VOL. XIX.

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL ocean cmr, N. j., K. C. B0B1KS1N Eiilor ail Preiinstar.

OCEAN CITY, N. J„ TML'RSI)AY. JUNK 1, 1809.

CITY DIRECTORY. CITY OPIICIALS.

Dl< J. S- WAGGONER, Physician and Druggist, ru As Mir; A»e., Ocean City, It. J. X. c. HUTCHINSON, M I). * I <>111 <1*01 mt li i ht . N'o. 821 Ocean Avenue,

OCEAN CITT. N. J.

B. I- ABBOTT, M. D. i ; I’liyhiHsu and NurKfon, OFFICE-Gorier Ceatnl ud ElgbU Street

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gl'GENE C. COLE,

SECRET SOCIETIES

INHALATION ! qT

1112 Girard St, Phila., Pa.

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CHURCH SERVICES.

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CHURCH SOCIETIES.

. ^ii'l all Chronic and

Nervous Disorders.

BOURGEOIS,

Counsellor-at-Law, ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. ^LBERT A. HOWELL, A.t t ornes--nt-Ln\v,

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r. QODFREY.& GODFREY

RALPH L.' GOFF. CIVIL ENGINEER. ' SaRVEYQR. CONVEYANCER. NINTH AND CENTRA!, AVENUE, OCEAN CITY. N. J. H. H. RICE, AltCHITKCT, IlourNe Itiiildlni;. •OOF.AN CITY. N. J.

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JOSEPH SUTTON

Comeyanci«E, Real Estate Insurance, Mortgages —and Collections

F. P. CANFIELD Real Estate ^ Insurance Agent No. BOlTtsdury Irenue

JOSEPH M. CORSON Real Estate Agent PALERMO, N. J.

.nth since we had . uf a muddy little Indiana and Me*i

tan* as La Kh> Patron, and we were up in the tu. untain* north of The epot where the town nf FUjr-tafT ia now 1..

cated.

. We hnd finished n rather meaRer din nernf Ian on and hard tack, w ithanuall piece <if Ti'nimn. ["art of a deer which Aid# had killed ihe Billht before, and were stretched ont nnder a pine tree mj.lying "a piprfnf Oar boix-e which we bad muaddled and hobbled. wiTe cropping the ocragional tofu . graro whii h grew near. i tnrne.l my head laailv in the din tion indicaticl and tumubled a gruff •'What of it?” ••Well, it war nigh on aix year tbet I laet mi- thet hlnff. Yon aee. I nte wna a Iwd wan. half Indian an Mexican, an a weaner critter never lireathed. He could throw a rope l«*tter'n any of oa an ride the tn. broncho th.-t ever went np in the "I wax punch in cattle for P Bn*>.' X Y X lirand. al«mt 80 northiaat of l'n-»ro*t. There arna Jim Barker an Dandy Dntcber an leaiuanl. Coyote an me. There, alamt S3 more, bnt we wag the only on» in at the time I speak of. "The •■■Id man.' as we called Jii Palmer, war about 60. with white hair an a heart aa big aa a yearlin calf. il< wu* alwaya a-duin aumethin for ns boys, an wbeu Jim Barker had the smallpox the old man never left him "ilia brother Jack wna a different sort of a chap, a fall ten year yom an bed lieeu a captain or lient. or ai metliin in the army office at YY iugton We never knew exactly, bot beard tlirt be bed bed trouble with i auch-ty woman, an she bed turned him help his Icother, wbo loved. him watched over him like a father •He .always wore a necktie—ao d the old man never bed on. 1 gi (leastways I never see him wear oi tionally he’d get on hia high ride into Prescott, get drnuk a row. No one would hurt him becanae he wu the old man’s brother Then the old man would drive in an get him without aayin a word toa livin -'A'One night—it wna just after the round np—ell the buy# bed worked hard ■anted a little fnn The old man

bow {irimd ebo in bbi nnlfort Thank tbal she '•lt seemed a from fust to I..

an all the « I blurted ont -Y. m last night at I

He always wnr ■ n he jol lied tile vnt! He wax ban Killed- in a sa

MATRIMONIAL ENIGMAS.

