked by com mil tees of the Board of Supervising Principals. The exam ins- j tions for .the grades will be conducted 1 in the various school* aa usual. The £ object of the new plan for examination ( for admiriaon to the high school* is to ' secure uniformity of marking. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. I On Tuesday the local organisation of >, . the Women's Christian Temperance j Union presented the High School with t a handsome portrait of Frances E. " Willard. Mrs. Smith, the Cape May I County Superintendent, presided at the 1 f presention in the place of Mrs. Stites, * 1 who is ilL j The school opened the exercises by ( singing America, after which Mr. i 1 Burns, of the First Methodist Church, | - thls dty. offered prayer. The speaker £ ' of the day, Dr. Handley, of Vineland, was introduced and gave a very inter- ' ' eating talk, after which he presented 1 the picture in .the name of the W. C. | T. U. The magnificent bouquet of t 1 white chrysanthemums with which the ] picture was decorated, be presented, c 9 with a graceful speech, to Mr. Moyer. A piano solo by Miss Helen Porter t . was loudly applauded. The school f r sang a stanza of "The Star Spangled ' - Banner, " after which Mr. Burns pro- t ■ nounced the benedicioo. , The faculty and the students wish to t r express their appreciation of the gift, s t which now hangs over the rostrum in £ the Assembly Hall, i THE SCHOOL REPORTER. c £ ' When a horse picks up a n. .1 in hi" t foot what doe* the driver do? Does he T l whip the limping, lagging animal and $ . force him along? Not unless be wants to ruin the horse At the first sign of i lameness be Jumps down, examines the 1 . foot and carefully removes the cause 1 1 i of the lameness. What is called "weak 1 stomach" ia like the lameness of the r . horse, only to be cured by removing t the feauae of the trouble. If you slim- a " ulate the stomach with "whisky medicines" you keep it going, but every . t day the condition is growing worae. A few doses sometimes of Dr. Pierce's c [ Golden Medical Discovery will put the 1 disordered stomach and its allied organs * i of digestion and nutrition in perfect t condition. Ninety-nine time* in every t [ hundred "Golden Medical Discovery" a ■ wili cure the- worst ailment* originating in diseases of the stomach. It al- , i ways helps. It almo-t always cures. J To euro constipations use Dr. Pierce's * Pleasant Pellets. They're sure. 1 i - — c SETEh YEARS Of PROOF , r "I have bid seven years of proof t that Dr. King's New Discovery ia the t . bert medicine to rake for coughs and r 1 colds and for every diseased condition ■ of throat, chest or lungs," Bays W. V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. . The world 1 . has h«d thirty-eigiit years of proof c . that Dr. King's New Discovery is the <1 1 best remedy fur coughs and colds, la 6 . grippe, «sthma, hay fever, bronchitis, hemorrhage of the lungs, and the early a stages of consumption. Its timely c use nlwsy- prevents the developments . 1 of pneumonia. Sold under guarantee n ■ at All Druggists 50c ^nd $1.00. Trial * bottle free. nov 1 CASTOR I A ; For Infants Children. c Thi Kind You Han Always Bought 1 > r i Sheet Music !; • Have You heard the latest -ongs? | ' I Rainbow . < Childhood • Are You Sincere? . t '! Take Me out to the Ball Game ; Sunbonnet Sue , Surami rtime t Ur.der My Merry widow Hat ! Tne Glowworm Mandy Lane ( Open up Your Heart and let a ' t , little Sunshine in ( Smarty I in i he Old See saw I I Kerry Mill's Barn Dance j All these and many others at the 1 ,! Star and Wave Music, Postcard and 1 ! Stationery Department at 18 cents a copy Mail orders promptly filled. In t ' ordering by mail please add two cents for postage. ( ®©0 YEARS* f EXPERIENCE 1 1 Tradc MARKS r Demons CowvmoKTa Ac. Anrone unUln( a aketcta and description n-.s, 1 1 "ruwu 'txksn tfroort uetta, without charts, ta Us Scientific American. ; ; wUNK &_Co Yort 1 r^wm^p. ^

ICopyrlght. 1KX. br th* a 8. UcClure Co.] HABTYNG8 BKA.UCHAMP MORL.ET sauntered across Union square with a pitying look at the hundreds that lolled upon the park benches They were a motley he thought; the men with stotM, animal, unshaven faces: (he woman wriggling and' self conscious, twining add untwining their feet that hung four Inches above the graveled walks. Were I Mr. Carnegie or Mr. RockeI would put a few millions in my pocket arid make an appoint meut with all the park commissioners the corner, if necessary i and arrange for benches in ail the parka of the world low eqougfc for women to git upon and rest their feet upon the ground. After that I might furnish libraries to -towns that would pay for or build sanitariums for crank professors