VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1895.

NO. 45.

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.

ODDS AND ENDS.

Lucan died repeating a passage from

his own poems.

In the house of commons there are ten newspaper men, six printers, four tailors,

three stationers, two butchers, three ho-

tel keepers, six farmers, one coal mer-

chant and one cab driver. A London court recently practically

legalized cigarette smoking by women

in deciding that a mistress is not justi-

fied in discharging a cook without notice because she smoked in the kitchen.

A Porter county (Ind.) man has been

steadily advertising for a wife for two years. The other day he succeeded in his quest, a Nebraska young woman agreeing to join with him in matrimo-

nial traces.

A Chinaman asked to be registered at Yuma the other day under the name of Charlie Allen. The officer refused because it wasn't a Chinese name. He explained that he got the name by marrying a white woman.

DR. HOLMES.

"Good Dr. Holmes is dead," Thus all the people said. I in my heart alone, Smiled at the white gravestone, Smiled at the thing they said. Dead! That generous heart? Dead! That genial art? Open that nearby book. Into its pages look. Of him in the greater part. There we may hear him speak In the passing hour and week; See him in yonder page Bright, in the future age. He is there for all who seek. Gone! That attuning mirth? Gone! That enriching worth? Nay, to such souls is given, That, though they bloom in heaven, They cannot fade from earth. --Louise Morgan Sill in New York Sun.

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. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday. C. E. EDWARDS. J. C. CURRY. DRS. EDWARDS & CURRY, DENTISTS, Room 12, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Restaurants. MARSHALL'S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS. No. 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, 35 cents.

Ladies' Room up-stairs with home-like comforts.

PURE SPRING WATER. OPEN ALL NIGHT.

BAKERY, 601 South Twenty-second street. 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.

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.

JONATHAN HAND, JR., Attorney-at-Law, SOLICITOR AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Notary Public, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. Office opposite Public Buildings.

Y. CORSON, DEALER IN FLOUR AND FEED, No. 721 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL ESTATE AND INSURNACE 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.

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.

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.

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day.

LEANDER S. CORSON, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ocean City, N. J. Plans and specifications furnished. Terms reasonable. First-class work. STEELMAN & ENGLISH, Contractors AND Builders, Ocean City, N. J. Plans, specifications and working drawings furnished. Jobbing promptly attended to.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITURE, 43 South Second Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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.

McCLURE, HERITAGE & CO., Successors to Finnerty, McClure & Co., DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS, 112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Dealers in Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Etc.

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

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.

ISRAEL G. ADAMS & CO., Real Estate AND Insurance AGENTS,

Rooms 2, 4 & 6, Real Estate & Law Building,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.

Commissioners of Deeds for Pennsylvania. Money to loan on First Mortgage. Lots for sale at South Atlantic City.

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.

HARRY HEADLEY, OCEAN CITY HOUSE, 717 Asbury Avenue, PLASTERING, BRICKLAYING. Ornamental Work of Every Description. All kinds of cementing work and masonry promptly attended to.

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JARLEY.

Jarley possessed the domestic virtues to the egotistical degree. He wearied his friends with his self laudations, bored them by cataloguing the delights of a home life and angered them by parading the fact that he was a genuine "stay at homer." Even his wife took him to task at times because of his obstinacy in living up to his high keyed pretensions, for he vowed that when he put on his slippers and smoking jacket no earthly power could make him leave the house. It was a great event in her monotonous life when he deigned to make a call, and her nervous system was thrown from its balance for a moment when he took her to the theater. He seldom varied his programme. He sat down to dinner at 6:30 o'clock and then brought out his rusty red slippers, donned his well worn smoking jacket and read the papers until bedtime. Each year of his married life seemed to fasten the habit to him more firmly, and the tenth anniversary of his wedding day found him a slave to his home conceit. In all other respects Jarley was a fine fellow, popular with his business friends, extremely affectionate and kind to his wife and children and a good citizen. Many times his down town acquaintances had urged him to join this and that lodge, council or chapter of some secret society, but he checked further solicitation by ostentatiously announcing that he had no use for clubs or societies; that he had a little club of his own at home which took up all his spare time, and that his family and do-

mestic comforts were all he needed in the way of life and amusement.

He was riding down town in a car one morning when a friend in the life insurance way began talking business to him. With that enthusiasm and earnestness which are characteristic of a successful life insurance agent he secured Jarley's interested attention, and after giving him a pocketful of circulars, estimates and other advertising literature left him at the corner, satisfied that he would have Jarley's policy before the month was out. At lunch Jarley confided to his office companion that he had half a mind to take out a policy in the Double Cross Life Insurance com-

pany.

