An Independent Journal, Devoted to Home Interests. Established in 1878. ■ . ..................................................- ................................. ...................... .. __________________________________ _________________________________‘' " A V O L U M E 21. HALLOWELL, ME., SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1898. N V HGoV = ------- 2 samv LIQUOR IN THE ARMY. tary posts in which the younger soldiers ure. A few smaller buildings are un­ BAD ENGLISH THE M AN VHO COMJRrument are being schooled for the National de­ finished and some of the larger ones are 5ND. ig mi The contrast between the order of Spring and Summer fense. The canteen system, says the re­ not full of exhibits. The great organ There would be both interest and in­ a General Miles against the use of intoxi­ port, should be abolished. On this sub­ stands with half its pipes in, and work­ struction in a list of the words securely In the discussion of the ^ cants by soldiers exposed to the hard­ ject it quotes the testimony of Major- men and mortar beds are visible here intrenched in our own vocabulary to-day Spani h territory after tl> ships of the Cuban campaign, and the General Howard, who speaks as,follows: and there. Y’et as such tilings go, the which were bitterly assaulted on their one im <ortani influence! ’ order of the Spanish captains that extra Ever since the prospect of sending an fair may he called open and a success. first appearance. Swift praises himself wha ignored Strangi grog should be served to the sailors to army to our Southern border and prob­ It will pay many an Eastern man to for his valiant effort against certain of bondholder ha6 been o\ SUITS AND OVERCOATS, fortify them for the fight or flight in ably to Cuba has been made apparent to these intruders: “I have done my ut­ the famous Yew Yorki visit it. It will reveal the West to the Santiago Harbor, furnishes timely sup­ me, my mind has reverted to the neces­ sity of letting every officer and soldier East, and it will lead the West to a most for some years past to stop the fro between America port to a remarkable report made by the know that alcohol will not help the di­ wholesome discovery of its own resources progress of mob and banter, but have whose wisdom is con House Committee on the Alcoholic gestion, and that alcoholic drink will be both material and otherwise. been plainly borne down by numbers the varying lights an Liquor Traffic, just before the adjourn­ the best possible means to produce unfit­ The exposition grounds are in three and betrayed by those who promised to man affairs, has made has* ness for service—unfitness to endure the ALL LATEST STYLES and PATTERNS ment of Congress. The report in ques­ tracts, separated by a street and a rail­ assist me.” Puttenham (or whoever it the omitted fa. tor. Acc tion is a unanimous one in favor of a miasma of swamps and the dangers from yellow fever. I have conversed road, which are spanned by viaducts. was that wrote the anonymous Arte of statement of he daily p bill introduced by Congressman Ellis of with excellent physicians who say that In the main tract is the exposition prop­ English Poesie, published in 1589) ad­ seen the representatives PRICES LOWER THAN THE LOWEST. Oregon, “ To prohibit the sale of intoxi­ there need he no unusual exposure in er, in another the State buildings and mitted the need of certain words to schilds, both in London • the campaigns, proposed or prospective, ICW*O4*O*!*iCH*O4*Q*E,O*HvH*0*T*O*J*CH*O*l* cating liquors on Reservations and in the department of horticulture, and in which the purists might justly object,and terms of peace v hide w buildings controlled by the United if proper hygenic precautions be taken, which includes abstinence from liquors. the third is the inevitable Midway. then adds that“ many other like words, at Madrid are now made ASK TO SEE OUR LINE OF States.” This is a measure for which The buildings in the main tract sur­ borrowed out of the Latin and French, is to be given incv ’'en'’ Congress has received petition after pe­ This testimony of General Howard is not the outcome of his personal bias in round three sides of a lagoon, at one end were not so well to he allowed by us,” because even the tition from all parts of the country, and of which is the Government building and citing them among those of which he dis­ prevent the ineT $>7.77 S U I T S . the present Committee report that, after favor of temperance. Lord Wolseley, at the other the viaduct, terminating in approved — audacious, egregious, and ters little, for 1 giving the matter careful