VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1894.

NO. 44.

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. M. 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 at 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. Orders 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, specifi-

cations 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., furnished 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 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, 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 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. Occa-

sionally 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

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Such papers commend as Union Signal, W. C. T. U. organ; Watch Tower, Illinois State W. C.

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A PERFECT SUMMER. They say the sun as brightly shines as in the years agone; They say the grass is just as green out on the shady lawn, And that the birds as sweetly sing up in the waving leaves As when we sat together, dear, among the golden sheaves. It may be so. The bees are humming, And the smell of the clover is rare and sweet; But mem'ry's fingers at my heartstrings thrumming Wake a song of a joy that was too fleet. The glowing sunshine grows pale around me; The grass is faded, the bird song faint; I catch not the charm of the scenes that surround me, For thy voice answers not to my heart's lone paint. The change is not in the sun's bright shining, The song of the birds, the hum of the bees; For the charm of that old time was not in reclining In the lap of summer beneath the green trees. I love the bright sunshine, the birds sweetly singing, As I sit alone 'neath the old apple tree; But I wait with fond longing, to dear hopes close clinging, That each summer time brings me nearer to thee. For the rhythm in the melody of that happy measure Was the sound of thy voice, to me more than dear, And ne'er can life's music so thrill me with pleasure Till thy murmuring tones fall again on my ear. So I trustingly yearn for a happy home coming, A heaven made perfect by thy presence so rare; For through the Elysium 'twould be weary, lone roaming If thou wert not with me its glories to share. L. A. CONES.

STRANGE SOUNDS. GUNS OF BURRISAUL AND OTHER MYSTIFYING PHENOMENA.

Noises Made by Natural Causes For Which No Explanation Has Ever Been Found. Famous Sounds in Various Parts of the Earth Have Scared Many.

Of strange sounds which probably depend on meteorological or other natural causes, one of the most remarkable has long been known as "the guns of Bur-

risaul," but though its causes have long been debated no accurate explanation has been given, so far as we are aware, that is thoroughly satisfactory. The Sunderbunds--as the delta of the Ganges in native dialect is called--is covered with a vast and luxuriant jungle of marshy vegetation. One of the stations is named Burrisaul. From here, in the rainy season, have long been heard mysterious sounds resembling the discharge of artillery, and therefore popularly named "the guns of Burrisaul."

Only heard in the rainy season and from the southward, they have been heard 100 miles off, yet on the coast itself they appear still farther south. The sounds resemble the booming of a cannon.

Mussulman and Hindoo superstitions have each associated the sounds with their religious traditions. Others have thought the sounds were produced by the breaking of the sea on an island in the bay of Bengal. But where? That some atmospheric or meteorological cause is the explanation is all that can be said after hearing all arguments.

A much humbler yet ancient instance of great local interest used to exist, we believe, at Baddeley, in the New forest, in the shape of a groaning tree. Whether it still lives and groans we are uncertain, but it is said to have uttered mysterious and lugubrious sounds at certain times, probably dependent on wind or weather, but full of omen and import to past generations. Indeed in the various mysteries which, despite fin de siecle acuteness, still surround us, eerie noises have always played a most conspicuous part, whether out of doors or within ancient houses. Instances of the latter, indeed, abound. Some of the most thrill-

ing of inexplicable ghost stories turn not on anything which has appalled the eyes, but has "distilled horror" through the ears. It is, we believe, in East An-

glia that the shrieks heard from time to time round certain pits have been a tradition in which a female phantom has part.

The "drummer of Tedworth's" phantom sounds are so well known from Aubrey and more modern describers as only to need allusion, but we may here say that, according to a communication in a popular periodical some few years back, similar sounds had recently, com-

