Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889.

ALONG LABRADOR'S COAST.

MR. WAKEMAN'S FAR NORTH LETTER. Sow Garden VV Blown A way Throojh Maze of Island and Rocky Channel An Ice-bers Under the Northern Light Interesting Note. Ojr Board ch"r SorniE, Au. 1. Copyrighted, 1SS9. Leaving the bright and beautiful Chateau bar, our course now lay within the Atlantic along the Labrador coast, who?e general bearing ia to the northwest for 500 miles, until HuJEon's pt rait is passed, and the almost measureless shores of Hudson's bay turn cjuarely to the eouth at the mighty headland of Capo Wolstenheime. Out to the southeast stood griui Hello Isle, the first land which Europen steamers make along: these turbulent shores. This, with Qufripon island, were known as the "Isles of Demons" in ancient times, and in the old prints, they are represented as being covered with rampant devils with wins, horns and tails. Certainly no other creatures could subsist upon Belle Iele. It is here that the chroniclers locate the scene of the pathetic tale of Lady Margaret, niece of Koberval. viceroy of New France, and her impetuous though devoted lover. We sailed near the southwestern edge of the island, close enough to well observe its formation. It äs simply a tremendous monolith of stone Eine miles Ion,? and three broad, rising precipitously from the eea at the outer entrance of th,e strait, with not an iota of "verdure upon its iron like sides and top. "VVe got a fine glimpse of its lighthouse perched high upon a southern headland, its guys and anchoring for preventing its being blown away giving it the appearance of some colossal Arctic auk poised in readiness for flieht. "Yes," said Captain Descbamps, ruminatively, "only once a year any vessel lands there; and the'storms are so terrible that every time we sailors pass we dread to look up there, fearing the light'us '11 be blown away. How hard does the wind "blow? Well. I can't rightly rive ye the v'locity. but I can furnish facts. Twenty years ago 'n I well remember him a keeper named Vaughn had charge of the light. He gotsort o' hankerin'arter fjeen things. Awful foolish; but twus hard to git anvbody to stay there at all, and they 'lowed his scheme for a earding. They took hull boat loads of soil np there an' made him a garding 'n acre bis?. Nothin' would grow on it, but he liked to dig in it, probl'ly. One evenin' a whirlin' sort of srorm riz. V sorter kept risin' all night When Vaugbn poked his head out in the mornin', he coulda't see the garden nowhere. He didn't Know at fust but be was a leetle confused hisself, an' climbed back in an' took hi3 bearin's; but there was no garden nowhere certain. That tornader jyid jest yanked up the hull sile an' spilled all over the 'Lactic Vaughn had sperit, be did. He wouldn't stand that. So ho threw up the job an' took to 'shovin' seals." Our captain had sailed out of St. John's for many years, and knew every island, cove and" inlet between Belle Isle and Hudson's bay. Dangerous a voyaze as it always is, our? was fearlessly made through mazes of islands and rocky channels which lined the coast. We successively passed the many headlands and islets' of St. Louis sound, the wonderful mountain ribbed expanse of Alexis river ruoutb, the inconceivably grand and awful barren peaks of Occasional harbor and St. Michael's bay, the black and frowning ledees and crags of Dead, Barren, Hawk and Seal islands, and rasinff Hound Hill island, the eastern land of Labrador, to our right, rounded the great Isle of Ponds, crept through the noted Indian Tickle channel and sped out into the ocean again, past Gannet islands to the Esquimaux islands at the north of the vast Hamilton inlet, the Jmtoke of the Esquimaux, and made our first anchorage among perhaps 000 vessels, sloops, schooners, brigs and bricantines, and indeed every manner of Failing craft that follows the sea for fish. There are no more impressive scenes of desolation on earth than are to be found aJons the coast; and yet one will hardly fid anywhere upon the sea, away from the great ports of the continents, such swarms and bevies of vessels. In every cove or bay we passed could be seen their sails or masts looming behind blackened crags, or their, rocking bulls moored to sloping shelves of stone. We met them hourly returning to the south with full cargoes of fish; in some harbors there must have been 1,000 boats; and at Indian Tickle we were informed that more than 7,000 vessels had passed to the north through that channel this season. Ü6 far as a landsman might judge, our dangers, if any, lay not so much in the jutting barbs of the steely coast, as in collision with other craft, and the constant menace of those silent and dreadful Arctic travelers, the icebergs. They were never out of sizht day or night. By day they are dreadful enough, but when at night they confront you, ghost-like and weird in the gale liht of the stars, there is a sense of inexpressibly awful danger in the first chill of their icy breath. I was at sea in 1S2 when our steamer in a fog ran with slackened speed squarely into one of these raonäters, crunching and climbing upon it hidden base with her iron prow. It was thought that the mass would topple over upon us, but we finally slowly slid qulverinsrly back into the sea. In that five minutes' nearness to an unsteady iceberg, eeveral hundred of us experienced more than it is said men feel when they die. But on our way to Indian harbor we had 6tranger experience still. The English tourist and my friend the timber-hunter were sittiug beside me on the deck about 10 o clock at night, watching a tremendous iceberg lyingabouta mile and a half to the east. Capt. Descharnpa assured us it was the largest he bad ever seen in these waters; and he estimated its length to be fully three-fourths of a mile and ita hieht above water at nearly three hundred feet. Our special amazement at the time was in its wonderful appearance under the dazzlin? effect of the brilliant northern lights. Presenting apparently to um a solid wall of the softest opalescent light, now and then the etupendous mass would glow with exquisitely beautiful pulsations, from a pale and shimmering sheen to the intensity of flame at white heat. But this thrilling ncene was the least of the wonderful phenomena. Suddenly with a crash so apf ailing that our scboonermasts quivered ike wind-whipped tree tops, the whole vast island of ice exploded into millions of fragments. Nothing else save the sudden irruption of some marine volcano could have presented so bewildering a spectacle. Laterally and perpendicularly pieces weighing thousands of tons were burled tremendous distances. A corona of a mile's are lifted high above the spot composed oi other millions of glittering slivers of ice. As these and the more massive faeces defended showers of diamondike flashing from the reflected rays of the mighty northern light quivered and shot toward the sky, as no pyrotechnic art of man could ever imitate in the faintest degree. Then the ocean lashings about the maelstrom epot leaped in spumy crests 6tarwird to repeat countless spear-like glitterirjgseslfof whitened flame; followed by dismembered crags of ice crashing and pounding each other in thunderous da

