VO i c\PF CAPE MAY COL NTY.

Ocean City Sentinel.

GREATER OAK HALL ’ GREATER OAK HALL HALL ORDK-^B >vr E ouiuruv *&***> at t«ib btorsT— Beautiful Overcoats for Men

i ,i ri|,ii • ' ••ir t 'tyk 1 and '.:pcfii>r workinanship rvtrv*

The Sentinel •’ ha* the Ur«:e*t bona fide Mibacription lUt of a legitimate paper in this section, list Is not padded with deadhead*

Tiik Oentnerat* are. arnordUig cafto tryiiiit to And a f..r the loner bow of cupm.

miclit I* well for U

nary h> find an Uwoe on wjnoh a leader when Utey find oue1t b« not pmUtUMl that the revenue by the ordjf that i

fl* u

The 1«»w by flrr in tliinxKJtilrt ainl wunparrd with last year, in On..t*-| tlx- total kaa w«a»12.«Ki,<»S'. » Imi' Inw Ilian In Heptetnlirr, but t i .Vn.tM Knwlrr than in Oclobei, IH98. F<« leJ uif.iilli* the a7|tre(;ate l.w* make tin enormou* total of ini^MjOOn. .. fl&.08U,im above tlxwe of IK* am nearly »».««,««• more than in It**;. The populatloo of Houth Alriea - tin praarnl theatre of war—cou-i»t* iabout four million blark* to aevrn bun dred tlxawaud while*. Tin- nali\. Afrlcana are not lndia|»*ed tnmakini that lb* while pupnlali Mi* are emtapr* In ratline each oilier•» thnail* tlir |— albilily of black Intereentlon i* a mat ter for the idom aenotw countdenitlcMio

boUi ilritoua and Boer*.

THE pnwpectlve etruKEle betweei Ruaala and Japan lias been ebarmetet laad aa one “betwren a bear and a ■bark;" but if It cumee. it will be moeh more important than the eomparteon tndtrain. Kuaala'* naval atmnttb In the 1‘aelfir I* not (treat comparaltvely, while Japan has arramulated n for mldablr flret. rjbe will be able to -clre Putt Arthur and other port* without moeh trouble, but whether ehr will isable to bold them after Ktusta lia* liad time to bmut tier myriads of -oldlrr* to the scene may welt be doubled. A «EW bigb expkuire fur detonating •bed and ahraimvl, called thorite. I* to be employed in American field (4*0* In the Philippine*. Tlii- pom pound was invented by a physician of H«i

lo tlie

offlrad* of the Ordnance bureau lb formula of manufacture. Keneut el perimcnl* have demon-traled the won drrfully destructive |»aers of tin

salt and

be expedited by the war y poaaible manner. An I yibell charged will thorite alii when debmaled bund inn •mall fragmeub, each oue of which i i fearful dr*lnicliv< on project ilie may lliu efleetive a* Mirapnei The agitation for a |*mrl* po*t the United state* is aomrOiiuK u> encouraged. The KalhHial Association of Manufacturer*, in taking up Oil* goud work, give addiUouai evidence of their interaat in the public weifarr. I la tiresome to bear the expmw cm I am tea urge that the United Hlate* guveniment cannot manage a parcel* post system a* well as Euniprau go erumeuls. That silly aigunieut, if can be called an ••argument.’ ha* I— so Iborougbly exploded In oilier as. that It sboold be dropi-d. Tberx|>w cm pan lor are practically tlie only opponent* of the panel* post, the public understand* the que-iiou this selfish Interest cannot much longer prevent the United Stale* from liariug the benefit of the parcel* |*-rt system that has proved such a convenient 1 * and ancema In other enuulriea. We dip the following |«nsj»spti from the Ledger: - Harvey V. I oik. ran ahead of hb ticket In Ihi* city, am! be also did in all parts of tbtMuonly Thjs sweeping as-erthui, like ulliets found hi the column* of that |ia|irr, larks figures hi confirm II* crtectness. 'The editor's bump of imagination must tm, abtiurmslly developed. The. fscb areVjust tlie reverse. And yet the i* audacity to charge th

