The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-26

TO prevent the Dispatch man from
noticing tubs and kettles, hotties 1
OF chemicals and stirring spoons, and
various other articles.
"W hat in the world do you use those (
things for?" resumed the reporter.
"Say," was the reply, "thars mono o.
Your business. What 40 you want, any.
nov? II You want some whisky say so,
aud it you don't you just get out q here.
don't want any body TO come in here
and interfere with my business, do"
He was speaking Ia The gentle breeze,
which was slowly swinging the creak
ing sign to and fro, while the reporter
was making tracks in the mud toward
thu principal thoroughfares, with the
Intention OF coming the next day To see
whether the whisky man had finished
talking.
\ PROMINENT liquor dealer was seen
short time later, and told OF the occur
renee.
"Well," said he, "that's place where
whisky is what we call fixed There
are great many such places in the city
aud they doctor up spirits aud podr
whisky into a semblance of the good
ould stuff They succeed only in
swIndling the ordinary classes, while
the supposed good judges of wines and
liquors are hauled through the wringer
bv tirst.claSs establishments. Say, don't
give me away, Tor goodness sake, or
your spoil my trade"
"Why, do you mean tn say that first
! class dealers deceive their custOmers?"
1 III don't mean to say that all do, but
am absolutely certain that some do. Ii
you don't give me away, I'll tell you a
| few things about the trade"
"All right; 20 ahead"
! "Well, suppose We begin with whisky.
Whisky is adulterated less than any
hing else by the tirst-class dealers. 1t
| is the low class who make the money
out oft. They are almost compelled Il
! do II, however, because their customers
want it cheap and great deaf of it,
| Cheap whisky is universally adultera
ted. The simplest way of fixing IL il
Ia take the original poor quality of whis.
| ky, dilute il W th water and add I've o.
ashes 10 give it strength. This is /
fact"
Then cheap mixtures are added tC
some ofthe better qualities, and IL is {
difficult ma ter to detect these adu terra
llOns. In some cases they are poison
Gus, both lead aud copper being used
the former in the shape of liIharg, whicl
is substance consisting OF seIui-trans
parent yellowish red scales, and is uset
for colpring. Then VIII sky is also fixed
with spoiled cider and bad brandy"
brandy is generally pure, suppose?
interrupted the reporter
"Bjardy pure? Why, sir, | don
think you can find drop of pure brandy
in the city. The French brandy is es
uerially drugged, and it is only tn,
tinesSe of the druggiug Nhlch allows /
to hold its own. The essential oil o
brandy when distilled from the grapt
huSk is 50 powerful that few drops o
II are sufficient To faint large cask o
spirits. There are men who make
business of fixing spirits into brand,
Tor dealers. They are usually French
men, who bring essential OIL, which i
worth several hundred dollars pound
from France. They charge about So TO
'hXiug' u barrel.
"B andy, when it is distilled, is color
less, like water, but attaius a light am
Der color after resting in cask fO
awhile. On ageing IL becomes darke
and darker. and i'm order to rcproduc
the dark color burnt sugar Is added h'
the 'tiXrr,' When the imitation brand
Is made from poor spirits, such as az
obtained from mOlasses, beet roots, D.
tatoes ana VIII sky the spirits are frs
carcfuliy rectified b. repeated distilin
: lion over freshly burnt charcoal az
qulCklime, To deprive them OF their Dc
cuiiar flavor, which would betray In
impus ton, Then the essential oil
. added, rs well As a little tiucture of cal
, echu or oak bark, 10 give IL the strin.
eut ta> at tanriu. Beside the essef
, tjal oil, sometimes 'murk the diS,illat
from refuse sklns aud it, OF the Crap
3 lett er the VINE has bee
, expressed, in order to CIV
II the flavor of distilled win,
"SN," continued the gentleman
"that brandy business looks bad, bu
wnen / come 20 toll YOU about giu. yo
will he shocked. Gin l. first dilute
1 with water, and as the effect is to max
:, the liquor whiu,h aud turuid, alum
n carbonate uf potash, aud even aCiIat.
lead are sdded for slariticltiOu. The
= toleS'ore its strength and pungency. a
I extract of cayenne pepper and sewers
ErniuS OF paradise are poured Into III
ueadly caltrun. t. give 10 the peculiy
a smell and flavor an essence has hee
?. Invented which is composed ut jump,
n berries, cnriauder seeds, almond ctk
/. angelica root, lirOriCa powder, calamU
h root aud sulpnurlc acid. | Cont knc
h whether they throw i'm the drug stoi
fixtures or not"
, "llow about wines2"
a "Well, the pubuci,uot 50 much In
NJ posed upu in wines, since 81 man
/, poisonous substances are used. Coz
rrntrated I've must is added to near
ia all wines to give them body but tn
j. iepilimate. A littleo Of some essenti
oil for bouquet i>also allowable. Clare
,s are mixed with itch cherry Juice Il
n 'nody' That j. good, ir anything. B.
( the trouhlo IL here; There are thou
"A auis ui judges at clarpts, who buy d
.d the finest Kinds at French clarets, IA,
Al a. Chateau 10 Rose, Chateau 1t Fit
aud Chateau lgniem. Or they dut
IA like anything but Bordeaux, q
genuine, YOU know. Ifthey ret Ca
turuia cldrrt, which is he'ter than Al
as French clrtt that is import q, thew a
on lucky, Nearly all the California clare
are sold In the east under French lahe
-lPlu~hurt Dispatch.