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VOLUME XXYIII. CAPE MAY CITY. NEW JERSEY. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23.1882. WHOLE NUMBER. 1484.

3AP£ MAY city, 1M. j. S 1 .50 a year in Advance.

*rofr«sional (fards. J B. HUFFMAN. ano ••^rxitin.lmt at law uK.lritTok.^* ^o-rw ^vp KXAMIXKB Crw I PJ F. DOUGLASS. A TTO B X E Y-A T-L A W nounrm rx <*ti xn.'ehy ALTER A HARROWS, A TTO R X E Y-A T-L A W •OU'TJtM -V IHNI'BBY. V norm. tlou.v. N. 1. "QR. J. F. LEAVING A SON. DEXTIST8, .'av* vat citt 1 I nr-i-i at»l ocvaa catv Mat oorar Moras— ThuraJarean.1 *a:JAMES M. E. HILDRETII, ATTOBXEY-AT-LAW ■oucrroa. KAPrrr" »\n -xamixeb is ^oom m No. aa w-a.hllifv«i Street, Care Mat JJERBERT W. EDMUNDS, ATTORNEY- AT-LA W, houttoe AND vaster in chskcbby. a::-' . lusinrss Cards. ■pxos R. WILLIAM'S, ARCHITECT AND BUILDER. ILL MAEEIIKAHIXOM. AND K.FKK1? tfrica ai waaailiewb m_ c*pt mat, NJ. B. LITTLE. rKACTICAL PAINTER AND GLAZIER. QBGAXS AND SEWING MAB. F. HORN7R, ■PIAKOS. QBG ANS & SEWIKG MACHINES BKlDal.tiln. * J. Hi*. e».s« Jtstoot.tr.. Can Hatch;. a»C t Q.O-TO GARRISON'S jfift,,. AND STORE - AtilETY 1mb GOLD «ir blank " 'oka. toilet papbl POCKkr . • ki1kll MINI vtl're bo a • • :v\|7ttkbd ON SAWING kacbine \ A Aire AND oil A 1* WASHINGTON *»TH T.K r. .-ABB MAT. K. J. QOODYEAB s RUBBER KELTBOSK. CLOTUIM. H..ITA A AIIOK5 0, P. D'ETERICH, New York Br Hint «n 1 l**rkinj[{Y«i|au<> MiAj1"""" t"',b 'srssi*. p. •p^IGGS A BBOTHEk AMERICAN WATCHES. m walnut. <*v. dock mti - PSILADBLPB1A . WATCHES A JEWELRY REPAIRED. J" S. K. HAND A SON, ONLY PRACTICAL JEWKLSKK CAPE MAY DIAMOND CUTTERS. No. 11 WASniNGTOH NTKBBT. L. BICE, JR., ARCHITECT AND SUPERVISOR *80 WALNUT STREET. PLANA AND SPKCIPICATIOSS r mn i v JOHN M. RUSSELL. (ttucoatsav to Bukw A taMlU DRY HOOD®, GROCERIES. BOOTS, (HOC* AND NOTION*. FLORH AND FEED. PATBBT aiaiciue, PORE. LARD. HAMS. SEEDS. IK. <Md op-te*. (Mpr MAT Co- S. J. TTTOKTH SENDING FOR. SrSJ^ATtr^lT^uTiTTv. 7 J I

" BTMPTOMN Or A PI«l!Om I I VOL | hi.r '■ i unrj^iiro' La N </ lbr»^*,*t«L T" ,0 Lj " fcrr|>lus llta Kr*ul*U>r f i is mtixr TFAHTARIZ. Ito*/ Ataxarelrr H. ^Meg.kraA. M Oahtoaoaa Lm h*Tl la f.os. N.„. »OB SALT. BT ALL DBL'CGISTS ' I »■*• VAN Df RLN'H LADIES' TONIC. r A Positive Cure for ell Female Complaint*. ' JllplllP® ' MkO^nkk. PrW 11.00 -REMEMBER THIS. 'carters" Mius m FOR* THE ©©MIPDrMUDKI *.B.<e«-rlrnwMIl«.»llli1.-r, Cr.jr Lu LST TLte. h>^V. I i - fianeea WEEK CAT HK

! ! ; ap* ,,ra,uacfv:r--: r.S kiic nicn d'>D't MT-m m anderMAiMl the . diSi-ieocr l«cl«c. ii ueeruuiu ud , boAincM leclA. Tlitve or {puritaye before rltviiue e IUIiinmrr Iartit mmdea pnlilicai speech In s cunlry rillspe. Bcint o I rcl bm Republican !»• nalu rally pare lbe Dmxioraiiu pane Ibr hen hr had, and ainocg niber Ihmg' aeaerterl Uial in ca«e of IYcroocralic iucctaa lbe c-'uniry would hare lo pay the C' mlcdinilc bnndi. Two • ■r three days after cl'Cli'tn a mau walked Into lbe Uwycr'A.iBl r. '.weed a raiiw and Kink fp*n V- S9-U 008 ..I Rcb iJfcdn and raid: "Wlialarr tlicy wurllif '-Four centr a pound." •'Bui lbe Di-mocrai :c pany haa Iriumplied." "Wbal u! Ibai ?" "But w-'in'l lbe country Hare lo pay tl.ee j UmdnT' "Not by a J .*laL'' The bond- | bolder looked steadfastly al lbe lawtcr Tor a long momiuK and then sloply said: ' "Well, by yum! After uinciy-six of us I Republicans who Ualeoed to y.uir speech | went and roted lbe Democraiic ticket in order 10 real IB- on our bunds you now tell | us thai youdWe'i mean wtra. rrrj tnid.'" ! Judge Davis used to tell some adtnirs-blc-stoiies of aauid Illinois Judge, one of , « hicb we cbaucc parllrular lo remember, for onoTrylng to jurors in Ins eluigra to merits of lbe case. In ooe case be bad done so with gn»t plainness, but to his , without OMuinc lo'an agreruienL The Judge iaquirrd ..I the bailiff wlial was the ■ mailer, and learned Iran blm that ooe , jura was hangin; out against the other , elrTrtL 41. h id for Ha Jury ai once, and, | staling lo llie jurmi thai he iad plainly , Intimated bow the cas>- oiigbl lo be dtcided.aaid be undeist. sdieejoiur was stand, mg out against thr rtlin rk'Ti ii. Hr pro- , o«ded to rtbuke the jurors rim i ply . The , ohaiinaie juror wa* a nervous hiile man. and a- a-'O as the Judge WM'd-Kle hcrov- J •flllfsaid: "Jndge. niae I '} a * " "wluit hare yuu tuwrT -Well, what 1 wanioi to say i«. 