VOL. XX

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1901.

OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, OCEAN cm, N. 1,, E. C. ROBUffl, Eiilor ill Froiiietir.

UOTEUl AID (.'OTTAUAJ., HOTEL ATGLEN

OCEAN CITY, ■<1 uuill April I. It

THE EMMETr

NO. 49.

ATTOR A t Yk. AT.l.t «* MORGAN HAND,

OPEN THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART. |

! CAPE MAY COURT MOUSE. N. J. ; LAW OFFICES | SCHUYLER C. WOODHULL.' !JONATHAN HAND, | <JounMellor-at-Lrf»w, fCAPE MAY tTIUBTHOUBK, K. J. j

m rnE m»tteh OF crvino. RAILROAD SPOTTERS. ' • ———- •- - Rlltjhtl. kl,

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EUGENE C. COLE, COUNSELLOR-AT-LA'

, G # A. BOURGEOIS, Counsel lor-at-Law, l nHed hS*» IMliwrtA^T'jrrn^^U, ’ B *' ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. LAW OFFICES Apgar & Boswell,

Physician and Druggist, 731 Asbury Are., Ocean City. N. J. J'ur. Drup*. Fl»*^»tyl"»»rT. OoUfecUo,...) X. C HUTCHINSON. M. D. H omoeopiitUint. No. H34 Ocean Avenue.

B. T. ABBOTT, M. D., PhyRlrlaa and Kurgron. OFFICE—Ctrur Ceitnl ud ElgbH Street

CHURCH SOCIETIES.

I). S. SA.MF*SOIV, Staves, Heaters,Ranges, PUMPS, SINKS, &C.. 408-10 Anbury Avenue. OCF.AN CITY. N J.

J. T. BRYAN, FUCTIUl FLU1BEK ud GiS FIITEB, 07 HU(- Ate.. ■■kllkAelptali*

)Wp!nuUMirat.' l Mn :„T2S'assK^f?. ssnsss

G. THOMAS. No. 108 Market St..

PHILADELPHIA,

fik Fanny snuides. itawss

LAW OFFICES i | GODFREY & GODFREY

ATLANTIC CITV. IV. LEWIS L. ROSE Uv and U. S. Cou m* I and •! Uoumc liulldln

OAOACAOAOAOAOOAOAOAOAOAOAO \ THE TEST. I ■ i * * * ► 4 How an Eccentric Belle ^ 2 Exposed the Motives P of Her Suitors. o oYoYoYOYoYoYooYoYoToYoToyS When the followInK appeared In the colurun.. of the dally ucwitpapers. »o-'l •! etj experienced an abuolutely new ' eenaatlon. People who hadn't known the Ute Eleanor Steven. Immediately began to Inquire Into the hl.tory of the woman whoae name wa« coupled with k> alngular an announcement, and peo pie who bad known Eleanor Steven, i forthwith revived long ll.t. of her cu- . j rloua fade and fanclro. eoucludlug al , way* with the declaration:

“Welt I

1) Elea no

will reawaken popular lir old lawyer dryly. i d. Sevan day. later. | 1 PI .lifted or the reeep- ] even. - rejected anltnr* I tevt. In the vicinity of i

HIm Elen no; eral of the fonnd them*

■nded elalmama I

appnerbed. Othera. w Ig Ineenav at new shrinea decidedly complleate the queatfon whether pride * Pratt entered the library vena' late residence at ihi. eventful anornlng. oom crowdi-d with a body In mourning garb and aol i he approach of the long

entore big or little, the nllatcly take, the little one

tide ha. happened to It -Probably the mo.

■ou«!y. A llule baby If ,„ u -m achieved by ....... I he brought to a weep poraUon.' wiya S. II. Adam. In Alnanothlng whatever la the lee's ”L that of on.' of the big eaMern

matter with lb Ju.t cal. up your mo« ra Uro.da w hich I. to L,me extern tender. .ympaAbetlc tone; a.k him that modeled on the aerrvt acnice .vatetn I me hooorr.1 ,,ue.ilon. “Illd they boo. of Mni0 or !lip s „ V ern m entA

the baby, and the little Up* will begin though by no mean. m. complex. x Uw o. r«r mUl. m3 it Vwn m rWn

t . 0 J. U nT~i 1 , U ' ™ 0 “: L ., ,0 . dr '”' P * D ' 1 ~" a farrvaehlng and «. dlnet bow- T°. Ui ‘ t ^

dl h * ’h” 1 11 nn ant to in- ever, are II. line, of communication Tb* nw vm tar tm. kat tMt'l. I*r ■.! an* 1 xa T. w a ™ mu*” * . unci - e .totter..

