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VOLUME XIX {V.

CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 , 1889.

"WHOLE NUMBER- 1794.

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SWEET CHARITY. Oure wu • quiet ntrert mi mo*t timM, — « Uiy. (bsdy pUce. where the blind* were forerer iloeed, and where there wu io UtUc pawing that apear* of gram grew bare inil there between tb(j flagatocea. and the atone curb* of the ironrailed arras were fringed with w.ft green mo A A tit)- quiet place at moat Umea, but late upon one autumn afternoon a 1 trange cry aounded through it which awakened all ill echoes, and eiiied curioua fares to the doors and windowa. -Slop thief ! Slop thief I " The atrong voice of a policeman uttered the cry at II ret, the shrill treble of two hoys nt play near by took It up and rt peated it, tnd by and by there was a full, deep chora*, like the cry of a pack of hounds, - a sound you might have known at any distance, however ignorant yon might have been of the language, to be the cry of men who hunted something. Policemen with their elubs, errandUS b'ya with their bundles, bakers with In their baskets on their arms, young genm3 fiemcn Just released from the academy close at hand, and ragged urchins whose . school was the gutter, Joined in hot pug^ ), with bare feet ami hallcss head, that lilttcd along before them wtUi a speed which only fear emflcrhave lent to one kept the crowd a long way off, and They were out of sight in a moment ; but in 1 litlio while the cry was Heard that Uic thief bad battled tbem. anh some their prey had doubled on their track . and others, tnlky and indignant at the result of their chase, came back muttering angrily, or swearing with many-vio-lent oaths that they would have him yet One policeman, a well-fed fellow with fellow and would trap him before sunpat hy fell for the gentleman who had I. that I could hear of ror the |nxir wretch who had purloined it, until a placid . "Well, I may ho wrong, hut I hope they won't catch him." our grocer, on whose steps I bail sought shelter from the crowd, which at such a lf much «( the safety of a wemao. ing bald head, fringed with a ring of that the miserable, half-starved creature "Then you don't believe ho picked the gentleman's pocket?" "I'm afraid that it's only too certain that be did, ma'am," said the man, shaking his head. -Re looked straight at me as he passed, and he had hungry, desperate eyes, Rat looked like theft, ; and murder too, for that matter." "And yet you wish him to escape ' when ho has broken the laws of the land, and will do ao again ? " "God forbid that I should help to 1 4 break thdaws," sakl the grocer. "Good 1 10 men made them, and they are right ; hut ' there are laws that I read In my Bible ' a Sunday nights that seem to be binding. ' * One of them is, 'Do unto others as yon I would that others should do unto you.. ' ' And another, 'Love thy neighbors- thy- ' e self.' When I remember these word*. 1 ' think you may be too hard with a poor, . sinful fellow-being, aud not go beyond 1! the limits of the law either. J p That rich gentleman who lia.l his ' r pocket picked w ill go home to a Hoc dinner and a bottle of wine, no doubt, ' and the wretch of a thief may have a ' t crust of bread and a glare of burning ' 0 gin, if he con sell or pawn what lie stole for enough to get them. Somehow, If ' I could, I wouldn't have hunted him ' down to night,— I vow I wouldn't. "Still, I don't blpme-thoec young fcl- ' lows J Pd have been as furious in the cause as any of them, years sgo ; but I | learned a lemon once that I have never 1 forgotten and I hope I never may. I 1 was a young maD, and a poor one loo. ' and had a hard struggle to make my * little shop kocp my family. It was only ' by pinching snd saving and keeping a ' •harp lookout for overy bargain, that I ' managed it at all. " We dived In a shabby little street, 1 and had only very poor customers. A ' ' loaf of bread, a quarter of a pound of 1 1 butler, and two