VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1894.

NO. 43.

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 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. P. SCIPLE & CO., DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty, DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS, Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 413 MARKET ST., CAMDEN.

Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage.

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

WM. E. KERN. Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Steelmanville, N. J. Special attention given to complicated surveys.

OWEN H. KUDER, 408 Seventh Street, (near Asbury Avenue) BOOT and SHOE MAKER REPAIRING NEATLY DONE.

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, 3646 North Broad Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Will practice at Ocean City during the months of June, July and August.

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

DR. CHAS. E. EDWARDS, DENTIST, Room 12, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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. 708 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Wedding Cakes a specialty. Goods delivered free of charge. Nothing delivered on Sunday.

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. GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day. 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 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 system; new electric street railroad; electric lights; new hotels; new cottages; new tenants and new guests; everything 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, intimately associated with all its history and identified with all its history and identified with every step of its progress and the history 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 connections, he has superior advantages 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.

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 & PALEN,

of 1529 Arch street, Philadelphia, have dispensed Compound Oxygen Treat-

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The original Compound Oxygen made by this firm is pure, comparatively de-

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One of the beauties of using this treatment is that you take no medicine

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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, and 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. R. W. Wheeler. Jasper, New York.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa.

About a year ago I was suffering from overwork and consequent exhaustion. I used your Compound Oxygen Treatment with good results.

I never had anything to clear up my head better and put me in better shape than your Compound Oxygen Treatment. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Irwin, Pa.

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 won-

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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 abscess; 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 I could have asked. I have recommended it to several others, who have tried it and been benefited. I recommended it with the greatest confidence. Mrs. Rev. H. W. Kavanaugh. Frankfort, Ky. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. My mother used your Compound Oxygen Treatment for Hay Fever; she has not been troubled with it since. Albert Gifford. Valley Falls, N. J. 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 seven months since I received the first Treatment for my son's use, and he has not had symptoms of 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 in this climate. Mrs. E. A. Porter. Sedgwick, Mo. 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 proven 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. Frances E. Willard says of it: "We are warmly friendly to this movement and believe it to be doing great good." Such papers commend as Union Signal, W. C. T. U. organ; Watch Tower, Illinois State W. C. T. U. organ; Chicago Inter-Ocean and Chicago

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 evidences 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. Walter 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 reduced rates, taking their obligations to repay the fund in

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cants, and they are as pleased as we are to be in-

terviewed regarding it.

Our cure is safe, swift and sure. We don't take whiskey from a man. We place it before him and defy him to drink and he begs us to take it away after a few days. We cure the disease upon scientific principles by taking away the appetite without impairing one at all or incurring any risk. Any subscription received will be placed to the credit of the Temperance Extension Fund and appropriately applied where most needed.

DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE LEGEND OF EVIL. This is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight falls, And the monkeys walk together Holding each other's tails: "Our fathers lived in the forest; Foolish people were they. They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to play. "Our fathers frisked in the millet, Our fathers skipped in the wheat, Our fathers hung in the branches, Our fathers danced in the street. "Then came the terrible farmers. Nothing of play they knew. Only they caught our fathers And set them to labor too! "Set them to work in the cornland, With plows and sickles and flails; Put them in mudwalled prisons And cut off their beautiful tails! "Now we can watch our fathers, Sullen and bowed and old, Stooping over the millet, Stirring the silly mold. "Driving a foolish furrow, Mending a muddy yoke, Sleeping in mudwalled prisons, Steeping their food in smoke. "We may not speak to our fathers, For if the farmers knew They would come up to the forest And set us to labor too!" This is the horrible story Told as the twilight falls, As the monkeys walk together Holding each other's tails.

--Rudyard Kipling.

DEPUTY CHAUVIN.