k hi.

the ti

Now. Elea

r Stev

with t

Ixc covered tabli

:tew vl.lhly more troubled, irudurod sundry Important ument. and laid them

•r the crotchety old tr or the rattle brained young one I | these remarks might Imply. On contrary, she had lieen a rarely cha l lag and gifted young woman, well la

| well bred, the !

a being linked

Edw. T. Marshall KiBatamea: « marwhai.l PRACTICAL Seashore Painter 1258 WEST AVENUE. OCEAN CITV. K. J.

W. L. BERRY, Manufacturing Jeweler, NO. aa SOUTH SECOND ST..

R. R.SOOYASON Restaurant and Lunch Rooms h a * » Mvn miFTH smii

RMILADILPHI A, RA. e.ic(a agaaeaaa*.

mism •!!»»* Raara a aaceiairv utaita- affa aaavea »» at.—a E, eLINTON A CO., err BRUSHES, tM I1IEIT, i>4 I t. TIITI IT.,

rfclLAMLRM'A* RA-

D. GALLAGHER,

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sufficient to equip h

FINE FURNITURE --"'; 45 South Second Street, ample. ••MM.amKt.eM.a. e»- young

RALPH L. GOFF, CIVIL ENGINEER.

StiRVEYGR.

CONVEYANCER. KINTH AND CENTRAL. AVENUE,

RS.AI. EHXATIk A

ISRAEL 6. ADAMS & CO, Real Estate i Insarance

a G-Emsrrs,

Bmdu I, 4 11, Betl Eftitf 4 Ui Building,

ATLANTIC CITV. N. J.

('otnmMooera of Deed, for PennMoney to loan on First Mortgage. I»!» for .ale at South AUanUc City Imi It Ltu at Hob tit foe First Mtrl|i(i. Silt tr Hint. HEADQUARTERS FOR leal Estate aDliDsmaDce,

CONVCTANCINO. ETC.. AT

CHARLES P. LAKE’S

JOSEPH SUTTON

Conveyancing, Real Estate Insurance, Mortgages and Collections

Samuel Schurch REAL ESTATE I I — ‘ AND INSURANCE 701 Asburj In, Oettl Itj, I. J. rolua*. afiU U,wrdln« Han... for r»nl.

JOSEPH M. CORSON Real Estate Agent RAL^ERkHO^ iN' ^ ^

HENRI A. W. SMITH SaawaO.I.W.1.1 Practical Plumber 848 A.bury Avenue OCEAN CITY, N. J.

eccentric, and with every j ore marked. At time*, for .be would dance and golf. . aud Falk .mall talk to eligible non with a pendatency and t made her for the time thi ] of aoclety'a aolar ayatem.

| Then auddeuly and with no exeuK j whatever, the would withdraw herself, ! refute all Invitation* and spend a month or more In .todylng Huddh or In inquiring Into the condition of the

poor In great cities.

Aa to her suit ora. the most ren able report* bad existed cuncernlog Mia* Steven*' treatment of those gentlemen. It had been oald by *ome that each In turn underwent a period of auipenae hung, like Mohammed', coffin, between earth and heaven, at the end of which time he was always lowered to the former element by MU. Steven* 1 unqualified refusal. Certain malicious rival* had even claimed that at time* these proposal* were *o numerous that Mis* Steven, used printed form* of rejection, like those sent by publishers with rejected manuscript., with space left blank for the name ■ml

date.