1 »m the only feller , Ibai'e on your aide." ,.3Sr the year. Tbeir Inwrta will j , U- Joyful wlibtuliluue faith in lite Rule , old man and bts ndndrer. and bright eyes , will be herd in ghisr lo-tnorrow srigbL , N'Mbing but lbe fact that "rianU Clau-e . will Dot c uoe while be is walcbrd" c mid induce lbe glad cliildren lo go lo bed uo- 1 III 12 o'clock. Ail orrr the land millions ■4 little onas am happy and do abadow of lbe future aunt* between tbetn . and delight. The Child Jesus watcbra. in faith, by Ibeir pillow, and the opening of Saturday morning will be welcomed , with shoutings, and for the day will be . It is cruel to interfere with lbe notae of children on Christmas day let them blow j their trumpets, lu-tv. tbrir drums ^pod 1 young life, an full of "siulily now. and . (Imbed wilb joy. may tw ended, will be in many caare. before lbe next Christmas cornea, and then what would ace a parent give to hear the toicb the* is silent 1 A Christmas composition. ■ Ryder's boy has wriUeo lbe following I romiKisWoo on. lbe subject of Cbrielmas : ; last day in the y.wf excepting Fourth of July which is a tirtter day hs Ore oB guns 1 and ptslols Ho key flrr.1 off an old gun . " ooe liairth of Jiily aril it kit-kts! blm agin a bidrrnt and an awful hunch grywed on ; bit bead aod be didnt know much for two boar* Christmas is ilie Isra itpse lo get f preeenla n.y ahwr Inter bung up !:er r atockin' it would bold a dump raft full "( j things William Brudshaw cat n tpoch ! - Candy aad puddiu one Christmas thai his | folks bad lo pat him ib lb* grave after hr dieil I Should like lo sec old Dudley the truant officer lo a grave and so would all the boy* I should like to bare It Christmas and fourth of July all the lime." What a gnu In the beart of old Winter lathis b'lidai srasoo— all the richer and all the btigb'er for 'it* grim and gboaily aruing. Is there a sweeter sound oo all Hie earth than ' be joyous ringiog of the Christmas beHs I What" an elojnraor subbrmnce and fegrel; a unino of the liappy past with the Joyous preaent, a wakening in the bran of obi tffntn uis and friendshipa; a lunch of mrsnory's rhooi. which ; Ihnlla the vary soul. All these wuiod out ■ upon the dear f.iwty air upoc Christmas ; morning, aud all hearts are glad; cure aod trouble are forgotten: the burden is laid j 1 down at the fool of the cross, aod every- 1 ' ooe rejoices anew that a Redeenfer is born ; ! Maopfftpq' ! , Ah. it would hj well for as, perhaps, if : ' we could fully /"gel ali el». and enter I ; into the Cpriwins- j a. h-rar: ily and as ' I Se^MW "'or aiT alHuod4?1 we ilnsd more bohd..«, Row for pUy i T . *° ^Pl.to. ,bi> «" »•« .ending e. oftro faU to girTnt hero, p.r ■ ite r^nr».'*' 't *"■

j Christmas as We -Grow Older. 1. 1 Time was, with most of us.wlirn Chris:. das day. cndrcKng all our limiled world , like a msgic ring, left nothing oat for us louts* or seek; bound I "gel her *11 nur I home CDjoyiuenis. affections and hopes: ! grouped everything and every one around | lite Christmas fin . eud made the Rllie j piciure shining in our bright young eyes Time came, perhaps, all loo soon," when ] our thoughts orerlmprd that narrow b modary; when there was some one (very I it.ar we thought then. Tery beautiful and , ahaoluicly perfect) w anting to the fullnev* I of our happioees: when we were wanting . 1 1.,. (or we thougnt so; which did jttst si ! w -ii ■ al the Christmas liearth by which; luined with every wreath and garland of ! our life that some one's name. That was the time for lbe bright vis. I n.nary ('hriittuaww which has long arisen j j in the |ale*t tdgra of tint rainbow. That j , » I te. .