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Tne General Demand el t be -Wolf- Informed of the Worid hu a! ways born 'for a simple, pleasant and effxfeht liquid laxative remedy of known je; a laxative which pbyaiciaas could •unction for family use because its cotnpoaeot parts are known to them to be wholosome and tody beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. t In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Hi rir of 8cnna, tbe California Fig Syrup Go. proceeds 4ong ethical lines and relies or the merits of the laxative for its remark - That is one of many reasons why Synip of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given tbe preference by the Well- Informed, lb get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine — manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for Bale by ail leading druggists. Price fiffy cents per bottle. Iiiteresting'New Notes CONTINUED PKON FIRST PAGE lot. bat was supported by the New J e rety and Delaware rivermen. The other officers elected. were : frank S. Eldredge. of Cape May, treasurer ; J. B. Merritt, of Philadelphia, .secretary, ' and H. V. Lyons, of Lewes; J. M. Barnes, of Philadelphia ; Frank .Maull, of Lewes; W. F. Marshall, of Cape ■for: 9- B. Davis, of Philadelphia ; A. G. Bennett, of Cape May ; Alphonso Bennett, of Cape May, and James R. Kelly, of Philadelphia, as directors. Cs <S»j» A ;

Acting Chief of Police Hickey has returned home from the ^hospital, where he.ba^been.under treatment for afime weeks and is rapidlr regaining his strength. (pes, Something should be done about repairing the break .made by the sea in the?beaeh drive and sea wall near one of tbe Jetties. If taken care of now it would save further damage by the next storm tide atvj considerable evpense. (•WW The following is a short extract from s speech delivered by the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, at the second an- . nqai bffttquel of $e New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, on December 18,;19O0, St tbe Union League, Philadelphia. •" •"Iif this _ oor.neot ion permit ma to say, thkTPennsylvania and New Jersey can be proud of tbe representatives which they have sent to the Congress of the United States. I am a colleague of Lrothe: Loudens lager, who sits on ■py right. He is not a handsome man like myself (Laughter). He makes <>o pretence to eloquence, but let me hear testimony that from the standpoint of practical resolts, industry and force, crossed pa courage, he stands in tbe Very first ranks of the Representatives in tho National Congress." (Applause.) WWW Whenever a man becomes vociferous about his honesty and righteousness it is time to be careful in your business transactions with him. Whenever a mutt become* habituated to applying tfie "shorter and uglier word" to statements made by others, it^s a fairly good [sign that he would pass an examination successfully for admission to the Ananias Club himself. There are none so quick to detect the evil in A. Most Valuable Agent. The glyoerine employed In Dr. Pierce's medicines greatly enhances the medicinal | proportion which it extracts from native ' jmatflcipal roots and holds In selutfon j much hotter than alcohol would. It also ' possesses medicinal properties of Its own, ' being a valuable demulcent, nutritive, i antiseptic and aotiforment. It adds greatly to the efficacy of tlio Black Cherry- 1 bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root. Stone root and Qunon's root, contain.-, i in , / 'Golden Medical Discovery - In subduing ! chronic, or lingering coughs, brute- Ida,, throat and lung affections, for all of which ' these agent* arc recommended by standard modlcal authorities. In all cases w hore there Is a wasting away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak stomaflV as In tho early stages of con- i suinfflibn. thero can be no doubt that gly- ! oeriae/acU as a valuable nutritive and aids ifce Uplden Sesl root. Stone root, i Queen!* rotit and Black Cherry bark la ' promoting iigestion and building up the ] flesh aiMsfrength, controlling the cough I ana brinkpg about a healthy condi tiop of the while system. Of course. It must not be e ware ted to work miracles. It will not cttreUbwsumption except In its earlier . SmSgSM It Is not so elleciivt Tie Is In the lingering hacg-on ooughs, or those of long standing, •ren when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it haa performed Its most marvelous curve. Prof Ffoloy RH in* wood, M. D„ of Bennett Med. College. Chicago, says of gly. earlne: '.asirnsME^KfftKsars hrdnmeo la solution, U b one of the beet ■uanfaoxurnd pnducuof the present Ume In Itt erttssi upoo i-ufmbled. disordered su>macha. eaweelally If then Is olceration or catenfial gastritis (rsterrtial Inflsmmstioe of Wnmacfcl. It la a most efficient preparation. Glycerine will relieve many cuaol pyrosis fheerihore) end excessive gastric utomacU "Qoldea ■edb-al> Discovery "enriches sad parti! w the blood curiae blotch e*. pimple*, erupt .on,, scrofulous swellings end eU norm. Sand to l)r R V I'icrce. of Buffalo. N V. tpr free booklet telling all about tbe native medicinal n*>t* rj mpOring this woodertnl m»dlcies. There '* no alcohol In It •\ * s

