VOL. XIV. OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1894. NO. 2.

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,

l 5 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.

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. CHAS. E. EDWARDS, DENTIST, Room 12, Take Elevator, Haseltine Building, 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 in Ocean City.

Bakers, Grocers, Etc.

JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 703 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Wedding Cakes a specialty. Orders delivered free of charge. Nothing delivered on Sunday.

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 put up 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 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 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 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 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 connec-

tions, 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.

ODDS AND ENDS.

A good two foot rule--keep your feet dry. As high as 300,000 pilgrims have been collected at Mecca at one time. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.--Hazlitt. In the far west a girl who works in a railroad restaurant is known as a "biscuit shooter." The man who would have done so and so if he had been there never gets there.--Ram's Horn. Statistics show that about one-tenth of the total number of papers in the country expire every year.

"To take the cake" had its origin in the cake walk in which colored couples participate, the prize being a cake. During the Mexican war the United States put 90,100 men in the field, of whom 7,780 died of wounds or disease. A towel made from flax and claimed to be half a century old is in the posses-

sion of Mrs. John Worth of High Point, N. C.

The highest court in Missouri has decided that debts contracted in option deals are gambling debts and not collectible at law.

Gutta percha was first introduced into Europe from Malaga in 1852. The annual consumption now amounts to some 4,000,000 pounds.

An employee of a Washington hotel is able, it is said, to wash and dry over 1,000 dishes an hour and put them in their proper places.

Unmailable Postal Cards. An article has been going the rounds of our exchanges, says the Ithaca Journal, that it was a criminal offense to mail a dunning letter on a postal. An editor wrote to the first assistant postmaster general recently and received the following reply, giving the decision of Judge Thayer, Dec. 14, 1889, on the wording of a postal that was mailable and one that was not. The mailable one read: "Please call and settle account, which is long past due and for which our collector has called several times, and oblige." This was decided unmailable: "You owe us $1.80. We have called several times for same. If not paid at once, we shall place with our law agency for collection." Postal cards are not mailable if they contain language of a threatening character.

Siamese Coins.

The first silver coins of Siam were made in 1862 and bore the design of an elephant on one side and of royal umbrellas on the other. The present coins have a portrait of the king on one side. In former times shells were used as money.--Philadelphia Press.

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PAT MAGEE.

"Walkin wid Pat Magee Down by the Tullagh bog, 'Mind where ye're settin yere shteps,' says he, 'Lest yee put yer foot on a frog. 'Frogs is the divil,' he says. 'I'm thinkin', he says, says he,

'Av I carried yez over to yondher wll The sorrow a frog we'd see.'

"Sittin wid Pat Magee Atop av a loose built wall, 'It's uneasy I am in me mind,' says he,

'Dhreadth the stones might fall. Stones is the divil to slip.

I'm thinkin,' says he, 'Ave I gave yere waist a bit av a clip

The sorrow a fear there'd be.' "Talkin wid Pat Magee, Wid the arm av him round me waist

An the red sun sinkin, 'Agrah,' says he, 'Will yez let me spake to the praste? Delays is the divil's delight,

'An I'm thinkin,' he says, says he, 'Av the two av us settled the matther tonight,

'Tis married next week we'd be." --Lena Gyles in Temple Bar.

JENNIE'S RIDE. During the Revolutionary war there was a strip of land in Westchester county, N. Y., called the neutral ground. It was so named because it was not held by either the American or British army, but lay between them, forming a common foraging ground for both. Near the center of this famous neutral ground there lived a widow, gentle Mrs. McNeal, and her pretty 15-year-old daughter Jennie. The father had been as brave as he was honest and several times had laid down his farming implements to take part in the Indian wars that at an earlier period had devastated the land of his adoption. He was an intense American, and had not his career been brought suddenly to a close by the common enemy--death--just on the eve of the battle of Lexington, he would doubtless have laid his life on the altar of his beloved country, a willing sacrifice. Jennie not only inherited her father's patriotism, but his fearlessness as well, and she and her mother, refusing the advice of friends to move into a more protected section, remained in the home that love had provided for them unmolested by friend or foe until two years of strife and bloodshed had passed

away.

Though gentle and loving to her friends, there was plenty of fire in Jennie's black eyes, and those who were evil disposed knew that she would not hesitate to use her father's old gun, which hung high up on the kitchen wall, should it become necessary for her own or her mother's protection. One dark, rainy night late in November, after the evening work was finished and she and her mother had settled themselves for a pleasant hour's chat, there came a loud knocking at the outer door. Jennie ran to draw the bolt, but before she had time to raise the latch the door was thrown open, and in walkwed a dozen or more dragoons. That they were British soldiers their stained and muddy red coats plainly showed, but withal they were gentlemen, a fact which Jennie's quick eye detected and made her feel that helpless women were safe in their presence. The leader, called by the other soldiers Captain Long, bowed courteously and in a respectful tone asked for something to eat, saying that they would pay for all the trouble they made. And then he added: "Please, madam, be as quick as possible about placing food before us, for we have to ride 10 miles to catch Colonel Adair of the rebel army, who is at home for the night. Hurry up now, my pretty lass," he continued, turning to Jennie. "He is a lucky chap if he slips me this time, and you shall be well paid if you give us a lift by hastening us on our jour-

ney."