mnations. No human eyes ever beheld a more sublime spectacle. Stupefied with its aweing power, we had noticed nothing else. But now as if rushing upon us to engulf us, came waves of mighty hight and volume, white-faced as death; relentless as death and life, and a frozen tornado of wmd roared madly across their sheeted crests. l or a little time it seemed no human power could save the Sophie. It was all of short duration; and but one little hint to man of the inconceivably awful power within the mighty elemental forces. My timber-hunter friend's speculations were upon dillerent lines, however. Changing his cud, he measuredly and pathetically remarked. "If I could jess tow what ice wuz wasted in that cursed" blow-up into Bosting harbor. I'd buy the tap'tol for a res'dence an' git the old common fur a front yard; damn wouldn't!" Here at Indian harbor of Indian island, the latter one of the three-score or more Esquimaux islands at the mouth of Hamilton inlet, we found a resident population of possibly 000, and a temporary population on vessels of fully 4,000 souls. The former chiefly comprised the Esquimaux Indians who from appearance are fully as lazy and sodden as the Montagnias and Nasquapees. The missionaries all give an excellent account of their docility, good humor and general admirable qualities. But fishermen and others who who have no interest in impressing strangers with their importance flatly say that they are the most miserable wretches who live, and that the missionaries would not be nere with them but for the large sums made out of them in the annual dickering for furs and fish, and in providing them with supplies; for the missionaries are not only leaders and teachers, but they virtually control them as so many slaves, paying them what they like for their furs, and conducting every transaction of purchase and sale at outrageously low and high valuations. This may be Christianitv to the heathen, but it seems a much like heathenish business with pretentious Christianity. During July, August and September there are always busy ecenes here; but tbev are all connected with preparing and dispatching fish, chiefly the cod. This is wholly secured by "shore" fishing, there being no fishing whatever on "banks" along the Labrador coast. Herring is principally used for bait; thongh the faunce, ana to a much greater degree than the launce, the capelin, in the absence of herring are also used. The capelin is peculiar to these and the Newfoundland shores. It resembles the smelt and is one of the most delicate and

6avory of salt water fish. During our entire voyage we caught cod and capelin from the deck of the Sophie whenever at anchor, and our cod steaks and capelin broils, cooked when the fish were not an hour out of water, were something worthy of precious memory to an ordinary American man with an extraordinary American appetite. Some of the habits of the capelin are very strange, particularly its method of spawning. The males are provided with ridged backs. Two of these take the roe fish between thern under these prot'ecting eve-like ridges, dart ashore with ler in a grand rush, and by sudden compression expel the spawn from the roe fish, when the trio still in company, wriggle back from the pands into deep water. The chores of Indian harbor consist of an irresrnlar Feries of broadly arched shelving rocks. There is nothing in sight but harbor huts, sea, rocks, vessels, their crews, Esquimaux and fish. More vessels are moored to huge staple imbedded in these rocks than by anchor. All a vessel requires for wharfage is hawsers and staples. They are run alonide these natural piers, moored, and the work of wheeling the fish in creaking barrows to the "washhouses" begins. From these they go upon the rocks for drying and curing. Tiles like small haystacks are often seen, and for more than two miles of shore the entire harbor takes on a pale yellowish tint of curing fi.sb, as a strange temporary fringe to the purple darkness of the black and barren stone behind. Boats are constantly arriving with their loads of fresh fish; frequently hundreds will come rushing in pell mell together, to escape sudden squalls outside; and brigs, brigantines and 6chooners are daily setting sail for the south, stowed to the gunwales with the ripened harvest of these shores. Hamilton inlet has other features of interest besides its greasy Esquimaux and its fish. Behind the numberless picturesque islands at its mouth, it stretches back for fully l.r0 miles, "the expanses of Lake Melville and Ooose bay included, a vast land-locked inland sea; and from thence its windings are followed for hundreds of miles to its river source, but a short distance from Seven Islands bay at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, forming, with a few portages, undoubtedly the longest canoe route in the world. Midway between its source and the Atlantic, are falls variously stated to be from 400 to 1,000 feet in hight, at the feetof which the great river is compressed into a narrow gorge .TOO feet deep, through which it leaps in mighty cataracts for a distance of thirty miles. At Bigoulette, some seventy-five miles above Indian harbor, where the inlet is narrowed between tremendous cliffs at a point called the Narrows, is a trifling Esquimaux settlement, and one of the ancient Hudson Bay company's trading posts. All the way from Kigoulette to the sea gigantic masses of stone frown above the bay. Behind these to the south in little pockets of valleys there are, all told, perhaps twenty acres of ground under sickly cultivation, and this district is proudly termed the "uar-den-epotof the Atlantic Labrador coast!" From Indian harbor we set sail for Hopedale, the largest of the Esquimaux settlements. On our way, though we met several vessels whose appearance betokened rough treatment from savage weather, we were favored with almost cloudless skies. A fishing village of exclusively summer-time population at Cape Harrison, or Webeck harbor, disclosed a large number of sails; ami Ailik, or "Eyelick," another tiny Esquimaux village in charge of Moravian missionaries, was seen. Capt. Descbamps now became doubly valuable from his knowledge of Esquimaux words; for without him wo would have missed the pleasure of knowing that a short dietauce bevond Wo beck we passed a group of island" cras known as Kyuektabuck; that the next group reached bore, the Bountiful name of Nowyockshuockshook, and that to their west the waters of a mighty inlet invited the jabberwr kian joet with the murmurous Silurian title of Cannuckthowatooknock. My friend, the timber hunter, after hearing this Iat name pronounced by the captain as if an eflbrt to escape strangulation, give up the idea of forest discovery completely, as there could not possibly be room for timber and that sort of thing in any one country. Still thin portion of our voyage disclosed an interesting fact for the scientists. The shores presented the eame unending lines of lofty and indented stone, here and there diversified only by black and hideous peaks of loftier hights behind. But along these, and to a remarkable extent along the whole Labrador coast, it is easy to observe actual evidences of either the uprising of the land or a gradual subsidence of tho sea. In a l this -S00 miles of coast lice may be found unbroken erial beaches of bowlders, sand, shells, fossilizations, ten, twenty, thirty and even forty feet above the present sea level. How many centuries or ages have been required to accomplish this upheaval, which, navigators tell me is clearly noticeable to a startling degree all along the northern hemisphere, or at what rate the oceans are subsiding, for there is certainlv an upheaval of the I land cr a displacement of the sea, would

form a most curious and perhaps valuable subject for scientific attention and revealmeat. Edgar L. Wakeman. THE SUMMER RESORTS.

