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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

over 1909 excursionists We're in
the city. yesterday. brought by spec
ial train from the West and on the
regular train from the East.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

If you are dissatisfied with your
laundry, try the Crescent steam laun-
DRY, whose reputation IS excellent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Mrs " L. StiEson and Mrs. F. q.
Ninsman passed the day IN Portland.
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Charles e. sturtevant was one Of the
passengers on thu boat, Saturday, for
ENstnM.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

+. J. c. Little, Esq, went to Boston
on the boat. Saturday, for a short bust
ness trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Wiifred A. Hennesscy of the Bangor
Commercial was in Augusta visiting
friends in the city and at Camp Powers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

FRANK j. Gould of Bangor. was at
Camp Powers visiting friends. Satur-
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

The Della Collins had very larg,
freishya for both trips, Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

r. NJ Alden. formerly Of this city
now Of Bangor. was in the city, yester-
day. visiting old friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Carl Warren ana II. 9. Phillips of
Portland, were in the city. Saturday,
the guests Of Dr.. T. G. kinsman
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09
Died.
KENNEBEC.

China-May G. Rev. NJ w. Newbert,
aged "a years. Funeral at Methodist
church. Monday. at 2 p. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09
STATE HOUSE MATTERS.
The many Corporations that Were Registered
During Last Week


The State is remarkably free from
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health notified the State board that
Gfphthcria was raging in their TERRITORY.
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@'S''' p"''iN ho'iii1u al me l"eai p'afd'
i'll THAT section to be Oh the lookout for
The disease. ana to take MI dine pr.rau-
toms AGAINST II ,n!v iva ,.,ses b,v..
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The co-uperation of the elaine board.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

s. l.. Boardman of the Bangor Com
mercial. was in the city visiting rela-
tives and friends, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

II. :. Savage Of Watervlle. was IA
he city on business, Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Blaisdcll of Rome.
were among the visitors to he Capital.
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

c. l.. Marston visited friends in Lew
iStOn, sunday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-09

Land Commissioner G. f., Oak was IN
;-ineo. Saturday, on business.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09
with growing families, after life in the
hardest executive office in the world"
Il. u. Montgomery.
BEVERAGES OF THE oLDEN TIMES.
From the CHICAGO Times.Herald.

From the Chicago Times Herald
The concocters of drinks, who are us
ually brisk and genial at this festive sea-
son, have always taken just pride in their
fertility of invention. The hight of their
ambition is to please the palates of their
customers, and many of them lie awake
o. nights thinking of fit names for new
mixtures. Every once and a while a strik-
ing title is hit upon for a fancy beverage,
and the fame of the bar and its presiding
genius assumes profitable proportions. In
the work of nomenclature and compound
ing they are frequently aided by hints
from members of the learned professions
Lawyers, statesmen and philosophers have
not considered 1t beneath their dignity to
invent and christen beverages which for
the time being seem more satisfying than
those that have gone before" To this day
prominent members of congress stop at a
certain place on the south side Of Penn
sylvania avenue and call for John Han
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

Marion arrived at Gray Gables in Septem-
Cleveland was welcomed at Princeton,
where the ex-President now lives
Both of these singularly fortunate ex-
Presidents are following the law and both
are earning big sums by it. Both, while
"out of public life" are actively interest
ed in politics, and neither acts like a man
ION the shelf"
To France, Uruguay, Mexico and other
republics it looks strange that a President,
after a term of office, can go back to pri-
vate life contentedly, but in England It is
the most natural thing in the world; and
Queen Victoria voiced it when she said:
Your PVesident is like our premier
willing to bear the burden while he must,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09
but never. 10th 10 give bis gcepter to the

