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VOLUME XXXIII.

CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY, - THURSDAY, JAKDARY 12, 1808.

WHOLE NUMBER 1737.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., ii BBS-It r EDM VXDS, MM taker tad rroprUUr. UKSRY W. BAUD, EJUer. - 1100 a Yor Strictly Is Advance. Srrfwstonal (fartfi. REAMING, a BLACK, ATTORNEY8-AT-LAW, „ camden, n. J. ]«s-y A J. JT. LEAKING * SON, " denytbts , laf1 mat cttvtow!>1httir>«n aba u«u - ru«A*, Tuaalar bow aatll WxitnaMaj nftarda ra ma r Uocar »oo»b— TBarvlAj, »nj au- ' AMES M. E. HXLDBETH^ ^ ^ ATTOftNEYVAT-LAW AND S" njcrroa. mbhtsr and examiner in h. chancert. <, 'Oct u No. «s Washington Mtroel, CaijaMnj a senxington t. hii jyreth, * ATTORNEY - AT - LAW AND i „ SOLICITOR IX CHANCER1! , 104 market st.. camden, n. 3. grTBBBco omc. 4. cp. MAT coon n«m*. C Susintss ffarfls, ( 5^ B. LITTLE, . - ' * practical f AIXTER AND GLAZIER, _ cape may citt, K.J. Onten may MKRuL Johnson itore^ ^ - A O.GILE, - ~ HOUSE, SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER, CAPE MAT CITT, N. 3. estimates ftrn1shko. surrogate's office, c nrun^rw^wcm^eegftifn^jtmltj un 7RROGATK OP THE COUNTY OF CAPS MAY. uSSmSSrsffifioiis OOLD PENS. PIKHINO TACKLE. HOPE TWINES. HAMMOCKS. PI'l.LTB AND YACHT EIXTCHBS, , OCKET CTTLEHT, BRASS AND COPI'ER 8 WIRE, ALBUMS, C11ROMOH. FRAMES, * PICTURES, Etc., Etc. ae mi of nod tol1h minm wuo ui - receiptor slit j-nv.. etna 44 A n Washington HI.. Cape Mar N. J. • yy-A8HlXGTON HOTEL, SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ! I •mo per d.,. LEVATOR AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEments. <I»-r - J^ON'T take our word for it, but just try and see for yourself, if a few packets of " Condimental Spice," whish cost only 3 cents each, wont put your horses, cattle, pigs and poultry in a thriving condition and make them bring you more money than ever before. a»j> j)BS. 3. X. & J. B. HOBBNSACK, Medical anti Surgical Offloes, 40 Yean EstaMisM oi£5st£5 '.so*- '•

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CAPE MA? DRIVING PARK. ^ v . ■ ^ * • _ - Contains Eighty Acres of Fast Picturesque Land Within a half mile of the City of Cape May on the Steamboat pike. BlXXiESi AND HALF HILL TRACKS completed and contracts for buildings awarded. These grounds surpass in their natural adaptability tor a GENTLEMAN'S EKIVING PAEE, Being perfectly drained, and convenient of access to City, Steamboat Landing and West Jersey Railroad Depot. . _ , ■' ...