The Lake Superior resorts are well patronized. Bear are said to be numerous in the Catkills. There is no snow on the White mountains this summer. Millionaires are more numerous than ever at Long Uranch. Some of the mountain hotels wiil keep open until November. The past week has been the gayest of the season all along the line. Newport cottager speak of Miss Leiter of Chicago as "the pretty dry goods girl." Fifty coaches will be in line at the annual Vliite mountains coaching parade Aug. 20. The floating popnlation of Saratoga the past week has exceeded 20,000. All the large hotels are full. Sportin; men differ in opinion as to which is the biggest gambling center, Long Branch or Saratoga. Tho 170 waiters at the United States hotel, Saratoga, will hold their annual ball next Thursday. All the southern summer resorts are prosperous this season; even the hotel on Pablo Beach, Fla., is doing well. Over a hundred varieties of wild flowers are cow in bloom along the roadside within three miles of St. Joseph, Mich. The Hon. Joseph E. McDonald and wife and Mr. Samuel E. Morss and wife of Indianapolis are spending a few weeks at Kockbridge Alum Springs, Va. Guests of the Long Reach hotel, on Long Island, cot up a fair for the benefit of a sick babies' fund and realized $1,030, which were put where they did a world of good. On Monday last a single page of the register of the United States hotel at Saratoga showed autographs of arrivals from Shanghai, China; Mexico, Berlin, Calcutta and Sincapoor. Age cannot wither nor custom stale the popularity of those two most famous of American watering places, Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs of the South and Saratoga Springs of the North. At a full dress ball at Deer Fark recently Mrs. McKee, the president's daughter, was one of the graceful dancers. She wore a dainty robe of blue crepe de chine, that was one of the wardrobes designed for her before the inauguration. The rumor is again current that both VicePresident Morton and Jay Gould contemplate purchasing or building summer cottaces at Saratoga. They are annual guests, and the vice-president for several seasons occupied a cottage here. Xtw York Tribune. A pretty blonde young woman who dives aud swims with fearless grace off the long pier at Narrarauset dresses herself for these water gymnastics in white from top to toe. Her golden locks ore securely tucked under a coquettish white oil silk cap with a little white tassel bobbing on the crown. Among the Indianians enjoying camp-meeting and surf bathing at Loug Urach. Cab, are Judge M. C Hester, Theodore II. lianneman and family, Edward Walters and wife, S. Ludlow nnd family, John llanncraan and T. C. Coakley. Several of the foregoing have rented furnished cottn'es for the season. Among the other attractions of the beach is a fine drive of eight miles. Lawn tennis tournaments are all the rage. A dozen or more of them have been held at the dillerent eastern resorts during the past week. Tournaments will begin next Wednesday at the Grand hotel in the t'atskills and the house at Coonerstown. The fourth annual tournament of the Western lawn tennis association will begin Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the Itiverview, Kankakee. A Philadelphia went in bathing with his wife at Atlantic City and strayed from her side to that of a fair damstl from Baltimore, whom he volunteered to teach how to swim. The damsel accepted his services and things went on swimmingly until the wife saw what ber husband was doing. Then she ma Je for him in a bee line, took him by the hair and led him out of the water to the bath house, much to the surprise of the fair damsel and the amusement of 3.000 spectators. One of the prettiest girls we have had at Cane May for many seasons, a violet-eyed, lisrnt-haired lassie, air with each new toilet a poem of a parasol. Qnaintiy carved sticks, from which is caught a gleam of ivory and gold, hold these airy, fairy trifles. Over the dainty head is sometimes raised a fleecy cloud of tulle, througn which we can spy a soft gleam of delicate rose silk, the bewitching affair fringed by a thick hedge of tiny pink blossoms. Again the yellow locks arehaded by a Parisian beauty of exquisite white plumes, the delicate feathery canopy wavin?, curling and tossing with every motion in just the most enchanting manner possible. I overheard a young fellow this morning whisper to his companion: MI shall win my be t sure; see if I don't, for she is the parasol girl of the season." Philadelphia Inquirer. We had Ion; since voted her the prettiest girl in the boat. This would have been an offset for poor luck at fishing, if she had only known it, but we weren't saying a word for fear of spoiling her, and by and by Bhe looked up to the grizzly old captain and asked: "Captain, shouldn't I spit on my bait to bring luck?" '"Guess you should," he replied. "Lemme put Uli o 1 1 rau miiiuii' nuw inij j tau rpii. "Real hard?" "Yes," "All the spit I can?" "Yes." She held the hook within three inches of her nose, twisted her tongue three or four times, and then gave a "hu-choo!" We saw something fly overboard, heard a scream of despair, and next moment the prettiest girl fell in a heap in the bottom of the boat. She had thrown both plates of false teeth out of her head into twenty feet of water.- A'. 