-.ml vet the t^'igs tliat were an real \ i to say. now. w hat rraaties arhn-rcd since I I hare twea strongiT. i ^ What: Did that Christmas never realr i w h. was our young choice acre rrcefv^l. filer ihc^bappnwt i.ually imposaihle viously at daggers ilrawu oo opt account? When brothers and sister-in-law who had * I Ways been rather cool to us before our relationship wss^ efficl ^perfectly doted ovrrwbelmrd us with unlimited incomes? Was that Christinas dinner Dever really ratro, after which we arise and generously and eloquently rendered honor to our late rival, preaent in Ilie company, and there exchanging friendship and forgiveness. and founding attachment out to Iw t surpass I in Greek or Human story, which ] sulisittid until death? lias that Mine . rival long ceased to care for that priceless . pearl and married for raoury, aod becime t unaurious? Atiove ah. do we rtvlly know' . now that we ahou|d probably have been . pearl, and thai we are better without hel? j That Christmas when we had' recently ' , achieved so much fame; wheo we liad j I been retried in trionii li s-tnewlnrc turd" . ing Kimrthiog great and gisai; wlien we I , had won an honored "an ennobled ^ame, j [ a shower of tears of joy; is it p.«tihle I • that that Christmas ha. nut come yet? I , And is i air life here at the liest so constl. j . tubal that, pausing as we advanoe al such . a notice the mile sI.kh- in the track as this great birthday, we look hack oo the things , that never were, as naturally and full as , gravely as on the Ibingi that have hen ! and are gone, or here been and still are? I It it he so.and so :: semnu he theomclus . inn that lil* is in lb- better itisn * dream, and little worth the Iotcs and auivings that we crowd into it. No! Fb» be such miscalled philosophy from us, dear reader, on Clir iatmas dav! Nearer and closer to our hearts he the : Christmas spirit, which is the spirit of active usefnlneas, perseverance, cheerful , we are or sb'iuld l« strengthened by the ' unaccomplished visions of our youth," Tor wlM) shall say tnal they are Dot our teachera in deal gently even with the Impalpable nothings of the earth? Tberefore, as we grow older, let us lie more thankful that the circle of our Chrislm ' association* and of the letanos that/'" . bring expandf! Let us wel- ; onne every one of them, and summon them to lake-tlieir places by the Christmas liearth. ' Welcome, old aspiraliuns. glittering ; creature* of an ardent fancy, lo your plactw under oeath tlie both-: We know y .ii, and have not ouilivrd you yet. Wcli r -rtur pld prejocta and old lovra, however "-BTTNBg. ro j.Hir oonks amoog tlie steadier ; lights that burn around us. Welcome. f Uw'^"o^Th^mdear^«Hton,U to ihwvcn! Do we build noCbrisimas caalies in tbe clouds now? I*t tMr.tboughis. fiutiering like hulicrtiies among Iheae flowers of cliildren. bear witness. ; Before this boy there airetcbr. out a fu1 ture brighttT than we ever looked on in ; oar romantic time, but bright with honor I and w Ith truth. Around this Utile brad, on which the sunny curb He b-apctl. Ilie ■ grace* spurt a» prettily, as airily ks wheo ' then- was no scythe withiu the reach of - Time to shear away the curb of our first 1 lore. Upoo another girl's face Dear it— ■ plarider but amihug bright— a quiet but ' contented Rule face, we see borne fairly t Sinning from tbe word as rars shine I from a star, we see how, when our graves : are old, other bopea than ours are young; oilier hearts than ours are moved: bow ' other wart* are smothered: bow oilier ; happioeas blooms, ripens and decays— 1 no not decays, for other boom sod other : hands of children not yet in -being, cor in 1 age* yet to be, arise and bloom and ripen ! to tbo end of all.' " Welcome everything: Welcome alike 1 what has been and what never was and what we hope may be to your (belter underneath lbe bcdly. to your placet 'round lbe Christmas fire, where what U sits open-hearted.' In yonder shadow do wr • see, obtruding furtively upon the bbxc.au enetuy'a fact.' By Cbfiaimas day. we do • forgive blm! If tbe iojnry he has done ' us njy admit of audi compaatanthip, let ' him come here and take his place. If 1 Ilbetwiw . unlispp'iv let htm go heore. 1 assured tluitVe will never injure or accuse 1 Oa this day we abut out nothing!' 