THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1893.

Entered at the Post Office at Ocean City, N. J., as second-class mail matter.

VOLUME XIII.

Our last issue closed Volume XII of

the SENTINEL, and now we stand upon the threshold of a new year. There are times when we look forward to what lies before us, or we look back upon that which we have passed. We have

just completed another of our annual

trips, and at the turning point it is well for us to take a retrospective look--a view of the past. And as we begin the succeeding journey it is but natural that we should take a prospective view —a glance of what is before us. The one view may bring up pleasant recollections in the memory, or it may cause us pain and regret. The scenes through which we have passed determine these feelings.

The year has been full of stirring events in the life of the SENTINEL. Necessity has compelled the addition of improved appliances to meet growing demands, until to-day we take rank with the best shipped printing establishments in this section of the State. The cause that led up to this is of itself ample for congratulation. While a strict adherence to the lines of policy laid down for our guidance lias caused some iII feeling, on the whole it has won for us many staunch friends. When it became necessary to take sides upon public questions affecting our town, we did so only after a careful review of the situation and our criticisms were those of measures, not men; of officials, not private citizens. In some instances the importance of the case seemed to demand heroic treatment, and our comments partook of the caustic;; but these were directed against the methods employed to the end. We trust to the future to vindicate our judgment. As the year waned, the News, a weekly publication, made its appearance and asked support of our citizens. While we welcome this latest candidate for public favor, yet we fear the field's limits are too prescribed for two publications of a similar character. As a competitor, it possesses the advantage of low cost, having its work done on the “patent” system, thus avoiding the expense incident to maintaining a private plant. The money expended in carrying on our business is paid out in the form of salaries, etc., and is put In circulation at home. That paid to the News for like service is diverted from its proper channel and carried into Philadelphia, where It finds circulation. All work carried out of this town is a direct blow to its future prosperity. Within the past twelve-month the town has made great advancement. Numerous new buildings have gone up and old ones have been enlarged almost double their former capacity. These conditions mean much to our people, and from present indications Ocean City will enjoy an era of proserity during the season so rapidly ap-

proaching.

The future opening up before us in a business light is full of promise, and we enter upon our thirteenth year with every indication pointing to a period of more than usual activity.

FRANCHISE GRANTING. One of the most important questions--

in fact the most complex--ever laid

before Council Is now under consideration by that body—the drainage of Ocean City. The subject is of such moment that our Councilmen should ex-

haust every means at their disposal to fully inform themselves upon the best plan to be adopted before taking final action. Take nothing for granted, but obtain facts and figures from those in position to know and are well informed on the latest and most improved methods, for imperfect drainage, in the event of cholera making its appearance in our country, would contribute more toward making a lazaretto of our town than all other sources combined. Medical statistics will bear us out in the assertion that imperfectly constructed sewers are hot-beds of disease germs, emitting their disease-laden vapors and poisoning the air before the true state of affairs is suspected.

Therefore, as a sanitary measure, it should receive that attention which its importance as a means of reducing to a minimum the liability of contaminating the air by foul gases arising from putrid matter demands. There is hardly a city in our Union where this matter has not been one of the perplexities with which public officials have wrestled in their endeavors to reach the highest attainable point of perfection. While much can be said in favor of private enterprise in this direction, yet there exists a doubt in our minds of its ...ability. In a city like ours it seems almost impossible to provide by ...ment of this ...and demand ...from time to time, and ... plan may meet every requirement ... present it might prove ... adequate for future needs. ...surmise prove correct ... controlled the drainage ...difficulty could easily be... would not be the ease ...pound by an agree- ...cover the particular...

... reason at present to fear ... of centralizing power by

the indiscriminate granting of franchises, yet the time might come when the power thus gained would be exercised with crushing force against the

interests of a community helpless to

protect itself from the greed and avarice

of a soulless corporation.

After mature deliberation, should the privilege asked be granted, each section of the instrument conveying the right should bedosely scrutinized to ascertain if loopholes exist whereby the grantee may escape the penalty of neglect or imperfect service. Let the Solicitor make plain all ambiguous or technical language, and then make haste slowly. Those who will can learn a wholesome

lesson from past experience.

