VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N J., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1894.

NO. 22.

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

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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 & 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 MURDOH, 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. & 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. WAGGOER, 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, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Attorneys-at-Law. MORGAN HAND, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner, Notary Public, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. (Opposite Public Buildings.)

LAW OFFICES SCHUYLER C. WOODRULL, 310 Market St., Camden, N. J. Solicitor 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., 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

Training Tumbler Pigeons. We have known many purchases made of "Birmingham rollers" and great disappointment expressed at the after performance of the birds of their progeny simply from carelessness in their

management. The best flying tumblers in the world, if left to fly at will, will rapidly degenerate. Each flier has its

own little details of management, which, after all, matter very little. The essential point is that, in beginning to train, the birds are only let out occasionally, say every three or four days, and when hungry, be it morning or evening. The

reasons for both precautions are, first, the

previous confinement causes them to fly

actively at once upon being liberated, and, second, their appetite leads them to a quick return as soon as they have

had exercise enough.

They must be fed immediately on return to keep up this habit, plentifully while only occasionally flown, but light-

ly when, being trained and let out in

the morning, they are going to be let

out again in the evening, their full

meal being in this case reserved till after the last fly. If of good stock and first tossed when there are no birds to tempt them to "pitch," they soon get into the habit of bursting off the moment they are liberated, and this habit must be

very carefully preserved, weeding out

instantly, as soon as discovered, any unusually lazy bird which would otherwise be a check upon the rest and might lead them to descend with it. No other

system is needed beyond this in training

tumblers.--Liverpool Courier.

A Modern Jonah.

London Quiver is responsible for this unlikely story:

People of the free thinking class often dispute the story of Jonah and the whale not so much on account of its improbability as because it is in the Bible. The declare that the whale never lived that could swallow a man,

but such persons should remember that

the word 'whale' as used in holy wri

referred to any large species of fish. No

long since a shark and a sailor in the Mediterranean sea re-enacted the part of Jonah and the whale to perfection. The man fell overboard and instantly disappeared in the mouth of a monster shark. The captain fired upon the beast from the deck, and as the shot plowed through its back it case the man out again, and he was rescued, perfectly unhurt, but so badly frightened that he was sick for

several days.

According to the Glasgow Evening News, it appears that the latest statistics issued by the German imperial health department give to Berlin the honor of being the healthiest city in the world and Alexandria the unhealthiest.

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GLIMPSES OF SAMOA. REV. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE ISLANDS AND THEIR CUSTOMS. Scenes of Battle and Shipwreck--A Visit to the Royal Palace--"Trade Gin" and "Kava"--King Malietoa's Missionary Flag--Beach Combers.

[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.]

APIA, Samoa, July 2.--A hundred and sixty dead men in the angry waters; one ship sunk out of sight so that not so much as a plank or rope has since appeared; of our three great American warships lying in the harbor the Leipsic beached, the Trenton and Van-

dalia demolished; of the three great German men-of-war the Eber and Olga gone completely under; the Adler rolled over on its side and cracking apart amid-

ships; out of all the vessels in harbor only one saved, and that because it had

steam up and could sail out into the sea; three days of wreckage and fright and horror which shook the island, and by report of next steamer transfixed all nations, all this a brief putting of what an antipodean hurricane did for this harbor in March, 1889. While all up and down the beach of this island are

pieces of the wreckage of that unparalleled tempest, only one skeleton of a ship remains, the Adler, sufficiently distinct to represent that scene of eyclonte infernization. It is rather unfor-

tunate that Samoa, in the popular mind of all nations, stands as a synonym of shipwreck, for the place is as fine a specimen of foliage and fruitage as the world holds. Indeed its harbor is the sea captain's anxiety, for, though a wide harbor, it has only a small entrance, and rocks in all directions toss the white foam. The captain told us we need not think we were left if we saw him sailing out to sea, for he would do so if a squall came up, but he would return and take us.

After more than seven days of ocean rolling, without sight of ship or land, the Samoan islands greet you like a beatific vision. As we came on deck this

morning the waters were covered with small boats of natives bringing speci-

mens of coral and all manner of flowers

and fruits, ready to sell these and transport to shore all the passengers who chose to go. A boat belonging to the German legation, with four stout oarsmen, took us three-quarters of a mile to the beach. From thence we went to King Malietoa's residence. But it is a time of war. The king had fled to the forest. A few nights before he was thought to be at a village house, and it was surrounded and shot into, and the king would have been slain if he had been there. The whole island is in a turmoil. We were shown the king's rooms and his pictures and bric-a-brac. The walls suggested fondness for German and English royalty, but I found not the face of any American president or general. We saw the queen, and at the invitation of the warriors went into the guards' tent--about 15 dusky soldiers, each reclining on a pillow of round wood upheld by two small supports, a more uncomfortable pillow, it would seem to me, than that in Bethel from the foot of which Jacob saw the

angelics.

