up to pulu Bluffing and tbe Mallnc uf ttx-lr rcllffluua rxprrlriK-r. and at all: •oclal Ufa will be purmed llirre will be no bllorltr. and aa all biulniwa will lx purIQrd ibeta will be no enlen>rlMThere la no ground for aurb an alwuid antlrlpallon. In tbe time of wblrb I •|irak, where now one fortune I* made there will be a hundred fortunea made. We all know bualncM proaperllf depend* upon coubdence between man : and man. Now. when that time cornea

conrae Dr. Talmage tell* aometblag ! of which I apeak, and all double deal af what be cipect* the nett hundred . Ing. all dlaboneatjr and all fraud

OUTLOOK INSPIRING.

grad Veara—MlllaaBlui* « I aaawraiad la Thla CeBlarr Waanixoros. Jan. 0--ln (

be aald: iw tbe It within ten

alrable for

ycara win achieve, and declare* tbit tbe outlook la moat ItupIrUig: text II Bamnel xillt. 4. “A momlug witbout -dooda.” "What da yon expect of tbla new eentorj-r la th* qneatloo often naked af me. and many other* have U-en plied with tbe aaroe Uiijulry. In tbe realm of Intention 1 cx|h-ci aomethlng aa atarlllng aa tbe trlegniph and the telephone and tbe X ray. In the realm of poetry ■ expect aa great porta as Longfellow and Tennyson. In Hie realm of medicine I expect the cure of cancer and conaumptlon. In the realm of rrllgloa I expect tp.ore than on* Pentevviit like that of 1857, when COO,000 aoula professed to liare been conterjcd. I expect that universal peace WtlT reign, and tba't before the arrival of tbe two tbouaandth year gunpowder will be out of nae except for blasting rock* or pyrotechnic entertainment. I expect that before thla new century baa expired the mlllcn nlum will b* fully Inaugurated. Tbe twontletb century will be aa much an Improvement on tbe nineteenth century aa tbe nineteenth century waa an Improvement on the eighteenth. Bet tbe conventional length of arc manic discourse will allow us only time for on* hopeful consideration, and that will be tbe redemption of tbe

cities.

Pulpit and printing press for tbe moat .pert In our day are busy In discussing tbe condition of the ctllr* at tbla time, but would It not be healthfully encouraging to all Christian worker* and to all wbo are tolling to make tbe world better If we should this morning, for a Utile while, look forward to tbe time when our ettlea shall be revolutlonlu d by tbe gospel of tbe Son of God. and all the darkneaa of alo and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone from tbe sky, and It shall be "a morning wltbout^teodar ' Every man baa pride In tbe city of bla nativity or residence If It be a city distinguished for any dignity or prowess. Cmsar boasted of bis native Home. VlrgU of Mantua. Lycoigns of Spans. Demosthenes of Athens. Archimedes of Syracuse and Paol of Tarsus. 1 should bare suspicion of base heartcdoras In a

a city where be baa not behaved well! People wbo have a free ride In tbe prtaon van never like tbe city that fornlskes the vehicle. When 1 find Argos atiBH bodes and Smyrna trying to prove them selves the birthplace of Homer. I conclude right away that Homer behaved well He liked them, and they liked Urn. We must not war on -ModaTHe c«y pride or with tbe Idea of building oureelrea up at any time to try to pull others down. Boston most continue to point to Us Faneull ball and to Its anperlor educational advan

o Its Independence ball and Ha . j*. f; tw Y ork exult in Ha matchless latkin. and Its

ncd for evcrylblng-

clty Hives, county tale*, slate Uses, "rilled Stnlr* taxes, stamp taxes. 11ruse taxes, manufacturing taxes—lax s. lose*, tales! Our business men are to make a small fortune erery par to |iay their taxes. What fasten* n our great Industrie* this awful load! Crime. Individual and oOrlal. We bare pay the board of tbe rlllalns a lie are Incarcerated In our prisons.- we bare to take care of tbe orphans of wbo plunged Into fbelr grave* through beastly Indulgence: we have

municipal govern menu,

which arc expensive jnst In proportion aa tbe criminal procllrUlea are vast and tremendons. Wbo anpporta tbe almshouses and police station* and all tbe machinery of municipal govern

rnent? The taxpayers.