but never. 10th to give his scepter to the
next one"
EX-President Harrison, in his retirement,
occupies a very handsome residence in In
dianapolis. Summers he rests in the noun
tains with his wife and baby. He spends
his days and nights at home. doing most
of his law work in a very comfortable Ii
brary on the second floor of his residence.
Grover Cleveland, TOO. is a home man,
working as far as he can a his home, but
running away now and, then for a breath
of sea air and shot at the ducks.
Both of these gentlemen attribute their
unprecedented good health, after life in
the white house, to their habits, which,
while not ''goody-goody," are even and
rational.
In the morning former President Harri-
son rises at 1880 and partakes of a good
breakfast. After breakfast he gets out for
a walk and does not look into business be-
fore noon. He writes all the afternoon and
often all the evening, and for year past
has declined all invitations to public din
ners He has no disposition to travel but
wishes to keep steadily at work upon law
book writing, which has long been the aim
of his life. He is a heavy voluminous
writer, and if he lives into ripe age will
undoubtedly leave behind him a fine set
of reference books labelled Harrison"
Mr.. Cleveland, on the other hand, dis
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

the English were pioneers in the art OF or
namental tipping. Even before the Ro-
man invasion they We're potent In pot
ting. Their beverages at that time, Ii Is
true, were crude and Outlines harsh, but
they made the most of their opportunities;
and as the island was overrun by the va
rious brands of invaders, mead and methe-
Gin gaye way to all-conquering wines and
powerful ales. In other words as the popu-
lation blended with succeeding races.
drinks and drinking also became mixed till
in Shakespeare time the country was in
perpetual muddle and fiddle, and an
average Englishman was able ito drink
with facility your Dane dead drunk" and
put the bibulous German and the swag-
bellied Hollander under the table ERE the
next potfle could be filled"
Cocktails were unknown In these glorious
days, and there is no authentic record of
smashes fixes, or even high balls; but
there were many other beverages with
good mouth-filling names. The swagger-
ers had favorite tippe called huff
cap" 1t was an extra strong ale, which
made its devotees, "huffy," prone to bully
and sometimes fight Women, who went
to the tavern as boldly If not quite so
openly as the men, drank "merry-go-
down. which was compounded of Span
ish wines, with liberal accessons of sugar
a sprnklng of nutmeg and a pinch of
ginger The poorer class of religious meu
took kindly 20 ''lambs wool" which was
made of hot ale pulp OF roasted apples,
grated nutmeg and ginger, with raw sug-
ar, for sweetening. Monks, priests and
prelates had a special class Of wines APP
propriately known as 'theologlcum." They
were, of course, the finest vintages in the
market. for as one Of the chronclers of
the times remarks, the wine merchant was
afraid to serve this class of customers
with anything but the best, lest his soul
should go straight to the devil.
Another sanity drink was bishop
which subsequently met the poetic appro-
baton of Dean Swift who wrote:
Fine oranges
Well roasted. with sugar and wine in n
cup,
They'll make a sweet bishop which gentle
folks sup.
The old poets were fond of celebrating
their drink In verse. OF sack whose glori-
Gus operations were graphically described
by its high priest, Falstaff, an Elizabeth
an poet wrote:
Sacke will make the merrie mnde be sad
SO will it make the melancholle glad.
If mirthe and sadnesse doth in sacke re-
main.
When / am sad I win take some sacke
again
But 10 return to fancy drinks, the list of
which is by no means exhausted. one Won
derful decoction was made by boiling a
number Of herbs, bitter and sweet, and
adding a quantity of the infusion TO hot
ale. This mixture which was sweet or
sour soporifc or exhilarating according
TO the luck Of the brewer in gathering his
herbs, was known as bitter sweet" Fall
staff, it will be remembered, could not
stomach apple-johns. which were some
times roasted and dropped into hot sspiced
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

cock" which Is only to be had at this par
ticular resort with all its pristine flavor
and potency. And in New York a Sam
Ward" still has charms for those old TO-
gies who worship the genius Of the great
bon vvant who stood sponsor for this fas-
cinatng cup.
While Americans are foremost In this
line Of art, and are prone TO sheer at the
paucity of wit that characterizes the drink
mixers of other lands, the sad confession
must be made that this pre-emiuence re-
suits more from the exercise Of the imta-
tive faculty than from inherent original
ity. And IL is yet more humiliating 10 con-
TESS that we borrowed the practice from
England, the country of all others which
now despises anything but straight or di-
luted Scotch or Irish, with an occasional
lapse to a Il and S In the upper circles and
"shandygan" In the plebeian pubs Any
one who gives thought to the history Of
drinking, however, can understand why
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

