VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1894.

NO. 21.

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, PHILADEPHIA.

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 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.

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, Graveling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

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.

Physicians, Druggists, Etc. DR. J. S. WAGGONER, RESIDENT 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 ADMINIISTERED.

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 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 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.

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 before things get up to the top notch. Fisher is one of the few pioneers of Ocean City and among its first Real Estate purchasers and Cottagers, 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 connec-

tions, he has superior advan-

tages 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. Occa-

sionally 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.

Why Does She Do It?

Two men were standing on the post-office crossing when a woman passed along. "Did you see that lady offer us her pocketbook?" asked one, a well known justice. "Yes," said the other, "and if I had been as hard up as I have been sometimes in my life I think I should have taken it." "I wouldn't blame you," answered the justice. "It is a constant source of wonder to me why in this age of enlightenment and woman suffrage our women don't learn more common sense. How would a man look walking through the streets holding out his pocketbook to all he meets?"

"I've thought of a scheme," sand his friend. "Now that our ladies are wearing vests the same way we do, why don't they carry car fare and loose change in one vest pocket and bills in the other? Then they could dispense with the pocketbook altogether."

"Well, I know this," said the justice, "a man should never be convicted of stealing for taking a lady's pocketbook on the street when she held it out to him. In these times such a temptation ought to condone the offense. It is like offering a premium on theft and makes every woman who practices it an acces-

sory to crime."--Detroit Free Press.

Women Who Help Themselves. Of 36 women who, under the leadership of Miss Annette Daisy, made a run into Cherokee strip when it was opened last September, 22 have proved steadfast in spite of the difficulties of the undertaking and are busily engaged in making a home without help or hindrance from man. They are hauling the timber themselves for a house of 15 rooms, which they will occupy, and are prepared to do their own plowing, planting, etc., in the well watered, timbered section of 480 acres which they hold. They already have three teams, cows, chickens and other stock, and neatly dressed in short skirts that come just below the knee and are met by heavy woolen leggings that cover the legs from knee to ankle they look well able to hold their own and carry out their independent plan.--Louisville CourierJournal.

Luna and Lunacy.

A short time before Dr. Charcot died he said in a letter that semiscientists had for more than 50 years ridiculed the idea that the full of the moon was a dangerous time for mad people. Better informed men are coming back to that old time notion, said Dr. Charcot, as the result of increased learning on the subject of earth tides, similar to the oscillation of sea tides.

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THE ISLE OF LEPERS.

DR. TALMAGE TELLS OF HAWAII'S COLONY OF LIVING DEATH. He Contrasts the Sadness and the Cheerfulness of Molokai--Unrecognized Heroes Who Supplemented Father Damien's Noble Work There.

[Copyright, Louis Klopech, 1894.] MID-OCEAN, Near Tasmania, June 23. --The most of the world's heroes and heroines die unrecognized. They will have to wait until the roll is called on the other side of the Dead sea. I have seen no celebration of the courage and fidelity of Rev. S. Waiwaiole, who died two years ago in the leper settlement of the Sandwich Islands, nor of the Rev. M. Pahio, who, himself struck with leprosy, goes right on with his evangelical labors, except when especial fever of his disease prostrates him, and will continue his work of love until he has neither foot to walk nor tongue to speak because of the dreadful disintegration. But one in awhile there are circumstances which thrill the world with the same story like that of the brilliant Belgian Catholic priest, Joseph Damien, who, after a week's consideration of whether he had better do so, accepted the appointment as missionary to Molokai, the isle of lepers, for 16 years administering to the leprous and then dying of the leprosy. When told by his physician that he had the fell taint upon him, he showed no alarm nor even agitation, but said: "As I expected. I am willing to die for those I came to save." The king knighted him, and a memorial slab designates his resting place, but Protestantism has joined Catholicism in the beatification of this self sacrificing ecclesiastic.

A Tribute to Damien.

That moral hero completely transformed the isle of lepers. It was before his work began a pen of abominations. No law. No decency. All the tigers of passion were let loose. Drunkenness and blasphemy and libertinism and cruelty dominated. The moral disease eclipsed the physical. But Damien dawned upon the darkness. He helped them build cottages. He medicated their physical distresses. The plague which he could not arrest he alleviated. He settled the controversies of the people. He prepared the dead for burial and digged for them Christian graves and pronounced upon them a benediction. He launched a Christian civilization upon the wretchedness. He gave them the gospel of good cheer. He told the poor victims concerning the land of eternal health, where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick," and the swollen faces took on the look of hope, and the glassy eyes saw coming relief, and the footless, and the limbless, and the fingerless looked forward to a place where they might walk with the King robed in white and "everlasting songs

upon their heads."

Good and Christlike Joseph Damien! Let all religions honor his memory. Let poetry and canvas and sculpture tell the story of this man who loved and died for others and from century to century keep him in bright remembrance long after the last leper of all the earth shall have felt through all his recovering and revitalized nature the voice of the Son of God saying: "I will! Be thou clean."

The Regime of Molokai.