1. Sun Summer Jif sort Item. GENERAL SPORTING NOTES. W. I. Wilhelm, the Reading (N. Y.) fast rider, has been riding since lS, and has won over 200 medals on the path aud road. Slavin, the champion of Australia, has arrived in England. He will challenge Jem Smith, Charley Mitchell and the whole world. Bow Bells, the two-year-old brother of Chimes and Bell Boy, has been driven a mile in2;32 by Charles Marvin at Palo Alto. J. H. Draper leads the Pennsylvania bicycle club in mileage, with 2,-ltil miles to his credit, and F. K. Mears second, with -',401 miles. Louis Stein, one of the German contingent now in England, lowered the quarter mile tricycle record, flying start, to 37 1-5 seconds. Owing to the death of Jack Penipsey's father, his fight with the Marine is more than likely to be postponed for a few weeks at least The Clipper has accepted W. C. Dohm's new record of 1 :5V,i for the half-mile run, after a careful investigation by Editor Charles M. Ol v in. Billy Shannon of San Francisco, and Paddy Smith of Birmingham, Eng., light-weights, have been matched for a finish fight before the California crib club for a sevcn-hundred-dollar purse, Cal McCarthy says that he is willing to go to "Frisco" and ficht Tommy Warren at IIS pounds for a purse of $J,000f the winner to receive f 1,500, and that he will pay all his own expenses. The Hot. T. DeWitt Talmage says he likes a good horso better than a stupid man, and his admiration for the magnificent animal is the greater because hist morals have never been injured, notwithstanding he is often compelled to associate with bad people. Duncan C. Koss and Capt. McGregor were to have engaged in a sword and bayonet contest Tuesday, McGregor using the rill and bayonet on foot. McGregor appeared on the scene clad as a scarecrow and BwV hore shied into th crowd. Referee Fete Manning gave the match to McGregor. Cleveland J'loiiiJJealer. Parson Davie says: "When I took hold of Jarkaon I did not think he was as Rood a luaa as I have since found him to be. He has really surprised me by his clever sparring, his quickness and bis bird hitting. lie strikes a powerful blow without any apparent eHort, and his jabbing is wonderful. lie jabbed Bill Brtnnnn co hard a couple of weeks ago that Brennan was knocked out and bad his nose broken in the second round." J. S. Mitchell, the heavy-weight and hammer throwing amateur champion of the world, is in Boston, where he will make an erfort to break his own record. He will attempt to eclipse the hammer-throwing record, with unlimited run, made by Hales at London thirteen years sgo, and also the record throw of 132 feet 9 inches made by himself out of a seven-foot circle at the reoent A. A. U. championship. At the Queen's athletic grounds. Long Island, recently, several bicycle records were broken. A. C. Barker of the Berkeley athletic clab rode one mile io 2:37, beating Hesse's record there; three mile in 9:24, and five miles in 1S:41 1-5 the fastest five miles ever made in New York state. L. L. Clark of the same cluh rode a lap one and one-sixteenth of a mile in 3:21, ! and the quarter mile in 44 3-5secocds.

AT MAINE'S FAMOUS RESORT

"BAB" STUDIES THE BAR HARBOR GIRL How She Dresses lluekboard TMiotography What tbe Women Do Flirtations or the Staircase Too Much Bliss For On Man and lie Skip. Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 15. Special. Energy is the ruling characteristic of the Par Harbor girl. She is always to the fore, and mankind ought to go down on bis knees, even at the risk of making his trousers baggy, and give thanks because sho only appears in the summer time. I can not imagine hew she is restrained, unless it is by Wagner's music, during tbe rest of the year. As eoon as you arrive and have had time to discover that they fry the steaks, you are impressed with the manyncsa of the girls. They are athletic-looking, well shaped, and pervade every place just as the golden rod does. They no longer 6it on the desk in the office with their feet swinging over, waiting for the clerk to introduco the last new arrival incased in trousers, but if they are not to tbe front quite as. conspicuously, they aro justa eager. There arc a great many young boys here, young boj-s whom the girls are training, hoping 6eason after season they will have reached an interesting age of course they do, but when this ia attained and the boys have become great big splendid fellows, they take to Newport or Narragansett as natural as the proverbial duck does to water, and the Par Harbor feminine trainer is left. Although she no longer brings one dark blue flannel 6uit, which she proposes to loaf around in all Bummer, still the Ear Harbor girl is not the dainty mass of frills and frivols, of laces and shimmering ßtufrs, peculiar to womankind at the other summer places. She is given over to blazers with the biggest sort of a B, and to accordion skirts she likes the looseness of the blouse and a big sash around her waist that will conceal the fact that she hasn't any stays on charms her. A soft felt hat crushed over her head any way, and banes that have lost their rluffiness are ideal coiflures to her, and she is quite as well satisfied without gloves as with. I confess I do not admire the Bar Harbor girl 6be has neither the charm of a bov. man or woman, and that her soul is calling. "Oh, for a man!" is written on her face (I came very near writing cheek.) This place ought to be a paradise for men, but between youth and old age there seems no happy medium. The news of the appearance of an eligible is quickly told, and he is certain to bo feted and caressed until he goes back homo afiiieted with that disease, not alone peculiar to Eoliticians and journalists, known as the ig-head. lie will be driven and dined; he will be told what books to read and what soap to use; his breakfast will be ordered for him, and if one cf his admirers is fortunate enough to preside over a cottage, there will be some special delicacy sont to him on a tray. To be sure, tho driving will be in a huckboard, but then, is there anything more lovely in the world ? The young woman who is managing the borso takes the reins, not in swell New York style, but grasps one in each band and then lets the horse go as he wants. He usually wants to go in ruts, and this lands the unfortunate eligible into her lap on an average of every five yards, until in time be is wondering what her intentions are. Her intention is usually to have bis picture taken with her in the huckboard nothing worse than that it sounds innocent, but it is something that calls for faith, hope and charity. The faith being necessary for the horse, tho hope for a future place where photographs aro unknown, and the charity for the deceitful minx who is believed to be having her picture taken for the first time this season. It would never do to let him know that