VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1894.

NO. 45.

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 for 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 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 Street 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 bay.

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 re-

ceive 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 rail-

road; 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 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 extensive 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.

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EFFECT ON FARMING. WHAT A RESUME INSPIRED BY THE PRESENT CRISIS REVEALS.

The Value of Farm Products Has Had a Rapidly Declining Tendency Since 1870. Looking For the Causes of This Very Unsatisfactory Condition.

When by reason of unfavorable conditions nearly half of the population is deprived in whole or in part of its power to purchase of the products of those en-

gaged in manufacturing industries, the whole commercial and industrial world suffers from paralysis; the exchanges become deranged; hoarding ensues;

monetary stringency follows; mills, fac-

tories and furnaces close; operatives, ceasing to earn, lose their power to pur-

chase the products of their own labor as well as the labor of others, and the circle of declining activity constantly widens.

Such are the conditions now exist-

ing, and they are largely if not almost wholly due primarily to the loss of the power on the part of some 45 per cent of the people to purchase other than the veriest necessaries.

On the other hand, whenever this great multitude of people have large revenues, their purchases are of such volume and the character and quantity bought so constant that manufacturing plants are fully employed, and new ones are built to meet augmenting demands.

The mill owner buys raw material in ad-

vance of consumption; operatives and artisans have constant work; the wage

scale being an ascending one, the ability of the worker to buy the products of his own labor and the labor of others is enhanced; money seeks employment

with confidence; the merchant's stock rapidly disappears and is constantly replenished; collections are easy, and, in short, labor is fully employed, manufacturers are overrun with orders, money is abundant and times are good.

As the prices of farm products have fallen, so has declined the purchasing power of that body of producers constituting nearly half of the working force of the nation, and so has waned the prosperity of all.

At the taking of census of 1870 52 per cent of all the males following regular vocations were engaged in agricul-

ture, and this was approximately the proportion of the people living upon the

farm, but by 1880, owing to the growth of manufactures, the proportion had been reduced below 49 per cent and is now probably about 45 per cent.

After the close of the civil war farm products brought such prices that the 52 per cent of the population then directly dependent upon agriculture had ample revenue. Their purchases of the products of manufacture were so liberal that many establishments ran night and day.

The mill owner, the producer of raw material, the merchant and all those engaged directly and indirectly in distribution or construction, as well as those employed in the subsidiary industries, were fully employed at remunera-

tive rates, the result being an era of prosperity never equaled in our history, as neither before nor since have those prices for farm products been equaled.

As the power of the farmer to buy de-

clined, so has declined measurably the activity of the industrial and commer-

cial world, except as an impulse has been given to commerce and manufactures by the construction of an immense railway mileage, often in advance and excess of local needs. While the de-

velopment of transportation facilities served to mask and postpone some of the inevitable results due to the farm-

er's loss of purchasing power, the almost entire cessation of such works tends to emphasize the loss of power, which

the farmer exercised in such a way as to cause a rapid extension of the industrial equipment of the country, until it has become more than sufficient to meet de-

mands reduced by reason of the loss of revenue suffered by the greatest body of workers in the country.

The nation is likely never again to have its economic conditions hidden by a factitious prosperity growing out of

great railway constructions, as such operations are no longer possible, there being no region, except very limited

southern areas, where expenditures could be made to appear as promising returns to tempt the possessors of available funds.

For more than 15 years--1878 to 1893--all the great primary agricultural sta-

ples have been declining in price, al-

though there have been periods when the price of some one was high for a limited time. This is more notably true as respects secondary products, especially meats and lard, but the trend of the whole scale has been constantly down-

ward, and the general price level at the end of each year was lower than at its beginning.

While the cost of production cannot have been lessened as much as 5 per cent since 1875, prices for the staple product of the farm averaged 82 per cent greater during the five years ending with 1875 than now. This is especially

true as respects the five staples corn, wheat, oats, hay and cotton, which em-

ploy 105,000,000 out of the 206,000,000 acres now devoted to staple crops.

