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VOLUME XXVIII.

CAPE MAY CITY, SEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1887.

WHOLE DUMBER 1734.

§8jjjjgBfe§ CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., - J. BBSS r BDMTTSDS, PiMUUr Hd PreprUUr. * BBS BY W.BASD, Editor. 1100 » Year Strictly In Advance. SrrtesjlooaKSarfls. A M INQaT BLACK, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, CAMDEN, N. J. in-, J~)R J. F. LKAMINQ A BOW, ~ dbntTsts tin mat c&T&r. 'tartoe aaa ucau streets, Taealay nnoo nnUl WMUM17 «n«. ^oarsMarcocBTHocsx— itrareJajeanaAetJAMEa M. K. HLLDRETH, ~ ! attorneyIat-law SOLICITOR. MOOTER AND RZAMINKR IN . CHANCRKY. Office «t No. 46 WuhUitee street . Cftpe Mai t Ottj.N.J. Mft-lT J)ENNING TO N T. HILDBETH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW SOLICITOR IN CHANCER! , !M M AJHCETST.. CAMDEN, N. J. , tggO„M c*p,.',C°°n Umiw. ^ UtistaMS flfards. \ B. LITTLE, PAINTER AND GLAZIER. ■nor— Oocab Street next Arcoe name. ' CAP* MAT CITY, N.J, 1 Orden Bier be left it A Johnaofs store. A C. GILBj ~ HOUSE, SIGN AND FRESCO ; PAINTER, CAPS MAT CITT, N. J. EHT1MATES FURNISHED. < <gUBB0QATE'8 0FFlCE. , ^T^eBdeieeM^ea^rBepeehU jwaty ue ADHHOOAT* OF TBS BOUNTY OF CAPS MAT. TO SADAT AND SATURDAY SSChVeeL WILLIAM niLDKETB, laoS.tr ' Surrncsle. BUffiBiSIraWsiiraiHs OOLD PENS, FIAHINtl TACKLE. HOPS TW1NBS, BAMMOCKA. PBLLT8 AND YACHT RIXTUHMB. POCKET CDTLKhT, BKAA8 AND COPPER WIRE. ALBUMS^ ClllmjtOa^PBA MSA. One est of too d VIOLIN STRINGS sent to up Port Offloe eddnratB the V oiteAWatee on NAT! Wuhlofton St.. Cepe Me; N. J. ■^TASHINGTON HOTEL, SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. •■'.SO Per Dajr. JOHN TRACT. Proorletor. ELEVATOR AND ALL MODERN IMPROVE, RSSTS. 0"-r J^QN'T take our word for it, but just try and see for yourself, if a few packets of " Condimentaj Spice," whish cost only 3 cents each, wont put your horses, cattle; pigs and poultry in a tnriving condition and make them bring you more money than ever before. ftfr ... T)RS. J.N.4J. B. HOBENSACA, MedioftI and Surgical Offices, ■errooe eenUH; sad special Aimne om.e Til Se£E?&S335 AM oeo can do tfte w&r*. Lerfe eerttio*e eorr HKWMw. SS^MU«ueMn RSLMSJV*^ H-'AALffpfl™ umAmm I

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CAPE MAY DRIVING PARK. - l -CAPE island TUFNPKF.. BO* .T The grades of thejmilc nod hilf mile tracks of the Driving Perk hare been revised, daring the past week and new stakes given the graders nt every point, thus enabling them lo persuc the work with esse and rapidity. Thcjovels have b; en'carefully run, to 1-100 of a foot,lhu» insuring a perfectly accurate and scientific basis for tbo work of grading. The Engineer, E. Thomson. C. 1". . hopes to give Capo May a Park whose tracks shall be models of tne best and latest developments in racing and on which there will bg.no excuse for making poor time. There will be u-> trouble about a bat] road bed cither, for the foundations are being laid to lasl though a smell earthquake if one should happen to come along. All the work is of a most substantial character and wlla reflect much credit upon all who have put their hands to the isbor of perfecting the Park scheme. The lumber will he here iu good lime for pushing things afler the holidays. Col. Sawyer has secured the contract for hauling it from the depot, and bis well known energy will soon put the stuff where the carpenters can get hold of it for the purpose of fencing. Inquiry is frequency made concerning he progress of the Park, and it gives us satisfaction to inform au perthat matters are moving on in a most satisfactory minner. Some $10,000 has already been expended for work, and this nice sum has been put in circulation among the people of Cape May. Just what will be scattered among them before the opening day may be surmised from this statement. Mr. Thielcns. the presidents* sanguine of the success of the Park, and is devoting his tunc to that end. lie Is a gentleman of staunch busmcs integrity and those who know him best appreciate most. The General Manager. J. Henry Edmunds, is kept quite busy with looking after the details of the Park, his business capacity grant] v serving the company, in keeping matters going Toward in each department. Master Workman Miller succeeded, even better than his excellent reputation as a leader ot workmen led to expect. He^uiows how to do the right thing both 'by the Company and the workmen.