she is making ar.oilection, and that he is one among many of all sorts and conditions of men who have posed with her. The charm of this sort of photograph is that jut when the group is in position a crowd collects, and some wretchedly knowing old farmers come over and ask tho footman, who is standing solemnly in front of the horse, if he, meaning the horse, "has been bit by one of them sort of bees that make him stand still?" Then they go on to tell bow "they seem to kind of paralyze him, and there is no use for anybody being afeard, as be will come around directly." This kind-heartedness breaks up the group, and after an explanation has been given, then they are all posed again, the photographer has made the suggestion that they will try not to laugh, everything seems right and the horse switches his tale at the important moment. This is accounted a good picture, although where the horse's tale ought to be there is a kind ot sky such as surrounds the lower part of cherubs. Tbe next picture would have been framed by the faces of natives, but by this time the unfortunate photographer has put out three scouts to warn them off. At last success is attained, and the pictures are to be had in an hour. On their reception it is discovered that for a positive likeness the dog only is a success, while in some the young man looks like a darkey and in others he has an insane expretsiou on bis face that suggests he ü just going to propose to a girl. These, of course, are the ones she captures, and next winter, in Boston or Chicago, everybody who sees them will tell how much in love with her the eligible was, and he, poor soul, can not deny it, for there it is is on a tin type. After this he usually flees, for he'has put a nickel in the slot and finds that be has lost just ten pounds since he came here, and he credits it all to the more than polite attentions paid him by the girls. To be anxious and not seem anxious is something unknown ud here. Whether the clear, beautiful air forces the truth to appear on one's face, or just what is tho matter nobody knows. Anv such 6mall weaknesses as a nap in tbe afternoon or a cup of tea when she is tired is scorned, for being tired is something not permitted. Cottage life is pretty much the same in every place, its chief value hero being that most people have cooks more or less good, ami the wise woman is she who only dines at the house where cooks are more. The, same formality that is apparent at Newport does not obtain, and womankind can chatter as much as ehe wants to and on as foolish tonics. She who lias a story on hand is alwavs welcome, and oddly enough, whether iCs because of her association with the boys, or whether it's her independence, the) Bar Harbor girl can tell a 6tory well. They all and when I Bay they all I mean that all the women at the watering places seem to think that the handsomest and the brightest of the actors on the American stage is Maurice Barrymore. They are never tired of talking about him, and one of them who would rush down to New York to see a certain "first night," came back feeling very glorious because she had sen the adored "i'arry" of the Ftage. An envious sister then announced that a man bad told her such a funny thing, and thiswas.it: Barrvmore, who is one of tho best-natured fellows in the world, had been met by a man who was pushing some special brand of wine. It was urged on him, its virtues commended, and at last the man said: "My dear Barrymore, won't you do me a very great

favor?" "With all my heart." said Barrymore. "Won't you, the next time you are in a bar-room, call for that?" "Certainly, I will," said Barrymore; then a long silence. "But suppose they should have it?" The keen judges of sweet and dry, of heavy and licht, and of the many kinds of wines and bitters on the market can appreciate the position in which the handsome actor's friendship might possibly put him. The shoes worn by tho Bar Harbor girl are essentially English. She buys soft, undressed kid ones in tan or gray, a size and a half too large for her, and then she pads the toe with cotton, that she may seem to have an exceptionally narrow foot. Of course, if a woman is going in to having an exceptionally narrow pointed shoe, she must have it a little long, but if the girls at the southern springs could see with what braveness a No. 4 foot is put into a No. 0 shoe they would open their soft eyes wide and wonder if there was anything wrong iu the bead of the girl who did it. Sitting on the staircase is the principal form of flirtation, and when there is a ball almost every girl appears with a longtailed gown that she may cover two or three steps below the one6he is sitting on

and thus keep her conversation from being heard. She flirts in what might be called "sledge-hammer fashion." There are no delicate shadings or leadings up in her book of coquetry, she begins by saying: "Do you know, I really wondered whether you really meant what I heard you said about me." (The unfortunate voung man has probably said nothing, but she is counting on his forgetting whether he did or not, and usually her count is correct.) He says: "Oh, really, Miss Po Vere, I couldn't have said anything about you that wasn't pleasant," Miss De ere feels then that Casey is at bat, and that the game is in her own hand, so she answers with her most intense look. "I heard that you 6aia that you thought I was hardhearted." Then the unfortunate, who doesn't care whether she is hard-hearted or not, but thinks if she ate much more ice-cream she will have to have a dose of ginger, responds: "Oh, no, but you have been cruel in hot letting me come near you." Then he wonders that the ground doesn't open and swallow him, for she has been running after him day and night until he has quite made up bis mind to leave the place. If she knew how to be coy, this would ho her opportunity, but instead, she says, "Well, I will try to be kinder to you in the future. To-morrow morning you shall go buckboard riding with mo in the morning, you shall lunch at our table, and we will have a long, quiet afternoon