Elected From His Tonsorial Establishment to the French Chamber. M. Chauvin, elected to the French chamber for the Seine district, abandoned the mines at the age of 16. He became a hairdresser and had the distinction of running his comb and his curling irons through the locks of the prettiest members of the Theatre Francais. Politically, he is a revolutionary Socialist, a speaker at public meetings and a sworn enemy of the employment bureau. These characteristics commended him to the suffrage of the electors for

the suburb of Puteaux (the Fifth) dis-

trict of St. Denis. To all who have reproached him with his too ardent advocacy of the workingman he has replied: "Well, what would you have me do? Because of my ideas all my patrons leave me, and I must go into some other business." Why should he not go into parliament? His trade makes him a contemporaneous Figaro, a political Figaro adapted as Beaumarchais would picture were he living today. We have seen M.

Chavin at home in Paris, in his shop in the Rue des Archives, Marais. He was not aware that a perfidious journalist

under the guise of a client was watching him. Consequently we have been able to observe him at our ease in the exercise of his profession when he had no motive for "posing."

He is about 34 years old, but looks hardly 30, tall, slight and almost dis-

tingue, with regular features, a straight nose, a dark complexion, brown hair, well combed and brushed, and a small mustache with the ends pointed. But the line of his brow and his keen expression bespeak latent energy. "Short? Very well. Quite correct." He wears a

white apron, just like Figaro, but not in a mercenary or servile way, but like a

surgeon. No chatter, no gossip. He keeps this probably for meetings. Assist-

ed by two "artists," he operates himself in his comfortable "salon," hung with

Robert Fisherred paper. "Praised by some, blamed by others, braving the wicked, the butt of everybody," shaving the bourgeois and having no appearance of desiring to

cut their throats. Perhaps he will some day find out that wielding the razor is more profitable than empty honors.

Has he also, like the barber of Seville, literary and artistic tastes? Many en-

gravings ornament his salon, among oth-

ers portraits of Beranger Dejazet.--Paris Illustre.

The Battle of the Waves. Of all the Swiss lakes the lake of Lucerne has the most irregular shape, its

many bays running north to south, east to west. Owing to these windings it is often exposed to violent storms, but while in one bay the waters may be lashed into perfect fury in an adjoining bay not a ripple will disturb the surface.

Thus, when a strong south wind blows down the bay of Uri, the very same wind, turned from its course by the mountains, comes from the west from the bay of Buochs.

There is a point just opposite Brunnen, where the two sets of waves meet, and then a terrific contest ensues for mastery. At such a moment the spray is driven into the air in vast sheets to a height of 50 feet or more.

While the battle rages there may be seen under the shelter of the promontory at Treib several of the lake streamers and a whole fleet of fishing and small boats waiting for the tempest to pass. So violent is the motion that even on large steamers cases of "sea" sickness are not unusual. The experiences gained in facing such dangers have made the boatmen of the lake famous from the earliest times.--New York Journal. Hortensius, the Roman orator, had a memory so wonderful that on a wager he spent a whole day at an auction, and at night repeated all the sales, the prices and the names of the buyers.

An American "peerage" has been late-

ly published. It includes Amer-

ican ladies from Timbuctoo to Paris, and, better still, appends a list of unmarried scions of the British nobility.

Ants Bigger Than Foxes.

Pliny, that rare old gossiper, tells, among his other extraordinary stories,

that of the Bactrian method of obtaining gold. The sandy deserts of Bactria in

the days of that historian were, so the old man says, literally swarming with ants "slightly larger than foxes." These gigantic representatives of the genus hymenoptera burrowed deeply into the sandy wastes, their tunnels and galleries often being hundreds of feet in extent. The earth removed from these burrows was always carried to the outside and thrown up in hills (remember Pliny says this) "of a bigness exceeding that of a palace." The debris, sand, earth, etc., was soon found to be wonderfully rich in small nuggets of gold. The danger from the ants was greater, however, than that from the Indians in the early days of gold digging in the western United States, and many stories are told of men who were literally devoured in a few moments by the fierce owners of some disturbed burrow. Some observing old hunter at last discovered that the giant ants slept during the hottest hours of the day. After that the seekers after the yellow metal only made their incursions at the proper time, and even then they only staid long enough in the deserts to fill their sacks with the golden sand, which they took home to sift at leisure. With all this precaution the ants often "swiftly pursued the fleetest horses, and it was only by using various stratagems that the invaders managed to escape alive."--St. Louis Republic.