The eternal pathos of Molokai has attracted the attention of all nations because it is a leper colony. It is a small island, but it contains a continent of woe. It was established in mercy. Leprosy was so rapidly advancing in the Sandwich Islands that the entire population was imperiled. To control and extirpate the ghastly evil it was necessary to put it by itself on an island not easily accessible. But those banished there are made as comfortable as possible. In one year this leper settlement cost the Hawaiian government $55,000. Every week each patient is allowed four pounds of salmon, nine pounds of rice, one pound of sugar, or, if preferred, from five to six pounds of beef, and 21 pounds of "paiai," which is a near approach to bread. Leprosy reigns there. The victims have bands of music, all the players lepers. They have churches, all the worshipers lepers. They have carriages, all the drivers and occupants lepers. They have hospitals, all the nurses and patients lepers. They have drama, and all the actors lepers. They have schools, all the teachers and scholars lepers. Marriages are performed, and the contracting parties are lepers. Children are born there, and they are mostly lepers. Everything that pustule and scarification and inflammation and gangrene and disfiguration can do is done here. Science which has successfully fought back most of the world's disorders, has here closed its pharmacy, put back into the case its surgical instruments and come down to the government boat and retreated from this island of death. Thank God, this dominion of death is being broken, and he will have to dismount this sepulchral throne! Segregation of the victims will complete the overthrow of the foul plague, and in these islands a leper will be as rare as in America, where most of the people never saw a leper.

Cheerful, Though Doomed.

What most strikes a visitor at Molokai is the placidity and cheerfulness of the victimized. One would think they could never smile, never sing, never get out from under a sense of despair. But whatsoever agonies may fill the hearts of those lepers they appear to the be-

holder as in a resignation that amounts to good cheer. They seem among the happiest people on earth. Many of them on horseback come galloping down the road. Songs roll over the fated village by day and night. Hawaiian nature adjusts itself to circumstances. We have often seen people who through pulmonary or Bright's disease were certain of early demise, and yet a mirth bubbling and resonant. The fact is we must all die, and yet we manage to keep cheerful, and why not those struck by leprous fatality have sunshine in their coun-

tenance and talk?

The mercy of the Hawaiians has made this colony of doomed inhabitants more tolerable than in most lands. I have seen in the suburbs of Jerusalem and Damascus scores of those cast out for this disease and inhabiting caverns and tombs--beaten of the elements, living on the coin which passersby may fling to them, while day by day they are rotting alive. Let us thank God that those smitten with incurable sores in the Sandwich Islands have homes and schools and churches and food and nurses and alleviations and parterres of sweetest flowers under arches of bluest skies.

The Story of William Ragsdale, Leper. No respecter of persons in this physical calamity. William Ragsdale, a popular lawyer, was sent there. He was eloquent, both in Hawaiian and English, and could make his audience weep and laugh and shiver and resolve. He had the satire of a Junius and the impassioned abandon of an O'Connell. No one suspected he was a leper before the day when he sent a letter to the authorities surrending himself and saying that on the morrow he would go aboard the steamer for Molokai. He spent the morning of the day of his departure in riding around to say goodby to his friends, and just before the hour of sailing came down to the boat, his neck adorned with gardenia, and turned around and made a farewell address,

closing with the words, "Aloha, may God bless you, my brothers!" Hundreds of the people and a glee club accompanied him to the boat, and they rent the air with lamentations as the boat swung off from its moorings. He took a Bible and some lawbooks with him into his dreadful exile, and the prayers of churches were offered that he might have courage and peace in the remaining days of his earthly tarrying. Queen Emma's cousin, Hon. Mr. Kaco, was also sent to Molokai, and there was no power in his royal connection to keep him outside of that island. Mrs. Napela, of high social circle, had her cottage of enforced exile on that island of sepulchers. A legislator of the Hawaiian Is-

lands is there closing his life. He was probably a good legislator in the day of his health, but I cannot help thinking what a good thing it would be if all the leprous legislators of the earth could be put in some island by themselves. Such a banishment would be a mighty thinning out at Albany, Harrisburg and Washington legislatures, state and national.

The United States government could afford to provide such a Molokai, and the moral lepers sent there could have their legislatures and congress and board of aldermen and army and navy all of the same blotch. But while the Hawaiian legislator could be found out and sent to the so called "isle of precipices" the moral leper is not so easily designated, because he has the blotch not so much on his forehead as on his heart. What every state and nation now needs is a Molokai, or isle of lepers. Leprosy Diagnosed. Conversation about leprosy with a former member of the board of health for the Hawaiian Islands revealed to me the following facts: Question--In what part of the system does leprosy begin its work? Answer--It attacks the nerve centers. Q.--I thought it was a disease of the blood? A.--No. It begins with the nerves, and just as the girdling of the trunk of a tree first shows its withering results in the tip end of the long branch of the tree so leprosy is first apt to show itself in the paralysis or doubling up of the little finger, or in the toe, or in the lobe of the ear. Sometimes there appears upon the body a shining surface, and it is unimpressible. Prick it with a pin, and there is no sting. All the rest of the patient's body may be in perspiration, but that spot remains dry. Sometimes all the signs of physical disorder disappear, and the disease seems gone. Then there will come a leprous fever, and that will throw out a blush or effervescence that more emphatically announces the progress of the disease. Then all signs of skin disturbance appear, but after the following leprous fever the case is worse than before. So each retreat of

the disease is followed by a more decided advance.

