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VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1893.

NO. 25.

Ocean City Sentinel.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J.,

BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor.

$1.00 per year, strictly in advance. $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 three vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners, 15 cents. Ladies' Room upstairs, with homelike accommodations. PURE SPRING WATER.

BAKERY, 601 S. Twenty-Second St.

ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES.

Weddings and Evening Entertain-

ments a specialty. Everything to furnish the table and set free of charge.

NOTHING SOLD OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY.

H. M. Sciple. J. M. Gillespie. H. P. Sayford. H. M. SCIPLE & CO.,

DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty,

DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS,

Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

D. SOMERS RISLEY, No. 111 Market Street, CAMDEN, N. J.

Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds, Real Estate and General Insurance Agent. Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage. TELEPHONE No. 16.

PETER MURDOCH,

DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J. Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

Artistic Printing. Material--The Best. Workmanship--First class. Charges--Moderate. R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Ocean City, N. J.

L. S. SMITH, CONTRACTOR IN Grading, Graveling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Plasterers and Brick-Layers.

W. STONEHILL. G. O. ADAMS. STONEHILL & ADAMS, Plastering, Range Setting, Brick Laying, &c.

All work in mason line promptly attended to.

OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Physicians, Druggists, Etc. DR. J. S. WAGGONER, RESIDENT Physician and Druggist, NO. 731 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Pure Drugs, Fine Stationery, Confectionery, Etc., constantly on hand.

DR. G. W. URQUHART, 2265 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Will practice at Ocean City during the months of June, July and August.

DR. WALTER YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J.

DR. E. C. WESTON, Dentist, 638 CENTRAL AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J. During August, and Saturday to Monday night of September. 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.) LAW OFFICES SCHUYLER C. WOODRULL, 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.

Samuel Schurch, PRACTICAL BUILDER, MAY BE FOUND AT Bellevue Cafe, On beach bet. Seventh and Eighth Sts.

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.

Plumbers, Steam Fitters, Etc.

J. T. BRYAN, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter No. 1007 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia. Circulating Boilers, SInks, Bath Tubs, Water

Closets, Lead and Iron Pipes, Pumps, Etc., fur-

nished at short notice. Country or City Residences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary

Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC.

Agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and some of the oldest and best Fire Insurance Companies of America.

What's the matter with Ocean City? She's booming, that's all. New water supply system; new electric street railroad; electric lights; new hotels; new cottages; new tenants and new guests; every-

thing is on the jump, and Fisher is rushing the business. Call and see him, and put your money in Ocean City be-

fore things get up to the top notch.

Fisher is one of the few pioneers of Ocean City and among its first Real Estate purchasers and Cottagers, in-

timately 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.

FOR RENT--Having very ex-

tensive and influential connec-

tions, he has superior advan-

tages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them to-

gether, and at present has some of the finest cottages and other houses on his books at liberal prices.

FOR SALE--Long experience and personal dealing in Real Estate has made him expert in

values of both improved and unimproved property. Occasionally even in such a prosperous town as ours some one wants to change or get out.

Then we help them by helping some one else to a bargain.

From Ocean front to Bay, and all between, you can be suited with fine corners or central

building lots. A few cottages, new and well built, now offered at cost.

Write for information of the Lot Club.

Headquarters for every house-hunter and investor, Fisher's Real Estate Office, the most prominent corner in Ocean City.

Insurances placed on most advantageous terms in best companies.

For any information on any subject connected with any business enterprise write freely to Robert Fisher, Ocean City, N. J.

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THE HIDDEN CITY. By WALTER H. McDOUGALL. [Copyright, 1892, by Casselli Publishing company, and published by special arrangement with them.]

