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WMna XXIIV. , CAPE MAY CITY, SEW JERSEY^ IHDRSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1888. ■ - ■ "WHOLE NUMBER 1198.

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A CHILD'S DREAM OF A ST AR. From the "Reprinted Ploceo" of ■ Charlee DloKene. Do Jem wnnt lo try an experimenl today—a helpful, ■ luce re and genUe ex- I pertaicnf 1 All right. If you bare a aon or a i daughter; If ytm bare a brorhcr or a tie l trT; If you bare neither, take up IbU i paper and lead aloud Dicken'a match. I leaa prooc poem, which t, printed hero- < If you bare a borne, gather your family and friend, about you and read It to them. If you hare no home, gel a «ym- i pathetic friend or eo your bachelor", i room this evening and read R to them. Wherever you read, and to whomever, It win be the beat sermon either you or will boar outbtiblemed day! There waa once a child, and that i child atrolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of tblnga. lie had | a sister, who was a child, too, and his , constant companion. These two used t to wonder all day long. They woodered 1 at the beauty of the dowers; they won1 dered at the height anil blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; Ibey Wondered at tho goodness and the power of God, who made the lovely world. I They used to say to one another soma times, supposing all the children upon I ful streams that gambol down the hlUI the smallest bright specks playing at I hide and seek In the sky all night must 9 surely he the children of the stars ; and J they would all be grieved to sco their [ playmates, the children of men, no • net. near the church aplm, above the !; «n<l. every night Uwy watched for It, , standing hand in hand at a window. to he such friends with It, that, before lying down in their beds, they always . night ; and when they were turning | round to sleep, they used to say, "God 1 ' bleu the star." But whil^she waa still very young. ; " oh very, very yotrng, the sister drooped, night; and then the child looked sadly out by hlmaelf, aud when he saw the 1 star, turned round and said to the pa- 1 tienl pale face on the bed, "1 see the the face, and a little weak voice used to 1 say, 'God bless my brother and the 1 And so the time came, all too soon I 1 _ when the child looked out alone, and 1 when there waa a little grave among the I star made long raja down towards him, ' at he saw it through his tears. ] Now, these rays were so bright, and way from earth to heaven. Ihat when 1 the child went to his Solitary bed he dreamed about the star ; and dreamed 1 - that, lying where he waa, be saw a train 1 of people taken up that sparkling road 1 by angels And the star, opening, 1 i showed him a great world of light, 1 ■ when many more angels waited to re- 1 celve them. All those angels who were waiting 1 turned their beaming eyaa upon the peo- i , pie who were carried up into star ,- and ) which they stood and fell upon the people's necks and kissed them tenderly, - and went aWsy with them down ave- ; nues of light, and were so happy in their , company that lying In bit bed he wept , , for joy. • But, there were many angels who did , i, not go with them, and among them one | i he knew. The patient face that once , t had laid upon the bed waa glorifled and | i radiant, but his heart found out his als- | tcr among ail the host. lib sister's angel lingered near the en- , trance of the sUr. and said to the leader . among those who had brought the peo- . plo Ihlther; . • "Has my brother come?" And be eald, "No." Bbe was turning hopefully away, when the child atretcbed out hb arms, and cried, "Oh, lister, 1 am here! Take me I " and then she turned her beaming eyes upon him, and it waa night ; and ' the star waa shlninlg In the room, making long rays down towards him as ha saw it through hb tear . From that hour forth, the child ' looked out upon tLo star aa on the home be was to go to, when hb time should come; and he thought that be did not belong to the earth alone, but to the itar, too, because of hb lister's angel gone before. There waa a baby said to be a brother Of jhe cbHd, awl while he waa eo Utile that he never yet had spoken a word, he , stretched hb tiny form out on hb' bed, and died. Again the child dreamed of the open ; star, and ol the company of angels, the J (rain of people, »nd the rows of angels u with their beaming eyes all toroed upon 1 f 8gtejMopWslaoes. • Eaidhb •bier's angel to the leader: . "Has my brother 'come ? " u And he aald, "Not that one, hut an- ~ At Use child beheld hb brother's angel M her anna, be cned, "O, slater, I am here: Take me!" And she turned , andamM'fretK'rt'V o\at waa I 8ttoto«i He grew to he a young man, and waa busy at hb books whan an old 1 servant oame to him and aald: "Thy mother b no more. I bring i her blessing on her darling son' v Again at Right h. yw the star, and a all that Cormnr comtooy. Said hb alstar's angel In the leader. "Has my brother eoree|» ^ Aud he Skid; "Thy mother 1" |j A n/.gUly ory of Joy went forth • through all the atar, because the mother T Was rauMtad to her two children. And he sMctcbM out hi. arms and cried, "O, , morfer, abler and brother, I am here: , Tali mil " And they answered him. ' T ***"" U* atar waa shining. lis grew to a man, whose hair waa 1 tunning (my, and he waa attlag in hb ) | ■fair l.y hb beside, heavy with grief, £ lad with hb iaoe brdawud with tears, a Kwbaa the star opened uac* again.