NO. 8.

EMBARRASSING.

-ad!'

(adore he moved. Then

be gave a start like be wax pnllin himasIMogrtheT an turned to os, the very devil shinin ont of hie eyes. He h-.ki-d ten years older, bnt his band went to his hip. an we knew lie hedn’t lost ar.y of the spank be lled when the Apaches killed his jiardnsr. Jim itoas. •• ‘CoyoteI Why. he wax here this murnin an drew hia pay! Said lie wng

Yaahel

* -r h, Coyote’s

ack war

■ud the Marshall i

n Miasi,.

nary initials divida . north and aonth. ' ne. in the Gilbert ;

He knew wi

■xt night or the day.

hundred woaldn'

■Id be tsick. illowin. ’cause far them days

"We all rode into town, kerjiln pretty veil together, all 'ceptin Coyote, who dipped eway early in the evenic. .•‘Abont 8 o'clock In the murnin we pranced into the ^lerino saloon We didn't get -a very lively rece|ition. an .Id Himjaiou raised hie hand an aed. ■8h. boys. Jaoub Palmer * got hia duae. Y'vn could her heard a pin drop Every ' thought the same thing. •WhaCU the old man think?’ Then ont line the gang, an we all crowded mod Simp-on to know wbo'd dune it AM we beard him eey wa» •Coyote.' an we. made a break fur the door. "WelL we booted tbet town over iwixt tbet an daylight all the low joints an Mexican dive*, an finally found ont thet he’d taken hia boas an

Ut oi

••Then we supposed be i

i Her l

■ old t

we ruin hot an heavy for the FimjBon said he'd send the body right after tu in a wagon 'The hoy a from the Bancbo Habino joined oa an made a party abont 80 turned tbs bend an came in right uf the bonee Jim Barker aed. •Thank God. tbrrc’a the old man.' an all felt easier. When we reined in around him. be aed. 'What, yon don’t more money, do yon ?' Then luokin r drippin hroochoa. 'No; amne poor has stole a baas an got to pay fur

saddles, an the buys aU looked vi me. an 1 knew I'd got to tell it though I'd catber bev beep dreg by a cow. but there wus no way ont of it “He saw aumethin wnr up au knew tbet Jack wot gone, guewwd thet It an be grabbed me by cd ‘What's uu. ,Yina?'

a last l.sik at Jack.

■ h">ura befote h

r ps>t

spurs t.. his huas in he bad na up at < We I sowed a ramh w

Coyote bed once kill.d a oiwlso

told aUmt Jack the ran n some of us whom boa-ee winded takin some of his •Tupard night we L-gan t.

•nr game an uw Ihet his buei u btt,Tet*‘n tired We ponnih-d awny

maty society, wbieb has en-

terert into a friendly division of lies then territ.ny with the Ano-rican Isiard of reinimwinners for foreign mis-iinis. ' This IS a true story of the Bethel flag of the London missions, one of the beet known ensigns in the south seas, and always trnried by even the wildest ns live*, jho hare learned to rrosenit* the bine flag with the while iwlm lesves and initials The present John Willisnnf. I3.e ste*mer. is the third V"a ael to Iswr the nsijie of the martyred pioms-r of the gospel in those waters The find John Williams was a brig which ended a long career of nsef nines# by lieing wrecked ""O a reef at Nine, the Havage island .if the charts. After her crew had landed all her cargo and ►hires among the friendly natives the

by the British consul at Apia.