1 - "Pause," says a low voice. "Nothing? [ TbloV." I "On Christmas day we wUl shut out 1 : fo«n our flreeide nothing." ' 1 "Not the shadow of a vast city, wh'-ir ' tlie withered leaves are lying deep?' lbe vuioe replica. "Nut the abadow (hat ' darkens the whole giote? Not the shadow ' or lbe City of Use Head?" Not even that. Of all the days lo tbe year we will tarn our faces toward thai city a poo Christmas day. and from its silent busts bring those we hired among us. f City of tbe Dead, in tbe b leased name 1 wherein we are gathered together at this ' time, and in the presence that b here ' among us according to tbe promise, we e will receive and not dismiss thy people, - who an dear to us. Yea. We nan look upon these children ' angels that alight, so solemnly, so beantit fully among the living children by the " fire, and can bar to think how they dr0 panel feutn oa. Entertaining angcli una. lt warea, as lbe patrisrebs did. lbe pbyfu! J children are nooooscioaa of their guevlt: but we can me Ibem — can are a radiant 1 j arm around ooe fa virile neck, as H there - were a tempting "I bat child sway. 11 Amoog the ocleatial figutea there bom, a poor miaabapen b.y oo earth, of lbe giarious beauty now. of whom hb dying iniaber aaid it grieved bar much to leave . him b«re alone, fur ao many ^hart as it was likely would rbpar bef we he came lo ' her— being aoch a hub: child. But be „ . »eot quickly, and Waa'bid upon her . brrasL and In ber band abe bads liim. _ Tbevg was a ealbnl l«>y wuo fell, far g away, upon a burning san'' benealb a , thai I died ccatimed and had done my duty!" Or there was another, over whom they read the words. 'TberrRxt we CP«-

mil hb body to the deep!" and so coo- '• higoed him to the lonely ocean and sailed oo. Or there was soother who by down ; to bis rest in the shadow* of great forms; 1 and. oo earth, woke no more O, shall ! , ; hey not. from bod and sea and fprcci, be 1 1 ,j hmafcht home at auch a time? j There was a dear girl— almost S woman ; - . — uevar to be aae— who made rflmirning ; . Cbritttnas in ahouac of Joy, and went tier | i,j trackless way lo lbe sUcnt ottv. Do we ( recollect her, gtore out, faintly whispering i w hat could not be heard, and falling into ! tisat last sleep for weariness? O, look , _ upon tier now! 0, look upon her beauty. . ' w ber serenity, her changeless youth, lier 1 . hsppiness! Tlie -daughter ot Jtriut was , J recalled to lift; to die; but abe. more . bleat, has heard tbe same voice, saying | . un'o ber, "Arise forever:'' , ® i We bad a friend who was our friend . , I, from early days, with whom we often , , ! pictured tbe changes that were to come 1 1 ,' I upon our lives, and merrily (imagined | i how we would speak, and walk, and 1 1 . i thiuk. and talk wheo we came to be old. I , Hb destined habitation in the City of tbe ! t ° ! Dead received bun in his [wiroe. Shall j \ U j mi tnbranec? Would his love so exclude ! \ j u-? Lost friend, lost child, losb parent, ] j [sister. Iirotbcr, husband, wife, we will not , J SI discard you. You shall hold your ' ; cherished place in our Christmas hearts ( - aud by our Christ inas fires; and in the i . sea-iin of iumiurtal bopc and on '.he birth- , rj day of immortal merry we will shut out j ^ "'The1 wtoter sun g.« ' down over town ! and village: oo the sea il makes a rosy . j path, as if tlie sacred tread were fresh upit sinks, and night comes oo,and light be- , j gins lo sparkle in the prospect. Oo the bill- i siik hcyimd llw ahapebnaly diffused town, i ,, and the quiet keeping of the trees that , r gird the village steeple, remembrances are i ' cut In stooc, planted in common flowers, | r growing in grass, entwined with lowly | j htambles around many a mound of earth. , In town aod village there are door* aod i r w iodows closed against tlie wealbcr, there . I, arc flaming logs heaped high, there are , ^ Joyful fanes, there b healthy music of , 0 voices. Be all iingrnlleneas and harms ; excluded from the temples of the bouse- - „• bold gods, but be those remembrances ad- | ° are of the time aud all lu comforting a«d | -, peaceful reassurance*, and of history that ( ('l ! tlie dead; and of IhtT dgoad bAeficonce i aod g .ndnesa that too mafif men have i r i tried to tear to narrow shreds. , ■ ' ) I buowed Cnclcr. , We have met the enemy aod we are ] ?