ouW carry coiirk i-svoaal larks weigh drengt tiened by stuliUsi

■plcuotis *lj*eii''e • I*«lget*4|[efen*. Then be tacitly ! itepobliiai

st.asl tlie redurr.1. s

; -sy It wa*. Hut Haim 1 that three of the leading thal corporation were ihe ml thal there I* dorameii. i"tb nf (lie rumor. Tlie editor’s as-cr-n. then-fore. Is lectmicaily com*-l. iw Blunt the avowed purpose, Mr. Kdllor..f»r wlilcb lb* |«|vr was purchased 1 Surely not a* a bust now renture, for previous attempt* along ihat line have proved «1i*mal failures. A lii tbi* same gentleman deny tliat be ess instructed by one of the three origtMal^rtirrliawf*, or a person acting i hie mierest, lo suppress as far a* •swiblr the faci* of Ibe accident b> the The HKvnKEl. I* not given to random statements. I Hit when a matter nf pubinlere*t Is Imiagbt to our attention fortify ouraelve* with fact* l<efore giving it publicity. The charge of senism made by the Ledger i* on lib much of the matter that found in Its columns. Then, again. Use editor of that sheet disclaims any knowledge of a "gentleman high up In the ofllnal management of the puny" having "expressed surpn-e u lie learn id that ru-t hail weaktlie bnopi.” Why didn’t you view all the official* of tlie water company, Mr. Kdilor, and then make denial on Up Strength of Hie testimony gmllirred ? Wlieu this is done, we will predore evidence nf tlie strongest cliarstatement. •ioi.D UBCmLATIOSl. One lldug dearly aelthsl by tlie elerlous is that there will be no balling in imgresson Ibe money i|uestinn. Home >f the timid Hepulillcaii memls-r*, -lulling Mr. ('handler, of Sew Haniiellire. have been asserting that it would never do to pass a bill M|iiarely and unequivocally adopliug tlie gold standard, as It might lose tlie Kepuhli. if the Western ritalea next year. The result of the eiectioti* swee|s reason* for sudi trimming, if ra the Itepubllcans adopted a gold standard platform of tlie strongest kind, and their candidab- for governor must siaiwart kind of ipport of thal plank. Tlie silver men, including tlie Democrat* Populists, put up a fusion ticket which ilryau aided with his silver elo quetice. The result is one of the greatcat victories tlie !(*publican* ever won Mate. Kausas went Kepubhrau, showing large gains over laal year. South Dakota, drspllr Ihe efiurts of Ha

Pettigrew, gave a

large plurality to tlie Itepubllcans, wbo adopted a sound money platform. In Nebraska alone IS found tlie *ligbie*t encouragement for ailver men, and all well informed pereuua understand tlie peculiar masons that brought about the these return* look as though anything could be gained by dilly-dally lug

money question

Keen New Hampshire a as carried a ■lection on a platform especially ig the gold standard. Th is now on a gold hast*, born question the need of any legii latum on tlie subject. Hut as long s

if the liepublican msjorliy dx intagonlstn of uuiuerou* Itepuhliasis o tlie Admluistraliou's cx|>an*iou |«d i-y. and to the return Ig. Ihe Demo rratic fold of Vtrescound ui -io y elrme-ti

s tlie McKinley Administration. The prindiwl significance of tlie eh* ousts that McKinley and jlryan ar wsonahly certain to^pe tlie Preside! al nominees of I AW. While Hepohl in victory *evm* assured, it slioulrit be forgotten Hist tlie issue* of th impaign will be g*rally influenced b Hie action of Congress. Hlenild Ui ohal lawmaker* atnrud ihe rai •V laws so as lo slreiigtheu the gok idard and pursue a conaervativ sagacious course wilh res|wct t

elect ioi

1 u I scMXtl.l'IMH x:xi*aMNION. Those anti-ex (lauaiouist* wim insist thal our object* tu uccapyiac foreign * are purely anldld-in abort, re are ex|«ndmg -imply for the f there t* in it—might advantageously study the statistics of compublished by the Treasury Department.

SX,tf

nade no particular dineieuer in Our dealing* with the Porto * are naturally larger than they act year, V'lt are not at all extraordinary tncomparison with the figures eten years ptecedlug. In the fiscal year IW our import* froth Potto amounted Jo KITB.W7, which res than they were in IW, IbUn.

