IWSM i PuWirind Every Thuradsy Morning < CAPE MAT. DECEMBER -1ST 1887- [ nu rtjjtUnd mTti* Oop-ttot Cut Cap* May'* Select Academy. [ The Sixtera of Mercy arc about to ( open a Select Academy for children and young ladUs requiring a bigl'" grade 1 of education than that attainable In a ( parochial acbonl. In it will be Uught a. full and complete English courae together with modern language*, drawing, L music, (vocal and instrumental,) embroidery, fancy needle work. Terms t . moderate, and according to the number . of anbjecta which parents may wish their children to be Uught. For paniculars apply to the Sitter Superior, at the r Convent, Lafayette itreel. tf ^ Thomat P. Bell and Co. C The well known shlpplng'ttrm ofc*v. "ana. Ball & Cq,, at S8 South street, New Tork, baa been dissolved, and its active member, Thomas P. Ball, has associated I with himself Ids brother. Edward A. Ball, in a Dew firm to be known as Thomas P. Ball & Co., which will tenlinue business at 'A South street. The)' are gentlemen of the highest character for honor and integrity, are widely ] known in shipping circles, and may be safely entrusted with any business in their line. We heartily commend lite' , new firm to public favor, and especially to the confidsnce of our friends. I BuckUn'a Arnica Salvo. . The Beat'Salre in the world for Cute, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Bores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains Coras, and all Skin Eruptions, - and postirclr cures Piles, or do pay required. It U guaranteed to give perfeet . satisfaction, or money refunded. Price, SB cents'per box. For sale by Matey & 1 Mecray. For Sale. The Arlington Hotel, with or without the furniture. Terms made easy to » responsible party. Only teaaon for idling. owner going to Tennessee. Apply . toBoi 883. Cape May X., Parried. bjt»T gal.' L*Ua4*h>M r!tjjmsa Cblpnsn and Mlaa Lena Cos. . LAPF— CHESSMAN, — on Daeambar 18, lXST. at Tocxahoe, by Bee. Rev. I), suwsn, Mr. John Lx^otniUulelpbii.ioMn. HoasUscrtaaatsn, Panamahrr's. PxlLiBXnrais, Moodaj, Dec. It, 198T, What shall the present be? answer. You may put a few cents or a good many dollars into things that are almost nothing . at all except pretty. Giftthings for use are here, too. They are the many. Besides almost everything likeable in. Silver or Plated Jewelry, a large assortment in solid gold. Medium cost things up to $50 or so. Watches, too. As manytried sorts as you are likely to see together anywhere. Clocks and Bronzes. A pood time tn buy whether you know the things or not. The goods are here, and the prices are in your favor. Timers, 95 cents to $100. A world of pretty and useful things wrought in Brass, by cunning artificers of Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. We have chosen the cutest shapes and oddest designs from more than forty of the leading makers. Enough to judge by are on the Main Aisle, near Chestnut street entrance. More near the Pocketbook counter. Dressing Cases, Work Boxes, Jewel Boxes. Bright with the color of plush and the sheen of metal. We never before saw such a variety of pack-away-space and spread-Qut-space a-s some of them combine. $i to $30. Little handies for the toilet, neatly boxed. Brush and comb and fixings in sets, 75 cents to $40 for a plush boxful. Manicure sets, 50 cents to $30. Photograph Albums. More and finer and cheaper every year. $1 to. $20. ... 750 sorts of Pocketbooks. Everything rich and useful, representing the J>€st manufacturers ofGerman-y, France, Austria, and America. Look at twelve a minute, and in an hour there would still be Pocketbook newness to s£e.° An Opera or Field Glass wouldn't come amiss anywhere. Lemaire or Bardou the best; a fifth to a third below the common price, £4.50 » $35Handkerchiefs from China. Japan, France-, Switzerland, and Ireland. We must provide liberally to dd our great Take one of" these Men's inch hem, full size, ascents. Compare it with any of the Old style, old price, 50-cent goods. We haye sold thousands like it at 50 tints each. J r c J

