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BsddIngtou.
Leander Lawrence of Minneapolis and
Albert Mack of Cherry field, were IN town
Friday.
Misses Alice, and Mary Coffin are at
Ripley this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt of kenduskeag, are
visiting their son, Charles Hoyt
Cyrus Rollins of Wesley, was in town
Sunday, on his way home from Bucksport.
Martin Rowe. Jr., of Aurora, was at
Mopang, Monday.
Orson Abbott was quite i'll Saturday.
D. C. Schoppe and family, and Miss
Maude Wiley, of Cherryteld, are guests
| of Mrs. Anthony Schoppe.
Work on the tannery is progressing
rapidly, and the large main building is
rapidly nearing completion.
Miss Emily Schoppe has returned to her
| home in Cherry field, after a three weeks
visit to her grandmother, Mrs. Anthony
Schoppe.
L. c. Bridgham is building an extension
on his camp at Mopang.
Miss Eunice Jellison, of Mariaville, is at
Mrs. Chas. Dinsmores.
| Quite number of tourists have visited
| town this week. We notice registered at
| Mrs. Anthony Schoppe's since Sunday,
| Cyrus Rollins, Wesley; Newell Rogers,
| Lnnie NJ. Rogers, Earnest P Miller, Anna
L. Miller, Northheld; Geo. |. Davis, j. l..
| Schoppe, East Eddington Maynard Chick.
Ellsworth; Henry f. Cousins, Sidney F.
Jones, East Eddington; Mrs. s. I.
Schoppe, Miss Emily Schoppe. Cherryfeld; /;
Frank Nash, Cherryheld, J. T. Adams,
Frank King, Portland.
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Cherryfield, July. 1892.
A Young Man on the Down Grade.

He knows more than mother.
He spurns advice from father.
He is boisterous on the street.
He has questionable companions.
He steps unsteadily at times.
He returns home late at night.
He Is becoming unreliable in business
He is delinquent in payments.
He Is discharged from his position.
He is involved In difficulties.
He is not seen on the street now.
He is void Of reputation.
He has family friends. but they are Sol
row:ul.
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Southwest HsIbor.
A little before sunset on Sunday evening
curious little rainbows with their feet
only few rods away were seen. Some
persons who were on the cliffs of Carol
or Dog Mountain at that time saw wonder
ful rainbows, and also an optical phenom-
enon or mirage similar to the "Spectre Of
the BrockeR." 1t was their own shadows
in gigantic size reflected on the cloud
opposite to them.
The hotels of Southwest Harbor are
crowded with guests. Had it been known
that this wonderful sight could be seen the
picturesque heights would have been COW
cred with people. to see what Ii seldom
seen in Maine.
Aug. l6 AMY.
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Mr.. Geo. w. Brinmer and family of
hfl"et' are III town stopping A'FFauN
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ht'' h'ec'a ,i''eS Oh boston i aI nome
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.etui neu nome ito',l NoI'm. where 'A'E
nave oee" 'iS''liS I"'I -'aH"'aIne''
Mrs Jeremiah Smith was recently ca.!tt
to kingman. to her son Henry who : dan
gefouS'y SICK
Mrs f. II. JoFdan's father was in town
'iie ''H'
h, Mss W., 49, nay ot ~ bLr"tIi its",n'
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he!h'ce bFhlihtf' Nhom she mas beth Nls-
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wIyr.x>A ESlAMfNENT, 10 4-.->econd and fourth
Mondays
L1sok Lopek No 20 o-Eyery Friday.
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The way to avoid temptation Is to
keep out of bad company.
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BIueberrles are very pItntliuI-
johnnie has got girl, and he feels very
proud, and we wish him success.
j. h. NJ
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-12-29

Sentiment is all very well in its
var, but sausages are more effective in
sustaining life
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-12-29