country. Cupid, iu his operations | through Indiana, seems to have Ux-u j afflicted with a most aggravated case of

blind staggers

I Justice W. W. Strader bus jnat united in marriage Ho—II Debn-k and Mi-* i Ella Revar*. and William Iterant ami ; Miaa Alpbia Debnsk. Misa Drlmsk is 1 the daughter uf Ruwiell Delmsk. and William Bevara ia a brother of De- : busk's liride. A <joeer relatiunalnp ia | the reeult. Bevara' own sister is natni rally bis mother-in-law. and hi* father : in-law ia also hia brotber-in law. Pe Irtish's "laughter becomes his aister-in ; law Mrs Delmsk la the atejnmther j and sister-in-law of Mrs. Bevara. Mr* ; Bevara. being her father's sister, is con ; «e.)nently an aunt nn'o herse’t while Debuak. bring bis daughter's brother.

aril; b

n father.

might 1

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while if t r generation it migh id that thr child wa<

itch i

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i then cam|ss) miss >.nr man iu the dark. At daylight we wu* in the saddle again tfaelad. 11 P‘ a ,r,n ■ •'It wu* 10 o'clock when we caught sight of Coyote. He wnaridin slow makin ft* Humphrey's peak, knowin thet if lie reacb.d the mounti

could get

“We I

it fur t

ise of tint bluff

mde like the devil wng after ns. ! there wain’t any of oa could keep np with the "dd man He wus ridin a hi) black stallion thet he broke in lb< spring—the Luteal bum iu the country ■'Coyote aaw us an rualitcd it meant a race fur the ford. He bed a Mule tb heat of us on distance, bat he hirin’ calcnlauri on the <dd man'r- black sUl Mon wbeu be turned around iu the sad die an waved his band to na There w na a cue* from every man as he settled d.-eper in the saddle an stack spurs ••How thet half loved devil era Id ride" We were gainin slowlybat wn* much cl.m-r to the ford than wng Still tbe old man war 500 yards ahead of ns an hia bow guin full free. l*retty noon we saw a poll - ike. beard a rejaoL an the old

hat w

hia gnu. then lowered it. leaned forward an gave the black the epur. way. bosses an men strainiu every nerve, wbeu Barker's bom went dowi played ouL an we left him awearin lik

a pirate.

"Within a hundred yarda of the ford Coyote's bom stumbled au fell. • rolled over au over. We gave a s fur we thought we bed him. be jumped up an ran fur tbe ford Then be stopped an looked back. Hr could make it if it wngn't fur the old mac Up went hia rifle, an we aaw Palmer lay forward on his Imrn' neck, other shot had showed him Uu .nldn't do to make any better target of bimeelf than necinry. "Again the pnff uf smoke, tbe report, an the tdeck stallion staggered, ran I' yarda an fell “Our bearta sank aa Coyote threi down hia gun an plunged into the wa but the old man wng on bia feet in ■cond an ran ahead 'Aa Coyote climbed out of tbe water tbe old man knelt down an took • wua aU boldiu oar breaths pravin tbet he'd get him. an when tbe Mexican reached the top of tbe hank a looked around he fired Coyote thre np his hands an fell, an we let out yeU you could have beard a mile "When we reached the old man. be wnx atandin with bowed bead, hia cheat ruin an fallin like a winded brunch", We aM crowded round him to wring his band, but be only aaid 'It's done go hack to the ranch; tbe cattlr Dutchie an Lew nde over to whore Coyote lay to. be aura of him 1*21 there wuzn't no need of thet Hc was stone dead—shot squat' through

the chest

"Tn« old man wild tbe ranch about four months after tbet an went over into California t said he needed rest an d settle down near some old man in take it <auy. lint we all knowed be cuuMp't stand it to lire in a place ■here Jack bad been killed.' Arne had let hia pipe go ont during tbe narrative, and. lighting it and tak a few puff*, be said Beckon tbet ford’ll be about tfa right place for tbet bridge you're fig gerin on for yerrailroad '—Cincinnati

Enquirer

Mr. Ingalls of Kansas says. "Thm ia no Inxnry so expensive aa a cansr;> w.' We beg to differ with tb. once diatingoisbed gentleman A ie>' :ap discount it ia the expense line

