OCEAN CITY SENTINEL. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

R. CURTIS ROBINSON. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.

Advertisements in local columns, 10 cents per line, each insertion. Monthly and yearly rates furnished on application. Job work promptly done by experienced hands. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1895. Entered at the Post Office at Ocean City, N. J. as second-class mail matter.

COUNCIL, in our opinion, cannot col-

lect one cent from the property owners whose lots are brushed by a minor, the son of a Councilman. The filing of liens against the lots in such cases will

not amount to anything.

THE determination by the majority in the New Jersey Legislature to hew to the line in the appropriations to be made is commendable. The enlargement of the State Prison is a matter of necessity and will entail a large expenditure, but beyond that there should be no extensive appropriations or money at this session, not even for stone roads.

SPRING is near at hand. The winter of our discontent is well over, and the lengthening days remind us of the cir-

cumstance. There is much to be done to set things to rights for the season. The rough weather of the cold season has left traces of disorder which need to be overcome before they assume larger proportions. Inside work may now be conveniently done, at a saving of time and money, and of large advan-

tage to the wage-earner.

Bv what authority has Council expended money on account of the new city hall building before the question of bonding the town for that purpose has been submitted to the voters? Council, according to the city's books, has paid Councilman Sutton $105.54 on account of his junketing trip in securing signatures to a petition for the holding of an election to vote on the ques-

tion of bonding.

Why all this expenditure of the public money without any demand whatever for it by the taxpayers? UNDER the laws of New Jersey a contract made with a minor is void. Our Borough Council seems to have lost sight of this, as on Monday evening they awarded the contract for brushing a large number of lots to a minor--the son of a Councilman. The laws of New Jersey prohibit a Councilman being interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract

with the city.

Now, as the contractor is a minor and his father--who is responsible for the boy's acts--a Councilman, does not the latter become DIRECTLY interested? These are facts for the public to digest.

A MAN who holds a political office is not to be envied. Some persons may think he has a "fat" time and enjoys life to a greater degree than one less favored. Any Congressman will tell a different tale, and even Senator Ross could unravel a yarn about his trials and the way he is pestered for donations. He is importuned to buy tickets for every sort of entertainment under the sun; subscribe to church debts; lend his name to schemes for raising money; and there is hardly a day that he does not receive letters with heartrending tales of poverty, misfortune and distress, or is waited on personally by individuals who are persistent beggars for anything that strikes their fancy, from money to horses or houses and lots. If Senator Ross had a million a month he would hardly keep up with the demands upon him for financial assistance. As he has not this amount of money, it is impossible for him to grant every request that pulls at his purse, or every call for co-operation in a variety of things.

THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM. It is well known that our National finances are in anything but a satisfactory condition. This is principally owing to such a loss of revenue under the new tariff that, the expenses of the Government far exceed its receipts, and is constantly running more and more in debt, and a growing distrust of American securities held in foreign countries, growing out of some States repudiating, or scaling their obligations, mismanagement of railroads and other large corporations having securities on the market. On his return from Europe, Mr. Straus said that everywhere he found in mingling with moneyed men, this feeling of disquiet; and they preferred secure investments at lower interest and they were selling out American securities; and this course was making a heavy drain upon the gold of this country. There is another great cause for the withdrawal of gold from the Treasury. There are outstanding $500,000,000 of legal tender notes, payable in gold; $340,000,000 original, and $160,000,000 under the so-called Sherman Act. To meet this $500,000,000 legal tenders the Treasury holds about $50,000,000. So it will be seen that the credit of the Government depends upon the forbearance and courtesy of the holders of its obligations.

Should a large amount of these legal tenders be collected and presented for payment, the Government must suspend payment of gold; and the effect to replenish the Treasury by the issue of ordinary bonds is only running around in a half bushel, for the legal tenders are used to buy the bonds, and instead of being retired, are again put in circulation, to be again gathered to buy gold for more bonds, and this process can go on without limit, and the needs for more bonds continue. The remedy is to retire the greenbacks once redeemed, and let their place be taken by the issue of National Banks properly secured, or else restore the McKinley Law under which the revenues are sufficient to meet all Governmental expenses, keep plenty of gold in the Treasury, and keep the Na-

tion's financial credit at high water

mark. But it is too much to hope that the present Congress with its wide diversity of views upon these and kindred questions can unite upon any scheme that will go to the bottom of the difficulty. As the President holds out no hope for an extra session the only remedy is to tide over the present exigency by another issue of bonds. At this writing it seems to be settled that Secretary Carlisle has arranged to issue $100,000,000 of thirty year four per cent. bonds, with the understanding that half of them are to be taken abroad, so as to stop the outflow of gold, and replenish the Treasury. But it is to be feared that the relief will only be temporary so long as the greenbacks are continually used to draw the gold out of the Treasury. They must be retired and the currency of the National Banks substituted; or, what would be far better, re-enact the McKinley Tariff which will furnish abundant revenue for the Government and keep plenty of gold in the Treasury. Then the greenbacks can not only be safely kept in circulation, but it will be a matter of economy for on this form of indebtedness the Government pays no interest, as it must do on all bonds.

