Are You Going To Bay View?

It is a characteristic of Bay View that everybody who goes there returns with superlative praises of that delightful place in northern Michigan. In consequenco a wider interest is excited every season and more people than ever are going there this ' year. Ever since the assembly was organ, ized on an undenominational plan more people have been going there to spend their summer vacation. Last season 50 cottages were erectod and all the hotels and public buildings enlarged. Everything was fllled at once and a general eolargment is being made again and 75 to 100 new cottages will be erected this year. It is estimated that '■ contracta have already been let for 50 new I cottages. Each year has inereased the fame and popularity of this peerless summer resort and it is said a more charming place can scarcely be imagined. It is opulent and splendid in picturesque scenery a climate of great healthfulness, ! bered recreativo pleasures and fine educational adrantages. Nothing more pleasant can be conceived than a trip there during the assembly which always opens on the last Wednesday in July. The choicest society is there, the climate cool and exhilÍ arating, splendid schools are in session and I alinost every hour in tho day, eloquence, muslc and entertainments are heard from the most gifted people in the land. The assembly lasts three weeks and what rare pleasures are then enjoyed every day and night of that long holiday ! No one who has ever been there can ever forget the time. The finest talent drawn from the best colleges, couservatories and pulpits is engaged for the Bay View schools of Art, Music, Oratory, Summer School for i ers, Church Cöngress, U. S. Normal classes, etc. Among tho "stars" which will this year shine in the daily general prog'ams will be Bishop J. H. Vincent, Rev. rs. P. S. Henson, George P. Hayes, Robert Nourse and Dean A. A. Wright, Prof. Alexander Winchell, Bishop Ninde, Benjamin Clarke, the foremoat Sunday school man of England, Mrs. Bessie Storr Keefer of Toronto, Layyah Barakat of Syria.Dennis Osborne of India, Mrs. Lucy Rider Moyer, the Boston Stars, Amphion Club, Frank Lincoln, H. H. Ragan, J. DeWitt Miller, Rev. Annio H. Shaw, Miss Matilda H. Woss and twenty more. Every day ia f uil to overflowing with rarost cnjoyments. Excursions and open air concert s, receptions and gay illuminations, rowing and fishing, bout rídes and picnics, lectures and concerts, entertainments and sweet vespers, great missionary, W. C. T. I U. and natlonal days - all flow in swift ; cession. The season passes all too quickly, ! and ono returns home with a volume of delightful memories and stiinulated in body and soul by the cxhilirating climate and contact with gifted peoplo. Low priced excursión tickets and moderate hotel prices make It possible for everybody to spend a few weeks at Bay View. The place is entirely a summer city in amphitheatre terrace groves, and from every piazza of the nearly 800 cottages, hotels and public buildings supcrb views are had of the beautiful bay. The best table board costs $4 and $5 per week; furnished rooms $2 and $3, while hotel rates for room and board are $7 to $10. Any ono desiring to know more about Bay I View can obtain a copy of the Assembly j Herald giving full particulars, by sending to the superintendent, J. M. Hall, Fllnt, l Mich., or Secretary S. Reed, Saginaw. A man in Connectiout, who built a fancj barn, stole eight tombstones from a graveyard to build nis mangers. When the pompoua porter of the palace car appeared on the scone, the little girl exclaimed: ''Oh! ma, I didn't know Mr. Pullman was a colored man !" The man who was kicked out by his landlord because he could pay his rent says his experieuce shows that throe removos aro not one-tenth part as bad as one "flre." t I sald to be a sign of good luck to be followed by a dog. Therefore, if you fee] one of thoso cheerful animáis pttaching himself to your trousers, encourage him in every poBsible way. "I wonder what'9 wrong at Fablerje's mansion? The bells are all mumsd, the sidcwalks covered with matting, and tha doctor has Just drivon away." "Why, haven't you heard! Their pug has pneumonia."