[CONTINUED.] "It is even now too late," answered the aged priest coldly. "Can you not see with what feverish impatience the people away the light of this day? They know their children are safe now that

the lot has fallen on the girl Ainee, and they thirst for the spectacle for which

they have waited thirteen years. Today they believe Quetzalcoatl, with his dove upon his hand, will return, as on this

day for ages they have looked for him. In vain will they look; he will not re-

turn, but they must have their sacrifice, or their wrath will turn upon the priests,

and we shall perish. Upon it rests our very existence. Murmurs have already been heard against us--we are called

idlers and bread eaters of the poor. It is our only hope, and upon you it will rest today. Were it only a question of my

life or your life alone, I would willingly die; but we cannot prevent the slaughter by our deaths.

"Alas, my son," (the old man's voice softened and quavered), "time brings but the same tale. Eighty long years ago I, too, loved a maiden as you. I know--nay, start not--love Ainee; yet she was chosen, and this withered hand plunged the sacred knife into her throat. Her eyes were on me as she fell upon my breast--they are with me now! I killed her, and when the day was done I climbed the cliff and wandered out upon the desert plains which lie about the city in search of some other land. For days I roamed, returning for water and food, and then starting anew in other directions, as you, too, have done, in a spirit of discovery, and finding, as you have done, that we are alone in the

world--a city in a desert--the remnants of a once great people. I returned to my duties, and since that day I have been the most zealous in guarding the tradi-

tional customs of our religion." "But, my father, we have the power, if we will, to prevent this horrid sacrifice today! Some plausible excuse can be offered to the credulous people, and an animal perhaps be substituted for the beautiful maiden." "It is too late, even were I willing," replied the aged priest. "As is the custom when the feast of the Thirteenth Year approaches, all prodigies in nature, in the skies and on the earth, are eagerly regarded as omens of good or evil. The birth of the six horned calf has been accepted by the priests and the people as an evil sign, and the terrific storm of last night will have wrought their fears to a higher pitch. And now I will reveal to you a cause of secret uneasiness and great fear even to me.

"Last night, as the storm raged with a fury I have not often seen, there came

a blast that shook the temple, and there seemed to sweep over my head a something. I know not what, but I felt its touch, as though long, slender threads brushed by me, and out of the cloud there came a loud voice in wailing; then

it passed, but I heard the voice, and others, too, must have heard its loud tones. Think not that I was dreaming,

or that it was the vagary of a blind man's mind. It is the truth. Long have I preached signs and wonders, yet

this is the first I have myself witnessed or believed in. Were I to attempt to prevent the sacrifice the envious priests

themselves will turn upon us, and we will but add our own bodies to the offering. I know it and it is impossible."

It had grown lighter while the two talked, and the housetops were already black with the forms of the people con-

gregated there to greet the rising sun. All were silent, waiting till the lumi-

nary appeared over the edge of the cliffs. Its beams already blazed upon the north-

ern wall of the canyon and brought out in strong relief the banded colors of the lime, sandstone and slate. The sky was all aflame, and a flood of sunlight poured over into the abyss, and the glowing, radiant orb appeared. The

people raised a mighty shout, bowed their heads before the god in prayer for

a few moments and disappeared within their homes. The day had begun in Atzlan.

Kulcan stood beside the high priest, neither of them joining in the welcoming

shouts nor the prayers of the populace as the sun rose. The eyes of the young-

er man were so blinded with tears that he saw nothing of the scene, while he endeavored to control his emotions. Be-

fore him stretched a canyon less than a mile in width at its widest part and narrowing to a few feet in places, the eye being lost in its sharp turns. Through

it ran a stream about forty feet wide, with many shallow fords, making a curve about the city and sinking into dangerous quicksands at the western extrem-

ity. The walls of the canyon, two thou-

sand feet high above the city and sink-

ing to seven hundred feet at the western end, had been terraced by floods into huge steps, upon which the ruined cliff houses stood, one row above another. Stairways and ladders were being carved in the rocky walls, giving access to the heights above, although these were now only used by venturesome urchins.

