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MR. C. H. PIERCE OF HOULTON.

THERE are so many hustling men up North, that we may have missed a few; But to miss friend Pierce of Houlton would surely never do For he's a leader in its banking—First National's president And he's a promoter and a pusher in each enterprise, well-meant. Forty years, he's been in business, in a growing line of trade;— Pushed for water and for sewers till the water-pipes were laid;— Never yielded, in his service; never stopped a day or night; But kept on in his promoting for electric power and light. Director in the woolen-mills and takes a turn in lands; Likes to hunt the big moose northward and to shoot him where he stands Is a clubman and of social tastes; to all jealousies immune A man of impulse, broad and true—the man of our cartoon.