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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN'S
DAY OF FASTING.

The first general proclamation ap-
pointing a fast day was issued by Pres
ident James Buchanan Dec. Il, 1860,
and reads as follows:
Numerous appeals have been made
to me by pious and patriotic associa-
lions and citizens, in view of the pres
ent distracted and dangerous condition
of our country, to recommend that a
day be set apart for humiliation, fast
ing and prayer throughout the Union.
In compliance with their request and
my own sense of duty l designate Fri
day, the 4th day Of January, 1861, for
this purpose and recommend that the
people assemble on that day, according
to their general forms of worship, to
keep it as a solemn fast.
1.-The union Of the states is at the
present moment threatened with alarm
ing and immediate danger. Panic and
distress Of a fearful character prevail
throughout the land. Our laboring
population are without employment
and consequently deprived of the
means of earning their bread. Indeed,
hope seems to have deserted the minds
of men. All classes are in a state of
confusion and dismay, and the wisest
counsels of our best and purest men
are wholly disregarded.
"In this the hour of our calamity and
peril to whom shall we resort for relief
but to the God of our fathers? His
o|mnipotent arm only can save us from
the awful effects of our own crimes
and follies, our own ingratitude and
guilt toward III Heavenly Father.
Let us, then, with deep contrition
and penitent sorrow unite in humbling
ourselves before the Most High in con-
Tossing our individual and national
sins and in acknowledging the justice
of our punishment. Let us implore
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19

him to remove from our hearts that
false pride of opinion which would i'm
pei US to persevere In wrong for the
sake of consistency rather than yield
a just submission to the unforeseen
exigencies by which we are now sur
rounded. Let us with deep reverence
beseech him to restore the friendship
and good will which prevailed in for
mer days among the people of the
several states and, above all, to save
us from the horrors of civil war and
blood outlines. Let Il fervent pray
ers ascend to his throne that he will
not desert us in this hour of extreme
peril. but remember us as he did our
fathers in the darkest days of the Rev
1nlNkGn and preserve n6Asaustitution.
and our Union. the work of their
hands. for ages yet to come. An ON
nipotent Providence may overrule ex
listing evils for permanent good. He
can make the wrath of man to praise
him. and the remainder of wrath he
can restrain. Let me invoke every in
diyidual. in whatever sphere of life he
may be placed, to feel a personal re-
sponsibility to God and his country
for keeping this day holy and for con-
tributing all in his power to remove
our actual and impending difficulties.
JAMES BUCHANAN"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
1908 Taxes

Mrs. Annie M. Allen, lots s, 8, 10, block 40,
56.67, interest $40, costs 40 cents, advertising
and warrant l.70. Total S6Z.Zz.
Mrs. Luli Asbury, lots Is, 10, 20, block 3S,
Fast Magnolia avenue, with house thereon.
Tax 98 SO, interest 5.94, costs Az cents, adver-
Using and warrant LILO. IoJal SlUH.Uz.
Robert B. Beahm, lots IL, II, ls, block so.
Tax 20 II, interest l q, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant l.7o. Total S2353.
Jennie S. Beale, lots %, "a, block AZ. Tax
49, 40, interest 70 cents, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant 10. Total Sl5.39.
Frederick f. Bower, lot IL, block 40. Tax
8.l6, interest 40 cents, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant l.75. Total Sl0.SU.
Mrs. Emma Booth, lots 10, IL, block AZ. Tax
l345, interest 81 cents, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant 1.75. Total Sl6.4l.
Edward T.. Broadway. Willard F. DuBois),
lot Is, block IL. Tax 1903, interest 81 cents,
costs 40 cents, advertising and warrant l 75s
Total Sl2.S5.
Theophilus L. Bear, lots l, 2, block 81. Tax
3,S4. interest % cents, costs 40 CENTS, advertis-
ing and warrant L.75. Total 1922.
John w. Baker, house on lots %, %, block
IS, Tax 2.44, interest 10 cents, costs 40 cents,
advertising and warrant LIS. Total $4.74.
DR.. ]. w. Harrigan, lot %, block 8. Tax
1873, interest 98 cents, costs 40 cenls, adver-
Using and warrant l.75. Total Si9.46.
Nathan A. Cohen, lot %, block 6, with house
thereon on Oak avenue. Tax 63.43, interest
1881, costs 40 cents, advertising and warrant
I.75. Total $50 80.
Cohen Brothers, drug store stock and fix
lures. Tax 1921. interest LIS, costs 40 cents.
advertising and warrant LIS. Total S22.5l.
Thomas A. Colsey, lot IA, block 81. Tax
28S. interest II cents, costs 40 CENTS, advertis-
ing and warrant LIS. Total $500.
Dr.. Samuel E. Corle, Office fixtures. Tax
2.S8, interest IL cents, costs 40 cents, advertis-
ing and warrant LIS. Total $500.
Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, lots 81, %, block
47, with house thereon on Glenwood avenue.
Tax 46 so, interest $50, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant 1.75. Total S5l.55.
Howard Compton, lots 81, p, block 81; lots
.26, q, block SO; lot Is, block 8; lots 10, 81, block
s, with houses thereon on Oak avenue. Tax
l27.75, interest 1857, costs 40 CENTS, advertising
and warrant 1.75. Total Sl37.67.
Joseph H. Capper, lot II, block So, with
house thereon on West Glenwoo avenue.
Tax ID AZ, interest 81 cents, costs 40 cents, adj
vertising and warrant LIS. Total Sl6.3S.
Martin Donation Estate, lot 10, block 60.
Tax 1872, interest IL cents, costs 40 cents, adj
.vertising and warrant LIS. Total S4.l9.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
The Architecture Of Madeira.

