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MOTHERS TO URGE
DIVORCE REFORM
Big Discussion on Chicago
Program.
UNIFORM LAWS ADVOCATED
Mrs. Lewis, of Philadelphia, to Be the
Principal Speaker on I'm
portant Subject
UNIFORM LAWS ADVOCATED

CHICAGO. May 12.-Of the many sub
jects to be discussed by the National
Congress of Mothers, which begins its
annual session today at the Art Insti-
tute probably none Will receive more
attention than that of divorce.
An address treating every phase OF
the question win be made by Frances
A Lewis, OF Philadelphia. a prominent
lawyer and author, who has made IL a
sJet al study. In the discussions 10
follow clubwomen, ministers, judges,
and sociologists will take part.
Mrs. Lewis was induced to attend by
Mrs. Frederick Shoff, of Philadelphia.
president of the congress. She VIII
speak at the Thursday evening session
on the necessity of uniform divorce
laws. While everyone present probably
will agree as to the general proposition,
there may be diverse opinions as 70 the
kind of law needed.
Thirty-siX State congresses Will be
represented 1t the convention.
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Chase's-Grand Opera Quartet.

Chase's promises an exceptionally
brilliant Offering next week in the first
presentation OF the famous Metropoli-
tan Grand Opera Quartet, supplemented
by number Of notable novelties. The
metropolitan Grand Opera Quartet was
secured by special arrangement with
Director Conried, of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Company. 1t is composed
of Chevalier A l.. Guile, tenor: Vir-
GINA Norelli. soprano: S. Z. Hartman
baritone, and Catherine IneZ. contralto
who will be assisted by Signor Armani
and Mile Dolores. They will sing in
Italian the quartets from III Trova-
tore and ''RigOletto." OBrien and
Havel will appear in VIII NJ. Cressy's
laughable Ticks and Clicks" Other
prominent features will be Billy Cliff
ford, ''the Broadway Chappie;" Harry
Linton ard the Lawrence Sisters. three
of a kind; the La Vine-Cimaron Trio,
acrobatic comedians; Fred s. Stuber.
the great banjoist; Signor and Mile.
Zarnes, in feats on the flying rings, and
motion pictures Of a trip to Lilliputian
land.
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Shakespeare Out of Doors.

Fifteen years of experience in Eng
land, during which Mr.. Greet has run
the gamut of ShakespeareaH comedies
in open air productions. finds him a
master in the art of so pitching a stage,
grouping the actors and arranging his
background that the voices of the cast
carries Tor a sufficient distance TO be
heard by as many as 1900 people.
When Ben Greet's out of door per-
Torrance of Twelfth Night begins.
Viola. a princess, and her brother Sc
bastian have been wrecked on the coast
of lllyria- Each supposes the other
drowned; but with a faint hope that it
may not be so, Viola. who bears a
strong resemblance to her brother, con-
ccives the idea of dressing in his clothes
and being presented TO the duke as a
page. OrsinO, who had been vainly So
dciting the hand Of the Countess Olivia
for some time. also conceiVes the idea
of sending his pretty and poetic page
as ar ambassador on his behalf. Thus
arise the amusing complications of the
joyous comedy.
The forest scenes of LAS You Like
1t" only are given.
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MOODY AND PARTY
WATCH jail ALAI
Secretary of Navy Witnesses Game in
a Havana Gambling
House.

Jai alai the game of chance which
played such an important part IN the
Gen. Leonard Wood hearing in the Sen
ate last winter. is no longer a mystery
10 the Secretary Of the Navy and the
members Of his party who are now in
Havana.
Some of the Senators who are with
the Secretary of the Navy tried To play
the game in Washington last winter
while an attempt was being made TO
show how General Wood had permitted
IL 20 be played IN Havana for large
stakes. But the local demonstration
was failure.
The Secretary Of the Navy and Sena-
tors PenrOse. Hale and Bacon and Rep
resentatives Meyer and Dalzell Tuesday
night were taken by Mr.. Steinhart. the
United States consul general at Havana,
10 see a real game OF jai alai at the
FrOnton.
Yesterday the Secretary Of the Navy
and his party were presented to Presi-
dent Palma. Mr. Moody and his friends
wore the guests Tuesday of Mr.. Stein
hart on a trio to Atares Castle. They
will sail on rhe Dolphin for Pensacola
today.
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awOrge Woman in LOndOna at Acadsmy

