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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16
THE HON z.
REFRESHING DRINKS,

Those fond of the flavor of ginger will find
the following recipe for English ginger beer
very nice: Pour four quarts of boiling water
on one ounce and half of ginger one, ounce
of cream tartar, one pound of brown sugar,
and two lemons sliced thin. Put in two gills
OF yeast, let it ferment twenty-four hours and
DOttle IT, Unless the weather is very hot,
Keeping 1t two or three weeks improves it.
Keep In cool place, and stand bottles that
are to be opened, on the ice for some time
beforehand.
Those who do not like yeast-fermented
drinks will find DIR. Pereira's ginger beer
delicious, White sugar, one and one-fourth
pounds; lemon juice, four scant tablespoons
ful: money. one ounce; bruised ginger. one
and one-t0urth ounces; water, one quart and
pint: Boil the ginger in part of the water
juice, and honey. and the rest of the water.
and strain through cloth When cold add
the least bit of the white of an egg, and a
quarter of teasponful of-essence of lemon.
Let it all stand four days in cool place, and
then bottle. This will keep for months.
The honey lends a peculiar softness, and
from not being fermented with yeast, the
beer is less violent in its action when it is
opened.
ITO make currant or any acid fruit shrub,
boil the Juice of the fruit and sugar in the
proportion of one pound of sugar to one pint
Of Juice. five minutes. Stir it constantly
while cooling; when cold, bottle it, One or
two spoonsfuis of the shrub in glass of
water makes a nice drink.
Orange syrup is easily made and most con-
venient to have sin stock" When oranges
are plentiful and cheap, it is very economi-
cal syrup. Select ripe and thin-skinned irnit.
Squeeze the juice through sieve, and to
every pint add one and one-half pounds of
powdered sugar, a little of the grated orange
peel and the juice of one lemon. Boil for
hfteen minutes aud remove every particle OF
scum as fast as it rises, straining the syrup
az iast Il 1t Is not perfectly clear. Bottle and
seal tight. Ices, custards. and cream butter
Ior sauce are all nice favored with this syrup,
ana delicious drink can be made by putting
one or more teaspoonfuls in glass of water
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

Because patch of sand lies under cloud
less sky it is not necessarily valuable real
estate, as the people who invested
In real estate in Southern CAL
ifornia not long ago are finding
out. Before the California State board for
the equalization of taxes, which is now in
session. some interesting statements are CON-
ing out. One piece of land in Los Angeles
county that sold two years ago for nearly
sixteen thousand dollars, has since returned
to its owner for six thousand dollars, the
face of the mortgage which he held. A Los
Angeles gentleman also presented to the
board curious document giving the history
and present condition of 60 paper towns pro-
jected in all portions of the county, two OF
which were actually on the desert. The 60
town sites comprised 1880 town lots now
listed by the assessor, and at present the
whole GO have but 235 inhabitants. The his
tory Of the collapse of this real estate boom,
which was so fiourshing two years ago, has
Its lesson. Because new region is boom
ing" as 1t is called, is no sure sign that that
region is on the steady march of progress,
Some careful business men said two years
ago that they did not care to inves st in South
ern California because there was and prob
ably always would be too much sand and too
few people there; but other people inferred
because tho place was booming, that it had
a conspicuously great future before it.
There are some places that are bound &c
boom" safely and continuously because
they have the location, the surroundings and
the natural advantages; and there are Other
places that do not have these qualifications
and never can 60 to the extent of the expec-
tations of those interested in them. The
condition of real estate in Los Angeles
county shows that altogether too much was
hoped of it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ex-Congressman VIM. L. Scott intends
somehow to recoup the big sums which he
paid out last year in helping Grover Cleve-
land hold on to the presidency. His fast
horse Chaos won him SOL, 900 at single race
the other day.
The late S. S. Cox was very short of stature
and so painfully sensitive of it that those
who knew it could, by taking advantage of
1t, often silence his merciless wit. Therein
was the cut of Gen. Buffers memorable re-
joiner when attacked by the member from
New York: ''Shoo fly. don't bother me-"
and when Mr.. Cox once remarked, as he
not add feathers weight to the burdens
that already bend the shoulders of the gen.
tleman on the other side," the ex-secretary
OF the navy stung him by crying back, "Oh.
come on (; | don't care for featherweight"
But Mr.. Cox himself was not on this account
slow about jesting about the bodily pecu-
liarities Of another. In his memorable tilt
with Mr.. Horn, the fat and witty congress
man from Michigan, his reply to one of
Horr's shots was: ''Mr. Speaker, rise to
reply, in his own spirit, to the remarks, per-
sonal to myself, of the new member from
come to be said Of him, when l shall have
finished, as it was said of the glorious repub-
lie of the classics, ''Tis Greece, but living
Greece no more!"
The late Chevalier Paine was probably
the most wonderful marksman in the world.
He was most distinguished for his astonish-
ing rapdity and accuracy with the different
national arms, having performed feats such
as loading Winchester rifle and hitting an
eight-inch target So times in one minute.
This was done at the Palace, Lisbon.
Loading and firing the American Hotchkiss
rifle, single loader, 80 times in one minute,
on board the U. S. ship of war Lancaster, at
Cronstadt, May, 1883. Loading and hitting an
eight-inch target y times in one minute with
the Mauser gun, in presence of General Won
Kameke and German troops. Hitting fve-
inch target so times in succession with a
Colts army revolver at the great London re-
volyer trials, April, 1884, in the presence of
representatives of the London press. Making
targets at the celebrated galleries Renette,
Paris, that have never been equaled, Gastine
Renette, the Paris expert, declaring that the
equal of Mr.. Paine had never entered the
gallery, although it had been in existence
over 80 years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