E. O. THOMPSON'S MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT, ; WHAT IT IS. |T It gives those living at a distance the same oppor- | in tunity as those living in city, of obtaining really first- P [ class clothing without incurring cspensc of coming to , •' our store. You buy directly from the tailor and im- ° - - porter, and thereby obtain a better article at a lower price, saving all profits of middlemen. IIOW IT WORKS. b Upon request, samples of cloth arc sent " Free of Is Charge" to any address, with full business particulars at and "Our Self-Measuring System," which secures a <3 perfect fit. Garments arc sent by express, which, if a not satisfactory, may be returned at our expense. 11 Send for samples of Our $15 London-Made Customer Suits. o Our $12 London-Made Customer Overcoats. r Our $15 London-Made Customer Ulsters. * Our $5 London-Made customer Pants. State if you want light or dark shades, medium or heavy weight d E. O. THOMPSON, ^ Merchant Tailor and Impottar of Enrllsh Clothing. > : 'lo3l Mlr"'; PHILADELPHIA ; N- li. —Fax* Upon RxqcxsT— Oar illustrated book entitled "How to Drees In l Style at Moderate CoBt," - Addreee Mall Orders. P. O. Box 418, Philadelphia. * L_,E_ MILLER, : i G£N£RAU CONTRACTOR, : i CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. Dl#-y ! Srtfls and -Boarding g ousts. EBBITT HOUSE, ; CAPE MAV OITY, N. J. _ OPEN ALL TBI THAR. JACKSON STREET, OPPOSITE NSW COLUMBIA. ; S. W. QOLT. ST. GEORGE'S HOTEL, Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia. ft . lyW-tl JAfKf B. MeCLBLLAN, FTeertetar. ; "West Jeraey Hotel, n foot op markmt btrret, camden. n. j. 0 STEPHEN PARSONS. IM • of Pmmn'o EtM, Ommitn. [ JOSEPH P. HENRY, | House, Sign and Frescoe Painter, ot CAPE MAV CITY. N. J. jp.T g NATHAN C. PRICE, a Surveyor^-and Conveyancer, ^ CAPE MAY CITY, N. 4. k* s HERBERT W. EDMUNDS, sr, Counsellor-at-Law, CAPE MAY CITY. N, J.

Strange Foods. The old aaring that what is one man's meat ia another man's poison is realized a in the opposite tastes of people. The ti Turks shudder at the the thought of eat- h oysters. The Digger Indiana of the b coast rejoiced in the great locurt o swarms of 1875 as a dispensation of the f. Bpirit, and laid tn a store of dried ti locust powder sufficient to last them for t; several years. The French will , at frogs, n snails and the diseased liver of geese, e draw the line at alligators, Buck- g declares the taste of the boa con- I stridor to be g^od, and much like veal, h the fermehtal cabbage water of v tie duasians, is thdl popular tipple. It v described as resembling a mixture, of stale fish and soapsuds In taste, yet, next e to beer, it has more votaries than any r other fermented beverage. A tallow i candle washed down with quaes forms s a meal that would be hard to be thank- i fut for. In Canton and other Chinese I cities rata arc sold at the rata of 9s, a i and the hindquarters of the dogs > are hung up in the butcher's shop along. < side of mutton and Iamb, bat command i a higher price. The edible birds' nests | of the Chinese are worth twice their weight in silver, the finest variety sel- | for as much as £8 a pound. The of the West Indies rat baked I snakes and palm worms fried in fat, but they cannot bo induced to eat atewed , rabbits. In Mexico parrot* are ea'cm, they are rather tough. The Ouachos ot the Argentine Republic are in the habit of bunting skunks for the take of their floah. octopus, or devil fish, when boiled and then routed, is eaten In Corsica, and esteemed a delicacy. In the Islands and West Indies lizard egga are eaten with gotta. The natives of the Antilles eat alligator egga, and the egga of the turtle are popular everywhere, though up to the commencement of the but century turtle wai only eaten by the poor of Jamica. Ant* are eaten by various nations. In Brazil they are served with a resinous sauce, and in Africa they are stewed with grease or butter. The East Indiana catch them in pita and carefully wash them in handful* like raisins. In Slam a curry of ant eggi is a costly luxury. The Cingalese eat (he dees after robbing them of. their honey. Caterpillar* and spider* are dainties to the African buahman. After they have wound the tUk front the eo- ■ coon the Chinese eat the chryrali* of the *flk worm, Spider* roasted are a sort of dosaert with the New Caledonians.— Ca—tiPt Saturday Journal. 1 Treat Your Soy* Kindly. , If you wish to keep your boy* at home 7 make home a place they win love. If yoor boy brooks the sternness of catechism discipline, give him Waller Scott. If you make borne a prison your boy WlH and and open green, to gambol on. 1 The winter nights are on us, and Ibe question too often with country parents r is.- "What shall we do with our boytl" • I will tall. you. Call your neighbors' boys into yonr own home, and let your boy# go to your neighbors'. Give them ^ I U, a fiddle, a party, or anything Innocent." Stay than wMh sppice end fill I them with ctkea. Make home lovable, end not one where yon get e growl in tfre morning and some antiquated, morbid text of no meemng in the evening. ■Boy* do not ruin themselves. They are often ruined hy their parents. -LtmauUr fiV— fair.

