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, MAY 9, 1895. Entered at the Post Office at Ocean City, N. J. as second-class mail matter.

THE Atlantic City Review has been

enlarged and greatly improved. The

Review is the oldest newspaper in Atlantic City and its hosts of friends will

congratulate it upon this evidence of

its prosperity.

LOSSES.

With few exceptions the losses which we sustain in life are painful and damaging. Whether we lose property or position, or health, or friends, or power, it is matter for sadness that, instead of continuing in the march of improvement, we have, at least in that respect, taken backward steps. Indeed, the larger portion of suffering and evil in the world comes from loss of some kind, as we seldom mourn for that which we

have never possessed.

It would be interesting to discover, if possible, what proportion of these losses are inevitable and beyond our control, and how many of them we could have prevented had we ordered our conduct differently. Of course, such a computation could never be made accurately, but the more we look into the matter the more numerous we shall find those of the latter class. It is not too much to say that if our losses were limited to those which we could not possibly help, the miseries of mankind would be diminished by at least one-half. Take the most simple and common of losses--that of material objects--how often should we lose our purses and satchels and even umbrellas, if we took reasonable care of them? May not such leak-

ages be fairly accredited to a heedless-

ness that might be overcome? A man loses his money by mistakes in business or poor investments, or the sinking of a ship, or the ravages of fire, or the financial failure of other people. Some of those causes certainly were not his own fault; yet very many of them would never have happened if he had exercised more caution, more discretion and better judgment. Another man loses his health, and consequently his energy and happiness. It may be that he has inherited a tendency to some disease, or circumstances have compelled him to live in unsanitary surroundings; but the chances are far greater that he has brought the trouble upon himself by disregarding some of the plain laws of hygiene. Over-work, over-excitement, over-indulgence, irregular living have far more to answer for in producing ill health than any cause which we cannot control. Sometimes we lose our friends, it may be by death or distance, but it is oftener by some neglect, or unkindness, or want

of sympathy and tenderness by which

we have driven them from us and have

left ourselves desolate.

There are, however, more serious losses than even these--losses of mental and moral powers that we have once possessed, of knowledge that we have gained, of good habits that we have acquired, of light that we have received, of virtues that once were ours. Such losses are, almost without exception, the fruits of our own doing. Noth-

ing is surer than the fact that all power is dependent upon the degree to which it is exercised. Unlike material ob-

jects, which perish with the using, our internal forces are strengthened and increased by being put forth constantly; but, when neglected, they decay and perhaps finally disappear. Thus, when any one loses his power of observation, it means simply that he has for so long a time ceased to observe that the faculty itself is disappearing. When the memory falls, it is because it has had little or no practice; when the power of work dwindles, it is the result of long idleness. Some people exert their minds so little that they lose the ability of close and consecutive thought. Some isolate themselves so completely that they lose all their social capacity. Some, by living selfish lives, lose all power of being generous. Some, by refusing to search for truth, lose the power of distinguishing it; some, by carelessness in telling the truth, lose the power of cleaving to it. Some, by frequent petty acts of deception, lose their sincerity; or, by repeated small deviations from strict rectitude, lose their integrity. Thus it is with every quality which ennobles a man and builds up his character, if he forbear to exercise it he must lose it, and this is the worst penalty of all wrong-doing. As the fishes in the Mammoth Cave have lost their eyes from long disuse, so we shall first diminish, and then lose whatever ability or skill, or power or virtue we allow to be dormant within us. Some people complain of the compulsion that life lays upon them; yet, perhaps, were it not for this, our losses would be far more serious. The discipline which obliges us to work, which compels a particular line of conduct may often prove our best friend in saving our powers of various kinds from the atrophy which disuse must bring upon them. Instead of complaining of our losses, then, we would better summon energy and courage to prevent them. Especially our internal possessions, the most valuable of all, need never be lost, if we but cherish and nourish them by constant and vigorous exercise. "The firefly only shines when on the wing. So it is with the mind; when once we rest, we darken."

