Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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I ' V ' Z . mile, or, ] crliaps, in tlie next township. In his despair, the weary canoeist consigned the whole neighborhood to the “milky way,” and took np his march and then the countermarch; for the “babes in the woods” mnst have milk, although it was after six o’clock. A farmer with no cow seemed to him a ridiculous state of affairs, and he suggested a goat, or a cocoanut tree. The supper was eaten by artificial light this night. We must not forget to mention the whip-poor-will’s all night legato in A minor—we believe that is a very proper expression, though we can’t vouch for its accuracy; but we are sure it was a whli poor-will. NINTH DAT. The Boteman strayt Held on his course with stayed stedfastness, Ne ever shroncke, ne ever sought to bayt His tryed arnies for toylesome wearinesse; But witli his oares did sweepe the watry wildernesse. — Spenser. A restful night and an early launch were the records of the ninth morninp-. The sun’s great heat was somewhat lessened by a head-Avind; yet arms toughened by a week’s exposure began to blister, and “Like sly Avater-rats Ave stole along nearer the shore” to avoid its direct rays. We divided our attention betAveen the scenery of the shore and the islands, especially Pine, Bear, and Mark. As we sped along, we realized that money Avas not all of life; for the Avide-sprcad lake, the clustering isles, “each silver hemmed,” and the mountain Avail Avere ours. The greatest beauty of the lake is its irregularity, for it thus unites the delights of lake and river Avithout the A ' exatious delays caused by dams and rapids. Fkom Mark, Ave fought the Avaves over to the northern side of Governor’s Island,— it Avas the southern side Ave followed the first day. Although Ave were bound for Weirs, Ave chose the two short legs of a triangle, instead of the hypotenuse, to avoid the strong Avind Avluch resisted every stroke of the ])addle.—How strange it is, that, if a long Avalk must be taken in a given direction, all the carriages are going in the opposite! Only once during the tAvelve days did the courses of the wind and the canoes agree.—-Refreshed by a SAvim in the clear Avater, Ave clipped deep and strong, and arrived at the Avharf in season to mingle Avith the usual throng which greets the moun¬ tain trains. The three hotels, the many boarding-houses, the beautiful summer cottages, the artistic regimental buildings of New Hampshire’s veterans, the pretty station and restaurant, the numerous steamers, both large and small, the large collection of good boats, the camp-grounds and the many assemblies which frecpient them, and last, but not least, the grand vieAVs of the lake, make “The Weirs,’.’ or Ahquedaukenash (stopiiing-places), a sum¬ mer resort of great popularity. Our stay Avas short; for Ave found that the excessive heat and long distances of the last few days demanded a rest, and so, as we had made up the time lost by the rain, Ave determined to camp early. Wo first paddled into the middle of the outlet, to see the well-known “Endicott Rock.” We kneAV it by the great iron bolt AAdiich binds it together to keep it intact from the force of the frost. If the surveyors Avere correct, on the first of August, two hundred and thirty-five years ago, its latitude Avas 43 deg., 40 min., 12 sec. This survey Avas an important matter in those early days, for then it fixed this point as the head of the IMerrimack, and settled the OAvnership of many scpiare miles of land. Immediately, Ave ])assed under tlie Weirs Bridge, through water roughened by the conflict of current and Avind, and on the left bank found an abandoned camping-i)lace, with a pile of split Avood and a brook near by. As Ave and the sun sank to