Ocean City Sentinel, PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N.J., BY B.C. Robinson, Editor and Proporietor $1.00 per year, strictly in of ince. $1.50 at end of year.

Restaurants.

MARSHALL’S DINING ROOMS for ladies and gents 1321 Market Street, three doors east of city hall

PHILADELPHIA.

STRICTLY TEMPERANCE, MEALS TO ORDER FROM 6 A.M. TO 8 P.M. Good Roast Dinners, with free vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners Ladies' Room upstairs, with ke accommodations. ...SPRING WATER. BAKERY, S. Twenty-Second St. ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES... and Evening Entertainment ... to furnish the table and ... OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY. ...AND PRICE EXCELLED. SOOY'S LADIES & GENTS ROOMS, ...nut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Public, Com ... Real Estate ... Agent. Money to loan ... 16. ... LF, ... OOD, N.J. ...Joseph ... or Hirsh ... attention.

Commissioner of Deeds. R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Commissioner of Deeds, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Deeds, Mortgages, Etc., carefully drawn.

Physicians, Druggists, Etc. DR. J. S. WAGGONER,

RESIDENT Physician and Druggist,

NO. 731 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N.J. Pure Drugs, Fine Stationary, Confectionery, Etc., constantly

on hand.

Attorneys-at-Law. MORGAN HAND, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner, Notary Public, CAPE MAY C. H., N.J. (Opposite Public Buildings.) ALLEN B. ENDICOTT; COUNSELOR AT LAW, Rooms 1, 2 and 3 Union National Bank Building.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. LAW OFFICES OF SCHUYLER C. WOODAULL, 310 Market St., Camden, N.J. Solicitor of Ocean City. Bakers, Grocers, Etc. JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 703 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N.J. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Wedding Cakes a specialty. Orders delivered free of charge. Nothing delivered on Sunday. HARRY G. STEELMAN, DEALER IN FINE Groceries and Provisions, No. 707 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N.J. Contractors and Builders. S. B. SAMPSON, Contractor and Builder, No. 305 Fourth St., Ocean City, N.J. Jobbing promptly attended to. Plans, specifications and working drawings furnished. JOSEPH F. HAND, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ocean City, N.J. Plans, Specifications and Working Drawings furnished. Estimates given on Application. Satisfaction guaranteed. Nicholas Corson, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, OCEAN CITY, N.J. Estimates given. Plans and Specifications furnished. Buildings put up by contract or day. G. P. MOORE, ARCHITECT, BUILDER, AND PRACTICAL SLATER, Ocean City, N.J. Best Roofing Slate constantly on hand. HENRY G. SCHULTZ, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, 2633 Germantown Avenue, PHILADELPHIA. BRANCH OFFICE Seventeenth and Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N.J. ARNOLD B. RACE, UNDERTAKER, PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. All orders by telegraph or otherwise will receive prompt attention. Bodies preserved with or without ice. Office below W. J. R. R. at the residence of A. B. RACE. ARNOLD B RACE. W. B. M. BURRELL, Undertaker & Embalmer, 427 Market Street, CAMDEN, N.J. TELEPHONE 108. Plumbers, Steam Fitters, Etc. J. T. BRYAN, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter. No. 1007 Ridge Ave. Philadelphia. ... Sinks, Bath Tubs, Water ... Lead and Iron Pipes, Pumps, Etc. fur- ... short notice. County of Cape May Resi- ... in the best manner. Sanitary ... drainage a specialty. Orders by ... attended to.

Robert Fisher, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE BROKER, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC.

Agent for the Etna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and some of the oldest and best Fire Insurance Companies of America. One of the few pioneers of Ocean City and among its first Real Estate purchasers and Cottagers, intimately associated with all its history and identified with every step of its progress and the operation of its Real Estate, has extraordinary opportunities for the transaction of all kinds of Real Estate and Insurance business. PURCHASERS can find profitable investments, and frequently decided bargains, and those wishing to sell are assured of the greatest advantages that personal effort and judicious advertising can accomplish. Fisher's Real Estate Office occupies the most prominent business corner in Ocean City. All kinds of Property for Sale, Exchange or Rent. FISHER'S LIVERY STABLES, Cor. of 7th St. & Haven Ave., (One square from Depot.) Supplied with everything to suit the demand. Coaches, Phaetons, Buggies, Busses, Carts, Etc., Etc. Saddle Horses, Horses boarded and cared for. Prices ... reasonable.