ounces of Uack tea was ' -quite an order, and most of those that ' j came wanted trust. "As for laying in line fruit or vrge- ' tables, I never thought of such a folly ' Diamonds would have been as salable In that part of the dty. wBere washer. . women and the poorest laboring men 1 were tba aristocracy. "Now mod then a foreign ship came to port wlih a load of rained pineapples or decoyed oranges. I bought a lot of ' these, and chaiging iiulo or nothing, 1 •old litem easily enough; although I own my wlfa used to gey that the miserable babies who rolled about the gutter ' died off faster after every stock of fo'- 1 eign fruit I eoid in the old shop, tnd 1 1 am afraid she was right. W«U. a* I told yon. 1 struggled along as best I 1 njlght, and after a while things began to improve, tad when I lay down tp mat at night, I began to have visions of a dean store In a clean street. ' "So one day when I had been hi mar. ' ket 1 brought down half a drnen bams, 1 and I bung thrm about the door more ! for ebow than anything else,— for a*"" 1 were A good holiday dinner in those regions, and not an every-day affair, 1 '* can tail you. They went off .Jowly, as ' I thought they wuuldl Sow and then ' - some one wanted U for her Sunday din. ner- She was to pay tuo Monday mora. ' ing. but the never did, for on Sunday ' night her husband killed hrrwlth a rum ' bottle, end they took her body past my 1 shop with lis head ail beaten out of shape, end bloody. v " "And so the hams hung there through the summer, and through, the fall, and 1 quite on Into the winter. 1 | "It was Just ta the December mgbt- " , began to grow long and dark sad col A * [ that f poflcvd a young policeman on our 1 I beat, a tail, handsome, (toe- looking 1 fellow, with very bright eyes, bit will. « such thin obceks and hands, although 1 he seemed, to be powerfully built and * made for rather a stout man. .hall could ,

not help watching him and wondering whether he had been 01 of hot. -The Snt time that I noticed him was „ about snnset, and he passed my alnld, dows about a doeon times, looking all ;R the while straight at those hama which were dangling from the frame if the ,K. awning. -I hope he means to buy one.' 1D. i said to my wife, aa wc sat together rn over the testable; 'and I. shuuldu't wonder* if bo did, for he seems to hate taken a fancy to them.'" , "But the evening paased. and thiugh ml 1 saw him eveiy now antl then on the uj o her side of the strict, looking across with his bright eyes right at the bams, j!. the subject And »-J 1 made up tny mind that he wouli send for it in the lul morning, and somehow made so secure , \ of It that whenever I raw a decent look-' ck Ing woman go by with a basket on her vc arm, I said that's the policeman's wife coming after the ham. £. the sireet lamps were lighted. I began to see the man pacing up and down, with his eyes still fixed as I hey had been the lb night previous upon the hams. Once he caught me peeping at him, and then lv he turned so red and looked at mo with u such a woltlsli glitter in his eyes tint I . wew angry, and said to myself, • If. 1^" well that keeping unsalable articles isn't " ht-lwarrested.' " ^ ^ I, on my heel, and walked back into the j shop. I did not sec him again that night, but long after everything hid ,i snug in bed, I heard a t amp, t amp. 1( was the new policemao, and that he w*s e hung a. wcllmMhougb I had seen him u should keep on staring at 1hn*r hams ,f with those bright, wolfish eyes of bis „ I didn't like it. though I could not hare him h""ti' '•""l d '" wrwk"a "" li 'hat evening.' 