rest, the sound of distant thunder promised a Avet night. Our tent, no doubt, was pitched on the very spot Avhere many an Indian had set his Avigwam, for this ])hice Avas a favorite resort of the aborigines. Gone were the weirs, arroAV-heads, hatchets, pestles and mortprs; but Ave Avere lying, as the poet of the mountain sings:— “Where the old smoked in silence their pipes, and the young To the pike and the white perch their bailed lines flung; Where the hoy shaped his arrow, and where the shy maid Wove her inany-hued baskets and bright Avainpum braid.” Here the children of the forest lived, fished, and died, and, in the lan¬ guage of Thoreau, “Their mouldering elements are sloAvly ])rej)aring for another tnetamorj)hosis, to serve new masters, and Avhat was the Indian’s, Avill, ere long, be the Avhite man’s sineAV.” (See February number.) G- ■w. HAS THE MOST Complete Assortment of the Latest Novelties IN GOLD PENS, PENCILS, Fountain and Stylographic Pens at the Lowest Prices. Always the Largest Assortment of the LATEST STYLES IN MILLINERY -AT THE- PAVILION MILLINERY PARLORS, Music Hall Block, Milford. JESSE A. TAFT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Notary Public and Commissioner to qualify civil officers. Irving Block, opposite post office, Milford. COME AND SEE THE GRAND BARGAINS! -AT- RYAN CARROLL’S, 98 MAIN STREET, LINCOLN SQUARE. T. C. EASTMAN CO., Manufacturers of All Kinds of BOOT AND SHOE BOXES AND BAND BOXES -FOR- STRAW GOODS. -ALSO- Plain and Fancy Paper Boxes. Mill, Corner of Central and Depot Streets, Milford FINE MARBDE AND GRANITE CEMETERY WORK. A. C. KINNEY, SO. BOW ST., MILFORD, MASS. -AND- Xj -A- SAT Call at W. A, Aldrich’s 139 Main Street and examine HOUSEHOLD Sewing fflachines, PiaDos, Organs, aii Sheet Mnsic, SOLD, LET, EXCHANGED AND REPAIRED.

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LILY. Buy Ladies’ and Misses’ NEWilARICErS, DRESS GOODS, Etc. of J. F. HICKEY, 138 MAIN STREET - - MILFORD. King Irothgrs, Boys’ and Children’s MUSIC HALL BLOCK, MILF ORD. AVERT WOODBURY, SUCCESSORS TO J. W. HARRIS, -DEALERS IN- CARPETING, WALL PAPER AND CURTAINS. Upholstering, Carpet and Shade Work a Specialty. 163 Main St., Milford. BARTLETT ELLIS. UEA-XiEE S I3Sr Hardware, Cutlery, Pumps, Stoves, Furnaces Farming fools and See-s 172 174 Mixln St., - - Milford, Mass. Fine Artistic BLliA-TTY’S, 108 Main Street, - - Milford, Mass. Y. M. C.. A. ROOMS IN MUSIC HALL BLOCK. Hours: 8 a. m. to 10 p. m.. Over 70 periodicals on file in Reading Rooms. All men are invited to use our rooms. 5 CHAIRS! FRANK H, THOMAS, xaCaiir-IDresser And dealer in liair-oils, pomades, Thomas’ hair tonic for removing dandruif, etc., 137 Main street. Milford,Mass. N. B. Ladies’ and children’s hair cut or sham¬ pooed at their residences if desired. Or. Dealer in IMC IB -A. T S AND PROVISIONS, Fruits, Vegetables, Butter, Eggs, Etc. Also, home- cured Hams and home-made Sausages. 33 Exchange Street. WINNE-NIPE-KEES-AUKE. (Seventli Day, continued.) Here and there, over the numerous falls, tlie aesthetic bridges, over which had been wroufrlit weird, gnarled and fantastic supports and decor¬ ations of natural roots, limbs, and twisted, mis-sliapen trunks, carried the path from side to side, and gave distant views. Then the pat h wound around to the eastern side, and thence up to the house and lodge. All the paths, seats, jdaccs of interest, et cetera, are distinctly marked, and the line of travel indicated.