VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1894.

NO. 46.

Ocean City Sentinel.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J.,

BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor. $1.00 per year, strictly in advance. $1.50 at end of year.

Restaurants. MARSHALL'S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS, 1321 MARKET STREET, Three Doors East of City Hall, PHILADELPHIA.

STRICTLY TEMPERANCE. MEALS TO ORDER FROM 6 A. M. TO 8 P. M.

Good Roast Dinners, with three vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners 15 cents. Ladies' Room upstairs, with homelike accommodations.

PURE SPRING WATER.

BAKERY, 601 S. Twenty-Second St.

ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES.

Weddings and Evening Entertain-

ments a specialty.

Everything to furnish the table and set free of charge.

NOTHING SOLD OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY.

H. M. Sciple. J. M. Gillespie. H. P. Sayford.

H. M. SCIPLE & CO., DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty, DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS,

Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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.

D. S. SAMPSON, DEALER IN Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, PUMPS, SINKS, &C., Cor. Fourth Street and West Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Tin roofer and sheet-iron worker. All kinds of Stove Casting furnished at short notice. Gasoline Stoves a specialty. All work guaranteed as represented.

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. 706 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, CARPENTER 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, Water Closets, Lead and Iron Pipes, Pumps, Etc., furnished at short notice. Country or City Residences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

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

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

What's the matter with Ocean City? She's booming, that's all. New water supply 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 be-

fore things get up to the top notch.

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

timately associated with all its history and identified with every step of its progress and the operation of its Real Estate, has extraordinary opportunities for the transaction of all kinds of Real Estate and Insurance business.

FOR RENT--Having very ex-

tensive and influential 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 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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NOT CALLED. He may be a scholar familiar with books, In person a model, unrivaled for looks.

An orator, too, like the great Mr. Puff, But that, to our notion, is not quite enough.

In language decided the truth must be told, We think for our parish he's rather too old.

For aught that we hear of he may be a saint, And none of his errors makes any complaint.

He knows all the canons and rubrics by heart, And oft to the needy will blessings impart.

But he isn't the shepherd we want at our fault. We think for our parish he's rather too old.

Did you ever learn that experience tells And work by a master for full value sells?

You make a mistake when that man you pass by, And say, when inquired of the reason and why, In language emphatic, "The truth must be told, We think for our parish he's rather too old."

Oh, what shall we do when our pastors get grey And cannot quite compass the world in a day? I know nothing else save devoutly to pray They soon may be sailed to some region away, Where angels invite to the city of gold, And none will refuse them for being too old. --Tacoma New Era.

CONVINCED. Peter Carter pushed his chair back from the table and surveyed the faded little face on the opposite side of the tea tray. Faded enough now, though she was barely 27. You would hardly have believed how fresh and pretty Carry Carver had been on her wedding day. Her husband saw the change, but somehow he supposed all women faded just so.

"There is so much to do, Peter, and the children demand so much of time," pleaded the meek wife.

"If I were manager in this household, things would happen very differently." "I have no doubt of it," said Carry quietly. "There is no earthly reason," went on Mr. Carver, ignoring the sarcastic meaning of her tone, "why the work shouldn't be done and you dressed and enjoying yourself, cultivating your mind or something, at 11 o'clock every morning that you live. Washing up a few dishes, sweeping a room or two--what does it all amount to? Why, my dear, don't you see the folly of asking for a servant to help you do nothing at all?"

The morning sunshine crept down the pale green wall paper, sprinkling drops of gold on the few little geranium plants that Peter called a "waste of time" and lay in noon splendors on the carpet, and still Carry Carver stood there, thinking--thinking.

"Carry! Aren't you going to get up this morning? It is half past 7, and"--"I cannot, Peter," groaned Carry, turning her face away from the light. "I am suffering such dreadful pains in that foot I sprained last night."

"Well, what shall I do?"

"You must take charge of the house-keeping yourself, Peter," said Carry, hiding a smile in the folds of her pillow. "It's only for a day or two, and I don't know of any help you can obtain. It won't be much, you know."

"That's true," said Peter, somewhat encouraged.

"Please darken the room, and keep the children away, and don't speak to me if you can help it. I have such a racking headache, and the least excitement drives me wild." Peter shut the door with distracting caution and went down stairs on creaking tiptoe. As he passed the nursery door a duet of voices chimed on his ears.

"Papa, papa, we are not dressed." "Dress yourselves, then, can't you?" said Mr. Carver, pausing. "Pet is too little to dress herself," said Tommy loftily, "and mamma always dressed me!" "Where are your shoes?"

"I don't know," said Tommy, with his finger in his mouth.

"I know," said Pet, aptly revenging herself for the hit at her diminutive pro-

portions; "Tommy dropped them out of the window."

Crash! went a fancy bottle of cologne off the table as Tommy groped for his garters. Bang! fell Mrs. Carver's rose-

wood writing desk to the floor, bursting off the frail hinges and scattering pens, envelopes and postage stamps far and wide.