1 bought a ptpcr and sal j down behind the counter to rend it. It 0 and, somehow, . between reading and j in my goods or closed my shutters. , "Just ail was about to do so. in first piece of shutter,— my door opened, an old woman came in. She was a , sottish, miserable creature, known about red now and bloated limb* was singly e wanted to gel rid of licr as soon a* po - ' lookout as ye should ; I here's "morn's night.' , " ",U " "•What I a thief?' I asked. ' " 'More than that i can tell ye,- she 1 answered. • But I think Ids a polienI no less, the blackguard.' ! " ' A policeman ! ' I cried, and my 1 thoughts flow At once to (Tie nun I Had ! " 'It's too dark too see ills face.' she , said ; ' hut I caught the shine of a star on the coal be had on. and whoeVer it it in the ash-box bcyant the corner. | Yc'il And it there if ye look ; and now ; whWty for the information ? ' wanted, hurried her out of the shop, and ; P"' «P the shutters, growing angry , every moment. j '• ' If It's the policeman. I'll make him , dearly tor it!' I exclaimed, as 1 slunk along the sidewalk to the corner, keeping in Ibe shallow all the way; and when I stood beside the box. sod saw by ' the light of the lamp, close by, that the ham was there, wrapped in something which loojrnd like a handkerchief, I bit 'Ips^and clenched my hands wllli should not have minded ; but a policeman!— it was mure than I could stand. So I crouched myself in a doorway mod wal ed. The watch was relieved at twelve o'clock. I knew this, and knew alas that this would be the time when polioemaa would come lo take the fiom out of ita biding place. And board him challenge Ibe man who was to take hit place and come marching down toward the corner. I let hlra get the ham under his arm before I stirred, but then I pounced on him like a tiger. " 'I've got you I ' I rriod. ' A pieUy policeman yon are Indeed, but you shall suffer for it, I can tell yon ! ' . "He struggled with me for a moment like a wild thing, and then aH of a Sudden dropped the bam and fell down loa helpless sort of a way upon the ground. " 'I'm a ruined man ! ' he groaned.— , ' a rained man ! There's no hope for me O my God ! My wile I my j»or . wife!' And he burst out crying Uke a { "The sight lollened me, but I was | rtlll. " ' Yon should havo thought of that ' before you became a thief.' I said. • If the guardian of a man's property is not to be trusted, what is to become of him? 1 And you look like a gentlemen,— you do ' not Seem like a scoundrel : how have you ever stooped fo such a disgraceful ti'i*tg aa im* s - "He wa« standing beside mo now, and ' the lamp fen on hi* face. It was as 1 white as that of say-corpse, ami his eyes 1 glittered terribly. " 'IH tell you what made me do It,' be said ; -it was the only thing that could have driven me to act like that. My 1 wife and child are starving,— starving, ' tell you, and I have nolldng (or them!' 1 " 'Policemen's families dont often starve, ' I said with a sneer. * "'My God! can't you believe me »• j panted the man. ' I have only bees ap, ' pointed three dari ; I hare not received 1 a con-, of mlary yet. I have becu 1 credit. Lost night wc went tombed 1 Hipper less ; today there has not boon a crust in the house, and these hams ' tempted me. and I meant to ptf you ' "lie coveted Ida face with his hands, and I could Ms grspl tears dropping : ■ v r.

ing ' through bis finger* : and before I knew. ! my own cheeks were moist, and we stood rss silent, with the htm lying between us in- I on the ground. ( "At last he turned toward lie and ink sal'l,- . ■he I '"l>o what you like Willi me ; my lau ter "Bull put my hand ch his arm and n't sakl. •God forbid that I .should take the ire last hope from you ; that I, of ah men, i*ou!d be the one lo ruin you. If your gh story Is true. — and I believe it is.- 1 pKv he you more than I blame you.' >a* "Ilo loosed At me in a sort of hewllis. dered way, as though he acarecly undercn Stood me, and I took him hy the arm ny and led him back to the shop. There I he flllcfl a basket with bread and butter and no oolite, and put the ham en lop of all k-' -Take it home to your mfe,' I said ; lor 'you'll pay me when you get Jour salIfo try, and If you are In nc-d before that time, come to me. I'm a poor man toy. "I shall never forgit lint lb in ail my life, so wondering, so thankful, lie acd so wo-slricken. All . he said was : ce 'God bless you!' But there was a whoie ra sermon