Bnt this case is hardly as remarks!,!"' as one which lias come to light at Dills

tipnlation that tbe name John Wil- I boro. David Gray married bis grand limn* shoo Id not be mod if tbe wreck ] daughter by a farmer marriage. It For . am.ll .nr, the wreck became | * n •“Id marriage*, for Gray's father mnr

ried hisatepdanghter. whose mother was an an lit of the present wife. Now the question -of relationship come* up These two queer matrimonial ventureenwrie Ihemarlves so often when the pencil ia applied to tbe problem that by tracing it ont it ia very easy to figure all parties off tbe earth. '» Over thi'line. in Ohio connty. a roan named Mi Iyer married f widow wbo had a grown on daughter. His father r fell iu love wiliythr stepdaughter. The fatbet became tne eon s son-in-law and the atepdangSter became his mother. Re cently the son's wife had a child. Tin child was Miller'a father's brother-in law and Miller's own nude, for be wu.

tbe property of WiMiai American, wbo added a decided spice to aonth sea life in tbe seventies, and wbo has not escaped fame nnder hia common arid well earned designation of "Bally Hayes the Pirate. ” Being one of tbe nuist accomplished of seamen, he fonnd no great difficulty in banting tbe wreck to the nwf and patching the hole* in her Is.ttom. t'banging her name to Denote. he sailed her into Apia. Tb* miaaion authorities were shocked to aee flying at the for* their familiar flag “Bally" Hays* refused to surrender it H" claimed it aa part of hia property, since he had bonght the wreck a* she •t'-sl. and thia flag had been fonnd

shard.

When tbe limited legal machinery of the time and place was wt in ojirration against him. be nailed tbe mi-mu flag to the mart and swore that it abonld never be banhri down. It never was. His Brat nee uf the emblem of peace was to rnn np to one of tbe islands to the northward. There tbe people flock <ri aboard aa soon at they saw'tb* fawitb tbe well known flag They alald shard permanently, under grated hatches, for "Bnlly” Hayes aaid he was not responribla if they conld not read tbe brig's name. That was only tbe first cargo of alatca which found its

way i

, where fe<

oper

questions were then asked which might interfere With the labor trade. The missionary people were frantic at ■is desecration of their flag. Bot before tbe wind had worn it to rage the Lenore bad made a piratical rapntatiuo uf keeping with the pious profession displayed at its fore. —New York Tribune A rwdttve With a Fertaaa. W. H. Bridgrus. wbo died tbe otbet day. was in I MM a roeasenger for the luliday Express, tunning from Leavenworth to Santa Fe. On one of hia trip* bad »100.000 in greenbacks strapped ont bis person and secreted in bia cloth*a There was no one hot him and tbe driver in charge of tbe coach, and fog days they proceeded along their loneeome journey without seeing a ha-

in face.

When yet many miles from Santa Fe they were overtakes by a bowling band of Indiana and a fierce battle was fongbL Bridgena and hia companion sibaasted (heir atmunnilion and. cun tinned tbe fight with their knivea Finally they sac ceeded in nnlisaening their boraes from the stage, and. quickly monnting them, fled through tbe timlwr. The savages gave ebaae and succeeded in separating the two men. bnt did not capl are either of them Mr. Bridgena still retained bis treasore.-tiut be hwt hia way among tbe crags andi,canyons, and it was more than two weeks before ha fonnd hia way tn the boose of a whits man. Daring all thia time he subsisted entirely upon berriro and bertu His long ah aence caused hia employers to believe that be had been robbed and killed by tbe Indiana, and before bia return they good the money they had . given np aa lovt. When Mr. Bridgenv i returned with bia precious harden still Intact they were amaxed. and so grateful were they that they prevented their young agent with a handsome token their appreciation.—Kansas Cily