This city was built in a huge circle three thousand feet in diameter, form-

ing, in fact, one continuous structure, with a large open court in the center full

of fruit trees and garden plots. This gigantic tenement contained nearly a

thousand rooms, having in its eastern extremity seven stories of apartments. It was built in a regular and beautiful alternation of large and small square cut stones laid in white mortar, or, more

strictly speaking, gypsum cement. There had been in earlier times no doors or windows upon the ground floor, and the entrance had been effected by ladders, hundreds of which leaned against the walls and protruded from the roofs, but now a few large doorways opened into the fields outside the city. The successive stories were set back, one behind the other, leaving the highest tier a single line of apartments, each

story being reached by short ladders. The houses were three rooms deep, open-

ing on the interior court, and connecting by trapdoors with the rooms below. There were innumerable trapdoors in the roofs, through which the ends of the ladders appeared, pointing in every direction, giving the city the comical aspect of a forest of leaning bean poles. Up the ladders children and even dogs ran with ease and agility. On the western end of the city the houses were only one story in height, imparting to the whole the appearance of an amphitheater or a vast fortress. Within the court, toward the western end, stood the temple, the highest building of all, from the roof of which rose the smoke of the perpetual fire. All about the outskirts, and also within the court, were pleasant gardens and fields cultivated to a high degree by irrigation. In places on the cliffs the terraces had been converted into gardens, walled and faced with neat masonry, and with raised edges to hold water upon the surface, to which the water pipes ran. Through the outer walls of the houses projected for a foot or two the cedar poles forming the floors, and in some instances they were carried out far enough to form balconies, upon which grew trailing plants with great scarlet flowers blazing in the spring sunlight in riotous rivalry of color with the burning cliffs. In this great beehive dwelt two thousand souls, one family above another, the roof of one forming the floor and yard of the next above, the humblest

dwelling in the highest tiers, for the nobles and wealthy citizens, as a matter

of course, were averse to climbing and preferred to be near the ground, where

the opportunities for communion or display were greater.

All this lay before the young priest as he stood and strove with his emotions, and such was the scene that greeted Gil-

bert's eyes in the depths below him when he awoke from slumber.

CHAPTER III. THE FESTIVAL AND THE SACRIFICE. She faced her lover with a confident, tender smile upon her face. The smoke was rising and blowing away in the fresh morning wind from hundreds of round apertures in the roofs as the people of Atzlan prepared their morning meal hurriedly, for they were anxious to be out and preparing for the greatest of their religious festivals. One by one they emerged and clambered quickly down the tall ladders until hundreds of them were gathered about in groups or busily arranging for the ceremonies of the day, gathering fruits and flowers, maize cakes and pinon nuts for the minor sacrifices, and decorating the

interior and front of the court and tem-

ple. To each of the four great phratries or divisions of the inhabitants, according to kinship, was assigned particular du-

ties connected with the festival.

While some were engaged in building and decorating bowers others prepared

food in great quantities, while others arranged for the games and dances which followed the sacrifices. Others were driving the animals devoted to sacrifice into an inclosed field.

Gathered in front of the temple stood a number of priests waiting to form in

the sacred procession and chatting merrily, with frequent jests, among them-

selves. Their white dresses formed a contrast with the brilliant coloring of the costumes of the people, and the red suns embroidered upon their breasts,

the emblem of their holy calling, showed forth the more conspicuously.

Multitudes of little, stunted, wolfish dogs ran in and out between the people's

legs, attesting by frequent howls a plentitude of well aimed kicks. The

houses emptied forth into the square every inmate, for every living soul in the city who was able to move or to be moved was obliged to be present at the sacrifice--and few were loath to witness

the spectacle. Its bloody delights were eagerly awaited and long remembered.

Children were there to be held up to see the rare sight and to have it impressed upon their memories by many a re-

minder in future years, and old women, wagging their heads, told of many a past scene of splendid slaughter, when were killed not one but a dozen beauti-

ful virgins to appease Kinchahau's wrath in times of famine.

