OCEAN CITY SENTINEL

VOL. XXIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1904

THE MATTER OF

NO. 47

I OF ^GE.

tbc Interior portion! compact tabular and In lf«a drssee wttbln the

minute

dualona of air. Thla Included air prevrnte a complete Join In* it tbe water

air tul>ra rauae tbe ahaorptlon and refraction of a part of tbe raya of ll*bt enterin* tbe cryatal; bcnce tboae portlona appear darker by trnnamltted In lit than do tbc other portion!.—Na-

"d'ulroucr'.ajaand laaSn^Iw-tl'el*-I* Baptwt t%Erd

G. THOMAS, No. 108 Market St.

PHILADELPHIA,

Haadqaanar. ol

EDWARD STONEHILL ... It. Htoochllli BRICKLAYER and PLASTERIR All work in maaoc iloa promptly attended to... HOO Brighton Blaee OCEAN CITY. N. J- ■ •■Ei.LXfti.Kr^aaowt-: • HAND BROS. liouee and -<* -t- Sign Painters SO* CENTRAL AVENUE

COAL COAL

COAL

COAL COAL

Buy your Coal from tbe

SHOEMAKER LUMRER CO. TWELFTH 8T. AND WEST AVE.

A! you are alwaj-e aure o!

2JW pounrta to tbe

CINERARIAS PARIS DAISIES

white and yello»

FUNERAL DESIGNS|qharles l. Hofmann REGISTERED ARCHITECT THOMAS J. THORN FLORIST *124 Cantral ave. oc**n citt n j. loiej forjtortgiges... JORDAN MATHEWSi

d »«rd. T»1TH a

Floe FaDily Bnceries. . oirnaTorad Tea^ cbole* brand, ol Cod_ Huear. of all arade., CablieJ PMNi I'n li™. spire. RaulD*. I>rl«l Href, Huilrr and Lard Ham. of bmt quaJIty. W.lxhed when |*u

Ml to purclumeni.

Jt and rnabml Mock In Pblladr.plila. lIT.red Ire. ot ebar^. at any railroad .latloi LOW 'PRICES.

The Bathroom

fat a here the plumber.' work make* the prcttleat nbow log. It i« alau the place w here you can .pend many of vour good round dollara. We can make you a bathroom 111 for a . t ueeo.- : : : IT WILL BE : : : ae elaborate aa •'you have a mind to." Tbe plumbing will tie of the latent sanitary kind. But ue caUAKl »*>I ■are you many ami melem ex pen see If we do tbe work. Itetter let u« flgurr on tbe job now . It'll be summer pretty

JOHN R GROVES 649 Asbury Avenue Ocean City, N. J.

and bklc for but a few dol

hire. Von gents l.sl me Into tbla: not but w-bat <1 was willin', but it looks ticklish now. Give m<- a tlHiusarid down when I place the lad with you— n thousand, sec! If not. I swear I won't take tbe risk. 1 know tbe Inside of a Jail, and J don't like it." Ilia rompiminns, leaning on tbeir elhows, covered tbeir hard mouths with compressed palms and gaa-d though fullyTb —*■'—'

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s Bcs

In pr<n-ld

at tbc place you've r wbat you're Is-en al months. Where am 1

my life or

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r flvi

-HuabT' hissed Gradlry through Ms flngcrs. Toniomsw night, you My. Deliver (Be gi-sl- and It's, yours Then get out and ka-p bhlden until yog hear from us. Where slisll we meet V

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nne. Iiriween 3 nml II

drivln' biin bmae from a kids' psrty and he'll bs-alonc. That's It." The little eoachmsn put on his rap' buttoned bis mat. nodder! slgnitliantly with a Huger an bla lips and the d*s>t closed softly behind him. Then lie paaaA quickly through the outer room and out again to tlte dark alley now whitening fast with twirling snow-

ed him Jn. “Ifa moat a't MJ I had a lonely time. Hidin' alone fn tbe big sleigh la fnn

i atern countenance waa fllntllkc aa be mounted tbe box. Three block! and be a lowed up and

appointment

What citlaena of old were cruelly 1 n[ punished for Joking about tbeir cm- > ,,]

P cror! ' * | many Ollier sei Tills fate Iwfcll the cltiaens of Alex- j B years o andria. Caracalla. a monster of atro-1 eatliuate. clous cruelty, left Itome about a year I dl ,im naturally after tl»- murder of his brother Gets, j whether the rxi< who had shared the throne with him. I n ir ,„ n might n

and spent tbe remaining five year a of bis reign in the provinces of bla em-

pire until hi* death. A. I>. SIT. While peace prevailed be visited Al-

exandria. a ehh-f center then of wit aud learning, and there some one bung

up In the theater a Joke made

emperor's expense. This so -enraged Caracalla that be caused the dtlrens

to be assembled outside the city

the plain aud told them that they

should shortly see thit hit wit

practical.

