VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1893.

NO. 32.

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 8 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 Entertainments 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, Com-

missioner 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 L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J.

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.

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by con-

tract or day.

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., furnished at short notice. Country and City Resi-

dences 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 sys-

tem; 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 before 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, 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.

FOR RENT--Having very extensive and influential connec-

tions, he has superior advan-

tages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them together, 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 Cassell Publishing company, and published by special arrangement with them.] [CONTINUED.]

The players sat on the floor around a square stone tablet and made wagers upon the odd or even numbers on the dice as they fell out of an oblong box

upon the table. The dicebox had a round opening at each end, and was balanced upon the apex of a prism shaped piece of wood. This permitted the manipulator, Chalpa, to throw the dice out of either end, as he wished. The dice were small cubes of baked clay, num-

bered like modern dice, and the game when played fairly was one of even chances. But, as Gilbert suspected,

Chapa did not play fairly, and his de-

vice, a simple, almost clumsy one, would have been easily detected in a gambling room in any civilized community.

When he wished to cheat he substi-

tuted for the box another, with a parti-

tion dividing it diagonally into two parts, thus: [IMAGE]

There was a set of eleven dice in each compartment, the odd numbers predom-

inating in one side and the even ones in the other, so that he could throw out on the table the proper set to win the

largest of the wagers, as the players placed their money on the odd or even side of the table. He used this false box only in the presence of the more inex-

perienced or intoxicated and therefore careless players, and he was extremely

skillful in the sleight of hand necessary to secrete it quickly under his long white robe.

Kulcan, however, even after he sus-

pected him of cheating, was unable to detect him in the act, for he imagined

that he deftly changed the dice instead of the box, and so when he reported to Eric, after watching Chalpa awhile, he

confessed that he had been mistaken and was unable to explain the operation.

The next day Eric informed Iklapel that he required a thousand taos of sil-

ver and asked him to obtain it for him from the subterranean treasury. The old man readily consented, and requesting Gilbert to accompany him led the way to the room beneath the temple.

[The treasure vault of Atzlan.] He allowed Gilbert a moment to look about him, and went down a steeply inclined and devious passage which, from its many side openings, showed

that there was a labyrinth beneath the city, and which ended in a round chamber, the treasure vault of Atzlan. It was a room fifty feet wide, hewn out of the solid rock. Iklapel held the light aloft, and Eric saw that the floor was covered with heaps of gold ingots, statues and images, vases, bowls and rude ornaments, strange in form and of inesti-

mable value, piled together in rich con-

fusion. Some of the statues were of life size, beautifully modeled, and there were mysteriously shaped objects of ancient ceremonial use; chairs, or rather stools, tables, tripods, urns, platters, cups, braziers, censen, chains, suns, moons, stars, flower work, armlets and anklets, all of solid, heavy material and skillful workmanship.

Along the side of the chamber were ranged three rows of urns filled with

gold dust, a kingly store of itself, that equaled the wildest fantasy of the Ara-

bian story teller and made Eric almost fear that he was dreaming. Among all those treasures Iklapel picked his way, and Gilbert followed him until the old man paused before a heap of silver bars

and lifting several passed them to him, saying:

"Six of these are all that you require. They are worth a thousand taos and more, but we need not be particular.

It is years since these things were touched. We do not have as much need of them as we once had, it seems."

"How long have these treasures been accumulating?" inquired Eric.

"Many thousands of years. In the ancient times we had twenty temples,

and these statues adorned them; the utensils and furniture were used in

them, and the people yearly brought new and rare gifts; but as our race de-

clined they were gathered here, and here they have remained."

"But are they safe here, with no guard?"

"Very safe, indeed, for no one knows except ourselves of their existence or of

this chamber. Of course our people know of the maze of underground pas-

sages, but they fear to penetrate them, and the passage leading to this room is

well concealed, as you observed. But we will return with our burden before

it grows late." The aged priest moved up the dark way with the light, while Gilbert carried the silver ingots.

