VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1894.

NO. 17.

Ocean City Sentinel. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J., BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor. $1.00 per year, strictly in advance. $1.50 at end of year.

Restaurants.

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

STRICTLY TEMPERANCE. MEALS TO ORDER FROM 6 A. M. TO 8 P. M. Good Roast Dinners, with three vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners 15 cents. Ladies' Room upstairs, with homelike accommodations. PURE SPRING WATER. BAKERY, 601 S. Twenty-Second St. ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES. Weddings and Evening Entertainments a specialty. Everything to furnish the table and set free of charge. NOTHING SOLD OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY.

H. M. Sciple. J. M. Gillespie. H. P. Sayford. H. M. SCIPLE & CO., DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty, DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS, Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA. WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL SETATE 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 available at short notice. Gasoline Stoves a specialty. All work guaranteed as represented.

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. L. S. SMITH, CONTRACTOR IN Grading, Gravelling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Bakers, Grocers, Etc. JACOB SCUFF, (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.

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. GEO. R. FORTINER, HOLIDAY COTTAGE, No. 809 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. OFFICE HOURS:--Until 10 A. M. 2 to 3 P. M. 6 to 8 P. M. DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday.

DR. E. C. WESTON, DENTIST, 7th St., east of Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J. Saturday to Monday night until Oct. 1st, and August 4th to 20th. GAS ADMINISTERED. 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.

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.

Plasterers & 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.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Agent for the Ætna 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 railroad; 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 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 househunter 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.

Italy's Unprofitable Railways. The Corriere della Sea has just published an article on the Italian railways which says that "out of the 62 lines worked by the Mediterranean company, there are 22 which are worked at a loss and some whose expenses amount to more than twice as much as their receipts. Many of these lines--the principal ones indeed--are now 15 or 20 years old, and yet are always in this disastrous condition. The investment of capital here is disastrous, because instead of gaining interest the investor has to make continual grave sacrifices of money without even any indirect benefit to the regions were [sic] the lines pass. And what is said of the Mediterranean company may be said of all the companies of Italy." To this dark picture I will only add that the railway debt of Italy is nearly 5 milliards, and that the annual railway deficit is not less than 200,000,000 lire, or more than the actual cost of the army, which, when the expenses of public security are deducted, is only about 190,000,000.

The Joan of Arc Craze In France. An enterprising manager of a small provincial traveling company in France has been reaping a golden harvest out of the present excitement about Joan of Arc by playing an old piece of which the Maid of Domremy is the central figure, in places round about Orleans. The popular enthusiasm, however, has had its inconveniences for one member at least of the company, and that is the actor who had to play the part of Cauchon, by whom the maid was condemned. Not content with hissing the wretched man outside the theater, the populace have pursued him into the streets. He has been positively afraid to venture abroad, for his appearance in public has been the signal not only for hoots and yells, but for volleys of stones. The unfortunate man has been obliged to call the attention of the police to the matter in some of the towns visited by the company.--London News. Rebuke of a Purist. "The unprotected female in Massachusetts," says the Boston Herald, "finds Massachusetts a better place to live in than any other part of the country." Did you intend your remark to apply to female cats and chickens and oysters and other such creatures, contemporary, or only to "females" of the human species? And if you meant to speak of women, why not call them women?--Charleston News and Courier. The Royal Historical society has decided to commemorate the centenary of the death of Gibbon in a suitable manner in the fall. There will be an address and an exhibition of portraits, manuscripts and other relics of the great historian.

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Bishop WILLIAM TAYLOR, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

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NATURAL RAINFALL. DOES NATURE SLIGHT LAND IF TREES HAVE BEEN REMOVED? A Problem That the Son of Columbus Started Out to Solve--Many Scientists of Various Countries Have Given the Subject Much Study.

A son of Christopher Columbus once undertook a task of discovery that proved much more difficult than that which his father had tackled so successfully. In a comparatively short time Christopher had the solution of his problem. The answer which his son, Fernando, set out to find is still missing. But the younger Columbus thought he had discovered the true relations of forests to water supplies, and he announced that the copious rainfall of Jamaica was produced by the island's wealth of forests and that the decrease of rain in the Azores and Canaries was because of the removal of the wooded areas.