|his'o. We have made our remarks and 1 we arc now ready to listen to the gentle- 1 !l man from New York. We could have ■ dug out, perhaps, and explained about | * New York, but when almost every state "■ in the union rose up and made certain j " statnncnts guterday, we found th*t the job 'of explaining thb matter thoroughly would jKXcuiMmc and require a great \ '■ deal of time. ;• We do not blame tbe Democracy for tint. Wc are a little surprised, bowercr, y and grieved. It will interfere with our ; : wardrobe thb winter. With an overcoat ' *' on Wyoming, a plug hat on Iowa, a pair '' of panlaloms on 1'cnnsylvaob aod hoots " on the general reauU, Jt looka now as ] 4 Winter wrapped ln\ tied qulli antfV™- ! r found meditation. * We intended to publish an extra thb '• morning, hut the news was of such a char V acti-r that we thought we would get alonr J without il. What svas tbe use of publbbv lug an extra with a Republican majority ir only in Red Buttes? 15 The cause it thb great Dcniocnitic . - freshet in New York—.— but why go in- " to details we all have an idea why R is ta The numtier of votes woqld seem to indicalc that there was a tendency toward \ 5 Dcmncraev throughout the State. ■ T Now in'Penosylvaoia. if you will look * otxr the returns carefully . but why should wc take up your valuable time of- . 1 feting nil explanation ot a poUtical matter ( Under" be circumstances some would J ' go aod yield to tbe aoothiug influences of : t tic maddening bowl, but we did oat adt- vise thai. It would only furnish tempor. . '• ary relief, and the recoil would he un- ' v pleasant. We resume our arduous duties with a >- furling of extreme ennui, and with that D sense of surprise and astonishment that a r man does who lias had a large brick block . tall on liim wbeo be was not expecting il. | * Although wc feel a little lowly to-day— 0 having met but a few Republicans on the _ '' street, who were obliged to come out anil * do their marketing— «e KiU hope for the l! The grand old Republican party ' y Bm that's what we said last week. It s winds hollow now and meaningless. "' s miehow, because our voice* are a little "» hi arse, and ire are snowed under ao deep I- that it b difficult for us to enunciate. * Now about those bets. If tbe parties ' to wbwn we owe bets— aod we owe sd- - ninat everybody— will just agree to take t the stakes, and not go into details; nor D slop to ask about the stale of oar mind. n aod talk about bow U was done, we don't care. We don't wish to have thb thing explained it" all. We are not Man lo- '' quiring torn of mind. Just plain facts ! >; are good roough fur na, without any bar11 rowing details- In lbe meantime we are IK g HDg to ear* some money to bet on tbe ■' next dectino. Judge Folger. and other*. » come over and tee us when yon have time, aod we will talk thb matter over. * >lr. Entire, we wish wc hadrour toogrv. 1 " ity. With a robust oooatitlfnbq, we find " Rat most any nan can sW obLjTuri '• fat. and gel H»cre at last. N-Wf ^>ut *■ feel to angry at we do grievtU ana «nrprised. We are pained to see lbe Ameri a relentless t(X.~ I JirapiS Boomerang . A Wolf who bad a dispute wiih a Hyr ena determlMd to destroy totrfi, and tbere- * fore went to tbe Lion for advice. ,l "Set a trap for him." was tbe reply * "aud when you bare caught bim eat Mm " ■* Tbe Wolf weal a«ay aud laid a snare ,l -Reside lbe path often Ira versed by bb '' enemy, but just as be wa* cackling wilb '• satisfaction be blundered inlo tbe trap * himself aod was held fast. In Ibb emer- ™ geocy along came tbe Lioo, who called re '"•'By George ! but what's all thb!" c' -I'm fast in my own trap," humbly replied the Wolf ■P "So I see. I came here expecting lo help you eat tbe Hyena, but as the case " now stands I shall help the Hyena cat you." "But I set thb trap by your advice, " 01 .protested tbe Wolf. J; "True jou did. aad I advised your enemy to sec ooe for you as weU. Odd* "■ is the difference lo me whether I eat Wolf or Hyena." " Tbe lawyer gets hb pay no natter bow .. the suit goes. — Detroit Fret Ameri. tM Fa^a ^ " ^ If any one has reprearoted that *re are "Iserii. Ilor Btor BAEcrA'-TcaiEc co.