The National Institute COMPOUND OXYGEN FOR SICKNESS AND DEBILITY. GOLD CURE FOR Alcohol, Morphine, etc For nearly a quarter of a century the firm of Drs. STARKEY AND PALEN, of 1529 Arch street, Philadelphia, have dispensed Compound Oxygen Treatment for chronic diseases and debility, with a most brilliant record of cures. They have treated over 60,000 patients and in spite of opposition have forced the world to acknowledge the potency and usefulness of Compound Oxygen. Over 1000 physicians have used it in their practice, and this number is being continually increased.

The original Compound Oxygen made by this firm is pure, comparatively devoid of odor and taste, and one of the greatest natural vitalizers, building up broken-down constitutions, supplying nature's waste from disease, excesses or old age.

One of the beauties of using this treatment is that you take no medicine whatever, your system is not shocked by it, business or travel are not interfered with, and treatment is actually a pleasure. You simply inhale the Compound Oxygen and get it directly into the circulation, where it will do the most good--where your system can absorb every atom of it without any objection being interposed by your digestion. A book of 200 pages mailed free to any address tells all about it.

TESTIMONIALS. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. About five years ago I was a broken-down man and a sick man, suffering with nervous prostration and lung trouble. To-day I am strong and rugged and doing heavy work every day. I owe my health and life to Compound Oxygen and your kind help and advice. During the interval of these five years, I have been recommending your treatment far and near, and by my advice and your treatment we have saved several lives and benefited others. Jasper, New York. R. W. Wheeler.

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Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. My physician, who has treated me for five years, remarked to me several weeks ago that the Compound Oxygen had certainly done wonders for me. It has also relieved me of the dreadful spells I used to have. I firmly believe that I would have gone into consumption last winter, after I had pneumonia, if I had not taken the Compound Oxygen. I must say that I am in better health than ever before since I was a child, and all from your Compound Oxygen Treatment. I feel that I can never say half enough in its praises and of the great good it has done me. Mrs. J. E. Wood. Marianna, Ark.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. About two years ago I commenced using Compound Oxygen, as proposed by Drs. Starkey & Palen. I was suffering from throat and lung troubles, the left lung having had an abcess; and having tried all other remedies known to me, I was induced to try your remedy. It cured me permanently, and I rejoice that it was ever made known to me. It has done everything for me that I could have asked. I have recommended it to several others, who have tried it and benefited. I recommend it with the greatest confidence. Frankfort, Ky. Mrs. Rev. H. W. Kavanaugh.

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Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. Compound Oxygen did me more good as a sufferer from Hay Fever than anything I had ever tried. Rev. J. L. Ticknor. Napton, Saline county, Md.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. It is now months since I received the first Treatment for my son's use, and he has not had symptoms of a return of the Asthma since taking the first dose. I take pleasure in recommending it to all my friends who are afflicted with any chronic disease. It seems to act like a charm on the diseases peculiar to this climate. Sedgwick, Mo. Mrs. K. A. Porter.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. It is no secret that after coughing fully four months, and treating with the very best physicians, I obtained my first rest and help from the use of Compound Oxygen. Belle K. Adams. Cleveland, Ohio.

Now that science has proved beyond a shadow of doubt that Intemperance or Dipsomania is a disease subject to the same natural laws that govern all diseases, susceptible to treatment, and as large a proportion of cases cured absolutely as with any other morbid condition of the system, we have added recently The National Gold Cure for Alcohol, Morphine, etc. This is at present the nearest perfect of any known cure, advocated by leading temperance reformers, National W. C. T. U. officers, clergymen and physicians.

Fraces E. Willard says of it: "We are warmly friendly to this movement and believe it to be doing great good." Such paper-commend as Union Signal, W. C. T. U. organ; Watch Tower, Illinois State W. C. T. U. organ; Chicago Inter-Ocean and Chicage Herald, New York Evangelist. The Philadelphia Evening Star of February 8, 1893, says of it,

"It is but a recent experiment in our city, but it can refer to as remarkable evidence of success as older institutions in other places. Those afflicted by an ungovernable appetite for liquor and really want to be cured can by a few weeks' treatment have evidence of its power."