It was no mean load; they weighed many pounds, and his arms ached when they reached the sacred chamber and climbed up into the daylight. That night Eric went with Kulcan to Chalpa's dwelling for the first and only time, taking the silver with him. They arrived late, and as they entered heard loud and boisterous voices in eager clamor. There were four half drunken priests squatting around the tablet of stone eagerly watching the tilting of the dicebox. Their uproar drowned any noise that Kulcan and Gilbert's entrance had made, and Chalpa, with his back to-

ward the door, did not perceive them as he sat waiting for the bets to be made, a sneering smile upon his face and his hand over the end of the box. He started as Kulcan seated himself at his side saying: "Chalpa, I have come with the thousand taos to once more, and for the last time, test my luck and yours. Remember the agreement--all my losings and my sister against a thousand taos." Chalpa turned pale, stole a scared glance at Eric and faltered. He found himself in a difficult position. He feared Eric most mightily and felt that his methods were suspected if not known to him; but he dared not hesitate, and in a moment he had resolved to allow Kulcan to regain his wealth, or seem to at least, by the same device whereby he had lost it. He smiled and said, with

well assumed heartiness:

"It is well, my Kulcan. I wished to give you an opportunity to recover, if possible, what you had lost. It is a fair bargain."

"Then I wager you now on the odd dice five hundred taos against my sis-

ter!" cried Kulcan, placing three ingots on the tablet. A couple of other players laid wagers also upon the odd side, and Chalpa tilted the box.

One glance showed that Kulcan had won. Chalpa's face was serene, how-

ever, as he replaced the dice, and the young priest again wagered five hundred taos against his lost property. He tilted the box and shot the dice out upon the tablet once more, and Kulcan won again.

He had freed his sister and regained his estates, and now for revenge! With a

look full of meaning into Chalpa's cruel eyes, he cried: "Once more, five hundred against five hundred taos on the even numbers!"

Chalpa did not dare refuse nor did he dare cheat, yet five hundred taos was an immense sum for him, successful though he had been in his operations. He felt Gilbert's keen searching gaze upon him,

and he feared to look up. His nervous fingers shook the box, and the dice rat-

tled. "Come," cried Kulcan. "You do not fear the test now. You have taken the same wager before from me!" "I fear nothing," the gambler answered. "I take the bet!" The other players also placed smaller sums upon the board on the even side, and the trickster tipped the box. The eleven clay cubes rolled across the stone with a clinking rattle, and the eager eyes counted quickly. Kulcan had again won. Chalpa had lost the fruits of several years of swindling and usury.

Gilbert had seen that the odd dice had come from the left and the even ones from the right end of the dicebox and formed his conclusions, but he refrained from announcing his discovery, or rather his suspicions, and when Chalpa had made over to Kulcan the sum of his winnings they withdrew, followed by the other players, who were delighted with Kulcan's good fortune. Chalpa, on being left alone, threw himself upon the floor in a savage frenzy of rage and despair, and then and there resolved to kill not only Kulcan and Gilbert, but old Iklapel, for he knew the secret of the treasure vault and surmised how the silver had been obtained. Although he would have feared to touch it himself, he realized that Iklapel would give it willingly to Eric for any purpose, and he saw all of his hopes and plans vanish into air with a heart so full of bitter hate that he could not rest, but wandered in the canyon until nearly dawn. When he came home he had perfected a scheme of revenge diabolical in its ingenuity and hellish in its completeness, to which, from that day forth, he devoted all his thoughts and his tireless, sleepless, unresting energies.