Two Cowards. A Ufllon Captain relates this Btory of ysung negro named Jack, who was in- A trusted with the captain's canteen and at the battle of Fredericks- ri Ho professed to be very courage- ll but the moment the shells began to » he disappeared, and carried the cap- ii accoutrements with him The d third day after the return of the regiment to camp, the captain saw the little " approaching— the most woe-bo- n gone looking contraband imaginable, f clothes wrre tattered and muddy, f corkless canteen hung spout down- g wards, and his empty haversack was I side out. There he stood, the tears trickling t down his cheeks, so pitabiy a sight tliat own eyes moistened, and yet so ex- i tremely ludicrous that it seemed impos- i aible to refrain from laughing. Howcv. I got the mastery of both faces and j feelings, and said to him, in wtat was , meant for a tone of severity, "You I worthies, cowardly, little vagabond, i what are you doing hero, after running i with my food ? Quick 1 if you I i have any excuse, out with it !" "Yes, tab! yes, sah said he. "Ise I got a seme !** "Well, then," I replied, "let's hear i I l "Well, sah— well, sah-I— I— IscafcrI ed you'll boot me!" i "Boot you? Why, there's nothing > left of you to boot ! But come, let's ' hear your excuse." ' "Well, maasa— mass* cag'n— I wasn't i any more coward 'an you wah !" and - then he boohooed louder than ever. » That was a Hunker I did not relish; 1 for in tbo meantime quite a crowd had » gathered round us, and among the nume her several officers. "Well, Jack," said 1, severely, "you t ran away, didn't you, before tbc first i shell had fairly reached the water ?" f "Yea, sah." e "Well, Jaek, did I run away T° ■t "No, sah." "Why, then, you black rascal, how 0 dare you tall me, in the presence of all !- these gentlemen, that I am as great a 1 coward aa you are P e "Well, 4hrn, maasa cap'n, I runn'd r away 'cause I didn't dare to stay, and e you stayed "cause you didn't dare runr n*d away." e Mixed In Their Scripture, rt The Expression lit beard a story rc- - cently of a small negro boy who goee to Sunday school in the little brick church hi Fbrt Erie. He got up to repeat the Tone, "It Is I, bo not afraid." He conveyed the idea correctly, fcut In rather a allocking manner, by raying: "It's me, bnt ilont be scart" This called lo mind the case of the {Lyear-old girl In the Harbor Mission school, who was rather mixed In her Scripture, and in trying to say, "And lo, a greater than * Solomon Is here," thegi t it, "And lo. a „ greater than Sullivan is here." Thl* was, by the way a week ur two After »' the John L.. -Sullivan combination h vl r appeared at the Adelpha.— Si o '»»»»• r- A conjugal eonvnsrtlon overheard in a. ■ street car: ,i "What are you going to give me on the 15th, dearest t You know that It is my birthday." - — ' in "It la adate I never forget, darling. I r- shall give you $100." "On. how lovely ! I'm going to buy 6' that exquisite wrap." n "Excuse me, love. I give you the $100 a- to pay the rent." | Sulk*.