Each of the warriors had a gun within reach. At their invitation we sat down on a mat beside those who were sitting and in scant vocabulary talked over the Samoan troubles. We saw one soldier who had been shot in the foot, and he was limping along leaning on an assistant. Four men were killed last night in a skirmish, and another skirmish is to take place tonight. There are natives who do not want to pay their taxes, and their various grievances have been summed up, and a young warrior wants to get the throne and introduce the millennium. A long continued struggle is opening. Meanwhile a German and English man-of-war is in the harbor, and an American man-of-war is expected soon. What will be the result no one can prophesy. But this is certain--this island and all the group of islands are suffering from foreign interference. It is a common saying among the natives that first comes the missionary, then comes the merchant, then comes the consul, then comes the man-of-war, then--oh, my! Why should three great nations like the English, German and American stoop to such small business as to be watching with anxious and expensive vigilance these islands for fear that this or that foreign government should get a little advantage? Better call home your warships and leave all to the missionaries. They will

do more for the civilization of Samoa than all the guns that ever spoke from the sides of the world's navies. The captain of our steamer, in an interesting address a few evenings ago

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concerning the islands of the Pacific, declared that the only movement toward civilization that amounted to anything in these islands had been made by the

church; gospel, not gunpowder; life,

not death; bibles, not bullets.

The only movement that at this time has full swing in Samoa is the "trade gin." That maddens and imbrutes and has given to Samoa the unsavory and unjust title of the "hell of the Pacific." The foreign gin is helped in its work by a domestic drink called "kava." It is prepared in the following delicious way: There is a plant called Piper methisticum, from the root of which the kava is made. A young Samoan woman moved to one of the Fiji islands, but got tired and resolved to return to her native islands. Before starting homeward she saw a rat, which seemed weak and thin, eat the root of this plant, when the rat immediately became strong and vigorous, and she concluded that the best thing she could do for her native land was to take this root to her people that it might make them strong and vigorous too. As the root of it made the rat strong and vigorous, why not the same result be produced in the human race? So she cultivated in Samoa the Piper methisticum, from which the kava is made. Girls and old men who have nothing else to do prepare this kava by the following process: They take the root and chew it until the juice fills their mouth; then they discharge it from the mouth into a bowl. More root is put into the mouth and the liquid disposed of in the same way. It has be-

come a popular drink. It is ordered on all occasions--at the opening and closing of all socialities, before and after all styles of business. It is kava here and kava there and kava everywhere. And it is cleaner than most of the drinks of other countries and has in it no logwood, strychnine or nux vomica, but pure and simple expectoration.

I consider it as an improvement on most strong drinks. It is said to be a most delicious drunk. [sic] Almost all visitors try this kava and see what it tastes like and what are its effects, but as I have great faith in the testimony of others I did not taste it, believing all they said about the pungent and grateful flavor of this beverage of refined and delectated spit. The kava not only appeals to the taste, but it is said to beautify the cup or bowl from which it is quaffed. The bowl is not washed, but retains the settlings of this beverage, which harden and come to look like exquisite enameling, which submits to a high polish. Not only is the cup enameled, but the stomach of the one who takes it becomes also an enameling so elaborate that I am informed that one who was in such condition, by sneezing violently, cracked the enamel and died. Instead of the burning out of the vitals by the brandy and whisky and wines would it not be more aesthetic to carry around a whole art gallery of enameled insides?

Tell all the Methodists that Malietoa is a Wesleyan and a consistent follower of the three worthies of Epworth--Susannah, Charles and John. Though his every drop of inherited blood is war-like, this king is a man of peace. One of his ancestors fought back an enemy from Samoa and did it so well that the defeated troops as they got back into their boats cheered the Samoan king, shouting, "Well done, Fighting Cock."