The following table shows in five year averages the gold value per acre (in the local farm markets) of the product of the five staples named for quinquennial periods since 1866 and an estimate of the the value, with average yields, of an acre under each such staple in 1893 at present prices: VALUE OF AN ACRE'S PRODUCT. 1866-70. 1871-75. 1876-80. 1881-85. 1886-90. 1893. Corn.......$12.74 11.30 9.62 10.25 8.81 8.35 Wheat......12.16 11.10 12.00 10.20 9.07 6.00 Oats.........10.92 9.81 8.58 9.17 7.50 5.73 Hay..........13.28 11.38 11.57 11.15 10.19 10.00 Cotton.....28.01 28.55 17.65 15.68 13.84 10.65 Totals.....$78.21 75.94 50.42 56.30 49.44 40.75 Average an acre...$15.64 15.19 11.88 11.28 9.80 8.15 If, as is altogether probable, the revenue derived from the cultivation of each acre of the staples named has not since 1885 been in excess of the cost of production, then it is readily seen that the workers among the 30,000,000 who inhabit the farms of the United States have for eight years received no more than laborers' wages and could pur-

chase but the barest necessaries. As prices now current are 21 per cent below the average of 1886 to 1890, it follows that the products of the farm are now sold below the cost of production, and that the former is wholly without purchasing power other than such as results from his wages as a common laborer. Granting that present prices even cover the cost of production, or say $8.15 an acre, it is evident that every cent that can be added thereto will be in the nature of profits or rent and will add that much to the purchasing or debt paying power of the cultivator, but there is abundant evidence that $8.15 does not represent the actual average cost of producing the staple products, and that the farmer's debt paying and purchasing power has been reduced to that of the lower class of labor and will afford him while present prices obtain but the means of the most meager subsistence. That present prices are below the cost of production appears probable from the fact that outside a few favorably situated communities there has been no reduction of farm indebtedness in recent years, while the farmer has over wide areas from year to year been reducing his purchases of the products of manufacture, although his revenues have been 21 per cent above the present level. As 206,000,000 acres are now employed in growing staple crops, it follows that the power of the farmer to purchase is this year $1,563,000,000 less than it would be if he was receiving the price of 1866-70 for his great staples. If the prices now realized in the farm markets equaled those received from 1871 to 1875, the farmer would this year be able to spend $1,450,000,000 more for manufactures and other commodities than he will be able to spend with prices at the present level. Were prices now equal to the average of those obtained from 1876 to 1880, the purchasing power of the farmers would this year be augmented by $768,000,000. Should the crops of 1893 give average yields and the prices equal those current from 1881 to 1885, the farmer's spending power would be $645,000,000 greater than with present prices. Even with prices as low as those prevailing from 1886 to 1890, the farmers of the United States would have $358,000,000 added to their debt paying and purchasing power in 1893, and like advances on the other products of the farm would create an ample fund for building and general improvement, thus employing more labor. Much stress is laid upon the necessity of cheap food for the wageworker, but what possible benefit can be derived from a cheapness that deprives the 80,-

000,000 who produce food and fiber of the ability to keep the wageworker employed by buying the products of artisan and operative? Doubling the present price of wheat would probably add the prices of six or eight days' labor to the cost of the year's supply of bread for the average family, but with wheat at an average of $1 per bushel at the farm markets and other farm products at proportionate prices there would be no idle mills, and the earner of wages would have that easily procured and constant work which

would assure him the continuous ability to buy bread. Would not that be far better than existing conditions and bread unattainable, though low in price? We recently published a statement to the effect that the 1,600 young women employed in the Warner corset factory at Bridgeport, Conn., had been reduced to half time; that 600 of them were unable to buy food and were fed by the charity of their employer. Such conditions exist because the women upon the farms are unable to renew their corsets with wheat selling west of the Mississippi at from 30 to 40 cents a bushel. The relation between the price of wheat, the lack of power to buy corsets and the idleness and inability of the women of Bridgeport to buy bread is as obvious as that between the earth's movements and day and night. However people may have disagreed about the late Zach Chandler's statesmanship, no one questioned his success as a merchant, and this was due as much to his power of discerning economic conditions affecting his customers as to the unerring judgment with which he provided salable goods. Soon after the close of the civil war, being asked if he could find sale in the farming districts for a lot of rich dress goods which he was shipping to small inland towns, his reply was characteristic: "Sell them! Sell them! Why, the women on the farms of Michigan have discarded homespun and calicoes for silk and merino, and no farmer's son now

thinks of going out to plow unless dressed in doeskin trousers and calfskin boots. Don't you know that wheat is selling for $3 a bushel?"