We saw nc suggestion of modern
architecture or European innovation.
no blot anywhere except a single mo-
torcar. Without knowing anything
on the subject l should say that the
architecture of Madeira is a mixture
of Spanish and Moorish. like that of
Mexico. only 1t is better than any
thing in Mexico. From the ship the
stucco. tile rooted city is fawless. and
as we steam away and night comes
down and lights break out and become
a jeweled necklace along the waters
edge our one regret is that we are
leaving 1t all behind.-Albert Bigelow
Paine In Outing Magazine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
CURTI t. BAKER, Solicitor
The Watch of wren's Sweetheart.

The watch OF WrenS sweetheart.
The betrothed of Sir Christopher
Wren, the architect of st. Paul's cathe-
dral, accidentally dropped her watch
into a bucket of water. Knowing that
her lover was an ingenious man, she
sent 1t to him to be repaired. Wren's
reply ran as follows: "Madam-The
artificer, having never before nett with
a drowned Watch, like an ignorant
physician has been soc long about the
cure that he hath made me very III
quiet that your commands should be
soc long deferred. However. | have
felicity of 1t. that it should be soc
neer your side and soc often enjoy
your Eye and be consulted by you
how your Time shall pass while you
employ your hands in excellent workes.
But have a care of it, for I put such
a Spell into it that every Beating of
the Balance will tell yen it's the pulse
of my Heart which labors as much
to serve you and more Trewly than
the watch, for the watch | believe will
sometimes lie, and sometimes perhaps
be idle and unwilling to goe, having
received so much injury by being
in that bath that | dispair it should
ever be a Trew Servant to you more.
But as for me-unless you drown me
too in my Teares-you may be conf
dent l shall never cease to be your
most affectionate, humble servant,
Chr. Wren
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
Good P~reeedents.

The two precedents which the colo
NAL governors had to guide them in
ordering a day for thanksgiving were
the national Thanksgiving held by or
der of good Queen Bess after the de-
feat of the Spanish armada and that
of King James of England because the
gunpowder plot failed to materiali3e
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19

DIR. Philip w. Beale Estate, lots %, "a, block
d. Tax 1920, interest 2.93. costs 40 cents, adj
vertising and warrant l.75. Total SIPS.
Lore & Fox, lot q, block ID. Tax 1853, In
terest .S3, costs 40 cents, advertising and war
rant LIS. Total Sll.6l.
G. w. Pettibone u. Fithian Tateml, lot "a,
block IL, with two houses thereon adjoining
the Fenwick on Wildwood avenu Tex
1888, interest 1925, costs 40 cents, advertising
and warrant LIS. Total SS0.93.
II. X. Partridge, lot Is, block AZ. Tax 6.l0,
interest l.46, costs 40 cents, advertising and
warrant LIS. Total 1911.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
Public Sale of Lands
FOR
Unpaid Taxes

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by Jed
Dubois, Collector of the Borough of Wild
wood, County of Cape May, that, by virtue of
October, A. d. 1909, by the Borough Council
OF said Borough be will sell at public sale all
the lands, tenements, hereaditaments and
real estate hereinafter mentioned, for the
shortest term, not exceeding thirty years. for
which any person or persons will agree to
take the same and pay the taxes thereon for
the year 1908 and prior thereto which are de-
linquent, including interest and costs of sale.
The said sale will take place at the Journal
building in the Borough OF Wildwood, New
Jersey, on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19