Jennie went to the kitchen to help her mother apparently as unconcerned as if the gray haired colonel was altogether unknown to her. But for all that her heart was very heavy, for next to her mother the brave old warrior was the best friend she had on earth. Her father had fought by his side, and once on the field of battle he had saved that dear father's life. He had taught her how to row and ride and shoot, and since her father's death he had looked after her mother and herself with as much interest as if they really belonged to him. She must save him at any cost, and while she worked her brain was busy with schemes to accomplish her purpose. As soon as the redcoats were seated at the table, without a word even to her mother, who divined her object, she slipped out of the back door, and running down to where the horses were feeding she sprang upon the captain's fiery steed and in a moment was galloping down the hilly, rock strewn path, heedless alike of storm or darkness. She had not dared to wait for cloak or bonnet, and whenever the ragged lightning gleamed her long black hair might have been seen streaming out behind her. Her flight was not discovered until the dragoons were ready to mount, and then began a chase for life or death. Soon from the mute hills over which she had passed Jennie heard the clatter of hooves in hot pursuit, but she had chosen the captain's gray, the swiftest flier among the steeds, and for miles the distance between her and her pursuers increased rather than diminished. On and on she sped, fire flying from the rocky road as the gray horse's iron shoes clashed along at a fearful pace. More than half of the distance had been covered when far in the rear came

a command, loud and stern, "Halt, or your blood be on your head!" like so many harmless birds seeking for shelter from the night's storm. With a prayer of thanksgiving on her lips she rushed on over the slippery track, through wood and valley, over hill and plain, the gray horse as true as steel, until in an unlucky leap he stumbled and fell, throwing his rider with force against a rock on the edge of the ditch over which he had tried to spring. The foaming steed was unhurt and in a moment was on his feet again, but poor Jennie fared worse and rose with a broken arm hanging useless by her side. Regardless of the numbing pain, she clung tenaciously to the horse's bridle, and after quieting him by gentle words and patting him softly with her able hand she managed to spring into the saddle and gave the brave fellow free rein. "Now do your best," she said coaxingly as she stroked his long mane. "Do your best, my good fellow, for upon you depends the safety of my friend, good Colonel Adair."

As if understanding the entreaty, the gray horse raised his head, and setting his feet firmly gathered his strength once more, as if for a final plunge; then, galloping down the steep hillside, he gained on the troopers at every leap until he paused at the colonel's gate fully a fur-

long ahead of the pursuers. Throwing the rein over the gatepost, Jennie rushed up the path and without knocking flung open the colonel's door, crying in her eager haste: "Quick, by quick, colonel, I say! Fly, fly for your life, for the red-

coats are at the door. Don't wait--you've not a moment to spare. They come! They come! Away! Away!" And then she fainted and sank to the floor.

With a hasty goodby the colonel left his bright fireside and rushed out into the night's fearful storm, not, however, until he had kissed the pale brow of the girl who had risked her own life to save his. Springing on his horse, always saddled for just such emergencies, he was soon on his way to where the patriot army was in camp. The tramp of troopers' horses roused Jennie from her swoon, and as the angry men came rushing in she turned her pale face toward them and laughed, even in the midst of a moan, as she said feebly: "Good sirs, your bird has flown, and it was I who frightened him from his nest. Do not harm his dear ones in the home, but do with me as you think I deserve. I only am to blame."

"You need not fear, my brave lass," said young Captain Long, bowing low. "Of all heroic women I must crown you queen. Never before have I seen such courage in one so young, and for your sake not a hair of Colonel Adair's head shall be harmed. Even if he were here in his quiet home this minute chivalry would forbid his capture in your pres-

ence. I am sorry that my brave gray Jess did not carry you through without stumbling in such an awkward fashion as to break your arm. He is usually sure footed, and the darkness and an un-

known road must excuse the blunder."

"He made up for the ill luck after the fall," suggested one of the troopers. "I mean in speed, which of course could not restore the broken bone, a fact we all regret," he added gallantly. "I do not mind that since my good friend, the colonel, is out of your power," said Jennie, trying to smile. "How cruel in strong young men like you to try to harm an old man--a gallant soldier, too, like Colonel Adair! I should think you would be ashamed of your-

selves."

"War is war, my fair young miss," answered the captain, "and nothing that war demands can be called cruel. This Colonel Adair is worth a whole regiment of us, and the way you have baffled us will prove a great disappointment to our cause.

"Still I honor you for your bravery and loyalty to your friend, and if you will wear this ring as a token of my admiration I will come back and marry you when the war is over."

"There's a lad in Putnam's corps who told me the same thing the morn-

ing he marched away to the beat of the drum. I promised to be true as steel to him, and as you two could never agree I think you may keep your ring for some pretty British maid who cares for you more than I do," was Jennie's reply.