Q.--Is it painful? A.--No. That is one of the miracles. From the first assault of the plague to the hour of death there is an absence of physical suffering.

Q.--But is there no mental depression? A.--Oh, yes! At the first acquaintance of the fact that the disease is on him a horrid gloom settles upon the patient, but after awhile a slight hope

of recovery is born, and the incipient leper tries all forms of cure, and no form is so absurd that will not recommend itself as worthy of experiment. And then all the time the patient thinks it is something besides leprosy.

Q.--When a victim of the disease is first charged with having the plague, I should think he would resent it? A.--Yes, and the English law makes it a libelous case for the courts if a man is unjustly charged with being a leper. Boards of health have to be very careful in the work of segregation. No Cure Now Known For the Plague. Q.--Are there any cases of cure? A.--The only cases I recall are those mentioned in the Bible--Naamaan, the Syrian hero, and the 10 cases that Christ cured, nine of them too mean to acknowledge the divine medicament. Q.--What in ordinary cases is the velocity of the disease and how long before it completes its work? A.--Well, I have known one case to last 16 years. I think the usual durance is five or six years. Q.--Has the leprosy different modes in demonstrating itself?

A.--It has. The tuberculous and the anæsthetic. The former is most repulsive. It swells and bloats and distorts the face. The last sign of humanity is blotted from the countenance. There are cases of this kind called "leonine," for the reason that the face is so widened and enlarged and made severe that the countenance looks like a lion. The anæsthetic form is a withering, a thinning out, a wasting away, a depletion, a skeletonizing process.

Q.--Is it contagious?

A.--There are different opinions about that. I have seen in married life the husband or wife a leper for years and the partner in life always in good health. I have known a leprous parent to have a healthy child. I was talking on this subject with an eminent physician, who said to me: "Do you see those two children playing together? The one is a leper and the other my own child, and I have no fear about contamination."

Q.--How many patients are there in Molokai at the present time? A.--About 1,000.

Here ended my conversation with the former member of the board of health of the Sandwich Islands. Up to date the woe goes on. Only two weeks ago a ship took 25 more lepers to Molokai. The scene of parting is said to be so heartrending that but few people go to the wharf to witness it. The wailing and howling at the parting of families as the filial and fraternal and paternal and maternal bonds are broken is something that haunts the memory. Not long ago a young man sentenced to the leper island declared he would not be taken alive. He shot three of those who were attempting to segregate him and then hid in a hut until a cannon on a neighboring hill bombarded the hut into a wreck. Then a relative went to the hut and found the young man dead.

But do not let us give up discouraged. Leprosy as well as cancer and all the other unconquered ailments will yet be cured. I do not know where the cradle now holding the coming doctor is being rocked, whether at Molokai, or in Honolulu, or on the banks of the Thames, or the Rhine, or the Tiber, or the Ural, or the Hudson, or the Savannah, nor do I know from what college he will unroll his diploma, nor in what laboratory he will make his experiments, nor in what decade he will give proclamation of the world's emancipation from diseases as yet incurable, but he will go through the same persecutions that Dr. Jenner did because of his discovery of a way to halt smallpox, and as Dr. Keeley has endured because of his almost supernatural cure of alcoholism, and the new discovery will run the gauntlet of caricature and expulsion from medical societies, and will, like the most illustrious being of all ages, become the target for expectoration, but the discoverer will give leprosy the command, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther," and that disease will wriggle and crawl and shrink out of the world, and after the medical emancipator is dead the nations will build a monument so high to his memory that the granite shaft will dispute with the skies the right of possession, and in the epitaph thereon the clicking chisel will try to atone for the slanderous tongue, and the world that held back from the discoverer the bread of honest praise will give him a storm of post mortem commemoration. Forward the whole column of surgeons and physicians for the conquest of leprosy and cancer! T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

"My Hair Always Curled Naturally."

As I promised the other day a fortune to the first hotel proprietor who provides his lady customers with electric heaters for their curling tongs, it is only right I should inform them that Mr. Dawson of Berners street has invented a contrivance for this purpose, which, he says, can be used without difficulty wherever the electric light is installed. In order that I may verify this, Mr. Dawson has been good enough to send me a heater and a pair of tongs.

I am unable to give him a testimonial because, in the first place, I have no electric light in this office, and, in the second place, I do not know how to use curling tongs, as my hair has always curled naturally.--Labouchere in London Truth.

A Vindication. "There's no use in carrying a joke this far," said a Washington man to a New

Yorker. "Philadelphia isn't nearly as slow a town as we have been led to believe."

"You think so?"

"To be sure. I was over there the other day. They use 1894 calendars the same as we do."--Washington Sun.