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JMrnm HORSES FOR SALE ■ r Constantly on hand all sorts of horses from the heapest to the best, any size or kind. Just write what you want and I will send it on 10 days trial and will take it away if not satisfactory. You positively take no chance as the animal Must Suit You. Remember that the guarantee is good on Horses Cows sold at Auction as well as at private sales. Most of Cape May County horses come from Woodbine, on account of square dealings. MAX POTASHNICK ^ Woodbine, N. J. ££

Under Veterinary Inspection CAPE MAY FARMSTEAD j A Model ,rra established for the production of the best and purest farm products, under perfect sanitary conditions. NELSON Z. GRAVES, Owner and Proprietor. T Nursery Milk of Superb Quality Household Milk of Highest Grade Cream, Rich and Unmodified Eggs, one day old from White Leghorns Broilers, Poultry, and Ducklings in Season. Deliveries are made twice daily by Refrigerator Car. A postal will bring our car to your door. Visitors are welcomed at the Farmstead. OUR SUCCESS RESTS ON IMPLICIT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE GEORGE C. REA, Manager — OAKLAND — ~ • THE CAR WITH A CONSCIENCE" - AUTOMOBILES Sold by C L STILLEl Tuck&hoe, N. J. AND BACKElbD UP BY STILLE'S REAL GARAGE 6 PASSENGER TOURING COMPLETE WITH ELECTRIC STARTER, FULL EQUIFMENT £ $1,200 Its some car. Take a ride. Bell Phone

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YORK BROTHERS. Carpenters and Builders CAPE MAY, N. J. EstLnates cheerfully given on all kinds of buildings satisfaction guar anted "" P. O. Box 661 I REAL ESTATE AND SEARCH CO Of Cape May County, New Jersey REPRESENTING I Fidelity Trust Company of Newark |1 TITLES INSURED ^^SEARCHES, ABSTRACTS OF TITLES AND FIRE INSUB ^hANCE. FARM PROPERTIES BOUGHT AND SOLD. BBee in New Bank Building, Cape May Court House,

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[DANGER OF EXTINCTION EXISTENCE THREATENED BY CONSTANT SLAUGHTER OF THE KIND THAT CAUSED EXTINCTION OF WILD PIGEONS. No bird bolda so prominent a place in the minds of the American people aa the Robin. It is distinctively a companion of man, and wherever his hand has cleared the wilderness the Robin has followed. From Mexico to (he Yukon the traveler meets it, and the residents will tell him of its coming and going. It bis passed into the literature of the country, and one reads of it in the books of science and of romance. Poets weave it« image into their wjtchery of rhyme, lovers fondly spy upon its wooing, and by the fireside of every household children lisp its name when stories are told in the twi- ; light. Heedless indeed is the ear that does i not' hearken when the Robin sings. Loud and clear it calls at dawn, and sweet j are the childhood memories it brings of i fresh green fields swept by gentle winds and apple blossoms filled with dew. One spring, a pair built their nest ; on the limb of a balsam standing be- . side a much-used walk near my home. In gathering ✓the material for the nest, the greatest care was exercised to work at those hours when there was the least chance of ^eing observed. Thus, | = the greater part -'was done in the early j morning when "few people were astir. Perhaps one reason for this was that the , I blades of dead_ grass, twigs and other nesting material, were then damp and j pliable "from the dews, of night, and were > much more easily woven into position : than after they had become dry and j , brittle. Only during the last few days j of construction did I detect the birdB working in the afternoon. The mud for their nest was fonnd by a little pool at the end of a leaky horse-trough. On April 18 the nest appeared to be completed, for no more materials were I brought. On the ted the female began sitting. I could see her tail extending over one side of the nest, he bill pointing upward at a sharp angle from the other. She flew off the first day when the half-hundred boys who frequented the walk came along on their way to dinner. But ahg soon became accustomed to them, and would sit quietly, although numerous heads passed within five or six feet. No one disturbed the nest with its four blue eggs, and on ' May 0 I saw her feeding the young. Four days