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"ttrf It Out!" , [A N.w Year* poetn.] THE old yaar't ahades wara quit* pulled down When through each village, city, There paeeed a eandwieh man with aign Whose legend filled a single lilies "Cut it out!" •Be mors specific!" said the man Who plainly rushed too much the can. The sandwich man ne'er turned ardi: Only the legend writ replied: "Cut it out!" 4 "Please state ex-

actly what you'd say!" Desired the man who smoked all day. But all the answer that he } Was this laconic, centar shot: "Cut it out!" The man whose faee so haggard white ( Meant poker playing night and night Required to know what thing was meant

And got this answer eloquent: "Cut H out I" Bo every one who looked on it Fslt his especial fault was hit. Their souls with new rssoives did filli And all exclaimed aloud: "We will Cut it out!" Bo all braeed up and for three days Frequented narrow, proper ways And follewed fully up the plan Suggested by the sandwich man: "Cut it out!" But ere the sandwich man did trace A four days' journey from the plaoe All things were as they were before And no one ever hinted more: "Cut it out!" — New Orleans Timss-Democrat. aztecs' horrible holiday. Tht)\ Celebrated the New Year With Human Sacrifices. The bloody aud complicated ritual of the Art ecu commemorated the return of their masterful war god, the sun. from the south, aud the ceremonies carried on In his honor occupied a period of ■e vera I days. The Initiatory rites began beCqce daylight of the first morning, when the chief priest and his suhfilgnltaries wended their way in solemn procession to the top of their, greatest pyramidal sanctuary. Here the high priest retired alone to a small temple, whose doorway opened toward the east, and as the rising sun crimsoniXgd and purpled the serrated "mountains he knelt and sprinkled thickly upon the marble floor the sacred meal. As the first rays of the newborn sun Strike slantingly across the floor of t|jo tiny temple the bended priest beholds a miracle. Faintly at first, then stronger and stronger, grows an Imprint in the meal of the naked foot of their war god. Upon this miraculous manifestation the high priest announces to the assembled couriers that their god has returned to them and that the grand festal occasion is Inaugurated. Unhappily the first feast rites were of a grewaome and horrible nature, consisting mainly In sacrificing youths to the gods. It Is said, that they were feasted for days previous to the ceremony that they might be in a wboleaonie and pleasing condition upon their last aud the. war god's first great day. In other ceremonies human beings rore killed and flayed, and the participants In the sacrifice enveloped themselves la the bloody skins of the victims, while they took part In a wild and uncanny dance. While" the observance of the new year among the Astecs seemingly predominated in bloody rites, they were most likely confined to the religions o*der of I lie priests, aud llie great turns of the people, with no tnlnt of blood on their liamla. might be happy and revel In the feast of the uew year.— New York Herald. The Jewish New Year. In striking opposition to the spirit of Joy and liNiipiucm which pervade* Christendom :: •iiortlly is Hie j ■Year of the Jews. With the Jew:, who also oliserve tlie New Yetir !o.two days, the days are not days of feasting an. I enjoyment, but days of Judgment. According to the belief of every orthodox Jew. every member of the Jewish rare is tried on the New Year. The books kept In heaven are Opened on that day. The record or each " man for tho year^Just ^innngHTO through and taken under advisement for ten days. On the tenth dny, the day of atonement, the fate of eat \ man for the coming year is dnwn up. Whether he should live or die. prosper or be poor. On tbe day of alone:- lent the fate is sealed and notl:*;i~ c-:i change it any more.— Chicago Trlb ?. Their New Year"# Wishes. Weary W niggles- If fwui only bach at me old home. What a .spread I'd have dis New Year's day! Oh, fur do wings uv a dove! Hungry Hank— Oh. fur de wings uv a tnrfcey, wld some plum puddln' to come afterward! New Year's Preparations. Jlncs -I notice that Hoakly wets his finger In the glass every time he take* c fresh drink. Rings— Yes; be wants to keep H mclr.JcTed so be can turn over that «»ew !c«f on th? i«< h: ■ . . ,

