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into his possession, and notifies the consignee to 

 appear before a magistrate and prove, if he can, 

 that he proposes to make a proper use of it. 

 The magistrate may then, in his discretion, return 

 it, or destroy it, or hold it under advisement in 

 his own cellar. 



The Maine man will not willingly interfere 

 with the traffic if such interference means a loss 

 to general trade. The large hotels in the cities 

 keep open bar, and the place is raided only often 

 enough to make the fines count as a fair license 

 fee. As a stranger I stood by the clerk's desk 

 of a city hotel and heard a gentleman complain 

 loudly of the quality of the gin cock-tail served 

 at the hotel bar. " Front " was summoned and 

 quickly brought the white-aproned bar-tender 

 to the desk, where complaint and answer were 

 volubly gone over in my presence, the bar- 

 tender contending that the true source of com- 

 plaint was that the gentleman only desired a 

 larger measure of gin. " He wants his cock- 

 tails mixed in a beer-mug," the artist declared. 

 There was not the slightest attempt at conceal- 

 ment of the traffic. The large summer hotels 

 supply liquors of all kinds to their guests, and 

 wine is served at meals in public. To stop this 



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