after this event.J^jioticed . — (he heads of the younglings bobbing above the rim of the nest. They were — gaining strength rapidly. — The morning of May 17 was cool, and a drizzling rain had been falling for some hours. This dreary morning happened to come on the day when the young Robins desired to leave the nest. Rain could neither dampen' their desire nor check their plans. At 6even | o'clock, three of them were found sitting motionless, a foot or more from the nest, on the limb which held it. Each had gathered itself into as small a space as possible, and, with head drawn close, seemed waiting for something to hap- i pen. But their eyes were bright, as they looked out over the vast expanse of the lawn before them — that trackless ' region, to explore which they dared not j = trust their strength. The fourth - one j could not be found. The next day two I others disappeared, after spending some _ hours of joyous life on the grass and in | the shrubbery- 1 strongly suspected the Academy cat knew where they had gone. Knowing that tjie family would never , • return to the nest, I removed it from , the limb, for I wanted to see how the wonderful structure was put together. In its building, a framework of slender balsam twigs had first been used. There were sixty-three of these, some of which were as much as a foot in length. Intertwined with these were twenty fragments of reed stalks and grass stems. The yellow clay cup, which came next inside, varied in thickness from a quarter "f an inch at the rim at the bottom I Grass worked in with the clay while it 1 was yet soft aided in holding it together, and now, last of all, came the smooth : (by carpet of fine grass. The whole 1 structure measured eight itt'bea acrois 1 the top; inside it was three inches in ' width, and one and a half deep. It was : one of those wonderful objects which 1 is made for a purpose, and it had served ' that purpose well. It is good to watch the Robins when J a touch of autumn is in the air and the wander-lust is strong upon them. On 1 1 rapidly beating wings they drive swift- ' !y across the fields, or pause on the top- 1 most spray of a roadside tree and look | eagerly away to the southward. Their ealls are sharp and inquisitive. Clearly, I . the nn suppressed excitement of starting c on a long journey pervades their nature. 1 In a little while they will be gone. f later you may find them in their t winter home, feeding on the black gum s trees In a Carolina swamp, tjie berries s Iof the China tree in Georgia, or the fruit J r •f the cabbage palmetto in Florida. fisM • 4

^ .>f the confiding intimacies so dear to their friends at the North. We see them in flocks, wild and suspicious. Often they gather to feed on the great pine barrens far fjom the abode of man. They grow fat from much eating, and are hunted for the table. Recyitly 1 round- strings of them in the markets of in Ralicgh, and was told they were worth sixty cents a dozen, the highest price 1 ( had ever been asked for them, j Robins in winter sometimes congren gate by thousands to roost at a favorite e spot, and here the hunters often come e to take them, in the manner Audubon tells us people took the Wild Pigeons during the last century. Stories of i8 their killing creep into the public press, ^ and over their coffee men marvel at the 0 slaughter of birds that goes on, sometime in their immediate neighborhood. A TENNESSEE ROBIN ROOST a Here is an authentic account of the _ raiding of one such roost, given the "writer by Dr. P. P. Claxton, of the Uni6 versity of Tennessee. He was familiar j with many of the details, and will vouch ^ I for the truthfulnes of the facts here set , f | forth. He says: "The roost to which B . I refer was situated in what is locally known as a 'cedar glade' near Fostert j villa, Bedford County, Tenneaee. This is a great cedar country, and Robins , used to come in immense numbers durt ing' the winter months, to feed on the j. berries. By the middle of a winter's afe ternoon, the birds would begin coming 9 by our house in enormous flocks, which . would follow one another like great ' I waves moving in the direction of the roost. They would continue to pass r until night. We lived fifteen miles ^ from the roost, and it