Among our hearty co-workers are Bishop Fallows, Rev. Sa Small, Hon Walker Thomas Mills, Hon. James R. Hobbs, Gen. S. R. Singleton, Gen. C. H. Howard, Mary Lathrop and others.

We have organized a Temperance Extension Fund to be used in treating cases who cannot pay for treatment at greatly reduces rates, taking their obligation to repay the fund in easy installments, after being restored.

By so doing we use the money over and over, curing many cases with the same money.

Money sent for this purpose enables the sender to name any one they please to be treated, thereby enabling them to see the direct results of their subscrip-

tion. We cure over 90 per cent of appli-

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Our cure is safe, swift and sure. We don't

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the appetite without impairing one at all or incurring any risk. Any subscription received

will be placed to the credit of the Temperance ... Fund and appropriately applied where

...ded. DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE HADJI'S REST. The hadji said, "If e'er my tomb

Should grasses wave and roses bloom, And if with tears the spot should be

Sometimes bedewed for love of me,

Progress and the operation of its real estate.

has Extrodinary op-

Owe my health and life to compound

And never woman's eye grows dim

In that strange land in thought of him;

And yet no doubt the hadji's rest Is quite as sweet as if his breast

Were by a million roses pressed And woman made his grave her quest.

--H. L. Spencer.

"UNC' P'TROOSHO."

"Wha' fo' dey calls me Petah P'troo-

sho? Ain' yo' nebah year dat? "Marse Gawge gub me dat name, down in Faginny, endu'in wah time.

Marse Gawge gre't man ter gib we all noo names. I had mo'n 'leben, I guess, on'y P'troosho de on'y one 'sides Petah

dat stick ter me. W'en Miss Alice gub

me suit er Marse Gawge's clo'es, wid red necktie an plug hat, Marse Gawge he laff an say he gotter call me Boobrum-

m'l, and so he do fo' long time eb'ry day I dress up. Den, one time w'en I gwine to mill, de ol bosses dey git scart an run plumb ter mill an back ergin; an atter dat, eb'ry time Marse Gawge see me wid de bay team, he hollah, 'Hullo, Gilping!' "Nodah time, w'en I bin fussin aroun in de garrit, I foun er ol muff, wha' ol miss done frow erway, an ax Miss Alice

kin I hab 'm, case it jes' de ting w'en I

hatter go set b' Pomp, de dribah, on col

days w'en Marse Gawge an Miss Alice go dribin. Miss Alice she say I kin, so

nex' col day, w'en dey hatter go ter Marse Willie's, I war de muff. 'N

Marse Gawge, he seen 'm, an say, 'Hul-

lo, Rushinbow! W'en you come f'm France?"

"But w'y he call me 'P'troosho?' I

dunno, 'zackly, but Marse Gawge do. He kim ter me one day, an say, 'Petah, whuffer yo' don' git married ergin?' Marse Gawge allus sayin tings right plumb out ter we all, jes' lak dat. "An I say: 'Marse Gawge, I ain' speakin no names, but does yo' 'membah er suttin pusson dat am now gone erway f'm disher wale of teahs, an whatter mis'able tempah dat pusson had? An do yo' 'membah dat w'en dat suttin pusson was libin, folkses dat libed wid her gotter stan roun? No, sah, I doesn't caffer any mo', tank yo', Marse Gawge. 'Sides, I'ze ergettin too ol' fo' sich nonsensical tings.' "Marse Gawge he laff. 'W'y Petah,' he say, 'yo' is on'y 'bout fifty. Yo' young man yit. No, me 'n Miss Alice bin tinkin dat 'twould be nice ting of Cl'rindy 'n you'all 'd git married. 'Twould sorter mek it mo' c'nveeniunt, an all dat.'

"I dunno whatter say ter dat. Dat Cl'rindy was lady lookin an right smaht, but she got 'des' sich a tempah as I done had 'speriunce wid. So I look 't Marse Gawge an say, 'Mh! Golly, chile, dat niggah wuss'n de odah one I done men-

shun. How yo' spose I kin stan dat?'