In the end society bad concluded to accept the girl', vagaries aa simply "Eleanor Steven.' way.” And this formula had been made t, cover a multitude of oddities, ranging from the wearing of large hat. when small ones were the fashion to Mias Stevens' sudden and mysterious departure for the continent exactly two days after she had taken apartments for the summer with a party of friend, at a south coast watering place. Indeed. when, tlx months after her abrupt departure, the notice came of the young heiress’ sodden death—unattended. except t>y her maid and companion —In some obscure village In the Black forest, even her friends coaid find Bo phrase (hat so well expressed ibelr shocked surprise a*: “Wall, that wa. Jtwt like Eleanor Steven*. She couldn't even die like other peopler And now. following upon the new. of her strange death, bad appeared this atlll stranger notice. Eleanor Stevens' rejected suitor*! Who were they? Would they present themselves according to directions? What were the advantage, they would gain by ao doing? ~ ~ ' ■ thene questions tba public had not long to wait for an an Three days after the extraordinary “personal" had made Ha appearance the announcement was made that Eleanor Strvena had left a will and that Ibis will bad been proved. Before this news was 12 hours old

Wilfr Which It ended:' "To each one of my rejected sailors I give sod bequeath IB.ooo. to be paid anbject to cufcaln sealed condition, ex artly one year from my death In the II hrary of my ireshleme. In Beech wood itreet. Belgrakla." Meanwhile Willard Pratt wa. deriv lag from the admini.trailoo of Mlu Stevens' will the keenest enjoyment of

pectaney in many rai with shame and avarie

“Gentlemen." began the old lawyer. “I mu*t trouble each of you to give me In writing a concise statement of the time, place ami rlreumstanre. attend Ing your several offer, and rejection*. In order that I may have documentary proof that you are entitled to the legs ' -ft you by the term, of Mias

Steve

large fund of humor, be vastly enjoyed Mag latervtrwsd by the claimants or the claimants' friends, and. tbough they bad got noth

will."

-UoeoaM.I.y peoorrAt those unexpected word, the emotion that marked the faces of the strange assembly changed to onmlstakalde concern. Was this some disagreeable Joke? No. The old lawyer walled with unmoved face for the fulflllmcot of hi* demand. There was a momentary hesitation. Then, filing up In due order, the applicants, one by fore the old attorney and wrote the account demanded. As the last slat,-incut wss signed the portieres of the library were auddeuly drawn back and a tall, heavily' veiled figure advanced slowly Into the middle of tbe room. Then, as she raised her hand and drew hack tbe thick gauxr echoed through the bouse. The woman wa* Eleanor Stevens! “Walt." she commanded. “Don't he alarmed—I am no ghost. The Mlu Steven* who died a year ago In tbe Black forest was not t?>e Mlu Stevens whose Lm yon are ao deeply mourn-

ing.

“By a stupid blunder of tbe peasants with whom 1 was staying an exchange of name* occurred between myself aud ao Invalid girl whom 1 had befriended, so that when she died her death certificate wa* Issued under the name of Eleanor Stevens “Some weeks earlier I bad been Influenced by dally contact with one whose life wa* fading rapidly away to draw up my will In legal form and to send it home to my lawyer. “When I left *o suddenly for the tlnent a year and a half ago It wai cause of a conversation overheard between several of my seeming admirers which changed all my Ideas of manly chivalry in affairs of Ibe heart, and which drove me abroad, aa I supposed. "It was that blundering exchange of names that has given me the opportunity of meeting you under these Interesting circumstance*. “Sow. gruliemrn. my will. In which you have shown *o deep an Interest, stipulates that each of my rejected yullor# .hall receive £>.<■» after my death. That bequest will be carried c letter when I anf really e meant late I would gladly read your documentary proof*, but I have never In all my life rejected but two kuitor*. 4nd a. one of thru died six month* ago. and tbe oil got here today. I shall be obliged * T you to my Ijwyer." And with a twi-i-plog courtesy Mias Mf. Plait ss a Asker. Mr. matt has. never lost his lovt of fun. although he dorso’t look It. Aftei great deal of persuasion by bis tarny be roDsrnted to alt for bis portrait i artist Whipple. On the wall of thi studio was a recently finished portrait of John Sherman, whoae book-da which be paid Elau-had not I Ona day Mr. i’latt had ridden studio In an open car on Sixth I and aat down to pose without Mug