/lour, £txi, HUM, <6tc. GEORGE L. LOVETT, 64- Jackson Street, Cape May, N. J. Good Quality FLOUR, $2.75 per Cwt., OATS. GROUND FEED, CONDITION POWDERS, Harness, Blankets, Lap Robes and Repairs 1 AT SHOP ON OCEAN 8THEtT — — J DAY ID W. RODAN, POOT OP JACKBON STKEKT. CAPE MAT. N.J. Wlihea lo lalorm the pottle gsnnrally that he bin on hand a ohoka lot of FIELD AND GARDEN SEED Al KeaaonaMa PrKK*. Alao d«alcr la baat qoalny ol A Wood, Flour A Feed of all Kindt, Freeh A 8alt Hay in Balee. Barmrra nudunE to lu»» ihrtr corn imraBd can do an hp hrln*tn» the tame lo km mill at uie . dal yard In Wml Cape May. fit ftmrral Contrattor. L. E. MILLER, GtntMl CONTRACTOR. : CAPE MAY CITY. N. J. Ifftrls and goardiug S«Srt. I ST. GEORGE'S HOTEL, Broad and Walnut Streett, Philadelphia. lym-l] JAMKS D. HCCLBLLAN, proprietory West Jersey Hotel, foot op MARKET MTRBET. CAMDKN, N. 3. Haras Leaaad and Heforalaked the a**ore Hotel, I am prepared to raratah mj maaAi and the twh^^o^omiaaraLotaaaaoooinmodaUooa. Am t»aa\fal for pa« patrooase. Oood Stabins Thn "n »r. stbpubn par8on8. U 1* of Feramt'a HM, eldredgejcILnson S9 Waablaston >t.. Cape MayJN. J., DKALKR IN BOOTS AND SHOES, Largest and moat oomplete SM^oj^Oo^C^Jt^^ehom. m aU.tae Waal Style, Quality RUBBER GOOD8^A SPECIALTYFine Wall Papers of th© Latest Patterns. 1 Suitable lor Oattapa. Hotela. ato. Can and axamfao moat and prtoaa. a»-y HIRAM DEWALT, S MERCHANT TAILOR, ft No. 817 Chestnut Street, Philada. i Pipilar Styles at Pspular Plica. Kaie a! lal Mitertal it a BeaamaMe Price. ty

JOSEPH P. HENRY, t P ! House, Sign and Frescoe Painter,1 ! CAPE MAY CITY. N. J. j«8-t f ,! NATHAN C. PRICE. ^Surveyor and Conveyancer, i cape m«v citv. n. j. tt, I HERBERT W. EDMUNDS, ! Counsellor-at-Law, I CAPE MAY CITY. M. J. ( . CHARLES WEISS, j BREAD AND CAKE BAKERY I, 2103 Mount Yernon Strnat, philadklphu, pa. •»-»

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Letter From China. t | We are sure that our readers of Cape s will be glad to bear from Dr. In- 1 who, with his wife, started for !! China last September. we lay before 1 them a letter just received from him as 1 tcnociio, pkkisu, fillna.j |n Nov. 5th 1887. 1 Editor or the Wats, y , DkabFbiikd:— We have been rocked {| on many billows, hut no wave gave us y so much satisfaction as the ' Cape May s Wave," which overtook us at Tientsin (] and gave us all the news of county upS®«fcg!SV&T5S.,«S'''® ; old "hunting ground" and seeing the old friends. We arrived here the 11th j. of this month after being sixty-live days f on the Journey. I will not try and describe the beauty of the mountains of j Japan as they appeared to us as the first ( land after passing The Golden Gate. t The Pacific Ocean is as a desert in com- j parison with the Atlantic. wc saw no , soil after leaving 8. f. till we saw the ( little fishing boats oil the coast of Japan. f They were a great curiosity as they j have not changed shape or fashion for j centuries. The hills and mountains of ( this country look like huge pyramids wilh each layer made smaller but it ascends vertically from the next lower. Tills causes them to sppcar like stairs. i thought this a freak of nature but was , Informed that it was the natives mode . of farming on the mountains. The Utter , being so steep as to be impossible to tell whether thev were "stair stepped" or terraced. Most of this Emplic Is bills and mountains aod as there are 50,000,000 of peopie who get their daily "bread" from surrounding waters, every available meats baa to be resorted to. The fields of different kinds of crops vary in size from 10 feet square lo J of an acre end what is surprising this has and wont is surprising this nas ■