The Worst Woman in London" Wal
ter Melville's realistic melodrama, will
come TO the Academy next Monday.
The play is an old-fashiOned thriller =
The story starts the woman at the very
climax Of her sensational career when
in the guise of a French governess she
enters the family of a wealthy widower.
whom she esTanges from his daughter,
marrieS and eventually murders Find
ing that the bulk of his fortune has
been left to his daughter, this siren
uouS adventures resorts to male attire
The most sensational scene is the hero
ines fight for life, and her escape by
sliding down a telephone wire to the
roof of an adjoining building. r. G.
Craerins company Is headed by the
beautiful Australian actress Bessie
Toner, in the title role; Ida Glenn, as
the heroine; James KirkwoOd as the
hero, James E. Maekin as a mailman
lain, and Frank II. Fay and Hattie Ne
Vile in the comedy parts.
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Coming to the Theaters

House. the offering will be another Alice
Nielsen success, The Fortune Teller"
given by the same clever cast of come
|1ians and singers as seen in The Sing
ng Girl" The opera is staged lust as
originally produced. The Fortune Tell
Americas cleverest col aborators-the
music in Victor Herberts best vein;
{ nd the book and lyrics by Harry F.
Smith. The opera has a clear and we'll
sustained plot, with bright lines and
sharp repaTtee, a wealth of humor ami
no end of funny situations. Altogether.
the second weeks offering at the La
fayette promises not only to hold up to
the standard set by the opening attrac-
ton. but to add more laurels to this
already popular organiza ton
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policy Players at Empire.

''The Policy Players" a company of
singers. dancers. and fun-makers, head
ed by Nine. Flowers (the Bronze MeIba)
will be seen at the Empire Theater
commencing Monday matinee next in a
two-act musical comedy. The Bogus
Prince Among sfie peopfe of note In
the company are Black Carl Alice
Brown, Sidney Perrin, Chauncey Yer
ValiOn, the Policy Paiyers' comedy four
and a trained chorus Of twenty oc-
tOrOOn bellies
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1T WAS ONLY A CANE,
BUT SIMMONS WAS SCARED

When Arthur Simmons. negro door
keeper for Secretary Loeb. unwrapped
an unmarked package yesterday. he
was reminded Of a former experience OF
this Kind.
The bundle contained nothing more
serious than cane from an unknown
donor. but on the former occasion Ar
thur found package Of gunpowder o
lot OF matches, so placed as 10 rub
against a strip OF sandpaper on the ir-
side OF the I'D, and IL was only becaucc
OF the care he exercised IN opening the
package that nothing came Of the Infer
nal machine.
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ON STATUTORY GROUNDS.

Lucy May FoInn has begun proceed
mgs for divorce against Wesley W.
Follin. on statutory grounds. A CO.
respondent is named. Mrs. Foilin says
she was married to the defendant in
1895 in Maryland. Campbell Caring
tca is named as counsel for the COM
pIalnant
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MUST SERVE SENTENCE

ASHEVILLE. N. c.. May 12.-Reoubli-
can State Chairman Thomas ;. Rollins
made an effort to have reduce,i the SEN
tence of p. J. Hart. the member Of the
general assembly of North Carolina of
Henderson county, convicted of running
a moonshine still. Hart was sent up
for twelve months. Judge Boyd refused
to reduce the sentence.
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"ThOrOughbreds" at Kernan's.

Frank B. Carr's Thoroughbred Bur
lesquers,' underlined at the Lyceum
Theater for next week. come heraided
as one of the strongest attractions of
its kind. With IL are Polk and Tresk
acrobats; Kennedy and Evans. Irish
comedians; Mile la Teska, contortion-
ist; Russell and 'O'Neill. sketch artists;
Mile. Tyrene. dancer: the Empire COM
edy four; The Circus Pony Ballet ~
with Tom Kennedy as ringmaster. and
Ted Evans as clown. Two new bur-
lettas are. Female Model Flats and
THE Thoroughbreds T."
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CHURCH acHANcFsn conpEMNEn

LANsFORD, Pa. May i2.-Declaring
that the selling of chances on articles
at church fairs is a form of gambling.
the Panther Creek Valley Ministerial
Association has passed resolutions to
discontinue the custom in the churches
and to discourage its practice in the
church societies
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SUMNER a
D lHaSz

The idea that Rheumatism Is strictly
a winter disease, that comes from expos
ure or cold, iswrong; spell of indiges-
ton, torpidity of the liver, inactive state
of the kidneys, or sudden cooling of the
body when over-heated, being frequent
causes of an attack. Rheumatism is due
to an over-acid condition of the blood
and bad circulation. AS it flows through
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ifPrince Karl" at the Columbia.

