OCEAN CITY SENTINEL

VOL. XXV.

OceanCity Sentinel

OCEAN CITY, N. J, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2:1, 1904.

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CURTIS ROBINSON Editor and Proprietor

L-AW OFFICES g T. ABBOTT, M. D., Schuyler C. Woodhull, •na sor^r-on.

CITY DIRECTORY.

CITY OFFICIALS

MORGAN HAND, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW,

OFFICE—Cdinr CcbMI ud ei|ktk Stmt

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X. C. HUTCHINSON, M

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You - Happy

New Year

STATE'S SCHOOLS EQUAL OF ANY Standard of Admission Not Lowr-r Than That of Other . Commonwealths.

JONATHAN HAND, Oonnteellor-nt-Laiw, s .n. Aur lrMi* j,, -hAo,..^. jiuurjVafcl™..

' , A »’L May count HOt SK, N. J.

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g AKRISON H. YOORHKHS

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SECRET SOCIETIES.

LAW OFFIG^U Apgar &. Boswell, r! L AW offices

Godfrey & Godfrey,

HOWARD BURT, M.D. S09 Wesley Avenue.

N. GR1SCOM, M. 1). TIS4 KVntAl. AVKNl'K,

£)K. CHARLES B. RIDER »• I>entint«« “59 Asbur)’ Avenue iBouiw Bunding)

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u ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. JAMES M. E. HILDRETH; i Counsellor-at-I-aw

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_ QUARLES L. HOFMANN • ' ' REGISTERED ARCHITECT

A H. BAKER ...Undertaker - anil - Embalaier...

MARK LAKE Undertaker and Embalmer

CHURCH SERVICES.

ilfinilSrr. MondJlJ

lEONARD KR/kUSS CO, “"'I COAL COAL Electricians =i COAL 659 At bury Avenue, Ocean Ci;y, N. J. II COAL COAL [ D .'»' Buy your Coal from lire IIK tlkl.KY A' AIYAMS .... SHOEMAKER LUMBER CO. Reading Coal ; TWKLKFH Hf. AND WES rSt\E

CHURCH SOCIETIES.

ROBERT FISHER KecLl 15 estate BOURSE BUILDING Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY Do you want a IVltagr or Hotel? Have you Ai.yU.ltiR for mil? Do you with to buy, or bare you anylbloR to art I? Let me know—1 'LL DO THK HttiT. C ataloK* on appllcattou.

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EDWARD STONEHILL .Hucceaeor to WUUaa. K. B.oarhUI, BRICKLAYER and PLASTERER All work to mHon Una prumpUy attended to... YHOO Uriifkton l»l»ce OCEAN CITY. N. J. hi'.i.i. t 1:l»5rwowK se a. OCEAN CITY BAKERY (HucoMaur to F. A.BebocR-l llltEAO, FANCY CAKES and PIES GEORGE S. BICKEL, Proprietor NO. 81S ASBURY AVENUE, OceanCity. N. J.

DAVID MUIR, JR., Tin,-;$Mfl-SiaHoefl, CORRUGATED IRON WORK, FURNACES AND RANGES, ADS Wesley trenue, • Detail City. H. J. lie palm of every dervrlptkon for all make of Kumacee and iHan*e«. Ke|u.lrli.R done |bompUy. Smoky cbUnbeyt, euratl or no rltanfe. Shop In mar.