THE NEW BOROUGH SOLICITOR. Schuyler C. Woodhull, Esq., the newly elected Borough Solicitor of Ocean City, has placed himself on record as against undue haste in granting franchises to private companies. His line of reasoning indicates an intimate acquaintance with the difficulties to be encountered and overcome in drafting documents conveying specific privileges which will prove effective in protecting the town's interests, and the stand taken by the gentleman in regard to voluminous and indiscriminate legislation is in accord with the oft-expressed views of the SENTINEL on this particular point. Mr. Wondhull has also evinced an interest in our development and material welfare that is truly refreshing, and those who were so fortunate as to be present at Council meeting on Friday

night last are loud in their expressions

of admiration for the manner in which he counseled that body on matters that

relate to the public's weal or woe.

Mr. Woodhull's position is fortified with law and sound judgment—an im-

pregnable intrenchment.

The initial step has been well taken, and we most earnestly hope that our Councilmen will weigh well the sug-

gestions offered and soon, under the

guiding hand of our Borough Solicitor, we may expect to see a new order of things. Let there be no receding,

gentlemen, and the SENTINEL will up-

hold your hands in the good work so

nobly begun.

WILLIAM J. THOMPSON, "Duke of Gloucester,'' member of the late Assembly, owner of a law-defying race track, has a rank record. According to the Camden Telegram, Thompson lias been convicted fourteen times—ten times for selling liquor on Sunday and four times for keeping a disorderly house. He has paid fines ranging from $5 and costs to $500 and costs. At the January term of the Camden Court he was to be tried on the charge of keeping a disorderly house. The lay judges postponed the trial to suit Thompson, who was then serving as a legislator at Trenton. On March 16th, after the Legislature adjourned, Thompson pleaded non vult. to the charge, and paid a fine of $50 and costs. POSTMASTER-GENERAL BISSELL has modified his rule about editor-post-masters so that they may write editorial articles for their papers nights after the post-offices are dosed. Wouldn’t it be better for the editor-postmasters to get up before daylight? GOD’S CHASTENINGS. LESSON 11, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 9.

Text of the Lesson, Job v. 17-27--Memory Verses, 17-19--Golden Text, Heb. xii, 6--Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. Three of Job's friends--Eliphas, Bildad and Zophar--having heard of the afflictions of Job, made an appointment to come and mourn with him and comfort him. When they saw him they knew him not because he was so changed. They wept, and rent their clothes, and sat with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights without speaking a word, for they saw that his grief was very great (chapter 11, 11-18). Then Job spoke and cursed his day, after which Eliphas was the first of the three to speak, and this lesson is part of his speech. Job had borne meekly and without complaint the loss of children and cattle and even his bodily affliction (chapters 1, 99; 11, 10), but even these friends, with their false accusations and insinuations, stirred all the old man that was in him. These three condemned Job without cause, and yet their words have much in them that is helpful. 17. "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty." This is sound wisdom and very profitable if put in practice. Blessed is the man that endureth trial! Count it all joy when ye fall into divers trials. Whom the Lord loveth He chaseneth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons (Jas. 1, 12, 2; Heb. xii, 6, 7). 18. "For He maketh sore and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole." Or, as it is written elsewhere, "I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand" (Deut. xxxii, 39). But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies, for He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men (Lam. iii, 32, 3). 19. "He shall deliver thee in six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch thee." Not even satan can touch a believer without permission, for he had to obtain permission to touch Job, and if God allows us to go to the furnace he knows how to deliver. So that Daniel's friends were right when they said, "Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king" (... iii, 17). ... it shall be ... a hurt, nor a hair ... He shall redeem thee ... and in war from the power of ... The upright shall not be ... in the evil time, and in the days ... they shall be satisfied (Ps. ...18, 19). He who fed Elijah by the ... and in the widow's house during the three years' famine, who fed Israel for forty years with bread from heaven, who fed over 5,000 with the lad's few leaves and fishes, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And as to the sword, think of David's deliverance from the sword of Goliath and his victory over him. 21. "Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh." The tongue is often as a sharp sword (Ps. iv, 21; ivii, 4), but He will keep us secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues (Ps. xxxi, 20). Inasmuch the angel of the Lord encampeth round about us, the tongue that would touch us must first touch Him. Not even a dog can move his tongue against us without permission (Ex. xi, 7). 22. "At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth." One would almost think the speaker was describing the millennial times, when the wolf and lamb shall feed together, and they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God's holy mountain (Isa. ixv, 25). But with such records as that of David over the lion and the bear, Daniel over the lions and Paul over the poisonous reptile (I Sam., xvii. ...Dan. vi, 23; Acts xxviii, 4, 5), we see what may be even now as foreshadowings of coming glory. Let us "have faith in