was a matter of observation that the birds came in this n ! manner from all quarters., j j "The spot which the roost occupied g j was not unlike numerous others that a might have been selected. The trees r grew to a height of from five to thirty ■ feet, and for a mile square were literally loaded at night with Robins. Hunting them while they roosted was a fave orite sport. A man would climb a cedar 9 tree with a torch, while his companions with poles and clubs would disturb the sleeping hundreds on the adjacent trees. e Blinded by the light, the suddenly awak9 ened birds flew to the torch bearer, who j ag he seized each bird, would quickly j I pull off its head and drop it into a | sack suspended from his shoulder. I "The capture of three or four hun- , ' drcd birds was an ordinary night's work. e Men and boys would come in wagons 1 ; from all the adjoining counties and , | camp near the roost for the purpose of I killing Robins. Many times, one bun- , dred or more hunters with torches and ' clubs would be a work in a single night. i For three years ihis tremendous slaughj ' ler continued in winter, and then the r ' survivors deserted the roost." These arc almost the identical meth- , ods employed in killing untold numbers of Wild Pigeons, which is today prob-. ably an extinct bird in America. 9 That protection should be extended to , the Robin because of its economic value , as a destroyer of injurious insects many observers unite in stating, despite the , objection some times raised to his fond- . ness for small fruits. The United States , j Department of Agriculture, which looks , so carefully into various subjects of vital , importance to our country, sent Mr. W. ! ' L. McAtee, a brilliant naturalist, to ; ! Ixmisiana, the past winter, and he made , j many observations on the feeding habits , of these birds. Under date of February , 20, 1010. he reported: I ( 1 j "I collected twelve Robins near here yesterday, and got the following results from an examination of their gizzards: . Eight had eaten nothing out insects, the other four had taken respectively 95, 80, ' 65 and 0 per cent of insects and other ! t invertebrates. The insects eaten included grasshoppers, bugs, beetles, beetle larvae (wire worms and others), and caterpillars, including cut worms. An- , other day I collected three other Robins which had eaten insects, including lnrvae of crane flies, which are sometimes known as leather-jackets. . The larvae ' feed on the roots of gradies, including grain crops and . other ' plants, and are f sometimes quite injurious. Each of the j three birds had eaten one or more epoci- ( mc-ns of a leaf beetle, a plant feeder, j ' and injurious. On a basis of eighteen stomachs I have examined this month, I , consider the Robin to be essentially an ( insectivorous bird in Louisiana in Feb<-t-I notice that grctit numbers of j . the Robins feed in open grassy fields, i t l where their diet must consist largely of j animal matter, as the birds do not eat 1 "^ecd seeds. They are shot here from I j | morning to night ; shots arc heard in evdirection. Each hunter kills from to fifty per day." ( ROBIN PROTECTION The National Association of Audu- j Societies has been working to sethe passage of laws better calcu- q ted to protect the Robin, and its ef- o forts are being greatly strengthened by J ^ financial aid rendered by Mrs. Rus- ' £ sell Sage. We believe that in every j . state of the Union this bird should be J placed on the list of protected species, i C I and never allowed to Be killed as game. J f

' to permit the indiscriminate killing of t valuable inaect -eating birds to continue L in this age of enlightenment. d Largely as a result of the effects of the Audubon workers, only a few states ' are left wherein the Robin is not proh tected. It is unlawful to kill them at; any time in this state. The Robin belongs to the Thrush fam- " ily- It ranges throughout North Amere ica from the southern end of the Mex- ; ® iean tableland northward to the limit B of trees in Labrador and Alaska. In this ■ 8 great area it is represented by three • ' geographical races: the Eastern Robin, ' '< the Western Robin, wh'.cn is like the e Eastern bird, but has li'.t'e or no white ' in the tail and no blajg