paratively speaking, been heard in the locality, and by people of most practical disposition. These may be called phantom sounds. Returning again to those which hover on the border line between the natural and inexplicable, there is the wild strain as of weird music which has been heard aboard ships when getting within the circle of a Mozambique cyclone. One of the same kind, formerly mysterious and thrilling enough, has been resolved into a natural one. Early travelers through the primeval forests of Brazil--still among the few unexplored places of the globe--were astonished and awed to hear the distant resonant sound of a bell pealing from the depths of the woods, which certainly had no building and for ages had known no human footstep. Many a legend was woven round the strange sound. Ultimately it was discovered to be the note of the bell bird. There are, however, few mysterious sounds which have been as satisfactorily explained as this. For instance, there is the legend of the sounds heard at times on the plains of Marathon, the clash of weapons, the snorting of horses, the "shouting of the slayers and screeching of the slain," which recall to memory the famous battle that lives so much more vividly than many modern ones in the history of the world. Of course there are many instances of sounds which, at first mysterious, become so really from the distance over which they traveled, but these must be distinguished from those which are our theme. One of the most interesting examples rests on the authority of the late Sir Edmund Head, who remembered when a boy going to church on the famous "Waterloo Sunday," June 18, 1815, at Hythe, in Kent. His father and he, on arriving at the church at 11 a. m., found to their surprise the congregation outside listening intently to a faint sound as of distant cannon coming from the east. Afterward it was ascertained that Napoleon having, on the (for him) unfortunate advice of his artillery officers, who pleaded the state of the ground, waited till 11 to commence his fire, the first French gun was fired as the Nivelles church clock struck 11. Nor was Hythe the only place where the French cannon were heard in England. Here, however, is fact dependent on the by no means remarkable axiom that sound under certain conditions travels enormous distances. But the sounds of which we speak for the most part have puzzled all who have attempted to explain them and lie indeed in that vague region which is inexplicable. Such is the sound of the "Airlie drum," such are the wailing of the banshee in some parts of Ireland.--New York Post. Japan's Land Tax. The land tax is a continual grievance in Japan. In Mitford's "Tales of Old Japan" is related the story of Sakura, who met his death in the seventeenth century by his resolution in bringing before the shogun in person the grievances of his fellow agriculturalists, oppressed by their feudal lord. Unable to obtain redress from any subordinate authority, he concealed himself beneath a bridge over which the shogun's procession must inevitably pass, and climbing out at the crucial moment thrust his memorial at the end of a bamboo stick into the dictator's litter. This was a capital offense, and even handed justice punished the oppressors, but executed the complainant. An Englishman traveling lately in the part of the country inhabited by this Japanese tribune found his tomb and a temple erected to his memory, which has been highly honored of late years. The visitor pointed out that Sakura had been crucified for complaining of the rent. "Yes," said the malcontent farmers, "but the rent was decreased. They don't crucify us now, but they don't lower the tax." "Everything," continues the observer, "was the fault of the government --if it rained, the dams burst, if there was a blight. It was all in consequence of a land tax."--Nineteenth Century.

Servants' Cockades in England. One of the officials of the College of Arms estimated that upward of 75 per cent of those using the cockade on the hats of their servants did so without an atom of right, and he branded this assumption, like all other assumptions, as alike unmeaning, ridiculous and contemptible in the highest degree. The following may lead many to discriminate between those who rightly and those who wrongly use such distinction: The cockade is the symbol of immediate service to the crown, and in the hats of servants actually means this: "I serve one, who now serves the queen." All naval and military officers, therefore, while in or holding commission, all holding offices by patent, her majesty's lieutenants of counties, the county sheriffs while exercising their office, government ministers, judges, queen's counsel and others holding distinct offices under the sovereign of in the great public departments of the state are entitled to use it. It has also been laid down that officers and others on their retirement from immediate crown service should cease cockade use.--London Correspondent.

A Kick From Boston Boys. The boys in the city proper are finding fault because in picking out streets on which coasting will be allowed this winter the aldermen did not pick out more streets that are tipped up at one end. This is on the dead level, like nearly all the streets named in the published list.

All men who have been boys once like to see boys coasting. Any bitter old cynic who complains against this sport was always a bitter old cynic and was never a boy himself. At the same time

boys should not coast where they endanger their own safety or the safety of others.--Boston Globe.

Horace Greeley's Title. Some more letters of Horace Greeley have just been published. They are good examples of his directness and force. This is one which he wrote to Theodore Tilton: Your paper last week says that I objected to the brief "Hon." while a member of congress. I did not. I submitted to that handle for convenience sake. But when I left congress, my term having expired, I did ask that I should be henceforth called by the name my parents gave me. I don't want to figure before the public, but you may some time have a chance to set this right. Yours, H. GREELEY.

The gold mines of Peru were so rich that Atahuallpa, to buy his ransom, filled a room 22 by 17 feet to a height of 9 feet with golden vessels. When melted they produced $15,480,710 of gold.

GREAT YEAR FOR MOSQUITOES.