The Edwin Arden Company will pre-
sent Prince Karl" by A c. Gunter.
next week with Mr. Arden Ill the part
made familiar by Richard Mansfield
The play has not been seen n Wash
ingtOn for some years. when ii was pre-
scented here by Mr. Mansfield himself
The principal character is a poor but
proud German prince. who has been
made so by the gambling away of his
inheritance by his ancestors. In order
to retain the ancestral halls, he has
consented, through a scheming Chicago
bankrupt, to marry an old widow. The
prince has gone into this scheme in a
half-hearted way, being really in love
with young woman whom he has only
seen once. AS the time for the wedding
&c the old woman approaches, his cour-
age fails him. lie feigns insanity and
is carried off to an asylum.
Miss Mabel ROebuck will make her
appearance next week and viii be seen
in the character originated by Miss Bea-
trice Cameron. now Mrs. Richard Mans
field. Miss Olive Oliver will have a
congenial part.
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and reasonable trial of their means of
cure.
If you are at loss to know what IS
the matter with you, write DR.. Pierce,
who viii answer you in strict confidence;
he is a physician and surgeon who has
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Rivers and Canals.

Among commercial movements on
rivers and canals. the river movement
at Cairo. H.. on the Ohio and MISSES
sipp. Rivers. is reported for the first
time. giving arrivals and clearances at
and through Cairo. For three months
en6ing with March total OF 1.445 YES
SEES arrived and cleared at this point
with a registry OF l,O71 .269 tons. Tie
total through movement OF vessels in
Guided 1880 arrivals of 1852, 733 tons,
while the local movement with Cairo as
destination included - arrivals OF 5 5zi
tons register Arrivals during March
were as large as the combined arrivals
OF January and February.
hree months shipments of anthra
cite coal. 1900. amounted TO l2,S35,3tl
tons in contrast with lf.2iI,0S tons in
1863 and = COS. i58 tons in 1902. Shipments
OF 1901 We're l4,21.347 tons.
For the first thirteen weeks Of the
current year Conneilsviile coke ship
Inents were Il5,2H cars. Last years
shipments for the corresponding period
were 1859 cars. and 1880 cars Wcro
reported IN 1892
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Fortune Teller at Lafayette.
For the second week of the Aborn
opera season at the Lafayette Opera
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the body the blood de-
posts an acrid corrosive
sediment in the joints
and muscles, and the cir
culation grows sluggish
because of the constant
accumulation of acid i'm
purities, and when the
system is in such condi-
ton Rheumatism is liza
bic to come out at any
time, winter or summer.
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vorite Prescription now feel fully war
ranted in offering to pay $500 in legal
money of the United States for any case
of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro-
lapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they
cannot cure. All they ask is fair
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ing DR.. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, NY. UThe
Peoples Common Sense Medical Advis-
err can be procured by sending twenty
one cents IN one-cent stamps Tor paper.
bound volume, or thirty-ons stamps for {
cloth-bound copy.
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had attack of Sciatic rheumatism in its
worst form. The pain was so intense became
completely Frustrated. Having heard s. S. s. re-
commended for Rheumatism, decided TO give
it a trial. and after had taken a few bottles
was able to hobble around crutches, and
very soon had use for them at all, S. S. s. hav-
ing cured sound and well. All the distressing
pains have left me, my appetite has returned, and
am happy to be again restored to perfect health.
MRS. JAMES KELL,
col o. ST., N. W., Washington, D. c.
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Backed up by over a third of
q century of remarkable and
uniform cures, a record such as
no other remedy for the dis
eases and weaknesses peculiar
to women ever attained, the
,ro-,r;eto-c rs Dr piercesS Ra-
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time fastened provoked by exposure
cold damp sudden cooling of the body when oveeaed
bad spell indigestion anything that calculated further de-
range and dp the system but these only exciting and
the real of Rheumatism is in the blood and when this
vital fluid becomes overchared with the acid impurities and
ming the attack whether
cold bleak days of winter. You pain
long with acid pasters
helpful and useful but takes something than rubbing and
bserng drive away this demon of pain. S. s. goes the
, 1904-10-19
COMING

A rattle for a new, double barrel,
hammerless shot gun will take place
at the Wildwood Borough hall on
Tuesday evening, Nov. %, 1904.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Pres
byterian church will give a chicken
pot-pie dinner and supper on the 9Th
of November in the Presbyterian par
sonage adjoining the church.
The second annual masked ball of
the Holly Beach Fire Company, No. /,
will take place on Monday evening,
October 81, 1904, in the Holly Beach
borough hall. Judging from the for
mel ball this n will be a grand affair.
even more so than the former one. A
first class supper will be served at 10
O'Clock.
An entertainment for the benefit of
the Holly Beach Sunday-school will be
given in the Wildwood borough hall
on Saturday evening, Oct. 22d. A.
Lincoln Kirk, a highly recommended
lecturer and speaker will delight his
audience with his representations of
the Sublime and the Ludicrous.U
Presbyterian Sunday-school.
, 1904-10-19
Operations I'm North
Wildwood, Concluding with
a Little Fish Tale.