God."

23. “For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." David comes to mind again with his stones gathered from the brook, one of which, slung in the name of the Lord of Hosts, sank into the giant's forehead (I Sam., xvii, 49). And

the 700 left handed men who could sling stones at a hair and not miss (Judg. xx, 16) show how God can give control over stones in that sense. As to the beasts, read Isa. xi, 6-9, and for another wonderful story of the past see I Kings xiii, 28. 24. "And thou shalt know that the tabernacle shall be In peace, and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin,'' or, R. V, “shall miss nothing." "The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. And my people shall

dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places" (Isa. xxxii, 17, 18). We may even dwell in Jehovah Himself, for it is written, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling places in all generations" (Ps. xc, 1). 25. “Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth." The promise to Abram was that his seed should be as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the seashore (Gen. xxii, 17). When Rebekah left her home to become the bride at Isaac, they prayed that she might become the mother of thousands at millions (Gen. xxiv, 60). Jesus has said, “There is no man that hath

left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospels but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life" (Mark x, 29; xxix, 80). 26. "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in His season." It turned out so in Job's

case, for he lived after his affliction 140 years and saw four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days (Job xiii, 16, 17). With the believer in Jesus length of years in a mortal body is not the greatest blessing except in so far as God is glorified thereby. 27. "Lo this, we have searched it; so it is; hear it and know thou it for thy good." We might with Job to have somewhat to say to Eliphas, but we are trying to forget the man and get something out of the mes-

sage, and therefore we notice that it is good to search out a good matter, but espe-

cially good to search the Scriptures, for

therein is the best of all matter. Wanamaker's. Philadelphia. Monday, April 3, 1893. Capes, Capes, Women's Capes. Cavalier times come again --every sort of picturesque Cape time. Women everywhere are wanting Capes. Not one in ten of the Women's Cloak and Wrap Dealers foresaw it. Some of them are only just now waking up to it. Comical to see them tumbling over each other to place orders and warming telegrapg wires to hurry things up. Capse will be plenty enough in all the stores in a month or two.

Meantime the one great, grand, overflowing Cape stock of this country, perhaps the fullest, roundest, best selected and completest in Cape stock in

the whole retail world is at

Wanamaker's. It's a great thing when a merchant knows how to buy,

it's a greater thing when he knows what to buy. Only the broadest knowledge of the business, the clos-

est touch on the popular taste

and the audacity of a Napoleon

fit a man for such a trial.

A great many more than five

hundred distinct styles of Capes for Women and Girls.

English ideas French ideas

German ideas

American ideas Ancient, mediaeval and mod-

ern ideas.

And in materials that would

have made a sensation even on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Collar shapes include: the Duchess of Guise the Francis I the Lole Fuller Alsatian and Florentine and a dozen more as picturesquely striking. All the colors of course. ... black. Riehelieu navy blue Alhambra

tans Russian blue

light brown green dark brown cardinal

Cape thousands, $3.50 to $10.

Other thousands up and up. Men's Oversacks. Perhaps no single garment expresses so much of taste--or lack of it in the wearer. There are always just rights

--fabric, cut, get up.