and call 'em colleges If I wasted to. ■ eW^fmen's rights societies have been ! for many years after equality I with man. With What result? When they sit on a bench tbey must twist their ankles together and uncomfortably swing tbelr highest French heels clear of earthly support Begin at the ladles. Get your feet oa the ground and then rise to theories of j mentsi equality: Hastings Beauchamp Morley was carefully and neatly dressed. That was | the resnlt of gn instinct due to his t birth and breeding It Is denied us to | further Into a man's bosom than starch on his shirt front so It Is to us only to recount his walks and conversation. Morley had not a cent In his pockets, but he smiled pityingly at a hundred grimy, uufortunate ones who had .no and who would have no more when the snn's first rays yellowed the tall paper cutter building on the west side of the square. But Morley would enough by then. Sundown had hi" pockets empty before, but sun * rise bad always seen them lined. Flrat he went to the house of u clergyman off Madison avenue aud pre- j aented a forged letter of Introduction | thai hollly purported to Issue i pantorate to Indiana. This netted bim $5 when backed up by a realistic romance of a delayed remittance ) On the sidewalk twenty steps from | ibe clergyman's door a pale faced fat ' man huskily enveloped him with t raised red fist and the voice of a bell buoy, demanding payment of an old score. "Why. Bergman, man." sung Morley dulcetly. "Is this you? 1 was Just my way up to your place to settle up. That remittance from my aunt arrived only this morning. Wrong adwas the trouble Come up to the corner and I'll square up. Glad to you. Saves me a walk." Four drinks placated the emotional There was an air about Morley when he was backed by money to hand that would have stayed off a call loan at Rothschilds'. ' )Vhen he was peuniless his bluff was pitched a tone lower, but few are competo detect tbe difference In the notes. "Yon gum to mine blace und bay tomorrow. Mr Morley." said Berg"Oxcuse me dat 1 dun you on street. But 1 haf not seen you In mont'. Pros't!" Morley walked away with a crooked smile on his pale, smooth face The credulous, drink softened German amused him. He would have to avoid street to the future. He had uo-t been aware that Bergman ever went home by that route At tbe door of a darkened house two squares to the north Morley knocked with a peculiar sequence of raps. Tbe door opened to the length of a six Inch chain. . and the pompous, important black face of an African guardian . Imposed Itself In the opening Morley was admitted In a third story room In an atmosphere opaque with smoke he hung for ten minutes above a roulette wheel. Then downstairs he crept, and was outsped by the Important Degro. Jingling' ) to hi" pocket tbe 40 cents In silver that i remained to him of bis fire dollar eapj At the corner he llDgered. unj Across the street was a drug store, well lighted, sending forth gleams the German silver and crystal of Its soda fountain and glasses. Along a youngster of five, headed for dispensary, stepping high with th« consequence of a big errand, possibly one to which his advancing age had j earned him promotion. In bis hand I clutched something tightly, publicproudly, conspicuously. Morele'y stopped him with his winning smile and soft speech. "Me?" said the youngster. "I'm doln' the drug 'tore for mamma. 8he me a dollar to buy a bottle of med'ein." "Now, now, bow!" said Morley. "8ucb a big man you are to be doing errands for mamma. I must go along with my little man to see that th* cars don't run over him. And oa the way we'll some chocolates. Or wsuld he : rather have lemon drops?" I Morley entered the drug store lead- j | tog the child by the hand. He present- ' 1 ed tbe prescription that had been wrap- j ped around the money. On his face was a smile, predatory, j parental, politic, profound. "Aqua pura, one pint," eald he - to I the druggist "Sodium chloride, ten j grains. Flat aolnNon. And don't try.) to akin me, because I know all about 1