Then from a secure post In the pie of Herapls he directed the slaughter of many thousand Innocent cilixens and strangers and coolly Informed tin senate that all had lieen alike guilty of unpardonable Insolence.- I-ondon

n says.

Kvtl Days For Arises.

At a time when, as Ben Jons -‘nothing hut flltb of tbe mire"

tered on tbe stage, laws were made In

England against stage playing. ' ~

common players were deliarved from Oxford •Diversity. By an act passed lu IMS strolling players were punishable aa rogues aud vagabonda. with whipping and Imprisonment unless they b longed to a nobleman and had bla I cense, and even this exrrptlnn wi abolished by another act passed In

It was

■ tor. On lOUld I ■ stpeka.

farther enacted players acting on a Sutnli tim'd shillings or phn-edln The powers of the < Hie* of Ismiln Westminster with their environs wer. augmented by an onlinamc of 1<U7 by which all players were brought within the scope of the arts of fa* amt tflOl. By an ordinance passed In IdLS galleries were to be removed, the actor* whipped during market hours in somr market town, the speetatnra flned 5 shillings each and all money paid for admission forfeited and disbursed In relief of the poor A < oaaoleS Widow. “Tes,” said Coyote Jim. “we did squared It up all right. 4 “How was that?" asked tbe tenderfoot. "One day a feller come through town." explained the native, "riding two. ways for sundown, an' someUdy yelled be waa a boss thief. In course strang him ily stole a ciotheahoree from bis wife to tra.de for Ilckcr. But we Iteld a roeetln - ' right after, an - tbe wldder got oar wasbin' fer tbe next year, so she never lost nothin' by It an’ she got her dotbewback too.'"—Cincinnati Commer-

lf» down cauliflower*. 8 dozen , of ers. 10 (hoii'ii leeks. 100 doaen <-ryi T barrels of oulooa. 10 doaen

ilauts. fl barrels of

bushels of parsnips. 5 bushels ley. -Jt dozen of radishes. 10

of turnips. 10 crates of

barrels of table apples. 10 bar rooking aiqiles. It hunches of ».Ufty |»iniid kegs of grapes. 16

iK.xes of leiuans. j ilonaf-Geographlc Magazine. Sixes of nrangi*. 2t I sixes of pears. I pineapple*. Mlalslers sad Trad Besides these supplies of fresh fond, i One cannot question tbe practical i mshIp carried enough of the i good aensc of the advice given and preserved j dhlates for the mlntatrj by a prominent rhlladelphla clergyman In urging them to learn some trade either before or

after tlieir ordination.

Ined tbe statistics of tbe various IToteetaut dennm I nations and has been appalled by tbe number of mlnlsti are without a charge. He tbinka that a trade would he a good thing to fall back ou In such cases, besides standing the minister In good stead In many waya while atill In the pulpit. Tbe. advke la applicable to tering almost any of tbe learned profeaaiona. but particularly so to clergy men. who run greater risks apparently than any rinse of professionals of helm “laid off" from their regular line ol work. Most of the large denomlua tlons bare a fund to provide for tbeir superannuated clergy, but tbe stipend, awarded are usually too meager to do more than pay for tbe barest necessities of life.—IswUe's Weekly.

span of existence. Tbh prospects whlrb distress md It has weighed

led to .the question t indefinitely prolong Hive life. Much dl» therefore felt at th ligations undertaki

After

months'

Intions to the sun he was unable discover any of the signs rhsracteristic of radlnm rays. The verdict, there fore. w»* that the discovery of radium affords rto reason for altering tbe nilcal time eralc But Sir William llamaay'a proof of the transformation of radlnm gaa into helium Lots- that radium may. after all. be u constituent of Hie silo. It Is wel known that the »|>crtro>cope rereali helium—this tnetsl. Indeed, wss dlsrov ered in the snn bc-fore It sms known tc be a terrestrial property—and It aeemi poaslhlr tliat all this lielliim may h< transformed rndium gas. ho tliat one* more It appears premature to limit tb< existence of the human race to any definite number of per'a Weekly.

