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out in lights that tell of the good cheer with
in their luxurious cabins, is like a mann
moth theatrical picture. and have no doubt
the hundreds OF rOmanc6S worked out amid
the half-ightS would supply our dram atists
with plots to last them through eternity
If you will walk down through the main
street where dainty women and gaudy men
are shopping for ices and caramels and fol-
low the road down to the steamboat wharf
you will be thrilled by the sight of the lUsty-
Iunged canOeiSt, who is, in my opinion, one
of the most inspiring and attractive eX-
ampleS of American girihOOd. / shall
not soon forget the young woman from
New York who faded into the gloom of the
bay the otner night closely pursued by q
half dozen fellows who confessed their de-
vOtiOn to her by every word they uttered.
She had rolled her sleeves up over her
round white arms, and, if am any judge Of
feminine sincerity, no steel or bones COM
pressed the tender outlines of that healthy
girls fine figure. She was as supple as a
young deer, and she could Z OF refrain from
kicking up her heels as the bOatman drew
her canoe alongside the steps for her. She
settled down into the bottom of the boat as
easily as though there wasn't a rebelliOus
joint in her whole body. and as the canoe
was pushed into the clear water her arms
and the paddle flashed in the MOONLIGHT
and could have thought her some Indian
maiden racing away from her suitOrs.
But no boating at Bar HarbOr is prettier
than that of the boys with their miniature
yachts. When life looks downright un-
bearabl6, when you cant remember YOU
ever were happy, when you are soaked
with certainty that you are not happy. and
when you feel yourself obliged to believe
you never will be happy, just go to the sea-
shore and see the children play around in
the big puddles damned of from the big
ocean for their special use. OF course
the children don't know they are happy,
but you do, and it is a blessed thing that
the sight of springtime and of childhood
tones up old age and discomfort The fact
that we can't 90 padding about. yelling at
the tops of our voices. and getting sun
hI1grerg q
peace from mental contemplation of that
other fact. that be the world ever so full Of
grown folks who wish themselves dead
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blazing toggery Of the uprising population
would do his heart good could he have
stayed to see it. A youth passes my win
dow at this moment who, if he were clad
for the war path. could not present more
terrifying spectacle. I think he has on
green stockings, blue breeches, a red shirt,
yellow coat, and pink hat. By his side
troops a squad of girls. their faces shining
with midsummer health and happiness,
and their clothes combining so many cOlOrs
that the COWS being driven up the dusty
road pause and gaze at them in surprise
out Of their warm brown eyes. YOnder on
the green sits Il sqUaW of civilization. Her
wigWam is a lace parasOl, and under it she
reads summer novel.
We may write to tell you as rapturously
as we choose about all the other wooden
cities that are flung down so negligenty
along the coast, but it is away up on the
edge of this queer, extensive and pretty
substantial State of Maine that we find,
after all. the most popular, most tumultu-
GUS summer resort in all America. People
are here like sWarms of humble bees,
Wasps, blue bottle fies-anything that
fits, hutters and flashes with airy effect.
The reports to the effect that it is impOs-
sible to find accommodation are not
needed, and in the midst of the furious
enjoyment you are constantly stumbling
over people who haven't a place to sleep
unless they curl up on a billiard table, a
piano, or a tennis lawn.
Never have 1 seen such a splendid tumble
OF young and glddy people in one place be-
fore. What Will ever become of these boys
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surrounded as they are by frolicsome.
lovely, serpentine girls? They can turn no
where but a pair of passionate eyes are
dwelling on them. Every instant a cap
tiVating figure bounds across ones vision,
the musical tones of feminine laughter
ring in a continual chime, and glimpses
that are calculated to inflame and tempt
the ungirt youth are gracefully submitted,
while the bands play their intoxicating ac-
town is out so often at night searching for
an unfortunate pair that have been lost on
the mountain. When the night is clear and
warm, and everything else delightful, there
is nothing the matter with the mountain.
There are full dozen lost pairs at Bar
HarbOr every season. / have never heard
OF a case when 1t was a pair of girls. How
ever, the girls DO 90 in couples, and their
dial ogues are some times worth eavesdrop-
ping TO hear.
L think it's real snobbish of Emma to
keep a maid" said Maud: its just part of
her fastness. And what does she want to
call maid by such name as Charity
for2-
Il suppose, Ella cOntem ptuOusly replied.
because she covers a multitude of sins.
1t Is a popularity often pointed out. and
yet never so thoroughly believed as it
should be. that the entire soul of Bar Har-
hotel This Office is called The Fish Pond.
For the greater number of visitors the
Plories of the country and ocean are as
nothing compared with the remarkable
turmoil and display found in this small
room. And the fact is that the enliVened
influence OF -Hhe Fish Pond is irresistible
sven to the mostfatigu-d man Of the-WOrld
who could evs T get this far from his club.
You can soon away at the silly children
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frou-frou Of skirts, and the stairs loaded
down with "sttters, form Il picture and an
experience which are so little unple as ant
that you are willing to, ans do, stand about
there for hours enjoying yourself much
more than you care to confess.
AS to the stairs, I saw three persons GO
ing up some stone ones in the neigh
bOrhOod. Let their utterances speak for
them:
Stupid old husband - Bless her little
hearth how heavy she does drag back.
That's to make me hold her hands tight.
How she does love me!
Frisky young wife-Oh, that delightful.
naughty American! he's just holding around
my waist like everything.
Level-headed young American - This
beats getting up hill by myself all hollow.
The Bar HarbOr Hotel is a somewhat in
definite institution, not altogether unpleas-
ant, nor especially trying to luxurious peo-
pie on account Of its pristine simpli city.
The bcSL-knOWn houses in the place provide
the least attractive viands. The managers
clerks. pOrters. and bell-bOys of every hotel
are all gOOd-natUred souls, glad to know
you, glad you've come, and sorry when you
go. They are Maine from their irregular
trousers to their hair brushed only IN front
and their shoes with the heels left unpOl-
ished, and this is gratifying just in the way
OF change from our gllsten1ng friends
who ornament the marble rOtundas In no
tells nearer home. L imagine the majority
of people think that hotels here charge an
extraordinarily high rate for board, but that
is a mistake for the prices range from Two
to three dollars day, which is less than
the tariff at the average American watering
place.
Sometimes a bit of dialogue between two
Bar HarbOr ladies proves that here, as at
other watering places, there are wives who
pine for their absent husbands, and some
who do not. For example,:
Belle-Excuse me, dear, while I glance
over Hubby's letter.
Flora-What! does he still keep on?
Belle-Oh, dear, yes; the trouble is to
make him keep off
A star-lit night at Bar HarbOr. when the
bay is smooth, and the yachts are picked
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tOpOgraphicaIy and atm OspherIcaIIy Per
breast. it is without flaw. Without the
gladstone jewellers who are at this instant
disporting themselves on all sides, the
place would still be immense in its ad-
Vantages. The ocean, the drives. the lakes.
the diamond mornings. the moon-fOoded
nights. the exhilarating air at all hours,
make Of this half-ragged village a gem 10
vanished years came down from the hills
to this queer floor alongside the sea. I'll
Of appreciation agitated him. and he
bethought himself that he should re-
main here through eternity. But
our Indian, as is customary with his spe-
cies. reckoned too soldly upon his birth
right, and to-day he is nowhere to be
found in this gorgeous landscape. The
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Authenticated Girls.

