VOL. XV. OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1895. NO. 14. 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.

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.)

Restaurants.

MARSHALL'S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS. No. 1321 Market Street, Three Doors Easy 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.

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. Will be in Ocean City every Wednesday at office on Eighth street near station.

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. J. E. PRYOR, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Ocean City, N. J. Special attention given to diseases of the Nose and Throat, and of Children.

T. C. HUTCHINSON, M. D.

Homeopathist,

Tenth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J. Resident Physician. Late of Phila.

A MODERN HERO. His limbs are fixed in rigid pain, As though in iron hands; He cannot shift his trodden feet; He cannot use his hands. He dares not turn his throbbing head Or stiffened neck. For why? The handle of a walking stick Would jab him in the eye. The lagging minutes lengthen out In famine's deadly hold. He sits and longs like Tantalus, His dinner growing cold. No hooded, grim inquisitor Inflects his long drawn pain. He pays a price to suffer it, Disdaining to complain. Oh, sing of heroes dead in war, But here I pledge in wine The third class passenger who rides On a suhurian line!--Fred B. Wells in Home and Country.

HARRY S. DOUGLASS, Counsellor-at-Law,

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J.

DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday.

EUGENE C. COLE, Attorney-at-Law, MASTER IN CHANCERY, NOTARY PUBLIC, SEAVILLE, CAPE MAY CO., N. J. Will be in Ocean City on Friday of each week at the Mayor's office.

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.

C. E. EDWARDS. J. C. CURRY. DRS. EDWARDS & CURRY, DENTISTS, Room 12, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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.

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.

[?]. The Unique [?] of Finance In the Capital of France. With Edmond Joubert, who died recently, there disappeared one of the most conspicuous figures of Parisian life, and in particular of that phase thereof which is known by the name of la haute banque. The latter constitutes a caste that is well nigh unique, since there is nothing of the kind that can be compared thereto in any other European capital. It is as ultra exclusive as any blue blooded aristocracy and as careful of its reputation and prestige as a lovely mondaine, endeavoring to steer clear of every maneuver, of every enterprise that might in any way tarnish its fair name.

It is composed mainly of Protestants and Hebrews, who may be said to constitute a sort of aristocracy of finance, their fathers, and in many cases their grandfa-

thers, having been accustomed to han-

dling millions and to undertake the plac-

inf of national and foreign government loans. Their clients, in fact, are crowned heads and states.

Chief among la haute banque, the intervention and good will of which is sought whenever it becomes necessary to place upon the markets of the old world any government loan are of course the Rothschilds. But the Caben d'Auvers, the Bambergers, the Sterns, the Hottingers, the Andres, the Heines and

the Pereires are almost equally important, or at any rate imagine themselves to be so, and steer clear of all minor

financiers and bankers much in the same way that an Austrian prince of ancient

lineage would behave toward a newly created baron or even petty tradesman--

that is to say, with a mixture of conde-

scension and disdain. Many of these families have intermarried with the old French nobility, the Rothschilds being

matrimonially allied to the ducal house of Cranmont, the Andres to that of Montmorency and of Talleyrand-Peri-gord, the Caben d'Anvers to the princely family of Fancinge Lucigny, while the future Duc de la Tremoille is wedded to a daughter of the banker Pillet Will. One of the Heine girls is the reigning Princess of Monaco and bearer of the ancient French title of Duchess de Valentinois, after having borne that of Duchess de Richelieu, while another lady of the Heine family is the Duchess de Rivoli, her first husband having been the Prince de la Moskowa, Duc d'Elchingen.

As in the case of every aristocracy, no matter with what jealousy the doors thereto are guarded from intrusion by parvenus, there are exceptions made in favor of certain useful and clever people who secure entrance by sheer force of intellect, energy, and, in one word, success, So, too, in this exclusive clique of la haute finance a Paris, there are a certain number of financiers, self made, who may be said to have won their way up from the very ranks. Among them are M. Germain, the governor of the Credit Lyonnais; M. Denormandie of Comptoir d'Escompe, M. Christophie of the Credit Foncier, M. Magnin, governor of the Bank of France, and last but not least, the late M. Jonbert, who started his financial career at the age of 16 as a clerk and office boy to the stock-

broker Martini. He quickly won his way, and from the year 1867 has been mixed up more or less prominently in all the great financial undertakings that have floated upon the Parisian market since then, receiving from President Thiers the rosette of the Legion of Honor for the assistance which he had given to the government in connection with the payment of France's war indemnity to Germany. The only blot on M. Jonbert's career, or rather the only thing that was ever exploited by his enemies with the object of injuring his prestige, was the story to the effect that he had invoked the assistance of the ladies of the corps de ballet and means of a similar character to obtain from Khedive Ismail and the Egyptian government certain financial concessions and advantageous terms in connection with the floating of certain Egyptian loans. This story may or may not have been true, but it pursued him to the end of his busy career and was frequently invoked in order to support the argument that he was unworthy to figure in the ranks of la haute banque.--Paris Letter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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.

WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 413 MARKET ST., CAMDEN. Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage.

Nicholas Corson,

CARPENTER AND BUILDER,

OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Plans and Specifications furnished. Buildings put up by contract or day.

PETER MURDOCH, DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J.

Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

G. P. MOORE, ARCHITECT, BUILDER, AND PRACTICAL SLATER, Ocean City, N. J.

Best Roofing Slate constantly on hand.

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON,

Carpenters and Builders,

OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day.

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.

LEANDER S. CORSON, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ocean City, N. J. Plans and specifications furnished. Terms reasonable. First-class work.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITUER,

43 South Second Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

L. S. SMITH,

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

STEELMAN & ENGLISH, Contractors AND Builders, Ocean City, N. J. Plans, specifications and working drawings furnished. Jobbing promptly attended to.

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.

J. L. HEADLEY, CARPENTER AND JOB SHOP, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Job work promptly attended to. Turning, scroll sawing, window and door frames, and all kinds of millwork. Furniture repaired. Picture frames. Wheelwright shop attached. Net screens a specialty. Residence, West below 12th St. Mill, corner 10th and West.

HYPNOTIZED.

"There isn't anybody living who can hypnotize me." "Don't be too sure, Leonora," said her husband. "You cannot afford to run a tilt against science." "But I deny that it is science. What has ever been proved by hypnotism? It is foolish to argue about it, for I will not even admit that there is such a thing. The shrewd people who go about the country giving exhibitions of their power are always in collusion with some one in the audience--you know that yourself, Ned." "Nothing of the kind," retorted Ned, as Mrs. Darl called her husband. "It is a science that is yet in its infancy, and there are only a few individuals who have the hypnotic power and are able to throw less positive subjects into a trance. But I have seen it done, and it is wonderful--wonderful." "What did you see?" "I saw a young man climb walls like a cat, drink milk out of a saucer, catch a mouse, and then wash his face and hands as a cat does. And when he came out of the trance he had no idea that he had done any of those things or that he had even lost consciousness." "Hum!" said Mrs. Darl incredulously, "I don't believe a word of it. If he did all that you said he did, he was simply a conspirator. And what good can such a faculty bring to science, I should like to know? Where is the scientific value in acting like a cat or a monkey?" "Why, don't you see, dear, it is the verification of a theory?" "No, I do not see. And I am not sure that I would believe it if I did see it. The whole stock in trade of these hypnotizers is the power of producing an illusion. I defy any of them to hypnotize me." "I had intended asking you to go with me to the exhibition tonight."

"And be transmogrified into a cat? No, indeed! If I make a sacrifice of myself in the cause of science, it must be for something worth while. You have yet to convince me, Ned, that what you call the hypnotic sleep is not assumed to help carry out the plan of the hypnotizer or as a means of creating a sensation. There is no one living who could by a few ridiculous passes, a stare or pressure of my thumbs make me do anything I did not choose to do." "But you acknowledge, do you not,

that a strong will can control a weak

one?"

"Yes, and always could, but that is as

old as the days of Adam, who was evidently in subjection to Eve. I suppose

some one will say that deep sleep which overtook our first father when his rib was taken from him was hypnotic. It

would be just about as sensible." "I have an idea," said Mr. Darl suddenly. "Suppose, since Mohammed

won't go to the mountain, that the

mountain comes to Mohammed. The hypnotist can come here after the entertainment, and we will invite a few

neighbors in, and he can give an exhibi-

tion of his powers. How does that idea strike you?"

"Favorably, Ned. There are the Rusts, and the Pebbles and Dr. Smithly

and his wife, and Cousin Fanny and her husband. You can let them know, and

I will order refreshments, and we will

have an evening of hypnotism. It will

begin late, but we can find other amusement until your hypnotic operator comes."

Mrs. Darl had everything arranged--her house in beautiful order and herself gorgeous in a dress of ruby velvet, which was far too fine for the occasion, but was worn as a piece de resistance, she having read that velvet resisted hypnotic influence.

The neighbors and relatives came, a merry company, and the time passed in an animated discussion upon the power of hypnotism, one friend going so far in research as to visit the library and look up that wonderful story, the "House of Seven Gables," and read aloud to attentive listeners a passage from the weird history of Alice Pyncheon.

"He spoke, and Alice responded with a soft, subdued inward acquiescence and a bending of her form toward him, like the flame of a torch when it indicates a gentle draft of air. He beckoned with his hand, and rising from her chair the proud Alice approached him. He waved her back, and retreating Alice sunk again into her seat. "'She is mine,' said Matthew Maule. 'Mine by the right of the strongest spirit.' "'Oh, that was a mesmerism,' said Mrs. Darl as the reading ceased.