o there, aa tboae who are evil tfaemeelvea. Washington C<mp, -No. 110, P. O. S. s of A., of Cold Spring, haa elected the i following ' officers to nerve for the ] coining year: Past president, John ] Batteraol ; president, William Oresae ; . vice-president ; Charles Baker; .master B of forma, Leroy Matthews : recording secretary, William. R. Swain : aggjalant * secretary, George Halbruner; financial aecretary, John C. Elliott; treasurer, Scott Seymour;, conductor, - Thomas Batteraol; [guard, Emmett 1 Vanaman; chaplain, Wilbert Weeks; » left sentinel, Walter MoNeill^rigbt i sentinel, Edward Halbruner : xrustees> George Halbruner. Daniel Scaellenger, Thomas Batter sol ; inspector, Michael Brown. (• ft 9 1 A great deal of complaint is made about the akating of children on tbe ' sidewalks both here and in West Oapd May. i WHEN T0U TOT ON STOCXINGS Of the heavier sort, do your shoes pinch, and your feet swell and per spire? If you sprinkle Alien's Foot- , Ease in your shoes, it will give you i res and comfort, and instant relief from any annoyance. Sold Everywhere, 25c. Don't accept any substiote. 12-26 4t INSTALLATION OF GRANGE OFFICERS. , A business meeting and installation of officers .of tbe Cold Spring Grange for the coming year, will occur at the ' Jr. O. U. O. M. Hall, Wednesday evening, January 20th, 1909. State Officer! Gaunt has promised tp be [ present, and Senator Hand will furnisff refreshments Tor th^ occasion. The , Senator by the way, is an enthusiastic granger. He sees what the Grange has done for farmers in other counties and states, and ^ants to help make

^ this of equal importance. I. PONT GET A INVOICE. „ A western judge granted a divorce on account of ill temper and bad breath. Dr. King's New Life Pills | would have prevented it. They cure constipation, causing bad breath and liver trouble the ill temper, dispel n colds, bhnieh headaches, conquer t chills. 25 at All Drug Stores. jan. it _ . — — 1 t OABTORXA. Bmmtto ^Ila tod YoiHiw Altar. BmeM The New Paint Store John Little has opened up tbe busi1 neas of selling paints at the corner of . , Jackson and Washington streets and it ia just the place co buy fresh paints. D I ^ V j A Burden? 1 The proper lenses and rightly fitted frames will jgve you relief. C. A LONGCTRETH, »» Atorttri I L. C. ASHBURN i DOCTOR OF OPTICS I 1 Broadway next to 'Gold Leaf Factory, j • West Cape May, New Jersey, I ! Careful Testing of the Eye a Spec1 ialty. Improved Method. Lenses Re- . placed. Frames Adjusted. V 1-2-Jts i OASTORXA. -j Beams. Kind Yx Hare kmr> Bcaght :•! MRS. MAKV JANE LOPER. '■( Mrs. Mary Jane Loper, aged ?5 : , years. di»*d on Tuesday at the residence j , of here son William Weeks, after a ' • long illness. The funeral occuried Fri- , day, interment at Cold Spring cemetery. >

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NO ACIDS Just simple cleanliness is what wo rely on to give, the clothes the desired snowy whiteness. That's why your clothes wili iast much longer if sect to THIS LAUNDRY Our prices are reasonable' and our work unsurpassed. TROY HAND LAUNDRY , 310 DBCATCB ST. Phone 146 Work called for and delivered.

" xutunnn n , , u L , ••vlllv VUUIdv All' Modern Agriculture \ IV.— Wrier b Its Relation b Hut irewtli - J ' By C. V. GR'EGORY. ' 1 ■Agrtamttmraf l>ie)Ufon. I aim a Stale Callage ' J Copyrisbt. 1MM. by American Prca* AoMviatioR < t - — - — V :