FINE ADMINISTRATION. Over fifteen months have elapsed since the late postmaster of this city surrendered the office to his successor, and up to this time he has not been able to secure payment due him for the four months ending October 31, 1893. The excuse is that the department is three years behind with the accounts. We don't know how many ex-post-masters are thus waiting for their money, but probably there is a legion of them. No wonder Bissell wants to

resign.

When a postmaster is indebted to the United States at the close of his term he is given thirty days in which to pay up. If he fails to do so, he is branded all over the country as a thief and a defaulter. The Post-office Department, however, can keep a postmaster out of his dues indefinitely and that is sup-

posed to be all right.

It is a nice condition of affairs, truly.

--Millville Republican.

Cape May county has several ex-post-

masters who can vouch for the truth of the above. Ocean City's ex-postmaster turned the office over to his successor on October 14, 1893, and has not yet received payment in full. The same is true with the ex-postmasters at Sea Isle City and Cape May Court House.

EARLY FRIENDSHIPS. The pleasantest recollections of men are usually associated with boyhood days, and hence the friendships formed during that period are likely to last through a lifetime. The intimacy between boy friends may not be maintained, for very often they are drifted apart by changes in the social condition of one or the other, but the old feeling of friendship is revived whenever they meet, and when they have grown to be grey-headed men they will revert to the happy days of childhood and find pleasure in the recollections mutually inspired. The firmest and most lasting friendships, however, says an exchange, are generally formed in early manhood. The young man meets then those who are likely to be fit social companions throughout this life. The friends will grow old together, their tastes will be simultaneously developed and they will keep on measurably the same planes of fortune and culture. Moreover, the friends chosen in early manhood will be selected with some judgment and not be the mere accidents of association as are the friends of one's

boyhood.

Very pleasant are the friendly relations established between congenial young men and maintained for a score of years or more while each is carving out his fortune and developing his tastes. Two such friends grow together, as it were, and become parts of each other's life. Their sympathy is something quite different from the conventional sympathy of all well-meaning people for each other. It is so real that each understands the other without the need of words. The inevitable parting of such friends is very sad, for old men cannot form new friendships. Those who survive their old associates lead a melancholy life. They may have many acquaintances and enjoy the respect of the community, but their hearts are vacant when they have lost the friends of their youth and early manhood.

Sometimes one may find a friendless man in middle life. He has been so busy selfishly accumulating a fortune for himself that when he has attained his desire and ought to be prepared to

enjoy life he finds himself alone in the

world and too old to establish friend-

ships with men of his own age. He

can find plenty of people to help him spend h is money, jolly acquaintances who will stick by him as long as he pays for their mutual entertainment,

but no friends who will respect and

love him or make sacrifices in his interest. He is, as it were, prematurely old without the pleasurable recollection of

dead and gone friends that solaces the declining days of those who are old in

years.

The time to form friendships that will be lasting and mutually serviceable is in the days of early manhood, when the judgment is sound, though not mature. Then opportunity is afforded for that "wearing" together which brings friends into close communion and determines the stability of the relation. Friends modify each other's character, but only during the impressionable age. After that all men must be taken for what they are and there is then little chance for the meeting of two whose tastes fits into each other. We should cherish the friends of our youth, from whom, however, we are to drift apart, but more especially we should cherish the friends of mature years with whom we may grow in sympathy until the period of all growth has been passed and begin to decline.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? It is often a matter of surprise that, with all the condemnation which is so freely poured upon dishonesty and fraud, they should continue to be practiced to so great an extent in circles that might be supposed to be most sensitive to such condemnation. All agree that social opinion is a most powerful motive in influencing men's conduct; and, if social opinion frowns upon crooked and underhanded dealings in business and elsewhere, how do we account for their continuance? The motives which lead to such dishonorable practices must indeed be studied before any real influence can be exerted to prevent them. The desire for gain is generally supposed to be the chief one; yet it is not so much the gain itself which is craved as the public favor which usually follows the gain. Not for mere personal comfort are most extravagant expenditures made, but for the imagined eclat which they are likely to create. A young man soon finds that wealth is the road to applause and position; that if he is to move in certain circles he must live in a certain way; that if he cannot do this he will either be dropped out of them, or permitted to remain only under sufferance. Thus he strains every nerve to obtain whatever is requisite to the end. The temptations which assail him, and draw him from the strict paths of rectitude, come far more from this source than from any other. Without in the least excusing him for yielding to them, it may not be irrelevant to consider how far the general attitude of public opinion is to blame in presenting to him such alternatives. It is true that society has much to say about the nobility of honest poverty and the sins of false or double dealing, and if all that is thus said were carried into its daily life the results would be very different. But if we examine the vital influence of public opinion we shall seldom find it in correspondence with these sentiments. It is very evident that the respect paid to wealth and its symbols is much greater than that accorded to the sterling qualities of integrity and honor when unaccompanied by costly and beautiful surroundings. It is true that wealth is often the well earned result of intelligence, energy, perseverance and talent, and in the hands of the wise and the generous it is the means of untold good. In these conditions it is worthy of all honor and admiration. But it is the indiscriminate homage paid to money alone, or the external appliances that money can always command, without reference to the character of him who has gained and is spending it, that it is the worm at the core of integrity and sincerity. It is just here that society is responsible for much of the faithlessness which she so loudly bewails. It is the cordial welcome she extends to all who dress richly and live luxuriantly and the cold withdrawal from all who must practice frugality which drive so many weakminded persons into unfairness, fraud and breach of trust as the only available means they can discover of gaining the coveted

