The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-06
The author gives several bills Of old
time tayernS Here is one:

. mittrs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
; ircaEi3sts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. b
70 h'leS Eunch-..-. COMMUNICATIONS "
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II bottles wine
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holes punch.
Loles ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. q
The bill is endorsed. with unconscious humor,
This all paid for except the minister's rum
And here is recipe for punch:
Charles Lamb tells in his Popular Fallacies''
Of Bully Dawson kicked by half the town and
half the town kicked by Bully Dawson. This
Bully Dawson famous punch brewer; his
rule was precisely like that o! n New England
landlord. and is worth choosing among a score
OF rules: ''The man says Bully Dawson, who
sees, does or thinks of ANYTHING while he IS max
ing punch may we'll look for the Northwest
Passage on Mutton Iiill. man can never rnaNe
good punch unless he IS satisfied. nay positive,
that no man breathing make better. | can
and do make good punch, because ! do nothing
| else. and this Is my way OF dong II retire
| to a solitary corner with my ingredients ready
| sorted They are as follows. and ! mix them in
/ the order they here written: Sugar twelve
! tolerable Jumps: hot water. one pint; lemons,
/ two. the juice and peel; old Jamaica rum. two
! gills; brandy, one gill; porter or stout half
! gill: arrack. slight dash allow myself five min
utes to make bowl in the foregoing proportions
carefully stirring the mixture as furnish the
| ingredients until it actually fosuls; and then,
| kangaroosl how beautiful it ISL
| colonial statutes is thus shown:
In I762 clever but sanctimonious manager
succeeded in crowding his company and his play
| into Newport tavern. Here is his trucking
| Playful:
KINGS ARMS TAVERN. NEWPORT. RHODE
ISLAND
On Monday. June 10 at the Public Room Of the
Above Inn viii be delivered a series of
Moral Dialogues
In Five Parts
Depicting the evil effects of jealousy and other
bad passions and Proving that happiness can only
spring from the pursuit Of Virtue
Mr.. DOUGLASS-Will represent noble mag
unanimous Moor called Othello. who loves
young lady named Desdemona and. after be mar
ries her. herbours las in too many cases the
dreadful passion of Jealousy.
OF jealousy our beings bane.
Mark the small cause and the most dreadful
pain
MR.. AILYN.-Win depict the character OF
specious villain. in the regiment of Othello, who
is so base as to hate his commander on mere
suspicion and to impose on his best friend. OF
such characters. it is to be feared. there are
thousands in the world, and the in question
NAV present to salutary warning.
The man ttai wrongs his master and his friend,
What can he come to but shameful end?
Mr. HALLAM.-win delineate young and
thoughtless officer, who is traduced by Mr.. Allyn
and getting drunk loses his situation and his
generals esteem. All young men whatsoever
take example from Casio.
So The i'll effects of drinking would you sect
Be warned and fly from evil company.
Mr.. MORRIS-Will represent an old gentleman,
the father of Dcsdemona who is not cruel or
covetous. but IS foolish enough TO dislike the
noble Moor. his son-n-aw, because his face IS
not white, forgetting that we all spring from one
root. Such preiudices are very numerous and
very wrong.
, Fathers beware what sense and love We lack!
It's crime, not colour. makes the being black
Mr.. QUELCH.-Win depict a fool who wishes
to become a knave and trusting to one, gets
killed by one. Such is the friendship Of rogues!
Take heed!
Where fools would become, how often you'll
Perceive the knave not wiser than the fool.
MRS. MORRIS.-will represent young and
virtuous wife, who, being wrongfully suspected.
gets snothered Tin an adjoining ROOM by her
husband.
Reader attend and ere thou goest hence
Let fall tear to helpless innocence
MRS. DoUGLAsS-WiI be her faithful attendant
who will hold out good example to all servants
male and female, and to all people in subsection
Obedience and gratitude
Are things they are good.
Various other Dialogues, too numerous to men
ton here, will be delivered at night all adapt
ed to the mind and manners. The whole will be
repeated on Wednesday and on Saturday. Tickets
six shillings each, to be had within. Commence
ment at I. Conclusion at half-past ten in order
that every Spectator may go home at a sober
hour and reflect upon what he has seen before
he retires TO rest.
God cave the King
Long may he sway.
East, north and SOUTH
And fair America.
The man who advertised that play evil
IDENTIFY knew his public. He may have been
the ancestor of some modern successful
press agent. Certainly such tact and Ial-
ent should have some effect upon ros-
terity. Not the least interesting chap
ter in the book is the one which deals
with the early railway and the contro-
versies which attended its superseding the
stage coach. The first railroads were
stone bedded and the Earring of the pas
sengers IN the springiess cars was dis
tressing. It produced headache and Itch
ing of the skin, and the car stopped with
Jolt like that of a collision. On the
Newcastle and Frenchtown Railroad when
station was approached, the engineer
would open his safety-valve, while several
strong negroes seized the end of The
train and held 1t back while the station
agent thrust sticks Of wood through the
wheel spokes. 1t was predicted that II
railways became common the farmers
would be ruined because horses would he
useless and there would be no market for
oats or hay, and the hens would not lay
| eggs on account of the noise. It was de-
clared that no car could ever advance
against the wind. The Boston Courier"
of June II, 1GL7, said in an editorial:
The project OF railroad from Boston to Albany
Is impracticable, as everyone knows who knows
the simplest rule Of arithmetic, and the expense
would be little less than the market value OF the
whole territory Of Massachusetts, and which, IL
practicable, every person OF common sense knows
would be as useless a railroad from Boston
to the moon.
Capt Basil Hall, an English engineer,
took the journey from Boston to Albany by
stage coach two years later, and pronounc-
ed It simply impossible" to construct a
railroad over that route. Yet In less than
half century men were building a road
over the Rocky Mountains and through the
Colorado canyons. Impossible" is word
which prudent folk should be shy OF using.
Stage coach travelling was not always
idyllic. There were muddy roads. and
there were cold. snowy, or rainy days, I'M
favorable to travellers. In Epping. New
Hampshire. was a bog with hard repu-
tation, generally known as the Soap
mine" There is a story Of a six-horse
coach which got itself mired there one
spring day, when the driver politely asked
the passengers TO get out and tighten the
load so that the team could pull the coach
out The tenacity and depth OF the mud
may be better understood when 1t is re-
membered that the mine after which the
bog was named was probably one OF old
fashioned, sticky, 1elly-like soft soap, and
not the article now known TO commerce.
The coach was in 1t. up to the hubs. and
when the passengers declined to get out
on the ground that they had paid their
fares and did not wish TO trouble them
selves. the driver shut the door and sat
down by the roadside. II was not long,
OF course, before heads emerged from the