Get a dozen of these Wo-j men's Hemstitched, J.-i and 1 inch hems, at $2 a dqjien. and compart with the usual $3 a dozen; yes, .or even the $4.20 dozen. We have sold- lots of them at $4.20 a dozen. Or another example — Women ' s Unlaundered Initial Handkerchiefs at 1 2 % cents each. When washed compare them with any 20 or 25 Or tjie little ones' Handkerchiefs, 6 in a box for 30 cents. Perfectly fast woven or printed colored Ijorders. You may be asked as much 3 of tlfe same sort in a box. Silk Handkerchiefs — Did you ever hear of famous for his White Silk M u fflers ? We have ' none of his Mufflers except a few carried from last year. But we have better Silk Mufflers, if possible, at $3, the ; usual price $5 and $6 ; our price last season was $4.50. [ Because of imperfections so ; slight that not one in a hun- ; dred will suspect what they are, we shall sell some of them at$i, $1.25, and $1.50, about two-thirds of last year's prices ! for 'such qualities. _ [ Other Silk Mufflers — cream. ss ibch, it. ' CrSSlSlwbiS.' Ouorei, floe. "8 eenix to II ; Cashmere Mufflers — Si men. plxto White monad. with re<! • 1 an<l woe tloti ami agorw, J8 centa. t ifoiuihmere ' More Book room and mote Books than we ever had before. More space to examine * > them in. From Chestnut tn. Macket street along 7 ; Books, Books,/ Bonks, and j Christmas Cards and Novel- ■' r ties. ' If. you area Book News reader you know enough about all the New Books to choose wisely. It is a jump * in the dark to buy almost any j Book by the title only. Book ' t News plucks out the very t heart of every new Book and shows you so -much of it that ; * there is nothing left to guess ' at. December Book News (88 pages, illustrated) may now be had. 5 cents, 30 cents a year. We reckon the Dickens J Calendar the brightest, prct2 ties t of all. Everybody who 5 likes Dickens will like this " Calendar. The edition is limited, and there will be none to sell at lower prices, as is sometimes the case after the s' first of January. 50 cents, by ~ mail 56 cents. I John Wanamaker, Chcataot, TOnwpth xnd Markf. , $2000.00 . FOUND AT 1 l. d. stevens | GJIOGJSJIIJJS. f BEMOTAL CHAHSE OF BASE 1 THE 8 Ton/ 18 MOW IN KittMrBiQliig, 60 WasiMtoB St. 1 STOCK COMPRISES : C10ICI &B0CEEIBS. wholesale ahd bet ail ; LOW PRICES FOR CASH. , As wcll a stocked store as in Cape May City. Those wanting goods ' in our line should examine our 1 prices. Everything guaranteed. 1 No trouble to show goods. Call ' \ in and see for yourself. We arc ( thankful for tlie favors bestowed • ; upon us in making it necessary 1 for us to liavc more roonl. L. D. STEVENS, 3 No. «o Wtafintloo Srct, Cape Mi j CJtj. - "^~ptsch» eider'S , EESTADRANT AND dining ROOKS, NORTH BXCOND ST., PHILADELI UIA. OYSTEBS IN EVSHY STYLE. oil- J 1 ms CTiwnran ron" ; S SOLID HOLD SPECTACLES. 88-<» ' , Price. 88.88. - 8TESL S PBCTACLBS. 80 e. I'.mul pnee. l.*x. . * AXTlFi' lALms 10ri.' I » Una! Prtoe, 10*8. t m, zinem an A brother. OPT1CIA M, open i*rrj evening until 1« oMJock. | IK SOUTH NINTH ST., PH1LADKLPAIA. 1 1

