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1 HORNLESS JLEMMi, By MARION DEXTEfc. fCtvrr Ighted. UOt. by Associated Utsrary PTMB.J Harold McC tea's comfortable turnpike of life waa suddenly barred by a dilemma— a three pronged one, be called: ft, because three people were concerned. | "What a confounded t angler be ■narled, and because the grating of his | tmolled rerolTlng chair accorded with bis feelings be twisted It right and left till the senior member of the firm rattled the doorknob In white hot rage. "Idlotr was the greeting through a crack In the door. "Respect a man's nerves, can't you?" Brought to a standstill, be dropped hie plump cheeks In bis palms and grappled the dilemma In a mighty en- : dsavor to see a way, out, but the cheer - lea an ess of midnight met him at every turn. "If It hadn't been for that miserable pjjp," he groaned, "the matef's scarf wouldn't have been torn. If It hadn't been for the scarf I'd never have gone to the mender's. If I had gone to the mender's I'd never have seen Flossie. My wedding day wouldn't have had a cloud, and Lucia and mother and I would have been happy ever after. But"— The Immensity of the problem smote his heart with the chill of a damp, cold hand; the soft brown waves skirting his' temples and forehead stood out like curled points of horn In response to distracted currying and combing o' nervous fingers, but not even afar oh waa there a gleam of light "The mother will be broken fiearted," he muttered disconsolately, "and Lucia"— His thoughts rlcochetted , backward to the day when she, the little adopted sister, had been brought home and presented to him. That was Just after his father's death, when the bouse was unbearably still and lonely. He had been jost fourteen, be remembered, and Lucia

"f* TO BS MABBtKD TO BJ.X WS8TOB*8 1 „run " ( Dearly twelve, and from the very first £ minute tbey bad been chums. There t had never been any bickering and ( " strife. t That was what put the Idea of mar- ( rtage Into his mother's bead and caus- j ed her to build her every hope for a . serene old age on such a foundation. , And he and l.ucla had been willing, too— that la. after the newness of the t Idea had passed. But now— and every day made It j plainer— be knew what the love be had t given Lucia was— the calm, even sur- f face of a brother's affection, not the t turbulent^ feverish love of a lover. c With her, though. It was different— c that la. It had somehow got to be dif- ( ferent Of late she had changed. Her gayety and sparkling color were gone; her eyes, big and unnatural, followed him everywhere, yet only too obviously she , avoided him. His mother, too, was , unlike herself, her usnal cheerfulness replaced by a nervous restlessness. ' "You're killing them." he fiercely be- . rated himself. "You're changed your self, and Jthey see It The mater wor- 1 ties, but Lucia— Just suppose"— His thought snapped like the break- c lng of a string. A startling object had ! ' reared Itself .In the foreground of a depressing picture. It was Lucia, ema- j elated, the blue eyes peering sadly j from dismal caves— a wreck, not even 1 a resemblance to the dear girl he had known. "Ill give It up." he groaned. "Flos- 1 sle doesn't know, and I wouldn't for f worlds hurt mother and Lucia." After that he stayed home more, ^ making strenuous endeavor to put af- * fairs back on the old footing. Per- 1 suaded by small glimmerings and ^ patches of sunshiDe, lie fancied he was succeeding. He was forgetting Flossie. too— not forgetting exactly, but t keeping his brain so busy that there 1 was no room for a thought of her. e But It was Incomprehensible, he « ' grumbled, and mist annoying that t even one glimpse of her on a street or t In a car. no matter how Indistinct or i far away, would so fill his whole brain t and heart that bis good Intentions flew 1 before It. like a handful of feathers be- 1 fore a gust of wind. f "I'm getting on." he congratulated himself after a breakfast conspicuous t for merriment. "I'm bound to get on." ! lie added grimly, slamming the hall i door and making a dash for a passing i car. Out of breath, but relieved and In t high spirits, be made his way to a t vacant seat and dropped down beside —Flossie 1 TTbere's no use In putting up a flght" be coofidtd to miawiif in deepH