Sold at Sheriff's Sale. The Cape May Point real estate property of Dr. J. Newton Walker, of Philadelphia, was sold at the Sheriff's sale on Saturday at the office of ex-Mayor Hildreth. The property was taken in execution at the suit of the New Jersey Trust and Safe Deposit Company, executor of the estate of the late Alexander G. Cattell. It comprises two buildings --Sea View and Hill cottages--and sixty unimproved building lots, bringing respectively $1050, $800 and $500. Objection was made to the selling of lots 24 and 25, in Block F, on the ground that Dr. Walker had no property interest in them or their improvements, a handsome seaside house belonging to Dr. Thomas J. Yarrow, of Philadelphia. William V. McKean, representing the doctor's interests, asked that his property might be exempted from the sale, because to go on with it as advertised would give the owner unnecessary trouble and expense. Sheriff Hand overruled the objection, holding to the opinion that only the interest of Dr.

Walker in the property could be sold, and, if he had none, no successful claim could be made under these foreclosure proceedings. The trouble grew out of certain real estate business methods of the late A. H. Hamilton. E[?] Hall,

of the Trust Company, bid in the entire property, in order to protect the Cattell

estate from loss.

Blocking a Water Plant Sale.

Supreme Court Justice Reed sitting

in Camden Saturday reserved decision

on an application for a writ of certiorari to stop the sale of two private water

plants of Atlantic City to the municipality. Ex-Alderman Robert Stroud and other citizens made the application. The City Council had authorized the issuance of bonds for $775,000 to

purchase the plants.

Prosecutor Samuel F. Perry, of At-

lantic City, applied for a writ of certiorari to set aside the decision of the Atlantic County Court of Common

Pleas in the case of Lewis Steuber.

Steuber, who is an Atlantic City grocer, was fined $500 by Recorder Gouldey for selling rabbits out of season. The Common Pleas Court set aside the decision on the ground that Steuber bought the rabbits in Philadelphia and

they had been killed in Illinois. Prosecutor Perry contends that the

decision of the lower court made it possible to kill game out of season and

ship it to another State and then bring it back again without being liable to a fine. Decision was reserved. The decision will be of interest to all sportsmen and game shippers of New Jersey.

New Lien Law. The new lien law provides that all workmen and material-men must give

notice to the owner and file their claims

within ninety days after the work or material are furnished. All mortgage claims for money already advanced

have priority over such lien claims.

Journeymen and laborers also have priority over employers and material-men.

THIS IS A TIME of Busy Preparation for the approaching summer days. The heavy curtains should now be taken down and replaced by airier materials. The carpets and furniture should be covered with cool linens. We know of no place where seasonable HOUSE FURNISHING DRAPERIES & COVERINGS may be more advantageously secured than in our store, where these goods are shown at most attractive prices. SASH CURTAINS AND MATERIALS by the yard, are shown in the choicest styles. Our Slip Covers, Awnings and Porch Screens are especially worthy of attention. They represent the best materials and workmanship at the lowest possible prices.

Wanamaker's. PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 1895.

COTTON DRESS STUFFS Counters thronged; scissors capering like mad. Told about 'em Monday; people commenced coming right through the rain--the charming new cottons price-lessened just in the nick of time for you. A reduction now is doubly wel-come--you've known such savings only at a season's fag end. Cheap cottons and exclusive cottons. A hint of the best sorts:

200 styles Indian Dimity, 25c. Printed Brilliantine, 25c. 90 styles printed self-figured Pique, 20c. Broche Batiste, 35 styles, 35c.

French Cottons. 100 styles Organdies at 25c. 50 styles printed Mousseline d'Inde, 35c. 25 styles Dotted Swiss, 50c. 50 styles printed Piques, 50c.

A TRIO OF DRESS STUFFS Each success a stepping-stone to something better; the makers have crowned their season's work by some charming little color plays in easy-priced dress stuffs. Here's a word of three:

Cheviot Brilliants, $1. Woolen mingles with threads of bright silk darting in and out. Eight blends; 40 inch. Check Brilliant, 75c. Tints of checks of yarns and parti-colored silks. Ten combinations. 75c; 38 inch.

Novelty Cheviot, 75c. No silk in them--mingles of light and dark wools--with a cobwebby surface. Nine colorings. 50 inch, 75c.