MS, which lu

lliere

i dial

. dllTere

editor el formation, i behind hi* ticket in every dialrt Ocean City. It is now up to our bell cose nelgbls*. PiuaumcNT MckiRun I* tlw inpresident of tl* eeulury. Ttioiua. Jcfierwai wa* tlie find of tlie tv-ntury Hr was‘Vi year* In HOI. McKinley wHI be M in IIWI. Under the first president of the nineteenth re-utury tlie United Hlalc aas expauilcd to imiwrial projainlon- by the ahsorptum of the gnat Louisiana Territory on .which were aettlad Kretich, Spaniard*. Amencau* and Indiana./In the laal

iiplulon as lo tlie existing law* Unit chance should he removed by a law

would admit of no possible doubt, thing I* ever gained by trimming ic slightest degree on national i. Tlie laviple have left no gr< lonbt that they fkvor the ard, and it will do no harm,

Hi.ai i.Tb c

Not

•taudtiig a tilttei factional struggle, and with a third candidate In the field, Ohio lias clsm-u a Hepublicati go\ by a aulstanlial majoiity, whid he Conceded as an iudorsemei President McKiuley. It is tru* Ibr FuslonM* have -sept Nebrasag,

alaalppi territory. Into (lie maguifin-ii: hiwue of civilixatioii and |iros|s-rity Ihat UM

. Itryai

Mate,

ut tills <i

innal

xatlon of Hryati l lie will hate any re tlx (eople thal candidacy uw-e*

free ailver the Issue t In-re Is no r to doubt that the pamgrtats have met with defeat. Tile Republican* have increastvl thHi majority in the New ■York legislature, notwithstanding Mime hssHsi lu <■ New Yolk. Mena q Ph.lt ia enlre.

achus* lb

Urtla

really h

llsfl I

o Rico 1

ex pot

with the Philippine

n HMi, I

m they were only

xpeirt* have increased, hut they at ill trivial. In IW they were *401,171 -birh Ja hardly more than a reasouahl llowaiire for beer for tbe army. Hawaii alone allows a steady gain i ‘Oreilcau commerce Our im|a>rt from tliat group have ■ncrew-ied ove fifty per cent, lu tbe last three year ur export* thither have more Ilia ed. Our trade with Hawaii

uted in IW to over I

which is more than five time

umerve with the Philip aold the Hawaiian* *lx

irh in tbe |s**t year as w Philippine* in the last eleven year* put

total

h per

Ibe homage which la due on nohlllly of charaiter. They make rhich to Judge of Unise lliey decide whetbe-r lo admit reJmot discern any value lu a rough djamotid, nor d« they deteet that a ‘"-■mctimes covers a worth In tlietr own cullur^tlie same i fulfil every demand of onallty and to direct

tone*, gestures

a fav

real seif which iindetlle* all tl

hat I lie •* **0

Button* that a n 1 tn. f ; p Brown Mixed -Friezes £

exprel 1.. pay f- «"I

StyiiAh Blue Friezes ^ . Another Blue Frieze * >r '£ American Black Frieze

workmanship evt-ry-platJ a%1 dainty Itninjs. l most reasonably pn.td.

$12 $10

American Pray Frlezeji

■ ;

Black Cheviot Overcoats

Black English Cheviots £

C'... . $1S

$7.50 J6.5C

m^ke

o plume

■utw-ard life, will u

W \7SAy i.K’S.

The Holidays

Come early, wbiic the best things I are here, and you have plenty ot

titne and room to look.

People who don’t have to "save up” tor Christmas, and who buy the most luxurious things, arc doing the most holiday buying; but why not the others f Is it not more important that they should spend their , money to the very best advantage,

notbrngcai- j and should rot be compelled by the »n fii» cur- j busyness ot those around them to wilrtt'ro'i! bu - v lastcr than ,hc >’ t 0 ^ d n ' j We are looking at our stock ail the - mail »bo! trae to see ii we tan't give you some d a genrmusj holiday things at small prices

