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gyropjf^s j Ete^Sexwva CWatvscs \\s& S\s \ EuectuaVVy 1 Disp&s co\As and Hea&awes dxxeVo CousV\\>aV\oiix; j A sfts TvalwraXVy, acfcsXrydy o» aLoxaVvve. Be&fa' Hen^ovcvetv ctfv&.C\vi& ! TCTL-yout^ atvd OU. T©Q«X Ws b«neJ\c\o\ eflecXs , aXways Xray XXxc Qexiuvcve, , •ncnubdwd by th* CALIFORNIA Fig Syrup Ca SOU BY ALL LflUINC DRUGGISTS one we Oftly. retulBT pnct so^per bc«le. PERSONAL MENTION OF VISITORS SOKE INTERESTS NOTES Stir ui Wire Readers are Revested to Send in by Phone or Otherwise. * Rev. James Burns, le this week at- j tending the session* of the M. E. Conference in Oamden. He was accompanied by Mrs. Barns and daughter, who will be the gaests of friendsjthere. We are pleased to state that Mrs. J. A. Block, who underwent an operation at a private hospital in Philadelphia about a week ago, is improving and doing very nicely. The guests at the Virginia this weeli were C. H. Lawson, Charles H. Reed, Edwin N. Loag, J. F, .Tacoby, Rev. and Mrs. Stenatz, Philadelphia ; H. S. Lee, Buffalo ; M. B. Laster, Germantown; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mathis, Tioga; Howard Semple, Chicago; J. Gontee, Washington; Samuel Dugan, Saratoga; D. A. Waiter, London Annie Betts, Cleveland ; Charlet Gambles, *St Louis ; JThomas 'Gibtia, California; J. H. Decker, Atl*nti< (Sly; Aaron Levy, J. H. Goidatone, New York. Mias Melvina Townsend was among the Philadelphia visitors Saturday. E. H. Hess and Frank Heas, ownert of the Windsor Hotel, were in towr Sunday looking after the improvement! on their property. Miaa Eiva Hand, who is spending the winter in Philadelphia, ^waa an ovei Sunday visitor with her parents. Mias Cora Vans man has accepted a position in the office 'of the Neptune Laundry. The arrivals at the Windsor [thii week include J. L. Olymer, Ella Olymer, E. H. Hess. Henry Spare, Frank Heas, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Ochen, Joseph L. (Qonaghy, George C. Stephenson, Daniel J. Bishop, Philadelphia ; Mr. and Mra.|William R. Nichols, Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. James ^.(Haya, Oamden. Rev. Dr. George E. Rees, (pastor of the new Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philsdelpbta. will preach Jhere in tbe First Baptist Church next Sunday, 14th inst. All visitors welcome. Mrs. John C. Little spent(We<ine«day - in Philadelphia. Mrs. George W. Smith is visiting in ! Camden, and willjattend the sessions of the M. E. Conference. She will spend the following week in Philadelphia and ktter.d the meet of the M. E. Conference that will meet there. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Cohen are upending a few days here and getting their Ocean street cottage in order for uearly occupancy. They have been spehdi g a portion of the winter in~ Florida. Mrs. S. H. Moore v. sited her sister in Philadelphia Thursday. Miss Maggie R. Bennett, of Merchantville, this state, is being enter- , tained by Mrs. James E. Taylor. Mrs. Dr. James Mecray, of Mooresown, this state, is a guest of Mrs. S. Mias Emily S. Thompson has returned from New York after an | extended visit, accompanied by Mrs. j P. C. Hyde. Miss Thompson was a guest at a large college dance while in New York. The ancient game of bowls used to be played in the open air but tbe Cape May experts, who are hard to beat, learned the art in the palatial quarters which bouses the fine Congress Hall Alleys, 31 Perry street. Try them, tf "The Grand" Motion Picture Theatre is the popular place of resort in tbe evenings- The pictures displayed are the latest and most interesting obtainable. This is the only show of the kind now running in this city- tf CA.STOXIIA. •— « >• —

I The. Picture t j I and the Lover | , | By LESTER GREY. £ J f :—i~ • * 9* £ Copytf*bt«d. 1809, by . Associated V ' • / LJterary Press. 6 ^ To begin with, abe waa not a moth- t er, but It had pleased tbe young artist t to give the picture that name because < It was bis Ideal of what his mother c would have been If abe had lived. t In real life she was a -quiet little t person. Just over the brow of tbe hJgb- | way of years. Journeying softly, placid- I ly down the smooth path, for the win- 1 ter of existence lay hidden beyond t turns in tbe road, and she had not ■ glimpsed it yet. It was not one of the large can- t vases of the exhibition, nor was It. 4 hung In the most desirable lights reserved for tbe great, yet It was well * placed, for Dean Carroll, though t young, had In a measure been recog- ' cited, and there were people of d£s- I cerumen! who looked