"Marse Gawge he stop 'n tink fer w'ile. Den he say: 'Petah, I'ze 'feared yo' done let yerse'f be hainpeck'. Lemme tell

yo', Petah, dat de on'y way ter be boss

am ter 'sert yo'se'f an don' let no woman mek yer stan roun lak Aunt Debby done. Dey was er man oncet whar name

was P'troosho, an he right smaht man. Well, dey merry him ter gal wha' got

mo' tempah 'n er settin hen. My, she was tur'ble! So P'troosho, w'en he git all hitch, 'gin ter train dat 'oman. "'Ef she git mad he git mad, too, 'r

'tend dat he is, an he jes' raise de ol Nick wuss'n her. 'Ef she say it col day, he

say she lie, dat de day am mis'ably wahm.

Of he don' lak he dinner he tek 'n frow it on de floh an bre'k de dishes. He hollah at dat 'oman an boss 'er roun an bullyrag tweil adat 'oman don' know 'er name. By 'm' by she git so dat w'en P'troosho tell 'er in broad daylight dat de sun am de moon she b'liebe 'im, an willin ter sw'ar ter it. Ef he call 'Kate' she mos' bre'k 'er naik comin ter see whuffer he call. "'Now, Petah, dat's de way ter do ef er fool 'woman ac' lak dat. In dat way yo' kin bre'k 'em ob deir tricks in 'bout two days.' "I t'ought erwhile an mek up my min dat war gre't scheme, so I say ter Marse Gawge, 'Marse Gawge, ef yo' n' Miss Alice sesso, I do dat an see how yo' plan wuk.' "So w'en Chris'mus kim, me 'n Cl'rindy stan up in de pollah ob de big house, an de w'ite pashon merry us, same lak he done Marse Willie an Miss Blanche, an atter dat we all hab big time in de hall twell mos' mawnin." "I had er house back b' de cookhouse, what me 'n Debby doone lib for mo'n twenty year, an me 'n Cl'rindy we mobed in day. Marse Gawge done gub us new cheers an table an stobe, an Miss Alice she let us hab new cyarpet, wha' she don' want in up staihs hall no mo'; so we all was fixed up right smaht. "Cl'rindy war jes' sweet's p'simmons fo' mo'n er week. Den one day she git outer de baid wrong way, an w'en I look 't her I know dat 'omen is mad. I di'n' lak dat, ca'se I hab my min all mek up dat w'en she 'gind at mad b'sniss she got--ter hab less'n, an I don' lak ter gub it ter her. But I don' say nuffin, on'y mek up my min ter let 'er go twell she git naggy, den shek 'er off'n dat high hoss. "W'en we were waitin on table at dinnah, Marse Gawge he kin see dat Cl'rindy am hot, an he wink at me, lak dis. Atter dinner, w'en he cotch me erlone, he say, 'Well, P'troosho, is yo' git de shoe tamed?' Den he laff. "I say, What does yo' mean, sah? I don't know nuffin 'bout no shoe.' "Den Marse Gawge laff so ... say, 'I di'n' say no shoe, Petah ... as yo nad ter gin Cl'rindy's less'ns yit? I kin see she mad wid somet'ing.' "I tell 'im I ain' staht trainin yit, but it look lak I hah ter right quick. "'Petah,' Marse Gawge say reel sollum, 'den' was'e no time in disher 'ffaih.

De moment de trubble stahts in yo' staht in too.' An I say I will. But dey ain' no row dat day. "Nex' day war Sund'y, an I d'in' hatter git up eahly, so I lay een de baid twell mos' haf pas' 8. Den I git up an gin ter tog out. Cl'rindy was settin lookin outer de doah, lookin mad. Pret' soon I say, 'Cl'rindy, whar mah bes' Sunday shuht wid ruffles on?' Cl'rindy ans' back, reel shoht, she ain' see no sich shuht. "'Yo' ain'?' I say. ''Oman, di'n I say ter yo' dat I wan' dat shuht ter w'ar on Sund'y, an d'in' yo' say yo' ten ter it? Tell me dat, will yo'?' "But she ain' say nuffin 'tall. She jes' set an star' outen de doah, jes' lak I ain' dar. "Den I say, 'Look yere, yo' yaller numskull, ef yo' don' tuhn roun yere an ans' me quick, I tek'n' shek yo' twell dem ol teef rattle outen yo' haid!' "Den she jump up quick, an kim at me. 'Wha' dat yo' say, yo brak niggah? Wha' dat? Talk ter me 'bout shekkin folk, will yo'?' "Mistah, is you ebah see er reel mad 'oman? I 'gin ter git scar't, dat Cl'rindy look so mad, an w'en she git so close ter me I put out mah tan ter push 'er 'way

f'm me.

