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Show ' Ether Highball Maine's Dry Time Drink ! CliienL'o Tribune Special Service. L1 EWISTON, Maine, Dec. 21. "Hav? an ether highball" is : the newest invitation" among Maine ! "wets." The ether highball is a I mixture of ether and alcohol ! ;ibout one part ether and two parts i alcohol. Those who have experimented experi-mented with it assert that it has' an ! "elevating" effect. J While tho stuff is taken as mixed, ; many prefer to heat the mixture to ' a temperature whero the ether evap-; evap-; orates, after which the alcohol is diluted with water on a 50-50 basis" ; theroby becoming tho good old-time i "split" of Maine fame. J Tills concoction is put up in ounce ! and a half and three-ounce bottles ' under the name "liniment," which I enabled it to get by for some time, I but now tho officers hava begun I seising the stuff and tho courts to condemn it as an intoxicant. |