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C m MAT STAB AND SATE ; Merged is Star aid Were ryo; rirel cteee Thunder Ereoloj. luued ' each wtd <m Fga^.ewnini- Old of | tfeupow frtq Mm tm a T«r to Mnaco i TW» pepc. i» entered at the poet oSot as second ■ baa postal natter. J ADVERTISING R ATES-Fo« the tooeernience ol • those deeWna to Mndad.srtiae-mt. by nail. Cari. , ""rSaUdeert'se cots.' 6c. per line first Insertionjefper line each additional Insertion, nonpenll ffcLta insertions. s5 oents per tods. Transient AAHrd2ng. ij cents per inch each inserdtn. **SZ^^JS^r fi^e°TSis,orCwS,^S ««s ainjie h at 111' J cents three insertions. Thirteen tines AD resolutions o( cowiolena from lodte. than±e. or other or*anlrations. associations or indMdoab, •feed fee pub licatior.. either in weekly or daily " adldSDS. will be charged for at die rate of one dollar s?-'rss Vtar AND WAVE PUBLISHING CO. JIB'and 317 Washington Street Aaron W. Hand^Oeneral Manager TELEPHONES' msm. J BUntft mi Atlaattc, h IMI ■MMCWl UK ICJXtMt PtM 102 I ADDRESS CAPE BUY STAR AND WAVE IN ANSWER 10 COMMUNICATION Mr. Editor.— * It is surprising to note that any colored citizen should consider himself by position or otherwise, so important • a factor, as to assume the responsibility and represent himself as voicing the sentiments of the colored people of any community, by sending such an article to the press, as published on March 20, 1909, in your co- temporary, onder the title "Communication," and •igned a "Colored Citizen." Aa a • reputable citizen, I consider it to be one of the most infamous articles ever gent to the press for publication. It la an insult to the respectable and intelligent colored citizens of Cape May, when he asserts that any man is disreputable for exercising the rights of manhood and American franchise, an inherited privilege by virtue of birth, and an acquired privilege to one of foreign birth, by compliance with the ■tatutes of th« United States. I know of no man whose ability, character, honesty and social standing in the community better fitted for the position than the candidate whose'name was submitted to represent the colored element'on the Board than Sergt Keys, Who has long since proved his loyalty to the country by serving in the U. S. A. and now retired, with honor and

credit to himself and race; receiving J as a compensation for past services a | sufficient amount of money "moqthly" to live on the remainder of his life. The colored citizens who supported the above named candidate, instead of being denounced as stated by this in- _ dividual, should be praised, aa they 1 simpla acted according to the dictates ( of the'r consciences, to support one of I their color on this particular occasion, i which they had a right to do as any other citl ten, be be white or black, : without comment or condemnation. I desire to ask the writer of the article "Communication" if be considers ' tne 62 votes cast in favor of retired . ; Sergt. Keys as representing the die- c 1 reputable colored elem°nt of Cape May, ' - when each and every- man was 21 years ( i of age. and deposited their ballots on ' ■ their meriis, without any compensation ^ r or promises. i Respectfully yours. HARRY RICHARDSON, j notice ~~ PILES and other diseases of the ' rectum cured without the knife. Treatment painless. No delay from i business. The most careful and rigid ] investigation invited. Send for , c pamphlet c DR. R- REED. 1 Room 720 Witherspoon Building, Wal- I nut street < Office hears 9 to 2. 11-14 26t ( f ^ IN MEM0RIAM. ! 1 In loving remembrance of our dear 1 * mother, Elsie Seymour, who departed r this life, March 11th, 1908. I A precious life from"us has gone II A voice we loved is still, n A place is vacant in our home • Which never can be filled. d CHILDREN. • e T« Brak in NnrSUo Al«n Um 1 Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It pre- i t vents Tightness and Blistering, cures i- Swollen, Swearing, Aching feet At all Druggists and shoe stores. 26c. ' Sample mailed FREE. Address A. S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y. 3-20 4t f n HOTEL ARRIVALS '• The arrivals at the Windsor were : f Philadelphia— J. C. Donnelly, J S. c Clymer, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Shearer, MiBs Shaw, H. H. Ornwell, W. J. Matthews, B. H. McClurg. G. T, '• Brown, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Townsend. g E. C. Stokes, .D. J. McDermott, B. H. e McClurg, R A. Ely, Edwin N. Loag. Edward McCaffy. Pittsburg — D. R, ® Deely, Wm. Hall. Bryn Mawr— Peter ® Shields. Wilkesbarre— James Merrii. field. Atlantic City— J. H. Decker. I y Camden— Mr. and Mrs. William Coffin, f ■ Woodbury— L. O. Abrams. New York 'I -S. A. Phillips, A. A. Nesbitt. Boa- i d ton — Charles T. Grilley. V. V. Rogers, j