for his work. < Tbe composition had been cleverly ' conceived. It showed a veranda corner of what was evidently an old ruin r of a country bouse of half a century t ago. The big French window, tbe t half of an ok] colonial pillar and a ? ' general air of shabby gentility made a 1 fitting frame for the sweet faced wo- t man who sat In the modern wicker 1 ■ porch chair, a magazine on her lap, 4 ' and who looked straight out of the * picture. • To one content to revel in the de- ' light of It all It showed a happy moth- 1 er speaking to 6ome stalwart son who f had brought her good news or per- i haps Just himself with a hearty greet- 1 lng of love 1 j To the critic who sought to know i - ! why It pleased him the greatest charm t seemed to be In the eyes. Carroll had I . done wonders there, and they seemed i to carry a message of a mother love ] that had known no anxieties, no sleep- [ less plghts of wondering where some wandering boy was resting and pray- t 1 lng that God might watch over him. i 1 They were big, brown, expressive t i eyes, with tbe slightest suggestion of \

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. wrinkled cornm • hint of age fur- { 1 • ther carried out here and there In tbe i ' hair by a touch of time'* allver strands 1 Showing through the soft bued brown. It attracted some attention from the 1 , writers, and friends told Carroll It waa distinctly good. OtherWtoe It ere- ' a ted no Btlh It was one Tsf half a ' s hundred others equally creditable to the i artists and would probably bring a de- ■ cent enough sum when placed on Bale. , j Yet somehow Carroll liked to look at It, probably because It brought beck tc | him memories of that Virginia summer when be feared he was close to 1 death and of the gentle spinster who ' bad nursed him past the crisis and ■ mothered him through a happy convaHls own motber had died when he , was very young, and as he lay on his bed of Illness watching her sweet face , as she moved about the room it gave him Joy to pretend that be was really 1 her son. and It grieved him to think |v that perhaps years to come might be both lonely to her and full of trouble, r One afternoon when he stood half In ' a reverie of remembrance before the . picture K)e was conscious that an elderly man near him was evincing more than usual interest. , I He fumbled for his glasses, turned j the leaves of the catalogue until he - tame to tbe number; then the eagerness died out of his '-face, and be turn- < ■ *d away. But he came back and again 1 i looked upon It with no concealment of < , his appreciation. , | ' The Btranger noticed Carroll when he | ' , started away the second time and j ( ■topped to ask him: j , "Do yon know anything about the j 1 picture?" j 1 s "Why. yes, naturally. 1 painted it." 1 1 ■ "You are Mr. Carroll, then. I was I going to bunt you up. Is It for sale?" | f tbe older man Inquired. "Well, you know we artists have to live. Few of us paint for fame alone. 1 1 ; so It Is like tbe rest. Only 1 hope It I - goes to some one who will appreciate i 5 It The circumstances of its .painting 1 [ are dear memories." 1 5 "Are you— are— yon ber— son? Tell ; mer And the questioner put a trem- 1 bllng band on the artist's shoulders. , "No," replied Carroll. "1 wish 1 was. i or, rather. If my own motber had lived i I think she would have been like qer." i "Can you spare me tbe time to tell I

me tbe eimnu*iam >"iai spea* «i that is. if you wTl? Tlwok y«.u. but tl not here. Let us go w my house. I f Uve near." And he led tbe way out. b "It Isn't much of a story except In its * personal appeal to me." begun Carroll a few momenta later "But I presume ' reminds you of some one. and If the two women are alike jl know you understand bow fond I am of ber. j "Last spring I was threatened with fever and wa» told to get out of the city. I found a quiet place owned by the original of the portrait and she took me In. Unfortunately I did hot 1' soon enough, and the fever caught me. There was no one with ber but an old servant and I asked to ,. moved Into the nearest town. j "She would not hear of It and nursed me on a Journey to death's door j, and back again to the sunshine to the and the birds— anfi .life. It Is 1 something that one cannot explain— 1 ber tenderness, her motherilness- and sense at comfort of love even, for J stranger that abe gave to mel 1 "Her entrance would light up my 1 sickroom; her presence was better 2 than all the medicine In tbe world. 