~ tbe glorious time of wblrb I apeak grievous taxation will all have

* wlU be no need of aup

porting criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will bare taken the place of vice. There will be Do orpha r. aayloma. for parents will be able to leave a competency to their cblldn-n there wUI be no voting of large sum* •>! moneys for some municipal Improve mrnt. which money*, before they g.-i tbe Improvement, drop Into tbe pork ■ of those wbo voted them: no oyn and terminer kept up at vast rxpriiai to tbe people, no Impaneling of juries try theft and arson and murder and slander and blackmaili better fait” rlea: grander architecture; flner e.|ul page: larger fortunes: richer opulence

morning without clouds.*

i that better time also coming U these cities tbe eh ore be* of Cbrtst will he more numerous, and they will be larger, and lbey will he more devoted to the service of Jean* Christ and they will accomplish greater Influence* for Now It la often tbe caar that

envious of each other

and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Chris! sometime* forget tbe bond of brotte-r

In tbe lime of wblcb I

apeak, while them will be Jnst aa many differences of opinion a* Ibere are now there will be no acerbity. V«i-hyi» rci n

a. no exclusiveness.',

our great cities tbe churches are today large enough to bold mor. than a fourth of tbe population Tbe

If I should find a man coming from any clly. haring no pride tn that city, that city having been tbe place of bis nativity or now being tbe place of bla residence. I would feel like asking him right away: -What mean thing have you been doing there? What outrageous thing bare you been guilty uf that you do not like tbe placer Every dty la Influenced by tbe char-

d bla life upon Rnme. The pilgrim fathers -will never relax Ibclr grasp from New England. WII Ham I Van left a legacy of fair dealing gad Integrity to Philadelphia.-and yon can now. any day. on the streets that city, see bis customs. bU manue bla morals, bis bat, bis wile s bonnet and bla meeting boose So tbe Hob landers, fonadlng New York, h ft their Impression on nil lb* following generations. Bo Ibis capital of the nation

Ington wbo founded H I ibank God for the place residence, and. while Ibrie arc sand thing* that ought t and many wrongs that overthrown, wbll* I thank God for tbe pa si. | took forward Ibis morning to a glorious futar* I think we ought —and I take for grawrd that an lutcretted to this gnat work of evangelizing the cities and saving I be world—ire ought to toll with the sun Ugbt In our farra. We are not Ughllng In a miserable Bull Hoc of defeat are on tbe way to Unit victory are Dot following the rider ou the black horse, lending us down to dr* darkneaa and doom, but the i the white bone, with the memo undrr blr feat end the elan of beaveo for hi* tiara. Ball conqueror.

are a!us and there are suffering* a'i around about oa: but aa lu eon. ter cold winter day when . wi thrashing obr arm* aronnd o* to keep of tbe warm spring day that will aftev

lights, tbe wtndoas

i HIM

sie look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretrbrdorss la our ciUaa. and we are a light streaming through from the other aide, an ' know we are. jp the way to log—more than that, on tbe way to “a

s bo are tolling fur Christ, that tie Hr* Of sin are all gnlug to be captuisd.1 The theory for Christ la tbear great towns Is gulag la be so c-miph t. hrayvu. or a <MvU In b- ll will dispute “ lo l-hpoi* ? I know It Ju.t aa

qliud lives and that f

The aslajti Is

e- - .,-1 L..-. h. The old K

s be saved: of n

gone out of commercial circle*. Iborongb coufldc-K-* will be established, * ll ' , m,y . and there w ill be better business duqr anil larger rbriunrs gathered and

mightier successes aeblevi-d. great business dlsaste

country have come from the work ol godless speculators and Infamous stock gamblers. The great for to business Is crime. When the right shall have hurl ed Itack the wrong, and shall bate purl fled the commercial code, and than have thundered down fraudulent e* its. and shall have put Into tile bands of honest nun tbe keys of

slesaed time for tbe bargain

makers. I am nut talking an alwtrae telling yon God's eternal truth. day of wblcb I speak taxes