the thought rise in her pretty, angry
face, that if she could brave long,
hard ride in an unpropitious season,
and the ridicule of those with her, by
persisting that she liked it and was
taking it for pleasure, it was as little
as he could do to welcome her gladly.
Why should she go hanging after rec
reant suitor, here, wnere the best in
that line goes a-begging? She turned
sharply and interested herself violent
ly in the camp and its equipments.
Fortunately, the crowd announced that
they had brought grub with them, or
don't know how they would have
supped. Amalio had not yet returned
from his last trip for supplies, and we
were pretty nearly reduced to eating
sotol with the sheep.
Finally, when had seen the lot of
them, with Corb to help, at work open
ing cans, boiling coffee and frying ham,
and the ladies' with their habits tucked
up, fussing over the campfire and look
ing wonderfully pretty and sweet in
their uncouth surroundings, strolled
down to the thicket to see how Jared
the Old Man.
He had seen who our visitors were,
and he was the most woe-begone, for
saken-looking creature you ever saw.
81 had my needle and thread with
me, and I've toggled up my clothes 50
they look some better" he said.
Couldn't you, please, get me just a lit
tie bit of water?"
Can you, friends, refuse me water
Can you, when die so soon;''
quoted Corb. who had followed me, in
fiendish enjoyment of this abject re-
qucst-but something in the Old Mans
eyes went to my heart. Poor, blunder-
ing, old black moth, futtering after a
star. For | had no doubt Miss Belle
merely wanted to see hiZ2to assure
herself that she could justly hang his
scalp among the many other trophies of
that nature she was taking home to
Galveston from the plains, and sharp
ly told Corb to 90 about his proper
business entertaining the visitors
and though it went against my con-
science, for the supply was fearfully
low land suppose something delayed
AmalioD | wet one end of towel and
conveyed it to the Old Man, and saun-
tered back to the merry picnick-
ing group at the fire. refectiog
on the folly of all mankind in general,
and young folks in particular. What
madness made the Old Man set his
fancy on girl like that? A belle, a
beauty, pctted, spoiled child of for
tune, who would only look at him,
was firmly convinced, to count him off
as ''one more, as the knitting women
counted heads ut the guillotine in the
reign of terror Not but what he was
good enough-and doubly good enough
for any woman, and a tolerably good
match; blts coul 1 blame mere
woman, without the chance had for
knowing. II She should rate corb's
sleepy eyes and inches above the Old
Mans heart Of gold?
Poor Old Mani When he came lag.
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WHERE MACkEREL GO.


The End Of "A Great season Rcvlves an Ola
Fish Mystery.
Where mackcrel go for the winter is
one of the fish mysteries When the
first snow flies in the bay of Fundy,
maclerel disappear. They are abun
dant in the gulf of St Lawrence and
off Newfoundland until that time,
plump and juicy and very toothsome, the
result of having fed well on their mi.
grafton northward. The next seen OF
them is in March, off Cape Hatteras.
All their plumpness is then gone.
There is a scaly growth over their eyes,
which nearly blinds them. Nobody
whose palate has been taught what
goad mackerel are cares to cat such
fish. Many old fishermen think the
flesh tastes Of mud in the spring
One theory in regard to this is that
the macllercl 60 into the mud in winter
and remain there, and this has the eff
feet of producing cataract growth, or
scale, for the protection of the eye, and
of imparting an earthly taste to the
flesh Mackcrel have been speared in
the bay of Fundy by men who cut
through the ice to look for fish. Occa-
sionally Inackerel has been found in
mud, but cases of this kind are so rare
that they fail to establish any rule in
regard to the habits of the fish.
The only certainty is that macl1erel
disappear from ali waters visited by
fishing vessels from late in the fall un-
til early IN the spring. The fish natu.
rally loves the shore and ia to be found
close to land in the regular season.
Since fishing vessels cover this ground
all the year rornd, 1t is safe to suppose
that if mackerel were there they would
be caught at times out OF season. II
the fish go into deep water for the win
ter and move seawarl, they put aside
entirely the habits that have been oh.
served in regard to them, and in the
winter time acquire traits TO which
they seem to be innately averse in the
warm-weather months
Mackerel do not like cold water, and
| it is not believed that they remain in
the northern bays through the winter.
There is certainly no explanation if it
is assumed that they make their winter
home off Newfoundland, for their ap.
pearance in latitude much further
south in the spring. Canadian fisher
men have several times tried to make
trouble over mackerel catches, claiming
that mackercl remain in northern wa
ters as their natural habitat, and that
the macSerel coming up from Hatteras
are not at all the same FISH foand la
the bay OF Fundy. This theory has NOT
been accepted, however, by American
fishermen, and the claims Of the Cana
dians do not seem plausible enough to
have justified any action by the author
titles Of the dominion.-N. Y. Times
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ride with you, and what had thought
to say had better remain unsald."
She looked after him, as he went TO
help the others with the saddling, very
regretfully.
AHA. Mistress Pussy" | thought,
you clawed your mouse a little too
hard that time. Anyhow" | added,
virtuously, you know enough about
the poor fellows devotion now, and
you shan't have the satisfaction OF re-
fusing him in so many words" And ]
myself rode with her as far as the dry
arroyo, told the party to ride briskly,
as some of us thought there was a
norther coming, and was turning back
when Miss Belle stopped me. Her eyes
were large and frightened.
"Do You really think there win be a
storm?". she said II am such baby
about storms. Great, grown woman
as l am, | always break for mamma
and hide my hesd in her lap when one
comes up at home and out here on the
prairie | know it would scare me to
death"
reassured her, told her that the
squall if it came at all, would hardly
J strike before morning, and rode back
through the floclss to the camp.
That was a Christmas picture not to
be forgotten. The sleeping herds,
couched peacefully beneath the white
wonder of Texas moonlight night;
the sweep and swell of the low grassy
hills and pain, very like, fancy, to
that country where the shepherds
watched their focks at night nearly
two Thousand years ago, when the
angel of the Lord awakened them and
sung to their ravished ears the first
Christmas carol.
| / found the two boys very low in
their minds We all had the feeling a
prisoner must have when the visitors
90 out and leave him alone again with
his four walls, and as we were all dead
beat we prepared silently and expcdi-
tiously to turn in.
That was the worst miscalculation |
ever made on a norther We had barely
closed our eyes when it was on us; first
with rafting dash of rain like dis
I charge of musketry, then the wet tent
was yanked from above us by spite
full gust and dashed dripping upon the
campfire, and we were in pitchy black
ness, no hint of moon, and in the mid
die of a splitting clawing northcr.
J Fortunately the temperature fell less
than in any such storm have ever eX-
perienced and we were not so des-
perately cold.
Our first thought, of course-or mine,
anyway-was for the sheep, These
worthless, who are undoubtedly at once
the most idiotic and obstinate of brute
beasts, always break for the open
when storm comes on, there to wan.
der about till their long wool becomes
first sodden with moisture and then
frozen to ice, when they lie down com
fortably and die-and q mans money
with them.
We raced down among them as soor
as we could gather ourselves together
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pheasant Lsurprises,sr know bet.