"What's that?" asked his friend. "You want some life insurance? How much do you want, $3,000? Why don't you come into the Triple Plated League of Good Fellows? It's a mutual relief and aid association and carries a life insurance of $3,000, and it will not cost you one-third as much as is charged by the cheapest life insurance company in existence. Just think, only 87 cents for each assessment, and last year there were but 30 assessments. Beat that if

you can. Over 500,000 members in the

United States."

"No," said Jarley, "I don't want to join a society. I am so much of a stay at home that I do not feel that"--"You won't have to go to lodge meetings," interrupted his friend. "All you will have to do is to fill out this application. I will see that you go through the committee all right. Then you will have to be initiated, and after that, so long as you pay your assessments and dues, you needn't go near the lodgerooms. Then when you die the boys will see that you are buried in good shape, and your widow will get $3,000." Jarley thought of the Triple Plate league all of that afternoon. At night he looked over the life insurance estimates, compared them with the estimates given to him by his business friend and next morning told the latter that he would fill out an application. His friend was as good as his word. Jarley went through the examination committee without a jar, and one morning he received a polite letter telling him that his application had been duly received, and that if he would present himself on the following Tuesday he would be initiated. Mrs. Jarley was greatly surprised when her husband hurried through his dinner that Tuesday evening and without telling her where he was going put on his best clothes

and left the house.

Jarley met his friend in the corner drug store under the lodgeroom of the Triple Platers with some misgivings. He was densely ignorant of the first principles of a secret society, and his knowledge of initiations was limited to reading "riding the goat" jokes and accounts of college hazings. In the drug

store he was introduced to other Triple Platers and was warmly welcomed. Under the benign influence of friendly, jovial good fellowship his nervousness wore off, and he ascended the stairs to enter upon the ordeal with considerable nonchalance.

To his surprise he found that the initiation ceremonies were dignified and solemn. A great deal was said of philanthropy, friendship and loyalty, and he felt as though he were being received into church. Then he was given the passwords and grip and soon after was the center of a crowd of men, receiving congratulations and slaps on the back. He passed a delightful evening. Music, cigars and well told stories followed one another rapidly, and it was after midnight when he reached his home and his worried wife. A few days later he placed in his buttonhole the figured button of the Triple Platers and practiced the grip with his friend until he had it perfect. Jarley for the second time in his married life broke his stay at home rule by going to the lodge the next Tuesday evening, and the week after found him there again. The pleasant evenings with the Triple Platers and the novelty of it all turned his attention to the dull life led by his wife, and he took her to the theater.

Soon after the Triple Platers held an open lodge for the wives and friends of the members. Jarley bought Mrs. Jarley a dress for the occasion, and the breath nearly left the good woman when she found that he had ordered a carriage.

The friend who induced him to join the society had not painted its benefits too gaudily, for a member of Jarley's lodge died, and Jarley was appointed one of the pallbearers and was one of the committee to take a check for $3,000 to the widow. The assessments were not numerous, and Jarley figured that he was carrying a life insurance of $3,000 for about $15 a thousand. He also wore his Triple Plate button, and one week when he was sent out of the city on business he attended a lodge meeting in the country town

and made some valuable business acquaintances. Jarley had been a Triple Plater for six months, when he was approached by a member of his church with a proposition to join the B. of Q. T. X., a secret mutual accident and sick benefit

association.

"You say that you are a Triple Plater," said the church member. "Your lodge meets Tuesday evenings. That's all right. Ours meets Thursdays. The Triple Platers have no accident and sick benefits. Twenty-five dollars a week if you are sick or hurt and the doctor paid by the B. of Q. T. X. You had better come in. It won't cost over $25 a year." In his methodical, businesslike way Jarley figured it out and a few weeks later he was initiated into the B. of Q. T. X. He placed the gold button of the B. of Q. T. X. on the lapel of his vest

and felt that his family was well provided for.

Feeling that he ought to encourage that which was of so much benefit to himself, he brought in numerous members to both associations and subscribed for the organs of both orders. He was looked upon as a valuable man by both societies and in a short time was elected outer guard of the Triple Platers and inner guard of the B. of Q. T. X. Soon after his election he was invited to join an order which was composed entirely of men in his line of business, the Benevolent and Supreme Order of the Princes of the Seven Sleepers. This met on Saturday night, and the same enthusiasm which he had displayed in keeping up his self acquired reputation as a great home body led him to assume a leading part in the Seven Sleepers. He was elected secretary of the association and soon after was elected warder in the Triple Platers and high counselor in the B. of Q. T. X. Three evenings a week were taken up by the three societies, and his front parlor became a committee room. Mrs. Jarley rather liked the change. The Triple Platers, B. of Q. T. X.'s and Seven Sleepers were pleasant men, and her home life had a variety and liveliness which contrasted most pleasantly with the ten years of monotony. Jarley was now a full fledged secret society man. He joined the American Order of the Kickapoos, the High and Mighty Knights of the Supreme Council of the Eclipse, the Brethren of the Order of the Lost Pielades, the Sons of Neptune and the Baronial Order of the Ancients. He was elected to office in each one of the associations, and when he was not at lodge meetings he was poring over books and accounts, addressing postal cards, attending committee meetings, making out programmes for open meetings, examining applications and practicing grips.