The captain laughed as he slipped the ring back on his little finger, and waving her goodby rushed out, mounted his gray Jess and was soon clattering down the rough road after his men. Regardless of her broken arm, Jennie insisted upon returning home that night, as her mother would be in distress until she knew she was safe. But Mrs. Adair would not suffer her to take this risk, knowing as she did the danger to be incurred. Instead she dispatched a messenger to the little brown cottage with the information that she would keep Jennie until morning, and being pretty much of a surgeon herself she set the broken arm and made the young girl as comfortable as possible until she could be removed to her mother's home. At the close of the war Jennie gave her hand and her heart as well into the keeping of the lad who had marched away with Putnam's corps, and she lived to relate her experience of that night to her children and her children's children--to the fourth and it may be even to the fifth generation.--Chicago News. A Scathing Rebuke. Visitor (in editorial sanctum, with elevated nose)--It strikes me the condition of that towel is not just what it should be--bah! Editor (loftily)--Sir, to the pure all things are pure.--Truth.

COAL TAR PRODUCTS. REMEDIES THAT HAVE BECOME FAVORITE MEDICINES. During the Past Ten Years Many New Drugs Have Been Brought Into Service For Diseases and Complaints Which, Though Common, Were Hard to Treat. Only a few years ago coal tar was looked upon as a "waste product." At the present day, however, it is no longer treated as such, for through the almost ceaseless activity of the German chemists enough new remedies have already been obtained from coal tar to fill a good sized pharmacopoeia.

About the first one of these products to attract any considerable attention was antipyrine, which made its appearance some 10 years ago and became popularly known during the epidemic of la grippe of several years ago. This was soon followed by antifebrin, which, although it had a new name, was an older drug than antipyrine, having been known for several years as an acetanilid, a

name derived from the substances from which it was made. It is prepared by the action of acetic acid on aniline oil. The acetanilid is now used by many doctors in preference to antipyrine. The principal features in its favor are smallness of dose, less danger of a depressing effect on the heart and cheapness. The price of acetanilid is hardly one-tenth that of antipyrine. Phenacetine is another drug of this class which has met with much success and apparently deservedly so. It has been used with excellent results in the treatment of influenza, the hyperaesthecia or soreness of la grippe and rheuma-

tism, both muscular and articular.

The drug is often combined with salol and quinine in the treatment of the above mentioned affections, and the results re-

ported are invariably of a very satisfactory nature.

One of the most interesting of the coal tar derivatives is saccharin, a substance that is 280 times sweeter than sugar. The medicinal properties of this drug are an-

tiseptic and sweetening. As a substi-

tute for sugar it is used in the dietary of gout, diabetes and all diseases in which saccharine foods are contraindicated. It has also been used to disguise the taste of medicines for children. To give one an idea of the sweetening power of saccharin it is only necessary to say that one grain of the drug will sweeten an ordinary cup of coffee. If sugar were used at at least a half ounce or a tablespoonful, would be necessary.

In the treatment of mental disease sulphonal is considered a very valuable agent. The drug could hardly have achieved success had it been introduced under its chemical name, which contains just two letters more than the entire al-

phabet. Diethylsulphondimethylmethan is the "jawbreaker" by which it is known

technically.

The value of sulphonal as a hypnotic seems to be pretty well established. It has been used with marked success in the treatment of sleeplessness caused by fatigue and worry. It is also said to be of equal service in cases of acute mania, imbecility, melancholia, dementia, epilepsy, hallucinations and acute alcoholism. One observer stated that in every case treated "the slumber was accompanied by no disturbances of circulation or respiration and lasted from two to five hours or longer." From 15 to 30 grains are usually given as a dose. Even in very large doses the digestive functions are not disordered, and there are no disagreeable after effects beyond a slight drowsiness and a feeling of lassitude the

next day.

In combination with hyoscine hydrobromate, sulphonal is said to form a good treatment for the insomnia and restlessness of opium habitues. When a coal tar product is introduced, it can almost be taken for granted that one of the four medicinal properties is claimed for it. The four properties are antipyretic, analgesic, antiseptic and hypnotic. Trional, which hails from Elberfeld, Germany, is brought forward as a candidate for therapeutic favor. It possesses the last named property. Brie of Bonn has found trional of value in treating insomnia or hysteria and neurasthenia in cases of great obstinacy and which had failed to respond to any other treatment. In maniacal excitement and paralytic mania, he reports excellent results in 90 per cent of the cases treated. Salophen, although not distinctly a "coal tar derivative," is partly so, as one of its component parts, carbolic acid, is derived from coal tar. It is said to be a valuable remedy in the treatment of articular rheumatism. The dose is from 15 to 20 grains three or four times a day. The very latest in the long line of coal tar products is gallanol. It is prepared by boiling tannin with aniline. It is introduced as a substitute for pyrogallic acid, having the advantage of being nontoxic and nonirritant. In the treatment of skin affections it has been used with success.

Cazeneuve, the introducer of the drug,

reports great success in treating psoriasis by painting the spots with gallanol suspended in chloroform and covering them with a solution of gutta purcha in

chloroform, called traumaticin.--New

York World.

In cleaning the Goddess of Liberty on the Texas state capitol, a local paper says, it was discovered that a swarm of bees had made their home in the hollow head of the goddess and had filled it half full of honey. Here is another proof of the old adage that liberty is sweet.