"And what is mesmerism?" asked one of the company. "I think that it is as unexplainable as hypnotism, if it is not the same thing. Oh, here they are now! Let us hold on to our chairs, or we may be spirited away to China. I, for one, am afraid."

"I am not," said the queenly hostess as she swept forward in velvet and diamonds to meet her husband and his guest. A pale, composed looking man accompanied Mr. Darl, and he did not seem surprised by the elegance of his hostess or flushed by the critical gaze of the company. After introductions were made and conversation became general, Mrs. Darl slipped into the hall and beckoned to her husband who immediately joined her. Then she whispered in his ear: "If--if--by any possibility he should be able to hypnotize me, you will not let him make me do anything ridiculous?" "My dear Leona, how can you imagine such a possibility? But if you have any fear"-- "Fear!" echoed his wife scornfully in a stage whisper. "You will see that he cannot make the slightest impression on me." And she went back to the parlor and found one of her guests climbing the piano to escape an imaginary bear that was pursuing him. A few passes and he was restored to his normal condition, looking very foolish.

There were some amusing and some perplexing exhibitions of the professor's power, then the company followed host and hostess to the dining room, where a generous spread awaited them. Mrs. Darl was rather silent. Her test would be the next one, and she watched the wiry hands of the young professor as if his secret lay in them. But they were harmlessly busy with the sandwiches. His face was quite noncommittal too. What was the power he held of reducing the will to a mere blank? She would soon know. Back in the parlor Mrs. Darl seated herself under the brilliant chandelier. "Not there," said the professor, but she did not intend to yield to any command of his and said quietly: "I prefer to sit here." "Then I cannot hypnotize you."

"Oh, you acknowledge that it is only under certain conditions that this great

power can be displayed?"

"Certainly, there are conditions that

must be complied with. I am positive, and you are negative, but you are a very difficult subject because you are re-

sisting me with all your might." Mrs. Darl looked reproachfully at her

husband and said in the dumb alphabet

of the married, "You have told him."

He flashed back in the same language,

"I have not," and she moved in accord-

ance with the wish of the professor and sat with her back to the light. Some of the company were removed to remote

parts of the room, but a few, including Mr. Darl, stood near.

"Look into my eyes," said the pro-

fessor. "Permit me." And he took her hands and pressed the thumbs gently. "It is like being in a dentist's chair,"

said Mrs. Darl, with a little forced laugh. Then she attempted to rise, struggling slightly, but continued to look into the eyes of the hypnotizer until in the place of two eyes she saw 20. Then she asserted her will and shook

herself free.

"I--told--you--I--could--not--be--hypnotized," she said. Her voice sounded strange and faraway. "How queer I feel! Staring so long has made me dizzy."

"Drink this," said Mr. Darl, giving his wife a glass of water.

She drank it, then rose to her feet and said she felt as well as ever. "Where is the professor?" she asked. "I expect he has lost faith in his science." "He was here a moment ago," said her cousin Fanny anxiously. "He thought he had succeeded in hypnotizing you, Leona. Were you not unconscious?" "Not for one moment," said Mrs. Darl triumphantly. "He held my thumbs until they were numb--why--where!--Ned!" "What is it, Leona?" he asked in surprise at her peculiar tone. "Where are my diamonds?" There was a startled exclamation from every one present. Mrs. Darl stood there bereft of every jewel she possessed. Not a single one of her gems which had flashed on her fingers, at her throat, in her ears, was now visible. Dazed, she held up her ringless hands and said: "Is this a joke? What does it mean? Where are my diamonds?" "Where is the professor?" "Search the house!" "Send for the police!" But the professor had left for parts unknown, and with him went Mrs. Darl's diamonds, and neither the police nor the Darls ever saw or heard of them or him again. But one thing was in his favor. Not only had he successfully hypnotized Mrs. Darl, but, as Mr. Darl admitted, he must have hypnotized the whole company in order to bring his hypnotic scheme to a climax. And Mrs. Darl is at last a convert to both the theory and practice of the occult science and a firm believer in the power of the hypnotic will.--Mrs. M. L. Rayne in Free Press.

HUMAN SUFFERING. Nine-tenths of It Is Useless and Could Be Avoided.

Go through a crowd of people, preferably city people; examine the tired, anxious, wasted faces; remember your life and the lives of the men whom you have known intimately; recall the violent deaths, the suicides of which you have heard, and ask yourself the reason of all this death, suffering and despair. And you will see, however strange it may appear, that the cause of nine-tenths of human suffering is the present life of the world; that this suffering is useless; that it could be avoided and that the majority of men are martyrs to worldly ideas.

