New-York tribune., 1874-09-07

assured, although the water way is the most con-
venient on first arriving.
BAR HARBoR.
Bar Harbor Is what our friends, the extinct Fenans
might call the head dcener OF the island. Accommoua-
tons not OF the BEST are ample. There are the Ag-
mont. Bar Harbor. Bay View. Hamor, Rockaway' anu
other houses which counted hotels but without
suicent reason The hotels better than they have
been, though far from what they ought to be surely
no objection be made to the price, which ranges
from si2 to $40 week-sl5 being an average-but con-
siderable objection be urged against tho moue oi
keeping the inns. do not wonder that their patrons
have an experience similar to Nicholas fAuorPs.
While there superabundanco to eat such as IL s'
there is not enough eat such 1t Is Mt The FOOD Is
not properly prepared. Mutton beef, lamb and veal
are cooked taste ngulary alike and the taste
Of none OF them Is in the least appetzing Even hsn
and vegetables. which are procured fresh ana when
they are brought on the table The tea and conee are
simply execrabe. They seldom good In rural new
England; and here they are extraordinary poor n.
Bar Harbor you invariably prompted to say OF your
tea or coffee. II this be tea give me eonee ~ Oo
coffee give tea" Unlike as these huns are ltney
are only fluids In this insular reglonl, inc most %nost
delicate palate hardly distinguish them r,nes rney
Of neither / shall always believe the tea
and coffee are mixed from the mistaken notion OF giving
satisfaction by presenting two things IN one. tne5 ,
NAV not be compounded with premeditatlon put they
must prepared In the same pots without tnOIousn
cleansing 30 the tea preserves vivid memory
coffee and the coffee is ever dreaming OF tea 90 not
nrefend 10 be competent critic of tor do not IKE
n never care for 1t. Nevertheless, | am vigorously
that Desert is without desert that u
has neither flavor; that neither cheers nor
inebrates that its province Ia merely To mar the k
and sugar put into IT, III t has come IRON CDna, ~ Is
unpafrioc enough have thrown OH all alleRhnce 10
the Celestial Empire by discardng any anu every su
eestion of its nativity. Touching the cOUee uOuot IL
it would taste so III II called by any other name Uhder
no circumstances could it be much worse ana yet %
speled with six letters Although wrctched III ltse1
good coffee ght be made after It by preparing some as
different from il possible. Tea ana cOHee drinkers
Wis should
make them themselves, and swallow them somewhere
else lest atmosphere should mar them Inc BRUSH
used TO bo slave could not breathe the ar OF
England without becoming free (1nnndu OF the thOu-
sands who have breathed other air and never known
the sense of freedOm) question II tea ana cOnee
could be introduced this island without OBSTRUCTION
Of their identity
SPARTAN SIMPLICITY
The rooms of the inns not what they should De-
While they are not sOled. they not quite neat aud
they are generally uncomfortable / not an adyo-
cate of luxury but some departure from the Llcedemo
nian simplicity prevalent here might be encouraged
without danger OF efiemnacy. For example, man may
lie in bed free and ridges tperhlps the
beds are made up imitation OF the topography OF the
isand or have washstand guilty Of four legs or sit
I'm a chair innocent OF lumbagO; use pillow that
vouli prevent his dreaming ne haf seen MeduSl, ana
still be IN peril OF becoming VOluptuaty: one can
scarcely enter formal complaint against tue nOttls,
when the rates moderate They might be better
il prices were advanced then again they might not be-
Bt Won paid 81 day. you wouf be cOuntendnced
in making row., and albeit IL would not PROBABLY 10
n particle OF good, you would have the sweet comfort,
dear the AngoSaXOn SOUL OF having expressed your
oplulon of the thing you had dsdpprOYeI, aud sucn
comfort Is not to be undervaned