GOVERNOR FORTS ■ LETTER DEFINES VIEWS ON SCHOOLS Discuses Deceit Criticisms uR Implied Critickisms freely Mi Seisibly Governor Fort, in a letter sent Tuesday to Julian I. Gregory, of Montclair, gives hia views on the school question with reference to the present agitation in oonoection with the problem of solving the state's financial condition. The letter was sent in answer to one from Mr. Gregory, asking the Governor If he would not make a ; statement in regard to the matter. Governor Fort declares that no man appreciates the public schools, or would do more to strengthen, promote and advance them then he. In forceful language- he pays his respects to those who have criticised his proposition to repeal the law of 1906 providing that all the railroad main stem taxes, except one-half of one per cent, shall go to the public schools. The Governor stands for the repeal of this law and the appropiation of money to the . schools year by year. I The letter follows: j March 22, 1909. , < Mr. Julian I. Gregory, ' 480 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, N. J. , My Dear Sir:— lam in receipt of < your letter of the eighteenth instant, < and appreciate your writing to me od < the subject of the appropriation of the : railway money of the State for public ' . school uses. i The misunderstanding which seems i ; to have gotten into the public mind as to my position on this subject, has : , arisen from an absolutely false, and I i fear intentionally false, interpretation of mv position. Anything that I can do for the puolic scliool system in this State, I will < do. No man appreciates tiie public . schools, or would do more to strengthen, . , promote and advance them than I . Never at any time have I suggested to i , take from them the surplus revenue which the State derives from the rail way taxes. All the recommendations that I have made or have stood for , have been that appropriations should : be made annually rather than under ■ the Act of 1906. which act undertakes . I to make a permanent appropriation of . r these monies. c The first thing that we must do is to - support the State in. all of its institu-