DR.. Philip w. Beale Estate, lots %, "a, block
AZ. Tax II IS, interest 1853, costs 40 CENTS, ad-
vertising and warrant LIS. Total SlS.08.
Lore & Fox, lot 81, block ID. Tax 6 10, in
terest 1874, costs 40 cents, advertising and war
rant LIS. Total 9l0.l2.
H. X. Partridge, lot Is, block AZ. Tax 6.l3,
interest I.Sl, costs 40 cents, advertising and
warrant rs. Total Sl0.12.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
just the Same.

what is your name?" asked the
Judge OF the prisoner.
Casey. yer honor" answered the
prisoner.
Your full name|" asked the Judge.
"Just the same, yer honor" answer
ed the prisoner. full or sober."-La-
dies Home Journal.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
1907 Taxes


Mrs. Annie M. Allen, lot s, block 40, with
house thereon on Maple avenue. Tax, bal
ance, 1916, interest 3.7S, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant LIS. Total S2l.39.
Dr.. Philip w. Beale Estate, lots %, "a, block
az. Tax u.70, interest 40, costs 40 cents, adj
vertising and warrant l.75. Total Sl5.25
Frederick E. Bower, lot IL, block ~. Tax
$50, interest 81 cents, costs 40 cents, adver-
Using and warrant l.75. Total SlO.S9.
Cohen Brothers., drug store stock and fix
lures. Tax 1850, interest Pa, costs 40 cents,
advertising and warrant LIS. Total s23.S9.
-M-R-L44szez -}otr {, hbaeelt <zs4+h
houses thereon ON Juniper avenue. Tax
1872, interest 1885, costs 40 CENTS, advertising
and warrant l.75. Total S76.45.
Chas. s. Livezey, lot 7, block 45. Tax 8 80,
interest LOS, costs 40 cents, advertising ana
warrant LIS. Total Sl2.Ol.
Lore & Fox, lot q, block Is. Tax 7.S0, in.
terest "a cents, COSTS 40 cents, advertising and
warrant LIS. Total SlO.S9.
Martin Madden, Edward T. Bradway), [Mil-
lard +. DuBoisl lot 10, block IL. Tax $40, In,
terest LII, costs 40 cents, advertising and
warrant LIS. Total $l3.O7.
II. K. Partridge, lot Is, block AZ. Tax $3.50,
interest GA cents, costs 4O cents, advertising
and warrant l.75. Total $50.
John N, Reeve, q. Fithian Tatem). lot "a,
block IL, with two houses thereon, adjoining
the Fenwick on Wildwood avenue. Tax
1890, interest 9.36, costs Az cents, advertising
and warrant LIS. Total 1881.
Mrs. F.. b.. Sweet, lot 6, block 5, house on
Cedar avenue, near Atlantic avenue. Tax
1920. interest S.42, costs 40 cents, advertising
and warrant l 10. Total SS0.77.
John W.. F. Wilkinson, lots 8, 10, block AZ,
corner Glenwood and New York avenues
with house thereon. Tax 1898, interest 6.43,
costs 40 cents, advertising and warrant Ito.
Total S62.2l.
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Com.
many. passenger station, express office and
baggage room. Tax 1920, interest S.42, costs
40 cents, advertising ana warrant l.76. Total
SS0.77.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
Trolley Passes the Door
Do YOU TAKE THE JOURNAL ?
IT IS TO THE INTEREST OF EVERY

IT is TO INTEREST OF
man who owns a house or lot on Five Mile Beach to
take the JOURNAL. In its columns you will find
throughout the year much matter that will interest and
be of value to you for the trihing cost of one dollar per
year. If you do not already take the JOURNAL cut out
and fill in the following coupon, enclosing check or a
one dollar bill, and mail same to journal, Wildwood,
Cape May County, New Jersey"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
Saturday, the Eighteenth
Day of December, 1909

at eleven thirty o'clock in the forenoon.
The said lands, tenements, hereaditaments
and real estate so to be sold, and the names
of the persons against whom the said taxes
nave been laid on account of the same, and
the amount of taxes laid on account of each
parcel, are as follows, viz
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-19
1906 Taxes