How to Take a Ring Off. "Will you please saw this ring off my 81 io It was an old women who made this >i remark to a Broadway jeweler, and as lr worker in gold and silver took the wrinkled, though fat and shapely hand dl bis, It trembled violently, and a tear " dropped npon the counter. • ' "Excuse me," continued the old lady, "but it is my wedding ring ; I have '' never had it off since 1 was married— years ago ; I have refrained * liavlng It cut, hoping that my fin- 8 gcr might piiMfibly get thinner and that b I could take It off without breaking it." h "And what if I can remove It without a' cutting ? " inquired the Jeweler. 0 "But can you ? " said she, looking up '' a half credulous way ; "If you' can, do it by all means." * ' Then the jeweler took the swollen fin- 8 and wound it round from the top I downward in & length of flit rubber The elastic cord exerted Its force ' upon the tissues of the fluger gently « and gradually until (he flesh seemed to pushed down to the bone. The old ' woman's hand was held above her head ' for a brief interval. Then the bandage was quickly uncorded and rewound ' about the member. This was repeated 1 three times, and finally it was found, 1 upon uncovering the linger, that it was small enough to sdmtt of the rlog being 1 ; removed with ease, i "I have never failed but once," said the Jeweler, "and removed many rings i l from fingers even more swollen than I yours. Do I charge for it ? Oh, yes, I 1 ask only the same amount that I would ; get It the ring were left to be mended I after being cut— fl. Thank you i " and - as be turned to his bench and the old woman left the store he added: "But, i after all, she might have done the same t thing heraclt. It's not the work, however,- 1 charge for— it's the know how." —Nine York Mail and Krprtia. "It is scarcely the right thing," raid a r young bride, "to look a gift hone In the j mouth, and yet it's hard not to speak one's mind on a matter of this kind. It does seem lo me that people might think ^ awhile before buying wedding presents. ^ I am sure if they hail done so I would never have received seven pickel dishes. What in the world am I to do with thorn all? I can only nae one at a time, or, at the most, two. Now what iatoixftome h ot the other five? It's just too perplexing 0 for anything. If I could ouly show tl them it wouldn't be so bad, but I can't e even do that." "Dear mo, I don't know L why should worry over such a little' t things as that," observed her lister, who ^ had been married nine year*. "Those 0 extra pickle castors will come in handy n >7 and by. Select tbo one you want to- „ keep and then pnt the others carefully n away. Whenever any of your friends Q marry let a pickle castor be yonr gift. Ml rave yoq lota of money. When 1 was married I received four fish-knives among my presents. I was cross until 1 some one gave me the bint that I have i. ■ just given you. and .then I was happy. L wasn't long before I had made good use of throe ffsii knivea-"— HuUtUn. Remember that a negicoteJ cough may n lead lo consumption, and tor tuat reals son nse Dr. Setii Arnold's Conxh Ki'ler, the great potent remedy for aif lung dis eases, and you will at once obtain tvlidf. For rale by all dmggHU. Price y 25c. 50c. and *1.00 per bottle. Larger bottles are the cheapest. 10 Physic is necessary at times for Bttiofisaeu, Costivmees. Ac. Use Dr. Stlh Arnold's Bilious Pills. 25c.

A literal truth may be a virtual lie, and though there exist great cleverness t the tcilirg, it is often that sort of ii speech which we would scarcely care lo x imitate, though wc may smile at it. ( A party of boys were snow-bailing ono 1; in front of tbe old academy, just as s professor was approaching the door, s Whizz 1 and one icy ball striking his r shiny beaver, carried it noarly away < his head. 1 It was an accident, but the professor < not a man to make allowances, and t as he tur^d and glared at them, tbe I trembled. One of them, however, I had the self possession to pick up and I straighten the illuscd "tilo," and its 1 without a word, marched tn- < .and rang Ida bell. I Tho boys went in like mice. When i were seated, "Young gentlemen," ' said tbc professor, "who threw that ■ ball!" I No one sllrrcd, and not a glance was ; exchanged. The question was repeated and still the room was silent. "I will put one more -quel lion," said the professor, severely. "Does any one who threw it ?" ^ , The guilty boy raised his hahd, fint ho was a model of excellence, it did not occur to tho teacher lliat he could be the offender. "You raised your baud, Reade," he said, "then you know who did it?" "Yea, sir." "I should not, under ordinary circumstances, ask ono boy to tell the misdemeanor of another, bat it it evident that a-coward is present and needs exposure. Reade, who threw that ball ?" "I would rather not tell, sir," said Reade, with a mischievous twinkle in in his eyes. "Nobio boy, I honor youl" said bis i teacher, with enthusiasm. "It there Is . present one boy too cowardly to confess, 1 it Is evident that there is another who is too honorable lo betray a schoolmate. ForjReade's sake the culprit shall be 1 forgiven. Young gentlenten, proceed ! with your work." Y It is only fair to add that Iteade's con- ■ science afterwards pricked him, in view 1 of such undeserved praise, and that he ^ did manfully contest.— Youth.' r Compaq. i Here's a not for the young people to t crack: A farmer had sixty eggs, thirty i of the largest he placed In one basket • and sold at the rate of two for a cent, r while the remaining thirty be sold from t anolbfr basket at tho rate of three for a r cent. From the Aral basketful lie rafts' lized fifteen cents, and from the second i ten cents, a total of twenty-five cents. ■ When he next went to market, ho r thought that as three eggs for a cent l and two eggs for a cent were the same r aa flvn egg* for two cents, he would not bother to soft his eggs over, bat would . put the sixty in one basket, and would ■ sell them at the rate of five for two 1 cen' a, aa he assumed he bad done on ) his previous trip. He did so, but fouod , when he came to reckon up hit receipts. that he bad only realized twenty-four cents from them, instead of twenty-five j cents, nhe amount received when be sorted them over, and sold tbem two for a cent and three for a cent. Tbe question that puzzles tbe farmer, and Is puzzling the mathematicians, is what ' became of the missing penny? Hatband— This country seems to be ' well represented abroad, tuat now. ' : Wife —In what way. John ? Huibanl -Well, there la Buffalo Bill and Dirty Doj. who represent the wild - and woolly West, while Mr. Lowell sod 1 Mr. Bullivan personify the culture add refinement of the enlightened East.