Bald hb aUter'i angel to the leader "Has my brother come ?" And he aald, "Nay, hut thb maiden daughter." ( And the man who had been the child . hb daughter, newly lost to him, a celestial creature among those three, 1 and he said, "My daughter's head U on ' - my sister's bosom, and her arm Is ■ around my mother's nock, and at her i! . feet there ia the baby of old lime, and I " - can bear the parting from her, God bo " praised: " And the star was shitting. - and his oucc smxHh face was wrinkled, c ■ and bb steps were slow and feeble, and * . hb back waa bent. And one -night he 1 r round, he cried, aa he had cried so long ago; t "I see the atari" 1 "They whispered one soother "He b r 1 dying." b And he said, "I am. My age Is fall- L 1 log front me like a garment, and 1 move " i toward the star as a child. And O. my • ;- father, now I thank Thee that it has so d who await me ' " e And the star was shining . and it '< " There are! a certain class ..Manners ' envied, and to be got into as soon as * j They seldom c insider how the succres- „ | himself in Hie way of making money, | J the same process may not^ lead to a. b , Indeed it is a common esperienee that it ( J These successful businesses arc simply , _ business liiat wc know o» thai may be , pointed out as illustrative ol great sue- , , better understood, the least preamble p , would be dropped, ami, in many in. , , stances. Arms that began dealing in a ,, dotcn articles would end in only a tew. p , fact, and urged on cultlratori that thb Is , the only way to get Into the special crop .. I able to grow some one thing or a few h I things s Utile better than another thing. . I It should be a continual subject of ex. . pcrlment on every farm aa to what will , grow aud thrive remarkably well; and |, found thb out, what would he the proflpects of a good market for It. p I It b rare indeed that any one who raises f c just exactly what his neighbor does ever ,, ! wealth, lie makes out of wheat, or |! i corn, or pork a fair average living price. ., I some as to the niceties of cultivation, he 0 may make more than hb neighbors; but j the rich farmer la generally he who by , careful observation and calculation ts ,, able gnulually but surely to get out of On Saturday night last, says the New '• ■ York Timea, an old man with silvery " ' was led into the Cyclorema of Get. r tysburg by a bright faced Utile miss In u 1 a jaunty gypsy oat and dress sat down 11 while she described to him tlie feature* 11 ' of the picture in detail, occasionally ask- h ' log her a question or shaking his head b ' in her own way the onrush of Pickett's C turn and the hand to hand conflict at * ■ the stone fence where the Pennxylvnnia <- r veterans met the charge of Southerners, g when he asked, "But Where's the artU. t' lory, Matf" c "Oh, you mean the big guns. Ther're n over here in the row." ' "AU In a row?" be asked. 1 ' "Yea," she replied. h ' He shook his head. "Look round." K [ said be. "There must be some more r that arc not in line." 1> j "Yea," she aald. "There are some « down hero, but they are all upset and I , teem to he broken. 1 think they are v bunted." b J "Is that where the men arc coming r orft the stona wall?" * ' Yea, grandpa." t | "Is there a grove of trees?" I "l'ea, grandpa. It nooma to be full of men, hut the smoke b so thick you can- ' ' not see them." " "Oh, I can ace them," he cried. It waa than Dotkrd Uy several people u who wore listening to him that he waa > blind. The little girl said; "Oh, no, I grandpa; you can't see them." a "Yea, I can," he answered. "I can J •ee them very well, and the broken can- 1 The child looked at him with Innocent I surprise aa she said; "Yoo are joking [ "No, my dear," replied the old man, 1 j "No. That waa the last thing I ever b law oq earth, ^brrt waa a cannon ox- fl . pioded there Just thb aide of that fanee, f * and that waa the last terrible picture I t ever saw. for It waa then I lost my eya- a j sight, and I have never got the picture I out of my head." * 1 ■ ■ ■ — — t 5 Don't Exnarlmont. 1 You cannot atort to waste lime In ex- " b perimcating when your lungs are In dan- ( gee. Consumption always seems, si ■rat, orly a cold. Do not- permit say J dealer to impost upon you' with tome h cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Dlt- J r covery for Consumption, Cougbx and I Colds, but be nre you get the scnuinc. | ', Because he put make more profit he ; ( 1 mgy teV you that hehee something Just i ^ u aa goo.1, or Juat the same. Dou4 b- do- , reived, but lnsbt upon getting Dr. ! t a Kmg*s New Discovery, which bguaran- 1 a tead to gjva relief in all Throat, Ixtng ; [ f, and Chest affect Uma. Trial bottles free J •t "ILwcy A BecraybDrog Store. Large ' ,