Kulcan stood upon the temple roof gazing down upon the scene. The aged Iklapel, weary with his vigil, was slumbering in the warm sunlight, his withered hand resting on the edge of the altar, whose fire seemed dying slowly out. The young priest was not clad in his sacred robes, but wore a long yellow tunic, encircled at the waist by a belt made of turquoise squares set in gold and fastened by a looped serpent. On his head he wore a feather cap, surmounted by an eagle's plume--the totem of his family. His legs were naked, revealing a shapely, muscular development, and his feet were clad in leather shoes or bus-

kins, with heavy heat's leather soles. They were fastened with hold loops over buttons of the same metal. Around his left wrist was coiled a heavy bracelet, modeled like a serpent with raised head--the rattlesnake of the plains and can-yons--a sacred, mysterious emblem of their religion.

He had already acquiesced in the old priests decision and realized the uselessness of opposition. In him there was none of the stuff of the hero who would die defending the woman he loved, nor dared he kill himself with the knife that slew her. No, he would wait--perhaps some miracle might occur. What if Iklapel were wrong after all, and Quetzalcoatl should appear? And, too, it was a question not only of self preservation,

but of his religion, of his priestly order and their fat livings and cherished privileges. Though he loved Ainee with all his heart, yet he questioned, What was one man's love to be set against the interests of a whole priesthood--despise them though he did one and all from the bottom of heart?

Then his thoughts turned in bitter hatred against them, and he felt that he could do no better than to shatter the whole system of lying and deceit, pretense and jugglery. But he was not sure, even were he to die, that such would be the result. In the turmoil of his thoughts, for he was used to little thinking, having heretofore allowed Iklapel to perform that duty for him, he finally resolved to let affairs take their course, weakly hoping against hope that

something would intervene. Skeptical though he was as to his religion, he had still a strong taint of Atzlan superstition inrooted in him, part of his very nature, and the prodigy of the night, as Iklapel related it, certainly signified something at least unusual about to occur.

He made his decision, or allowed it rather to be made for him by the force

of circumstances as well as habit, and awakening the high priest they descend-

ed the trapdoor behind the altar together and attired themselves in their sacred robes. Unlike the continuous encircling building, the temple was not without doors or windows on the ground floor. Its stories were set successively one behind the other, giving the structure somewhat the appearance of a pyramid, each story having a wide terrace or platform completely around it, and stone steps leading to the one above. The second floor was reached on the outside by a graded ascent thirty feet wide, the platform being even wider. Within there were also ladders, as in the other parts of the city.

Upon the top of the temple before the perpetual fire stood an immense effigy of the sun, made of solid and virgin gold, supported by heavy braces of silver, facing toward the east and reflecting the rays of the heavenly luminary in a blaze of blinding splendor. The small square apartment on which it rested was built of cedar, covered externally with alternate plates of gold and silver, the walls within being coated with a white cement composed of gypsum and nearly approaching plaster of parts in composition. As I have said, the temple stood toward the western end of the court, where the houses were lowest and near the canyon walls, the distance therefrom being about sixty feet, so that for the greater part of the day it rested in the cool shadow of the cliffs. At the southwest corner, close to the altar, now stood Iklapel, holding in his hand the pointed tiara, like that of the modern pope, made of the skin of a huge rattlesnake, with the head surmounting

it pointed upward. The placing of the tiara on his head was the signal for the great procession to begin its march.

He had resigned all other duties to the young and vigorous Kulcan, who was already below, busied in arranging the last details of the festival. In the complicated mythology of the Atzlans there were minor gods to be appeased by lesser sacrifices, and these were to be performed in the regular order of the day, leading up into the noonday rite--the sacrifice of a maiden, chosen by lot, be-

fore the altar of Kinchahau.

[TO BE CONTINUED.] Nutmegs are very strong narcotics.