All young women possessed Of red
hair can remember that In the days of
their childhood their hirsute adOrnment
was a source of mOcl1ing merriment to
their friends, and the term "sOrreI top"
or strawberry blonde" was one of con
tempt. They wondered, perhaps, why
it was that they were always called
"red-headed, when their playmates
We're described as being black, brown,
or golden haired. But the "red-headed"
girls don't mind now that it is every
young wOman's ambition to be auburn
haired, and she hopes by the use of
hair dyes to attain the shade which be
longed to the wicked Lucretia. If she
gets exactly the right shade she does
not see why a single thread of her hair
might not be preserved by the United
States Government and exhibited as Is
the one so proudly shown in Florence
as having belonged to the wicked
Lucretia- 1t Is odd how many famous
women have had this Titan red hair.
Catherine of Russia gloried in it,
and Anne of Austria had brown hair
just on the verge Of being red. Ninon
de L,EnclOs was equally proud of her
Warm~cOlOred tEesses, and Mary Stuart
seemed a daughter of the sun Jane
Hading and Mrs. Potter both have
warm auburn hair, but 1t does not
reach the real tinge, which is that
which crowned, In all her glory, the
head Of the Empress Eugene, she who
has known the extreme Of happiness
and of sadness.-AtL0qItG Cons 5tLJtjO9I
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.
KNIT GooDs-Fine-tooth combs.

