ZA.OE IHBB1 * CAPE MAY STAR AND pAYE SATURDAY, December ID. pit

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF SECURITY TRUST COMPANY Jume 30th, 1914 T.TARTT.TTTRK LIABILITIES.

RESOURCES Time and Demand Loan6. .$1,647,670.24 j Bond* and Mortgages .... 246.256.39 ■ Stock* and Bond* 508,566.13 I Overdraft* 2.90 r Banking nouses. Camden and Cape May 130.000.00 Cash and Reserve 294,784.46 1

[ j Capital S100.006.00 » ; Surplus 100 .000.00 I 1 1 Undivided Profits 81,080.50 ) [■Deposits 2,544.390.62 (Reserve for Taxfs . .. . 1.700.00 > • •

$2.^7*1 80. 1 2 f2327.1M.12 Three Per Cent. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Acts as Administrator, Executor, Guardian or Trustee. Wills drawn and kept without charge. """ Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent in Burglar-Proof Vault. ADVISORY BOARD. _ — . . - ... _ u f . fiocrctftrv

J. Spicer Chairman. Dr. James Mecray Aaron W. Hand Reuben T. Johnson Sherman S. Sharp.

Henry C. ■ Thompson, John B. Huffman Albert G. Bennett Hon. Robert E. Hand Dr. Wilson A- Lake

rl A Wisely Chosen I Christmas Gift ■B You may thi ik of many things for Christ- I M mas that are both useful and ornamental, Kj ■ but here is a gift that increases with age — I B an account with the Merchants National nfl I 3 per cent, interest paid on Time Deposits B. S. CURTIS & SON NO. 324 DELAWARE AVENUE, CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND GAS FITTING JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Keystone Telephone, 133D. A. D. Reeves. Pres. Henry Reeves, Trees. D. W. Green, See. REEVES & GREEN ENGINEERING CO., «t ELECTWCAJJOON TR ACTORS, S 1PP LIES AND PLUMBING. STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING Machinists, Consulting Mechanical and Ehctrlcal Engineers. Agents for Peer less Mazda Lamps, Electric Irons, Fans, Stoves and Fixtures. Estimates Furnished Phone — Keystone 114 M 405 WASHINGTON ST. CAPE MAY, N J. '

J. C LITTLE | Paints, Varnishes and Painters Supplies -ugeat for N. Z. Graves Co. 1 103 Jackson St. L. INGERSOLL | UNDERWRITERS REGISTERED ELECTRICIAN STORAGE BATTERIES AND ELECTRIC CARS REPAIRED AND RECHARGED. ELECTRICAL REPAIRS Rouse Wiring, . Nickleplating and Oxidizing. | Office: 306 Decatur Street NOTICE. T. H. Taylor announoea that at hU | Central Shoe Store, (II Wasklnctom street, he continues the shoe' business as before. I hsve takes tbs agency Is Caps May City for BALL BAND RDBBBB footwear, and would call special attea- , tloa to the new VAC Boot, made by this company. The best oa the market. | Will still de all kinds of repair work. Shoe ftndlscs and draaslags for sale T. H. TAYLOR 411 Wsshlncton SL. Cape May, N. J. . , j Buy your Christmas gifts now in ( Cape May. CALLING CARDS Engraved and printed. Prompt service at the Star and Wave Stationery Department.

{ i. h. sniTH $ V Clothier jj ^ 608 Washington St, % F Opposite Reading Sta ^ t CAPE MAY N. J. t W Suits for |S and upwards ^ 6 £ ▼ Overcoats from 17 ts (If TT m M Jv Bats. Caps, Trunks and W Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods W ^ at Philadelphia prices. ^ vav-S Typewriter and Adding Machine Riball colors and styles, at the Star 1 and Wave Stationery Department. I Wcntzeiis. si Perry street, will give . you bids on furniture, carpet aad flttlngv for your entire house and put It la olaoe far you.