markings on - the back; and the Southern Robin, which in the mountains, breed as far south as '' Northern Georgia, and is smaller and 8 paler than the northern bird. J SHELF'S SALE. t • By Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, 1 for sale of Mortgaged Premises, to me . directed, Issued oat of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, on the 10th - day of January. A. D. 1014. In a certain cause wherein Allentown Portland Ce- ' ment Company ts complainant, and F. . E. Smith Lumber Company Is defendant, I shall expose to sale at public vendue. - Monday, February 16, 1914 between the hours of twelve and live 5 o'clock P. M., to wit, at one o'clock In the afternoon of said day, at the Sher1 lire office. In Cape May Court House, h Cape May County, New Jersey: All the following tract or parcel of - 9 land and premises hereinafter particularly described situate, lying and being • on Five Mile Beach In the Borough of , North Wlldwood In the County of Cape May and State of New Jersey, and [ known as lots No. 104 A, 104 B. 106 A. 10GB. In block number two hundred and i forty on plan of lota of North Wildwood Real Estate Company, which said plan is on file !n the office of the Clerk | of Cape May County and State of New Jersey, being bounded and described as t follows, to wit: — Beginning at a point on the south1 westerly aide of Eleventh avenue, at the , distance of one hundred feet northwestwardly from the north westerly Bide of • Pennsylvania avenue at the corner of lot number 104 B and running theDce J i northwestwardly along the said south- 1 . westerly side of Eleventh avenue and front line of lots 104 A. 104 B. 106 A, r 106 B, 106 -C. the distance of one hun- ' dred feet to the corner of lot number i 108 and thence between parallel line at , right angles to aald Eleventh avenue : with a width of one hundred feet the distance of one hundred feet, to the reav—llne of lota fronting on Twelfth ; ' COLEMAN F. CORSON. Sheriff. ' Dated January 20.1814 i , Lewellyn Hildreth. Sol'r. l-2S-14-4t : P F — 69.60 : notice to limit creditors Estate of Achsjffi Wood, Deceased, i Pursuant to the order of Edward L. I Rice, Surrogate of the County of Cap* f May, made on the 17th day of Decern- 1 - ber A. D. 1013, on the application of tbe ' I subscriber, Administrator c. t. a. of said ; ■ deceased, notice is hereby given to the . • creditors of said deceased to exhibit ! , ' to the subscriber under oath or affirma- i tion their claims and demands against - the estate of said deceased within nine i months from the seventeenth day of De- ' sember, A. D. 1918, or they will be forever barred of any action against thr j i subscriber. 1 Dated December 17, A. D. 1913. SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE, : , Administrator c. t. a 1 NOTICE Tu LIMIT CREDITORS Estate of Ammon Wright, deceased. Pursuant to the order of Edward ' Rice, Surrogate of the County of OMay, made on the sixth day el ..ovem ber A. D. 1913, on the application of tbsubscriber, administrator c. t. a. of sair deceased, notice is hereby given to th< ' creditors of said deceased to xhibii ^ to the subscriber under oath or ffirmi • Ion their claims and demands againf ^ the estate of eaid deceased within nmmonths from the sixth day of Novembei A. D. 1918, or they will be forever bar red of an action against the subscribe' Date! November 6, A. D. 1913. HANNAH WILMOTH, V . Administratrix with the will annexed SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE, Proctor. I 193-1 1 -18-9. 1 Board of health notice j "Property owners on Washington and Lafayette streets who have not a n- •' n pc ted with the sewers are hereby notifled that connection in accordance with the Plumbing Code must be made on or S before Say I, 1914, and those who have not connected before March 31st, 1914, 1 will receive the regular thirty days no- A tiee as required by tbe aforesaid code. After May 1, 1914, tbe Board of S will proceed to set in connections to the sewers for all properties B not complying with this order." C Dated, Cape May City, N. J„ Dee. ! 1, 1913. WM. PORTER, _ Secretary of the Board of Health. Cape May City, N. 3. : CAPE MAY COUNTY ORPHANS' COURT j On the application of Mary A. Edmunds, I I of Order to a I Clara Bennett, deceased, ' Show Cause | for sale of lands to pay debts. Mary A. Edmunds, Administratrix of Bennett, deceased, having exhibited to this Court, under oath, a just and true aeoount of the personal estate and . debts of said Clara Bennett, dooeased, j