KNIT -Fine-tooth combs.
A CURRENT remark must make
Bome Jelly this fall.
IT is queer, but a lively bolt often re-
suits In a deadlock.
In dependence day all the year
round at the poOr-house.
TAKEN for Standing Bear-a boy ar
rested for bathing IN the river.
BoABDNG-HOUsE people ought not
to expect dressed beef IN hot YEA Ter.
IT is very natural for an officer to be
a little peppery when he mUsters his
men.
JOIN WHEEL, of Dawson, Ga, eats
great quantities of flies. That is a
dy-wheel.
A MODEST blush sufused her gentle face,
For she had just been asked TO wed,
And she replied with sweet st. Louis grace,
Why cert, she said
CoBwIGGER-My doctors bill was
something enormous. Brown-SO you
didn't have your pains for nothing.
LITTLE SISTER, know what learn
in by rote' means" Little Brother
So do I. It means learnin' a thing the
way the teller wrote 1t.
JOLLYMAN-YOu ain t interested in the
bucket shop question, are you ? Broker
No; Why do you ask? well, I see
you are a little pail this morning"
"YoU must find life In such a place
as Chicago very diversified" said an
Eastern woman to one living in the
| Western city. Rather say divorce
fled, responded the ChicagOan.
FIRST Omahan-The doctor says my
Jersey COW has the ague. Did you ever
hear of such thing? Second Omahan
No; but the idea is a good one. You
can have a milk shake whenever you
wish it.
FRESH barber (shaving q customer)
| Who is that old hen going along the
other side of the street, with a hustle
like a boxing glove? Customer (rising
deliberately and Looking That? Oh
! she's my wife.
JOHNNY DUMPsEY with inflated
paper bag)-S'h-h! See me burst this
bag by grandma's ear Grandma CATER
the explosion, p1acidly laying her
knitting in her lap and looking toward
the door Come in.
SHARP-EYED Mamma-My dear, I
have my doubts about that young news
y
he does not possess a good moral char
acter. Daughter Why, ma, how fool
ish you are! He's q religious reporter
Doctor But-dear mel You have
had three glasses of beer daily. I only
allowed you one! Patient = It's all
right, Doctor. You're the third medi-
cal man I've consulted, and they each
allow me one glass, so that makes it
right, you see.
THREE weeks after an old Cincinnati
bachelor had got married, he met a
friend and said to him, "Why is my
! wife like baker who is making a small
gooseberry pie?" Il don't know" said
the friend ct is because she is grow
ing a little tart, " answered the disgrace
full creature.
THE FLIES DRILL GROUND.
The man who to the barber goes
And gets q shaver crown
Enaerges from the chair with glee
The happiesU man in town.
But ere d day has passed away,
With fearful OGths and cries
He'll curse the hour he made his head
A battle-ground for the flies.
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that comprise its chief contents, out YOU
cant deny that # really provides con-
tinuous excitement and interest that is be-
yond your criticism or your understanding.
the stranger, to begin with. The row Of
pipe-smoking. jolly. larking boys, who sit
hanging their legs over the edge Of the OF
flee counter. are unusual. The Wreathing
and writhing visions Of fair women floating
through the cigar smoke in diaphanOus
materials of quite unearthly hues. the flash
of eyes, the sweet pc RUNE of roses that
aoats up from iv0ry-WhIte shoulders. The
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