Marie Antoinette's Main Refuge.

There is a building in Edgecomb, an old square, white house, concerning which an interesting story is told. This tradition is that at the time of the French revolution Captain Samuel Clough, the owner of the house, who sailed a ship between Maine and France, was engaged to bring this country no less valuable treasure than the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette, and that quantities of rich stuffs, furniture and silver were put aboard his ship for the use of the exile, whose destination was to have been this same house, which then stood in Westport, it having been removed to the mainland on a raft 60 years ago. It is yet occupied by Captain Clough's descendants. One circumstance which leads confirmation to the story is that a similar legend attaches to a house in Dorchester, Mass., the famous Swan mansion, then owned by Colonel Swan, who spent much of his time in Paris, but who settled permanently in this country after the French revolution, his house being adorned in princely fashion. Now, Captain Clough and Colonel Swan had money dealings together in Paris, Captain Clough in 1794 having had a contract to purchase $50,000 worth of lumber for the colonel. What more likely than that Colonel Swan, who was a warm friend of Lafayette, should have engaged the Maine Captain to aid him in a plan of such great importance as the attempted rescue of the French queen, with which he is credited?--Lewiston Journal.

The Status of Cotton. In 1887 there was $5,414,400 invested in cotton mills in the Palmetto state. Today there is probably $12,000,000 invested. Capital has been freely invested in cotton mills and with very rare exceptions has proved to be in the highest class of investment. The day of cotton mills has come, and the increase is growing as steadily as the people of the state are becoming convinced that the cotton ought to be manufactured where it is grown. If the present pace be kept up, it will not be long before there will be a cotton mill in every county. Figures, however, speak louder than anything else, and the remarkable growth of the cotton mill industry in recent years is shown by the following record of capital invested: 1880.............................$2,776,100 1884, Jan. 1....................4,595,900 1888, Jan. 1....................5,414,400 1892, Oct. 1..................11,141,833 1893, to date.................12,000,000 --Retailer and Jobber. Didn't Know the Governor. A distinguished person of modest appearance called at one of our public institutions the other day on official business. He was admitted by the lady in charge. He desired to see the superintendent. "He is very busy," she replied, "and I don't think he can see you. He is talking with the governor of New Hampshire or some other state, and he has no time to see a book agent, but I'll give him your name."

"Tell him that Governor Morris would like to speak to him a moment on very important business," was the quiet reply in a dignified manner.

"I b-e-g your p-a-r-d-o-n. Are you Governor Morris?" "That is my name," the governor replied and soon all due official recogni-

tion was tendered.--Hartford Courant.

We Are Hard Workers. The following figures regarding the standard number of working days per annum in different countries appeared in a Polish paper: The inhabitants of central Russia labor fewest days in the year--namely, 267. Then comes Canada with 270, followed by Scotland with 275, England 275, Portugal 283, Russian Poland 288, Span 290, Austria and the Russian Baltic provinces 295, Italy 298, Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil and Luxemberg 300, Saxony, France, Finland, Wurtemburg, Switzerland, Denark and Norway 302, Sweden 304, Prussia

and Ireland 305, United States 306, Holland 308 and Hungary 313.