| est humiliation bat five minutes later, j To a' weakling, a coward, a traitor, ■ | but If Flossie will take me she's got i the chance. Pm done for." It was late when he reached boms that night Except for the hall lamp i the lights were out That suited his mood. He felt himself a very Mac- ' betb. His deed also was one best done In the stillness and Arkneea of night, ' the stabbing of two loving hearts. « He would go to the library and work ] out the little speech that was to strike • ■ the terrible blow. It was always cosy , 1 1 there, especially In rainy weather. ( • I Nothing could be more Boothlng to a j ' | fellow's nerves than the crackle of an . : open fire, even If Its heat be not needed. The door was ajar, the flicker and 1 glow cheerfulness Itself. Before the 1 fire sat his mother, and In a corner of J the sofa, among the deepeat shadows. ] crouched Lucia. j For the space of a minute he felt the , coward be had called himself. He wanted to run; he wanted to brave It ' j out; be stood lrresointe for a second, then sank Into the chair his mother 1 had drawn to her 6lde. • "Pm glnd yon've come. Harold." It j was his mother who spoke. Bnt what ailed her voice? She locked her fingers ! , tightly In her lap before going on. < •There's something I want to say to ! yon and Lucia. ^Tve decided to go west for a year or two, and It's best, I 1 believe, for you to be married before I 1 leave. Fve worried a good deal about « what you might think of such a step, c bnt my mind Is finally made up. Fm going to"—. t It had come— the crucial moment! 8 Harold felt distinctly that his heart . stopped beating with fear of the next few minutes. Then out of the shadows hovering about the sofa a little voice, thin and r Quavering, totally nnllke Lucia's, cleft the silence. T— I can't I'm— married— already. Today— at— S o'clock to— Sam Weston." Afterward Harold remembered his sensation— a numbness, the slow fuse of Lucia's announcement forcing Its way, Inch by Inch, exploding finally, full force. In his brain. But the first thing be really knew he was laughing Insanely, fairly Jingling the bric-a-brac with his "Ha, ha, ha!" and dancing Lucia madly about the room. It was his mother's sigh that finally penetrated his stupor, and he and Ln- f cla, two culprits, repentant bnt happy, v bent over her. n "Don't fret about me, mater," he , mumbled, his lips on her hair. "I'm as happy as Lucia. There's— you * know, mother, there's— a — girl for— me." Tm very, very glad." she smiled, a still nervous. "I hardly know how to t tell yon. bnt I— guess IPs all— right j o Thla day week I'm to start west bnt a before I go I— I'm to be married to— to j, Sam Weston's father." j g Peat aa Fuel. j ^ Peat Is partly decomposed vegetable matter that has formed either where the ground la saturated with water j '' most of the time or where It Is perma- j nently covered with water. It Is the ! o dark colored or nearly black soli found £ In bogs and swamps, commonly known f, as muck, although technically a dla- b tlnctlon Is made between peat and c muck, the latter name being restricted ; to those forms of swamp deposits that ' contain too much mineral matter to i freely. Dry peat may be very ] '< fibrous and light colored or compact « and structureless and dark brown or « black. II Is usually somewhat lighter ln color when dry than when freshly Q dug. When wet it contains, as a rule, from SO to 90 per cent or more of j - water— that Is. a short ton of wet peat j rarely contains more than 300 pounds v of dry peat and may yield as little as r 100 pounds. In the wet condition It , £ entirely noncombustlhle, and the va- N rioua processes by which it Is prepared 1 for use for market consist principally • 1 of methods for ridding It of water j 1 cheaply and quickly and for Increasing ^ fuel efficiency and transportability. : C A Good Reason. Little George, aged seven, was given j S a group of the toy monkeys copied j € from the famous one In the temple at 4 one having the hands over the J mouth, the second with the hands over j if the ears and the third over the eyes, j t George's father explained that the fig- 1 £ mean "speak no evil, hear no evil, i see no evil," and then said, "If you could be one of these monkeys, George. I which would yon rather be?" The child looked gravely at his fa- ' ther and then at the toy on the table. Finally he touched the monkey whose covered the mouth. "Why?" said papa. "Well," said the little fellow very seriously. "I suppose you have to see evil sometimes, and you can't help but | hear It, but you needn't speak It." I Which sentiment papa thought pretty I good for a little seven-year -old .—Los j Angeles Times. Crocodil* Tears. The expression "crocodile tears" can | found in almost every European [ but It Is doubtful If one ln thousand of those who use it have | Idea of Its origin. We are told ln Bestiary of Gulllaume le Clerc that when the crocodile finds an untraveler It devours him, but afterward weeps over him all the rest of life. This Is very evidently the alln "Othello." "Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile." There Is another version of the fahowever, which Is more often referred to ln literature and according to which the crocodile sheds tears ln orto allure the traveler to destruction. Shakespeare alludes to this ln the passage where he tells how— Th» mournful crocodile sorrow snares relenting passu iiqi ■ Henry VL." 1. m. —"Poet's Love."