BEFORE Bad Weather i | Sets in Have your Tin Roofs and Spouting repaired STOVES, HEATERS AND RANGES For all purposes at right prices. Stoves Repaired. JESSE BROWN 110 aad 112 JACKSON ST. CAPE MAY IRON • t FOR EVERY FENCE PURP0SE No Matter for What Purpose You Want Iron Fence We Can Supply Your Wants i For Residences. Divisions on Property Lines, Cemeteries, Private Burying Grounds, Cemetery Lot Enclosures, Church and School Property, Court Houses and Jails jclion for Ttl Stewart Iron I I For BEST PRICE Call On or Addma ■ I

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WILLIAM McFADDEN j | COR. PEKKT AMD SOUTH LAFAYETTE 5TS. |

1825 ' I9M : THE | PENNSYLVANIA FIRE . INSURANCE COMPANY B. Incorporated 1825. CTIARTER PERPETUAL OFFICE, 508-510 WALNUT ST Philadelphia, Pa. Capital $750,000.00 j Assets $8,002,962.21 : Surplus $2,326,053.39 ! , DIRECTORS, j R. Dale- Benson W. Gardner Crowell I . I.I. Tatnall Lea. Edward T. Stotesbury |t | Richard M. Cadwaladcr, Edwin N. Benson, Jr.. ■lohn L. Tliomson. Henry I. Brown. I A | R. DALE BENSON, President, r JOHN L. THOMSON, Vice President P W. GARDNER CROWELL, m ! 2d Vice Pres. and Sec'y. r HAMPTON L. WARNER. Asst. Sde'y. P WM. J. DAWSON, Sec. Agency. Dcpt . 0 SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE 0 ^ LOCAL AGENT a Mercliants National Bank Building, ■ Cor. Washington and Decatur streets, 9 Cape Mav, New Jersey. > " l\ LUMBER AND P Mill Work ^ GEO. OGDEN * SON PARKER'S HAIR BAL8AM ForRcrtorini Color and Advertise your wonts in the Caps May Star and Wavt.

NEW JERSEY APPLE CROP STATISTICS Tlie 1914 apple crop of New Jersey is estimated at 3.100,000 bushels, according to a re|K>rt of the Federal Department of Agriculture issued recently. The yield in 1913 was 2.100.000 bushels and 1,700,000 bushels in 1912. The condition of the crop at the present time is 88 per 1 , cent of normal and the average condiI tion during the past ten year period ha* been 57 per cent of normal. 1 The apple crop of continental United State* is estimated at 230.249.000 bushI el* for 1914, while the yield last year' was only 145.400.000 bushels. The aver1 . age price being paid to fanners for apI pie* at the present time is 62 cents per BURDENS LIFTED From Cape May Court House Backs— j Relief Proved by Lapse of Time. Backache is a heavy burden; Nervousness, dizziness, headache. Rheumatic pain; urinary ills; All wear one out. Often effects of kidney weakness. No use to cure the symptoms. Relief is but temporary if the cause remains. If it's the kidneys, cure the cause. Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney . ill; Read about your neighbor's case. Here's Cape" May Court House testiThe kind that can be investigated. Mrs. John Taylor, Mechanic St., Cape May C. H., says: "I am pleased to confirm the public statement I gave a few years ago, recommending Doan's Kidney Pills. I used this remedy when suffering from backache and weak kidneys, and in a remarkably short time it made me well."" Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy — get Doan's Kidpey Pills — the same that Mrs. Taylor had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buf- : falo, N. Y. GOOD TABLETS made in three sizes, 81-2x11 — 6x9—61.2 x8l-2 — 10 cents per pound while they last — Star and Wave Stationery Department. CALLING CARDS Engraved and 1 printed. Prompt servioe at the Star - and Wave Stationery Department. d r

THE RETURN OF NICHOLAS When the waters Tift and the heavens There are anxious hearts in Ootuit , Many the wrecks that line the shore, And a form is missed from every door Blue is the night as it darkens down On the on- long street of Ootuit town, And the sea keeps pounding on the ] Can it be it is Christmas Eve once • The firelight blooms on the children's And the portrait that looks from the . wall it seeks; They are four, but the fifth, be comes t And the sea keeps pounding on the 1 The elfin firebeam dances and leaps. Bull the mother her face in the shadow 1 They are Hbnging their stockings now, ( the four, , Can it be it is Christmas Eve once 1 more? Ah, yes! And that mother-weeps for 1 the son 1 Who was brother to these and father in J . Meager this year is their Christmas . (And the sea keeps pounding on thd i They have seen the drops in their mother's eyes. And from pff their lips the laughter dies. '•With Nicholas gone," sobs one of the fbur. "It isn't like Christmas any more!" Then they talk of the pranks that Nicholas played. Of the_bow8 he strung, of the ships he made; The ship he sailed in — it sails no more — (And the sea keeps pounding on the , shore). So loud are the wave* that their clamors drown The wind tlrat drives through Ootuit town — "Some one is knocking. I'm sure, at the It's no one we ever have seen before!" S Now over the threshold a stranger stepped. (' V , 8 Ifis long white beard to his girdle swept, E And bent was he with the pack he bore, f But he lightly doffed tin- cap he wore, And — wonder of wonder* — the stranger j knew f What each child wanted: and this he j' j From the pack, which he flung, with a laugh on the floor, i "Children, it's Christmas Eve once r . -But. sir." said the mother, 'you arc too kind: - How shall we thank you?". "0 never r mind!" And the stranger twitched off the mask And a rush was made by the madcap j "If* Nicholas, mother — our own Kt-j Nick. And she laughs till the teat* come fast | and thick. Her boy i* safe in her arms once more. And sin- love*~as she never loved him By the fire they sit while he tell* his y tale. How the wreck was seen by a passing sail. How that sail was bound for a distant e shore — e "But it's Christinas Eve and I'm liom • n once m e When the waters lift and fho heavens y frown 8 There are anxious hearts in Cotnit When tlie lost returns' they heed no How the sea keeps pounding on ' the ~ shore. . —Edith M. Thomas in Sailors' Magazine. a Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA

WOMEN AND THE PROFESSIONS Mr. Gilson Gardner has made an inter* esting analysis of the United States oen8us figures just published, in which be shows that "a constantly increasing share of the brain work of the United States is being performed by women." He thus summarizes his study of this feature of the Census. The report on occ.'pations shafts that in the professions then- are a 'total of i 1.825.127 persons. Of these, 1.151,70V were males and 673,418 wen- females, the males constituting 63.1 per cent of ' the total and the females 36.9. Thus, in 1910 there w>re four women to every seven men in professional work. That women are more largely engaged in professional work, as compared . with men, than in other occupations, is shown by the fact that in 1910_the males constituted 78.8 per cent of the total of ' all occupations, while the fenulas constituted only 21.2 per cent of all, aa ■ compared with 36.9 per cent of professional occupations. Of the eleven classes into which professional occupations are divided by tfea I census experts, women had a preponder-" ance over men in actual numbers in two classes, constituting 60.6 per cent of all the "musicians and teachers of music," and 70.2 per cent of the school teacher* . ' and professors in colleges." In every class except one (actors! the percentage of incrrasc was gnatcr among the women than the men. The most notable increases occurred in the profession of 1 clergymen 1 including religious and charity workers), where the increase for the pomen was 18.39 per cent, as compared ' with 14.9 for the men; and in' the profession of journalists, where the females 1 increased their percentage by 90.7, as compared with only 8.7 for the men. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years THE HABITS OF WORKING MEN A professor of Columbia University \as just completed a test of character of ' 1(11)0 working men of different sections ■ of the United States and his report reveals some intersting tendencies of the average laborer. ■ Prominent among his discoveries was the revelation tliat nine men in every t ten laborer* occupy a large amount of their spare time in reading the newspapers. and that this number of them ' are subscribers to their local publicsNext to the time spent with his family the American laborer divides his spare ■ moments in visiting friends and in reading newspapers. ■« ; Of the thousand men investigated. 29 nationalities and 164 occupation* were ■ represented, and 300 of them belonged - to trade unions. There were' 580 church members, while 420 did not profess ror ligion. Six men in every ten are regular patrons of the picture shows and only r three in ten used intoxicants in any j form. ' , I Taking the one thousand men investigated as a fair example of the average laborer, the American workman reveals the strongest social spirit of that of any civilized nation on the globe. Famous Author Says She Will Wear Cotton Evening Gowns this Winter r The Woman's Home Companion is appealing to American women to wear : American -made garments. In the October number Ida M. Tarbell wrote such an appeal and in the December ' i number her position is strongly apI proved by a number of famous jwople ' whose letters are published. Among " 1 those whose letters are published are I Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Gertrude Atht j erton. James J. Hill. William C. Redfield. Si-cretnrv of Commerce. Mrs. Senator IjiFoIlette, and Margaret Deland. 1 The idea is that in the past American women have preferred foreign goods but that with the war the opportunity has been opened for American consumers to use domestic goods and to de- ? relop a real taste for them which shall continue. Gertrude Afhortnn's letter t in the December number follows: "It is my intention to have my evening gowns this winter made of coton materials — voile, rrepe. etc. — and to wear nothing but cotton at evening entertainment*. I have succeeded in ins teresting a Dumber of my friends in this idea, as it -wijl be no sarilPee *n wear the beautiful transparent mate1 rials of delicate colors manufactured by some of our Southern houses. T am 1 sure that if every woman in the United plates who can afford to have Bn evening gown «t all would agree to have it of cotton the situation in the South would very aoon be relieved, and I o-r- - tainly, ahall buy nothing of foreign make whatever until this dreadful crista is well past." Buy your Chriatmaa gifts cow la Cape May.