prize of social favor.

Of course, these dishonorable practices do not generally come under the penalty of the law. Sometimes, indeed they do, and then there is an outburst of astonishment and indignation; but far oftener they consist in a multitude of smaller and less direct deceptions, which are either hushed up or defended as the inevitable outcome of competition. Nor are they by any means confined to any particular pursuit in life. We find them in the professions as well as in business, in the arts and sciences as well as in politics, in private as well as in public life. Society has no penalties for most of them; she smiles alike upon those who commit them and those who resist them, thus refusing to use the powerful influence she possesses in favor of

truth and honesty.

But of what is this social opinion composed, and who is responsible for it? It is easy to inveigh against some undefined and collective community, persuading ourselves that we are standing outside and justly criticizing those with whom we have no part nor lot. But in truth we are of them, and with them, and not one of us can escape a share of the well-merited censure. Each of us is forming public opinion, though unconsciously; not only by our important deeds, but by every trifling act, word and even gesture. Nor can we, by any sudden or spasmodic effort, throw our influence in the scale of justice, unless our hearts and lives are devoted to its interests. Only as we cultivate within us the spirit of truth, the love of righteousness, the desire for a higher and purer morality can we do our part towards lifting character into the honorable position which rightly belongs to it. Herbert Spencer says, 'When that abhorrence which society now shoes to direct theft is shown to theft of all degrees and indirectness then will mercantile vices disappear. . . When wealth obtained by illegitimate means invariably brings nothing but disgrace, when to wealth rightly acquired is accorded only its due share of homage, while the greatest homage is given to those who concentrate their energies and their means to the noblest end, then we may be sure that, along with other accompanying benefits, the morals of trade will be greatly purified.'

Wanamaker's. PHILADELPHIA, February 11, 1895. CREPONS "Sea foam" suggests them. But nothing short of seeing can give you the full thought. Take the Blacks. Importers say that we have twice over the variety shown anywhere else in this country. Thank the sharp eyes and quick wits of the people in our Paris house for some of that. They snap up the novelties, they push along shipments that would otherwise lag. And so there's well toward a hundred feet of counter heaped with the richest, the freshest of these lovely stuffs that so many women are asking for. Like sea shore ripples. Ribbon striped--wide, medium. Cord striped--very dainty. Some swept over with "cow licks." Others like windrows in a meadow. Wiry mohair canvas weave joggles.

Almost every possible wrinkle has its counterpart among them, and yet they're hardly more than the substance of a bream. 85c to $4.50 the yd. Take the colors. Navy blue, cadet blue, mode, tan, rose, green, serpent, olive--almost anything you please. Same ripply richness, same filmy, wavy, grace-fulness--and more. Colors seem to have inspired the loom artists to new flights. 75c, 85c, $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50. Yet bewildering as is the assortment now, it is but the first flush--a rainbow range of other styles is already on the horizon. $2 BROADCLOTH AT $1.50 Not a flitting handful, not a haphazard lot, but twenty-one one of the loveliest shades that Broadcloths ever come in. New, perfect and the welcomest weight for women's Spring wear. Touch a fold of it. Soft as a baby's cheek. Yet there's substance, plenty of it. The Broadcloth marvel of the season $1.50 the yard. CHALLIS--JAVANAISE New crop--ahead of the buds and blossoms. Lucky that flowers can't be jealous! Such color plays! Such art in catching Flora's favorites and painting their pictures on these billowy stuffs! Seems every year as if the artists and the printers had been even more audacious than Prometheus--climbing after the impossible, not simply the forbidden. But the next try puts them further ahead. They're there this time. But with every goodness at its old-time best--or better--and prices are lower. Challis, 35 and 37½c. Javanaise, 65c. Last year it was 50 and 60c for the Challis and 85c for the Javanaise--that dantiest [sic] of the woolen zephyr weights--Challis, silk striped and printed with exqusite [sic] designs--Dres-den and what not.