For as long perhaps as men have given any thought to this matter it has been the common supposition that forests increase the rainfall within the area of their supposed influence, and in that way and other ways augment the flow of brooks and rivers. The earlier efforts to determine through scientific methods whether there is any good ground for the supposition were made with appliances so crude that the margin for error must have been considerably in excess of the influence, if any, which the in-

vestigators hoped to measure. In later years efforts in the same direction have been made with great pains, mostly in European countries, but the problem has been found to have so many factors that, although the mass of information collected is extremely interesting, the main question remains practically unanswered. The re-

sults of these efforts, together with some interesting observations thereon, are set forth in a bulletin of the forestry division of the department of agriculture. Water comes as near being indestructible as any substance of which we know. Consequently the total quantity of it in the earth and in the earth's atmosphere is al-

ways the same. Only a very small percentage of it is what one of the writers in this bulletin terms the circulating part of the earth's water capital. The sun makes vapor of water that is lying at its level or is on the way to find its level. This vapor is con-

densed until it is heavier than the air and starts again toward its level, and that is how the circulation goes on. In what way

does the presence of forests influence this circulation?

It would be a long story to tell of the methods employed in France, Germany, Sweden, Austria and other countries of Eu-

rope to measure the various influences that must be considered in determining how and

to what extent the rainfall and the flow of

streams are affected by the presence of for-

ests. A very important factor, since heat is what starts the movement of the earth's

circulating water capital, is the matter of temperature, and the results of the investigations were to show beyond dispute that forests reduce the maxima and the minima

of temperature, that they reduce the maxima more than the minima, and that consequently their effect is to make the average temperature for the year cooler. Also, their moderating influence in [sic] greater than their cooling effect. Because the air above forest regions is slightly cooler than the strata over treeless tracts, condensation should be more rapid than over open fields, and the rainfall should be greater. These cooler bodies of air, being blown over adjacent regions that are not wooded, should also increase somewhat the precipitation there. That is the theory, and it seems to be in some degree supported by the measurements that have been made. Accepting the conclusion that, in general, forests increase slightly the fall of rain, snow and dew, it remains to be determined how much of this increase is available for beneficial purposes. Part of it is intercepted by foliage, and is returned to the atmosphere by evaporation without having reached the ground. The proportion so retained varies with the nature of the foliage, the density of the forest and the season of the year. The retention by evergreen trees is less than by deciduous. It is estimated that perhaps 30 percent of the precipitation is thus intercepted and returned to the atmosphere. Of course this interception and evaporation go on where the surface of the earth is covered by grass and other growing crops. Whether it is sufficiently greater in the forest than in the field to do away with the excess of precipitation on wooded tracts over that on cleared areas is

an unsettled question.

Of the 70 per cent of rainfall which, it is estimated, reaches the ground in forests, a part is very quickly returned to the atmosphere by evaporation, but here the loss is considerably less than in the open field. Under certain conditions it is not more than 13 per cent of what it would be on bare soil, but the conditions are so various that it is difficult to arrive at an average. Again, out of this 70 per cent of precipitation which reaches the ground in wooded areas must be deducted the loss by transpiration, "the process by which the plant gets rid of the surplus water after having drawn it from the soil in order to extract from it the nutriment which is present in only a very highly attenuated solution." Various ingenious methods have been resorted to for determining the amount of moisture used in this way, but because of the many factors having to do with it, the amount for the various kinds of vegetation can be indicated only with a wide margin for varia-

tions.

While as it stands now nobody can say,

as a result of scientific investigation, whether forests increase the fall of rain, snow or dew to an appreciable extent, there is no room for doubt that wooded areas are valuable conservators of moisture. In this way they make the flow of streams more even, and they preserve the constancy of

springs. In wooded areas there is a loss by interception and evaporation in the foliage and by transpiration, and there is a consid-

erable gain in the protection from evaporation from the surface of the ground. It is not probable that this conservation of the water supply comes anywhere near the mark drawn by those who hold that the preservation of woodland insures an abundance of water supply, but the benefits resulting from it are sufficient to be considered among the other excellent reasons for looking well to the preservation of forests.

--New York Sun.

THE GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES. How the Greater Part of This Country Was Acquired and What It Cost.