to support a family so far as vegetables , and grains are concerned. • The mountains look as if covered with crazy patchwork as the fields are in all possible shapes and angles, and beautified with most every color: yellow with ripe grain, white with buckwheat blossoms, grreu with wheat>nd flanked with cotton balls. It was abont as strange and pleasing a sight as could be Imagined in this line to foreigners. They are no less active in their pursuit of fish. The# catch everything from the imallasl to tho largest There Is no way of flihlng they aro not acquainted with. In Yeddo Bay there are hundreds of thoui which are used far this purpose. They are about 90 feet In length and are [sculled ;wltb a long limber oar. la many of these tampams a family makes their home. a large number of the men are naked save a breech cloth and ID_ If they do have elothlnghls very scanty. i a The women are aa -handy with the oar The aa.-bandy v

as the men, and the children never t ' know when they could not- propell a i boat, at it satined to mo 'they almost „ put the babies st It. | i We stopped in Yokahuma tlx days ] [ and had a good opportunity to m£ some ( of tbepeculisiltle^of this people. It is t a strange mixture of civilization and , heathenism. The progress Christianity \ has made it phenomenal, and.'they havo adopted a great many western idem and i have clung to man* of their own as is i natural. Their shoes are made of wood i and they are like little stilts to that the i natives have a jog which corresponds 1 to the walk of »boy on these dangerous : J playthings. The shoes elevate the sole i about four inches from the ground by two pieces of board. This divides the r sole piece Into thirds. These shoes are fastened on by cords, from either side of which are grips between first and second toea. n4 Japanese anil over go inI to a house wilh shoes on. Their floors I look at clean in muddy weather as ilicy ; i do any other time, and 1 must say that ■ is very, very cltan. i attended one ; I church where there were 600 natives I present. There was a man m the vesti-

bule who put a cheek ou each pair of shoes as they were left by the worshipers. It would have been like finding a needle j in a wood-pile to have selected the right pieces of tvood-out of a pile of 1000. : ' Another sense of conglomeration came j ' over me at the It. 1l depoL It was a , ( nice building with a long stone platform. i ' was a real civilized train of cars 1 being filled with this wooden- 1 people who caused so much noise ' with the scuffing of their shoes on the ' stones as to drown even the puffing of 1 the locomdtivc. Another strange idea thoy have is that ' their gods. At the shrine of every tem- 1 pic there is a large gong which is struck 1 each worshiper as he prostrates himl 1 The jinriklsha la a great Institution ' this vehicle they can take atravclcrovcr ' the ground quite rapidly. These jinrik- ' iahs men do not wear the native shoe. 1 are fiat pieces of matting made i of rice straw. i cannot describe the 1 sensation that came over me when we 1 got oft the steamer and had to travel in ' this kind of a thing; " Some othor time I will lot you hear about t'liinaJ. h. Ingram. Tho Universal Language. The study of Volapuk is fast bccom- ' ing a fashionable fad among literary ' people, and is certainly a most sensible one. When Ilerr Sclegcr imvented his ' universal language he had no idea that It would prove anything but an intcrest- » ing example of the poatlble combination 5 of science and language. This was ten ' years ago. To-day more than one hun. >' dred thousand people throughout the • world are conversant with the language; ® four periodicals are printed in it, and u f is beginning to be used Id commerce. 8 The language consists of monosyllable ' roots taken at random from all the. Ian- ni

• guages of Christendom. These roots 80 ' are substantives. By certain Invariable w • preflxos and suffixes i hey are changed to tl 1 verbs, adjectivcMntd-atJveibs. There is 8 one dctlensumw nounk one conjuga- 8' • lion of verlis pwhjbe-tpamioif »>f forming i' 3 derivatives. The JframiTiar^^onsists of n: - thirty-seven pages, ahtL-rrrtrule lias an ™ • exception. With the use of s lexicon * *• one can translate the language after a v b day's Btudy. ' After a month's study It <1 ® cam.be read and spoken quite flucnlly. n 8 This makes the study of language a posl- 0 " tire pleasure instead of a long and te- '' dlous process. While it Is true that n 0 language without a literature or any 1 j historical associations can never come • • into popular use, yet it may prove valua- 1 • hie In commerce and it a dtllghtful phil- 8 >* diogical study. It bears much the name 8 ic relation to language that the tonic soi-fn ' <1 system does to music, and the Arabic 1 f- notation to mathematics. The atudy of ' cannot give a person the men- *