- JEFFERi-ON S RELIGION.

i Hr. II. II. Loci 1 j from Thomas Jeff 1 lumbla lllstoriml

RICA I* EMTATE AHEWT*. .WM. LAKE, C. E., Keitl I3e*tate A.«eixt.

will U

thing.

machinery by which rhls work I* to'u- U.„. i, n„. cymbals clap, and the slilel.l. [' company In which tbe shares punuera. and tbe swift tinge red wind- [" shall Ih- ESI each, and a hundred or two ; „„ Hie while keys of the foam play the ] . mdrrd thousand shall be raJust grrud march of Israel delivered and ' make * apeelmen commnnHy. and the awful dirge of Egyptian uverllieow j en. this being forn^-d. tbe world will. So you and I go forth, and a!l the ! e Its practleahllHy and vei-y soon two people of God go forth.and they stn-tcb | ’ three million dollara more will lie ti.elr band over Hie sea. the boiling o . •lalncd. and In ten years the whole oferlme and sin and wrvtchrdn.**. "It [ " rth will be rn-'andisod. The plan diM-sn't amouni teanyth!ug,"|a-oplesny - not so preposterous as some I have |*jN*sn't It? <eel's winds pf help will j . •ard of! But I will take no stock after awhile Ix-gln to blow. A path will : t ‘ In that company! I do not believe he cleared for tbe army of Christian •' It will ever I-C done In that way. by philamfaroplsts The |iatb wilt In- lined I 1 mechanical force, or by any ma with the treasure of Christian ta-nett j' chlnery that the himiao mind can put ceniv. and we will la- greeted to the | . o play It Is to he done by Itw ] other lieaeb liy tlie clapping of all beat , •pel of tbe Son of God—tbe omnl|K> j ens cyultials. while those Aim pursued j ' tent machinery of tove and grace and u , ami derided us and tiled to ih -tioy j ^ pardon and salvation. Thai Is to em us will go down under the sea. and all ] ' paradise the nations. Archimedes de that will lie left of them will be cost i stroyed * fleet of ships coming up the high ard dry Upon tbeboacti- tbesplln , barbor. Yon know bow he did It? He J ten-d wheel of a chariot or. ibru*t out | J* ed a great sunglass, history tells ! from the foam, the brratblm nostril of j jj

and when the fleet of ships came up a rldcrlewa charger.

harbor of Syracuse be brought lo j icoeyriakt. i*i. to tool* Kieo»* | | u ir bit eunglau. and lie converged j ■— e( eune rey* upon tboec ehlps. Now. . KEEPING CHRISTMAS. li - tails are wings of Ore. ibo masts ! j u I. tbe vessels sink. Oh. my friends. The Wav It w *t Dose oa a Saow ^ by the sunglass of the gospel cooverg ! _ — - .

re bnllt—comparsllv.-h r folly ocevfp'ed The

a whole ■<

average attrndanev In tbe churches ol tbe Gutted Piste* today Is no Now. Id tbe gtorious time of wl apeak there are • going lo be churches, and they an- going all thronged with worshipers, what rousing songs they will alng' Oh. what earnest sermon* they will !b! Oh. what ferrenr prayers they will 'offer! Now. what Is railed a fashionable cboreb a pie* where a few people, hat leaded eery carefully to Heir to me and alt down-they do not w

be crowded, ttiey like

to Ibemarlvn-aod then, any time left from thinking of . and from examining tbe style

■e bat lo front of

and listen to tbe sermon warranted to bit no man a tin*, and listen music wblcb 1m rendered by a rli warranted to atug tunes that nobody knows! And then, after au boor and a half of Indolent yawning, they go borne refre»iied Every man feel* t> ter after be has bad a sleep! In many of the churche* of Chrlsi In our day the music la simply err I have not a cultivated e cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing foe me. t have nothing to say agalu.t artistic music. The *P*ir *5 I pay to hear one of the grew! qurem

1 Inr

affutd.-d the must cUltuAi-d views to In- , fanrted. I'rom-the galleries, from the ;

dotes, ntei

•f popular

lie eye and 'fancy, by urging lie- wn

Y.