MACKINTOSHES Very special, they are, these for women. Double texture, serge covering, plaid black, detachable triple cape. Made and finished for this climate, and shaped to be worn over the popular large sleeves.

$6 each.

Mackintoshes for men, full range of sorts, $9 to $25. Rubber Coats for men, $2.75, $4, $5. For coachmen, exceptional lot White Rubber at $5

instead of $6.

MEN'S STORM ULSTERS Warm, wooly, the sort that Boreas bows to. Handsome, too--trim shapes. Satin sleeve and shoulder linings, wool body lining. $28 almost anywhere you'd find them. Here

$18 each.

Chinchilla Ulsters at $12 that might well be $18, and the $12 kind at $7.50.

BOOK NEWS For February has a plate-paper portrait of Mrs. Burton Harrison, one of the most graceful and fascinating writers of current fiction. Reviews, gossipy letters, trenchant touches in the field of New Books, are a miscellany de- [?] book lovers make up most of the issue--except the "Descriptive List," that is always a BOOK NEWS feature. Like a magic mirror in which every book of the month, that has force enough, makes an image that shows its true spirit. BOOK NEWS is 5c, 50c a year. JOHN WANAMAKER.

SAMUEL SCHURCH, CITY Collector & Treasurer, NO. 702 ASBURY AVENUE. OFFICE HOURS--12 to 2; 6 to 8 p. m.

R. B. CORSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON VANGILDER, Manager, MILLVILLE, N. J. Petersburg, N. J. C. B. COLES & SONS COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in LUMBER and MILL WORK. Largest stock of Hemlock, White and Yellow Pine, Poplar, Cypress, Chestnut; Oak and other hard woods a specialty. Odd or Hard Wood Mill Work and office fixtures a specialty. FRONT, BELOW KAIGHN AVE., CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. Telephone No. 42

R. B. STITES & CO., DEALERS IN

Pine, Cedar and Hemlock BUILDING LUMBER. Siding, Flooring, Window Frames, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets, Turnings, Shingles, Pickets, Lath, Lime, Cement.

A full supply constantly on hand, and under cover. Orders left at No. 759 Asbury avenue will receive immediate despatch by Telephone. Lumber Yard and Office: Cor. 12th St & West Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Note the Cut in Prices of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, At M. MENDEL'S 1625 ATLANTIC AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. The Tariff Bill which lately became a law has knocked the bottom out of prices, and the purchaser can now secure reliable goods at our house at ruinously low figures. Investigate for yourselves.

J. S. RUSH, HOUSE and SIGN PAINTER, Ornamental work of all kinds done at the lowest cash prices.

Residence and Office: Eleventh Street and Central Avenue, Ocean City

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DESIRABLE

COTTAGES FOR SALE OR RENT.

If you intend visiting the seashore the coming season, call on or write R. CURTIS ROBINSON, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 744 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J., who has on hand a number of desirable furnished and unfurnished cottages. Full information given on application. Building lots for sale in every section of the city. Insurance written by first class Companies. Come and see me before insuring elsewhere.

Money to loan on Bond and Mortgage on Improved Property.

A. D. SHARP is now ready to Clean Out Cesspools At a low price, this being a good season of the year. I can clean them much cheaper now than in the Spring or early Summer. The brushing of lots also promptly attended to. Send your name and number to A. D. SHARP, Ocean City, N. J.

PARKER MILLER is fully prepared to Clean Out Cesspools. Send in your orders at your earliest convenience. Settlement for same can be made on or before July 1, 1895. PARKER MILLER, Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J.

Joseph G. Champion, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.

Plans and specifications furnished. Terms reasonable.

WEST AVE. AND EIGHTH ST., Ocean City, N. J.

J. N. JOHNSON, PLUMBER, STEAM AND GAS FITTER. Repairing a specialty. Bath Tubs and Plumbers' Supplies. 730 Asbury Avenue.

SMITH & THORN, 846 Asbury Avenue, PLUMBING & DRAINAGE.

All kinds of Pump, Sink, Drivewell Points and Plumbing Material constantly on hand. All kinds of Jobbing in our line promptly attended to. Best of Material used. Experienced workmen constantly on hand.

E. CLINTON & CO., Manufacturers and Importers of BRUSHES, 1008 MARKET, and 8S. TENTH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.