You know where the sure place to find them is--$12 to $30. Suits of every right sort for young men ready to look at or buy--as you please. For Boys--4 to 14 years. Reelers and Top Coats, $6 to $13.50. Reefers with sailor collar, 3 to 7 years, $2.75 to $10. Serge and Flannel Sailor

Suits, $3.50, $4, $5, $6.50,

$7.50, $8.50, $9. Any wear thing the little (or big) fellows need. Styled and priced right. It isn't alone the trimness and lightness and strength of the Atalanta that makes it so superior as a Bicycle. There's a rakish, get-there something about the build that makes the machine a veritable flyer. Plenty of the $150 wheels are not so good--the Atalanta

price is but $120.

JOHN WANAMAKER.

THIS SPACE Will be occupied by WM. R. ELLIOTT,

(Successor to Mrs. R. Morris, dec'd.)

Dealer in GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, CHINA and GLASSWARE.

Ocean City Plumbing Co.

(LIMITED.) Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fitting,

UNDERDRAINING, ETC.

GAS MACHINES A SPECIALTY.

Office: 306 N. Third St., Philadelphia.

GRANK MICHELBACH, Pres. W. A. MANAHAN, Sec'y and Treas. W. L. SMITH & SON,

Cheap Philadelphia Store, 34th Street and Asbury avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Goods delivered free. Patronage desired.

Railroad Time-Tables.

PHILADELPHIA & READING R. R.

ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION

TO AND FROM PHILADELPHIA. Two Ferrie.--Chestnut Street and South Street. SHORTEST ROUTE TO NEW YORK.

In effect February 15, 1893, LEAVE ATLANTIC CITY.

DEPOT—Atlantic and Arkansas avenues.

FOR PHILADELPHIA.

WEEK DAYS.

8:15 a.m. accom, arrive Phila. 10:15 a.m. 7:00 a.m. express, " " 8:35 a.m. 7:45 a.m. express, " " 9:05 a.m. 9:00 a.m. express, " " 10:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. express, " " 5:05 p.m. 4:30 p.m. express, " " 6:40 p.m. 5:30 p.m. express, " " 6:50 p.m.

SUNDAY. 7:15 a.m. accom, arrive Phila. 9:25 a.m. 4:00 p.m. express, " " 5:35 p.m. 4:30 p.m. in accom., " " 6:55 p.m. 8:00 p.m. express, " " 9:20 p.m.

FOR BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. Trains leaving Atlantic City week-days 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sunday 7:15 a.m., and 4:00 p.m.

connect with express train for Baltimore and Washington, via B & O. R. R. from Twenty-fourth

and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Street cars

direct from Chestnut street. Ferry to B & O depot.

FOR NEW YORK.

8:15 a.m. express, arrive New York, 12:50 p.m. 3:30 p.m. express, " " " 8:35 p.m.

LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. Chestnut Street and South Street Ferries. FOR ATLANTIC CITY. WEEK DAYS. 8:00 a.m. accom, arr Atlantic City 10:10 a.m. 9:00 a.m. express, " " 10:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. express, " " 3:30 p.m. 4:20 p.m. ex-flyer, " " 5:27 p.m. 5:00 p.m. express, " " 6:35 p.m. 5:45 p.m. accom, " " 7:45 p.m. SUNDAY. 8:00 a.m. accom, " " 10:20 a.m. 9:00 a.m. express, " " 10:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. express, " " 11:20 a.m. 4:30 p.m. accom, " " 6:45 p.m.

LEAVE NEW YORK. WEEK DAYS. 4:30 a.m. express arrive Atlantic City, 10:10 p.m. 1:30 p.m., " " " " 6:35 p.m.

Pullman parlor cars attached to all express trains.

Time at Philadelphia is for both Chestnut street and South street wharves. Time at Atlantic City is at depot. All express trains are run over Baltic avenue extension. For time at avenue, see detailed tables.

Reading R. R. Transfer Co. and Cab Service Passengers and baggage promptly conveyed.* Branch office New York Atlantic avenue where calls for baggage can be left and time tables of the Reading Railroad and

branches can be obtained.