Mr. Peter Carver was an affectionate father in a general way, but human na-

ture could not have endured this.

And he bundled the two little crea-

tures miscellaneously into whatever arti-

cles came uppermost, rending off strings and fracturing buttonholes in frantic desperation. The fire obstinately declined to burn, although Mr. Carver opened the oven doors alternately and drew out all the dampers he could spy.

"Confound the fire!" said Mr. Carver, mopping his wet forehead with the stove cloth. "It won't go. I'll have a blaze of kindling and try the breakfast on that." He seized the ham and carved several thick slices, which he transferred deftly to a gridiron, and then, elated with his success, broke several eggs over the ham.

"Bless me, how they run!" he ejacu-

lated, rather puzzled. "But I know I'm right. I wonder why this coffee doesn't boil. I'll stick in a few more kindlings

--that's the idea. There are the children crying--hungry, I suppose. I do believe they do nothing but eat and cry." Mr. Carver rushed to attend the peremptory summons of the milkman.

And then he sat down, tired and spir-

itless, to a repast of half cooked meat and liquid mud, by courtesy termed cof-

fee. He looked despairingly around at the chaos that reigned in the kitchen.

"Nine o'clock, as I live--and nothing done. Well, I see very plainly there's no office for me today. Now, then, what's wanting?"

"The clothes for the wash, please, sir," said a little girl, courtseying humbly at the door.

"Up stairs and down stairs" went Pe-

ter Carver, laying hands on whatever he considered proper prey for the washtub, rummaging in bureau drawers, upheav-

ing the contents of trunks and turning wardrobes inside out for a mortal hour before he had completed the requisite search. The kitchen was empty when he returned.

"Where are the children?" was his first alarmed thought, expressing itself unconsciously in words." "I saw 'em go out of the door, please, sir," said the washerwoman's little girl.

The July sun was beginning to glow intensely in the heavens. The pavements reflected the ardent shine with tenfold heat, and poor Peter Carver was nearly melted ere he espied his hopeful son and heir, with Pet following.

Neither of them would walk--in fact, the little wanderers were far too weary--so Mr. Carver mounted one on each

arm and carried them, limp and unresisting, through the streets. "I'll have a nurse for you, my young friends, before the world is a day older," he said, grinding his teeth with impotent wrath as he deposited Pet and Tommy on the floor and went wearily to his household duties. "How are you now, Carry?" he said about an hour afterward, throwing himself into a chair by her bedside and fanning himself with the newspaper he had laid there that morning. "About the same, dear. How does the housekeeping get along?" "It don't get along at all." "Is dinner ready?" "Dinner?" echoed Peter in a sort of dismayed tone. "Why, I haven't got through with breakfast yet!"

"But it is 12 o'clock."

"I don't care if it's 25 o'clock--a man can't do 40 things at once."

"Where are the children?" asked his wife. "In bed. They were too much for me, so I undressed 'em and put 'em to bed to get them out of the way."

"Poor things," said Carry.

"Poor me, I should think," said Car-

ver irately. I had quite enough to do without 'em. I've broken the plates, and

melted off the nose of the teapot, and lost my diamond ring in the ash barrel, and cut my fingers with the carving knife."

"Have you looked after the pickles and baked fresh pies?"

"No!"

"Nor blackened the range, nor cleaned the knives, nor scrubbed the kitchen floor?"

"No."

"Nor made the beds, nor swept the chamber, nor dusted the parlors, nor

polished the windows, nor heard the children's lessons, nor taken care of the canary birds, nor"--

"Stop--stop!" ejaculated Mr. Peter Carver, tearing wildly at his hair. "You don't mean to say that you do all these things every day?"

"I do, most certainly--and long before 12 o'clock. And yet you wonder that I am not dressed and cultivating my mind before 11 o'clock."

"My dear Carry," said Peter penitent-

ly, "I have been a brute. I'll have a cook and a nurse and a chambermaid here just as soon as I can possibly obtain them. You shall be a drudge no longer."

A few minutes afterward the unskilled cook was scorching his whiskers over a

gridiron covered with hissing mutton chops, which would alarm him by suddenly blazing up into his face without the least premonitory symptom, when a light step crossed the kitchen floor and a little hand took the handle of the grid-

iron from his grasp.

"Carry!"

"I release you from duty," smiled the wife. "My ankle is better now."

"I say, Carry!"

"Well?"

"Tell the truth, now. Wasn't that ankle business a little exaggerated?"--Buffalo News.

Bird Slaughter.