f March next, fot£ " "h01}' Bhow 6*°*e wfey.*> mueti • real aitate of tbe Uid dar» HmmSt, 1 'deceased, should not be told as will b« sufficient te pay her debts, or the residue thereof, as the case any require; and 1 that this order, signed by the Surrogate. shin he immediately hereafUr set up at three of the most public place* . in the County of Cape May for eix weeks , successively, and be published at least once each week for the same time ix the Star and Wave, one of the newspaper of this State. HENRY H. ELDREDGE, EDWARD L. RICE, JAMES M. E. HILDRETH, Surrogate I-10-7t Proctor. 1 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 01 THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE. CAPE MAY DEL. BAY A SEWELLS PT. R. R. CO. The Annual Meeting of the Stoek- . holders of the Cape May, Delaware Bay an Sewell's Point Railroad Oompa-y, and an election of Directors to serve for tht ensuing year, will be held at the principal office of the Company, No. 4M Washington street, Qape May City, N. J„-an Wedneedaw, January 21st, 1914, \ at 190 o'clock P. M. i Yours truly ' EDW. H. HEILMAN, Secretary. u» » Rcpsrt of t c Condition of tbe MERCHANT NATIONAL BANK Of GAPE MAY. In the Stale of New Jersey, at the clone of business. January It, 1814. RESOURCES 1 Loans and Discounts (S02.800.71 Overdrafts, secured and unaeI cured . 10.11 U. S. Bonds to secure circulation 60.000.04 Other Bonds to secure Postal Savings. 7.000.09 Premiums on U. 8. Bonds 260.00 Bonds. Securities, etc 69,706.09 Banking House. Furniture and Fixtures tl.400.09 Other Real Estate owned 6,660.09 Due from approved Reserve Agents 22.St9.St Checks and other Cash Items 117.19 Notes of other National Banks 2.046.09 Fractional Piper Currency. Nickels and Cents S96.7X Specie (29.909.76 L*gal-tender notes ISO. 00 80,099.79 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (E of circulation) 2.600.00 Total 1606,429.09 LIABILITIES Caplal stock paid In S 50.000.09 Surplus fund 28.000.00 Undivided profits, less . ox- - penscs and taxes paid 4.949.60 National Bank Notes outstanding 50,000.00 | Individual deposits subject to I check S71.989.6I certificates of deposit 500.00 Certified checks 100.00 Postal Savings deposits _ 889.82 Total 1506.429.09 State of New Jersey. County of Cape May. ss. I. E. J. .Terrell. Cashier of the abovenamed bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement I; I rue to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. J. JERRELL. Cashier. thteU20th'dav ""jnnoery. 1 9°1 J"'f?re m* G. BOLTON JSLDREDGE, NotAry Public. Correct — Attest: W. L. STEVENS. JOHN IV M MCKAY, FRANK B, M MCKAY. Directora. the merry mile j She walked a merry mile with me, j | Just as the day vn :iding; A chill was in the autumn air, " J The rain, like dew, upon her hair. j I In tiny drops depending; Wild winda-tffSlprbed the roaring sea, ! The spray splashed in our faces; We walked together, she and I, And now and then she paused to Her 4ainty silk shoe laces. walked a merry mile or two, 1 j Nor cared where we were going; . / look was glad, her cheeks were red, ( clouds hung darkly overhead, S The wind was briskly blowing; , ' heart was light, my cares were few. Her youthful beauty thrilled me, , And I was happy to forget l j That both my feet were getting wet, ) And that the weather chilled me. ' j walked with me a merry mile, j Just as the day was dying; rain, like dew, lay on her hair, J happily we lingered where '( The spray was wildly flying. She thrilled me with her winsome smile. The wind turned crisp and criaper, But all that- happened was that I , cold, which is the reason why I now talk in a whisper. — 8, E. Riser, in Chicago Record-Herald,

At The Seashore * II Fashionable folks unwilling (o sac- H rifiCe either their perzona) comeli- II ness or tbe joys of outdoors, use II regularly in the bath and toilet *1 GlennU_SuIgjnwSoa]> Tboee who know hi renurkabli virtu m, .1 SWustissasss -s I •• Protacts Tho Sfchi t ||| | Br.imWAiBw.m.lnnifc. Ijj t