• bars already learned aema mAf thing of tbe value of wator — WW ** * Pl*nt food.1 This la , , " only m sf Its minor dm*. ] however. In addition to the water which Is decompoosd by tb% plant and used In making starch and other prod j acts, many times aa much fx used for s other purposes. One of 'the principal ? of these Is dissolving plant food and carrying It upward to the leaves. Aft sr reaching the Imtm mo*t of thaws t«r ii evaporated, leaving In the leaf cells the materials which It brought s «P- ■ ■, The cells of which tbe leaves are - mads are Tery delicate and depend for i tnelr stiffness on tbe water which they •oataln. Without this water thoy . would collapse In the same way a bicyclajlre does when the air Is lot outy This Is the very thing that happens • when the leaves wilt. The rise of , water from tbe roots has been checked , kt some way. and as evaporation still ^ continues the leaf cells become partly " emptied and shrink up. ' The leaves are not entirely helpless '■ at such e time, however. On each aids of the tiny pores on the underside of - tbe leaf Is a cell known as a guard i cell. Wbcu the supply of moisture > begins to fall, these guard cells shrink , up and In doing so close the openings, ' thus checking evaporation. In' some plants, like corn, the leaves curl up at ! such a time, thus still further lessening tbe rate pf evaporation. Of crarse when a leaf Is wilted in this manner the work of building up plant tissues , is seriously checked. This often hapj pens during the dry weather of July i and August, when tbe soil becomes so • dry that the roots have difficulty In I obtaining the needed " moisture. The [ checking of development which results often reduces the yie'fl of com as much as twenty to thirty bushels per acre and thai of other crops In pro- j porflon. For every pound of dry i matter In a mature plant from 300 to ' 500 pounds of water hare been brought up by tbe roots and evaporated from | the leaves. One of the most lmpor- J tant factors In tbe production of a maximum crop Is tbe maintenance of < ,a plentiful water supply within easy reach of tfig roots. There are three classes of water lit the soil. The first Is known as ground water and- is that water which delects in a hole dug In a wet soil or ■ runs off through the tile In drained land. Tbe second Is the capillary water and la that which is left between the soil particles after the ground water lias beeu drawn off. The ground water Is affected by grav- j ttation, while tbe capillary water is i mot If a sample of soil tbst looks perfectly dry Is placed in an oTen and - heated for some time It will be found j that is has lootyronslderably in weight, ewlng to moisture being driven off. j This is the third class, or hydroscopic | moisture. This, of course, is of no value to the plant, since the roots , cannot extract moisture from an air I dry soil. Neither can they use the ! ground water. This Is renlly a'dam-i ; age In the upper two or three feet of i soil, since It so fills tbcf ppaces that i j the roots cannot gel enough air. 1 During s rain /the ground water , passing through the soli draws con- ; ! ekjerablo air with It. As soon as tbe '

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ble; is. ground water; T. tile drain* j soil luvoiues saturated, however, so i that the .water Is no longer moving, the air sAuu becomes used up, and the crop will Tirru yellow and cease to grow. Tbe remedy, of course, is to provide drains to remove the ground ; water quickly. j The only kind of water which the i When this Is proem 'in tiie right j amount, it fills about half of the I space* lietweeu Hie soil particles. The I the rest "are filled with air. The water ) SiLSily dissolves plant" fix*! from the j soil grain* wblt-h It surrounds. Thus tki two essentials for rapid root development. air and plant food, are present In the proper amounts and In a readily available fonm As fast as the water is taken up by the roots more Is brought up by capillarity from the supply iu the subsoil lu the manner noted in article No. 2. Tbe place j^vhere tbe capillary water jolna the ground water Is called the water table. If this water table la : too high, the feeding ground of the root* Is greatly restricted, since they cannot go below It. If, on tbe other hand, the water table Is .too deep, capillarity cannot bring the water up' as fast as it Is used by the roots. ' tn dry weather the water table low- i era rapidly, but the roofs are also! .growing downtrard at the same time. j The greatest damage from drought 1

h comes when a .sudden dry period fol- * lows a few weeks of excessive rala- * gaU. Tbe abuiidauce of moisture dar- '■ log tbe early part of the season has J kspt the plants from sending thoir I roots' down very deep. When dry wsatber does come, the soil bakes and ^ cracks and evaporation goes on very ' rapidly. Tlris, together with the de mandx made by the plants. lowers the water table so rapidly that root growth - cannot keep pace with it. Aa a result the capillary moisture within reach of ' the roots Is not replaced as that sa lt !■ used, and the growth of the plants * la seriously checked. r Fields with a clay snbsoil withstand r dry w eather much better than those r with a subsoil of sand or gravel. Tbe latter, because of their looser texture.