Recently on a rainy Sunday I crossed the market near the tower of Soukharev in a street car. For a third of a mile the car made its way through a dense crowd that closed in again behind us. From morning till evening these thousands of men, most of them hungry and in rags, jostle each other in the mud, dispute, deceive and hate each other. The same thing goes on in the markets of Moscow and other cities. These men will pass their evenings in the wine shops and afterward will seek their holes and corners. Sunday is their best day. Monday they begin again their accursed existence. Think of the existence of these men, of the situation which they abandon and of that which they choose. Consider the labor to which they give themselves, and you will see that they are martyrs. All have left their fields, their houses, their fathers and brothers, often their wives and children. They have renounced everything and come to the city in order to acquire that which the world considers necessary. All of them are there, from the operative, the coachman and the seamstress to the wealthy merchant, the officer holder and the wives of all of them, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of unfortunates who have lost everything and live on scraps and brandy in the free lodging houses. Go through this crowd; watch poor and rich alike; look for a man who says that he is satisfied and believes that he possesses what the world deems necessary. You will not find one in a thousand.

--Count Tolstoi.

BOTH PAPERS WERE USEFUL.

The Fortunate Result of a Tennessee Justice Mixing His Documents.

Bill Wright was a justice of the

peace, and also an absentminded man, whose wife was as able an orator as Xantippe. Bill used to serve all his processes himself and to save time would sign the marriage certificates in blank and deliver a number to the person. One day Bill had a process to serve away up in the mountains on a semibarbarous recluse, who was sued for damages for some disdeeds, and Bill thought

he would deliver a few of the certifi-

cates to the parson. So, sticking both packages of papers in the same pocket, he mounted his horse and rode off.

Reaching the minister's, he stopped and chatted awhile, and, after deliver-

ing his papers, he started off again and took the road to the mountains.

The parson had a wedding that day, one of the parties being a notorious horse thief from an adjoining county. When the ceremony was over, the parson se-

lected a certificate from the bundle and unrolled it sufficiently to sign his name. On handing it to the man the latter opened it, and his eye grew wild as he read instead of a marriage certificate a warrant of arrest, signed by both the justice of the peace and by the parson. He feared some trap, so surrendered himself to custody.

When the justice reached the moun-

tainside, he took out the paper to read

it and immediately saw its nature, but

maintaining his self possession, he recited the form of summons, which he

fortunately remembered.

He then returned and found the horse

thief in jail and went and saw the parson, remarking, with his own matrimonial felicity in mind, that both papers had unintentionally served the ends of justice.--University Courier.

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Please mention this paper.

His Verse.

Years ago, when albums in which friends and acquaintances, and sometimes even strangers, were asked to "write a few lines" were scattered abroad through the land, many amusing specimens of impromptu versification found their way into print.

A clever writer who was paying a short visit at a farmhouse was handed by the daughter of the house a superan-

nuated account book, ruled for pounds,

shillings and pence, which had been converted into an album, and in which she requested him to "write something funny."

He complied with her request by penning the following verse, which, after some bewilderment, she managed to read: £ | s. | d. This world's a scene as dark as Styx, Where hope is scarce worth | 2 |4 | Our joys are horns as fleeting horses That they are dear at | 18 | And yet to stay here many are willing, Although they may not have | 1 | --Youth's Companion

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Why He Wanted It Printed. Compositors are supposed to be able to decipher all kinds of handwriting, even that of editors and ministers. On this point Mr. Robert Clark, the Edinburgh printer, used to tell a story: Professor Lindsay Alexander came into our office one Friday with the manuscript of a sermon. "You must let me have proofs of this tomorrow," he said. I told him the time was too short. He must give us a few days longer. "No," he said. "I must preach this

sermon tomorrow. It is a special ser-

mon. I wrote it ten years ago, and now I can't make out a word of it."

--Youth's Companion.

An Alphabetical Name. Arthur Hepper, a laundryman of London, has a daughter who rejoices in the possession of 26 given names, one for

every letter in the alphabet. This won-

derful aggregation of praenomens, which, taken together, make the longest "given name" (names) that has ever been bestowed upon any civilized person, is given below: Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypathia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Pearl Quince Rebecca Sarah Trixy Unice Venus Winifred Xenophon Yeola Zeus Hesper!--St. Louis Republic.

First Safety Lamp. The first claim as an inventor of a safety lamp for use in mines was made by Dr. Clanny of Newcastle, who, in 1813, contrived a ponderous and compli-

cated machine, requiring a boy to work it. This apparatus never became popular. It was found to be too unwieldy.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.--Heine.

The [?]. "Anna, your lover was again in the kitchen till 10 o'clock last night. I cannot allow that any more." "I, too, have been thinking if we couldn't have supper a little earlier."