The success OF the strikers in London VIII
probably pass to the credit of John Burns,
the Socialist, but the credit of their peace
full settlement belongs in large measure to
the venerable Cardinal Manning. Eighty
one years of age, year older than Mr.. Glad
stone, he has spared neither strength nor
health in the tumultuous days lately passed
In London. The friend of the workingmen
and the peer of the employers, he has
welded an influence for which all classes Of
English society should be grateful. AS his
great influence with all .classes proves, Car
dinal Manning is a wonderful man. lie is a
high dignitary of the Catholic church, but
he came to that position in way that dis
tinguishes him from most of the Others high
prelates of that church. He was not born or
bred a Catholic, nor was he educated as
such. He was more than forty years old,
when, after an education 10 the University
of Oxford and successful career as pre-
late of the Church Of England, he became a
Catholic priest and began, at the lowest
round Of the ladder, the course which has
brought him to his high place over the Cath
Ollie church in England. To these circum-
stances of his career is due, no doubt,
large measure of his influence There is not
inbred in him that ultramontanism that Is so
apt to manifest itself in Catholic prelates,
and that is so little liked either in England
or in America.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

The committee of the United States Senate
now examining the condition of the dressed
beef industry in the West have brought out
very interesting statement in regard to the
profits Of that business. This inquiry was
set on foot by the assertions so frequently
made by cattlemen and butchers that the
price of live cattle was going down contin-
ually will the price Of beef was rising or re-
naming stationary. A great trust was
alleged to exist, and it is by no means GER
tain that such is not the case, since some of
the great packers are very refractory about
testifying about their business to the CON-
mittee. But s. b. Armour of Kansas City,
brother of p. ID. Armour of Chicago, and
head of the Armour Packing Company OF
Kansas City, appeared before the committee
the other day; and made some interesting
statements as to the profits of the business.
Mr.. Armour displayed to the committee
balance sheets showing that he had killed
l44,S63 head of cattle in the year 1887 which
had melted him profit of not quite thirty
four cents head. Senator Vest reminded
him that former testimony taken before the
committee had shown that the price of meat
to the consumer had not decreased during
the time that cattle had deprecated in value
Mr.. Armour maintained, however, that the
prices OF all meat except the choice cuts had
been reduced to the consumer. The prices
oil the choice cuts had been maintained be-
cause the demand for them had increased,
more people using the choice meats. Mr..
Armour maintained that there was no trust
and that competition was so severe that he
and his brother, P. ID. Armour, of Chicago.
were cutting each others business throats
every day in nearly every market in the
country" as he expressed it, All this, if II
is true, is good news to the people Of Maine.
In all the cities and in nearly every village
Of size in the State the markets are supplied
with western beef almost exclusively. The
farmers Of Maine are not now looked to fol
the home supply of beef. Being thus depen
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16
The British poachers are doing Rushing
business among the seals of BehriDg Sea.