But Gilbert did not suspect this feeling, although he observed that Chalpa was endeavoring to gain his liking by a careful attention, but he suspected some purpose much less serious. However, he did not allow it to disturb him, and his thoughts at this time were too full of work and plans to admit of much else. More than a year and a half had passed since his arrival, and in the last few months he had done much work. He had thrown a strong dam across the stream, built a stone mill, amade the machinery for it in the old German method of wood and silver, and was almost ready to turn the water into the sluiceway upon the silent wheel. But a few details remained to perfect the mechanism and astonish the Atzlans by the sight of the river grinding their corn. He had established the knowledge and art of glazing pottery, the making of candles; he had improved the looms and added modern devices, perfected their stills, taught them how to preserve fruits, smoke their meats, and in a hundred other ways effected great changes and found the people eager to adopt labor saving methods. But he wished to make still greater changes. He had found in some of the strata of the canyon walls iron in great plenty, and he was so constantly hampered by the need of this indispensable metal that he had begun the erection of a furnace and ordered the extraction of a large amount of ore. The supervising of these operations completely filled his days with arduous labor. He had commenced his furnace with modest ideas, intending to smelt his iron in the crude manner which Livingstone found the natives using in Central Africa--in simple conical clay furnaces with rude bellows, but producing iron of such a superior quality that the savages refused to use the English metal, alleging that it was rotten. But his ideas had expanded, and he had erected a stone structure with a complicated blasting apparatus that filled him with great hopes as he watched it nearing completion and made him eager as a boy to see it in full and perfect operation.

Lela would come to him and find him so occupied and intent upon his duties that sometimes he feared she would think him cold and neglectful, and she so tenderly fearful of disturbing of annoying him that the feeling showed in her face as she hovered about him. At these times he would look into her eyes with such deep, earnest devotion that she would creep up to him, wind her arms about his neck, with ardently worshiping eyes and clinging kisses, for a few moments and then say demurely: "Oh, I must not bother my darling. He is so busy, my great minded hero," and make a motion as if to leave. Then they would waste a half hour more in loving dalliance, when she would suddenly assume an air of stern displeasure and big him to go to work while she attended to her duties. These moments came often, too, during the summer days, when only his assitants in all Atzlan were busy and at work, and they mad ethe hours of self imposed toil shorter and pleasanter. She took the fondest interest in everything he did, and she had, too, many plans of her own for the education and advancement of her sex in Atzlan, which were the outcome of her love and the knowledge obtained from Eric. Her aptitude for learning amazed him at times; it seemed so phenomenal in one whose life had been passed in such an environment. But in truth the Atzlan mind was in some such state as was the pagan world at the time of Christ. Like children the Atzlans listened, believing all that they heard, and desirous to emulate the people who had learned so much they watched all of Gilbert's enterprises with vague wonder and huge expectancy. Upon the day that Gilbert was to start the machinery of the mill the entire populace gathered at the riverside. In all the vast crowd standing there waiting there was not one incredulous observer, not one skeptical doubter of the success of the project, as there would have been in any other city on earth perhaps, but every man felt confident that its success was assured. They were there not to test nor criticise, but to see the triumphant beginning of a new era.

Gilbert did not feel the usual tremors of the inventor thrill his frame before

this audience, for he knew that if the machinery failed to respond to the wa-

ter's power the people would not be disappointed or doubtful; their ignorance of mechanics assured that, and any explanation would have sufficed them.

But to make it certain he had tested it the evening before and knew that every-

thing would work to his satisfaction, and he mounted the stone steps leading to the sluiceway with a confident smile, accompanied by Lela, Iklapel, Kulcan, and several of the principal citizens.

Standing there beside the water gate, with his hand upon the long wooden bar which raised it, he turned to the multitude of upturned faces and said:

"My brothers, when I lift this gate you will begin to live in a new age. The past will be no longer with you. It will do in one day more than all your women, and they will rest and teach your children. We will make the river weave our clouth and water our fields and do other things for us in times to come. In the land from whence I come the elements are bound to our service and they toil for us night and day.

And so they shall toil for you, for we shall go on and on until we have here in

our city all that other lands have to make life pleasant and toil less arduous."

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

A Seasonable Joke.

"The days are growing shorter," ob-

served Mr. Clamwhooper to his family, Friday morning.

"Yes, I have noticed it," interrupted the aunt.

"They are half a minute shorter," add-

ed Mr. Clamwhooper in the same tone of voice.

As no reply was needed to this the aunt made none.--Texas Siftings.

French archaeologists are going to England to study her antiquities. The members of the French Archaeological society intend to visit Dover, Battle Ab-

bey and Hastings in order to discuss the Norman conquest of England.