In those three words, snd I slept lb bolter for them. ,-l neighborhood drell with me'reguHrly' ct But times grew so much better that 1 took a store- in s good • tr. el st the olhor at end of the town, and one way and another ie siw no more . f my policeman for three at good years. ul "One night. Just such a cold night as s* mat on which I saw Mm staring at the „ The stair, were on fire aire, and when I IF and helpless little ones nut of that linllG. is ing alive and safe. Help nunc to u*. , however, and though in rlamhrriog arm. I was thankful when I was Ilia! all 'i 'Tout little Lury i . leUbcblnd ". k ( " Mie b,M slept w id, II..- hired 'gir,* * as I looked up at the w»U., a great red it aud yellow she.t of flame, wl h blue y were dcvelUh head, peepine out and ,! I should luive gone hark int.. the b.irnI log bouse after my baby or tiled will. her 1! I hail been able to .land. No one e else would venture it would he a fooldoubt the rhlld was already smothered e by the smoke, and though I raved and , "Patience: I thought that 1 was going mad a* the fare of my little girl . through the crowd toward me. 1 " ' The back room on the upper floor,' 1 r another moment was mounting the tad. 1 I der. I heard tbem colling him to come I hack, bidding him beware, and speaking ■ of him as though hewrre dead already. which poured from the window I oor- j '' ered my face and prayed that the angels 1 who walked in the fiery furnac.- might ' ( go Willi him. Perhaps they did. Some- 1 thing stronger than an cartnly thing 1 I cuts wc raw him coming down th .- lad- ' • der with something in his arms: The 1 1 burnt body of my child perhaps. I 1 f thought ; bnt as he came closer. I ssw ' f with her blue eyes open'and her arms 1 1 around his neck. ■ 1 "The roof fell in the next moment; I 1 but my treasure was safe, and that was 1 - all I cared for. ! j " 'What shall I do or ssy to think ' you?' 1 said, as I grasped his hand. ' ■I'm a ruined man, and I can only give ' you my b'essing; bnt let me know your ' J name at least.' j "Have you forgotten -ne? Don't you | ' "I did, and saw a pair of bright, grsv 1 j eyes, a fact 1 knew, and something gilt- ' tering upon his breasL And the scene ' at the corner of a dirty little street on a ' wet December night came back to me. j and I saw my policeman once more. ' " 'It is you,' I said, 'and you have ' saved my child from such an awful death.' ■ " 'And what did you save me and mine from ? ' be said, with testa in bis 1 ' eyes. 'Starvation, rulo. utter degrada- 1 lion. I should have been a felon, and * ' my dear, dear onrs paupers this night, ' lor you. I have not paid the debt [ and nevsf can : but wbdn I lieaid that It ' waa your child thai lay at the lop of ' ' that burning building, I prayed that I ' might save it, and I know God heard 1 r me.' 1 , "And then he told me what hid " , blm to tho neighborhood on . that night above ail others in the yesr. , "1 .had lost all, for I was not insured. ! but he wras prosperous and stood by me like a brother ; nil reed me through my [ ! illneaa, and loaned mc mhney for a 'new ( atari in life. So that, in a Utile while, ( things grew brighter again, and bore I , am as coiulnriablc as most people."' ' "And the policeman ?" I asked- ,, , "His lisir 1a as whlleasmyown now," , said the oM man. "And my daughter. * the little one he eived tint night, mar. * 1 ried his son." f Visitor, regarding the baby— Ob, whit » , dear Utile duck of a child: Herman, hies you both. Indeed he doe*, lie's ' got bis molhn's handsome ryes and his i hair. Father, whadi hahlheaded— I think he must have; I Invent. { Pa nowhere- Which do you love beat, I Bobby, your papa and mamma, or your j rabbits. Bobby, after some consideration— ^ , Well, I -think 1 love ma and |he Jack. I ; rabbit the best. j