The drought has done the farmers OF
Maine harm to the extent of several thous-
and dollars; but by holding on another week
1t saved the Maine State Agricultural Socie-
ty pretty penny. AT the beginning of the
Lewiston fair the society had debt of S32,-
900 and the prospect of rainy week. AS the
expenses of holding the weeks show are
about $4,000 a threatening rain storm is a
serious matter But the rain held off; and
as a result the receipts amount to about $685.
900, and there will be $1,000 or more left af-
ter all expenses are paid. This surplus will
reduce the debt to about $4,000. As the So
ciety has property valued at about $4,000; it
cannot be said to be in very bad shape. A
pleasant fair week another year will no
doubt putits liabilities considerably below
its assets. Nevertheless, the Maine farmers
will hope that the dry weather won't come
so much In a lump next year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

dent on the great packers of the West it is
pleasant to hear one of them say that they
are content with such small profits as Mr..
Armour describes. The ranchmen, who are
selling their cattle lower than ever, do not
believe it; and some Of the Maine people
who think they are paying as much as ever
for beef may not either.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

Some hasty criticism has been made of the
action of the city authorities in sending for
Boston parties to do portion of the repair
ing in one of the rooms in the county side of
the City Building. This repairing, which was
done by the Boston workmen, was some tile
work. The kind of tile selected by the
County Commissioners could not be OBJ
tanned in Portland or in the State, and there
fore the city authorities were obliged to or
der it from abroad. When the time came
for the work to be done, Mayor Melcher sub
mitted the plans to several well-known
Portland firms, and each declined to do the
work for the reason that it being a small job
OF kind of work very rarely done by them 1t
would not be worth while for them to get the
needed materials. Therefore the Mayor
sent to Boston for men to do the work. He
could have done no differently, and it is very
strange that anyone should have expected
him to.
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MOOD and GOAL.
JASON Il. PICKETT,

he undersigned hereby gives notice that he
this day sold his Wood and Coal business. at
Lincoln street. civ TO ~
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. SEPT. 16.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
nications. The name and address of the writer
are In all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

If the trouble keeps ON there will be
needed fisheries treaty between the high
and mighty powers of Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island The laws of the latter State
protect the fish of Buzzard's Bay from the
seiners, because the Bay with its thousands
of acres, including minor bays, estuaries,
rivers and creeks, Is ground remarkably
favorable for TIE breeding and propagation
of fish. The Menhaden, are present in the
Bay In large numbers, and besides being
valuable themselves afford the food that at
tracts the always desirable and delicious cod,
paddock and blue-fsh. Lately some Rhode
Island seiners, boldly and in utter defiance
of the laws of Massachusetts, have been TAX
ing the menhaden in Buzzard's Bay right out
from under the eyes of the State police. The
Massachusetts fishermen are calling for
the protection Of their cod, paddock and blue
fish grounds, and hurting objurgations at the
Rhode Island seiners. 1t is not understood,
however, that the State of Rhode Island is
backing up Its unruly fishermen so we may
not have the remarkable spectacle of Little
RhoSy bristllng up to the Bay State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16
BUSINESS CARDs.
no. IS IL EXCHANGE STREET,

In this city where full information can be obtained
in regard TO all pension matters this affords COM
rades who are entitled to pension, or pensioners
availing themselves OF the services OF live Wash
ington attorney who is Maine man and a COM
rade Of the Grand Army. Advice free.
SaQaod2m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-16

late of the firm of MORSE & FICKETT and rec.
ommends Mr.. Pickett to his customers and asks
for him continuance Of their patronage.
J. L. WATSON.
Portland. September @, 1889. se11d1w*
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25
hat and several other items. Clarh
was a rejected sutton of the lady, who
claims that the above named articles
were presents from him.