i j * DU"*f**rt i j rrom Peek* San. j '.'Say. you leave here mighty qjikk." I • (aid the grocery man to tbe |tia'd boy. at • ■ be came ia. with bb arm in a sling, and | backed tip against the cold stove to gi-t ; ' | "Everything has gone wrong sine- . ! [ rr.a gfrt to coming here, and 1 think you ' i are a regular Jonah. I flod aand in'my I kerosene in lbe butler, the rodftnii ' j all picked off. and there is somcthinc | ' "I ain't no Jooer." said the boy. as he wiped his nose on his coot sleeve, and 'ached into the barrel Jor a snow apple. "I never swallowed no whale. Say. do you that story about Joner tieing in ihe whale's body all night? 1 don't. The I minister was telling about it at thr Sundae thought Joner was doing while he wa. in there, and I told bim t interpreted Ibr story this way. that the whale was fixed [ inside srilh upper and losrer berths like I ' sleeping car. and Jooer had a lowrr i j att'd the porter made up the berth j Joner polled off bb boots and gave them to the porter to black, and put his watch under tbe pillow aod turned in. — boys In the Sunday school all laff.~i, and the minuter said 1 was a bigger f'"l than pa was. and that I was useless. 1 ( you go back on roc. now. I won't have a friend, exrtpt my chum and a dog. and I by my halldom, that I never put butter. I admit the pieking off of the codfish, but yon can charge il lu pa. pushed my chum over into la.t Summer, though I thought youdid wrong inchatgitig Christmas prices for dog -day eggs. When chum's ma scraped hb pant* she aaig there was Dot an egg represented on there that was less than two years old. The Sunday school folks have all gone hack on me, since I put some kyan pepper oo the stove, when they were singing 'Utile Drops of Water,' and they all had to gu out doors and air themselves, but I didn't mean to let the pepper drop on tlie stove. just holding it over the stove to it, wbeo my chum hit the funnv of mv elbow, p, Mys 1 am a tern -V to cat*. Every time pa says anything. gives me a new idea- I tell you pa has Ka great braio, but sometimes he dun'l re it with him. Wbeo he said I was a to cats 1 thought what fan there is iu cuts, and me and my chum went tp stealing cats right off, and tief-ire night w-F eleven cats caged. We had our in n canary bird cage, three in pa's "Id list Isixes, three In jua'a bandboxes, four in valises, two in a trunk, aud the rest in a wanted roc to stay at houie. because the committee that is going n gel up an oyster supper in the church was they might ' want lo send me oo errands. I asked him if lny chum couldn't stay too, 'canse he b lbe healthiest infant to run after crouds that ever was, and pa aaid be csiuld stay, irut we monkey business, but I don't promise nothing about cata WeU, sir, you'd s died. Tbe committee was in the library, by the back stairs, and me and my chum got the cat boxes all together at il.- - p Mi sMJeifcJ&s'Uhl m as the minister was speaking, and tr-llinc anciables.in Swinging the young pcupic : - get her and taking tbeir minds from the wickedness of 'the world and taminc their thoughts inlo different channels, one of the old torn oats in the basket p." a 'punnets** that sounded like tbe wail of n soul or\ challenge to list tic. I l"!d my chum that we couldn't hold tlie l"t- 1hoard over tbe clothes basket much I r. ger, when two or tbi*r*ann»i::" t yawl, and the minister stupiari talking and pa told ma to open the stnir dtmr ami tell tbe hired girl to see what was the matter up Ybere. She thought out e.-u got shut op in the storm door, ami the opened lbe stair door to yell to girl, and then I pushed the ehubcs !.:..k. Well, sir, I "aopposc no committer for an Jb^*maefaR"vCTCTanwRlow r-ckii . chair, and say •scat,' and I beard pa say, •well I'm damd,' and a girl that sing- <n the elioir say, 'Heavlns. 1 am stabbdhj the house and come down the front stai-s looking as innocent as could be, and we went into the lilirary, and I was ju-t :; ing to tell pa if there was any errands be wanted run my chum and me was just -aching to run them, when a yellow cat without any tall was walking over the minbtee, and pa was throwing a hassock at two cata that were clawing each other under lbe piano, and ruff was trying to get ber frizxes back on her head, and the Choir girl was standing on the lounge with bet dross pulled up trying to scare cal.witb her nriped stockings, and the minister was holding bb hand* up, and I guise te was asking s blessing on the cata and my chum opened tbe front door and all tbe cata went out. Pa and ma looked a' . ir.er wanted to know how so much cat hair got on my coat and vest, sod I said a . cat met roe, and ma cried. and pa said that boy bests bell, and tbe minister said 1 . would be all right if I had been properly . brought up and then ma was toad, and lbe committee broke up. Well, lo tell . tbe honest truth pa basted roe. and yank.d roe around until I had to have my artn in a allng, but what's the use of makii.n I abe never BMlidb have any rnno r-> got even with pa for lasting me 'tomorning and I dassent go home. You sc. i ma has got s great hig bath sponge, a, - big at a chair cushion and this morning I took the sponge and ailed it with wain. oObe chair pa sits in at the table," an.l put the sponge lo its