It's the Female Birds That Make All the Trouble, Says One Expert.

"Mosquitoes? Well, I should say so," exclaimed genial Captain Veazey of the

steamer Enoch Pratt. He had been asked if this was a good season for the birds. "Why, there are billions of them down

in the tidewater counties of Maryland and Virginia. We caught it at Deal's island recently. There was a land breeze, and the mosquitoes swarmed about the boat. Every one was lean and hungry and seemed to want a square meal, and from the way we felt when we got away they must have got it. They are bad in Somerset. I've got a farm four miles from Princess Anne and wanted to go up and see if my wheat had been harvested properly, but was afraid of the mosquitoes. I haven't been yet." Just why the mosquitoes are so numerous this year no one seems to know. A great many persons attribute the increase to the warm, wet spring, while others say the mosquitoes are just like peaches--after two or three years in which they are comparatively scarce there will be a tremendous crop. This was the view taken by a party of steamboat men who sat on one of the wharves along Light street yesterday and grumbled about the hot weather. A mosquito which had just arrived on one of the party and was getting his or rather her dinner when she was killed by a victorious swipe of her victim. "There's another 'skeeter' done for," remarked the murderer, with satisfaction. "He won't bother anybody else in this yere vale o' tears."

"She, not here," corrected another. "Don't you know that a he 'skeeter' never bothers anybody? It's the females that make all the trouble in this world, and that applies to 'skeeters' just the same as it does to women. If all 'skeeters' were hes we wouldn't have any trouble from them, just the same as if all human beings were men we'd have things more quiet and peacefullike. A he 'skeeter' doesn't live long. Go down along the water in the spring and you will see billions and billions of them, 'woolly heads,' we call them. But you can get right in among them and have them so thick around you that you can't see through them, and you will not be bitten. They only live long enough to provide for the next season's crops, and then they die, leaving the she 'skeeters' to make mankind miserable till cold weather comes."--Baltimore Sun.

The Importance of Good Cooking.

A good cook is a treasure a mistress rarely wishes to offend. How often does one hear a woman say something like the following, after recounting faults of a most serious character on the part of her cook: "Still I cannot afford to part with her, for she is a far better cook than I can get elsewhere. She satisfies my husband better than any we have had, and you know how difficult he is to please. There is no peace if his dinner does not please him." "If a woman is at the mercy of the cook, and she is not good," as a writer I have already quoted has remarked, "her table will soon become intolerable. Bad soup, soft and flabby fish, meat burned outside and raw within--the husband will soon fly from the Barmecide feast and take refuge in his club, where he will not only find food that he can digest, but at the same time fly from the domestic discord that usually accompanies ill cooked victuals at home." Bad cookery may seem a small thing in comparison with other evils, but the results are as dire as those that followed the proverbial lost nail in the horse's shoe--wasted incomes, impaired health, drinking habits, family discord. Bad cookery, more often than not, causes "the little rit within the lute" which by and by makes the music of married life mute. "Whom God hath joined in matrimony ill cooked joints and ill cooked potatoes have often put asunder."--Nineteenth Century.

A Pinch of Dust. The dangers that lurk unseen in the air form the subject of an essay by M. de Nansouty on "The Atmosphere of Large Towns and Micrography." He points out the increased pollution of the air in Paris from the factories worked by steam machinery and remarks that vapors which contain sulphur are specially disastrous to the lungs, since the sulphur which they contain is transformed into sulphurous acid and then into sulphuric acid, which falls back to the earth with the rain and fog. An analysis of dust particles reveals that a remarkable collection of diverse objects may be absorbed at every breath in the street of a large city--silex, chalk, plaster, pulverized rock, charcoal, hairs, fibers, vegetable refuse, starch, pollen celles, etc. A specimen of dust collected from furniture on the third floor of a street in Rennes contained all this and nearly 3,000,000 bacteria in addition. A gram of dust (about 15 grains) in movement in the streets includes about 100,000 bacteria. The dust of houses, then, is far more dangerous. M. de Nansouty concludes that it is of incalculable importance to devote incessant attention to the number, quantity and nature of those microscopic beings which surround us.--London Hospital.

A Siamese Ceremony.

The removal of the topknot of a Sia-

mese prince, which indicates that he has reached manhood, is accompanied by imiposing ceremonies which last several days. The governors of all the provinces are expected to be present with gifts.--Philadelphia Press.