General William Ludlow, who is achieving high fame as tbe first Aroeri governor of Havana, owes bia pres command to a personal vict-iry be gained over General Shatter in tbe first days of the Santiago campaign. He had long ago attained a fine record aa a topographical engineer, and was one of the first regular army officers to seek service in Cuba. With a scarcely dried commiasiou of brigadier general • volunteers iu bia pocket be hastened , General Shaffer. Seeing that General Shatter already »d a competent engineer on bia staff. General Ludlow applied fur command of a brigade ou the lighting line, and mentioned tbe First brigade of tbe Second division. General Shatter looked np in surprise and exclaimed - "I thought you were an vngioeer!" 11 am." replied General Ludlow, an artillerist, or cavalry officer infantry officer, at thc'wlll of my superiors, like.every trained soldier." Genera'; Shafter began parlcying. and General Lndkiw. in the mildeet manner ' Me. insist'd. usMtiiijg aftet iuul uing. until be received it. After the terrible battle of El Caney be was prurootbe a major g-umL —Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post

atepdscgbti bad a aun. who was. of coarse. Miller • brother.and incidentally Miller's grand child, for be wav tb* son ot Miller . danghter. Tiros Miller's own wife wu. hia mother's mother and Miller bream, bia wife's grandchild At the lame time And then, to top the whole loing off. athe bnshand of bis grandmolb-i ■ e wahis own grandfather. —St Lamia GluUDemocrat A HINDOO SACRIFICE.

Indian ia a country when tbe gi saperatiti<mt prevailing among the lives frequently prodace the must l ribleand inconceivable tragedies. Many of these are done in secret bnt no’ and then they come to light and give startling reminder to the Englishmen in India that “east ia east and weal is weal, and never the twain shall meet In the up country town of Hiugetl' in tbe Deccan, ia a cotton ginning mill iwned by Datives. One of the pruprie Sira a Parser named Nowrojee. look after tbe engines and machinery of tl» mill Lately tbe machinery hat nro been working well and the engine in a rticular has given considerat le Iron ,. Tbe native engineers seem to have got it into their heads that tbe engine waa really driven by a god which took the form of steam When it wen wrong, they tbonght tbe god waa angr and needed propitiating by tbe sacrifi. of a human being. One night a Hindoo laborer named Gcvindah was (aasing tbe miM. workman, sitting in the yard vrooking railed ont to him to join them. The gang had jnat been disenaaing the tags ties of the engine and tbe necesaity f, offering a sacrifice to it The whole party walked toward the boiler, and some of tbe men seised Guvindah. Oth m swung open tbe furnace door and tb* unfortunate man waa crammed in Sid* head first. They had to loose then bold of bis body iu order to shot the furnace door, whereupon Govlndah who wa* a very powerful man. man aged fo get out and f{ec himself He wa* frenxied with pain and fear and had sustained ghastly injuries Tbe engineer* did not make a second attempt to thrust him in the furnace and b* crawled away to bia bnL Hifaithful wife tended him aM night and took him in tbe morning to the local hospital where it Waa found that hwaa horribly burned atont the head arms and chest, parts being abeolntely charred. He died of tetanus Nowroje, and one of the engineer* have been ar rested. — Bombay 'Letter to Cbirag.

Record

Concerning tb* alleged fondness of the Jews for fish. Tbe American Hebrew says "In tbe middle ages tbe Jews for tb* most part, denied their religion to tboae about them and practiced it in secret Openly they lived a Christian Ilf* apparently—they had to. if they would exist—and a* those aluut them abstained from meat on Friday they perforce did likewise and partook Urge I j of vea food, which the Jewish house wife learned to prepare to perfection Tbe use of fish ou Friday became a ms tom with them. and. tike other ingrain *d customs, waa kept up whee tbe mov tug cause bad long passed away