When independence was established, the bounds of the new country were extremely indefinite. The limits of the 13 states were known with reasonable exactness, though there were at the outset disputes both between the states and between the United States and the European governments whose possessions lay alongside ours. The first great acquisition of territory was that of Louisiana, which Spain had ceded to France, and which the Emperor Napoleon sold to the United States for $15,000,000 in 1803, when Mr. Jefferson was president. Mr. Jefferson did not believe that the constitution permitted the United States to annex foreign territory and wished that an amendment should be adopted to sanction it, but the amendment failed after the annexation had been accomplished, and Mr. Jefferson stifled his scruples. Louisiana, as acquired from France, included the territory bounded on the east by the Mississippi river from its mouth to its source, on the north by the line of the British possessions, on the west by the Pacific ocean to the south line of Oregon. The other boundary follows the north line of California, Nevada and Utah as far east as the Rocky mountains and thence in a general southeastwardly direction so as to include part of Colorado and most of Kansas and the Indian Territory and all of Arkansas and Louisiana to the gulf of Mexico. Florida was for many years the object of covetousness on the part of our government, which claimed now a part and now the whole as included in the Louisiana purchase. The United States finally obtained it from Spain in 1819, when Mr. Monroe was president. What was known as West Florida--including the part of Alabama in which Mobile is situated--had already been seized and held forcibly. Texas, originally a part of Mexico, set itself up as an independent republic in 1836. Its population consisted largely of bold and somewhat reckless adventurers from the southern states. In one year Texas had established independence after a sharp war with Mexico and a few months afterward applied for union with this country. The question remained open until, having agitated American politics for many years and having cost Mr. Van Buren the Democratic nomination for president in 1844, it was finally settled in 1845. Texas was annexed and admitted as a state of the Union by a joint resolution approved by President Polk. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and the western part of Colorado were acquired by conquest. They were ceded to the United States at the close of the Mexican war, during Polk's administration in 1848. Nevertheless nearly $20,000,000 was paid to Mexico in settlement of certain claims as the price of the territory. Excepting West Florida, already referred to, this is the only territory gained by the sword. A strip of land in southern Arizona was not in the Mexican cession, but was

bought in 1853, Pierce being the president at the time, for $10,000,000. Thus the country be-

came possessed of all its present territory between Canada on the north and Mexico on the south. Alaska was purchased of

Russia during Mr. Johnson's presidency in 1867, and the sum of $7,200,000 was paid for it. Its total area is almost the same as that of all the territory obtained of Mexico by conquest and purchase.--Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Domesticity In a Railroad Train. If you chance to be on a certain car of the Sixth avenue "L" about 12 o'clock in the day as it passes up from the Fourteenth street station, you'll see a pretty little girl of some 7 summers with a dinner pail. Her slender young figure presses against the platform rail, and the big brown eyes anxiously scan the various cars as they come and go. The crowd get on and get off and push and jostle for place, but she pays no attention to what is going on so lively all around her, and clinging tightly to the dinner pail scrutinizes every car platform. All at once her eyes twinkle, and her face lights up, and she springs upon the upper platform. The trainman takes her dinner pail and slams the gate. Then he gives her a light kiss, which is received with a shy glance around the car at the rest of the folks, and the pair sit down in the nearest corner. The father, relieved temporarily by one of his mates, opens up the contents of the dinner pail, and the little girl makes a mental inventory of the dresses of the grand ladies in whose society she is unexpectedly thrown. Mean-

while the slamming and banging and rushing and crowding and ringing of gong and bell are going on, lending additional prettiness to this picture of domestic life in the metropolis.--New York Herald.

Chasing Whimsical Fashion. Every change that arises gives labor and a livelihood to many waiting hands. If women are extravagant in matters of dress --and men, too, for that matter--it directly benefits other and poorer women. It also benefits the weary manufacturer, who spends his life chasing this fickle dame and trying to arrive each season with her. If successful, he makes "a hit of the season" and is encouraged to keep on at a rate faster than any exposition flier. If he fails, we only wonder why he "didn't know that style would never go," and his only resource is to try again, for this elusive Mme. Fashion cannot always escape. It is wearisome work following fashion's changes, but on the other hand, such faithful followers of-

ten are repaid royally and reap many gold-

en dollars for their ideas thus carried out.

As far as the world at large is concerned,

the spendthrift does it more good than the

miser, and in this spirit we accept the ap-

parently frivolous changes of the autocratic Dame Fashion.--Dry Goods Economist.

Use a Straw for Cold Drinks. "I see," said a prominent doctor yesterday, "that lovers of soda water and iced drinks have at last found a way to partially overcome the deleterious effects of such things being suddenly taken into the stomach on a warm day. They are using straws to drink soda water, and it is a good thing. An overheated person rushing up to a soda water fountain and gulping down the frigid concoctions that they serve there cannot imagine the harm he is doing to his system. The straw method is a much slower one, and the liquid gets heated up to nearer the temperature of the stomach before it gets there and so does less harm."--Pittsburg Dispatch.

THE INFANT. Blooming, precious little flower Of the sacred bridal bower, Why dost thou so smile on me In thine Eden infancy? Wouldst thou shed on me such light If thou knew'st my spirit's night, Emptied of stars and silver moon Long ere it knew a crowning noon?