likes his pen, and hires a secretary to
write his letters for him. HIS speciality is
philosophy and his ambition is a college
professorship, which he may accept as
soon as he has fulfilled certain legal OBJ
legations. His law work lies with corpora
tons, and he Is said to be the greatest
living expert upon the monetary systems
of the world.
The Cleveland residence at Princeton Is
the old Slidell house." a plain, square
structure, with nothing to recommend it
from the outside. Inside II IS a marvel in
bric-a-b rac and objects OF virtue. most of
which were sent to Mrs. Cleveland upon
her marriage, or upon the arrival of the
children. Many pieces of furniture were
gifts from foreign monarchs. a particu-
lary loVeiy tea set coming from the Prin-
cess Of Wales.
Neither former Presidents Cleveland nor
Harrison have expressed desire to travel
in Europe, though 1t Is said that neither
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

one has ever been abroad. MI Harrison
is reported afraid TO so, because of che
public dinners; and Mr.. Cleveland is op-
posed because of the impossiblity of shoot
ing valid ducks for season. Neither of
the young wives longs for society tri-
umphs abroad. though. undoubtedly. they
would be lionized at the Court of st.
James.
When reminded recently of the SUPER
stition that kills off our ex-Presidents both
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Harrison laughed
when he took the oath of office
They are the only ex-Presidents now
living; and the only two men who have
ever been able to shake each others hands
and say, 1--WE are both alive ana well
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

friendly mission for a republican newspa-
per, came back complaining, "IIe wouldn't
talk about anything except Baby Mckee"
When Mrs. Harrison died in the white
house in 1892 none so careful in attendance
upon her as Mrs. Mary Dimmick, her
young niece, widow, amiable and prepos-
sessing. And after Mrs. Harrison's death
the lonely President waited only long
enough to lay aside the duties of office be-
fore wedding this niece. 1t is said that
the children by the first marriage have
never forgiven the act, but that has in no
way affected the happiness of Mr.. Har-
rison.
After marrying Mrs. Dimmick, MIR. Har-
rison took his bride back to indianapolis,
the city of his lifelong efforts, and there
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

cheered by the presence Of young children
in the household.
The cartoons of Benjamin Harrison
bending over bundle of white dimity and
needlework and the sketches of Grover
Cleveland with four babies on his knees
were no caricatures, and the country has
The unnrecedented spectacle of two of its
former Presidents busily and happliy en-
gagged in rocking the cradle.
Benjamin Harrison was married the first
time to Miss Carrie Scott in the year 1854.
TWO children blessed their union, Russell
Harrison. now well known in literary and
legal matters and Mrs. Mckee the moth
or Of BABY Mckee. During Mr.. Har-
rison's term in the white house, from 1883
m 1892. "Baby" Mckee was national
feature. A reporter going there upon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

