The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-12-05
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
POISONOUS LIQUORS.
The Kind of Stuff Gu ped Down by So
Called moderate Drinkers"

eerVeu q IalkaLlVe chemist.
MOP" said the customer, mildly in
terrogative, with his glass halfway up.
What do you get? Snakes?" with a
futile attempt at wit.
Business was slack, and the bar
keeper desired listener. He re-
sponded at length and with the ut
most candor revealed much of the I'M
written work of the saloon keepers
craft The information he gave is of
interest not alone to him who looks
with frie ndly eye upon the liquor when
1t stirreth itself Alright, but is likewise
of value to those engaged in the relent-
less war on rum. If the bar-keeper is
correct in his statements unauthorized
drinks are SO scarce as to be entitled to
space in museums. If he is correct the
chemists OF the country should be in
position to testify to the fact There
was time before the internal revenue
days when whisky at seventy-fve cents
per gallon, although prone to create
interior conflagration, was pure. An
American citizen might grow Joyous,
beat his family, offend his neighbors,
and solidify his relati ions with police
officers without evil effect further than
slight physical and considerable
moral relapse. In these days of shams
and large profits one who drinks takes
his life in his hand and casts his moral
nature into the sewer.
About once every five years, according
to statisticians, an agent makes his way
through the country selling scientific
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The price is variable. ranging from SIS
to $50, according to the financial rating
of the customer. The enterprise is at
one profitable to the seller and pur-
chaser, wherein it differs largely from
the majority OF deals. This valuable
book contains many recipes for manu-
featuring liquors OF all kinds. By
strict adherence to it's rules twenty
year-old whisky can be made in as many
minutes and $40 brandy can be turned
out at cost of 25 per gallon, where
fore the volume finds ready sale and the
consuming public suffers accordingly.
Many saloonists make their own liquors;
others prefer to buy the imitation
article already in packages, and to sup
ply this latter class there are several
wholesale manufactures, principally
located in Cincinnati.
In the lower grade of saloons, where
three-cent gin and fve-cent whisky go
across the counters to promote discord
and swell the police records, it is much
to be doubted whether pure whisky of
any age or brand ever finds it's way
Years ago, when drinking was an every
day custom, men lived to be eighty and
ninety years of age and never over
looked an opportunity to replenish their
tanks. The habitual drinker of the
present time burns himself out in few
years. The journey from the bar to the
bier is brief.
1t is urged by saloon-keepers, few of
whom attempt to deny that their mer-
why whisky is poisoned in addition to
its own inherent qualities is because of
the tax, which makes it impossible to
sell it at profit. This is not true.
Whisky which before the war sold at
from 81 to 81. so per gallon, now brings
from So to S. Whisky which costs S. a
gallon will produce fund of from S. to
SIS, according to the size of the drink
which is stylish in the community, and
dependent also upon the prevailing
price the temper of the drinking public
may endure.
There is not a liquor trade made, not
brand of whisky, or brandy, or any of
the bitters that can not be initiated so
perfectly as to defy detection. 1t will
analyze chemically the same as the
straight goods. The basis of these
manufactured or counterfeit drinks is
cologne spirits, which is only the second
distillation of highwine. The first dis
tillation produces alcohol, the second
cologne spirits. This contains all the
Intoxicating qualities without the odor
of alcohol. Its cost remains around the
dollar mark. The simple addition Of
coloring matters, bead oil to produce
the little air bubbles, and age the mix
ture, drop or two of the particular oil
needed, according to the character of
liquor to be manufactured, some glycer-
inc. sirup and water, and you are ready
to do business"
To add force to his argument the dis
penser of bogus liquor produced the
DOCK WIN Wnlcn-anu steady naHu-
he makes Sundays and dull days the
rosy" which he afterward sells as
"eight-year-o Jackson and 'seven-
teen-year-old McGinnis."
The interesting work opens with a
brief paper on chemistry, setting forth
that all liquors depend for their indi-
vidual bouquet upon certain others and
oils produced in the course of manu-
facture, in the case OF the pure stuff
and made by chemists for the use of
struggling liquor merchants who dis
pense the imitation. Cognac brandy.
for instance, sells at about IS per gallon
pure. The illegitimate brother, and so
closely resembling the original as to
be indistinguishable from it by means
of the senses. costs one-siXth the price
Herein lies the reason why saloon
D keepers wax fat and wealthy, buy seats
! in the council, and 60 TO Europe and the
Legislature.
In the little tome in question the
recipe for making WHISTLES is given as
follows:
| To make rye, Bourbon, Scotch or Irish whis-
ky take forty gallons Of cologne spirits one
quart Of glycerine, two ounces OF Bourbon or
rye oil or four ounces OF Scotch or irish, accord
- ing to the brand desired to be made To age the
, mixture add one ounce Of raisin oil.