VOL. XIV. OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1894. NO. 4.

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 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.

Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday.

DR. CHAS. E. EDWARDS, DENTIST,

Room 12, Take Elevator. Haseltine Building, 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa

Attorneys-at-Law.

MORGAND 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, 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.

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 Residences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

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.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITURE, 43 So. Second St., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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; 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 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 cottagers 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 Pumps of the Egyptians. A representative piece of mechanism occurs frequently on the sculptures of

early Egypt. It has the appearance of and is generally believed to be that of a portable pump. The hydraulic screw is

also attributed to this people, but their main reliance seems always to have been

the Shadoof, seen everywhere along the banks of the Nile, an invention so sim-

ple and so well adapted to their needs that it remains today substantially the same as it has through all the centuries since history began.

The same may be said regarding the chain pump in China, an invention the origin of which antedates the Christian

era. This simple machine, which seems never to have been improved upon, is in such common use that every agricultural laborer is in possession of one. Where irrigation is conducted on a larger scale the chain pump is made proportionately

larger and moved by a very simple tread wheel, and still larger ones are operated by yoking a buffalo or other animal to a suitable driving machine. The application of steam to raising water is of uncertain origin. Long before the Christian era certain applications of fire to vessels containing water, by which effects were produced calcu-

lated to astonish ignorant worshipers, were practiced by the priests of Egypt, Greece and Rome, but their knowledge

seems never to have been turned into any channel of secular usefulness.--En-gineering Magazine.

A Handle to His Name. "I understand," said a pompous em-

ployer to one of his clerks, "that you are in the habit of speaking of me by my Christian name?"

"It is possible that I have done so, sir," answered the clerk humbly.

"In future you will use the prefix 'Mr.' when alluding to me. I am 'George' only to my friends. Do not forget hereafter that I have a handle to my name."

"I will try to remember," said the clerk. "I know we always say George, Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Tom Palmer, but these are distinguished men,

not everyday people, George--excuse me--Mr. Smythe," and the clerk retired to write out his resignation.--Detroit Free Press.

Five Years' Bank of England Paid Notes.

The stock of paid notes for five years in the Bank of England is about 77,745,-

000 in number, and they fill 13,400 boxes, which if placed side by side would reach 2½ miles. If the notes were placed in a

pile they would reach to a height of 5½ miles, or if joined end to end would form a ribbon 12,455 miles long. Their superficial area is rather less than that of Hyde park. Their original value was over £1,750,626,600 and their weight over 90½ tons.--London Tit-Bits.

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A LITTLE LOVE OF MINE.

I know a clever little maid And sweet, who claims me for her knight. And I confess I'm half afraid She thinks whate'er I do is right. The reason why I may not tell. She's five, while I am twenty-nine, And yet we love each other well, I and this little love of mine.

She has a slender, lissom form, Brown eyes where trust and truth a bide, A Cupid's mouth where kisses swarm, Rose cheeks where dimples deftly hide. A smile she borrowed from the skies In some rare hour of summer time That's sweet or serious, glad or wise, As suits this little love of mine.

La reine petite, the little queen, Swift to forgive as to command, The daintiest monarch ever seen--She keeps her subjects well in hand, Their happiness her only task. She rules by childhood's right divine, And richer kingdom none may ask Than this little love of mine.

The boundary of her empire lies In home's fair walls; her wealth untold,

The lovelight in her mother's eyes,

A treasure greater far than gold. Aye, running over is her cup

With love's most rare and costly wine,

And she--she gayly drinks it up, This charming little love of mine.

Fresh be the draft! I wish the hours May bring her what she most may prize, Soft dewy dawns, and fragrant flowers, And light winds calling to the skies.

But if my soul might win the bliss To beg a boon from Father Time 'Twould be to leave her as she is, This dainty little love of mine.

--Rose Deforiss in Youth's Companion. NIPPED IN THE BUD.

When I was a boy, I attended a public school in a New England town not many miles from the Hub. The teacher of classics in that institution was a man of the name of Virgil Monson, who was by birth and training a Puritan, but one whom culture had somewhat liberalized, though he retained many prejudices of the average Yankee. In person he was short, heavy and thickset. His head was dome shaped,

but it appeared to me that his bumps of

veneration and combativeness had been unduly developed at the expense of the bumps of conjugal affection, which was sufficient explanation of the fact that he had not yet committed matrimony, though he had turned 35 at the time I

first knew him.