REAL

OOKSSOSfi ESTATE AGENT

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licensed'auctioneer. Mo. 721 Asburi) Aoenue, Ocean City, M. J. THE OCEAN CITY REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE MASSEY & EDWARDS, Real Estate and Insurance^Agents

I g*l»TI«* AND UI.ACIKKa. AllUT GILBERT. MARK U I[

HILBERT & LIKE

House <& Sign Painters.

STORE AND SHOP:

«I7 ANBIKV AAKNIC.

liir day or rsmlrart JaMs M ~

M ASSKIOY

t i* ail., in mm. I *" d * i:i »AVAU I>H.

811 Asbury Ave. f Ocean City, N. J. | Xrxl to Ihe I'owt -oflirr. F. Os Bon. H.V) R. CURTIS ROBINSON. Real Estate and Insurance, Nos. 744-46 Asbury Avenue,

OCEAN CITY. N. J.

JOHN BROWER Painter and Glazier LEWIS BROS. PURE WHITE LEAD, IIISEEO Oil u« COINS FIRST QUALITY HARD OIL AND VARNISHES

family ma->. All brand*of Heady MIxM I'.lulV Window Ulsaa .If all kinds ■■id palt.-ru*. Hefervure given. STORE ON ASBURT AVE., OCEAN cnv. N. J.

' KS^Money to loan on Bond and Mortgage.**^!

When the people a*>emble In rellglou* convoiailons and the hymn Is read and tbe angels of God step from their throne lo catch the music on their wings, do not let us drirw them away by our Indifference. I have preached In churches whet* vast sums of money were employed to keep up the mualr. and It was as exquisite a* aay heard on earth.-but 1 thought at the mme time, for all matlen practical. I would pro r ,i.. i ... ' ' .

Let one of the** starveling fancy aongs sung In church get up before noth roue of God. How would It look stand lag amid the groat doiotogir* of the re deemed? Let the Enrol operatic all that ever a rot up from the rhun-trof Chris] get many hours the start: U a III be caught and-passed by-the bosamm of tbe Sabbath schbol chlMren I know a church.when the choir did all the singing save one Christian man. who. through perseverance of the aalnls. went right on, and afterward a com miller waa appointed to wait on him and aak him If he would not plraar t atop singing, as be bothered the chub

•wesusna w is* te* **>-* Kim “Praise ye the I-ord l^-t everything with tmwth praise the l-ord " In the gtortott* time earning In our rttle* and la the world hosanna will luret bosan aa and halleluiah balMulali la that lime also of whnh I speak all th* haunts of Iniquity and rvtuw aid squalor will he cleansed aid will hr II lumlned. How la II la la- done? You uay ta-rhapa by one inflioiH. I Vrhat-

ing rays of the Sun. of ftlgbli the wickedness of tbe world, we will make them blase and I day of which I speak do you beHeve that there will be any midnight Vnil there be any kicking off from martdf‘steps of ablverlnc mendicants? Will th“ec be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed children? Will there b* any blasphemies In 'be street? Will there be any Inebriates staggering past ? No. No wine stores; no lager beer ia loons; no breweries where they maki tbe three X'a: no bloodshot eye; no bloated cbrrk; no Instruments of rnln and destru-tlon; no flat pounded fonhead. The grandchildren of that worn an who goes dpwn tbe street with a curse, atoned by tbe boys that follow her. will be tbe reformers and tbe phi lantbroplsta sod the Christian men and tbe hon.-st merchants of onr greet

dtle*.