2 she Is the dearest sweetest I have ever known. I was 2 only two when my mother died. 2 about all, I think." "Mr. Carroll." his host began. "I have ~ never met you, but am perhaps known ,£ to' you. I am Judge Johnson Lee Car- 2 ter, and 1 am from Virginia. When I 2 a hotheaded young man I was in 2 with a /girl who is probably the 3 double of the lady In your picture. I 8 her devotedly, madly, sir. end 8 she loved me. But 1 was headstrong, sir, and I quarreled with her one night and came north. "AH my life the years have been t except my love for her. Three, t five years passed, and I knew she t probably married, so I have never 1 Inquired, but the picture, sir, brought ' It all back to 'me, all tbe years I have ^ missed that might have been crowded with happiness, for they would have been bappy ones. Mr. Carroll, air, she ' was the finest lady on earth. Now " know why 1 want to buy your t picture and"— * "Judge Carter, there can be no talk of buying and selling that picture after what you have told me. There, there: one else will get It. Tbe exhibition , will lost another month. Yon can get jack from Albemarle county before that"— { "What are yon saying, boy? Albemarle county? Why. that's where 1 lived. Is It Ruth? Is she a widow? : Is she free, and is It"— "Ruth Cressley. and she Is not a widow." said Carroll quietly. "8he ' has never married." j "Honest, boy? Honest? Forgive ma t forgive me. Mr. Carroll. Then she , didn't forget?". 1 "She la tbe sort who, love opce— for t always, I think." and Carroll Extended t bis band. "And the picture?" asked the Judge. * "Will be my wedding present." j "God bless you, sir-, God bless you." , and there were tears in his eyes as he e j showed Carroll to the door. ] Carroll Is famous now and a few t ! years older. Ask hid) the best thing 1 be ever did and he will tell you J 1 "Mother." Perhaps you won't nnder- J stand jilm, but Judge Carter knows, ; and Mrs. Johnson Lee Carter shares r tbe knowledge. j 1 The Masterpiece. ( Alma Tadema, the artist, did net 1 1 achieve fame at a single bound. He 1 had a few ups to many downs before ' was finally recognised as a painter , . of ability. In his student days one of f unsuccessful pictures was returned j unsold by the committee of the Bros- j eels exhibition cf 185G. The subject 1 was a house on fire, says tbe Asao- 1 dated Sunday Magazine. Instead of a tlrwle against the stu- * pidlty or favoritism of tbe committee f the artist asked his fellow students { Into his studio ^nd Invited them to j Jump through tbe canvas. He led tbe i way by leaping head first throrigb the t oily flames. A second unsuccessful "effort was a I large sized square picture that came | back again and again to Its creator's J easel until at last be revenged him- y self upon It In a novel way by cutting j the picture out of Its frame and giving ( | It to an old woman to use as a table 1 There was some one at last to ap- J predate Its excellence. Tbe next time j Alma Tadema saw tbe old woman she ! told him that It was "much better ( than those common oilcloth things. \ They always let the water through." f she explained, "but that one of yours t is a good thick one, with plenty of paint on It." j ~ ~ 1 DEVILED CRABS and CLUB ! at the Auditorium , Cafe. Open evening until 12 o'clock, tf j SEALED PROPOSALS will be re- \ ceived at the office of the Light- House - ; Wilmington, Del. . until Tl * o'clock a. m., April 9tb, 1909, and j . then opened, for erecting an addition . to the dwelling built in 1903 at Cape , Mav Light-Station, N. J.. in accor- • { dance with specifications, copies of ■ j which, with blank proposals and other j may be had upon application to the Light-House Engineer, ( Del. 3-13 2t j ■ — < | APPROPRIATING ORDINANCE ■ 1 An ordinance to direct and prescribe J the amount of taxes to be levied in tbe ) City of Cape May, in the year, A. D., ■ 1909, and to make appropriations and : expenditures for the time begin- * ning the first day of January, A. D. , J 1909, and ending the thirty-first day of j December, A. D.. 1909. Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by th« inhabitants of the City of Cape May in City Council assembled, j and it is hereby enacted bv the author- ( of tbe same, that tbe following amounts are hereby appropriated fo