Such was the late Mr. Chandler's way of stating the operation of that economic law which enables people to buy liberally of the products of others. Mills and furnaces are idle and operatives unable to buy bread because a large part of the 30,000,000 inhabiting the farms have lost their purchasing power; the purchasing power has been lost because the products of the soil have over wide areas sold at or below the cost of production; farm products bring inadequate prices because primarily of the existence during recent years of a cultivated acreage in excess of the world's requirements, and there are those who believe that the depressing influence of this excessive acreage upon prices has been intensified and augmented by methods employed upon the produce ex-

changes.--New York Sun.

MacMahon at the Malakoff. We have received from Lieutenant General Donat MacMahon (Bedford), who saw the attack on the Malakoff, the following interesting letter: "I see by The Daily News that a doubt exists in France as to the time and place when Marshal MacMahon made use of the expression, 'J'y suis, j'y reste' (Here I am, here I remain). Permit me to state that I was present in the Crimea and witnessed the final attack on the dreaded Malakoff, which MacMahon led in person. He was then a general. When he had expelled the Russians he received an order from his chief, who, I believe, was then General Pelissier, to withdraw his men from the Malakoff, as it was believed to be mined. It was at this critical time he made use of the expression, 'J'y suis, j'y reste.' "He immediately formed his men into a semicircle and set about cutting through to a certain depth in order to

cut the wires or tubes in connection with mines. But before its completion one mine exploded and killed over 100

officers and men, he fortunately escaping. This literally terminated the siege and the campaign. MacMahon soon after returned to France. He was then a great favorite with the French army.

Some of the French officers whom I knew informed me that the emperor felt so dissatisfied with the length of

time we were before Sebastopol that he sent MacMahon out specially to bring the campaign to a speedy termination.

The expression referred to was often quoted by these officers with evident

pride and satisfaction, so I feel not a little surprised to learn that a doubt exists in France as to the time and place when these solemn words were uttered, particularly if in military circles."--London News.

A Bishop on Sermons. One does not look to a prelate for frank fun, but the bishop of Wakefield, unasked, has vouchsafed some genuine humor on the subject of preaching. He has clearly made a study of the art, and he divides the modern sermon in seven species. Thus we have:

"The sesquipedalian--big words hiding little thoughts. "The wishy washy--no explanation required. "The pyrotechnic--blazing with brilliant metaphors and illustrations and finishing with a faint odor of gunpowder. "The anecdotic--teeming with stories --some of them good enough once, but gone bad by keeping. "The flowery--in which rhyme is of more importance than reason. "The mellifluous--with calm, unbroken flow. "The paregoric--against which the powers of wakefulness fail; like a roll of ribbon, so much alike at all points that a yard can be cut off anywhere." Who does not know each and all of these? This is a form of pastoral which congregations as a rule will not disapprove.

In connection with this severe episcopal utterance there is a story on the other side going the ecclesiastical round. A clergyman prepared to preach two Sundays since and gave out as his text, "The devil, like a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour." In the same breath, he continued, "My friends, you will probably have heard that the bishop of Manchester has announced his intention of visiting every church in his diocese, and consequently we may very shortly expect to see him among us."--Black and White.

Pat Spoiled the Duel.

Although it is a familiar saying that an Irishman is always spoiling for a fight, still there is one kind of fighting to which even the brave sons of Erin are sometimes averse--that is, dueling. A story well illustrating this fact has recently come to us.

A certain Irishman, having been challenged to fight a duel, accepted the conditions after much persuasion on the part of his friends, who felt confident of his success. His antagonist, a lame man, walked on crutches.

When the place for the shooting had been reached, the lame man's seconds asked that he be allowed to lean against a milestone which happened to be there. The privilege was allowed, and the lame man took his stand. The Irishman and his seconds drew off to the distance agreed upon--10 feet. Here Pat's courage suddenly failed him, and he shouted to the lame man:

"I've a small favor to ask of ye, sor."

"What is it?" asked the cripple. Pat answered: "I told ye thot ye might lean ag'in the milepost, and now I would like the privilege of leaning ag'in the next one."

The laughter which followed spoiled everybody's desire for a fight, and the whole party went home without a shot being fired.--Boston Home Journal.