What wrought the change This wounan'sface
Is r1CcE with g roses grace
Her eye is bright
Her heart Is Hght.
IN, truly us a gooCiy sight
A few brief months ago her cheek
Was pallId and her step was weak.
t.Ihe end is near
For her. fear %
sighed many a friend who held her dear.
1 can tell you what wrought the change in
neE. she was told by a friend, who, ike her,
had suffered untold misery from a compIi-
cation Of female troubles, that DR.. PIerce's
tavOrlte Prescription would certainly cure
her. This friend sSknew whereof she spoke. -
advised her friend to use. She is enthusiast
TIC IN its praise, and tells her friends that
Dr.. Pierce deserves the universal gratitude
OF wOman-kind for having given it this in
falilble remedy for its peculiar ailments. 1t
is guaranteed TO give satisfaction in every
case or money refunded
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23
[sPECLAL CoRREsFoNDENCE.

HIS is a far reach
from the smells
and rattle Of the
Workaday cities.
and. a S I / o o K
about at the dark
green mountains,
and then breathe
the salt tang of
the sea into my
satisfied lungs, /
understand { b Q
whole secret o I
Bar HarbOr 5 un-
excolled prosper
itV. The resort is
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''WelI, Augustus" said vapid youth,
who was proudly making a confession of
various entanglements; eve all have our
troubles, haven't we? Perhaps there is. a
skele. on IN your own closet, Ell, old boy?''
'Oh, dean, no; you must have caught a
glimpse Of my twOwser stWetohea."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23
HE CARRIED HIS POINT.
BY WILL H. HERMAN.

HILE in Dakota I
formed the friendship of
the bravest young man
I ever met. He was
hardly twenty-five, a
slight, boyish fellow,
with a world of VIII in
his fine and flashing
eyes. When twenty
years of age he entered
journalism in one of
our Western States.
. The viriIe way in which
CHE wrote of q robber ring
that held control Of the
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A lot of girls IN Somerville started a club
recently with the motto; 'sThe lips that
touch tobacco shall never touch mine" The
young men didn't stop smoking, however,
and the new club disbanded inside OF a
week"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

A new singing actress has provoked a
wife TO fog her husband in public because
the husband was caught in her company.
That advertising which costs nothing aud
brings pain to anybody but yourself is art
-cOnsumnate art.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

The summer boarder can take care of
himself; if he can't great many landlords
are labOring under a big mistake.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23
SCENES AT BAR HARBOR
A RESORT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND
ATHLOSPHERICALL PERFECT

The Secret of Its Unexceued Popularity
and Prosperity Yachting, Canoeing and
Flirting "A star-Lit Night Is Like a
Mammoth Theatrical Picture.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Tt is not surprising that some New York
men who have run after chorus girls have
gone to Sing Sing.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Disappointed sports claim that in wrest-
ling matches the referee is too often the
power behind the thrown.
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IF you want to find out all about women
and their ways, ask some young man who
has never been married.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Chicago lives in an atmosphere of meat.
1t is part of the Ills. that flesh is air to.
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Jones (whO has been taking a Turkish
BATH: ''The water was very briny. Where
do you get your salt ?''
COlOred attendant: ''Right from Turkey.
sah."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Truth Is mighty, but she is ignominiously
worsted when she encounters a fishing ex-
cuFslOu.
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''the more you wind business up the
less 1t goes.
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Boston Miss care you a pessinaist or an
OPTIMISM
:. Omaha youth: Neither; Pine bycic-
list"
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GLOW could you tell that sallow-faced
Miss Watkins she looked fresh as rose?''
''Why, meant a Marechal Neil rose, of
course"
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A Long Branch veteran says: f'Dress
low and keep your powder dry"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Sweetness and hght-An underweiqht
pound of sugar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