RUSH ADIERTISIHE AGEHCT ant Aabary avom* a CTtJ, H. *•

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This holiday look of some Plumbing. Itis noi what it seems. Our Plumbing appears to be jost what it is.. If it looks right it is right. It never looks bad—and you never saw any of our work that was 1 ...GET IT RIGHT... Don't run risks. Let us do your repairing as a trial job.' :: :

JOHIW R. OROVEJS,

649 ASBURY AVENUE, ’:: OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Shooting In the New Year R V'TNU. whirling, nerr,- wm k J ,l nixed spirit of our times, j.-t lu 1 <; tin- n-nhue districts lingers 1 | r ,

CASTE IN INDIA.

be war

the "low" country, sod wbro he was rntertalnlnc guests whom be parttcularly enjjyed be bad the bridge, the only means ok ers-ape. taken up and bidden In the swamps.. Meet of these Jovial hosts are sleeping now. mrh In hia narrow bed forever laid. I Hit the

derout Japanese hreskfast on car'a day Is a religious rite ratb- . a vulgar satlsfaetiuu of the apXo nnlloary dishes are con-

-r drawn from the well

tr from yard, and a outside Ivgina the au railed Year's sermon with a forcing of the rhyme'worthy of Wall Whitman A load reyiort being the thing dei heavy wads are put on the powdet the gun mottle held dose to ground. After the shooting come, hint:

r Is then thrown wide; and ny enter, awkward, grianitw

:. as the conn try ta

The door

It* company

and shivering ' them have com. elgtit or ten mil sparsely settled. 1* tired, hut they consider It more def ereutlnl to stand, or If one la Anally persuadnl to take a chair be alts on the edge uneaally. The raddy. Kama <'lans-liks old men exchange laconic remarks on the price of cotton; the youngsirrs refer to the possum hunt of the prerions night Borne one goes to the piano nisi strums away In a frantic attempt to furnish amusement. They are stolid nntll she strikes np "Dixie." The effect Is magical. The callers mark time with mud dy boom and remark alylu^

longed till the frame Ivhent and beard Is long: the sardines, which ways swim lu pairs, express conjugal bliss; the herring la symbolical of a

These dlsluw an- Do consumption, although the appetite Is fairly

dox Japs, year out;

nles taefurr be ‘

intruded

ortho-

■form, many «remW

■ks HU fast.—London ***" r * rd ’ “

from any other.' “No? Well. I the dates after

yon wilt look a

1. ate breakfast. Inncb and d went to bed ' That Insures e diary for the year - '—Jodg

WTth the Irvn.hl s usd Ian. Tear's day. or le Jour de Tan. as be tells ft. Is very much like what Thanks giving day la to bis New England brother. It Is par excellence the feast of the home, seasonally a domestic holiday.

the visitor, riding op to the . the Kent in-by mountaineer.

“Thanks fo' yo kind wlabes. auh.

it hit h

“Now. I'm sorry to bear that. seems to be the troubler “Well. SOIL 'long last spring 1 UJe Bingo happened to have a

What

Laiberg. the we to the day.

of Homeric myth Balmlk and suckled by hare. In proof whereof Cbnhras

this day abet

Ou the other hand. Lelberg was alee bon. id a pitcher, through the poster of Abdul Kadrr Kllanl. and when the Prophet *EHas was turned Into a sweeper for spitting on the saints In beacon H was ].athee* who reHaced

him. Times of India.

He was a curly beaded boy w

each otbe-b f urn time to It

it down o

made with

when the first ray of sun strikes It. a potpourri of materials apectlWd by law and forma the staple dial., wldle at the flntab a measure id apeetal sake from a you rvl la.-quer r«|> must be drained by whosoever desires bap|>lneaa doting

1 the coming year.

^ ! In the roocn la placed an “elyalan stand." or red laccjoer tray, covared with evergreen leaves and bearing a rice dumpling, a lobster, oranges, per almmons. rheetnnts. dried ssrdtnea sod herring roe. All these dishes have a ■peclnl slip. 1 Aral tea. The names of aosne an- hoasparutoas with words of happy omen; the others bars an alle-

gorical meaning. The lobster's carved _. ^ ... .. —— ■—« »••• •••» — «* berk and long claws typify life pro- The c—ton, of c IsiUug ami eroding k ot . *.« ring like mamma’s got and

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UJe fell offet yeatiddy. an' nil.'*—sludge.