Whatever may have been his defects, I must do him the justice to say that his forehead was broad and high, sure sign of intellectuality; his nose of the Roman variety, which always indicates strength of character and tenacity of opinion, while his manner of compressing his lips pointed not the less certainly to his firmness, to which a square chin also contributed. His disposition was by no means lamblike, nor his temper equable, as his red hair--what there was of it--and red beard bore abundant testimony to

the contrary. I grieve to say that much

learning had made Mr. Monson not mad, but bald. The dome part of his head was wont to shine like the golden dome of the state capitol in Boston, especially after the vigorous polishings he gave it in his toilet. A fringe of sandy hair surrounded the aforesaid bald surface like the diverging rays of light around the aurora borealis. Add to the foregoing an excitable temperament, a quick and nervous manner, a love of pedantic display, a fondness for Greek and Latin roots and most of all for natural science, and you have a tolerably fair description of an interesting personality. It was our professor's habit to seek recreation in the woods during the intervals of pedagogical labor, and there, amid the sighings of trees, the singing of birds and the chirpings of crickets, to combine his pursuit of health with the study of natural science. After spending an afternoon in the fragrant seclusion of the forest he would return with his pockets full of botanical and entomological specimens. Among the last may be mentioned caterpillars, moths, butterflies and other denizens of

the woods.

His room was next door to mine and had the appearance of a museum. There were numerous books, of course, on all sorts of subjects, ferneries, cabinets of minerals and chloroformed butterflies, suspicious bottles containing queer creatures in all stages of alcoholic intoxication and aquaria containing living fish,

toads, lizards, and so on.

Absorbed as he was in his duties at

school, his favorite studies and pursuits, Mr. Monson had little time to think of matrimony, and though some design-

ing mammas had pressed the question home to him his invariable reply had

been:

"I don't need a wife. I am happy enough as I am." This reply served as a wet blanket to the enthusiastic interest his lady acquaintances entertained in his happiness. Though his character and disposition were not such as to make him popular with the fair sex, still the few who knew him respected him, wondered at his prodigious learning, which he took no pains to conceal, and secretly laughed at his eccentricities and hobbies.

Having evaded Cupid's darts so long and with such signal success, no one supposed for a moment that he would succumb at last to the charms of a

coquettish country girl. But so it turned out, thus proving the truth of the old adage that there is no fool like an old fool. He fell victim to love so late in

life that, like mumps and measles, it attacked him with the greatest virulence than it would have done in his younger days.

The girl, whom we will simply call Lilian, was a brunette of fascinating manners, but rather homely features.

But if she satisfied Mr. Monson's notions of an ideal woman no one else had a right to complain. She was still attending school, though past 21 years of age, and as fate would have it was boarding in the same house as the professor. It was observed by the landlady and her daughter that after Lilian's advent Mr. Monson was changed from his own self. He paid more attention to his toilet than before, brushing his fringe of hair with unusual care and having

his beard trimmed oftener than had been his wont. At the table he had alternate fits of abstraction and loquacity.

He lingered there as long as Lilian re-

mained and would, after a supper, fol-

low her to the sitting room, where he would talk to her by the hour about some Greek poet or some natural phenomenon. And when he showed her his various bugs, insects and reptiles, mak-

ing a running commentary on their peculiarities, the landlady formed the very natural conclusion that the professor was badly "stuck." The girl was a splendid listener and flattered Mr. Monson's vanity by her attention rather than by words of praise. In about three months the professor had wound himself in a net as completely as the silkworm in its cocoon. As he grew more persistent in his atten-

tions the girl became more coquettish. She would be very kind one day and distant and hard to please the next, thus tormenting the very life out of him.

At last, unable to bear the strain, he determined to risk all by a test question. A favorable opportunity presented itself one night when everybody had retired and the twain were alone in the parlor.

What took place there had better be told in the words of the young lady, who related the affair afterward to the landlady's daughter, not knowing that I was listening and taking it all in.

"Well," she said, "to begin from the beginning, your mother left the parlor as the clock struck 9, taking care to close the door after her. This emboldened him to draw his chair closer to mine. 'Do you think one can be happier when married than single?' he asked. I replied that I didn't know, not having had the experience of a married woman.

"'Well, don't you think so or be-

lieve so?'

"'Why, that depends on circum-

stances, Mr. Monson,' I answered. I knew what was coming all the time, but didn't want to show it. "'But if there is love in the marriage, don't you think there will be happiness?'

"At this point he seized my hand and squeezed it until it fairly turned blue and said excitedly:

"Then marry me, Miss Lillian. No man can love a woman more than I love you. Say but yes, and my very life is at your disposal to do as you please with it. Your happiness will be my first consideration. Here, on my knees, I ask you to grant my suit.' "I turned my face around to look at him, and, oh! what do you think? You can never guess. I laugh every time I think of it. One of those nasty caterpillars had crept out of his pocket during the excitement and was making its way over his shoulder toward his collar. I nearly died with laughter at the comical situation. Upon this he got very mad and excited beyond control, but he remained on his knees the while. Said

he:

"'You are laughing at a very serious matter. You trifle with me. Is this the way to treat the proffered love of an honest man?'

"'I am sorry, Mr. Monson. I was not laughing at you, but at something else.' "I had barely finished saying that when that worm stood on the poor man's collar, and bracing its hind feet on it made a grab for his hair with its front feet. The nasty thing was so comical in all its movements that I laughed right out, making no attempt to control my merriment. He arose from his knees. His face was scarlet with rage. But as he turned the doorknob I commanded my risibilities enough to say to him:

"'Mr. Monson, I am very, very sorry for what has happened. I respect and esteem you as a friend, but I can never be your wife. But if you don't want another girl to laugh at you the next time you go a-courting you leave worms and bugs behind.'