; and to support the schools is . only one of the duties cast upon the i Legislature. * If the suggestions whi h I have made should be carried out, the Legislature could appropriate this year 12, 000,000 of the public schools ; and I am in favor of that amount being appropriated at once for the school year ending July 1, 1910, which is the next school year for which appropriation must be made. Tnis yeai the amount which will be ; sent down to the public schools, under the Act of 1906, is $2,226,000. The i recommendation of tre .Legislative ! Committee is to take from the railroad revenues $242,000 before the dis- • tribution, of these revenues, which would reduce the amount from $2,226,- i . 000 to $1,984,000. If my suggestion i be adopted, there will be more money sent down to the schools than there ; would be if the $242,000 was first dei ducted. This $242,000 is made up of ! the following items : , State Normal School, Trenton, $60,000 1 State Normal School, Montclair, 33,000 ' State Students at Rutgers, 15,000 I School for Deaf, 45,000 ' Coloted Scnool at Bordentowu, 12,000 1 School for Foreign Born, 10,000 F State Supt. Public Instruction, 25,000 State Supi. Public Instruction, 25,000 > County Superintendents, 42,00c Tots, $242,000 • As I understand it, the Junior Order of American Mechanics has consented : to the reduction of this $242,000. which 1 is a concession on their i art that is | greater than the amount which would be taken from the railway revenues under the pl«n which I propose, to appropriate $2,00,000, flat, to the schools for the text fiscal year. The act of 1906 to which 1 object, and which I hold to be wrong in princi pie, undertook to make a permanent appropriation and to prohibit any future Lt-gi lature from making the appropriations which the State funds wou d seem to warrant In addition to that, I am in favor of the re-valuation of the r-ilroad property of the State immediately ; and a Joint Resolution is now pending in the Legislature at my suggestion made in my inaugural address, for that purpose. If this re-valuation is made and ihe valuation of railroad property is increased. as many believe it can be, the increase in ihe re-valuation will next year produce sucn an additional revenue from railway laxe- as will enable the Legislature to appropriate more money heteafter to the scnools, than has ever before been appropriated from the revenue derived from the tax on main stem, tangible persunal property and francnises of railroads. It is hard for a public man to have his motives misconstrued ; to have an attempt made by ais political enemies, or by those who are trying to make political capital to misrepresent him and rest quiet under such false across- . lions, i uc it' is one of the penalties of holding office to be thus false criticised, notwithstanding you know that you are trying to do right Knowing as 1 cio and as I see every day that the maximum tax rate act, the County Boards of Taxation act and the average tax rate act, were all enacted solely and entirely for the purpose of benefitting the railroads in the matter of taxation, ar.d that the men who are behind this attack upon me on the school question are responsible for helping the railroads in this way, and did it for that purpose aud that purpose alone, it is difficult to rest quietly under tbe-e imputations. The motives which I have in public affairs are entirely for the promotion of the interest of the State, the public schools, the penal and charitable institutions and all the departments of the State. If the methods which I have proposed be adopted, and the suggestions which I have recommended be enacted into law. there will not be the slightest injury to the school system, nor a reduction in the monies which go to the schools. In fact, I make this state- , ment without fear of contradiction, ! that the monies which will go to the ' schools under my system.Jby the appro- 1 pristion of $2,000,000 from^fee main ' stem tax, together with tt^^nOO.OOO, which will be derived mills State tax next year, will 1x97,400.000. This will be more money than the ! State has ever sent down to the schools derived from the taxes raised in any . single year in ita history. When some of the people who are « now critoaing me become as good 1 friends of the public schools as I think ' I am, they will be able for the first I time in their lives to take a horizontal ' view of their political honesty. i Yours very trnly, i JOHN FRANKLIN FORT. 1 1 1

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IM, WHEN A WOMAN ' WANTS MM TO KNOW is the best shoe made we tell her the La France shoe — cause it is. W'ere agents for it— cause it is. If a man wants to know which is the best shoe made we tell him the Crawford shoe— 'cause it is. We are agents for it and it is. Not just because it is ours, but we were determined to have as good a shoe as possible, even though we do sell It on a very close margin. We have reduced all our sKoes to make room 1 for spring shoes. To give you an idea of what's doing we'll say

1 Our $6.50 Crawford $5.48 , Our 5.50 Crawford 448 J Our 4.00 Crawford 348 ) - ■ ~ —

Our $4.00 La France $3.48 Our 3.50 La France 2.98 Our 3.00 La France 248

Boys, Misses and Childrens shoes all discounted. ) S. R. Gidding . CLOTHIER, HABERDASHER AND SHOER 419 Washington Street. Cape May