, It. pee tall v the ■

more or less. Is expected with th

of the little stranger, hut the more or whole railway aystem. and that w.._ ,

J' 1 * r **' | r <’ n I*- patent*. A ou, Ute knowledge of any other person. T™* ‘“T* W* «0 «*«■•- child can be laughed Into a good bu- hot hi. own .pedal eorp. of clerks U « 1 aervlea.” says 8. H. Adams mor Instead ,.f pitying him at the nu- and secretaries. <"> Aloalee's. “is mads up mostly aff. merou. little hurt, he get*, those that. “Nobody but himself knows the on aeD * li0 ”>“* properly under tha are really «f no Imjiortanrc. treat ,i re perwonn.-l of the wonderful service l,ead of detect!re* with police powsn, them as a good Joke. Laugh at them, that be has perfected. His agents are b J|{ 11 k** l«* eUx* of bona fids apotaod the baby will quickly laugh with drawn from every branch of the road'a ,rbo ^ cfitlre doty It la to IngraByon. It doesn t Uke long to chase tbe operating staff. They ate engineers. themarlrea with persons sospretsd tears sway. BeshV-a doing away with freight brakt men. passenger trainmen. “F •“Ting designs to erode tbe custom a lot of unnecessary crying It trachea conductors, signalmen, vardmen. sta- home dnU « »»d to warn tbe baggage him not to mind little hurt, and devel- tlon agents, track walkers and even iMProlots at this end of tbe b

ops a brave, manly little fellow. This division officials. Should that road :n R

does not apply to aerlotn mishaps, hut hare a strike—and strikes ate far leas “ ,n ''■''TOrDe to those numerous little bump, whtrh iik,.|y to occur than they were before bU,, >' ^ ■«*»** service q youngsters are continually getting and the proaent set cm was put Into op- “* the brad of his pi

Which a little pity quickly m.gnlfles eratiou - thc president will, hare de- «Ten ranks with tha trained egpactt uf Into something of Importance In child tailed warnings of It from all th* ,bc European diplomatic corps. It la l.h rye*. j , torD , centers long before Use first mut- C “ CB11 * 1 U>»‘ he should b* a man of

Never giving a child anything be terlngs find cautions otterancf In the tl,e wori<1 - For he most aasodata with Cries for I. another excellent way to newspapers. •« kind* of people or

nip In the hud the crying habit. If It U j “While It also art* as a defense has no proper for him to have, promlw It to again.! thefts by employees. Ibis sys- rio, “ 1 tern la Intended primarily to prepare, ““l 00 shipboard, where be la ■ . . . . • * alu, VI. —- i_* .

lop* crying. Reward hi. -

good iH-havlor. not hi. bad. Of con roe so to speak, a diary of the disposition’ Ule ‘ho*- He m If had habits In this direction are form 1 character, working efficiency and sent!- , he In the slights ed. It Is hard to correct them. But such menu toward tbe road of the men who “There la alwa discipline observed from the beginning constitute tbe vast human machinery *47*0“ 1“ l’»rla. b ~' Infrequent per- of the corporation. The feeling which *”**'“'

tur oouie where tbe youth- culminates In a general strike la not 1 reigns.-Philadelphia TcleJ the result of one art alone, but a .low »PI>arently of t growth made up of many grievance* dlera. In all lines of trade thatM

real or fancied. dutiable goods

THE TITLE REILLY TOOK. “To keep track of the shifting mental no Urge pnrehase by «

attitude of his employees I. the aim oT ^

will make crying a

graph.

a trad* there. They lire at

II w. Bis a a

that I

turned up. Mr. Whipple, watklai he bind him. turned down Ibe collar, and Mr. r>a|t. his stance lighting uo newly finished portrait, remarked: "Well, well 1 shouldn't bare bed

"When you mention the

John BelUy. yon tonch a reminiscent chard In the heart, of hundreds of the older residents of Baltimore,” remark-

ed a well known gentleman.

“On one occasion Bellly had to Jour-

ney to Philadelphia on bo;

wa* In the time of th* old stagecoaches, and he made his way leisurely along. Upon arriving there lie registered one of tbe leading hotels. That leads to my story. At that time It was eusto ary for men to add to their signatures such titles or evidences of dignity aa they possessed. When Bellly looked over tbe hotel register, be saw aome thing like this: ‘John Jones. LL. D. William Smith. A. M , A. B.; Bamne Johnson. I). D.‘ Seizing a pen. be In scribed tbe following: John Reilly. P. B. 8.' Theo he went about bis bosP ness and spent a pleasant and profita-

ble afternoon.