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} allow the water to filter down oat of j reach Instead of retaining It for fa- , ture use, as do the clay soils. f The fanner cannot Influence the ( amount of rainfall, of course. After | r ihe rain has fallen, however, it belongs to him to do with as he sees fit. The way he handles it from this time . I on determines to a large extent the . size of the crop he will harvest when , ; fall comes. The first problem Is to get rid of the ] t surplus ground water quickly, aud the j f second is to waste as little of tbe cap- ] illnry water as possible. An endeavor j should be made to lower the water J , table to three or four . feet below the I I surface as soon as possible after each j rain. If this can. be accomplished in j . two or three days ,tbe growth of the | | crop will be interfered with very lit- ! . tie. A few soils a^e so well drained j . I naturally that little. artificial drainage < , I Is necessary. Oir'almost any farm j ■ | there are hills and ridges where the ! ; j natural drainage is' sufficient Tbe j , ' hollow* between these elevations, how- j ever, and all tbe fiat fields will yield j I much larger crops If tiled. I , The distance a line of tile will "draw" j [i Is In sandy soils often as far Aa 100 j feet on each side, while In heavy clay j ' I soils it may not be more than sixteen | ! ! feet. This distance Is also affected by j , 1 the depth of the tile. The deeper they | , are placed the farther they will draw. . TUe are usually placed at an average : , depth of about three feet, though In many instances four would be better, j . The extra coat of digging the ditch a | J ! | foot deeper is something of an objec- ; J " ! tlon, but is balanced by the fact that j I the lines of tile do uot need to be as j close together. Deep tile are not as easily displnced by freezing, and- ■ deeper feeding ground for the roots is , provided. A mistake made more frequently than that of not putting tbe drains In deep enough is that of using too small die. Tbe character of the soil, the tall and tbe amount of surface drained are tbe factors which largely determine the_j>roper site to use. Almost every I book or bulletin of tile drainage gives | tables for figuring the size of tile required under various conditions. If : there Is anj doubt It always pays to get a size too large rather than a size too small, even if the cost is a little 1 It Is usually beiier to let the Job of tiling to a contractor rather than to attempt to do It yourself. There are re- ' liable tilers in almost every locality ' who can be deivudcd upon to lay the 1 tUa to grade and do a first class job In every particular. Only the hard burned tile should l>e used. These will last for a lifetime or longer if oroperly put ■ In. When tile go wiihiii fifteen or twenty feet of trees the joints should be cemented. Otherwise *be tree roots will find their way through the joints and fill up the drains to such an extent 1 that the flow of water will be cut off. The most* Important part of a drain- j age system is the outlet. The tile 1 should empty Into a stream If possible. 1 Water should not bo allowed to stand 1 over the mouth of < he Outlet If It can 1 be avoided, as this checks the current and causes the drrin to partly fill up : with alii, thus reducing Its capacity t ' ; ^ust that much. 'I With it i borough system of tile drain i age In g-"-d workftjg order the problem i 1 of getili.s rid "f surplus water is solved. 'Piling also helps to solve the * '( problem of lack .of. water. The roots -I "o down so much deeper In a tiled 'j soil that they q.-e In position to with | j Man.! a drougU lietier than If they j were a foot or two farther above the! 1 ! water-table. Removing the surplus j „ ■ I water by drrinage also hastens the K ij warning of the soil In the spring g

- • ' - Oil cloth, Linoleum, Stove Boards Oil Heaters, Stove Pipes, and Coal Hods. I Have a Stock On Hand. PRICES REASONABLE . l-- -j • I 'M I CHARLES A. SWAIN 305-7 JacKson Street , Established 1880 ' Bell Telephone m i v • ' • * t - - || .in'iV' ./jjjft THE DAYLIGHT STORE Oi 111 IS HIGH se" on'* wort'1 while I ^ things in "EN'S FURNISHINGS u CSj \J _ and hit the mark when it comes to the best quality for the lowest money ■ t. ' : LADIES' AND MEN'S FURNISHINGS : 0. L, ff. KNERR, 518-20 WASHINGTON STREET . ^ BOTH PHONES LADIES ENTRANCE S . g A full line of Imported and Domestic Wines and Liquors 1 Mount Vernon Rye ' r" Moroney " • ; ! K Three Brothers , S | w Monticcllo 9 , ^ Sunny Brook ! PhiladelphiS " Standard Whiskey ■ , \ Monogram " Special : M Four Bottles of Wine for $1.00 CAPE MAY BRANCH DEPOT L CAMDEN BOTTLING CO. g 312 AND 314 WASHINGTON STREET Cob Corn 75c and 80c PER BUSHEL * Flour, Feed, Hay, Straw

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