Then what municipal government* too. we will have In all the ritlc* Some Citlfs rre worse than’ others, bnt In many of our cities you jnst walk dowt by the city balls and look In at some o the rooms occupied by politicians and arc .to what a sensual, loathsome. Igno rant besotted crew city politics Is of ten abandoned: or they stand around the dty ball picking their teeth. Waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their fed. waiting all day long and waiting all night long Wbo are those wretched eu up for dninkeoueas auto tbe courts and put In prison. <r course? What will you do with the grogshops that made them drunk : Nothing. Who are those prisoners In Jail? One of them stole a pair of shoe*: that boy stole a dollar; this girl snatch ed a purer-all of them crimes damsg Ing society less than KM or (30. But what will you do with tbe gamble! wbo last night robbed the young mar of a thousand dollara? Nothing. Wbal shall be done with that one who break* through and destroys the purity of a Christian home and with an adrollnes* and perfidy that beat* tbe strategy ol bell flings a shrinking, khrirklng soul Into a bottomless perdition? Nothing Wbat will you do with those w bo flrere that young roan, getting him to puricli large satns of money from bis employ er—tbe young man who came lo an of fleer of my church and told the stor* and frantically asked what be might do? Nothing. And we do well-to pun lab small evinie*. but I have sometlmi thought It Would he Iwtter In some * our cities If tlie offlelala would on!, turn out from the Jails the petty crlro Inals, the little offenders, the (10 < prradoeo. and pul In their plan-* at of the roonMer* of iniquity who di their nvsn span through the street* swiftly that honest men have to leap to gel out of the way of being Oh. the damnable schemes that pro fenM-d Christian men will somellmengage In until God pals the Anger of bis rrtributi„n Into tbe collar of tl ' robe of hypocrisy and rips it cleat

w tadU-r a,- am toll lag on toward a de | Is iuy Ides, and I know | am right la .. fewt or totting oa toward a victory. The gospel uf the Mon of God is the Kow. to this uuwtrtpB? ck-atiun of] only agency that will r.er accomplikh

will giv* |heir tin*

it Hit

■n passenger train on Christ I ipeedily became acquainted j * 1 otber and aat about the j u •nd of the ear to “talk it “ if the men w as a drum-1 "

cattleman and the

nud that

y. the third

list the minister They Anally fell

Into conversation w ith a‘ poor woman and her two children, the only

Ing passenger*, and mother, who had tried log since her husband s

death, waa giving Up the unequal Strug gle and going home to live with “grand

-blldreo had i Christmas

blockade would prevent their getting farther for the present they cried bitterly until sleep quieted them. Just •fore they dropped off tbe drtmmer

marked:

“Say. parson, we've got to give these Children some Christmas." “Thai's what!" said the cowboy. “I'm agreed." aald the cattleman. The children were told *o bang uf their stockings.

skirting the governmon the work Is being done < of ground allotted to II exhibit. At invaem II Seneca Indians from t

NTOXi: PAVEHK*T AKI> FI.AUUIXU. FLAGGING AND CURBING. BEST QUALITY OF Pennsylvania and North River ..Blue Stone Pavements.. D. MAHONEY , 1.1. Cot Amende !•< CamDrli. Sit.. PkDxNi W. S. JOHNSON. Agent. Ocean City. N. J.

and ^ GLAZING. T

j

xar.^r.

Six Nations ■ Tonnwanda

“We ain't

little girl “ ‘ccptln t

o pairs of new woolen

"Lord love yon!" roared the bu cattleman, "lie won t bring roe no In. One of us'll sit up. anyhow. * tell him It's for yon." Then Ilie children knelt down ou floor of tbe ear beside their Improvl beds. Instinctively the hands of men went to I heir heads, and at flrst words of "Now I lay roe” t

The c

house wblrb is to shelter Nancy sou. herself one of the most remar and Interesting fen!urea of the I exhibit. Nancy Jqbnson Is a S aqnaw wbo has reached the age <

e last 100 y.