OAPE NAY FITTY YEAB8 AOO. MATTERS IN REGARD TO THE l PLACE OF LOCAL INTEREST- j I Was In Old Tlmoa!— ttrcldents d , Which Many Of Our Peo- t _ P" *fn"n*mr- , Principally from reminiscences given . by the Istc venerable 1L Smith Lndhun. , [ a gentleman well known to many of our (i i oiiicr people, wc gather the following t facta in regard to the earlier history of Cape May as a waterlog place- The old c , *»y of getting to Cape May. formerly c called Cape Island, was by carriages, the I visitors from Philadelphia driving down. ( | days to get down. . The old Atlantic, ^ tlie only hotel, waa at the foot of JackIt will be remembered that thb build- . associated with so many pheasant , memories, was a few years ago removed . the City. Commodore Decatur, ihe gal- ! old Atlantic. His record of the gradual 1 ' oul on the island considerably more ^ memory of some Mving Tbcre waa no [ - other watering place, aa early as 1812, at ' least between Cape May and I Xing ' Congress Hall was at tint a large J J and seivcd'two terms, being ' resort in the Called States. It u now • the ol.l Mansion House, which Mr. J bouse on the Island that was lathed and ^ ' The Kcrsal," meaning a place of ' After the old Mansion House, the nest 1 1 house was built by Mrv Reynolds, cal- J I also Then there was Hie Unl- [ These three, the Atlantic. United ' grra^Jre of ltUBi The Mount Yer. | 1 of tlie Atlantic coait, was built in 18S6. " ' ly. The Mansion House was burnlThe | ' The West flersey HaUroad wna opened * cording to fancy, and speculation was ' - a long lime rife and much money There was no light house at Cape May ' I until 1820. The tint light was washed i Into the ocean. The present light la the I third one built ; Cape Ucnlopen light has ' . built since then. Jackson street , being the oldest, all the houses originally ' were on that street except tho " Blue ' I'lg," which stood oul in the fields where i Hull stood. The " Blue Pig •' c t was a gnnbling houae for many yearn. I Cape May waa a borough flrjt, and was goecrned by an Alderman "with one or . watchmen. In 1851 the city waa in- , _ ^*"led wUI' M*y°r *l,d couocU- I 1838. Before that freight waa brought Cape May In sloops up to Scliellen- a ger's Landing. Old Captain Whllldln ; the first steamboat to the present ; place on the hay aide. The boat , I stopped at Now Castle to take up the . I and Southerners who , ) would come down on the old French. , and New Castle IUilroad-the first I railroad evor run In thb country. They , would come over in carriages from Bal- | tlinore toPrenchtown, In Maryland, on . Ihe Susquehana, near Havre de Grace. [ I will give hb description of the die- , . linguUhed visitors to Cape bland in hb , " We're had three Presidents to visit • us— Pierce, Buchanan and Grant But i the big time was when Harry Clay came. ( He had been at the White Sulphurs, and . •aid he had a notion to go to some of the , i Northern watering placet ; that waa In . So I aent him an invitation and ; he accepted, and stopped at the Mansion t for a week. It waa in the latter , • part of August and the people had be- , , waa announced that Harry Clay waa ; r be here, the piece filled up to over- . Rowing. Two steamboat loads eMhe on , , New York. They wanted him [ there. Horace Greeley came down to . him, and the people from Balam and , ) and all the country around Rocked in their catrv-alls to Cape May f sec Harry of the West." We hive made no allusion to the present statue of Cape May. The Interview with Mr. Ludlim occurod Just after the < ' and bat great fire, and our object ' f principally waa to revive obi memories, ' oernlng the rise and psugtaaa of thb ad- • sababl* summer resort lor health and I • pleasure. U b rather Inaccessible to us ( " tail at too great a distance from Phlla- ' delphta anil other principal points to be ! very popular like Coney bland and At- i : 1 - anrpawel In etlhar bemiaphere. ' , : For persons able '0 areet and enjoy Rv'is£tsxa»nrt^ ' ' anywhere, otBUlniy hu » uplrtor.^ ^