.i nmi li st Carpets

ouristi in ui* suane. Kvcrj time; f} r eat hie news.(or you! Axmmre* them uIterance- they receive ; . v back from which they d-> u .rt lBel s “ ch 35 wc hare been recover. If lie i- rude and di- ' selling all along tor $1 35 and such iful In hi* mamie.. hi* heart uec-j as. so far as we know, everybody ► growsaomewha: harder; if bejejse jells tor $1.50—now at $1 a

another by -lu ntuig word* or j

rat be cauiiot belj beoxaing lew p,jty-five different patterns, thirty tbelic; if he he cold and Blent in I , ' . . t I.ner -r mnr.~- .ml churlish in thousand yards—enough of some ot iduct hi* fr* ling -annot retail, a | ’he best patterns to tit out a hotel,

lender and cbivalnu- .ciiaracter. And | A year or so ago we sold twenty

u* form* one of the *t ungest reason-1 thousands yards ot carpet in the same it cultivating a court*.. ■- hewriug, and | pr,,. manufacturers told us that ueilhy f ^Whicb 'are . ' pWa-nig J j they offered those carpets to other tineas.' Not only do they gdd glcaily j concerns, and they wouldn’t touch I the -nmol human tiappltKaa, hot j them—"too big a lot. ” We sold X-J- all*, react upon tlx- giver lovepres* j them in about a week.

Fine worsted Axminstcr carpets, all this year's patterns—some of

^.■^•X^lT^lthcm 35 good'patterns as .we have i*iiy ihat Ik- continually tu hi* ! seen; otV.crs o! the average, and liatti. N-.r can any one per-i.t in ful-j a very few of the kind that we don't

peneoring a i like oursdves, but which sell better gradual re-,..u-e In hi’, own -phlt ..f some we do like. . Wtt.sk Iht.Wk Ioi—Itaod

Ihl- wav that a courteous!

m»* to be a spouiaiu-.u- °* * several-million-dollar manuta -

•>f w hat i- within, and only turer's stock.

t attain u* bighaal charactci; The patterns are quiet, gaudy , *t bhsim And here, loo, Ite* I light, dark. Oriental, French, Kngof Hie power which manner* j American—you won't hive any u all and wiik-h imobarrr trouble in finding what you want,

can deny. Kmeraon hay*.

-peaking of manner.: j “ d 411 y ou When we reflect on their t«rsua*i r _ —

I ebeenug force; bow t bey reenm-1 Toys

pre|«in, and draw people t.*| A brisk camj«igc is starting in the

J heart ot toy-land. General Fred Grant on horseback and a company soldiers, with their camp equipage, have p-.tched tents among the wooden

toys; $1.

Close by, in supporting distance, are massed a body Of rough-riders, in columns of four, who by a sudden evolution throw themselves into perfect line of battle; 25c. In a less warlike vein: A stable with horses and wagons solid blocks—no risk ot a lost leg, 2Sc and SOc. Noah's Arks in two new patterns —combined ark and gondola and a combined ark and flat-boat for shallower water, 25c, SOc and $1. Railway trains of all sorts from the 25c express to the luxurious vestibuled train at $1. n toys, all sorts of fire apparatus, steam and chemical engines— without the nasty chemicals—insurce patrols, ladder trucks, etc., 25c

$4.50.

Every conceivable sort of vehide for railways or highways tram 25c up to ii'.TS. ** Kitchen ranges, 25c to $4.50— the latter dosely following the model of a real cooker, with all the pots and pans thrown in.

$8.50 $16

The new style Paddock Overcoats, $ 15 Men’s Suits, $7.50'to $20.00 BoyS' Suits. $3.50 to $15.00

Ha's S!kc '

Has 11*. :

i 1 ;? na'shhajp-;

timiiitei. CMiusiitH ii titts HI IIIIU MMC “

manners mai

make II

fortune a>f the ambitious youth: wlu-n we think what key* they are anil to what secret*: what high Itwsons and rey, and what divination i- required in u* for (hr rauliug of this line telegraph, we *«. w hat range the subject has and wbat relations hi convenience, powet

and lieauty.

Like all other habits tluxie of k

urtosy

iplautcd in youth.

wily

-blldreu as at tlx; pteaeut lime. Yel it may be quevtioned If in tbi* very abuuJeuce they do not lack tbe opportunity ifcultivatiogtruegrueraalty. With all :lie freedom and pleoaure and instruction w-liicb we rightly procure lor them we shall fall a* parrnl* and educaloi-

train them In bablts of wllllngnexa b> make sacrespectful demeanor and a bearing. It cannot, we feat,

iffitmcd that our young people as a >le excel in three thing*, yet they

•w laying tbe foundation

.‘•.urle.pu- bear

live*

ud forming I

wlilcb

irely

reasonable to expert tbat-.a child who ily accustowed lo nwitte, and t h.Jpve, should grow W]. to lx- a rou* man, or ihat one who la su’fto be onutinually rude ahd tough lu lu* demeanor—wbould suddenly acquire winning and iugr .Hating manot the seed we

md bf hope for

gatlirr figs from till*

:iudly

Bicydes

CONTINENTALS, $18 nowmen's twenty-four-inch and twentysix inch frames, and women's twenty-inch frame (with brake). ROOM AN JUVENILES for boys and girls. Good wheel. Three models

■us and 1 ,or “ many tor girls—neither

I slighted. Shroe prices for both,

^ ! $22,50; $20; $17.50, accofding tc When Ua^BHdah'tareesyrere march , the size of the wheel.