He attended two lodges on one evening sometimes, and his multitudinous responsibilities, his numerous memberships and his lodge acquaintances brought about a confusion of grips, passwords and rituals which caused him to introduce Triple Plate procedures in the lodge of the Seven Sleepers and give a Kickapoo grip to the worshipful grand master of the Sons of Neptune when he was up for the ninety-ninth degree. Mrs. Jarley never saw him except for breakfast and a hasty dinner. Jarley was so much occupied with his cumulative duties that he had no time to take her to open lodges, but he quieted his conscience by telling her that if he was brought home with a broken leg he would receive $200 a week as accident benefits, if he were taken with typhoid his sick benefits would pay him $100 a week, and when he died she would receive $20,000.

Every other day assessment notices came from one or the other of his societies, and he gave up smoking, walked to and from his offices and bought but two suits of clothes a year to save the money with which to meet his assessments. The drain grew too heavy at length, and he took a cheaper house and cut the servant girl's wages. He sometimes wished that he would break his leg in order to get back some of the money he had put into accident benefits. His coat and vest were spangled with secret society badges, crosses and buttons, and he wore three society watch charms on his chain.

The walls of his sitting room and parlor were almost covered with sheepskin certificates of membership and photographs of Jarley as worshipful grandmaster, inner guard, outer guard, high potentate, sublime protector and as a score of other officers in the various lodges.

He developed into an enthusiastic, aggressive, energetic, busy secret society man, and when he was introduced to a stranger he would press the stranger's hands, intertwine his fingers and work his palm a quarter of an hour, giving him the various grips of all the secret societies of which he was a member.--Chicago Record.

The Press In Turkey. In the Ottoman empire the press is not only controlled, but, it would be no exaggeration to say, edited by the censor. It is only a short time ago that the idea of newspapers was introduced into Turkey. At the present time, however, there are a large number published both in Turkish and Arabic, the most important of which are issued in Constantinople and Beirut. In the latter place there are about 15 journals, all in Arabic, but they contain little more than eulogistic articles on his imperial majesty the sultan and the high officials of the government. No free expression of opinion is allowed. The main reason of this is that the Turkish government is more afraid of the voice of the people--more especially the Arabic speaking population--than she is of the reproaches, complaints and protests of the nations of the west. Owing to this the sultan's advisors endeavor, by fair means or otherwise, to stifle the cries of his subjects against oppression and wrongs. The press in Turkey is a mere name without a substance. There is no lack of able writers, but moral courage and self sacrifice are entirely wanting, and this fact always destroys any chance of progress and success. One or two more daring spirits among the editors of the local papers strove to be patriotic at any risk, regardless of possible evil consequences; but, alas! the autocratic power which has for the last 600 years crushed the soul of enterprise, of ambition, of honor and of glory, crushed them like-wise.--Nineteenth Century.

Sophie Arnould. Alboni had a celebrated predecessor on the operatic stage who also speculated in land, but with results which in the end were disastrous. This was the beautiful and witty Sophie Arnould, who was born in 1744 and died in 1803. She was the heroine in Rameau's opera of "Castor and Pollux" and in Gluck's "Iphigenia In Aulis." Her splendid voice, her beauty and her bonmots brought her wealth as well as fame, and at the height of her prosperity she purchased a large estate, but during the convulsions of the revolution the grand opera came to grief. The great singer's titled admirers had either perished on the scaffold or had emigrated. She was obliged to sell her estate, from the tenants on which she could get no rent, and with the proceeds of the sale she bought the buildings of a small nunnery of Francisoan penitents at Luxarches. But she grew poorer and poorer, and at last, almost destitute, came to Paris, in the faint hope of finding among her former worshipers some sympathetic heart and some helping hand. She found both, strangely enough, in Fouche, the sanguinary terrorist, who had become minister of police. "Va. Sophie," observed the ostensibly heartless politician. "Thou shalt not want for bread in thine old age," and from the funds at his disposal he conferred a small pension on the indigent artiste.--Exchange.

A Point In Etiquette That Novices Find Hard to Learn.