An American dealer sold last year 2,000,000 birdskins. All were used for ornamenting woman's attire. Women ought

to cry down this vanity that feeds and pampers the destruction of the feathered tribes. The birds sacrificed are of course those of richest plumage, and of course also those that will be least easily re-

placed. In fact, if this thing continues, American bird life of the gentler order

will pretty soon become extinct. Is not the warfare the American Humane so-

ciety has opened upon the birdskin traf-

fic wholly justifiable? We think so. The destruction referred to contributes not one whit to human need or human comfort. It adds nothing to the intellectual,

nothing to the mental. It is simply wantonness practiced at the beck of fashion, and as silly and meaningless a fashion, too, as ever was spawned from the brain of a man milliner. There are birds in plenty that shed their plumage to supply

the vain demand for flaming headgear. Why should the fashion monarchs be inexorable and also demand the bodies of our feathered songsters?--Sacramento Union.

Figures for a new sort of census are being gathered by Professor Earl Burns of Stanford university. He has scattered circulars to parents all over California asking them whether their children tell lies; if so, from what motive and how often, etc.

ODDS AND ENDS. It is no longer fashionable for women to kiss one another. In 1892 there were 1,395 vessels of all kinds built in the United States, with an estimated tonnage of 199,000,000.

Shoes worn alternately on the right and left feet last longer, but only old fashioned people have them made that way.

Two clocks that have been in the possession of the Webster family of Hartford for the past century are still keeping good time--never varying a second, it is claimed.

The Borden homestead, at Fall River, Mass., in which the mysterious assassination of Mr. and Mrs. Borden took place, has been remodeled and converted into a tenement house.

The Christians of Philadelphia have a Sunday breakfast association, the purpose of which is to give a breakfast to deserving wayfarers. One Sabbath morning they fed 687 men.

The smallest republic in the world is Franceville, one of the islands of the New Hebrides. The inhabitants consist of 40 Europeans and 500 black workers employed by a French company.

The undesirable epithet "uninteresting" applied to the energetic city of Newark, N. J., in Baedeker's guidebook of the United States, is to be eliminated from the second and corrected edition.

The Society of Antiquity of Worcester, Mass., is taking steps to secure the preservation of the General Rufus Putman house in Rutland as a memorial of that distinguished Revolutionary leader. One of the ugliest savage races on earth are the "Canoe Indians," who spend all their daylight time upon the water. At the bottom of each boat, near the center, some earth is piled, and on it a small fire of sticks is kept burning for the partial comfort of the occupants.

Heating Air by Steam.

A simple and durable construction of apparatus for heating air by steam is announced among recent inventions. There are a number of external pipes, within each of which is an internal pipe of suitable diameter to allow an annular passage for steam between each set of pipes. The external pipes are screwed into sockets, into which the ends of the internal pipes are fixed by expanding, as in fixing boiler tubes. The sockets on the upper pair of pipes communicate with the sockets at the ends of a lower pair by a screwed union, which, being first screwed into the upper socket, is made good by screwing up a nut. For supporting the ends of the pipes opposite to the unions solid plugs are found to hold the sockets together, the unions and connections being made with right and left screw threads. While steam passes in zigzag course through the annular spaces between the two sets of pipes, air passing through the interiors of the inner pipes, and also the spaces around the outer pipes, becomes heated. Compared with other systems for realizing such a result this is declared to possess decided advantages.--New York Sun.

Education in Armenia.

The Turkish government looks upon education as dangerous on general principles, and regards printing presses as devices of satan tending directly to sedition, and it hates its Armenian subjects because they are Christians. The Christian schools, which have labored under many difficulties for years, are now subject to a growing pressure of persecution. The suspicions of the police are awakened by the most trifling and fantastic causes.

A volume of Cicero was seized as trea-

sonable matter because it referred to a conspiracy, the conspiracy of Cataline.

A text book on chemistry was interdicted for fear the symbol H2O (oxyde of hydrogen) should suggest the idea "Hamid II (the present sultan) is a cipher." Sermons on resistance to sin are suspected of advocating rebellion against the government. The possession of a few verses of poetry printed in the Armenian tongue is enough to send the owner to prison.--Journal of Education.

Penny-in-the-slot Gas Machine. The Hexam Gas company of England has adopted a penny-in-the-slot meter. By putting a penny in the slot a customer gets 22½ feet of gas. The company sets up the machine and furnishes the necessary fixtures and a griller free of charge. If desired, pennies may be put continuously into the slot until the index pointer registers 450 feet of gas. In this way the customers pay about 85 cents per 1,000 feet for their gas, or 10 cents per 1,000 more than regular price,

the extra charge being for the use of the fixtures and the griller.

Professor Mommsen. The great German professor Mommsen, who recently celebrated the semicentennial of his taking his degree of Ph.D. at Kiel, is a lively man of 76. He

is small of stature and very thin, with a big head that is covered by a mass of white, silky hair. He has been as prolific in children as in historical theories and book, and of the 16 sons and daugh-

ters born to him 11 are living.--Boston Commonwealth.

After the Ball.

If the lady who brings suit for damages against her partner in a waltz, to whose clumsiness she attributes a broken

leg, wins her case dancing orders hereafter will have to be furnished with a blank form to be signed by the lady, holding her partner harmless in case of accident.--Boston Transcript.