placs, cfeercd it ova wilb Abe cushion cover and then wc , all got net down to tbe table na come in . and sat down on It to ask a htessir g. He ' started in by doting bb eyes and placing . bb bands up in front of bim like a letter [ V, and then be began to ask that the food we were about to partake of be hlqsaed. ' of us he made to tee the error i-t [ I heir ways, when he began to bitch around, and be opened one eye and looked at pious as a boy can took when R . knows lbe pancakes are getting odd, aud pa kind of sighed and aaid, 'Amen' am . of snappish, and be got up and told out ' be didn't feci well, and that ahc would [ bare to take hb place and pass around tire, saasidge and potatoes, and he looked kind . of scarred and went out with his band oo hb pistol pocket, sa though be would like . to shoot, ma abe gut upSod went around , and ail in pa's chair. The f sponge didu i 1 and 1 didn't want to play noj-Ae uo ita cause lbe cat* broke ber up, but abe sat down, and was just going to belp tor. ' when tbe rung ike bell and called the u hired gilt ud aaid tbe felt aa (bough her Deauralgia was coming on. and she would go to ha room, and told tbe girl to tit down ud belp Hennery. The girt tat _ down and poured m* out coflo,, aod U.eu abe mid. Ho sly Carol Patrick, but 1 * blare those pancakes are burning.' and =- abe went out in lbe kitchen. I drank uiy i J' coffee and then look tbe big sponge oil of * «K- -S.-l-.~t pwt IhecnahkMinlbeplaca. » of it, and then 1 put the sponge iu lbe >• halb-rontn, and I went up to ma aod pa's •' room aod asked Ibem if 1 should go Ins lbe doctor, aad pa bad changed bit ckxiiee

toil got oo his Sunday iwtus.and be said, j pull fhnngh' iuid few tut- lo get otit and , g<> to the d vil. and I came over here, j t * bit "pa'and uia and il* hired gitl liioughL 1 am l lie only real healthy one there is in | ii 'our faintly. ' A Vls.lt to WananiAkro. ' { Put: aiieuuiia, Dec. is. 1882. . The ancient proverb, "All roads lead lo ' f Home." l'hiiadeydm hare paraphrased ! Wli-IK' < Im I merits lie in their inuuldioess ! "' ••s'™ Ihsne-aOd die." was souther old j [ I UySiv Wauamakt-r's and hre." ; (. | regardeti as a show, than si vi.it In title J tt wonderful establishment, so coiiiprrhrn- | o)«-n fur in»|wctton to all comets, and I i where every visitor, whether of high or ' r low degree, is treated as though lie or she : a were tin honored gutsl of the large hearted ] proprietor of the greatest emporium of the ) , entering this establishment at 13th and i f Market slteets with satchel or other lug- ' . gage, the visitor is at onoe relieved of these ( ] incumbrances (they being locked up in J when wanted. Thus al lilwrly. the guest Scan descend to tlie rating room or toilet room in the basement, where, surrounded t- by ail bornel'ikc luxuries, chief among ; w hlch may he reckoned a blazing wood i fire on the hearth, the faTigued traveler t- may enjoy all possible ease while planning u for jWday'a hu.iuess or pleasure, t * irWgtil-seviug he Uic object of the guest it will be well to fhst inspect the basemeni. in which the resting rooms are tilr ualed. This flour iu extent is 500 by 250 r feet . Of this nearly aH of the main building is open to the public, while that under . the Chestnut street store* is uwd for stock I rooms. On this floor, though excluded i from public-view, are tbe lunch and toilet s rt»«ns for the employes of tlie house, all r, handsomely tilled up, Willi attendants in » menu when Ibey crime in tlu- luornmg. , It is a leniarkatile trait ia lire- character e ot Mr. John YVanauiaker aud one that I . am c -nirnually doing homage to, that his i protecting and kindly care (in spite of the , multiplicity of his business enterprises) it I continually over his household of 2,800 i sight loo humble or obscure to claim hit 1- Under the vast Iwsemcnt is stub-cellar, - where the engines are aud Iruu-hinUu , stork. Just now the Season is u|«m us when wc , mu.i Ihiuk ot the c-ituing holidays and . . ..-'r- .U' ,':.'.U*WW««SaSUtip.."' as v. ;l L tancy goods and toys foi . the little foil;.. L. Even people ot mature years w ho have ■ kept their hearts young will delight in ". looking ml the van. array of toys, baby , cuacliea, baskets add bon-bons that are ' ing the domestic w.wlt of their dwellings with the old-iasniuucd utensils for c.sik- , ing and cleansing, used by theii (eoalr . ancestors f r.^sx Evt's linij to thc-prescut, ; 1 will brintw than surfirired by the dritght- - of bringing peace aud comfurt to lbe en- ; add still futther lo the convenience <if his Opening a lunch n»tu. where- for a misl- * crate aud hot fancy prion, visitors from I a distance uiay iu the intervals of their . shoppitaMjgpun their atretigtli tiv a wholep some n-lrabinent cd some win? This want \ ro-unor depattment of public comfort, it e a find fact in his plan., and thai refreshK meet tables may he speedily looked for in Table* at which gentlemen ami hoy* may . Ik- taken rare of while awailing the rooycI, ments of wive*, mothers or aretcts whom ' lhl7 ,l'*c"rl awbK MCDOWELL If it costs 85 to maltquiac of ooci twrii ^ in New Jeroy.brov mufti wHI it fa M a I A nwrcliant find* lilinskM wilb fijtlO iu * lad delits on hind, and he din** tlie rSobe ion" ^iiow mudh I 35= candidate pramlsrt lib pesiII thai of market ch-tk to 320 different 5 '.iends. and af"-r hi* ei.vM.ui he give* . 