"Havo you ever experienced the feeling Mr. Mc Pelican'." said the young lady, d softly, "that some great opjMrtunlty was • " within your grasp, but you had hardly ■ were, "travail y ourself ol it?" ' . "Why— cr— yes, Mlsi Quickstep, I ' have sometime* had a kind of feeling aa ' if I'd b in sort of sent for and couldn't go. ypuknow." ' Miss' A man da sighed drejtAUy, and ' there was a pause, during which Ibe two 1 sat in scmi-darkn.M in tie Quickstep J J "Tlie' book you are looking for, _ '* "is probably in the llbmiy." ' The elderly female Relative withdrew. 1 pllcanl f.'r charily. ' « * "She will not disturb us again. Mr. 1 ^ McPelican." | 11 And liu sat aad lookwl hvlpU.-ly -«t * ^ feeling Out every breath he drew *ros a J can.' resumed the youcg lady, there ' * must ipeak what is iu g.ur minds." ^ '® -vLes he had elarted to mj any tiling of ! ' Anil while I am not sure that I ought 1 ° to listen to you. Mr. McPelican." she 1 ° "id.^uith downcast eye*, ^wlicn yon ^ '• husklng'and said nT.Hdng'''^ *' ' ' s ^ "I"' ^exclaim.*! Mi.. 1 ^ -why. certainly'. can sit here wj'lh * '■ The pictures daneod bef .re tlsc eyes of ® i w"ii,r ' j r looked uMy st the trembling y'mh' d h . nearer.^ V.ai hmk exactly like Wslt. , In ^ ' ^"(l" '""'thTu.a.r'" >B' « ' m li"* I i The young man patted berminclescend- * iugly on the head and then spoke proud * ly, Willi the voice of ao A Jot defying the " ' P i thing, Amanda, no obstacle on earl bean ,l . outside and cut off the ashes and dlnkets 1 , which are in sight below the teeth of the " grate. Take out only those that are dead h , There will he a lot of ashes up In the '■ . there will be a lot of line cinders already '■ ; aud if the ashes ate poked down . nearly as much finccoo! will follow. By j1 draught may he needed, but there will 11 a large saving offconl. Generally the " that the coal has not ben pttiki il " down by poking, and that the live por- k more I hen compensate for the light dc- " ; |>oait of aahes below. A fire cleaned * I out in this way is kept blight and driven stead of the poker. As the coal ha* a chance to lie qukflyrand is not parked, " | the air passes freely through it and the 81 , coal is perfectly consumed. How great a saving of coal con he. effected hy this h1 i method of handling a Ore It is difficult to " . say, hut it must be considerable. An in- , cldentsl advantage is found in the tak " . that a Ore managed in this nay is always' ready to rcs|rond to the blower. It, P' burns up quickly as soonas the draugtifs 4 opened. Such ji Are will •'keep'- Cl longer without going out than one treated 85 in tho ordinary way. and as a rule calls u less attention. If economy of feel is looked for, the lc stove should be amply large for ton work k I it has to do without pushing. Under fl l ordinary cireumstanc s, about fifteen " ccat of the uscnl heat of the fuel " i goc-s upjlm chimney, hut if a stove i* ® . is lost lu this way. A small stove or '' ! answers very well In mild wea- u I ther; as loon as sharp cold it fell. 11 trouble begins. It i' necessary to crowd 10 the fire constantly, in order to gel sulll- r' clcntlu-aL This wastes coal both above -a and below; much heat passes up the chimney and much coal drops through the grate. When a tire is driven hard. p the grate, llniuga and other parts arc ex- w potcd lo the hSd burn out rapidly, and repairs become frequent. It is difficult to mike buy-era helicvc that aitrh is-Uic ca-e, .as JUicy argue that the dealer la * tO'lng to »ell a more cxpenalvo stove. It is the best pMicy, hqwever, to pnr- 88 It will give better sxti»fse;k>u in the end, ^ and result In muehoconomr.— -imcrfom f° Affrievlturist for "February. h< P< Don't (IV* op, my poor, sk-x rrteml ; »l; ^mrtvv^wsea roavw dsaiL Those letters stand for "Golden Medical Discovery" (Dr. Herte's), the great " purifying, and diseare-cx- m iwlltog remedy of the age. Don't hawk, hawk. Wow. iplt, and * everybody with your offensive 'fk but use Dr. Ssgc's r.tart* u, Remedy and cad «L m v •