A Narrow Eaoapa. Prom Tlioodore Rooao veil's illustrated on "Frontier Tjpes." In the Oo- p loboc Century, we quote the following u of one of hb trappers, a „ Canadian; "Once or twice he ,i showed a curious reluctance about aL lowing a maa to approach him sudden- p from behind. Altogether hb actions „ to odd that I fell some curiosity to a, learn hb history. It turned out that he , been through a rather uncanny ex- c perience the winter before. He and an- , mountains, where game was very picntl- r ful; Indeed. It was no abundant that h they decided to pass the winter there, a Accordingly they put up a log-cabin, worktng bard, and merely killing enough o meat for their Immcdblc use. Just as V tl was finlshod winter set in with tremen- I •leroaUon. that every head of game had p the valley. Not an animal was to t I be found Ibvreio; thry had abandoned | They were afraid of trying Ui break out i through the d ep snow-drifts, and star- I vation stared them In the face if they I | staid. The man that 1 met had hb dog 1; with him. They put themselves on very 1; The other man. s fierce, sullen fellow, v 1 insisted that the dog should be killed, ' bju the owner was exceedingly attached v ' to it. and refused. For a couple of ii of luge Then one Dlght the owner'of t ' Ing ouf ihe other man 'had tried to kill a with his knife, but failed. The pro. e the one who owned Ihe dogathutspokc I was . ami II be tried to follow the find, I he was warned that lie would be shot r without mricyv A like fate was to be s lei. neither daring to turn bis beck t ' oilier. For two days the one who went • through tlie sen w -drifts, lade on the r second afternoon, o he looked back divided It with ^the dog. In Uc morn- ° ret "oul with awk^y^ly^.Tw ' gave tongue, and. rallying Its strength, ° ran along the trail. The man struggled ° and he sat down to die ; but while sit- 0 ting still he limn) the dog baying In tho 0 woods. Shaking off hb mortal numb- 11 found the wolf over the body of a deer ' that he had Just killed, and keeping the r dog from it. At the approach of the *' new assailant the wolf sullenly drew off, wilh hideous eagerness. It made Hum * very sick for tho next 24 hours; but, ly. * ing by the carcass for two daya, they re- '' covered strength." " Born a Colonel. b "Bishop" Obcrly, tho "Oily Gammon" 11 of the Civil Service Commission, has a 'I theory of the way military titles are got c by Southerners. Some years ago when j1 Mr. Obcrly waa a member of the IUlnob ' Legislature, there was among hb col- ' leagues an Egyptian, who waa known 1 Colonel Qbilson. The military mem1 her was every inch a soldier— In looks. ' ' He weighed 800 pounds and had more than the usual amount of the fat man's f ' pomposity. One day Mr. (►bcrly intro- 1 ' iluced to Colonel Ghtlson a person who 1 was anxious to have hb help on some 1 pending bill. The seeker after leglala- ' ' to poor on some of tho oil Battery. ' 1 talk ran something In thb wise; 1 "Colonel did I understand Mr. Obcrly ' say : Then 1 suppose Colonel Ghllson 1 you probably commanded a regiment In the late war?" 1 "No,air."._^__ . ^ 1 "Ah, I presume" then it must have , In tlie Mexican war. You were ' pretty young for so responsible com1 marnl weren't you." ' in my life;" ' 1 "Oh, 1 see now. You belong to tlie ' ' militia. Fine body of mci tbey "No, sir; not at all, sir. Ihavenoth- * 1 Ing to do with the militia." "Perhaps you are on the Governor's ° I "^No, sir." ' "Then, Colonel, may 1 ask whoe you ® 1 got your title?" "Dang It ail, man, I was bom a CoL " ooel, I'm from Kentucky."— New York c Tribune.-- » I "What are yoo doing now?" asked I . tramp of another, when they met in « "Taking part ia the political cam- ^ . palgn," aald the second tramp. t "Wall, you are a sweet looking pdL 1 I tiotan. Do you makes speeches?" « , "No ; 1 trayet froaa barbecue to tan- i ■ , ' Tram— "Could you give a bite to. a J ■ who hanit eaten anything f titof' " v a»u Ml u'ix;svny- \ . "ITgal'ltg-: Come hare. Tigel" . Tramp (I i''U,1 "Tnu are cal ii g the i ssr-'.s'ics'is^ strode away in silent dignity. I r

Many Anecilotcs of Washington are preaervad in Philadelphia which Oluahb habits of life while ha was president in that city. He rated the of bb o«cc very high, expeelP resident of the United Stales. No other in our history waa regarded pee. sonally with the same veneration and "Hb manner says as old Quaker ' without a touch of Laataur. lb very simplicity' Mde It more majestic. He icldom spoke except when addressed, replying in few, weighty words." At lib official lereea, Watson tell us, "he Avoided slinking hands with any one. After Washington had retired from o«ce he was Invited as a farmer to dine waa agreed before hb arrival that no special mark of respect should be paid to him, for many of the guests were hb political enemies. But when he entered the room such was the