p . * PUR A ) r~ T? cicj/T-vt Long and Large. l\LclU J Winter^ Business The prices are lower than Oak HaU'i last year, or anybody Vthiwyear. .. r" Witli^he co-operation that has never failed us for twenty-six years, we're going to do a business that will ai beat any, of them. We can't do it without you. We want you and all your neighbors. The plain way of telling how is to say : We have c bet: r clothing than we ever had— Men's, Young !l M n'.-,, ikes', Children's. Better it couldn't be in reliability. Better it is in every other way. ^ Style, is the note of excellence in clothing. !t__ goes only with good quality. . You know it isn't worth while to tie good style, or work either, with less. u Thai's common-sense. livery' dollar you spend with us for clothing you'll spend for reliable goods, and as stylish as you desire. ' ' We have made up the fine qualities — from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, and - largest of all, from home-made clotlis — as well as tiie i durable and low-priced. j That brings us to "Ironclad." You heard | J of "Ironclad " last winter. Strong, strong, very strong. We have it again. People "O win j liad it then are after it for another spell ';a 1 wear. The quality is better: the' q CJ price- she same. You may tliink from the 3 C2 prize it's low grade. 9 It isn't We refer you o O to your neighbors who wear it. Men's ~ butts, $12.00: Men's Overcoats, $10.00. p You can'i: break or tear it J Send for samples, if you can't come to the city! Wanamaker & Brown, Oak Hall, 1 S. E. Cor. Sixth and Market Streets. !., 15 DISTINCT STYLES ALL WOOL SUITS, \ $9.5 0. Beautiful Patterns. Many Cheviot Effects. All Extremely Desirable for Dressy Appearance and Durable WCaNothing "qheap" about them, but thoroughly adapted T / _ , , xr_v-T--, An Extensive Ra^ge of Choicj^ror Every Taste. The goods wbul^t-posttlvely be reasonable at $15.00. Our Price is $9.50. JACOB REED'S SONS, 9 l£j$20, 922 Chestnut St., also 2d and Spruce Sts., PHILADELPHIA. wht go to philadelphia when tod can but Dry Goods, Trimmings, Millinery, EOTiOHS, HOSEEiT, gloves, handkerchiefs, Etc. l Alto x 0n» utanmcnt of Ladies' Coats and Wraps, AT JOHN H. GIBSON, Soowxnr 10 CHARLES NEEDLES, 43 Washington Street 0»pe May City. KxiurrrtmimnnlmltoxIL VL;x«e rutoa-ia lnni*l lo o«ll w»«i In town. WM. F. ENGLEHART, Importer And Manufacturer Diamonds, Watches, Silverware, French Clocks, Bronzes, American Clocks, Particular attention paid to repairinc COMPLICATED and all kind of WATCHES by EXPERIENCED WORKMEN ; all WORK being done in the BUILDING under my OWN SUPERVISION, not In-inc COMPELLED to bare the work done OUTSIDE ok a great many STOREKEEPERS do. Jewelry of all Kinds Made and Repaired. GOODS AT RETAIL. No. 205 Market Suroet, Philadelphia. I. L. SHEPPARD, 27 Washington Strsot, Capo May, N. J. ms F0BH1SHIN& GOODS, HATS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS. HIVE ME A TRIAL. "* oR-T ' T °rtef" om- PHICFA. HIVE ME A Till A I.. <*-7 r-