11 Ilie plan to hi' uncle. F ik! -..tils in V- «Ma> Bum— IqJlBgs .d ihuABL- - T In a city of 10,000 |s-i S 'loo arc 2.- " 000 m-n who inrry umbrellas aid rnncs un Ui.-ir shut.id.ts wi.lu.ut refeieqce pi * [s-destriana If a man kiyka sixtreb-aL. F i bene chaps per itay, liuw long would it 'J A ladv pays se ven dollar* lor a pair of . fashionable sh.w* am) endures ill wortli 11 of agony fur every miles be walks. How e much agony would she endure in wilking D three w reks? ' A young man engaged to three different * girls it obligcd.to tell twenty. two lia per ; week to prevent discovery. How many " Re* would he tell if he spoke French f '• If It takes a fall of twenty-eight feet '' huw far must he fall to bieak bis neck ? — [j Detroit Fret Fnu. , . ,j "llasii'l XI, Gtovgc?d There is quite a good joke now going I tbe rounds down al Vallrjo. A young d lady viaiting there ia quit- swrei <« a oevn tain young jousnalot. One morning tbe e pair started out for a hmg ramble over in d the Croitra OwU hills. Being goneAil day, they return. -d in Hie evrniag "Sim. r, palely worn am amUMlgutri. Tbe s, young lady and gentleman were met by a u party of tbeir mends soon after Ibeir rer. turn, and were asked as to what kind of a j ic time Ibey h»d. Now. tbe young lady ct baa a very unhandy habit of proving any id assertions she may make by appealing to j C friend that the happens to bare with j al tbe time. So. at usual away she :U went, and answered the Inquiry a* fob : tows- "Oh. we bad a floe time. But \ id I climbing over rocka and hushes lias made iv | me black and blue' all over, hasn't It, of i Gndrgc?" (spprshng to the young »n" I ao i who had goon out with her. Gnurgs said 1 he I emplialkailv Rial, he'd be hanged if be . 1't i knew anything about it. and now that , be young^aiplegrt no rest from tbe chaffing j

3rir Adrtrtisrarnt?. Holiday Goods at Wanamakets. One quarter in the store is peculiarly a Holiday quarter, a gift quarter; a place where just a little use is made tlie vehicle lor a great deal of luxury, lt is lull now; full ;j of wonders; full of pretty - thiffgs; full of silly tnings; ! ' full of surprises; full of what nobody expects; full of what . everjlxHly expects; full, as it ! j has been lull near Christmas . time before. Beginning at tlie very cen- ( i tre of tlie store, next north ■ | are two counters, one of 1 1 them very large, and one half as large, filled to overtlowing with perfumeries and , other toilet articles and [ implements. We positively i must not begin to mention | names, nor even classes, i The only way to get away ; from these miraculous things is to break away. v | Next northwest is a collection of small things that ' people used to luxury will recognize under tlie name ; smallleather articles. About : the biggest thing there is a portfolio or writing-case. Pocketbooks are the comj monesL Hut such pocketbopRs ! Oli, yes you can , get good substantial pocket- . books there, with not a cent ' of extravagance in them ; 1 but naturally we are thinking , of the brighter ones. Leather isn't fine enough. They must enamel it, paint it, deck it out with silk and shining sil1 ver and gold. Every year people get worse and worse. Every year they must have piuslV,'' veTvet"an(T'>fur bags are there, with all their . pretty and handy and cunning fastenings. But we must hurry on. v. Next northwest are wpt-ing-papers. Here's room for a treatise. We're not going to stop. But anybody who passes that white-look-ing island of trade in the s^t of people, without finding out what Wanamaker Best means, in or. out of Holiday time, is a loser. What a glory has a page of fjure Photograph albums are [ next on northwest-! and here i the circle widens. Is all ; that long row photograph i albums ? Is it possible that ; so many people didn't buy albums last year, when we [ brought over a ship-load ■ almost ? There's a new set of people this year, may be. At leasL-lhe photographers ■ haven't gone ou t ol business. At this end are velvet . frames ; yonder are boxes 4 of leather and plush. You i can pay $60 for a box that a ; touch will spoil. Don't supr pose that die things put out to show, even under glass, 1 are die fine ones. Whisper J to die .saleswoman diat your . pocket is full of money, and ; that yoa are aching to get i ridof-ft. {■—"Brass and bronze! Oh, see the mob of brasses and { bronzes. Open your dic- . tionary. The first word you ' come to lias its image there, t Preposterous things ! Have { your wits about you. An ardst has studied out -every ; one. The ardstisawagtoo; - for jokes abound ; little touches of humor and broad farces. So there is pathos ; and beauty everywhere. But , sliaH we presume to dis- ? cou rseof ten thousand things ■ in a shop, each of which was 1 born of Art? J Nortbftom ctnire.sU tbe **x tatlta outer 1 Everything in Dry Goods, Wearing Apparel, and ?j Housekeeping Appointr ments sent by mail, express b j or freight, according to dr- " ( umstances-subject to return t and refund of money if not e sail- acton-. Catalogue, with a dct ils, mailed on applicat j John Wakamakek. K u ,.u.L and Maikst atistta and | ut fioi, , .air, I'nUaMptiia