Ghost of the glacier and other tales . famous summer resort. With its smoothroads, pure water, pure bracing air, it has many attractions. Directory of Hotels and Boarding Houses, giving rates and completeinformation, will be mailed on application accompanied by 2-cent stamp. LACKAWANNA RESORTS. MESSENGERVILLE, NEW YORK. Messengerville, on Tioughnioga River, a stream in whichpickerel and black bass abound, is in a narrow valley skirtedon either side with a chain of diversified forest hills inhabitedby fox, hare, partridge and other game. This is a congenialspot for quietude and sport, the inhab
Ghost of the glacier and other tales . famous summer resort. With its smoothroads, pure water, pure bracing air, it has many attractions. Directory of Hotels and Boarding Houses, giving rates and completeinformation, will be mailed on application accompanied by 2-cent stamp. LACKAWANNA RESORTS. MESSENGERVILLE, NEW YORK. Messengerville, on Tioughnioga River, a stream in whichpickerel and black bass abound, is in a narrow valley skirtedon either side with a chain of diversified forest hills inhabitedby fox, hare, partridge and other game. This is a congenialspot for quietude and sport, the inhabitants possessing thedesired elements of sociability. A drive for two miles west-ward to the hamlet of East Virgil, through the windingnarrows and by the noted Hannahs Stump, along asmall creek which abounds with trout, afford views seldomexcelled. Directory of Hotels and Boarding Houses, giving rates and completeinformation, will be mailed on application accompanied by 2-cent stamp. FEATHERS OF FASHION, A STORY OF RICHFIELD Copyright, 1900, by Will Bogert Hunter. OR more than a century around a hole in theground in the northern part of the state of NewYork have waved feathers of fashion. For thefirst two decades these feathers trembled abovethe painted faces of Indian braves ; during thelast eighty years they have adorned the fairest of thefair of American womanhood. Among only a few of the most highly civilizednations of the earth is the showy in personal adorn-ment left exclusively to the ladies. The peacock strutsunder his rainbow plumage ; the hen walks demurely in adress of brown. The lion shakes his flowing mane ; thelioness has only the simple of his dress. The savage sportsthe glories of the spectrum ; the squaw adorns herself incon-spicuously. Following the law of nature it is reasonable that the firstfeathers of fashion to wave about this hole in the ground innorthern New York should have surmounted the faces ofIndian braves. Yet this was not then a place o
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