"Pangwangttng." . ■ . A- little dubious as to the exact | shade of significance, bat certainly alluring to the ear. is "pangwangle." It expresses well, what does it express? —a cheerlness undo- minor dlscom- { forts, a humorous optimism under - small misfortunes, though Indeed these seem dignified definitions for so In- - formal a word. "I Just pangwangled home In the rain," says a friend of mine, and I know he got there drenched. bnt good tempered- "We" went pangwangllng off to tbe theater last night," says my nearest neighbor, and , I feel pretty certain they had been blue , over something and felt tbe need of some small gayety. It would do us all good If we pangwangled a bit more, 1 think. A very meaning word is the southerner's "boning." "My. honey. I've Just been honing to see your It Is not so suited as "I've been longing," and It la much more emphatic than "I've been i wanting." It's a warm, affectionate. Intimate word— boning. Let me put It Into the addendum, well toward tbe i front, for I love the sound Af It These words are not slang. They are not exactly — as one high brow Wend Informed me— "low colloquialisms." They have a place In language, and they add considerably to Its color.— Atlantic. • I — An Outsids Vegetarian. ' "If you are not a n^ outside vegetai rian you are. not really a vegetarian at ( an." The speaker was a member of ( Philadelphia's Utile veget^tan church uptown. An odd. figure til his gray health shirt, gray ventilated suit, gray < knit gloves, gray aerated hat, gray cloth boots, be continued: "An Inside vegetarian Is one who puts In his lnte rior nothing that has been procured by the slaughter of animals. An ontslde vegetarian puts on his exterior nothing that has been procured by the slaughter of animals. "See my gloves— vegetable gloves of cotton, not made of the skins of murdered kids. See my boots— woven, owing nothing to some poor murdered calf. See my buttons— wooden, not made Of grisly bones. Inside qnd ontslde." so tbe quaint faddist concluded. "I am a vegetarian, and inside and ontslde I get along without the murder of any creature— fish, flesh or fowl. There are many like me."— New York ■ Press "Slipper Allum Tea." The sidewalk stand, a soap box. was Uttered with rolls of brown bark, tobacco twists and withered switches tied with twine. The proprietor, a brown and shriveled old colored woman, sat on another box. A passing woman lingered to ask . the old aunty tbe meaning of her wares. "Dese t'bacca twisses Is for mods, an' de red oak bark Is good for cuts, an' de slipper allum chips is a cure for ole maids." "You ought to make a fortune out of that, aunty. How does It work?" "Hub. huh, chile, das as easy as a possum cym'ln' a tree. You see. ole maid ladles Is most In glnral lean an' lonesome loo kin, an' slipper allum tea makes 'em fat. When dey gets fat dey gets chlpperish. an' some genmun ■ gwlne come along an' take a 'miration I to 'em unless dey takes to drinklo' de tea too late — huh. huh!"— New York | Post. Who Said Gunpowder? ' "I don't wa'ut you to get scared at this story." began the bald beaded man, "but 1 hope you've all got good The listeners eagerly drew together. 1 "Well." began the narrator, "people lose their lives .sometimes lo the strangest ways. 1 know an Irishman— poor fellow— who a few months ago sat down on what he supposed was a keg of black sand to have a smoke." After 1 finishing the first pipe he knocked tbe ■ live ashes Into the keg. There happened to be a crowd of workman standing by at the time, and"— "Many killed?" exclaimed a breathless listener. "Many what?" "Killed— blown up?" "Why* Nothing explosive about . black "Tnnd. Ik there?"— London Scraps. His Conceit. Tbe Abbe Pradt. a rushlight of Napoleou's time, was a most conceited man. The I'uke of Wellington met htm . In Paris it a dinner given in honor of himself. Tbe abbe made a long oration, chiefly on the state of poUtlcal affairs, ami '-oncluded with the words, j "We owe the. salvation of Europe to one man alone." "Before he gave nie I time to bluab." said the duke, "he put his hand on his heart and continued. ' To mer " An Oath of 8ilence. In certain districts of Western Aus ' tralia there are women who take an ' oath to remain silent after tbe death of r TEelr husbands. In some cases they " will remain mute for two years after the foneral, and very often the oath 1 Is kept also by the mother and moth- • In-law of the deceased.— Paris Revue Medloale. t The Poets. I "Poets are bora and not made." "But the.v ain't .born tagged." opined a rural philosopher. "Their fathers consequently hafter go ahead and ed- ' dicate 'cm. jest as If they was going ; to be good fer something." — Louisville Courier-Journal. Defined. Ta, what Is a knoeker?" "A knocker. my~bey;-t8 -a man wbe usually finds fault with another man ' who Is doing something better than he could do It himself."— Detroit Free Press. ■ t When men are friends there Is n? Med of Justice.— Aristotle.

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.... be part of Cape May City so ear day IN THE "MEANTIME. To the man wlx> realties the importance of a dollar, a resolve to deal it the stare where Us dollar onB go the farthest is beneficial to not onlj himself but his familv. Foi - GROCERIES x AND Provisions our stock defies competition as to quality and prices. ' A trial will convince you. E. FLEISCBHAOER Cold Spring, N. J. FAIRBANKS' SORSE 4 CO Stationary and Marios Gaaaixi Gaaotiiia j P.O. Box 138, Caps May City. N J. j08eph a. 8TITE8, Practical House Painter and Agent for "Patton's SUN- PROOF PAINT" * CAPE MAY CITY. N. J. AUDITORIUM Cafe and Buffet Finest Cuisine, Best Wines, Liquors and Beers Up-to-date Service in all Departments. TABLE D'HOTE DINNER 12 TO 2 50c. Board by day or week. The Auditorium can be Rented for Balls Dances, Etc. 107-109 JACKSON STREET CAPE BAY,N. J. "VWWVJ J I. H. SniTH £ J Clothier J i 608 Washington St. t "a Opposite Reading Ste. \ * GAPE MAY, N. J. A ^ Suits for $5' and up- ^ wards. v, I Overcoats from $7 to ^ \ US J Hats, Caps, Trunks, and ^ ^ Gentlemne's Furnishing ^ I ^ GooJs at Philadelphia ^ f prices. ^ LUMBER ; MILL vwORK1 ! fieorge ogiien & Son | PAVQ IK T0 advertise II IrtlJ Ud in the STAR and WAVE, why will it not Day you. By the way, if your daughter is about to be married consul' us about the necessary invitations and stationery. We will give you prices on all grades of -work and -guarantee quality to-eque: the best Orders for social printing are [ considered confidential, and will not be made public with out your permission. STAR & WAVE PUBLISHING CO.| Cape May, N. J.

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