FLORIDA will soon be the greatest
lemon-growing country in the world,
Lemons weighing pound each are
common in Florida, and along the
banks of Caloosahatchie there is sim
gle tree which bears 5000 lemons,
many of which weigh pound each.
But, except for show, such large lem
ons are of little value, as they
are coarse-grained and pulpy. The
best lemons are grown on poor soil
and for that reason they are very
profitable crop. This country con
sumes more lemons every year than
all other countries combined, and the
consumption is constantly increasing
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25

having rummaged the Office in search
of match.
"Hushl" she whispered, after pause.
"There they are"
The house was pine box structure,
and stood on the edge of the wood. L
stole out, bidding Ella STAY within,
and turned the corner. The under
growth rustled and dark form APP
peared. 1t walked up to the rear of
the building and fixed big mass of
stuff beneath the sill. Then it struck
a match. / fired. A shot answered
mine and my pistol dropped from my
hand. My arm was broken. Stimuli
taneous with this came a report from
behind me, which was answered with
groan from the wood. Then all was
still
The next and last issue of the Sem
tineL contained the report of the Coro-
ner's jury. 1t showed that / killed Jim
Gosling, and that Ella had put bull
let through Hank Best's knee. Hanks
wound kept him from running way,
but it did not keep him from running
into the penitentiary. Ella and | ran
into matrimony.
Gases" in town are better than a
proprietorship in the country, although
the incidents of the latter are much
more exciting. But the chance of getting
even half as good wife as Ella is
enough TO make fellow take an army
press, a barrel of long primer, and
start to Oklahoma.
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Found Wanting.

If a servant obeys orders as far as he
can, and does his work correctly as far
as he goes, what more can be expected +?
And yet the result is not always salts
factory, even TO reasonable employers.
The Boston Courier has story of a
woman who own a very large and hand
some dog, of which she is very fond,
and perhaps little proud. The other
day she sent him out to the stable to
be weighed, confiding the operation to
a new servant, who looked upon the
powerful animal with considerable awe,
and apparetly with sozle real affec-
ton.
The man was gone a surprisingly
long time, but at last reappeared, and
announced that the dog weighed one
hundred and twenty pounds.
"One hundred and twenty pounds !"
repeated the lady Are you sure You
weighed him right? He must weigh
more than that"
"Oh, yes, marin; sure an / weighed
him right, but could't get him all on
the scales
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25

The oldest officer in the United
States navy is Commodore Henri
Bruce. now on the retired list and liv
ing in Boston. He was born on Feb
II, 1889, and was appointed midship
man in the navy from Massachusetts
on Nov 8, 1913. During his seventy
six years of life in the navy he wa
forty-two years on the active list, bu
had only fifteen years of sea servic,
and eight years of shore duty. Three
of his fifteen years of sea service
from 1887 to 1910, were spent as Lien
tenant on the famous frigate Brandy
wine, in the Mediterranean squadron
and his only command was the brig
Truxton, on the coast of Africa, il
1913. His last promotion on the activ,
list was to the grade of Commander
on Sept. 8, 1S41. He was retired Sept
13, 1855, but on April 4, 1867, he was
promoted TO Commodore, favor which
officers on the retired list no longer
have
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25

WE shall have to cease talking OF
American fire-proof buildings. Recent
fires have demonstrated that there is
no such thing During the last few
years great progress has been made by
architects and builders in reducing the
combustibility of buildings, but the
best of them will burn, and it is mis-
homer to call any fire-proof. Some oil
the so-called fre-proof buildings may
resist an ordinary fire, but none of them
can withstand great one. The best
that architects and builders can do is
to reduce the chances of burning to o
minimum and provide simple means OF
escape in case of fire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25
The Conscientious Broker.