Two carload of stone arrived this
week for the foundation of the cottage
to be erected on 18th street, between
Pennsylvania and Central for
Thos. Conley, of Philadelphia, by
Brannan & Goslin.
The two handsome cottages being
erected by Brannan q Goslin in the
Ottens Tract for Samuel Eakins and
G. M. Mcclure, both OF Philadelphia,
are progressing finely and are expected
to be completed by Thanksgiving.
Mrs. w. G. Beecher, of philadelphia,
has purchased two lots from the North
Wildwood Land Company OF oath
street, east of Central IN and is
now having plans made for a hand
some cottage to be erected there during
the winter.
Henry ID. Moore, of Haddonfield, N.
j., is making arrangements to build a
handsome cottage on Central avenue
this winter.
Henry Linde, of the firm of Walker
and Linde, large furniture dealers of
Philadelphia, contemplate building a
beautiful cottage in North Wildwood
at the corner of oath and Central ave-
nueS.
H. B. Campbell, of Bridgeton, N. j.,
who recently purchased four lots on
25th street west of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., expects to build his summer home
here in the near future.
VIM. Jordan, of Philadelphia, has
purchased two lots on Pennsylvania
avenue in centre of block between 25th
and 26th street.
j. b. Howell, of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
has purchased two lots from the North
Wildwood Land Company on 25th
street west of Central avenue.
Thomas Martindale accompanied by
John H. Beecher, sales agent of the
North Wildwood Land Company,
Josiah White, of the Marlborough
House of Atlantic City, and a Mr..
Bacon, a Philadelphian, t7ok a tour of
the island on Tuesday. Wednesday
forenoon the party went fishing off
shore in the Stella with Capts. Martin
A. Hilton and Joe Ludlam. They
caught a goodly number of fish but a
threatening storm hurried them to
terra firma again early in the after
noon. Mr.. Martindale's eleven pound
weak fish was the record catch of the
day.
, 1904-10-19
County Clerks Office.

1t is significant that in this campaign
the leading eonyeyancers and other
people who have the most business at
the County Clerks office are all lined
up in favor of the reelection of DIR.
Way for another term; they know
whereof they speak when they say the
office is the equal of the best in the State
in point af efficiency, and they know
what it means to the business interests
of the county to place unframed men
in charge of the county records. One
of the men who is loudest in his praise
of the present administration of the
office under DR.. Way is John L.. Burk
Esq, of Holly Beach, a man who has
made more searches in County Clerks
offices than any other man in South
Jersey, probably, and his endorsement
is given unquallfiedly and without re-
serve in this instance.-Cape May
County Gazette.
, 1904-10-19
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given to the taxable in
ty OF Cape May, that the taxes in the said
Borough of Wildwood are now due and pay
able, and that l, the undersigned, the Collec-
office daily until and including the TWEEN
tieth day of December for the purpose of re-
ceiving said taxes.
Taxpayers who do not pay their taxes on or
before the twentieth day of December will be
proceeded against as delinquent.
Notice Is further given that the COMMITS
sioners of Appeal will meet on the fourth
Tuesday of October, being October 25th, 1901,
for the purpose of hearing appeals in cases of
taxation presented to them.
BURGHER V. VANHORN,
Collector.
, 1904-10-19
Notice to Taxpayers.

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
Commissioners of Appeal for the Borough of
Wildwood, Cape May county, New Jersey,
that we will sit in the borough hall in Wild
wood on
TUESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1904,
from ten to five o'clock for the purpose of
hearing and determining all complaints of
unjust taxation as appearing on the dupli-
cate of said borough for the year 1904.
Property owners are requested to notice
and give their attendance; otherwise,
no excess of valuation which may be laid
them will be RENTED.
October IA, 1901.
FRANK SHEPPARD,
CHAS. III. SMITH,
WASHINGTON HILTON,
Commissioner of Appeal.
, 1904-10-19
Public Notice.