"Too are a daisy, ” it used by Dick ana in 'David Copperfleld" in theveu. of calling a person' a daisy in the way to express admiration and at the time to laugh at cam'a credulity. { forth say* to young Copperfleld: rid. ay daisy, you aa

ripe, walked slowly doe front of tb- liente onud at Ihe different b

ignond his proximity, and finally turn ed on him and aaid sharply. "Here, you man. did any one ever teach you bow to salute T" "Ye*, sir.' drawled the trooper, av he glanced at the yonng*t«. ■•YY'ell. knock your beeis together. *' -aid tbe yonug officer, and tin came to attention with the pre an old soldier. •'NoWFalnte."beaaid. and the trooper's gauntlet came to the rim of his hat ami staid there nntil tbe yonng lieutenant an-wered it. at the same time demanding "Now. remember thia. and don’t let'it bap[,en again. What ia your name, and what do yon belong tot" Without relaxing his p-sunoo rrom attention, tbe old trooper again respectfully sainted and remarked dryly: “My name i» Sanrorl Hnmner. and 1m twigadier general of the cavalry brigade whereupon the young lientensnt proceeded to copy as many colors of tbe rainls^r with bia face aa was possible and slijiped away aa anon as be dared, forgetting even to apologise.—Balli-

ALL WAS PEACE UNTIL— Twlllaht Be.erles at taagr Haak Kadrlr lalerrented. I bad gone to Handy Hook to pay a visit to one of the officer* detailed there. After supper I strolled out toward t be ocean aide of tbe peninsula. My walk led me past tbe martnne shop and to the abandoned tower of th* government weather observatory, a two story structure, with a balcony at the first flisir running aM around the building. A flight of weather beaten steps led totbis balcony. 1 climbed tbestep* and sat on the balcony railing Tbe no was jnat disappearing behind Staten Island. The western edgeof Shrewsbury lay was darkening. Coney Island, ten mile* to tbe northward, was beginning to twinkle with electric lights. Tbe two lamia on the Sandy Hook ligbtabip glowed white; the two on tbe Scotland lightship showed a deep red. I watched 11,e gathering gloom over tbe sea and onderrd bow sunn a paadng

Then—

b, oner wual4 i-eT)lotted ol

The little I

I grasped tbe railiug in time to save uiys<-lf from being buried to the aand. 13 feet below. A cloud of smoke, pungent. nanaeating. enveloped me. Gasping, 1 scrambled down tbe rickety step* I ran to tbe machine shop "What’s the matter?" I asked one <* tbe men standing in tbe doorway. ■•Nothin," be replied. "They'r* just been tryin one of thuae newfangled gun* over on tbe ranar. and. jndgin by the noise. 1 should think the infarnal thing !>n«ted "—New York Commercial

Advertiser.

The I-acinc Slope Or, taa t p. The extension of explorations and observations iu tbe region of country west of the Rocky mountains tend* In many way* to develop and confirm tbe proposition that a steadily prugrearive /.idity ia slowly replacing farmer mure humid climatic condition*. Thia ebangs ia manifmt in various way*—most conspicuously in the decreasing volume of water Iu many of the lakas and stream* throughout the region, aa shown by th* existence of former beach lines at higher levels, and in tbs profound duturbaurea and nadlficationa taking place tn tbe native flora. Tbe phenomena which foUow tbe advance of aridity are not limited by altitude. for, wbil* tb* desert condition* at low elevations exhibit them in their meet intense aspect, they are also clearly traceable to tbs highest an mm I to. where gradually dwindling glaciers and abnormally high extensions of certain lowland type* of forest show the general trend of tbe climatic chanRa—National Geographical Magaxina. Out Bn th* Laramie plains, wset at Laramie. Wyo., there ia a grim monument to tbe terrors ai tbe past rigorou* winter. Between the two Laramie rivers there stands a burse which was frnxen to death during one ot tbe very severe storms of tbe past eeanm. The animal was frozen wbil* standing, tb* ,w baring drifted in about him and held the carcaas erect Tbe anow has since melted away and tbe bon* ia still •unding, bis four feet being extended I .racing position.—Denver Republican.

Tbe-mother of one of our ■ tbe late war was busy pack! containing food to send tc hin servant was watching the c Having placed tbe last artv mother said . "1 gnaw that is all i We will now nail it up"