SALT-WATER SERGE You can't get the color out even with soda. They're made in Bradford, England; springy crispiness that won't crush or crease. Five qualities in navy and black: 42 inch, 55c. 44 inch, 65, 75 and 85c. 47 inch, $1. Cardinal and cream--42 ich, 60c; 44 inch, 85c. SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES You can figure exactly the savings, for we give you the quantity of muslin used in each --it seems handier than telling you how big they are when finished. You know that. Made by sewers more deft at running seams and hemming than you can be; machines whizzed by electricity--no wonder you get best work for next to nothing. 12,000 bleached Pillow Cases, muslin, 45x 36 inches, 12½c; the 18c kind.

Ready-made Pillow Cases of good bleached muslin. 42x36 in., 5c. 45x38 in., 6c. 50x36 in., 7c. 54x56 in., 8c.

Ready-made bleached Pillow Cases of standard muslins. 42x36 in., 12c. 45x38½ in., 14c, 16c, 19c, 22c, 25c. 50x36 in., 12½c. 50x38½ in., 23c, 28c. 54x38½ in., 18c, 21c, 25c, 30c.

Ready-made Bleached Bolster Cases, fine heavy muslin. 42x72 in., 24c. 42x76½ in., 25c, 24c, 30c, 35c. 45x76½ in., 25c, 26c, 38c. 50x81 in., 45c. Ready-made bleached Sheets, good grade of muslin. 54x90 in., 30c, 35c, 40c, 55c. 72x90 in., 40c, 45c, 65c, 70c, 75c. 81x96 in., 48c, 50c, 55c, 70c, 75c. 90x90 in., 50c, 56c, 60c, 80c, 85c. 90x96 in., 65c, 97c. 99x105 in., 80c. Ready-made unbleached Sheets. 81x90 in., 45c. 90x90 in., 50c. Ready-made unbleached Pillow Cases. 40½x36 in., 8c. 45x36 in., 10c.

ART NEEDLEWORK Hundreds and hundreds of pretty time-consuming conceits for luxurious stay-at-homes and for Summer outers; more hundreds of not less pretty, but more practical pieces for general home adornment. Begun work; stamping; materials, and lessons for those who don't know and for those who do know but want the latest hints: Denim Cushion Tops, tinted, 25c. Denim Table Covers, tinted, 50c. Duck Table Covers, tinted, 20c. Colored Momic Linen Cushion Covers, with ruffles, stamped, $1.35. Colored Momic Linen Table Covers, stamped, $1.50. Japanese Silk Sofa Cushions, yellow, light blue, red, copper, nile, with gold embroidery, $1.90. Japanese Silk Table Covers, with gold embroidery, $3 to $5. Japanese Silk Scarfs, with gold embroidery, 75c to $5. Creton Head Rests, 42c. Steamer and Boating Pillows, $2.75.

SHOES Widening the space hasn't thinned the throng--more and more of you have interested yourselves in the shoe economy and shoe goodness of the staid old store. We began modestly by selling shoes as well as other folks did--best we knew then; but no journeyman ever studied shoes as we have to learn how to better them. The Summer stock is perfect and ready. Colored Shoes; for men, women and children. Judge by them of our mastery of the business. A windowful of the new Linen Shoes for big and little people hint of a hot-weather comfort that's waiting for you.

BOOKS

The fair selling books is next best to doubling the nation's school-houses. The undertaking looked almost hopeless when we started--books were housed like monks and priced like curios. Great publishing houses existed on large profits from small editions; the millions wouldn't buy their books; they bought nothing or the only commercially-meas-

ured literature--the flashy-cov-

ered novel.

To-day books are sold as dry goods or coffee, by the value born of supply and demand--writers fare better and grow

more widely known; the printing presses whir the faster.

Books are cheap; sometimes next to nothing.

As for Special Bargain Cat-

alogue No. 3.

BOOK NEWS FOR MAY

The book buyer's friend is ready; frontispiece is a plate-

paper portrait of Capt. Charles

King. Forty pages full of unbiased book news, 5c or 50c a year; the wonder is how so much can be given for so little.

JOHN WANAMAKER.