tal drill or the intellectual pleasure that a is gained b7 a study of the elastics, both «' ancient and modern, but is an Interest- " proof of the possibility of Improving f that have had a heterogeneous r development through the course of ages 1 Science has revolutionized everything lo a man's external life, and why may it not c Improve his language f — Ntrrtk American h Domestic— Pleate, mam, your pug d dog got under the street car and got s f Young Wife— Indeed f 1 "Yee, mam ; an' the new girl has i ruined your best dress a leltin' it fall in- t : to the grease kettle." c "How careless ! " r i "And thieves has got in an' run ofl t : with your diamonds." « ! . "We must keep tho front door locked ( ■ In future." "An' please, man, a man says your t i husband's fine property down town Is ( r burning." < i "Hark! What's tbilj" i ■ "] didn't hear anything." I ■ "My gracious i The baby's crying; - un to him, quick."

Class. The days of old time school master , ruling ids infantile kingdom in the little i j red school house down- by the hill are ■ , No more shall wc see the troops - j of boys "creeping like snails unwillingly , school," or bevies of bright eyed, rosy i checked girls, full of life and innocent happiness, running along with merry No more shall we notice the village pedagogue with his spectacles on forehead and his scanty hair brushed back to conceal the growing baldness, lien ~ n'ore'uu^ wlum a'"wtiic,!i " aEoweil plainly his early education in PuriLand. Clothes of rusty black; a sure sign of depleted exchequer, adorns hardy frame; for the school master of bygone days believed in a muscular well as a mental education. 1*1 us go back many years in the cycle of time, follow them all adown the narrow bush grown path to the little old school by the hlllUlde. There is the preceptor marching ahead like the King of France leading his tun thousand men; only, when they reached the top of the mount of knowledge, let us hope he was not the cause of the ignominious retresL We pass by the brook wherein the ar-row-root grew and tho deep blue fleur • dc lis blossomed in glory and which, ' when the boys gave them In boqucts to i the girls they called them flags. There i amid the grove of oak anl pine and a i neighboring thicket of birch was the - school house. They cuter, and wc follow i after, silent witnesses of their scholastic i deeds. Often »he house built of rough . hewn logs Is devoid of exterior decorae tion. A few ill-constructed benches, the master's tall desk and a great stove i comprise tho furniture of the apartment. No plaster on the walls, or atliclic maps c of lands decidedly "foreign." No varon the desk or on tho benches, and

way that the stove was once white- , washed ; but that must have been when the school house was new. Evldcfices of future artistic skill , aliound. On the sides of the logs comprising the walls, on the desks and even ■ on the floor arc the traces of the handi- , mark of the amateur xylographcr, othcr- , wise the small boy with the jsckknifecurves, what scrolls, what arabct- ; ques i Surely- no carving in all Ger- , mania can approach that "spread eagle" • the desk, standing out in bold relief . the side of the initials of the owner , of the aeat, intertwined with those of - the prettiest girl in the room. Tbon t there were all the geometrical figures" . since the days of„Eucl!d, and . some of the more advanced gravers had t. shown their genius by invenflog lew i, But while we were examining c these truly artistic productions the masif called up the Aral class of the day JnH wp llilpnpil art ntlnnllvr-lr that not not

word was. lost. Oh, that reading class ! Singing and drawling afteryour master tlic sublime words of "Gray's l in a Country Church Yard," you a certainly did most roble work and then 1 the periods over which you would Jump i and the dashes over which you fell i caused many a pang to your young 1 We Hstcnod lo your little brothers spell "b-a, bo," "c-a, cs," d-a, da," t that long, long list, and your little ( sisters recited the multiplication table a* ' at "8 times." "Goldsmith's Ancient j Uistosj" class has recited, and one of ( the boys is In Qie corner decorated with < the "dunce's cap," the laughing stock 1 of the girls. Arithmetic class, with its rule of three," Us "tare and trett," its tables of measures, Its vulgar fractions, 1 and more than all, ita reductions of the rurreqeiea of lite states Into legal tender 1 "the almighty dollar," has answered all tho questions put to it by the sage pre- | eeptor. And then there comet a lecture i "science" full of popular error and i the children with wide open mouth and | staring eyes verified the old saying: -—And nut tan wwnler grew,. Teat one small beaJ could carry a# kaaw.^