DIR. Philip w. Beale Estate, lots %, "a, block
AZ. Tax 1910, interest l.S2, costs 40 cents, adj
yertising and warrant LIS. Total $l4.07.
II. X. Partridge, lot Is, block AZ. Tax 4.63,
interest SO cents, costs 40 CENTS, advertising
and warrant LIS. Total 1851.
John N. Reeve, q. Fithian Tateml, lot "a,
block IL, with two houses thereon adjoining
the Fenwick on Wildwood avenue. Tax
68. 36, interest 1890, costs 40 cents, advertising
and warrant l.75. Total 1921.
John w. f. Wilkinson, lots 8, 10, block ~,
corner and New York avenues,
with house thereon. Tax 46.3l, interest 8.3l,
costs 40 cents, advertising and warrant l.76.
Total S56. 80.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
4 Good Samaritan,


 A man with red eyes and red nose and red hair stood at the side of the street and sneezed dolefully. It was not one of these surprise sneezes that creep upon us unawares. Not one of these titillant sneezes that cause us to pucker the nose and wink the eyes and catch the breath and then kachoo at the top of the voice from sheer joy in sneezing That sort of sneeze is not vouchsafed to us every day. That sort of sneeZe comes infrequently. We do not care then if we have been sit ting in a draught. Nor If we have gotten our feet wet. The point Is that we have sneezed. Most of us re- joice in it. A sneeze of that kind We will render gloriously and valiantly as who should say 10 all the world: Listen and hear what sneezing is when it is done by the boss sneezer of the universe"
 We left the man with the red eyes and nose and hair at the side of the street sneezing, but 1t does not mat ter. We could go away and leave him there four weeks and he would sneeze with the impersonal. disinter- ested, mechanical regularity of a cuckoo cuckooing in cuckoo clock, The man had hay fever.
 To him came man with kindly eyes and pleasant smiles. This man said
 You have hay fever, have you not?"
 The other man sneeZed,
 Tell you how I cured myself" said the stranger. T suffered from it until l hit on the idea of cutting my hair with a lawn mower"
 But the sufferer merely sneezed sadly.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
THE STORY.

AIEVER did the cry of the nations of long live the king" stir loyal hearts of the nation with sadder regrets over the departed ruler, and warmth hearted support for the leader upon whom the purple robe had fallen, than did the cry, which swept over the nation of Israel centuries before modern history began 70 he made;
 Jonathan is dead. Simon shall be our leader"
 Great leaders fulfill their mission and then pass on 10 give place for oth- CTS. Fortunate, indeed, is that ma tion who has great man to step into the place made vacant by the death of "a mighty leader.
 Jonathan through treachery came to -an untimely end, and his brother Simon stepped into the breach and gave to his nation an even greater reign than had the former.
 With great honors Jonathan was laid in the splendid tomb at Modin which Simon caused to be built. This was the new leaders first task when called to rule. And it pleased the peo- ple. and when he had finished they asked:
 What will he now do to secure our nation against the troubles which be. set us on every hand?'
 Such was the query on every ones lins. and as though by way of answer there went forth the decree from simon as he traveled nither and tbither through the realm;
 "The nation is respected as far as 1. is ready to meet it's foes. Let the cities or the land be fortified Let
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
Little Noises Trying on Sick People
 
By WELLS ANDREWS, M. D.

Caking shocs rustlng pctieoats Don't them.
 1. Loud voices. Moderate thcm
 5. Whispering Whispering sick is than dewn- right This may cNaggaon but points the matter fore by Patients full whispering often makes them that something bad the The should whisper the doctor else particularly outside the door she has thing the doctor that the patient hear let it be sand n another with the door closed.
 Then there the fresh We al-sick and well Ioisonmakng machines This pleasant idea but and
 fact which Wo the sick should thoroughly under stand
 The principal poison always making gas which generated within I body creature human animal and given Row. in the atmosphere there certain amount of called oNyn which has wonderful power purifying the blood Whom closely up very little oxy- it. If a number of people it. all giving out car bonc acid with every breath aso using us the oxygen the how air in that must become very impure and after d poisonous
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
Followers of Christ.