!'N"~"ffN ~ ~ ~. !'fS 'ft ~
ter. -
Answering tic r,ute appeal in the
Old'Man's cyes,.I said, as the approach.
ing party dipped into the draw east of
the caihps H'Yes, y6u hide mt Corb
and can entertain them --gitis and he
got, There was "a tangled thickSt of
scrub and.mestuite west Of hei,camp,
and he made for il and was out of'sight
by the time theTcrowd came up over the
divide. -. -
When they came In among us we
had no Que TO blame avith' the inoppor-
tune visit; they were all tenderfeet,
Austin and Galveston people,sthc lead
ing spirit q young lady, Miss Belle
Hardin, who had been visiting at the
ranches above, and few days at my
place, and was now riding down TO
take the Galveston, Harrisburg & San
Antonio road home, her baggage hav-
ing preceded her. They intended to
stop and take supper with us, and then
ride on ten miles to the ranch below in
the moonlight, which was very fine.
How should know that the whole
wild excursion--for it was wild one
for ladies at that time of the year-had
been undertaken at the command of
one imperious young woman, because
she wanted to see the Old Man before
she left? But did know it, as well as if
she had told me in so many Words, by
the time Miss Bellies disappointed eyes
had roamed ever the entire camp, taken
in the inside of the tent, cruelty turned
open to their gaze, and turned inquir-
ingly to me.
would have told her, instinctively,
that the Old Man was busy about some.
where, and would be in, directly; but
the devil counseled Corb to say in a
most aggravating and public manner:
''rhc Old Man-thai's what we call Mr..
Bassett down herc--cut apd run when
he saw who you folks were. He's not
fixed for company, you see, and he's
not very sociable, anyhow; guess we
won't miss him. 5a1
The flush that rose on Miss Bellies
check BODIED ill for the Old Man. Isaw
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One Dollar Per Year.
PERSONAL AND IMPERsonAL.