respective purposes herein, stated, from any fuikts in tbe Treasury, to used for the XMBeetive purposes and not otherwise 1. Mayor's Salary. , . 9 600.00 £. Recorder^ Superin tec pent Water Works, etc., 1000.00 8. Assessor's Salary, 600.00 4 Collect©) 'a Salary. 600.00 6. Treasurer's Salary, 600.00 j 6. Building Inspectors SiaL', 160 00 1 7. City Solicitor's Salary, 900.00 8. Street Supervisor's Sal., 600.00 9. Engineer Water Works, 780.00 10. Asst. Engineer of Water , Works, 720.00 I 11. Two Engineers of Fire Department, 1440.00 . 12. Police and Watchman, 4000.00 18. Lighting Streets and Public Buildings, 12600 00 14. Repairing, Cleaning ft Watering Streets, 6000.00 16. Fire sod Water, 6500.00 16. Properly and Improvement. 4000.00 17. Incidentals. 1000.00 18. Interest on City Bonds , and notes, 83000 00 Sinking Fund, 11164.00 Schools, 4100.00 21. Payment of 9 1000 School bonds. 1000.00 Int. on School Bonds, 1200.00 23. Stationery, Printing and Advertising, 1600.00 . 24. Fire Department, 4200.00 25. Poor Fund, 600.00 26. Memorial Services, 200.00 Board of Health, 600.00 28 Operation Sewer Plant, 8000.00 29. City Carpenter, 600.00 30. City Engineer, , 600.00 Engineer Pumping St*., 720.00 82. Amuse mets, -. 800.00 33. Music, ■» 6000.00 Total, 9107,774.00 Section 2 And be it further enacted {bat the money appropriated by the first section shall be derived from the following sources : Anticipated water rente, $16,500.00 Anticipated licenses and Miscellaneous receipts, 1L500.00 duplicate for 1909, $79., 774 00 Total, 9107.774.00 3. And be it further oraained and enacted by the authority of the same that this ordinance shall take effect immediately. J. F. JACOB Y. President ofGouncil. F. J. MELVIN. Attest :— JNO. W. THOMPSON. Recorder. Approved March 8, 1909. PETITION. the Honorable City Council of the City of Cape May : Gentlemen:— We the undersigned, Freeholders residing in said City nf Cape May respectfully petition your body that you will cause the following named streets, highroads^or alleys in said City to be laid with a sidewalk, curbed and guttered of such character as the judgment of your Honorable body deems best Cominuation of Franklin street from Lafayette street, both sides to Kearney avenue; Sewell street from Howard street to Franklin street, both sides; Kearney avenue from Howard street to Jefferson street, both sides ; street from Hughes to Columavenue, both sides ; Howard street, sides, from Columbia avenue to avenue ; Jefferson street to Kearney avenue from Beach avenue; Queen street, one square ; Beach avenue to Stockton avenue; Beach avenue, north side, from Second avenue to avenue; Perry street, both sides from Bridge over Cape Island Creek to Beach avenue ; Congress street, both sides from North street to Beach avenue; Windsor avenue, both sides from Pennsylvania Railroad tract to Beach avenue ; North street from Perry street to Grant street, both aides ; Jackson street, both aides, from Bridge over Cape Island Creek to Besch avenue ; Broad street, both sides Jackson street to Elmira street ; street, both sides, from Lafayette slreet to Beach avenue; Stockton street, both sides, from Howard street to Msdison avenue; Bank street, both sides, from Broad street to Lastreet ; Lafayette street from Jackson street to Schellenger's Land- ; Queen street from Oorgie street Lafayette street; Jefferson street from Corgi e to Lafayette street; from street to Congress street, both sides of street known as Congress Place ; South Lafayette Btreet, both side, fromlPeny street to Grant street; Washington street, both sides, from Perry street to Schellenger's Landing ; street, both sides, from Columbia avenue to Beach avenue ; Grant street, east side, from Beach avenue to ; Broadway, southeast side from Grant street to W« at Perry street ; Manison avenue, both sides, from Washington street to Beach avenue ; Benton both sides, from Sewell street to Franklin street ; Corgie street, both ! sides, from Franklin to Madison j And your petitioners will ever p^ay, | etc. Dated February, A D., 1909. Location of Property j H. Smith, Jr., Corgie street | C. Earle Miller. Washington street. ! Edgar Holmes, H. Fadeley, Alfred Hand. Mrs. Helen H. Curley, 205 Ocean st. Joseph H. Hanes, 206 Perry street. James T Rice, 539 Elmira street. E. J. Jerrell, 911 Queen street. W. R. Sheppard, Decatur street. H. Barton, Washington Btreet. Joseph B. Hughes, Jr., 915 Queen st. Foeer. Dr. S. F. Ware., Cor Decatur and Lafayette street. Needles. Cape May. O. Orowell, Cape May. George C. Baldwin, Frank B. Mecray, J. W. Mecray & Bro.. E. Heise, Wm. Hebeuthal, Thomas Stewart, Wm. Porter, Charles T. Campbell, Jackson street. Harry Hebenthal. 509 Franklin street. Ellis C. Eldredge, Zacbary Taylor, V. M. D. Marcy. « Received, accepted and ordered published st a regular meeting of City Council held March 2, 1909. JNO. W. THOMSPON. City Clerk. 1 ) ) y

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