Ho! Every one who delights in the ocean's crested breakers come

to the

NEW OCEAN CITY, | where progress is everywhere manifest, where there is no more brush, where $150,000 worth of splendid new improvements greet the eye, where the railroad service is the best, where elegant new steamboats will dance across the Bay, where more cottages are rented than ever before, hotels enlarged and several new ones added, trolley cars, electric lights, pure water and modern sewerage, where over 150,000 people visited last

summer.

LET ALL THE PEOPLE COME.

Beds and All Kinds of Bedding. Particular attention is called to the undoubted advantages we offer in these goods. Every article may be depended upon to be strictly reliable. Every detail of the making is given critical supervision. Our unusual facilities for purchasing supplies together with the employment of only the highest class of skilled labor enables us to offer the goods at the lowest prices for the respective qualities. For instance: ALL HAIR MATTRESSES, made in two parts if desired, weighing 45 pounds, at $7.50 A finer grade, made in one or two parts, $9.00 FEATHER PILLOWS, a superior quality, most carefully made, $1.75 per pair BRASS BEDSTEADS--4 feet 4 inches by 6 feet 6 inches, $16.50 WHITE ENAMELED BEADSTEAD, full-size, with brass trimmings, and inch posts, $6.00 ENAMELED CRIBS--with brass mountings, $6.50 An illustrated catalogue of Beds and Bedding will be mailed on application.

STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER, PHILADELPHIA.

CORSON & WARE. COACHES--A good thing to push along--our Baby Coaches. CARPETS--Brussels from 50c a yard upward. Ingrains from 25c a yard upward. MATTINGS--A window full; look at them. COUCHES--Good ones at $3.95. Better, in corduroy, $6.95 and $7.95. BEDROOM SUITS--Solid Oak, $10.00.

CORSON & WARE, 222 High Street, Millville, N. J.

Railroad Time-Tables. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. WEST JERSEY R. R. Schedule in effect OCTOBER 6, 1894.

For Philadelphia--7.40 a m, 3.10 p m, week days. Sundays, 4.40 p m. For Sea Isle City--7.40 a m, 3.10 p m, week days. Sundays, 9.35 a m and 4.40 p m. Leave PHILADELPHIA, MARKET ST. FERRY. For Ocean City--9.00 a m and 4.00 p m, week days. Sundays, 9.00 a m.

Leave PHILADELPHIA, BROAD ST. STATION. FOR NEW YORK.

Express, week-days, 3.20, 4.05, 4.50, 5.45, 6.50, 7.33, 8.20, 9.50, 11, 11.11 a m, 12 noon, 12.41 (Limited, 1.06 and 4.22 p m Dining Cars), 1.40, 2.00 (Dining Car), 3.20, 4, 5, 6, 6.50, 7.13, 8.12, 10 p m, 12.01 night. Sundays, 3.20, 4.05, 4.50, 5.15, 8.12, 9.50, 11.03 a m, 12.41, 1.40, 2.30 (Dining Car), 4.00 (Limited 4.22), 5.20, 5.30, 6.50, 7.13, 8.12 p m, 12.01 night.

Express for Boston, without change, 11.00 a m week-days, and 6.50 p m daily.

Washington and the South. For Baltimore and Washington, 3.50, 7.20, 8.31, 9.10, 10.20, 11.18, 11.40 a m, (12.35 Lim. Dining Car) 1.30, 3.46, 4.41 (Dining Car), (5.16 Congressional Limited, Dining Car), 6.17, 9.56, 7.40 (Dining Car) p m, and 12.03 night, week days. Sundays, 3.50, 7.20, 9.10, 11.18, 11.40 a m, 4.41 (Dining Car), 6.55, 7.40 (Dining Car) p m and 12.01 night.

S. M. PREVOST, General Manager. J. R. WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent.

HOTEL BRIGHTON, R. R. SOOY, Proprietor. SEVENTH AND OCEAN AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY. FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH.

This space is reserved for W. L. BERRY, Manufacturing Jeweler, NO. 22 SOUTH SECOND ST., Philadelphia, Pa. Repairing a specialty.

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

SAMUEL SCHURCH, CITY Collector & Treasurer, No. 701 ASBURY AVENUE. OFFICE HOURS--12 to 2; 6 to 8 p. m.