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the number of gallons of H20 In th* : : rro& reservoir, and I always use the I other Ingredient on my potatoes." 1 "Fifteen cents," said the . druggist. • with a wink, after be had compounded | the order. "I aee you understand pharJ macy^-A-deBar^a the regular price." "To gulls," aaid Morley smilingly. 1 ■ He settled tbe wrapped bottle care1 ! fully In tbe child's arms and escorted 1 I him to the corner. In his own pocket ' be dropped tbe 85 cents accruing to ' | him by virtue of bis chemical knowl- ! | edge. "Look out for tbe cars, sonny." he said cheerfully to bis small victim. ■ Two street cars suddenly swooped In opposite directions upon tbe youngster. ' Morley dashed between them and , pinned tbe lufantile messenger by tbe ; neck, holding biin In safety. Then : from tbe corner of his street he sent him on bis way, swindled, happy uud . sticky with vile, cheap candy from tbe Italian's fruit stand. Morley went to a restaurant and or 1 dered a sirloin and a pint of Inexpensive Chateau BreulUe. He laugbed i 1 noiselessly, but so genuinely that the l! waiter ventured to premise that good 1 ' news had come his way. "Why. no." said Morley. who seldom held conversation with any one "It la | not that. It is something else that • amuses me Do you know what three ' divisions of people are easiest to overreach in transactions of all kinds?" "Sore," said the waiter, calculating the size of the tip promised by the careful knot of Morley's tie. "There's tbe buyers from the dry goods stores In the south during August aud boney- : moonora from Staten Island, and"— "Wrong!" said Morley. chuckling ' happily. "The answer Is Just— men. 1 women and children. Tbe world— well, say New York and as far as summer boarders can swim out from Long Island— la full of greenhorns. Two minutes longer on tbe broiler would have made this steak fit to be eaten by a gentleman. Francois." "If yea finks It's on de bum." said - the waiter. "Ol'irMorley lifted his hand In protest— ■lightly martyred protest. "It will do." he said magna nlmously "And now. green Chartreuse, frappe i and a demltasse." i Morely went out leisurely and stood on a corner where two tradeful arteries I of the city cross. With a solitary dime ! in his pocket he stood on the curb i watching with confident cynical, amllI tog eRes the tides of people that flowed ! past him Into that stream he must - cast his net and draw fish for his further sustenance and need. Good i Izaak Walton had not the half of his I self reliance and bait lore. > A Joyfn! party qf four— two women and two men— fell upon him with cries ■ of delight. There was a dinner party i on. Where had he been for a fortnight ■ past? What luck to thus run upon him! They surrounded and engulfed him. He must Join them — tra-la-la— ■ and the rest. One with a white hat plume curv- . tog to the shoulder touched his sleeve . 1 and cast at the others a triumphant t look that said. "See what 1 can do with him?" and adrfed her queen's command to tbe invitations. "I leave you to Imagine." said Morley pathetically, "how It desolates me J te forego tbe pleasure Rut my frlenqi • Carruthers of the New York Yacht . club Is to pick me up here in his motor ' car 'at 8." , Tbe white plume tor-ed. and th* quartet danced like mi.l«-s around an ' arc light down the frolicsome way. I Morley steed, turnln- . . tbe dime In his |tot k<-i » ■ gleefully to timsclf. ,t ""'Front,'" he chanted cry - breath: " 'fronr does It it is trum.. . In the game. How tliev take it in , Men, womeu and children— forgeries. • water and salt lies— bow they all take it inr , An old m.in wlr!-. an 1!1 fitting suit , a straggling gray hoard and a corpu , lent umlirella li-.ipvd from the cont glome ration of cel.;. :-it<3 street cars to I tbe sidewalk at Morley's side. , j "Stranger." said he. "excuse me for ! troubling you. hut do you know any- . ! body to this here town named Solomon . ' Smothers? He's my son, and I've . j come down from Ellen vtlle to visit him. Be darned if I know what I done with his streeLnad number." "I do .wa^Sir, sala "Iloriey, half , I closing (3s eyes to veil ^he Joy in , them. "You had better ap£!y to the 1 ! "Th* n

■ la' Ui.ce notblu' to dtll in tbe police ,-tv.ur. J Just come down to see Sol. ;'e Uvea in a five story houst, be writes me. If you know anybody by rtat name and could"—"1 told you I did ttet." said MoflSy coldly. "1 know no One by the name •if 8m! there, uud I advise you to"— "Smothers, not Smltbere," Interrupted the old man hopefully. "A heavy -a mnu. sandy complected, about t meaty-nine, two front teeth out, about .'.ve foot""Oh. 'Smothers!* ~ exclaimed iloriey. 1 'Sol Smothers? Why. he Uvea in the lie-' house in me I thought you said M-wley looked at his watch. You must have a watch. You can do It for a dollar. Better go hungry than forego a gunmet tl or the ninety-eight cent oue that the railroads — according to the.