But the present king might be better symbolized by a dove rather than a chanticleer. As in America we never had but one man who declined being president of the United States when he knew that he could get the office, so Malietoa is the only man that I know of who declined to be king when the honor fell to him. Again and again he preferred another for the throne and accepted royalty only when the circumstances compelled him to do so. There have been deeds of blood since he took the scepter, but war is barbarism whether under Samoan or American or English flag. Nearly all the great generals of our American wars have been good members of Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Methodist or Baptist or Congregational or Catholic church. Do not, therefore, sneer when I write that Malietoa is a Wesleyan. The flag that floats over his house is a one starred flag contrived by a missionary. Indeed the good work of the missionaries is found wherever we go on this island. The Bible is the chief book. There are churches and schools. One of the group of islands has a college of 55 students in preparation for the ministry. Nearly all the inhabitants of these islands can read and write. There are no doubt enough bad people. Three ships of war lying for the most time in the harbor keep the natives familiar with the vices of more civilized nations. "The beach combers," as they are called in Samoa --that is, the men who combine the work of wrecker, pirate, thief, desperado and agent for the slums--are found here, but every city that I know of has its beach combers, and the poor swindled immigrants find them more numerous at Boston, New York and Liverpool than the voyagers of the Pacific find them at Samoa. These islands are more thorough Sabbath keepers than you will find in almost any land of all the earth. From early morning until late at night on Sabbath the whole town, with few exceptions, is given up to devotion. At half past 6 on Sabbath morning the church bells ring, and the people put on their best attire and assemble for worship. Again, in midafternoon, the church bells ring, and the people gather. Far on into the Sunday night the Christian songs may be heard, caught up and sounded back from home to home and from mountain to beach. There is far more Sabbath kept in Samoa than in any town or city in America of the same size, but this was not always so. From what cruelty Christian civilization has lifted it! In olden times, when they conquered an enemy, they broke his spine. To add to the humiliation of the defeated some of them were roasted and eaten. When a woman was candidate for marriage to some chief, she was seated in the market place for the public to decide whether she were fit for such marriage. If they decided in the negative, she was clubbed to death. They worshiped the dog, or the eel, or the turtle, or the lizard, or the shark. "Back!" cried the Christian religion to such monstrosities of behavior, and all things changed.

The Samoans have not much use for clothes. I saw no fashion plates in the windows. A tailor would starve to death in Samoa. Lack of complete physical investure comes not from undue economy, not from pauperism, not from immorality, but originally from the fact that on these islands the climate is so mild the year round that necessity does not make inexorable demand upon weavers and clothiers. But gradually calicoes and nankeens and alpacas are coming into demand. The Samoan somewhat substitutes tattooing, which in some cases appears quite like a suit of clothes. In the boat crossing from wharf to steamer I put my hand on the knee of a Samoan and said, "You are tattooed." He replied, "Yes; that me clothes." I said, "When do you have that tattooing done?" He answered, "Twenty years of age." I said, "Does it hurt?" He replied: "Oh, yes! Hurt! Swell up!" I asked, "How long does it take to have that tattooing done?" He answered, "Two months." Indeed all the men I noticed had been tattooed. It is a badge of manhood. A man is not respectable unless tattooed. He would be thrust out of society or not admitted. The most profitable business is that of tattooing. The artist retires to the bush with a few candidates for two or three months. Every day, as the patient can endure it, the pricking in of the paint by needles and sharp tooth combs, the process goes on. The suffering is more or less great, but one must be in the fashion, yet I suppose in this there is no more pain than that which men and women suffer in the martyrdom of fashion through which some people go in the higher civ-

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ilized life. What tight boots, with agony of corns; what piercing of the ear-

lobes for diamond rings; what crufixion of stout waists to make them of more moderate size! The tattooing is only another form of worship at the altar of fashion--no flinching on the part of the tattooed; no backing out. The work done, he who went into the bush a boy comes out a man.

As we passed along the main street of the island we had a crowd after us with something to sell. To buy a flower or a shell was greatly to re-enforce the number of the escorting party. The men are muscular and well formed. The children are beautiful. As to the women, every nation has its type of female beauty, and no one of another nation is competent to judge concerning her.

But there goes the whistle of the Ala-

meda. It has to sound three times, and then off for New Zealand! We wait for the second whistle and then start. Over the rolling billows to the ladder of the steamer, and up to our old place on the good ship, to which we again trust our lives. What a mystery it must be to

all the innumerable creatures of the deep! We discuss some flying fish or see once in a voyage a spouting whale, but we never realize that we are being dis-

cussed by the inhabitants of an element filled with so much life that our captain says when a whale is wounded by its captors it requires two men to keep off the sharks while the captive is being drawn in. What, suppose you, the inhabitants of oceania think of this ship floating above them, of the bow plowing through, of the screw stirring the wave, of the passengers bending over the railing? Every moment as we pass on by day and night there are thousands of icthyological inquiries of "What's that?" What do the sea gulls flying hundreds of miles from shore think of us? What do the sharks think of us? What do the whales think? What does the octopus think? We are as great

mysteries to them as they are to us.--T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

Arousing a Chaplain.

It was in the Kansas legislature of 1891 that Speaker Elder had trouble with the Alliance chaplain. This individual always opened the work of lawmaking with a prayer. One particular morning he had fallen asleep over in a corner. Elder wanted to begin business in a hurry, but the chaplain could not be found.

"Where is that chaplain?" he growled.

Finally he found him. He shook him vigorously and exclaimed in a voice that could be heard a block, "Get up there and do your praying, you lunkhead, and be quick about it too."--Chicago Inter Ocean.

The Choice of a Star. "Did you know," asked the girl in the sailor hat, "that the five pointed star on our nation's flag is a woman's idea? George Washington wanted to adopt a six pointed or ecclesiastical star, but Mrs. Betsy Ross, who made the first American flag, soon convinced him that a five pointed star could be more conveniently cut.--New York Times.