together." This i3 too much bliss, and so he announces that he is 6ick and must go home. She is perfectly willing to go with him find take care of him, but this he declines, telling her that she must think of what people will say about her. Once at the hotel that young man racks bis clothes and takes the first train home, and when he gets there he says to his chum, "Charlie, if you love your liberty and your country never go near Bar Harbor, "for a girl will marry you out of hand and say yes for you at the altar before you have au opportunity for more than a bowing acquaintance with her." The boys and the old men are safe, for youth has no marrying value, and age has brought wisdom. Do I admire tho Bar Harbor pirl? Po I like pink lemonade made acid with lemon and with not a bit of 6Ugar to sweeten it? Do I like cherry pies with nothing sugary in them? Do I like beautiful, smooth, round, yellow peaches that put vinegar to blush? Do you? Bau. Improving Their Mind. Merchant Traveler. "Say, Mame, are you going to the theater much next winter?" l don't know; are your" "Yes; I had a delicious time Inst season." "f)id you fee Mrü. Potter ns CUpa!ri?" "Yes; divine, wasn't she? Did you notice the way she whipped her slave?" "Yes; wasn't it cute? How are you getting alone with your painting?" "Oh, very well; I can make real pretty cherubs almost a.i pretty as Biphael's." "I tell yon what let's do. Let's talk about politics. Pa thinks it's so nice for girls to be real sensible, once in a while, and talk about politics." "So does mine. What do you think of Blaine?" "Oh, he's just too nice for anything. I saw him riding in an open carriage, one day. He looked so kind of pale and interesting. Did you ever see President Harrison?" "Yes; got any caramels?" "Here's a whole lot. President Harrison's pictures don't look very handsome, do they?" "No-o, but he's a president, just the same." "What do you think of Corporal Tanner?" "Oh, he's all rieht, I guess. Come on, let's go to the matinee." Not That Kind ot Man. Scran ton Truth. Ilarry (horrified at seeing Kate puffing at a cigarette V "Mercy! Do you smoke, Kate?" Kate "Not because I enjoy it, Harry. I want to fill the room with smoke, so that should a burglar break in, he'li think there's a man in the house." Harry "Well, you're only losing your time and soiling yonr lips. A man never smokes ci;areties leastwise no man that a burglar need be afraid of." fa' I'roper Precaution. Tex.n Siftintfj. Ten minutes after this beautiful tableau was interrupted by the old gentleman, George said to Clara: "It was very thoughtless ia your father to intrude so abruptly." Clara "He is not thonghtless at all, Geonre. You see my elder sister lost her breach of promise suit by not having an eye-witness, nnd poor pa had to pay the costs and lawyer's fees himself." A Summer Arrangement. Ttroe.l Husband "What a pity that Emma had to go and throw Mr. Coldsnan overboard, for I bought our cool from him last winter. Now, next winter I'll have to pay the full price." Wife "Calm yourself, husband; she is going to renew the engacement in the fall. You see, she broke, it in order to become encaced to Mr. Cooler, the man we buy our ice from." "May heaven's richest blessings rest upon that dauchter." A Nnturnl Ml take. Tim.l Cholly "How did Fweddy come to lose his cane, (Jworge?" tiworge "Well, the other day the officers eame awound to ahwest Fweddy, don'teherknow, and by some mistake or other they got hold of Fweddv's cane instead of him." "Tb.it was sad:" "Indeed it was. And Fweddy needs his cane weal badly." The Moon Said It Kor Her. I-awrpoce American. Adolphus "O, what a night this is! How nerene the sky is! See tlie twinklinsr stars and the smiling moon, which almost seeais alive. If the moon could only speak to you, my love, wbat do you think it would say?" Angelina "I think, I)olly, it would sav. 'Come, Angelina, and have some ice cream'' She gotn 'Mrs. Font nnd the Mlimi Feet.' N. Y. Mailand Express. This story comes all the way from London: Mrs. Foot and her two daughters arrived at a musicale eiven at a leading American lady' house, and, giving their names to the butler, were announced as Mrs. Foot and the "Misses Feet." A Necessary Preliminary. Washington Capital. "What' tbe matter, driver?" said a pai.enger in a herdie, "why doesn't this coach go?'' "Cause you asn't put a nickel in the slot, that's why." And all the other passencers tittered. She Had 6u . ruck Tired Saleslady "Oh, dear, I wish we had something to sit down on." Another Tired Saleslady "I sat down on that fly floor-walker this moraing."

CniLDKEiVS BOUND TABLE.

HOW A BIRD SAVED HIS OWN LIFE. An English Starling's Experlence-Th Lesson of Noah' Dove Soma Quaint Talk of the Kid Knotty Prot lent For Solution, Etc. He was an English starling, aud was owned by a barber. A starling can be taught to speak very well, too. This one bad been taught to answer certain questions, so that a dialogue like this could be carried on: "Who are you?" "I'm Joe." "Where are you from?" "From rimlico." "Who is your master ?' "The barber." "What, hrrmfrhr. von here?" J - n . ' "Bad company." Now it came to pass one day that tbe starling escaped from his cage and flew away to enjoy his liberty. The barber was in despair. Joe was the life of the shop; many a customer came attracted by the fame of the bird, and the barber saw his receipts falling off. Then, too, he loved the bird, which had proved so apt a pupil. But all efforts to find tho stray bird were in vain. Meantime Joe had been enjoying life on bis own account. A few days passed very pleasantly, and then, alas, he fell into the snare of the fowler, literally. A man lived a few miles from the barber's home, who made the enaring of birds his business. Some of the birds he stuffed and sold. Others again were sold to hotels near by, to be served up in delicate tid-bits to fastidious guests. Much to his surprise, Joe found himself one day in the fowler's net, in company with a large numberof birds as frightened as himself. The fowler began drawing out tho birds, one after another, and wringing