Tons

been a residi

cnation and has lived bouse wblcb Is now being | exisisitlap grounds. One of the conditions Mrs. Johnson consented I the exposltlqp was that au alon should be made for Then It was that the idea • Ing her cabin to the grout reived. It Is not crrtaln w In was flrst built, hut It after tlu* Uevolutlonary w

| NEXT THING TO IA PRETTY GIRL * OUR AD. WORK IS THE MOST t { ATTRACTIVE THING IN OCEAN { ^ CITY d**4i*d.*A*A4.***A* t Jf t

while In the eyes ol shone a distant I*

warmly ligbi ed I <

baggage car." ho off they t trunks ami api

"I did. I I natal et l •propper. - and he IA a little man ami ti

dictionaries?"

•eday j

But alt these wrongs a righted I expert to t!*e 1 I think 1 heai in tls^ dUt

bilug of Hie King's chariot Not always! | tn the minority It the church ot G,d *

golni

w E wamt every ad. placed in t these columns so effective, J in the dollar mark way* that each f advertiser will reap a handsome l profit on every ad. paid for * * * $

my Judgment. I00.7 said

lrrik,n They *|s-nt hours over 11 breathh-ss Intrrrot. and when ll gifts were ready there an>*e the qi Oua of a Christmas tree. It had stop ] < ped snowing, and tramping out Intoj,

wltp tinsel luiprr. and thel-

glfta were firotttly dlkpvssM. Ilirist j t mas dawncl f.w two of the hspplrol , children under th* sun awl a happy ; 1 mother, loo. for Inside the big plush ! 1 allmm selected for her the cattleman 1 ••»d slipped a hundred dollar hill : * Yuulh'a Comiiaulon 1

E, W. BURLEIGH k C0„ H LUMBER j. n. JOHNSON, }£\ PLUMBER, MILLWORK Steam and Gas Fitter.

qO* JOBBING # A •PfCiairv SHOP. VEST AVL. ML 7th uB tik STS.

PETER MURDOCH. OO A.I. ixnd WOOD, Ocean Oily, N. J. -

HAVE YOU TRIED ’ CHEW’S iomi m (Minm RET^EDV? H Ml. (tNSfl I hell I* l! HOC* ABB £ITI il I irul

J. V. CHEW, lUBhciiirtr ud ProprieW l>n«l* .1 ABBOTT’S PAURMACT, SU OCEMi Z\Vi

A Moral Seaside Resort Not Excelled as a Health Restorer Finest facilities lor FISHI2STG Sailing,gunning, etc. The Liquor Traffic and it* kindred evils are forever prohibited by deed. Every lover ol Temperance and Morals should combine to help us.

I. and -to the |Mnrvst w rctVb ]*, today crawls mu <.1 the dU.-h V h •boniluallnu. rrylng for im-rvy. to- wl an all lardoulng It* '

gray w 'ilte ha 1

III abut its flery ej. lld It had remained under d”*p like htekted 11*.. several days, in the me a>e it* last gr.aro and bad U-k-iu.- dlksi.lt,*1

A IHlIe oiev a year ago a’Galvsstun vhallnlst Iwughl of a t'hh-agu dealer s One old violin, for <* hid, be |wjd Oslo Ih* recent hurricane which de*a> taled tlie Texas clly this Insttunom was abandoned and nol remierod antll

Of EVERT DtSCRIPTIOt TO SUIT THE 0UIL0II6 TRADE Large Stock

Matfr Supply, -

Railroad, Steamboats And all other

Modern Conveniences.

Repairing a specialty.

Bath Tubs and Plumbers’1 : . Sup|jhfs. Ihousandsof lot* for *al« VnoA.bury Avenue *' loca ‘ ,<1 il ’ *“

* parts of the city.

violin «

II drop like anchors In the j These wi re gathered tergdtu r and »<-* murid will wrap Itself In back la lire dsaiev. ileawsl awl put 1. nw and leap oa the funeral 1 gether again, with Abe .result that 11V Judgment day; hat Gads InaArumei.t la ns gnudwa vsef.

| WM. B. CUntjEY, >m trornT aim, niuMum,

CM, m» tel III Run inw 8tl11 'j^hu Gnti ul Ritmi

For information apply w W. E. LAKE,

Secretary

Ocean City Asso’n, siiTu nr. m tm«\ in