Public notice is hereby given that the Bor-
ough Council of the Borough of Holly Beach
City will receive bids for the erection and con-
struction of a sewerage system in the above
Borough.
Specifications can be seen at the office of the
Borough Clerk.
All bids should be marked HProposals for
Sewerage system Bids will he opened in
the borough hall on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER L, 1901,
at eight o'clock, p. m.
Council reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Dated October Is, 1904.
HIS. HEWITT,
Borough Clerk.
, 1904-10-19
Good for Children

The pleasant to take and harmless One
Minute Cough Cure gives instant relief
IN all cases of cough, Group and La
grippe becaus 1t does not pass imme-
dlately into the stomach, but takes eff
feet right at the e a of the trouble. 1t
draws out the inflammation, heals and
soothes and cures permanently by ena-
Ding the lungs to contribute pure life
sustaining oxygen to the blood and It's
sues. Sold by Davis, the druggist.
, 1904-10-19
Borough of Wildwood on
TUESDAY.

the Eighth day of NOVEMBER, A. D., 1904,
the proposition to vacate certain lands in
blocks numbers thirteen 13) and fourteen 14)
in the Borough of Wildwood, will be submit
ted to the legal voters of the said Borough for
their approval in accordance with the terms
and provisions of a certain ordinance entitled
"An ordinance relative to the vacation of GER
tain lands situated in the Borough of Wild
wood, Cape May county, New Jersey, dedica-
ted to public use, and the eXtinguishment of
all public rights therein passed by the
Council of the Borough of Wildwood October
18th, A. D., 1904, and duly approved, and in
accordance with the terms and provisions of
the said ordinance and In accordance with
the provisions of the statute in such case
made and provided.
The proposition to be so submitted shall be
worded and printed on the ballots used at the
said election as follows: "For or against the
vacation and extinguishment of the public
rights in and to the following described land:
All tina part of block No. ID, included be-
tween Cedar avenue and Oak avenue and be-
tween lots Number 10, 20, q, %, %, "a and %;
and all that certain strip of land in block
Number IA, lying adjacent to the southeast
erly side line of lots Numbers l and 2 in said
block, containing in front or breadth on the
northeasterly side of Oak avenue one hun
bred andtwenty Q20) feet; and extending of
that width at right angles to said Oak avenue
between parallel lines in length or depth
enthusiastically a distance of two hundred
GOO feet to the southwesterly side of Wild
WOO avenue"
Dated Wildwood, N. j., October 18th, 1904.
JED DUBOIS,
Borough Clerk.
, 1904-10-19
An Artistic BIOtter.

Inc JOURNAL mailed this week large
numoe OF artistically designed blotteTTi,
10 the business men of the island. u
you dld not receive one you should
can at the JOURNAL office. We ais,
nave a nice blotter for every school
cnlla on the island if they will but re
quest it at our office.
, 1904-10-19
Worlds Fair Excursion.

Low-rate ten-day excursions via
Pennsylvania Railroad, October ., II,
IS and 26. Rate $50. 10 from Wildwood.
Train leaves Wildwood at 100 a. M,
connecting with special train from
New York arriving st. Louis 4.l5 p.
M. next day.
, 1904-10-19

FOR SALE.-Seven thousand dollars offR
of Holly Beach, N. j., to be issued in demon
nations of $500 each. First bond payabeh
three years and one bond each year thefs
after until paid. All bids to be in by 0ctO@
%, 1904. Address all communications to
Yenney, District Clerk, Holly Beach, Nj.
, 1904-10-19
PUBLIC NOTICE.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that at the ensuing general election for MEM
bers of the General Assembly, ETC., to be held
at the borough hall, in the
, 1904-10-19
Hotel ArriVa
HALL.
WILDWOOD.

WILDWOOD.
H.. l.. Restrick, Co
Mrs. MARY Yonng Philadelphia
Mrs. George Burnfeld.
w. Scott Hand, Oooo.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. C. Clelland. Ooean Oi1y
Morgan Hand, Count H.
Mrs. r, W uas+o, Seaville
w. r. Homes Uoh' Cynwyd, Pa
Elmer
, 1904-10-19

STENOGRAPHER WANTED.-A hg
stenographer. Apply to, giving full pare
ulars as to experience and sample of WORK
John n. Reeve, real estate office, oppGR
depot, Wildwood, N. j.
, 1904-10-19
CENT-A-WOR
COLUMN

FOR SALE-Large rain cask. App
JOURNAL office, or Howard Warrington.
, 1904-10-19
Ordinance No. 81.

An Ordinance relative to the vacation OF GER
tain lands situated in the borough oi
use. and The extinguishment of all pub
lie rights therein.