- We were amused at the preponderance of female names; cv ' erything was feminine. Wliether tiie sterner se.x was thought too uncultured to be thus honored, we leave to the ladies for an answer. On second thought, we did see Whittier’s name once, and the date August 10, 1884; but it looked lonesome. Seven views were “caught on glass,” and with the feeling that it had been an afternoon well spent, we hastened back to th.e landing, as fast as a hungry horse coiild carry ns. Wc found that we had made our trip of sixteen miles, including the walk around the park, and it was only seven o’clock. EIGHTH DAY. ‘•I know how fair your morns can break, In rosy light on isle and lake; How over wooded slopes can run The noonday play of cloud and sun.” A beautiful sunrise, and the only one we had during the twelve days, greeted our o])ening eyes. The tent, inside and out, as well as nil. other objects, was drenched with the heavy dew’ that generally had hung in the morning air as a dense mist which hid within itself everything Soon after starting, wo ran close by the old wood-scow’ propelled by horse-pow’cr, and had an inside view’. Wo did not take its cajtacity, but were sure that the one, solitary horse thought it cords and cords, before he had “footed” it aw’ay over to Wolfeborongh and back home. This must be a very loony year, for wc w ' ero constantly greeted by the peculiar cries of loons. When wo w’ore hungry, dry, and tired, as the sun poured dowm its heat, “The loon’s weird laughter far away” seemed particularly derisive, and we felt a strong inclination to “talk back.” Onr eyes were next on tho alert to catch sight of the bridge which connects Moulton()orongh Neck and Long Island, for under it lav onr course. Point after point was turned, before it came in view’, and then wo skirted a long, irregular .shore to reach the bay at whose head is Centre Harbor. Hei-e a confusion of island.s, of assorted sizes, in continuous succession, w ' as scattered about. We had a general idea of our directi on, and follow ing our canoes’ noses, we picked onr w’ay among them, seeking the shade wlien possible, until at mid-afternoon, on the sloping hillside at our left, a fair scene, the end of our day’s stint, appeared before us; but minus its central attraction, the large summer hotel, w’bich had lieen burned the w’eek before. When a mile out, we w’cre hailed fi’om the shore by campers, who mistook us for sonuf expected friends; and to atone for the eiror, they treated ns to doughnuts and ice-w’ater. The latter was ]iarticulaiTy accept¬ able, as during the day we had often cried w’ith Baconspeare, “.My canoe for a drink!” Thus refreshed, we attempted the remaining distance, under a sun that—well,, never mind; the less said, the le.ss to he forgiven. Having made ourselves known at the post-office, performed our usual duties at the stores, and drawn a few restful breaths, w’e sw’ung around toward home, somewhat distant, to he sure. This was our highest latitude, or north ) olo, so to sjieak, and from this time onr trip was to the soutliw.ard. While skirting the first island, w ' e ran under some hhieherry hushes loaded with luscious berries, w’hich were w’ithin arms’ length as we sat in the canoes. Soon a good camping-ground was found, near a bvook, and while one pitched camp, the other, with pail in hand, took a little stroll in search of a farm-house. Luckily, as he ihongl.t, one was found within a quarter of a mile. “Milk? Don’t have enough for our owm use.” “No, that house dowm the road can’t su])ply yon.” “The one up the road? No.” “What, that one on the hill, through the woods? No cow ' there. ' ” “Where in Centre Harbor can you get it?” “Go straight back the main road, over the bridge, and tlu’ongh that piece of w ' oods, and at the fourth house on the left you mat possibly get some.” “les, the house.” Now in this part of the world, the fourth house may be a half mile off, a