TROTTING AND BREEDING ASSOCIATION At the annual meeting of the Cape May County t Trotting and Breeding Association, held at the track, the following officers and directors ware elected for the .coming year. President, Dr. J. Morgan . Dix ; first vice president, Charles P. Vanaman ; second vice president, Horace E. Richardson; secretary. Dr. John S. Douglass; Edwin Foster; directors, Frank Ludlam, John H. Twaddell. Isaac Powell, Horace E. Richardson, Lin ID. Oompton, James Scbellenger, Charles B. Vanaman, Walter Barrel 1. Julius Way, Alexander R. Alfred Crease and Robert The first meet this season will bejheld Saturday, June fifth. There will be two races, the free-for-all for a of fifty dollars. The 2 :40 class for fifty bushels of oats. There will also be a show "of single harness teams and of draft horses. Blue, red and yellow ribbons to be awarded. This season the Association will bold I more meets than in any previous year. of the horses are already Jin training. Kinnette, sired by Einster, record 2 :14J and owned by Alexander R. Springer, is training at Roadstown. ■She is entered at Salem for the races Memorial Day. There will be a number of new trotentered In the races this season, as of the members of the Association and also other horsemen in the county have made'purchases recently, hut have not announced the names or records of their horses. CASTOR I A Pot Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought COURT HOUSE AND OTHER POINTS This season game birds are very plentiful in Cape May County. Last week Wm. F. Koenke and G. S. Orleman, of Atlantic City, killed over one hundred and fifty yellow legs, plover and curlew on the'marshes near Stone Harbor. The Ocean City Board of Health have already started the annual warfare on 1 the mosquito and its eggs. A number j of barrels of oil have been purchased and this is being distributed where it thought it will do the most good, in 1 exterminating the insect j County Collector, Joseph I. and Mrs. 1 Scull left Ocean City last week for j Hot Springs, where they will spend weeks. | The new bell for the Methodist EpisI copal Church of Sesville, was put in belfry last week. It will be rung j the first time on Sunday evening I by the pastor. Kev. DuBois, [for the Epworth League service, i J. C. Foster, of the Cape May | County Gazette force, came very near j losing a hand last Tuesday evening while working the press. One finger was mashed and another broken. Miss Bertha Haley, of Eidora, graduates this year from the Cape May

High School at the bead>f hernias*. ,■ Sbc baa not mi— d a a— loo for the past two yaara, and has been exempted 8 from the final examinations in both t years. At a recent meeting of the Seaville | 8 Methodist Episcopal Church the follow- • ing trustees were elected for three year 8 terms: J. Lybron Corson, Somera j Townsend, Henry Davis. L Newton • Howell waa elected to fill the unex- j • pired term of Charles DeVauL J. L. • Hess yras elected president and Z. T. 1 ■ Gandy, secretary of the Board. When you noed clothing ask for C.;M. WESTCOTT the Cape Mav County ' salesman. Everybody knows that he is with WANAMAKER & BROWN t OAK HALL, Sixth ft Market Streets I Philadelphia. An enormous stock of . clothing ready for Men-Women-Boys • and Girls. We pay excursion car fare 1 both ways upon the purchase of a cer- 1 i tmin amount I . . ■ | AR»yle CATftRRH 1 Ely's Cream Balm Glrw RsUef at Ones ; It cleanses. sdbthes, CL*Y"RVEt* : t^S<Uaea3«/:r0tCCt8 i brane resulting from Catarrh and drives ^^0 -rrG awav a Cold in tho -v-*ry' wB ■ Head quickly. Kc.||ay rrurn I stores the Senses of V1H T ■ LV Ln . Taste and Smell. F ull size 38 cts. , at Druggists or by mail. In liquid torm, 75 rents. 1 Ely Brothers. 50 Warren Street. New York. Printing for Farmers. Farmers as well as all other business men should have their printed bill heads, cards, paper and envelopes. It | looks like business, it is more con- | venient. it helpe trade, and it is | cheaper. Send for our price list and § samples or call at-office when you are ? in Cape May and we will tell you all | about . 1 STAR AND WAVE PUBLISHING | , CO., 315 and 317jWashington street. S « | ! INVITATIONS 0F^l8TkbT3 ! Very neatly Printed! if not Engraved | We can imitate Engraved work so I : closely that it will deceive a great | i many, and it would simply be out of ? ■ the question to procure better engrav- ? I ing than we are selling. See the sam- | ; pies and be convinced. 8 tar and Wave Publishing Company, § 315 and 317 Washington 8treet. 3 ap e May, N. J. Modern Printing from High Class Type VfQJTINr CARDS either en 1 101 11 lyU grave l or printed should be "letter perfect" and on cards ol good quality, that is the | reason so many of these cards are j sold by the Star and Wave Publishing Company, 315 and 317 Washington St. We can please you in this line. Write for style Card A and prices of our imitated j engraving