consideration, the British Commander-in-Chief, has re­ peristyle. All these buildings are class­ compatible. In the Poetaster, acted 1601 is not there, they have reached the unanimous con­ cently made experiments with the Brit­ ish army in India to ascertain the rela­ ic and in good taste. The groups of Pen Johnson satirized Marston’s verbal down the list,. clusion “that but few, if any, reasons statuary cover about the same range of innovations,and among the words he re­ Cuban bondsv(^^^^ exist why the United States Government tive ejects of alcohol and total absti­ nence upon the endurance of the troops, subjects treated in the Columbian groups. viled are clumsy, inflate, spurious, con­ cern of the g -eat houses' in uouuo,.. should engage in the liquor traffic, even Perhaps there is a little more of the scious, strenuous, defiance, retrograde, Paris; independence, freedom, justice, to the extent of legalizing or permitting and his conclusions do not differ from nude. There is enough of it to have and reciprocal. humanity, the \\ m o.« c , the kind, are the sale of intoxicants within its immi­ those of General Howard. Some of the provoked two Salvation Army lassies to Puttenham wrote at the end of the six­ trifling incidents i ar must end grant stations, soldier’s homes, military regiments were served with no liquor at attack some of the statues with axes, de­ teenth century, Johnson at the beginning in the interest of bondholders. For One-Price Casli Clothier, posts, or any other building under its all, others with beer alone, and others with whiskey after the fashion of the termined to hew Agag to pieces. They of the seventeenth, Swift at the beginn­ why should war he mat e if there is to control.” ing of the eighteenth; and at the beginn­ be no benefit to tic > The first paragraph of the report urges Spanish and British sailors. It was were arrested hut not prosecuted, and 141IWATER ST,, GARDINER, MAINE. have been transferred to other stations. ing of the nineteenth we find Ladv Iloi- It is true that th 1 .nds may have 10ai>r98 that this reform shall begin at the Capi­ found that the first effect of the whiskey hind declaring influential to be a detest­ been purchased fo; ■ ere song, and tol in Washington. “ To the average rations was to add to ihe impetuosity The Court of Honor, with the Gov­ HEADQUARTERSl\FOR able word, and asserting that she had with certain knowlec ( all the hazard mind,” it says, “ it seems inconsistent with which the soldiers would engage ernment building seen at its extreme tried in vain to get Sherman to forego it. and of the wrong invt v. 1 But to buy that the Congress of the United States in an attack, but that in a few days the end. closing the vista made by the fa­ At the end of the nineteenth century bad paper cheap and id e it good pa] Granite and Marble Monuments should enact laws prohibiting the sale of regiments stimulated in this way began cades of the main buildings, is a won­ the battle is still raging over stand point worth one hundred < atv on the do1’ intoxicants within a certain specific dis­ to show notable signs o£ lassitude and derfully beautiful scene. The expanse for example, and over reliable, and over by manipulating govt> aments, io tance of a schoolhouse or church in the lack of spirit. On the ether hand, the of water, the bridges, electric fountain Tablets and Headstones. lengthy, and over a score of others, all of the fine art of ba k -W houses, District of Columbia, or within one men who had been kept from every and gondolas, all familiar to World’s of which bid fair to establish themselves true, too n it i " c a sorr mile of the Soldier’s Home of the Dis­ kind of stimulant increa^d in staying Fair visitors, give grace and life to the ultimately, because they supply a de­ come t'oi ai m All kinds of Cemetery Work Done Neatly trict,” when at the same time “ it is not power, alertness, and vigjr as the cam­ perspective. There is little to criticise. mand more or ffiss insistent. The fate and bloou, if ^ VT** i necessary to go outside of the four walls paign progressed. There is much to commend. and Promptly, ®) Prices Right, is more doubtful of photo for photo saddh * ‘, db% gp# f > <£ u3yl of the building wherein these laws are The result of these ? Acriments, says The State buildings are grouped about graph, and of phone for telephone: they to J «K K ,,T - ic«Mi enacted in o __ -----------. and all ihe Boston "W atehn, *>’ to whose col­ a Grand Plaza, whose focus is a great Tablets and Momnnentt, Granite or Marble, Cleaned both strike us as vulgarisms, jnsi as ihe Mause.