Admiral Alrxrlrff rose from the ranka of the Ituasian navy. Hr Best atlractcd attention while In this country, a young lieutenant without Influence and without family. He had lauded at San Francisco from a cruise Id Alaskan waters on the Iiattli-alilp Kurick when war was Imminent I.e,wren Kusals and Great Britain over tbe Balkans. He at OD<r cabled to tlie Kusstan naval office asking permission to purchase in this conntty a numlx-r of ceaaels to be used as commerce destroy era to prey ou English commerce and received a reply to the effect tliat t lie re was not time foi the deal. Alcxaleff tebgrai • I hack a rewx-ctful message to the .-Ifrrt that be perha|*s knew the sittiation belli- «. *-, Hca tliati^lt was known In !tu»

1 reel\ed th. necessary permtIn ten days hr had imrrhaard

right afal|>a. nnd although the- war ctouc 1 —on blew nvrr tin- Imidc-nl was tbr iking of Alrxrlrff. Vppo bla return Russia hr was given eouimsnd of a Ip. and In three years hr was an adral. Now he Is vice czjir «if Greater

’lord of all tbA lands which

One of tbe cleverest women country. Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, died In Chicago recently. Rhe was fnl writer, a brilliant coov quick In wit and keen aa blade In repartee. A New York mao who knew her history trill tbe following story about her: “Mr*. Sullivan waa sent to tbe last Baris exposition by tbe Assorts ted ITess to report tbe opening. On arriving In that city sbe found that en were to he admitted at tbe opening. Rebuffed by one subordinate after another, she Anally fought her way tbe president and appealed to him •But madam.' aald tbe president *uo ladies are to be admitted, and a lady.' Aa quick as a flash plied. True, M. le President, hut tbr flrst citizen of France Is a gentleman.' And abe Just knocked t " by that rlrver speech and

Tbe sermon of a British vicar chair In* great Immorality in tbe pottery towns In Staffordshire baa caused die cuaslon of life In tbe potteries. A curious feature Is sprculstlon on tbe Uvea companies there la largely directed

i speculation. Wives are

of others ai

d to i

and daughters to take out a policy on tbrtr parents' Urea. For a, penny a

insures her father for £1

No medical examination la required, and It la simply a gamble on death Tbla waa amusingly aliown by a receni

dortor lu one of tbe potter;

towns waa reported to he dying of can The rumor was falar. aigl tbe dc

p between Ito.ksl nnd the Partflc and I tor. completely recovered of bla 1Ilnes> bleb extend from tbe Arctic to tbe was surprised tcMearn that bla char rllnw sew."—New Orleans Times Dem- I woman bad staked twopence a week on

«L bla death.

i say yon ere not In “What U tbe flrst thing to be do le else bat yon are In f **r of Are?" asked tbe professor lore with an Meal. Perhaps I can In “Bor the Insurance compt time approach that Ideal. promptly answered tbe boy at tbe foot Mias Beantl Ir.-greifnllyi-l m afraid i of tbe class, whose father bad oh He Is a character In a fairy ajory , bn ™ <1 out once or twice and appeared Everything be touched tamed to gold I *® have made a good .thing of It

The National Academy of Design recompetltlob ’limited to srUits not ver a certain age. The artist dlacovInrllglhle and re mlndrd the committee of tbs fact. In her frapk letter renouncing claim to tbe prize the artist said. "Of course It Isn't pleasant to bare attention drawn Can ItTa a fact that almost all women twenty year* old and many men "over forty are sensitive on tbe subject of age. saya the Washington Time*, hut few of them could giro any explanation of their feeling that would not he puerile. Apparently they are ashamed of having arrived at "years of discretion." but they would repudiate that explanation Indignantly. Sorely there is nothing discreditable la tbe benlth that conduces to long life, nothing degrading In baring aoraped fatal accident and disease. Why should II l*e unpleasant to have attention drawn to one's ago when on* la neither very young nor very old? It Is not unpleasant to bare attention drawn to tbe color of one’s hair unices Ice artificial or Indicative of reprehensible lapse ot time stitutra age. It Is not un- ! pleasant to be, say. thirty yean old. { hut It is the correct thing for women | especially to regard reference to tbe * ct as a personal affront or an injury tbeir vanity. The man who shows sens!livenaaa about bla age and tries to appear younger than be Is osnally la regarded as a silly person and spoken of Hehtrwt bla hark aa a vain old fool, but anti! a woman passes tbe fourscore mark she la encouraged by tbe cooventloaa of society to fib about tbe lapee of time and keep tbe vlul statistic pagan of tbr family Bible gummed together. After fourscore the vanity of men and women takes a twist In the reerr** direction. and tbe conceit of * centenarian becomes monumental.

were Important fartora tn deterrolillng value lu the matrimonial market, or possibly the nnpleaaantneaa of refer' races to the subject la as artlfldal tn IU origin as the fear of mice, which Inlne accomplish meat a

■Tbs air or Atlantic CUy Is peeallarty dry ad bracing, and epMsaks ars aakaewa. Tns grt* Is absolutely onanowa, and IT tbe or ib* grip sad lu aaquarn'ra.' Lsioolsblng rapidity, and so prolb* efface or tb* air tbattb* m

Tb* ipWndor of rqulpweol and tbc poaoTbrs* *l«T«n I’. M. every day. asrept Bon-