Much experience of social functions large and small is needed to enable an arrival to be thoroughly well timed--neither a moment too soon nor too late. To arrive, say, a little before or even precisely at a "quarter to 8 o'clock"--the hour named on a dinner invitation card--has quite a provincial air on the face of it and is embarrassing to both hostess and guest. It was not intended that the hour should be taken literally on the stroke of the clock. On the contrary, it was meant that a quarter of an hour's grace should be given to insure punctuality. Occasional diners out, fearful of being too late or a little late, have a knack of arriving painfully early, before either host or hostess have descended to the drawing room, and the wait

to these guests, however short it may be, appears to them the longest five minutes ever spent. The host and hostess are ruffled at not being found at their post and the guests full of apologies for having called them to it. There is no time in the day when a few minutes one way or the other possess more significance than those that precede the dinner hour, and so thoroughly is this understood by society that no one wishes for an enforced tete-a-tete with a host or hostess by being overpunctual and arriving before the orthodox quarter of an hour has begun its course. So strictly is this unwritten rule with regard to these few minutes observed that a hidden guest will undergo much inconvenience rather than infringe it. A man who knows his world and the exact moment to arrive will relate how during a cab strike he allowed a good half hour in which to walk from his own house to that of his host, but unexpectedly meeting with a handsom he thoughtlessly engaged it and found himself landed at the door a good 20 minutes before the dinner hour. Rather than transgress fashion's law or explain his presence at so early an hour he walked around up and down and at length aroused the suspicions of a policeman, who kept a watchful eye upon him until he disappeared within the portals of his friend's house, making, as was his wont, a well timed arrival, neither disconcerting his entertainers by arriving too soon nor causing them annoyance by arriving late. This rule in the matter of arriving does not apply in the same way to invitations to balls and dances. The hour named on the card is the one at which a hostess would be most pleased to welcome her guests, but they, on the contrary, have a decided distaste to "warming rooms," as it is termed, and prefer to make a more distingue entree some half to three quarters of an hour later, when the rooms are comparatively well filled.

To arrive at an afternoon "at home" punctually at the hour named on the cards would not surprise the hostess, but it would be unfashionable--a word

which means much--and decidedly disconcerting to those who thus arrive. It generally leads to a dull half hour of isolation which might have been avoided. Early arrivals are usually those very intimate with a hostess, and with whom she has much in common. These are privileged to arrive early and pay no penalty for so doing--that of conspicuous solitude--a thing quite distinct from solitude in a crowd. The obligation to arrive within five minutes of the hour named when an invitation to luncheon is concerned is imperative. No latitude is implied in this case, and punctuality is a compliment and a necessity, on the ground that the time allowed for luncheon is brief, and that the meal would be all but over if an arrival is long delayed, it not being customary to wait for luncheon guests, and 1.30 or 2 o'clock signifies that the guests will sit down to luncheon without a moment's delay. Again, the hour named in an invitation to be present at a wedding ceremony must be taken literally, and if 7.30 p. m. is stated 7.30 p. m. is actually intended, and here also the arrival should be before the hour, not after it, say, within 10 to 15 minutes, to allow time for finding seats before the ceremony commences. When to arrive is in itself but a small matter, but one of some importance when taken in the aggregate.--London Queen.

The Everyday Man. "And so you are not married yet?" "No." "Engaged?" "No." "Expect to be?" "No." "What's the matter?"

"Well, papa says that my husband must be a keen and experienced man, of good health and good habits. Mamma says he must be frugal, industrious, attentive and moral, and I say that he must be handsome, dashing, talented and rich. We are still looking for him."

--London Tit-Bits.

A Famous Paris Battle. The battle of the butchers and carpenters was a civil strife between two factions in Paris in 1418. The Duke of Burgundy armed and led the butchers. The Duke of Orleans armed and led the carpenters. A regular battle was fought in the streets and public squares of Paris. The carpenters were victorious and drove all the butchers out of the city.

Lace Stockings. Grand dames in Paris have gone a step further than stockings with real lace insertions that have been their extravagance this season. Some of those are now wearing hosiery made entirely of the costly fabric, with an embroidery of seed pearls on the instep. These real lace stockings are as fine and cobwebby as a veil or scarf and are as expensive as they are dainty.

Curvature of the Earth. Generally speaking, we say that the curvature of the earth is about seven inches to the statute mile. More exactly, it is 6.99 inches to the mile, or 7.363 inches for a geographical mile. The eye, even though artificially assisted by the most improved optical instruments, cannot possibly detect or perceive the least iota of curvature, though the gaze be directed from the highest known point. This is because the eye is not capable of comparing heights and distances. Let us make a little experiment. Take down your globe and place a book against its side. You will instantly see that there is but a very small point of contact between the two. Now let us suppose the earth is as smooth as a billiard ball, and that we have a mammoth book or other large, flat surface to press against its side. At one geographical mile from the point of contact the flat surface used [?] nearly eight inches from the [?], at three miles they will [?] of touching, and at nine miles [?] the [?] two [?] at any given point being equal to three inches of [?] [?] miles [?] dis-tance.--St. Louis Republic.