Preachers and Whiskers. Whiskers was the chief subject of discussion at a rather informal meeting of the Ministers' alliance yesterday morning. When Dr. Armstrong appeared with a freshly shaven upper lip and a face as devoid of hirsute adornment as a new born babe's, the subject was found, and he was promptly called upon to address the alliance upon the "Rise and Fall of the Mustache." Dr. Armstrong told how he had cut off his mustache and nearly scared his little ones to death. Upon being questioned he admitted that the operation was performed late Sunday night, but that it was done for the good of his congregation and for the improvement of his voice. He wanted the word of God to proceed from the mouth clear and plain and distinct, unhindered by any obstruction. He closed his remarks by saying that he had sacrificed his beauty for the benefit of his congregation, and that he was aware that the more his face was covered the better looking he was. Dr. Tigert responded with a fervent "That's so," and Dr. Armstrong came back at him by saying he had already been mistaken for Dr. Tigert. Dr. Haley said he thought all ministers should either be smooth shaven or wear a full beard. The doctor himself supports a very luxuriant beard, slightly tinged with gray, and it was thought that his opinion might therefore be biased. He urged all young ministers to shun the alluring mustache unless backed up with a crop of chin whiskers. A mustache, he said, looked unclerical.--Kansas City Times.

The Blacklist of Paris Tailors. In Paris the Tailors' syndicate is preparing a new edition of their blackbook, which was originally published 17 years ago. The blackbook contains the names and descriptions of those persons who do not pay for their clothing. Once a man is inscribed in it he is unable to obtain clothing at any establishment unless he is prepared to pay cash before delivery. The work in question contains a number of curious details with regard to the delinquents abhorred of tailordom. Among them are 254 tradesmen and only 1 concierge; 185 commercial travelers to 2 priests and 2 antiquaries; 94 students to 3 translators, 3 hairdressers, 3 waiters and 3 house painters; 81 publicans, and, curiously enough, precisely the same number of journalists and men of letters; 72 professors, 50 engineers, 45 artists, 40 actors, 40 servants or waiters, 37 doctors, 27 jewelers, 24 workingmen, 16 musicians, 14 persons of independent means, 12 bookmakers, 7 sculptors, 1 Egyptologist, 1 ex-mayor and 1 "negro." Even as it is, with the aid of the information given in this book, it is said that the Parisian tailors are cheated out of from 3 to 5 per cent. of the money due to them.--Paris Letter.

Americans Not Favored In London. According to our neighbors, the French, we English are a perfidious race. Whether this opinion with regard to us is justified or not in the main, the American colony has some ground now to reproach us for being capricious. It is only a year ago that it seemed sufficient to claim American citizenship for a section of London society to offer effusive welcome to even the most outrageous adventurers from the United States. The tide has turned, and the American colony appears to be in as much disfavor at present as it was the reverse only a little while ago. It was noticed last season that the American colony was no longer so prominent as it was formerly. The short season which ended at Homburg on Saturday last has brought this change out into even bolder relief. A they say in the money market, "there has been a great fall in Americans." At Homburg this year these democratic idolators of royalty have been left severely alone.--London Truth.

Archduchess Rainier's Pearls. The Archduchess Rainier possesses some pearls of unusual beauty, but which some time ago showed signs of losing their brilliancy. They were what the experts call "ill," and as the only cure, the pearls will have to be again submerged in their original element and remain in the sea for several years. For this purpose divers have built a sort of cage of rocks in the Adriatic sea, opposite the chateau of Miramar, in which receptacle the pearls will be put for their long bath.--Florence Correspondent.

She Got a Seat. A young woman who is a pewholder in the cathedral was refused admittance to her seat last Wednesday by another woman who was occupying a portion of the pew, and who said that she was reserving the other part for some friends. The owner stepped into the next seat, and from there over the back of the seat into her own pew.--Buffalo Courier.

Unfeeling. Old Lady (in tears, to chemist)--Wi--will you poison my dear lit--little Fido? He's in such agony! Chemist (politely)--With pleasure, madam. Old Lady (indignantly)--With pleasure, you nasty, unfeeling man! Then you shan't do it!--London Tit-Bits.

A Better Authority. "Good morning, friend. How do you feel?" "Very poorly." "But your wife told me just now that you were quite well!" "Indeed? Then it must be so, for she always knows better than I do."--Kiberi.