"Dat 'oman reach out and grab me wid bofe han's by de naik, an sef she d'in' shek me twell mos' all my teef trap out, I hope ter die. Den she hit me slambang wid her fis' er couple times, an biff me all ober de house, an lam me jes' tur'ble. Kil but dat 'oman war pow'ful strong! "W'en she git froo she say, 'Look yere, ol man, I hatter stan 'buse f'm Tawm, but I ain' gotter stan none f'm you. Don' yo' disr'membah dat, niggah.' An she look lak 'er mad all ober wid, but I ain' wai' ter find out. I jes' git outen de house an inter de yahd. "Marse Gawge kim round inter de back yahd jes' den. 'Hullo, P'troosho,' he say, 'is yo' bin tamin dat shoe! Yo' look lak you' bin fightin win'mills.' "'Marse Gawge,' I say, 'I ain' bin fightin wid no win'mills, an I ain' bin doin nuffin wid no shoes. I jes' hatter gib dat yaller niggah wench er less'n, and she ain' tek ter it, nohow. Dat P'troosho way mout wu'k wid w'ite folks, but w'en er fool niggah try 'm on 'nodah fool niggah de debbil am ter pay.' "Marse Gawge mos' die f'm laffin. Den he say, 'No, Petah, yo' don' look lak yo' made er gre't s'ccess ob it.' "An atter dat he allus call me 'Petah P'troosho.'" --R. L. Ketcham in Ro-mance.

A Valuable Autograph. An autograph fiend from New York was recently visiting a friend in Detroit, and naturally he brought his album along, and he also talked much on autographs, their rarity, value, etc. "Well," said the Detroit man one day, after a list of high priced autographs had been shown him, "your figures are not in it with one I saw here some years

ago."

"Whose was it?" asked the friend with

much interest.

A gentleman's living here at the

time, but now dead." "What did it bring?" "Two hundred and

fifty thousand dollars."

"Aw. come off. I know autographs, and I know one never sol for such sum." "Just the same I tell you this one did."

"Who paid for it?"

“One of the banks in the city. It was on a check, and the same autograph would have brought a million, net, if the gentleman had happened to want

that much for it."

After that the fiend pat his album in his trunk and left it there.—Detroit Free Press.