At last, for this was indeed one of the old time schools, the pedagogue closed by si iging the Doxology- and then dls- ' missed without more ado. Such was * the village school. After dismissal wo ' wc could sec tho smaller boys playing ■ "cat ball" or "prisoner's base" on tbe f green before the school. By these dicy tates of the Falcs the boys of more adi vanced years meet the girts and together Y they would go for a ramble. The school- * master, too, chooses out the prettiest n maiden and away for a walk. Right ii willing is she to go and listen to the ex- '• tempore dissertations poured forth in i learning. No more ichool for -that day '• ir this were the oti*r of things. Yet, 8 tins is the country school house wherein 8 our grandfathers learned the rudiments r that tilted them for their struggle in life. >f As wc see the building to-day. it Is In 18 ruin. "The roof letiin the sunshine and and rain," the nocturnal bat makes his h borne in the aide of the wall, while over 3' the forsaken desks the animals of the n wood run unrestrained. The green la weed-grown, the grove which once rung F. with merry shouts of laughly is as siii lent as the grave, save only when the 11 stillness is broken by the can of the owl. l Yet with ail these signs of tbe wearing r- hand of time, the old building yet proudlr ly stands in all ita desolation. Proud of l>. lis having once shcllcied men whose 10 names in after years stood forth in the re annals of their country. Proud of having been the plaqe wherein were imbibed ac those high and lofty sentiments which '* formed the basis of the life-work of full® ture statesmen, diplomats or scientists. s'1 Thy mouldy framework la fast levrllng to the dust, yet will the- memories of the '8' days spent in Its walls be ever green in yv the hearts of all those who "sought l1' Wisdom where she might be found." p" f. b. Lxt

Anything we make up our mlnda to do w« can do. There is nothing Impossible to be done by determined, persevering effort, and nothing of impoitanoe can be done without it. it was labor that built the pyramids. By labor tbe arts and scienoos were brought to their present stale of perfection; and labor is necessary to the health and happiness of all. Industry is the law of our being, and we aro so constituted that when the law Is fully recognized It brings it own reward. Bodily labor it not the only kind that is 'necessary;, mind and body should both be exercised. In this way ' cheerfulness and contentment are pro1 moled, and we aro prepared to 'fill with r honor anysMttion assigned ua. We often 1 regard the sentence pronounced on man , 1 "By the sweat of thy face shalt-thou eat ' bread," a curse, but It Is really a blesi sing, for wc find that all rational enjoy- - ment follows in the train of Industrious ' labor, whether physical or mental. laoor, wnetner puysicai or nicui»i

Electric Blttara. This icmedy Is becomlog so wall and »o popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Bitters sing the song of praise. a purer medicine docs not exist and it guaranteed lo do ail that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all dieeaeea of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Bolls. Salt Rheum and other alfeclions caused by Impure blood. Will drive Malaria from the system and pievent an well as cere all Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitter* Entire "Alisfacllon gnantted, or money refunded. Price (Wc. and fll.00 per bouie at Marcy & Mecray's Drug Store. 5 Ghosts are troublesome things to Investigate. They come, as a rule, unsolicited; but, wlign sought, it la abtoat Impossible to find them. T. e. Moore, of Thorodlke, Mass. "I used Dr. Scth Arnold's Cough Kilin my family for a number of years and find none oetter." For. sale by all drurglsta. Price 96c. 50c and f 1.00 per ' Beth Arnold's Bilious Pills, tta.