"By this time the caterpillar had reached his bald spot and from that elevated perch was looking on the scene with placid enjoyment. He caught my eyes as they were bent toward the intruder, and just then, his excitement having subsided a little and no doubt feeling the nasty thing on top of his head, he caught it in hand, crushing the poor worm at the same time. He then made a dart for the stairs, going over three steps at a time. That is all there was to this little romance of mine."

The next week the professor resigned his position in the school and left the town forever.--Yan Phon Lee in St. Louis Republic.

The Term Spinster. Among our industrial and frugal English forefathers it was a maxim that a

young woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set of body, table and bed linen. From this custom all unmarried women were termed spinsters, an appellation they still retain in all our law proceedings.--San Francisco Argonaut.

LEADERS AND RULERS.

How Some Common Names and Titles Came to Be Applied.

There are heaps of history in titles.

For instance, take that of the "prince of Wales." This title is always given to the eldest son of the ruler reigning over England, and it came in this way:

Wales is now part of the kingdom of Great Britain, as Ireland and Scotland are. But once for a long time Wales was a separate kingdom. At last the English conquered it, and then after that there were always plots and rebellions among the Welsh people. By and by an English king went with his queen into Wales to see if the Welsh were ill treated, and if they were to try to make things easier and pleasanter for them. The Welsh nobles and leaders all came together to meet their English king and to complain to him.

But the king gave them no chance to speak. He rose and told them he had heard they wanted a prince of their own, and that he meant to give them one--a born Welshman and speaking no other language. Then, as the Welsh joyfully cheered as loud as they could, he fetched out his baby son, born the night before in the Welsh castle, and of course the baby could "speak no other language," as he was not able to speak at all. Ever since the eldest son of the English royal family has been called the "prince of Wales." That ruler deserved his own title "king," for "king" is a word that comes from "koenig," which means a "wise" or "knowing man." I suppose the first rulers--the heads or kings of small tribes --came to be so by "knowing more," by being "wiser," than the other men of the tribe. "Czar" and "kaiser" both came from the Latin word "caesar," the title of the great conquering Roman rulers, whose only law was their own will. The czar of Russia and the young Kaiser William of Germany have much more power over their subjects than the queen of England has over the people of England. "Sultan" is another such title, and it comes from an Arabic word, which means "absolute lord."

Grover Cleveland's title, "president," means one appointed to sit before or over others. It comes from the two Latin words "præ," which means "be-

fore," and "sideo," which means "to sit." The title shows that the president's busi-

ness is to sit before or above the law-

makers and carry out and execute the laws they frame. This is why the president is sometimes called the "chief executive." "Captain" means "head man." It comes from the word "caput," which means "the head." "Colonel" comes from the same Latin word as "column," and the title no doubt rose from the regimental practice of marching or attacking in column, with their commander at the head. As to the two titles "democrat" and "republican," when a small boy hears them he generally thinks of one or the other of those political parties as the people who are not of his father's way of thinking. It will do him no harm to know exactly what each of these party titles really means. "Democrat" comes from the Greek word "demos," which means "the people," and from "kratos," which means "power." So a "democrat" is one who believes in the power or sovereignty of the people, each acting as nearly as may be for himself. "Republican" comes from the Latin words "res publica," which mean "for the common good."

What a Young Man Did.

A college graduate had hardly received his diploma before he was compelled to face poverty and family disgrace. His father, who had been reputed to be wealthy, was an embezzler and a fugitive from justice. His mother and sisters were entirely dependent upon his modest earnings in a broker's office.

He had planned taking an advanced course of professional study in architec-

ture. His ideal occupation had to be abandoned. He was in love with a charming girl, but ceased to visit her since marriage was out of the question. An opportunity for a year's travel in Europe at a friend's expense was given up. Year after year he maintained a hard, bitter struggle to make a living at uncongenial employment for his mother and sisters, to support his father abroad and to overcome prejudice caused by the family disgrace. He became a success-

ful business man, but was prematurely gray at 40. His life was haunted by the ghosts of his youthful hopes. Such lives do not furnish material for exciting stories. They are dull and prosaic, but are nevertheless heroic. To give up all that is dear to youth and to be loyal to family obligations sometimes is a crowning triumph of unselfishness. --Youth's Companion.

A New Yorker in China. Mr. William Pethick, United States vice consul, for many years a confidential adviser to H. E. Li Hung Chang, has resigned his position of manager of the railway and after 27 years of continuous residence in China is going home. His thorough acquaintance with the Chinese language, his indefatigably studious habits, his almost unequalled opportunities of observation and knowledge, give a weight to what he says about China which would not belong probably to 10 others in the empire. It is well known that he has prepared a

compendious work on the life of his great patron Li, and it is hoped that the work may soon be published.--China Mail.