ale Crabs were preferred for this purpose.
Ale so treated was a favorite indulgence
az Christmas time. Reference is made to
IL in the winter song in Loves Labor
LOST"
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl.
1t formed the ingredient of the famous
wassail bowl as wei as of the gossip's
bowl, of which Puck says:
And sometimes Turk / IN a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks against her lips
bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
other popular drinks were maddog and
dragons milk. Their main constituent
was ale of different degrees of age and
strength. favored with ginger and similar
hot stuff. Maddog was the stronger of the
two 1t was popular among gentlemen Of,
Ancient Pistols stamp who usually want
ed something 10 grip their threats and put
fire into their eyes. Topers owe a great
deal 10 this same maddog. He IL was that
introduced the custom, popular in other
lands besides England, of easing the eff
fects of over-indulgence by taking "a hair
of the dog that bit you"
The fastidious Briton of the olden times
was also mighty hard to please as to the
qualities of wine. We find record of his
twelfth century. An old manuscript in
the British Museum tells us what wine
was most priced: ut should be clear like
the tears of a penitent so that a man may
see distinctly to the bottom of his glass:
its color should represent the greenness of
buffalo's horn; when drunk 1t should de-
scend impetuously like thunder; sweet
tasted, like an almond creeping like a
squirrel; leaping like a roebuck; strong
like the building OF Cistercian monaste-
~; glittering like a spark of fire; subtle
like the logic of fhe schools of Paris; dell
cate as fine silh. and colder than crys-
tai"
III the Englshman of that day was able
to procure this celestial liquor he was more
fortunate than recent topers and tipplers
have been I'm the triune kingdom. All mod
ern travellers can testify that no such
wine Is to be had now, either in dear old
London" or elsewhere on the island. Fur
thermore the fancy beverages of the Eliz-
abethan period have disappeared and left
not rack behind, unless we dignity such
wishywashy stuff as claret punch, which
holds the place of honor in most metro
poitan barrooms, and port negus, which
still fingers In the sick room, by calling
them weakened descendants of the sturs
dy, uncompromising beverages of old.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

people appointed him has proven an idle
''e' lor there are now living two EXPIRES
-''s' who are in excellent health, and
'' threaten to remain So for many day
NN-President Grover Cleveland is 60
'''s old and ex-President Harrison is Gl
e''S old. Both men are robust, excep-
'''''y happy and particularly well fixed
- ,"e affairs of this world. Both bid fair
1--WE Wen into the three score and ten
- aloted to man; and even into the
~, reason Of strength" period Of 50.
Use TWO ex-Presidents, Grover Cleveland
h." enJamin Harrison, possess other re-
H.. le parallel characteristics besides
Ut being alive after having flied the
OuS position Of President Of the United
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

last spring was born little girl, who was
christened Mary Elizabeth Harrison.
Grover Cleveiand's domestic life Is the
most romantic of any to which the public
was ever treated. If the Clevelands had
been less retiring 1t would have been spec
tacular
Within few months after entering the
white house Mr.. Cleveland, then aged As,
took to himself a young wife, Frances
Folsom, aged q. During the next two
years child was born TO die but as It
was strictly a family affair the Clevelands
kept it quiet and we have only the cabi-
net ladies OF that administration to tell
of it,
When Mr.. Cleveland's term expired he
moved to New York, and then began that
which his soul has always craved. the
raising Of a little family to grace his
hearthstone. Four children were born to
him-Ruth, in Madison avenue New York.
and afterwards Esther, in the white house.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

London papers record the death OF
William Blakeley, the fine old comedian
50 long associated at the Criterion theater
with Charles Wyndham, to whose success
In this country he was an important con-
tributor. He had previously been here
with Sothern. Blakeley was 81 years old
and had been well known in London for
thirty years. He had a distinctly comic
Individuality, and without going much out
Of himself was genuinely droll and anus
ing.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

washington, Jan. 1.-THE superstition
that no ex-President of the United States
can live long in the land over which the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

States. Both have married young women
when themselves wen along in life, and
both are now, when in their golden age
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09
Two PRESIDENTS IN RETIREMENT,
Both Are Strong and Well and Both Are
Rocking the Cradle.

HistorS No of the rD,tea
States Can Live LOng-Present itionso Both
The Progress., 1898-04-02
THE DEACON'S VIEW.

No, Susan, I'm not changin, front,
Nor CROWN cold in grace;
And what said of Hanna then,
I'd say it to his face.
Pve been stanch Republican,
For forty year, Iguess,
Though sometimes, wife, must let out
cuss word, more or less
Susanna, read what Hanna said;
He says, ''This talk of war,
This censure of our nations chief,
Is something to abhorn'
He hopes wise council will prevail
In dealing how with Spain,
And thinks the Spanish government
Will pay us for the Maine"
Win pay us, wife! Will pay us what?
Why-ding it-dang it, Sue!
There isn't one red. tarnal cent
OF Spanish money due.
That was a crime OF deepest dye,
OF purpose and intent,
Or else twas nothing, Susan Brown,
But simple accident.
And ii it was an accident
Well care for own dead,
And see that all their wives and weans
Are sheltered, wife. and fed
Bat if it wasn't-dang my skim
Susan, L wont swear)
But then 1 only wish to God
We had Jackson there!
Chicago Journal,
The Progress., 1898-04-02
THE SUFFRAGE LAW.