Ah, yes! Ah, yes! In pity thou Wouldst still cast sunshine on my brow; Still give a rose unto the shroud; Still hang a rainbow on the cloud. Blooming, precious little flower Of the sacred bridal bower Still, oh, still shed light on me From thy heaven of infancy!

--New York Ledger.

Where Is Hades Located?

The ancient philosophers were of the opinion that the infernal regions were at an equal distance away from all parts of the earth's surface, which may be the foundation of the modern idea of hell being at the center of the earth. The ancient Jews also

located the place of torment at the center of our little sphere. According to them, there were three passages leading to it:

The Wilderness, by which route Dathan, Koran and Abiram descended; the sea, because it is written that Jonah cried to God out of the belly of hell; the third passage is

at Jerusalem, because it is said:

"The fire of the Lord is in Zion, and his furnace is in Jerusalem." Mohammed said that hell had seven gates--the first for the Mussulmans, the second for the Christians, the third for the Jews, the fourth for the Sabeans, the fifth for the Magians, the sixth for the pagans and the seventh for the hypocrites of all religions. Whiston, the English astronomer, believed that hell is

situated on a comet, and that one moment the damned will be in the blistering heat

of the sun and the next in a region of terrible cold. Among Christian sects there are two controverted opinions in regard to hell --one concerning its locality, the other the duration of the torments.--Philadelphia Press.

The Clever Advance Agent. A group of actors and managers were deploring the fact that there were no more clever advance agents. They claimed the men with vivid imaginations had either become proprietors or managers or else disappeared entirely. "The best advance agent in this country," remarked one manager, "got his training with Barnum's circus. I first met him in Fremont, Neb., and he was with the show. The morning of the performance it was rumored about that the elephants while bathing in the Platte River had got caught in the famous quicksands of that stream. Bulletins were put out every hour, stating that the elephants had sunk another inch or two. The river banks were crowded with people, and

every hour brought hundreds more. About 1 o'clock this agent winked to the trainer, and he winked to the elephants. The big animals slowly crawled out of the mud and started for the grounds. Of course the crowd followed, and most of them went into the tents. This trick was played in every town on the Platte river."--Cor. Springfield Graphic.

Letter Carrying in China.

In China before a letter is mailed or delivered to the carrier its contents are displayed, and the keeper of the letter shop then signs his "chop," or sign, so that its

point of origin may be determined. Parcels may be transmitted in the same manner,

the charge for carrying them being a percentage of their declared value. The shop keeper gives a receipt for the letter or package, and

he thus becomes responsible for its safe de-

livery or its return to the sender with seal unbroken. In some parts of the empire about two-thirds of the expense of transmission is paid by the sender, the remainder being collected from the receiver. Thus the shop is secured against entire loss from transient customers, and the sender has some guarantee that his letter will be conveyed with dispatch. Native merchants who are regular customers keep an open account with the shop and make their settlements monthly.

Canoeing. Canoeing is a sport particularly adapted to the American. With our innumerable waterways, whether river, lake or land locked bay, almost all the American people may have the opportunity of sharing in this most enjoyable of pastimes, if they will but use the proper precautions. Canoeing is easy to learn, at least [?] with a paddle. Sailing a canoe is decidedly a gymnastic exercise and would better be

left to the young athletes. But to follow the old precept, "Paddle your own canoe," the same qualities are required which are necessary when the injunction is taken in a meta-

phorical sense. To know what he wants to do, and to go and do it, is the best possible idea for a canoeist to bear in mind. Albeit he must do it gently.--Boston Advertiser.

Hauling Down the Flag. P. P. Elder was speaker of the house of representatives in Kansas when Windom and General Sherman died in 1891. Windom died 24 hours before Sherman, and the flag on the statehouse was pulled half way down. When the news came of the great general's death, the sergeant-at-arms rushed in and asked Elder what he should do. "Put the flag at half mast," said Elder. "But it is already at half mast for Windom," explained the sergeant-at-arms. "Then pull it the rest of the way down, you goose," exclaimed the Elder petulantly.--Chicago Inter-Ocean.

An Augur, Not a Bore. Clergyman--Is it true, Miss Ruth, that you said my last Sunday's sermon bored you? Miss Ruth (with a little gasp)--Oh, my, no! Goodness gracious, no! I said that it--er--penetrated my very soul. Isn't it strange how people misconstrue things!--Truth. If we cannot afford the time necessary for masticating our food properly and incorporating it thoroughly with [?], it would be better to take nothing but [?] and similar foods. The use of water and other liquids as lubricators is not to be understated[?]. The Scotch lassie believes that should she by accident drop her new shoes before they are worn they will surely land her into trouble.