their necks. Joe saw that tig turn was coming, and something must be done. It was clear that the fowler would not ask questions, so Joe piped out: "I'm Joe!" "Hey! what's that?" cried the fowler. "I'm Joe," repeated the bird. "Are you?" said the astonished fowler. "What brings you here?" "Bad company," said Joe promptly. It is needless to say Joe's neck was not wrung, and that he was soon restored to his rejoicing master, the barber. The Lesson of Noah's Dove. A mother was reading the bible to her two little daughters, and described tbe way in which Noah was saved from the flood, in an ark which he had made. She told the story of the dove which was sent as a messenger to see if the flood bad ceased, and which returned the first time, but on the second occasion did not come back. Tho eldest daughter interrupted her mother by saying, "Fie, naughty dove! how could it be 60 ungrateful"? Noah saved it from death, and preserved it in tbe ark during the deluge; and yet, as soon as it was set free to disappear without returning to visit ita benefactor!" The younger sister observed: "I do not judge the dove so severely; I think, on the contrary, it was a display of devotedness not to return, however desirous it might have been, and that gratitude only made it to prefer the naked world and desert, to the kind welcome of tbe ark; for since Noah had sent it to rind out if the deluge had ceased, duty prompted it not to return, in order that its preserver rtn'cht know the danger had passed." The mother embraced her two daughters, and said to them: "You will be happy, my children, and cause happiness to your parents, for you both understand the sweetest of all virtues, nameiv, Gratitude." Some Quaint Kid Talk. Punctilious Traveler "Now, what ought little boys to say when a gentleman gives them a nickel for carrying his sachel?" Small Bov "'Taint 'nougb." Ilarprr'a Week'y. The other day a lady distributing flowers in a hospital ward eave a little maiden a rose with a long, thorny stalk. By and by she heard a plaintive voice: "Ma'am, you gave me a flower with nails on it!" Boston TranscripJ. Mother 'To think that my little Ethel should have spoken so impertineutly to papa to-day at dinner! She never hears me talk in that way to him." Ethel (stoutly) "Well, but yoti choosed him aud I didn't." Harper's Bizar. He wns the dunce of his class; that was what they said of him. But one day the teacher put this question to him: "How do you pronounce s-t-i-n-g-y?" "It depends a good deal on whether the word refers to a person or a bee," was the reply. Christian Adroeate. The other day a teacher in a Boston school showed a little girl a picture of a fan and asked her what it was. The little trirl didn't appear to know. "What docs your mother do to keep cool in hot weather?" asked the teacher. "Drink beer," was the prompt reply of the little girl. Fond Mother "Yes, the dear little fellow is just full of good impulses. Eddie, if you were rich, what would you do with your money?" Eddie (who has traveled seme) "I'd buy a billion stones and take 'em out to Iowa for the the poor little bov out there to throw at cats." A'. F. Weekly. A stranger landed in an Oxford country town the other day and began to patronize the small boy. After a little talk the youncster asked him where he lived. "I live in New York, sonny," he said in tones of pride. "1 should think you'd be lonesome so far off," said the urchin. Lewiston ( Me.) Journal. It was little Dot's first visit to a farm and she went with her aunt to see how the pigs were h d. The little one gazed in astonishment at the younar porkers for a moment, and then placing her hand on her curly hair she said, reflectively: "Auntie!" "Yes, dear." "Does 'oo put all the piggies' tails up in curl papers?" The World. The Brooklyn Eaqle tells of a small girl who is given to wit-hes for the unattainable. Just before the glorious Fourth she startled tbe family with this remarkable sentence : "Oh, I wish I had all the money I wanted; then I wish I could buy all the tire-crackers I want, and some diamond braceleta, and get married, and have blonde hair." A lady living in Ohio is the mother of six boys. One day a friend calling on her said: "What a pity one of your boya had not been a pirl." One of the boys, about eight years of age, overheard this remark and promptly interposed: "I'd like to know who'd 'a bin 'er; I wouldn't 'a bin 'er; Kd wouldn't ' bin 'er, Joe wouldn't 'a bin r, and I'd like to know who'd 'a bin 'er." Christian Observer. They all took a lemonade with a straw and the little girl had one too. She did not eem to make much progress. She was puffing and (lowing and perspirine. But the ladies were talking about the Intest style of cloak and they did not notice the child. "Mamma," she cried, "how do you get this stuff into your mouth. I've been blowing for an hour, but it won't come up, and when it doe I can't catch it" San Franrtt Chronicle. Mamma (to J.hnny, age five) "Johnny, I don't want you to play with that Gupton boy. He's not a nice boy at all and his companionship will do yo i no credit." Johnny "But, mamma, you don't seem to remember that we shall be men on of these days. I shall probably go into business and Bill will be a roiphty good customer, he'll always bs so reckless about money matters, you know. Of course you women folk can't understand these business matters, but I assure you that it may be a good thing for me one of these days to keep up a sort of acquaintance with Bill." Boston. Tranncript. - "Why. I did not know that you and that little girl had go, acquainted yet," said a Rotbury father to his six-year-old son, who came in from a walk on the adjoining lawn with the tiny dauehter of the new next-door neighbor. "Yes, Clara and I have been 'quainted lots of days," said the small bov. "What did yoo ay to her first?" asked the father. "Oh Clara spok to me first. She came down by the cliicken-house and asked me how maay praters