!j R tbi T k'u'f xt^T'm ’(' th^ri^re'i-- ' John Wanamakcr. ga’^SSSrereTiSSiUTj Ocean City Home-made Bateiy.

While in this quandary a bright idea suddenly struck on* of our officer*. It-.' lug well aware that the fhlnreo genre | and korpthren on th. pmulsni and abn] sullid with hi* hr. t"h--r . flio-r*. with | Hinri-h ail tlx- bouans of the vtllaqi' and j

collect every

Big Special Sale of /V\an=Tailored Gowns

laii.-r-m $27.50 ' $25.00

30 ^

■ »5 00 . *7 50

Ladie* Silk Wti*t* 1 > ■ Hack •o. (3 50 SiKO j4 50 (5 00 (6 50 (7 41 imi"’”

si KSir- WAN AM AKER & BROWf

W. SCOTT HAM) IUTH0RIZE0 BT FIRE UHDERWRITERS. MiDFHE DEPiRTMENT FOR RL ESTIIE aim electric lighting.

E-— H. M. KALBACH.

SON &. CO.,

ANHI KV A ( i;\I K OCEAN CITY. NEW JERSEY

759 ASBURY AVENUE

OCEAN CITY, N. J.

ELECTRICIANS.

POST OFFICE I

CONVER, BUZZ7YRD Sc CO. SANITARY PLUMBING TIN, GALVANIZED AND COPPER ROOFING

y Mol Air ” vjlol Water > I Contbtnatino

VENTILATING Office. Salesroom and Work*, SEVENTH STREET, iht. A*hur> and Weixt Av

PRICE OF LOTS FROM $50 UP

Ocean Gil!! M Coal Go

JOS. G. CHAMPION & CO. BUILDERS

SMITH. PBOPAieron \A/K Will UifALl. VoUB ATI KNTK .c.'.rre'r.Mr'.r;. .. II.. ABCMITFx't Ml.l.l’,s (01 uill, I,

SEBSBOJF CflnBfiES. BITEIJ. ETC«

An-liiicciural Kraurh

UUMIOM

OOA.lv

woor> Office. No. 634 ASBURT AVENUE IRA S. CHAMPION Alderney Dairies, KiLk

AND

It»C> 0PC>clIll ESTABLISHED 18

you or uocliargt-. We an Office, Thirteenth Sire

fuatatilce our idan* i dwdl futuish rsltmalr F. fl. Boa 104.

Hotel Brighton,

7th Si and A^hurv Avp ()C1 '- AN l ^ (> - N I - ^location not excelled. ail Dl. dUU AbUUIJ AYIJ. appointments am. service eikst-class

I. B. POYER sisjvrrii 1*00 i-’ki*

BANGOR. PA

ocean" OTY iVb ’...''"nquiiN., 1

H. W. SOOY.

mjdy a

aolditm

**in foidgeef coffinsauffici.-nr

WM- B. CURREY,

HOS CHKSTRUT STREET, PUl'iDELPHiA, iGfDlS’ rumlSlilBI Soil am lGHGBi

WILLIAM R. STONEHILL PLASTERING, RANGE SETTING, J3rick I-nying. Etc.

OCEAN CITY MILL AND LUMBER CO. Hurt Lite, ir, C*t, Etc

NEW

GROCERY

NIITH STREET ADD AS6URT AVENUE

it. n. w-vwi;

OCEAN CITY. N. J. ODD-SIZE MILL AND STAIR WORK JACOB SCHUFF in,eithw hard or soft.wood. -

THE PIONEER BAKERY.

Is 700 Atbwy Aicnuc Oesis City. rha-re. Ni*!»u*x*dsu*s*rd urn Xuial*,,

, E r r 'Office,Yard andMill: lOthandWestSts.

OCEAN CITY, N. J.