power of hb that every man .Instinctively rose as in the presence of royaltA While Washington requtss&jtoat respect to hbofllce, he made no such exaction of difference to hinuclf as a man. this point he waa mistaken by many of eoniemporariea. and baa been unfairly accused in hbtory of haughtiness and Intolerant contempt for Inferiors. One or two authentic anecdotes, which have been preserved In Philadelphia families, proro the injustice of thb view of his character. A Well known Pennaylvanb jurist, who died In 1880, at an advanced age, use to relate that la 1797, when he was a boy of ten. he was sent by hb father to help hb brother and a Hessian laborer ferry on the New Jersey side of the Delaware. opposite to Philadelphia. Pres. ently a gentloman in gray, wilh a light , sword on bis side, rode up from the vil.' The boys, recognising the stranger, bowed and stood uncovered; but Henry the Dutchman, went up to htm and stared curiously at him. "I tlnk I seen you before," be said. "How you calb yourself?" "George Washington. " "-IcA, maa litter //fasasri."' shoulivl kindly to him and tried to reassure him. On another occasion after leaving ofhe was Invited to a kail given by the trail ts- people of the city, and on the ci eniog to the Assembly, the moat eaclusirc of Philadelphia entertain"Your Kxi-cUency ma not accept the hospitality of such tanaiUi!" said the gentleman who brought him the latter sen b my peer, whatever hb occupation." Washington is sold to have rethe ball of the working-people, and opencd It by dancing a minuet withV a mechanic's danghter. \ The majority of people who tattc_Jby Interest in diamonds immaglnc that the cutting of the atone b the most difficult part, but that b a mistake. When it comes to the polishing the moat skUUul work has to he done. The first process the rough atone passes through b the "cleaving"— which is what moat people call cutting. A chisel U used lo cleave made Into diamond llust. Then comes the tedious part. Two diamonds are employed, each cemented Into tho end of a Mick. The stones are then robbed wilh strong pressure. This re quires considerable experianoe. It can only be done by hand, U also requires considerable musclo. After process the ikill of the expert b tried. Tbo gem b placed In a solder setting and b then fastened to a ploee of wood about two foot long. A steel wheel eighteen inches In diameter, mak. twenty-five hundred revolutions a minute, Is used as the polbher. The stone in the wood b so arranged as to be balanced on and againM tho wheel, propnly a slight friction. Diamond bbing of a facet U completed. Sometimes there ere knots In the gems, and their hardness cannot bo imagined. The forma usually adopted In cutting the diamond are the brilliant, the rose and the table. The first shows Ihe gem , to the best advantage. It b composed ^ of a principal face, called the table, surmounted by a number of facets which , cut upon that part of the stone , which shows above the setting, and which b called tho bexcl. The rose, which is very brilliant, b flat below and cut into faceta entirely over tho upper avrface.— OoUen Dora. How It Would Work. ' The Free-Traders who arc masquerading aa free Revenue reformers know well enough that tho principal part of what will be sent abroad to pay for the Imports that will flood tho country oo account of a redncea tariff will consist of raw material. That b, we shin raise Ihe raw material and buy the manufactured articles from England. How this would work a little reflection ood figure. Ing will show. Buying beck the raw material In corral ra edition of handicraft would mean paying four or five times Ihe price we received for the material out of which three commodiUca are made. Take, for Instance, a hale of cotton raised in the When it b shipped to England we get for U about AW0. Whan that cloths and In that form shipped bank to us we have to pay for It 93,000. Who geta the 91,800, the difference between the raw material and the manufactured article? The answer to that question b given when It is stated that any country that tloos nothing but supply the raw mater- . for other countries to work up Into the manufactured article has ever been ■ rich and prosperoue. We cannot expect the United States to be an exccp- , lion to this role U te. allows the free- , Traders to shape its policy. The bale of cotton we have spokes ol shows why England is dertrota of seeing fine-Trade adopted on this side of the AUastic. 1 Do not make witticism* at the exI vhh to haae sl.de apart yowreelf.