"Returning to tbe hotel at night, be was met by a committee of leading and learned citizen*. They greeted him with great deference and ex pressed their gratification that such a distinguished mao should he In their midst. He was urgently requested to deliver a lecture « some scientific body during bU You see. they judged from the mystic letters on tbe hotel register that be was a fellow of tbe Royal society. “Reilly was a man of Imposing personal appearance. He made himself very agreeable to tbe committee, but could not name a date for tl When they left him. a friend asked tbe reason of tbe demonstration. " 'What do yon mean by writing tha letters F. R 8. after your name, any

Rhy i”

“ •They mean "fried, raw . ad.” and I serve tbe best In Baltimore.' “—Baltimore Bun.

I .. this railroad president.

. I division superintendent has made jelf unpopular with his subordinates,

information

The Ute General George B. McClellan. C. 8. A., Is credited with having made the statement mapy years ago that tbe sinking of cUma into tbe sand along the ocean shore by closing their shells and ejecting the water from them In a thin stream fir to him the use of the wal Aid lo sinking piles In sa rale as long ago as DCS was to used by General Met TeUau's advice In potting down plies for a wharf and wareltouac Water wa, through ao ordinary rubber be a piece of gas pipe ou tbe end for a noxzle. This wa* placed close to tbe point of the pile on tbe bottom, tl of water scouring th* sand away the pU* and maklag a hole. In i the pile sank rapidly—Cass lav's |

U Cuba tbe best tobacco comet from at atrip of land only, tba slope* of a certain river, and even there a north may ruin tbe crop. Tobacco U noat sensitive plant we know of. smallest thing aSsct. Ha flavor. Plant Virginia tobacco Is Germany ' he malt I. a better tobacco, but It U German tohacee* not Virginian. la north Borneo they produce the moat

r Philippine a superk Plain Dealer.

“So aba rrfnwvl you?" “That's the Intweoefciu I receive “Pldn'l she actually ray Dor

note tells all that tha wily amnggUr would wish to keep secret, and Ms

baggage U m ' “

that effect comes fi

r Is umT widn^advM j hut unremJttlagly tnO Usa. I merit. If the newest fireman on tbe "Many a time aome man who has road attempts to stir up discontent by “‘de a heavy purchase of dUHiraai Inflamms'ory talk, bis view, soon or »od «> disposed them that reach it- official ear. Every leading he felt sure of being abU to get them

spirit lo thi employees' organizattoo U known to tbe president, who also knows whether, lo case of trouble, tbe man Is to be reckoned upon as a con

aenrallve or a radical.

“Sometimes this works oot tbe man's career In a manner quite IncnmprchfnBible to him. For tmunre. Night Watchman Brown Is shifted without cause that be can fathom from one £1vUloo to another. How rbould h? knew that rumors of trouble In that division bare reached tbe presidential . and that be himself, being down In the president's little book ar a speaker of weight and a counselor of censert tlva methods, has been shifted over art as unconscious agent la checking a

"Some of the admiring coworken of he head of this system do two minutes' reference to funds of Information be can unroll the family history of the woman who washes tbe windows of car No. 41144X and tefl whether. In her estimation, be blAsalf Is an rod den or "Where U from the tarn, office It U Inevitable hat some of them sboold cross. Cmini complications result from coo tart between spotters as nnknoi as they are to those whom they

actually true. , happiness lo reside At Nevpert fag A year or ao once, and at tha time Mr. He certainly stuttered a good deal, bathe did not go around habitnaHy dM- * a* 4h»be dM

. no leas than firs reports from Its ifidenllal men Informing them that employee who was several degrees higher In thy secret service of the road than any of them, had they bat known t. had been making Incendiary .perch “This t had to appear as a radical, i gala admittance to loner ella where the Important question, would be finally decided. To the chagrin of the authorities they were obllgn. Had they not done B0 the afiepiclon. of the then who t cold have been aro, should know each , Id to be highly unde We. There If always the chance they might work In conjunction Instead *f acting aa checks on each other. -

Th* nick! *t Time. A masked man confronted me with a pistol In a lonely spot on the dart; nnd.

I fumbled for my IS carat timepiece, think lag that my last hour was at band. When I dared to look up. ha ad vanished with bis plunder. Even then, sorb Is tbe Incongruity of (he bureau mind, though rejoiced that my time had not yet In my baart that It Torkfion.