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35 THOMAS DEPUY. 35! .. 35 North Sfecor.d Street, Philadelphia, NEW DE81QN8 IN THE KHOLImi AND AMERICAS CARPETS! CARPETS! a lar*a Ban nt WILTONS, MOqCTTPTES AND BODY BKCBSKLs, ot U» Beat Makevartn- j Nearly Opposite Christ .Church, East Side, BETWEEN ARCH & MARKET STS. PHILADA. 35 ELDREDGE JOHNSON . 89 Wuhlnglaa 'at.. Cap* MajCN-J.. DEALEK IN J BOOTS AND SHOES. ami mod ooioaieMrUana of Frtot Cnaap Baoia aad ano-n. lu ail ma latent m*.1!" i ; aar prtaa wbicb ranadl aorpM^I RUBBER GOODS A SPECIALTY Alio a tall nop pi, amitiam oo a%n, of v Fine Wall Papers of the Latest Pattorr.s. l. LEWIS D. STEVENS. Nfiw GROCERY AND PROVISION ST0KI-: , No. 66 Washington St., Capo M.iy. N. J. l-^.onlTKlil'r-i'i,. -j.r.-j, n -• DAVID W RODAN. F I E L D "A N D* "G A RCEii SEED Coal A Wood. Flour A Feed of all Kind#. Fresh * Salt Hay in Bales . GEOROE L. LOVETT, 64 Jackson Street, Cape May, N. J. W Quality FLOOR, $2.75 par Cut 0415, GROUHD FEED, COHBITIOH POWDERS. ! Ham dss, Blankct-i. lap Hobes ana Repairs at Simp op Oc.wi Sir.-c -■ " ::-i T_ HIRAM DeWALT, MERCHANT TAILOR. No. 817 Chestnut Street, P'r.ilaca. Poppldf Styles at Popular Pries. Mai; of best Mdlcriai at a L-qdili: Pncc. ; ' WILLIAM CAMP,TIN AND. SHEET IRON WORKER. Cape May Court House, N. J. 1 . 1 !

o'.rocmts, Provisions, <?tr. 1 / - PRICE LIST OLIVER pEOpLE'^ MARKET, 37 Jacteon Street. Cajie May, N. J. ^ y-rt rnwnxft www.. rfo. , , ' saKINU -pukl.k-lc CbMt®CoM-,moia«tM *v kaml,»lx. par n>. Iba'^nna. iilmuaw tt ia» nm link...... u.. iM,„w n"*' mum B>""' •£.*] currxic. :",r it All goods sold for cash. Bill* n..» standing if pidhy Januaty 1st, HAND'S CENTRAL MARKET Corner Washington sr.d Ocean Sts,. CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. WILLIAM S. BARNETT, Excelsior Market, P. E. Sharpless Butter a Specialty. I fv, .38 VVASIIINUTCN vTllKKT, » A'Tt.-MAY I ITY.fC. J.

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-PHOENIX OIL COMPANY j 4257 10 4233 Columbia Avenue. Ph-ladclphia. Manufacturers cf the Celebrated PHOENIX BELT OIL. This Oil will preserve your belts ; has no eflecc on glued or cemented la >s and gives the full transmission of power. For sa e by Belting Manufacturers and Mill Supply Houses- at n , $1.50 per gallon, in i, 2 and gallon cans. A I» r «a!:°n 'n 5 :in'J 'o gallon tans. P $ i .00 per gall' n b/ tl.e b. rrv'. S Use no other. If your supp'yman has not got it St-nd us his address. Acme Rubber and Leather Cement, 5 Channel Cement, Li°rht and !Oark, Rubber Paste, Oil-Proof. j .V arrant ad 3ua».r. tna Market. Sena for Price List. — perfect satisfaction guaranteed. 'j CYLINDER and MACHINERY OILS of all CRADES

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i, WITH THE OPENING ® of tbe . + " 4 Gbristmas ^ 4- Season m wc have to announce preparations for = the business not only extraordinary, but unprecedented, in our experience. In former years we hayc been unable, by reason of insufficient room, to _ properly prepare for the great crowds which fairly overwhelmed us for two weeks preceding Christmas Day. s. This year our large new buildings ^ give us more floor specc for the sale of the goods we keep than any other American house. [ All our preparations have been in I proportion to the increased space, and the arrangements for the comfort and - *- convenience of our patrons, as well as ■ in increased lines of goods especially ■ adapted for I HOLIDAY oirre R are belicvai to be almost without J parellei. I Informatiou requested by mail will I be cheerfulfy furnished, and all orders I ftrompilj and tatisfactertfy filled.

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