/ heard very clever story on a
prominent broker a few days ago-a
man whose name L am not at liberty to
discuss, though L may say that he is
well known as picture buyer. This
broker had some mining stock which
he had long regarded as worthless, and
one day when he found an opportunity
to get rid of it at pretty fair consid-
GRAFTON, he was very happy. That very
night, however, after he went home, he
received a telegram announcing that
this mine, of which he had sold the
stock, had developed a lead of extraor-
binary richness. An hour afterward
the purchaser of the stock received a
telegram from the broker, who desired
to see him Immediately upon a subject
of great Importance. The buyer called
and was told by the servant that the
broker was very i'll and could not be
seen.
But I must see him L have been
sent for by him not half an hour ago"
The servant went upstairs and
brought back word that the visitor
might go up.
The broker was in bed, moaning with
pain. The lights were turned low.
When the visitor entered the broker
began:
MY dear Jones, / have had to-day
another of the dreadful attacks / am
subject to, and / am afraid this last
one is going to do me up | sent for
you to confess that | have taken adj
vantage of you in business transact
ion, and | want to make reparation be-
fore / die. That mining stock | sold
you to-day was really worthless, and it
troubles me that l took advantage of
you"
"Oh, nonsense that is all right. /
didn't pay you much for it and L can
easily sell it to somebody else.
"No, that will not do. L want to
take it back and pay you back your
money. | can't rest until l have made
this right"
"Oh, well if you feel that way, of
course / will give you it back"
Very we'll, and while l am able to
sign a check | willprepare one, and, in
the meanwhile, you can bring back the
stock"
The visitor went home, got the stock,
anu returning IL, ieCelNeu lHe CHeCh
which the now utterly exhausted brok
er had filled out for him. He went
away musing upon the vicissitudes Of
human life and filled with profound
sympathy for the sorrowing family of
the rapidly sinking broker.
And the broker? The moment his
customer was out of the house he leap
ed out of bed and gleefully danced
around the room in a manner that
would have aroused the envy of Car
mencita could she have seen it. But
the customer, next day, when he learn
ed of the rise in the value of the stock
metaphorically kicked himself for his
stupidity in being taken in by brok
er's conscience. Indianapolis Trib-
1tne.
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Practical.

According to the philosophers every
thing has two uses, a lower and a
higher. Some very common people
find this out for themselves, so far, at
least, as the practical application of it
is concerned.
The daughter of the rector of a
parish in East London-over-the-bo border
taught the choir boys a new tune at a
Monday evenings rehearsal, to be sung
on the following Sunday. Sunday
morning came.
We'll, Johnny" said Miss X, 81
hope YOU haven't forgotten the new
tune, for We depend much on you"
Nav, mum, not bit. I've been a
skeering the crows with il all the
week"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25

THERE are some good-sized families
in Maine to-day, but probably none sc
large as one mentioned in the historic:
of old colonial days. 1t is told on the
authority of Cotton Mather that the
first royal Governor at Boston was one
of family of twenty-six children, anG
was born in the woods of Maine neal
the mouth of the Kennebee, in 1861
His mother was left widow when h,
was a child, and is said to have had all
she could do to provide for the wants
of her family 1t is hoped that wher
the Governor got 800, 900, knight
hood, and goblet valued at $1,000 a!
a reward for finding Spanish treasure
ship that had gone to the bottom hal
a century before, he remembered hi
mother and made her last days easier
than her earlier ones had been.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-25

A YOUNG lady near Clayton, Ga, o
few days since prepared a wedding
supper and invited relatives and
friends to be present and witness hei
marriage to young man of the neigh
borhood. The company assembled,
the bride was attired in her wedding
costume and the supper was in wait
ing, but the bridegroom did not ap'
pear. At late hour, however, he &C.
cidentally happened along, dressed in
his everyday clothes, and, being made
acquainted with the object of the as.
semblage, expressed great surprise,
stating that he had no notice whatever
of the intended wedding. The wed.
ding was postponed, but the supper
was highly enjoyed all the same.