"Christianity" was not word used by Paul and the earliest designation of the disciples of Jesus as Christians was not friendly But it was true, and the significance of it Paul accepted to the full. Christianity was Christ. It was not vague and unrefiecting ad' miration. It was personal and liv- ing service of living, personal Saviour. Paul the Christion was Paul the follower of Christ. But follower of Christ was a phrase with meaning and body to it. It meant then and it means now, if it meant then and means now anything at all, the union of life. it's sin forgiven and it's heart ntrifed. with God in Christ with God in Christ in a sense in which he never was in any other, Are We such Chris tians? Whether or not We are such consciously as yet, we will become such if we truly follow Paul as Pau, followed Christ.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23

fhth here front tooth-w'y, it wath
 Ioothe--
 That ith, the front tooth that wa.h
 here
 Where thith here hole ith; 'cauthe the
 tooth
 Ith gone now, that tn what lookth tho
 queer
 An my ma thhe thaid if would Go where the dentitht ith, an be Real brave an big an awful good An get 1t pulled thhe'd jutht love me, But I'm afraid. an I won't go. An tho my pa he laugh an thaid He'd be the dentitht, cauthe he know The way to pull tooth with thread. An he wropped thread around tn tooth. But when heth go to pull it out 1 wriggle till tn thread come loothe An won't let my pa come about. An my aunt Thue thhe thay tht'th right That little boyth ith full o'nerveth An oughtnt to be give a fright Tho long ath gentle patienthe therveth The purpothel an she athked me let Her thee the tooth-but when thhe try To thhake it till it will upthet
 It thcare me till l purt' near cry. Men pa be thcold an ma thhe thay Itth thilly to be thuch calf. An my aunt lnue tIlne turn away An laugh an laugh an laugh an
 laugh
 At all of uth, An pa get mad An my ma thhe actth kind O croth An thay at I'm a actin bad An pa thay for me not 10 thauthe. Tho bye an bye they let me be An after while 1 go to thleep- Mex mornin' what you th'pothe I thee? I It packed away with all my thingth In thth here box up on the thhelf With all my marbleth. topth and ringth- 'Cauthe it'th Il tootht that pull itthelf!
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
Danuerous Nowadays.

"Mr. Munneysax." says the dignified stranger, entering the private office of the plutocrat, "I have here a"
 With a quick glance Mir Munney- sax sees the stranger has in his hand a document of some sort, and immedi- ately leaps through the window and Is away With the same promptness attendants leap upon the stranger and bear him to the floor, when they wrest from him the document
 "Lemme up," cries the stranger That's pretty way to treat the chairman of a committee to invite MT Munneysax to be the guest of honor at a banquet"
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23

It hardly needs saying that sick people need quiet, but some people when they have secured Che quietest room in the house for the patient, forget the little noises that, almost unheard by person in health, are ~orcly trying to the sensitive nerves of the sick. Here are some of them and their remedies:
 l. Breaking windows. These may be in the next room as well as in the sick room. Remedy, put in wedge of wood. Soap the window cords if they are stiff.
 7? Breaking locks. doors, handles. Oil or grease them.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23
SER MON ETTE.

Simon, one of the Maccabeean
 rulers, was able to restore much
 of the old-time prosperity and power of the Jewish nation, so
 that it is recorded of his reign:
 "Then did they till their
 ground in peace, and the earth
 gave her increase, and the trees
 of the field their fruit.
 "The ancient men sat all in
 the streets, communing together
 of good things, and the young
 men put on glorious and war
 like apparel.
 "He (Simon) provided vic tuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honorable name was renowned unto the end of the world.
 "He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:
 "For every man sat under his
 vine and his fie-tree; and there
 was none to fray them"
 Who can say but that the Jews at this period believed and
 rejoiced that the prophecy of
 Micah had been fulfilled when
 he said:
 "They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it. "For all people will walk every one in the name of his God, and will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
 "ln that day, saith the Lord, will ! assemble her that halteth and will gather her that is driven out, and her that l have afflicted.
 "And l will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast of strong nation; and the Lord shall reign over
 them in Mount Zion from hence forth, even forever" And still the Jews are look ing for great millennial bless ing. Prophecy is full of its promises of the time yet to come. At various periods there have been foretastes of the full prophecy.
 The Christian church is look ing for the millennium. Some with one conception as to real meaning of Scriptural promises;
 others still hold a different in-
 depreciation.
 Those poor misguided fanatics down in the far New England
 state who the other day laid
 aside all worldly pursuits and gave themselves up to the an ticipated coming of Christ is an extreme illustration of how powerful an influence such hope in the declarations of the Bible can exert.
 But the coming of the mil lennlum will not be by obser- walton, for Christ's own word declares that mo man knoweth the day or the hour when the Son Of Mar cometh." That he will come he so de. clared, the early church be- Iieved, and many devout Bible scholars still believe. The promise Of the complete rule Of the Lord over all the earth has not yet been fulfilled, but who would dare say that it was not yet to be7 Who would dare to say that the word spoken by the Prophet Micah will not be literally fulfilled.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-23

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