Following is the suffrage law
adopted by the Constitutional
Convention
Article Livery male citizen of this
State, and of the United States, native
born or naturalized, not less than twenty
one years old and possessing the follow
ing qualificat ions, shall be an elector.
and shall be entitled to vote at any elect
ion in this State by the people, except as
may be herein otherwise provided.
Section l. He shall lave been an act
ual banaf1de resident OF this State at least
two years, and OF the parish one wear.
and OF the precinct in which he offers to
vote SIX months next preceding the elect
ION provided, that no PERSONS removal
from one precinct to another precinct in
the same parish shall operate to deprive
MIN OF the right to vote in the precinct
from which he has removed until six
months after such removal
section 2-He shall have been. at the
ume he offers to vote, legally enrolled as
a reglstered voter on his personal appli-
cation, in accordance with the provisions
OF this Constitution and the laws enacted
tht reunder
Inc qualification of voters and the regis
tratlon laws in force prior to the adopt
ION OF this Constitution shall remain in
lorce until December 81 1898, at which
oate all the provisions of this Constitu-
'ion relative to suffrage, registration and
election, except as hereinafter otherwise
provided, shall go into effect, and the
GENERAL Assembly shall, and it is hereby
directed, at its regular session in 1898. to
enact general registration law to carry
INTO effect the provisions of this Consti-
tuition relative to the qualification and
regis tration OF voters.
sec, q. He shall be able to read and
write, and shall demonstrate his ability
70 60 SO when he applies for registration.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-19
GEN. Il. 4. LEE.

The place Lee holds n Ghe heart of
the south has been ftly voiced by j..
Linsday Gordon of Virginia in an ad-
dress slivered st Atlanta in 1893 On
Lees Birthday. Referring to the be-
lief in England that Arthur still lives.
he said:
I'VE knew our southern Arthur
shall lot come again. We believe his
Ike shall never come again to us mill
the END of time. But IN orr
memories forever he shall be the snow
white ca4ef AM his Kingdom is the in
ner sanctuary OF our hearts The
walls If tbs eGcaanted pala e whore
his body res are the blue mount sius
OF is native land, it's dome the ski
above. But the royal and released
spirit has passed eternally frorn the
shadows of defeat unto the place of
victory, where, We believe, the know
ledse tuat his people have struggled
oui OF darkness into this radiant day
can touch his high soul into gre alter
gladness even amid the supernal
splep dor of that city where the L.rd
God and the lamb are the light there.
Of"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-19

NOT more than ten days ago the an
nouncement was made that Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts and Senator
Spooner of Wisconsin, Two of the
greatest constitutional lawyers in tie
senate, were both opposed 10 the an
nexation of Hawaii, and that their OPP
position would defeat the measure
Sc eng this statement going the rounds
of the democratic press, Senator Hoar
has come out aad said that he is not
opposed to the annexation of the Ha-
wall an Islands as u territory, provided
the rights OF the natives are thorough
ly protected, aud that under no cir
cumstances viii he antagonize the
policy of the president.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-19
The Discovery of the Day.

Aug. J. Bogei, the leadiog druggist
of Shreveport, La, says: "Dr. Kings
New Discovery is the only thing that
cures my cough, an it is the best sell
er.I have" J. F. Campbell, merchant
If Stafford, Ariz., writes: "Dr. Kings
New Discovery is all that is claimed
;or it: it never fails, and ic is a sure
cure for cOnsumpti' n, coughs and
olds. 1 cannot say enough for its me-
rlts." DR.. King New Discovery fer
consumption, coughs and colds is not
an experiment. 1t has been tried for
a quarter of a century, and today
,auds at the head. 1t never dap
points Free trial bottles at w. A. IR-
WIN & Co., drug store.