offen the al

a little girl with

>. stater. I think I'd get married 1. that's easy.' replied the owner e png ncee "Flrot you boy a dis-

ks recBrdrd almost as far berk a lory goes. The pra-ilce of n log cords can Ice traced back sands of yean, by the < bine

New Year's visiting n

ame. hot a

. forth n

w her birthday,

j -An- what she give m ‘ , ly aaked the little chap. -Why. nothin', of coarse.- smartly re j piled bis little companion. “Bay. slater.- be added. “I guess 1 ' won't marry - PhllsdelphU Triegrsph

te list unite appalling Among the Monk Indians a common ude of allk or atee of root am exists When one family bar

fine paper Kicked with allk and are so ' raw. . kettle from another. It Is e> large (hat they have to be rolled np to ported when the kettle I. returned a he retried conveniently They are. In : small portion of the food that has been deed, a., valuable that they are return rooked In It will be left In the bottom.

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In roland New Year's eve Is obeereed In a dance called 8t. Hi Ivaoter’s belt Tice dancing proceeds decorously nntll the clock strikes 12. Exactly at that moment the men faU to klasing their own and their neighbor'* part hers, each taking partlrnUr pains to tfana aalnte the one he loves beet before the one with whom she chances t# be dancing can perform that doty Those not In the mood for daac gather In another room or remain home to entertain one another w atoriee about the departing year.

mast always know a hat has low eaoked In her kettle A white woman on on* occasion returned a s.oared kettle. Intending lo teach a trseon in cVanll ness, bat her act became the talk of

; Briently In advance of kto time to r ogutar the equality If net the nicer! tty of bis own favorite beast. Th- Oc tie man's Magastne. says that the h

At every country I

honor of New Yoar's day Homa.abaap. \ compeoee trying o' nows and bogs are dressed with gar* mnalc. Und. and led to the hendtard a hoon. Th* tdro U that the animals shall be 11 * n ’ * mnnuay- 1 token into the dining room, bat when i f 1U ?. ,T,,r * ly - “ ,,nd l '' Titr * the landlord baa a Uandaomcly turolah | ror ~* r ed apartturut and does not can te have It rained lie seta aside some other New Yea

A dispatch from Trenton myi ihat John Kean, Jr , of I ulon Coanty, the senior l ulled HtoteaHenator frum New

rieuete and House of tberitsU 1 ngtcls lure to be held Tuesday, January St. There w ill be no other candidate and

I* now draw lug to a close ai been a very successful and aaliafacUxyoue. Previous to going to the Sens la Mr. Kean served two torau la tbs House and be now baa a boat of friend* lu both hall* of Conffraea. Tbs Senator U also related to the family of 1'realdeul Kocamveit by inarriaje, and Ibis, with UU generous mam:er of entertalulng, has given him n high poaL lion in both the oflldaJ and the cuctai life of Ibc Matloual capital. Senator Kean la not an orator, but be la a speaker of sufficient eloquence and power to command alteatioa n benever be takas the Boor, and-be a everywhere recognized as the wan w ho never aaks for anything fur bis State on lea* be la sure the t oinuiop* wealth I* entitled to It, then be keep* ‘ pounding away" nnlB he gets it.

The victims of the defunct MUIviBa Metual Marine nwd Pta Incarance Uompany—and they number a iboueand or more—who Upve not already I scld the tan par cent, awees mem w hich was levied opua th* foca of their premium notes many years ago, bav* received a CIiiMmns present in th* shape of tb* announcement that th* ecu rt of Ktronc and Appaaia ha* finally decided that all wbo were members of the Company at any time during tlia last ten year* of its existence are itabte for Ibe debt of the t-ooceru. plus the tbuumud* u|coa thousand* of dollar* which bar* been pilgd np ta (lie effort to collect the *■.*—enrol. There now reueains nothing for the unfortunate VKilma to do bat stop up the t .plain'. olBoa and settle. The