' RIO (iRAKDE 1 J Avery interes'ing meeting of Rio j Grande Grange was held on Tuesday | [ evening when the first and second de- 1 . grees were ronfe> red on Mr. and Mrs. > Lewellyn Hildreth and a Miss Pointer. \ They remained during the Lecturer's , period and heard some well rendered r selections in reading and a solo by W. " Edwards. The new members were , then requested to retire with the proin- . ise t''at after their next meeting this ' would not be|requireii. There were also [ two app-ications for membership. ; From present indications we will in a short time be second to none in the County, thought it is the "baby" , gnnge. 1 We are glad to sec- Mrs. Nelson | Hand so improved in health as to en able her to be out to church on Sunday > last. We also note some improvement 1 in the health of Mrs. D. E. Goff. There was quite a good congregation : out to the M. E. Chapel on Sunday to > welcome back our minister, Rev. E. ■ Tozer, whom the bishop kindly reap- ' pointed to ub for another year, which , we all hope and trust may be a pleas- '■ ant and profitable one to us all both spiritually and financially. Mrs. Bertha Hickey and daughter Catharine, also h r niece, little Char- ' lotte Rutberforri, are under the parental ' roof at Rio Grande. J. G. Corson attended a session of , the Grand Lodge of I. O. M., in CamJ den last week. He reports a good time and well pleased with the harmony , apparent. I Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Fisher drove to ; Burleigh Sunday to visit their children. Mrs. Frayne entertained Miss Flam- : gan, of Tuckahoe, on Friday and Sat1 urday. ; " Mr and Mre. Daniel Goff called on . their brother and wife Sunday. ; • Edmond Thompson and family spent the day with his mother Saturday. Mr. and Mre. Gileon returned home ! on Monday after visiting friends in 1 I Tuckahoe. 1 Mr. and Mre Ephraim McCarty and daughter came down Thursday end re- 1 . turned home Saturday. Mre McOarty . went home with them. 1 2 We are pleased to see Merrill Neal 1 out again on Sunday. Ha has been ! . confined to the bouse ten days with 1 l grip. Mrs. Li da Hand, of Barleigh, spent ; Monday under the parental roof. Alda May Onampion, of Tuckahoe, spent a few days with her friend, Mrs. 1 Eva PierponL ; At a schooK-,meeting held at Ooort Tuesday, Fred B. Neal was reelected aa school trustee. He has held . the office for 25 years. ! 2 On Monday ^evening last a lodge of the Patriotic Order Sons of America organized here, and on the followMonday evening the camp was instituted at Grenn Creek when a numof the head officers from Trenton

visited them. The following officers , were elected : Past President, W. , | Harris: president, K. Downs; vice _ J president, W. C. Neal ; master ot i forms, C. Cornell ; recording secretary. W. D. Hand ; financial secretary ; T. J. ; Rilay; treasurer. W. Schellenger ; con- ■ due tor, G. Austin : inspector, J. Fisher ; outside sentinel, J. Biddle ; overseer, , E. Bunkhart, C. Scull, William Harris. 1 CAPE MAY COUNTY HORSES AND COLTS 1 On Saturday, March 27, 1909, at one : o'clock p. m.. Dr J. Morgan Dix. ' President of the Cape May County Trotting and Breeding Association will 1 sell, at his stables, at Cape May Court House, a I of his horses, colts, wagons, r harness, etc. The horses listed are : t First class brood mare. "Emma V., Jr.." sire, Santa Claus, 2.17J; dam, 5 Emma V., oy Volunteer, j Pair of blood bay mares, "Isabel" and "Rosabel," full sisters, sire [ American Coming, son of Baron Deen. , "Jennie D." brown filly, foaled _ 1907. Sired by Baron Deen, dam, Em- . ma V.. Jr. This colt comes from a line of sires, four of which have held the world's records. She has promise of r excellent speed, and was recently j brought here from the President's 1 farm in Virginia. She is the moat promising colt in South Jersey for size, f conformation and speed, with breed- - ing back of her. - Bay filly "Dixie Kid," foaled 1908. ' Sire, Bonrose No. 36202, full brother to Colonel Kuser, record 2 07i. > Black horse, five years old, sired by , Avalanche. 2.17.J Furnish Your Home Free. „ $5.00 IN TRADING CHECKS GIVEN AWAY. To any woman who will send us the 1 of her Grocer, Butcher, Dry Goods, Shoe Dealer, ten neighbors who I want to save premium checks, we will . send our 16 page catalogue of beautiful . and useful premiums and $5.00 worth of our Trading O backs free of charge redeemable at 1 any store in your town . issuing our Improved Premium Checks { Bend today to a L. WILLIAMS & CO.. 133 Market St.. Philadelphia, Pa. It will -pay you to look over Laventhol's pew assortment of goods which Just arrived. After skating or the show, take luncheon at the Auditorium Cafe. Open evening until 12 o'clock. tf CASTORIA.