I S3T nights, and I told her, and then I asked her how many prayers she ays and she told me, and then .we were 'quainted," SU Louis rout-Dispatch. At a village school not many miles from Canterbury a precocious boy, beine asked to parse the sentence, "Mary, miik the cow," went on accurately until he came to the last word, when he said: "Cow is a pronoun, feminine Render, third person singular and stand for Mary." "Stands for Mary?" asked the ma ter. in astonishment. "Yes, sir," responded the urchin with a jrrin, "for. if the cow didn't fct&nd for Mary, how could Mary milk the, cow T' London Society. KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our rsaders are limtl to f arnisb orljlaal eD! ma. ebralps, rfMiet, reMssj, aai other "Knotty Proriems," iHrtssinü all communications relativ t this department to C. It. Ch.ltourn, Lewistoo, lie. No. 2S4T You've Met II lm. A proud youn biprd itits shout And flaunts hissi.owy trappings out, In quite a dudisti way ; To any hnm the brapnart meets One uncouth wor4 he loud reprat, So more will he essay. It may b tbat his coi snl fats Is ma le io nioekr rr of u, Bnrl'so,tiir$r how we feed ; rrcrJkiuiiDg bow we break our fast And wallow earh wp;l-prsd tepast With UDt.rCr.ia in j pei. fr (Joes he bole the eominj (lit Whn tlicri will be a gift foray Wit hiu hi o o retreat ? We'd rnsy his voice in terror quake Fureeln we shall uudertake Him wi;h hit w-rd to eat. a Vo. 2848 Double Word Enigma, In "never te 1:" la -doin? well;" In "flylnn traiu In "la"tul gain." "A perennial, (rln rons her!" ee-pit To find this wouH bv nice and meet. C. X. Turx. No. S$49-Conundruin. W'ithout provocation poi!d Caroline struck her friend mi l a j ruo j achuoiaa to hi Udy friend: "In what particular is that ill-tempered chili like me?" A n4 quickly he re.pood?4 : "rcaue she is , sol so are you." And he s ii: "You are a P?iy." CaSL5T. No. ;$;0-Mtscm. A rirht a 1' est met t cf my ti-ÄV Might pari the earth from pole Ple. f uruil me once, and for tour trouble Th' ealn wl'.i 1 exactly double; B"ht adinj; now, and theo retailing. A tempter iaviM'r.le aMaiÜQs, l urks Id the path ol m .ny a youtli To Jure bim from the way of truth. Again curtail, and not in vain Ohm more you realize a pain. My htd, my hnrt, my Mt', now chooe. ISo lop this luxury can rc'ue; Ia had and heart, and lift iit e, A metal ihiaes my riddle's don. A. P. Ersta No. 851 Decapitation. A day for nils. wbin Nature calls And beckons to the woods; A day to w h.-,'n. and lot tbe soul I lured by Nature's nioo'l. Put this whole trv, before my view. Of writing to he doc Eat saya to mo, 1 siu not free To j ii Id me to a ow. PlTTFS F'WEtT. No. 2833 Compound Diamond. l'ppr D'tamnnA. A letter. ?. A projection tm id aale to prodiif rcriprocatini motion. X Maaarfnier.t. i. One oi th two rhief arfrls of t (v reck. r.hy.bm. . Title of a baroaeU 7. A liter. Ji-jlii Ditmiml 1. A letter. ?. To tar asunder. S. 'J'lie parts of a character in a play. 4. TclargL 5. Little. f. To place. 7. A lettt-r. Lswr Piimofl 1. A letter. 2. A short steep. 8. The joir.tson tho l aris of cock. 4. VariegatM with spots. .V Har hides. 6. (V). 7. A lovttr. Let Ihomnn-1 l. A 1. ttr. ?. A projvt:on on a wh".l to produce recir-r.-alin UiOtiuQ. 5. ß in. 4. Furnished with ciiW. 5. A kind of fruit. (V. Siroe Y7. 7. A letter, Corst Lbs. lloominpburg, Ind. No. 2SÖ3 Charnde. The skies are pr'me snl rrdt and lo-, 1 he pentle ?u miner zrj.bvM K'ow. And o'er tho hill from vti'.a;e ooar The rythciic tones of In." I h'sr. The .incinfj brock tow murmurs low, And ripples on with oaWa flow; Tbe fields are bright, aud fiowers gay Capture w.th gle-s owh sucuy ray. sv.ft 1 the air an 1 rpdoVnt With fraprance sweet and odirant; The daß'ofitls and tnta't raise Their bead and skyward ibyly gT The myriad ptns of Flora's train Kedeek each vale and alorinR plana. And from the bowers of every tree Tho songs of birds float down to ids. Prir are tbe skies and hit I hear From par(ul viiUge nestling near; The shades of nifht are staling down, Another day of life is flown. Th sun o'er western hills hang low, Th shadows deeper, dai kf-r prow; I stoop and K'ntly pluck efmp,rf. And homeward turn reluctant feet. Cai. Anno. The Twenty. Five Frizes. No reader bould fail to try for thra. Taeh eemrnitor ould lorward three "knotty prohioms" of tho cli.-s spof'fiod vir: Fazles of any kiuj, illustrated purzle.', "forms" e( any kiud, transpositions or anseraics, charades, numerical', letter eniemas, dapitsiiocs, curtailments, diamond, souiires, stars, double or triple ecrotir. bslf sjuare, rhomboid, f'rits ratijlr from 13 to 81 are to he piven fur th Vst lots, and tea tne bo ks will ali be awarded f.'-r peeinl excellencies. Tu competition will close rc. "1, but favors ihould bs tat in, ss early as practiean.e. Answer. t'Ci Eatr-:ri. 110 lwenty: 1. Spear. 2. Psr. S. Pare. 4 Ear. ft. " F'aps. 6. Bape. 7. cpar. Pea. 9. Ape. 10. Parse. 11. pear. ll. Sear. R F-ase. i. Eras. 15. Ares. 16. Spare. 17. Par. 1. Cap. 13. 5pr. 20. Sea. 2M1 -Pebt-iess. 243 Theai-e of rpados was the twentyeotsd card In the original pack, and is tbe only card which fulü is all tbi requirements of the purile. Ita poi tioo in tbe three uecessive distributions 1 tliowa. below : I.

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;S43 tDhle. 4 Denomination 2S15 P P W C O U A L COL ITU POLYGENIC r T. It I n o K l P I E W A T K It W FED 1, I N D F. N s SI PES C I l E 2S l A pa-mom-tion. A Financial Transaction. Y utn's Companion. A Georgia paper say that a neirro, the fort ctte possessor of a valuable house and lot, od dav sold it for $10,000. lie was given a check for that amount, which was carried in due time to one of the bank. The raring-teller asked hira bow much ol th money he wanted in cash. "I wants all dat ar paper ealla far," replied the nepro. "What! Yoa want J10.000 iacaih?"' "Jesso. ab." "All risht," answered the roan, and in Cra minutes he began piling the money on tha counter. As he laid the fiye-hurdred-dollar pack ages on tne counter tne negros eyes frew larger and larper. Finally, when twenty of the packages had been placed before him, be looked intently at them for a moment, and then, with a broad prin on his face, aid: V you kin keep de rist till I call agin."