Hn Had seen Ir. , It Is difficult to dwell in love a . amity with the man who Inevitably ea , yoar hat stoty with the remark, "Yi . I've heard that story before," and w I invariably has seen in the paper win ever opinion y ou have lo offer upon a: [ cf the momentous questions of t , day. _ . Upstir was 'one of Ibis kltlbey. I exasperated Fogg repeatedly, un ! forbearance had ceased to bo a virtu . Fogg was pretty hard on Ups , when he did *lrikc back — though. It'll the truth, Upstir hadn't sense enouj . 'o know whnl,n rough handling he w Fogg-It is a remarkable' fact th cattle, when capomd to the weather, I variably face the wind, if they turn their backs to it, it would Wow ' uod their hair ami chill them. Upstir— Yes. I ssw that in the pan list evening. if After an interval Fogg hail somothii say about tho tariff. , post dalles can lu: permanent with doca not recognize the rights of tl I jtslir That'* just what Blenkinst F.'gs (With evil io Tiia heart)-Whi George Washington arrived on the fie "MVideri:*' the First Michigan Cava! spoqtancnu*ly at the light of fhjlr b thousand prisoner*, including tho t Upstir Yes. that's word for will Fogg And ajieaking of cavalry t mind* me that it is the custom on II plains for men to ride with their fac my may not advance too closely ^ Fogg !i is a very Inleresllng fa without food or water, vainly 'endeavo on the plain*, you must know grow a grent height and are so close togcth WTTta ImpdasITiIc for '>'nair«~topa through these lm|uiuiblc giant growth which brat* do an np.,n Hum *.! unmc t'. Mr. Fogg ' Yuu "uo'lr from Itarl h""! "I1"""' Icrb°"ni' of trying to slab a rhinoocrous to deal Young Men May Save or Waste For many years I have held to the oil that no employment offers better oi washerwoman! has «350 dratlng A since he was fourteen years old. In a he will lo a few days receive 41' for -evt n month j' labor the put sue raer. *t00of which lie proposes to los making $150 in all, the Interest cf wide will buy him a good suit ot clothes ear He hopes to have $000 laid I when lie obtains his majority. Thlssu. land, working a few years more to cat a team and tool.*, when he will be in way to be independent for llfo. The course of another young man leen year* ago. when sixteen years ol same man until a few months og hut little time. Wages are iowi now. and for the last two years he hi received only $500 per year, but for U whole time Ilia wages have probnb! averaged $210 per year. Of this amot he could have easily saved $160 peryci or a total of $5,100, ibe interest of whit would have incrcascd.lt to $3,000. 1 stead of this, when finally discharged t account of drunkenness, he had nothii He had drawn his wages or th"' ^b^'* ,S" ln cmP'' .man who graduated tho following yet (it a village high school where the sta dsrd scholarship wss high. He wu capalflq_farm lahorcr.|but this wu It Cleveland, where he works a* drivi on a street railroad. His associates ai and uneducated, and I doubt if 1 saved a cent- Farm life may 1 and quiet, but it keeps young me occupied cither working or resting, an is not as expensive for clothes as thn occupations which forbid the wearing t patched or ragged gamiftls. a*le fan hand has neither the opportunity north temptation to spond money that lies I path of a young man who works I Agriailtmht for Fel ruary. A Scrap ot Paper Saves Her Lifi It waa Just on ordinary scrap of wra| ping pajicr, hut it uved her life. St in the lut stages of ootUumpUot told by physicians that she wu incur bie andconld live only a short time ; ah MelghWif leu than seventy pounds. O piece or wrapping paper she read ( Dr. King's Nsw Discovery, and got aampta boule ; It helped her, she bough a large bottle, it helped her men bought another and grew bette* fas continuid its use and Is now "stroni healthy, rosy, plump, weighing 14 pounds. For fuller particulars sen to W. II. Cole, Druggist, Foi Smith. Trial bottles of this wonderft Discoroy Free at Marey A Mecray Drugstore. Mr. Bliffcrs— See Here, Jane, the p. per says that French statistics show tbi unmarried men than among th married. Mrs. Bllffers— Well, you see, my deal when a married man acta craiy paopi don't call him Inline- They uy. 'Poo ' t his,' and than think a