Animadversions, sharp and severe, on the slckenly sentimental clement found much of our Sun lay-school literature, notwithstanding the many efforts to it, arc no new thing, but like tho of the ministry over tho non-attendance of children at public worship, they effect but little. Parents read them, think possibly the censure a deserved one, wish somebody would look into the nutter and that is the last of it. In the muitlfaroui duties of domestic life mothers are too busy to examine the books their children bring each week, bnt were they to tako the pains to read carefully some of tho scenes which their little girls pore ovcrjwlth delight or tearful sympathy, probably they would be somewhat astonished. ' The religious truths which the volume contains have been skipped ; or hurriedly skimmed over, making little or no impression on the mind of tho I reader. But the be thumbed, soilI ed pages devoted io the description of the heroine tented in the arbor with her I ioTcria arm around her waist or flinging : herself madly Weeping upon his bosom, betray where the Interest hax been cent tared. One ecarcely needs the addition1 al evidence of the penciled eulogies ; crowded over the fly leavee of the book and scrawled thickly on tho margin b that it is "perfectly divine," the '-sweetest story in the world," end similar ecstatic panegyrics to convince him 'of the . avidity with which the child has seized u upon this part of the story. t — — 9 He Was Wanted. "You ray you want my daughter," il raid the proprietor ot a New York newsn paper to a young man who waa sitting nervously on the edge of e chair and is wiping his feverish brow with a tramis bling handkerchief, i, "Toe, air." is "Have you spoken to her of this matter?" w "She— she has referred mo lo you." d "Is your affection for her deep and sincere ?" 3. "Sincere 1" gasped the youag man. "I w pledge you my word I haven't slept a ic wink nor eaten a mouthful of victuals i. for six whole weeks for thinking of ber." "George," said the father, after looking at blm a moment reflectively, "I ° think you may come into tbo family. 1 I" need a young man of your capabilities fl to swear to the circulation of tho paper." n Minister (to bereaved widow)— Yet, Met Mildew, John waa such a good i- man; always the same, and you could d know where lo find him at ail times. Widow—' that's so. (Bobs.) c Minister— And then in money matters it he waa always so open handed. I rer member a time 1 needed money badly, 4 and John went down In Ida pocket for I the whole sum. Ah ! It was such a help. ,, Widow— Haa (rob) it (sob) ever been n (sob) paid beck ? i, A Woman's Dleoovary. r "Another wonderful discovery has e been made and that too by a lady in this e county. Disease fastened Its dutches o upon her and for seven year* the wlthe stood It* severest teat*, but her vital ors genu were undermined and death seem:t ed Imminent. For three month* she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She bought of as e bottle ef Dr. King's c New Iliicavery for Censumptloo and waa so much relieved on taking first dose that she slept all Highland wfik one II bottle has been miraculously cured. Her d tLMrl- Luther Lntz." TTOwritra 4 W.-U. Hamrick A Co., of Shelby. N. G 4 Get-a free trial bottle at Marry A Me- . crey'a Drug Store- s