I. A. SWEIGARD, Gen Man. C. G. HANCOCK, Gen'l. Pass. Agent.

West Jersey Rail Road.

FOR SEA ISLE CITY AND OCEAN CITY. ON AND AFTER MAR. 27th, 1893

Leave Philadelphia, Express, 9:00 a.m. Express, 4:00 p.m. Sundays, Accom., 8:20 a.m. Express, 9:00 p.m. Leave Ocean City, Express. 7:40 a.m. Accom., ...Sundays, Express ...Central Avenue, Sea Isle City ... Ocean City, will be Flag ... trains. CHAS E. PUGH, Gen'l. Manager ...

CARPETS The New Spring Goods are on exhibition. Complete lines are shown in every desirable grade of WILTON, AXMINSTER, GOBELIN, MOQUETTE, TAPESTRY, VELVET, AGRA, BRUSSELS, and INGRAIN,

Also, full lines of Rugs, Mats and Straw Mattings. There is, however, at this time a marked upward tendency in manufacturers' prices, our patrons are therefore advised to make early selection. * * * It is not practicable to send samples of Carpets, but if purchasers will inform us as to sizes of apartments, kinds of Carpet desired, with a hint of the decorations of the rooms we can fill all orders to satisfaction. STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER, Market St., Eighth St., Filbert St., PHILADELPHIA.

STODDART'S CLOAK DEPARTMENT For Best Values.

When in want of an outside garment either for LADIES, MISSES OR CHILDREN it is important to look through our stock. It means money in your pocket. THE STODDART COMPANY,

The Old Second Street Dry Goods House, 448, 450, 452 N. 2d ST., PHILADELPHIA.

THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR OUTSPOKEN AND FEARLESS

A LIVE NEWSPAPER PITHY NEWS ITEMS A HOME PAPER NOTE HEADS LETTER HEADS BILL HEADS ENVELOPES, ETC POSTERS, DODGERS PRINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES HOTEL BRIGHTON, R. R. SOOY, Proprietor. SEVENTH AND OCEAN AVENUE OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY. FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH. D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FURNITURE, ... Second St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Y. CORSON, DEALER IN FLOUR AND ... No. 721 Asbury Ave. ...OCEAN CITY. which ... good barn and ... is in good tillable ... ate about one mile ... Dennisville, in the township of Dennis, county of Cape May and State of Jersey, and further described in de Emma Ludlam et al., and recorded book of deeds No. 27, pp. 146 and ... Clerk's office Cape May county. ( E ... cepting thereout about one acre sold ... David Taylor.) No. 2 Is 34 acres of farmland adjoining lot No. 1 in said township ... described more fully in quit claim ... of Wm. Townsend and wife et al. ...deed being recorded in deed book ... 31 pp. 447, &c., in Clerk's office, county of Cape May. No. 3 Is about 41 acres of Cedar Swamp in said township, and further described in aforesaid quit claim deed. No. 4 Is about 34 acres of Cedar Swamp in said township, and further described in aforesaid quit claim deed. No. 5 Is about 4 acres of Cripple in said township, described in aforesaid quit claim deed. No. 6 Is about 9 acres of Meadow land in said township, and further described in aforesaid quit claim deed. No. 7 Is about 10 acres of Meadow land in said township, and binding on Dennis Creek, and further described in aforesaid quit claim deed. No. 8 Is about 15 1/2 acres in said township, known as the Dower Meadow, and binds on Dennis Creek and lot No. 7, and more fully described in deed James L. Smith, Adm'r, to Jos. M. Ludlam, recorded in Clerk's office Cape May County, book of deeds, No. 27 pp 149 and 150. No. 9 Is about 23 3/4 acres of Woodland on what is known as the Buckhill Rd ... in said township, adjoining land ... Woodbine land and Improvement ... Company, and others, and fully described in deed with No. 8. No. 10. All the right, title and ... terest of Joseph M. Ludlam, de ... in 11 acres of Cripple along the Mill Dam in said township, de ...

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