&£»00<&>00<i3>00<i>00<&>00<g»00<38£ I PHILADELPHIA RIDING ACADEMY INC. | } ! J- H LITTLEFIELD, General Manager. \ ' 'Wit Stables Open June 10 | ; 1 V ' Riding and driving taught. Well trained saddle horses ' ' € ' Excellent eqippment, Thorough stableman. Horses taken < » 0 > to board. < > c » Cape May Stables, Schelleugers Landing, C. Gerald Taylor, Mgr. 4 , X Ocean City Stables, Sixth st. and Haven ave., Harrison C. Stanton, Mgr | Phila. Stables, Parkway and Fairmont ave., Arthur W. Sankey, Mgr' w ;

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Fa.st Express Trains Between Cape May and Broad Street Station PHiladelphia Beginning May 28th Weekdays Sundays Lv. Broad st. Station 4.05 P^M 9.35 A. M. Ar. Cape May 6.05 P- M. n-35 A. M. Beginning May 29th Weekdays Sundays Lv. Cape May - 7.20 A. M. 4.55 P. MAr. Broad St. Station 9.21 A. M. 6.55 P. M.

Express trains on quickened schedules leave Market St. Wharf for Cape May at 8.36 A. M. 3.52 P. M. weekdays, 8.40 A. M. "Sundays, and 1.00 P. M. Saturdays only Leave Cape May 7.05 A. M. 4.15 P. M. weekdays and 4.15 P. M. Sundays. Improved service between Cape May and Millville has been placed in operation. . J. R. Wood Gso. W. Boyd s " ' Passenger Traffic Manager- General Passenger Agent

_ | NOW IS THE TIME FOR Oil cloth, Linoleum, Stove Boards Oil Heaters, Stove Pipes, and Coal Hods. 1 Have a Stock On Hand. PRICES REASONABLE CHARLES A. S^AIN 305-7 JacKson Street

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Complete Assortment of all Fabrics Quality and Style Always Our First Consideration. O. L W. KNERR. 518-3O WASHINGTON STREET ||j BOTH PHONES HOTEL SUPPLIED 81 1 CAMDEN BOTTLING CO. 1 Imported |and Domestic Wines and liquors, A :full line of § high class Whiskeys

9a Three Feathers S K Patterson and fCoane No. .6 Tramrick Peerless Overholt G. and B. Bine Label |$| and all other leading brands. A large variety of bottled beers

Sunny Brook Gibson Monticello Pepper Wm Penn aft Autocrat

FINE FINE OF JOHN STEI6ERW411) S CO CIGARS afi BOX TRADE A fi f'KCI 4 LTY I 312 AND 314 WASHINGTON STREET WOLFF'S BAKERY 406 and 408 Washington Street Finest products of finest quality. Every detail under my personal-supervision. I desire to make the WOLFF QUALITY stand for the highest excellence F. W WOLFF OPENING OF NEW STORE Saturday, May 29th, lqoP * I announce to the peopl- of Cape May County that I will open a first class AND GENTS FURNISHING STORE | ifi my jwn building at 141 Burke Ave. Holly Reach, N. J. A New Stock of Staple Goods Will be on Sale at 'he opening for eight days at cut prices. Give us a trial for your own benefit. Benjamin Gidding 144 Burke Avenue., Holly Beach, N J.

I ml TfXW HElOfOUSE HINTS To raise fine birds yon mast provide comfortable Quarter*. Profitable egg getting H presumes this— success ln the poultry onaincss rcqnireatt. PAR0ID the Permanent Reedy Roofing I ■ Is eepedaUy prepared to meet the ponttrvmen's needs. It Is a heavy telt (not paper). H No tar in it — proof against climati. changes. Easily applied by any one, with free ■ roofing kit inside each roll ; doea Dot require painting when first applied and lays flat. I The only roofing with rast-prool caps. I You c.n save money and keep your poultry dry and warm by using PAROIB. ■ ■ Send or call to-day tea our book of Vara and Poultry Building i'lasa. il la frac. H CAPE MAY GRAIN AND COAL COMPANY ■

The new dairy feed "SUGAROTA" is prepared for the purpose of Produceing Milk. It is also the most economical feed on the market. OIVE IT A TRIAL. PRICE SI. 50 PER 100 LBS Cape May Grain' Ql Coal CoWashington St. Near Reading Terminal I. H. ELDREDGE, Manager, 'Phone No 16 A Bell Phoie No 206 X