We say a man has been ''out on a Iark''
when in reality he has been out on the
swallow.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

The new salt trust evidently believes the
American people very fresh.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-23

Dr.. Pierce's Pellets, one dose. Cure
headache, constipation and indigestion.
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AFFINITY Miss Maud Hogg, Of
Northampton County, Pa, was married
a few days ago to a bIr. NUdd, Ct Mary
land.
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New spring dresses are generally
worn with an elastic step.
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Anxious father: 81 don't see what is to
become OF. my son. He seems to be a born
blunderer."
Old friend: 'FUm-there is no reason
why he should not succeed as well as the
rest as weather profit
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Have you tried 'gransins Punch Cigar?
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When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child. she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them CastorfS
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THE FLIES DRILL GROUND.
The man who to the barber goes
And gets q shaver crown
Emerges from the chair with gIee,
The happiesJ man in town.
But ere a day has passed away
With fearful ORths and cries
Hell curse the hour he made his head
A battle-ground for the flies.
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that I'D contToI 3.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-29

not there yet. We are in bed in Berkeley
Square, Marylebone Lane, or where you
please.
Our sleep has been fevered with grim
visions of the coming strife.
1t is broken by loud knocking at the
outer door, as in Macbeth.
Our servant, who has oversight himself
according to immemorial receipt, now comes
to tell US that it is half-past five, and that
the hackney coach ordered over night to
take US to the coach Office is already at the
door
Unless Oh these occasions you ordered a
hackney coach over night, you were utterly
undonc
We now use strange words and ask what
sort Of a morn it is. We are told that it is
foggy, and we soon see thatit is yellow. We
have thoughts of not going to York, but we
re6ollect that we have already bought our
ticket. At the same time knocking from the
hackney coachman below tells us that time
flies.
We now fly into our boots and hat and
other things A horrible attempt at prepar-
ing breakfast has been made in the interval
by the penitent valet; an lmpromptu effort
in the way of a dingy table-cloth, tea-urn,
a loaf and pat of butter, which causes US
TO shy as thoroughbred shies at a traction
engine We seize our portmanteau, and
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-29
Daily gayle
ABOUT COACHING.

An Interesting Article on Old-Time Stage
Coaches and Their Drivers-Merry Days
in Merry Old England.
There were two main roads to York in
the old coaching days, says writer in an
English magazine. The first of these was
measured from Shoreditch, and went by
from Hicks Hall, and went by way Of Bar
net. At the Wheatsheaf inn at Alconbury
Hill, down in Huntingdonshire, these two
roads to York became one and the same
road; but the Ware route was four miles
one furlong the shorter of the two.
When we want to go to York now we
breakfast at half-past eight, If we are wise,
and catch the ten o'clock Scotch express
from Kings Cross. Our grandfathers did
not breakfast at all; not because they had
no appetite at half-past eight, but because
they had to start from High Holborn at
half-past six.
According to the faculty, early rising is
healthy thing. yet have known it bring
strong men to their bier; and besides, how
ever enjoyable, though perilous, itmay be in
summer, l think that few of us care to leap
from our beds at half-past five on raw
January morning.
Yet this is what our ancestors had TO do
who wanted to catch one of the crack north
ern coaches.
Shall we follow them N the spirit on one
of these CHASTITY expeditionse
Our coach-we will take the Regent for
choice-as we can not get further than
Stamford this journey-starts at $50 from
the George and Blue Boar, but we are