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OJLI , XjXTSYT 3SrX) FLOWERS AND FLORAL WORK FOR ALL, OCCASIONS. PATRONAGE SOLICITED. Greenhouses and residence on Church Place. SIT FOR y O UR AT lOO MAIN STREET, MILFORD, AT E. L. WILLIS’ . COOK BROS., DEALERS IN Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles, Etc. Haras cure.! by ourselves and Horae-made Sausages. Market, 188 Main Street. 8. A. COOK. 8. 8. COOK. Bourne s is the place to find the best assortment of Dress Trimmings and Kid Gloves in town. In¬ fant’s goods of every description. 106 Main Street, Milford, Mass. R. C. ELDRIDGE, Dealer in Diaioiils, fatclies, Clods aal Jewelry, 132 Main St., Milford. The Best and Cheapest place to buy FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERY IS AT J. W. ROBERTS’. Cake and Ice Cream constantly on hand. Wedding Cake a Si ecialty. THAYER’S BLOCK. Main Street, Milford, Mass. • BTJ ' y -X-OUTIi DRY GOODS AND SIALL WARES AT 166 MAIN STREET, OF COBURN 0 LMSTEAD. WHAT 8HALL WE EAT? OJhi a ' i«5 a ®o es® Buy them at the BOSTON GROCERY TEA HOUSE “Active shears gather no rust.” The great public schools, May their influence spread Till statesmen use grammar, And dunces are dead! Till no one dare say In this land of the free ‘I done’ for ‘I did,’ Or ‘It’s her’ for ‘It’s she.’ No good are all the ‘had beens,’ for in country and in town. Nobody cares how high you’ve been, when once you have come down. When once you have becii President, and are President no more. You may run a farm, or teach a school, or keep a country store; No oue will ask about you; you never will be missed,— , The mill will only grind for you while you supply the grist. He is masculine. He-r is feminine. He-ro is masculine. He-roine is feminine. Asbestos cloth is being used for wearing apparel by the firemen in Paris. Niagara is compounded of two Indian words, JViaff hein, hark to the thunder! Dickens’ power of application was truly wonderful; for he wrote “All the Year Hound.” A thread has been produced from the common nettle so fine that a length of sixty miles weighs only two and a half pounds. Fortune knocks once at every man’s door; hut she doesn’t go hunt¬ ing through beer saloons for him, if the man happens to he out. It is an old story, hut worth re¬ membering—the Quaker’s considera¬ tion for his better half: “All the world is very (pieer except thee and me, and thee is a little queer.” Take a tumbler and pour water in¬ to it; hy-and-by you can pour no more; it is full. It is not so with the mind. You cannot fill it with knowledge in a whole lifetime. The organ-blower works harder with his muscles than the organ- player, and may pei’haps he exasper¬ ated into thinking himself a down¬ trodden mnrtyr because he does not receive the same pay for his servi¬ ces.—[O. W. H. In Algeria there is a small stream which the chemistry of nature has converted into true ink. It is formed by the union of two rivulets, one of which is very strongly impregnated with iron, while the other, meander¬ ing through a peat marsh, imbibes gallic acid, another ingredient in the formation of ink. X-yi T. hlVEl Y, FIRSTCLASS TEAMS TO LET. Transients Well Cared For. HORSe CLIPPING PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED. 83iTCentral Street,] - - MILFORD, IVSASS. IMIOieSE’S IS HEADQUARTERS FOR HANDKERCHIEF EXTRACTS! AND SACHET POWDERS. HENRY S. CUSHMAN. Manufacturer of Heavy and Light Fine Harnesses. Also on hand. Sale Harnesses at Low Prices. Horse Blankets, Storm Covers, Whips, Lap Robes, Horse Collars, Etc. (Il “ Repairing Promptly and Faithfully Executed. No. 76 MAIN ST., MILFORD. B. H. SPAULDING, .MANUFACTURER OF Men’s, Boys’ aaJ CMWren’s Straw GooJs. Corner of Pearl and Lincoln Sts., Milford, Mass. Salesrooms, 616 and 618 Broadway, New York. WE OFFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS -IN- CLOTHING FOR SCHOOL WEAR. B. E. HARRIS, CLOTHIER. Heath Brothers, FASHIONARLE TAILORS, 118 Main Street, Milford. DEALER IN FRESH AND SALT MEATS, OF J. D. CROSBY. No. 854 Main Street.