- e watch makers— are run by. 1 "The bishop of Loug Island," said Morley. "was tq pieet ro* bet* fit 8 to dine with ate at tbe itlngflBhera* club Bin I can't leave tbe father of my friend Sol Smotbera alont ot> the ' street. By St, Switbln, Mr. Smothers. we YVall street men have to work! 1 Tired Is no name for It!, I w#a about to step across to the other corner and 1 have a glass of ginger ele with a dash 1 of sherry when you approached me 1 You must let me take you to Sol's bouse. Mr. Smothers. But before we ( 1 take tbe ear I hope you will Join me i In"— An hour laterxMorley seated himself on the end oi a quiet bench In Madl1 son square with a twenty-five cent ' cigar between bis li;>s and $140 in deeply creased bills In bis Inside pocket Content, llghj hearted. Ironical. keenly philosophic, he watched ' the moon drifting in aud out amidst 1 a maze of flyiuc clouds. An old. rag- ' ged mnu with a low bowed head sat ' at the other end of the bench. Presently tbe old man stirred and looked at his bench companion. In " Morley's appearance he seemed to recognize something superior to the usual 1 nightly occupants of tbe benches. r "Kind sir." he whined. "If yon could spare a dime or even a few pennies to ■ one who" — 1 Morley cut. short hlr. stereotyped appeal by throwing him a dollar. "God bless you!" said the old man. | "I've been trying to find work for"— "Work!" echoed Morley. with his ringing laugh. "You are * fool, my friend. The world Is a rock to you. no doubt, but you must be an Aaron and smite It with your rod. Then things better , than water will gush out of It for you. That la what tbe world Is for. It gives to me whatever 1 want from It." "God has blessed you." said the old man. "It la only work that 1 have " known. And now I can get no morg." "I must go home," said Morley. rising and buttoning his coat 1 stopped here only for a *moke. I hope yon may find work." 1 "May your kindness be rewarded this 9 night," said the old man. , "Oh." aaid Morley. "you have your wish already. I am satisfied. I think good lock follow* m* Mke a dog. 1 am for yonder bright hotel across th* 1 square for the night And what a " moon thaL- Is lighting up the city tot night! I think no on* enjoys the moon- ...... ' mnHimrti

1 'J light and such little things as I da Well, a good night to you." Morley walked to the corner where be would croes to hit hotel. He blew Blew streamers of smoke from, bis cigar heavenward. A policeman passing saluted to bis benign nod. What a fine moon It was! The clock struck 9 as a girl Just entering womanhood stopped on tbe corner. waiting for tbe approaching car. * She was harrying as If homeward from employment or delay Her eyes . _____ were clear and pure; she was dressed In simple white; she looked eagerly for tbe car and neither to the right nor the left Morley knew her Eight years before he had sat on the same bench with her at school. There bad been no sentiment between them— nothing but fbe friendship of innocent days. But be turned down the s.'de street •; t* S qnlet spot and laid his suddenly hurnlnc face against the cool Iron of % lamppost and said dully : "Ged. I wish I could die!" fi Let Us Hope So. "William." she said, "means good. James means beloved I wonder"— A flush mantled her cheek "I wonder." she softly murmured. "what George means?" , "George means business. 1 hope." said mother, looking up from the wed- j ding announcements in the evening paper. — New Orleans Times- Democrat Not After Permanent Impression*. i "Do you expect your constituents to . believe all you tell them?" "Relieve It!" exclaimed the man who dislikes to be put on record "I hope they don't eTen remember It!"— Washington Star. The Exposition on New Jersey Dsy. In addition to the exercises at tb* •■position on New Jersey day. Oet. IT. there will be several other attractions, *■ consisting of free open air" performances by world renowned artists, military and orchestral hand concerts by ^ I some of the leading bands of the United States and Mexico, grand military m reviews and parades. The great "Dare- Jfl devil" McKlnney will be seen twice ! daily lu his spectacular death ' fume act gflgndr Alessandro Libera ti's fa- qH tnoq^ -military and operatic concert — - bend of fifty pieces and four great vo- ; cat artists will be at the exposition on this great day; bIfo Blspham. tbe cel*- | bra ted baritone. ^ I Man With ths Monkey Wrenoh. , There la somebody else besides the man Who sits at the steering wheel And sends along oa Its wild ctu-eer The merry and mad 'mobile. ; [ When the car Is stopped with a broken J spring '-i Or skid* in a ditch to stay, Oh, then the msn wish tbo .nonkey 1 wrench I la the hero who saves the day! 9 r The chauffeur looks at lh° c!i.— ring crowd [ With a calm and a haughty race. * A [ And away he flies like a sbootlng star In the dust of the whirlwind race. ' But a tire may buret or a cylinder crack. _ ' And he goes to sit on the bench. While the mar. of the hour, tha man of power. Ia the man with the roonbev wrench. j -New -'ark Press. j

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