p
-Asahel Thornburg, who died at
Muncie, Ind, recently, within fifty
lays OF being ccntenariap, left W
gicat-grandchidre and seventfcu
grcat-grcat. t.grandchildren TO mourn his
loss. eET
An ex-mayor of Philadelphia loaned
his umbrella TO an old woman who Was
hobbling through the rain on crutclies,
and lately received from the woman.
who has received heavy awdrd from
the spoliation claims committee, "
magnificent gold-handled silk um-
brella
"A wealthy Scotch gentleman, who
had intended to give each of his
daughters n legacy of her weight in
one-pound bank notes, had an otiicla'
Of the bank of Scotland to figure on the
matter for him. 1t was found that tho
larger would get as her share 55,3ii;
the simmer 81, 20o
A story is told OF the actress Mile.
Marie Nlagnler and her pearls. One
day, as she was about to appear on the
scene, somebody made the remark that
her pearls were really of an enormous
size. at is true" she replied; tho
lady whom represent on the stage no
doubt wore smaller pearls In real life.
But what can do? | have no small
pearls"
Mrs Elizabeth 0sby-IIunter, an &C.
centric old lady who recently died in
London, forgot to leave anything
substantial for her relatives but
beCueathed 500 a year to be held in
tn st for her parrot In n codicil 1900
wa added with which to buy the par
rot a new cage. Evidently the parrot
used its tongue more wisely than the
relatives,
Capt Greig, Scotchman, who was
known as the king of Tanning ISL
and" has just died. Many years ago
he took possession Of Fauning island,
coral reef, and supplied vessels with
guano Soon after settling there he
made a journey of one thousand miles
to Honolulu to find wife. He returned
with his bride, and brought up IA family
in his lonely island home. if,'.
Prof. Hubert A. Newton. of Yale,
has been elected member OF the Royal
Philosophical society, formed in 1850
and of which Sir Isaac Newton and Sir
Christopher Wren were presidents
The only other Americans who have re-
ceived the honor, it is stated, are Prof
J. d. Dana, of Yale; Prof. Simon New
comb, superintendent of the NAUTICAL
almanac, aud Prof. Henry A. Rowland,
of John Hopkins university.
Marshal MacMahon, who was re-
ported recently to be in i'll health, was
found out shooting by a correspondent
who hunted him mp to confirm the rn-
NOR The marshal and servant had
started out after six o'clock breakfast
to trudge through the stubble and
along lanes, and returned at niglitfall
with full bag. The cX-presidcnt OF
France is still, despite his age--hc is
eighty-four--a good shot. His hand is
steady and his aim sure, lie lives ut
Laforet, in an unprctcnding country
house, the most attractive feature OF
which, externally at least, is the vcr'
anda overgrown with vines
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Disudyantage of Fast Horses.

One day at Edinburgh Lord Rosebery
realized the disadvanta re of owning
swift horses His brougham had met
him at Waverly station to take him to
Dalmeny. Lord Rosebery opened the
door of the carriage TO put in some
papers and then turned away. The
coachman, too well trained TO look
round, heard the door shut and, think
ing that his master was inside, set off
at once. Pursuit was attempted, but
what was there in Edinburgh streets
could overtaSe those horses? The coach
man drove seven miles until he reached
point in the Dalmeny parks where it
was his lordship's custom to alight and
open gate. Hero the brougham stood
for some minutes. awaiting Lord Rose
bery's convenience. At last the coach
man became uneasy and dismounted.
His brain reeel when he saw an empty
brougham. lie could have sworn to
seeing his loriship enter. There were
his papers What had happened? With
quaking hand the horses were turned,
and, driving back, the coachman looked
fearfully along the sides. of the road
He finally met Lord Rosebery travelling
in great good humor by the omnibus -
Argonaut
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ging and shainbllng into camp lie was
anything but your notion OF a success
full wooen lIir face was red with
pnshful misery. and had never known
ehefore how white his eyes could CLEAN
from the thicket of six weeks
beard. Miss Belle completed his dis
comiture by nodding TO him over her
shoulder, and then, as if struck by a
sudden thought, Offering her hand and
saying: 81 forgot; believe didn't
sec you when we first came This,
when we were but three men in camp,
was rather transparent and very
gratuitous; but it did for the Old Man.
He subsided by the campfire and
toasted bits of bread and strips Of
bacon for folks in such reckless way
that he half baked his face and brought
the water to his eyes, saying never a
work to anyb body.
On the heels of this why should the
Old Mans evil destiny have suggested
to him to propose to Miss Belle now? |
can't say, and you can't. Rank des-
peration, suppose, and the frantic
thought that she was going away and
he might never see her again. Any
how. knew he meant to do it, for
heard them, when the party was sad
ding up and getting ready for depar-
ture. lie had evidently asked her if he
might ride little way with her, as he
had something spe ecial to say to her,
and heard her reply: "Of course you
can ride with me if you want to, but
anything you have to say can just as
well be said here and now, and have it
over"
| fancy he must have mentioned to
her the suspicion we all had, and said
something to the effect that he had
hoped she came down TO the camp es
pecially to bid him good-by before she
left; perhaps there had been some
thing between them that justified him
/ in thinking so. Whatever he had said
he had succeeded in making her blaz
ing mad, and before the cool insolence
| of that speech OF hers lie turned away
heart-broken, saying:
! II guess you don't care for Inc tc