Two Remarkable Epitaphs. The two most remarkable epitaphs in the United States are those of Donald Barrow, formerly of Sacramento, and that of Hank Monk, Horace Greeley's stage driver. The former reads as follows: "Here is laid Daniel Barrow, who was born in Sorrow and Borrowed little from nature except his name, and his love to mankind, and his hatred for red-skins. Who was nevertheless a gentleman and a dead shot, who through a long life never killed his man except in self defense or by accident, and who, when he at last went under beneath the bullets of his cowardly enemies in Jeff Morris' saloon, did so in the sure and certain hope of a glorious and everlasting tomorrow." Hank Monk's epitaph reads thus: "Sacred to the memory of Hank Monk, the whitest, biggest hearted and best known stage driver of the west, who was kind to all and thought ill of none. He lived in a strange era and was a hero, and the wheels of his coach are now ringing on the golden streets."--St. Louis Republic. The Value of Frankness. Miss Plantagenet De Vere--That man's attentions to me are most offensive, and he has the reputation of being a fortune hunter. Do you suppose it is papa's wealth that allures him? Her Close Friend (thoughtfully)--Why, what else can it be?--Exchange. Cotton Mather's Works. Dr. Cotton Mather, who died in Boston in 1798, was the author of 383 works, some of them being of huge dimensions. The most bulky of his works contained ... large folio volume. He died at ... of sixty-five.--Harper's Young WAITING FOR DEAD MEN'S SHOES. The Grim Intelligence Unemployed Men Are Ever In Haste to Carry. "Jimmy Reilly's lost his job!" said a rugged looking young man in a rusty pea jacket and a blue flannel shirt as he entered a railroad official's office in Jersey City on one of the coldest, snowiest days. "And I'd like to leave my name for the job o' brakin in his place, sir." "Lost his job? How's that?" "Jist got killed up in the yard!" replied the young man in the pea jacket. The railroad official promised to hold the application under consideration, and the man went out, evidently well pleased. "There is no calling," said the officer, "so beset with dangers and hardships as that of a railroad brakeman, especially on a freight or coal train, and yet were brakemen killed on this or any other road today there would be an eager and anxious applicant for each man's place as soon as the news of his death became known. The man who was in here just now evidently saw Brakeman Reilly killed, because it couldn't have happened long before he came in, as I have received no official notice of the accident yet, and reports of that kind come in very promptly. That man witnessed Reilly's death, but whatever impression it made upon him was lost in the fact that the dead man had left a place to be filled by some one else. That prompted him to act at once, and he lost not a second in securing whatever of advantage he believed priority of claim for the place might give him. "Every railroad has a small army of these anxious and waiting applicants for chances to step into dead men's shoes hanging around its yards and stations. They are chiefly men who have followed railroading all their lives and have lost their jobs in some way. You see, railroading is a good deal like politics. If a man goes into it once, he isn't worth a snap for anything else, and so if he gets out of it he is perpetually on the lookout for the opportunity that must come for him to get in again. There isn't one of the men I refer to who does not feel a genuine sorrow when a railroader is killed, and few of them would hesitate to risk their own lives in an effort to save that of any trainman in danger, although they might know that the death of that man would place them in the best position they could hope ever to fill, yet they haunt the tracks and the station yards day after day watching the switching and the coming and going of trains, knowing that some one of the trainhands or switchmen is sure to be killed now

and then.

"When the fellows of the man who came here in such haste to bespeak poor Reilly's place hear of Reilly's death, they will bemoan the hard fate that prevented them from being present when he was killed and robbed them of a chance to reach my ear first. It isn't at all likely that this enterprising young man will be hired in Reilly's place, although he may be. If he isn't, it will not shake his faith, nor that of any of the others, in the importance of having early intelligence of fatal accidents to trainmen, and being airly to my office with the news and an application; or, if the accident occurs at a distance, to the office of the one having authority at that point. There is one of these men who has brought me the first news of seven different men he has seen killed, and he is now, I have no doubt, watching for another accident with the hope that he will get the dead man's job."--New York Sun.

Zola on Marriage. Emele Zola, in a curious article entitled "How Folks Marry," expresses ex-

treme dissaproval and disgust of the French marriage system. He contrasts

with a good deal of rough power the different lives led after the age of 10

years old of the boys and girls who till that time had been playmates and leading practically the same existence. After this happy natural sort of life the paths of the brother and sister widely diverge. The son goes to the lycee, which has been described as an "inky Styx," where some may swim, but many drown, while the daughter is either brought up in a tender sheltered home or sent to a good educational convent, where she is, if possible, even more protected from outside evil influences than when under her mother's wing.

M. Zola makes it quite clear that he leans to the American system of education. It would be interesting to know what course he pursues with his own children, two bright-faced little people who were much in evidence at the marriage of Leon Daudet to Jeanne Hugo. --London Globe.

Sympathy for Prominent Criminals. The sentence of Ferdinand de Lesseps to five years' imprisonment as a common felon appears to have caused intense surprise in the United States. Few seem to doubt his guilt, but many condemn the severity of his sentence. This is unfortunately a trait which is too common here--sympathy for criminals. In this country De Lesseps and his coconspirators would never have been convicted, let alone imprisoned.

When the rich and venerable directors of the swindling Glasgow bank were first ...

of their fortunes and then imprisoned for this, a cry of horror went up from the United States. In this country we di ... "prominent citizens." ... seems to be getting ... criminals is fast bec ... will be a good thing ... when we come to ... they are rich and ... with rascals ... --San Francisco ...