Smyrna times., 1892-04-27
WHOLE NO. 1884.
LET TOPERS READ THIS,
HOW A NEW YORK MINISTER SHOWED
UP THE LIQUOR PEOPLE DRINK.

Rev Madison d. Peters ofthe Bloom
lngdale Church at the Boulevard and
SlXty-eighth street, New York. on Sum
DAY evening last gave an interesting
lecture on Samples from Sample
Rooms" t'0
MIR. Peters began by saving that in
December he visited a dozen of the
best kept liquor stores in the peigbbor-
hood and bought pint samples of their
pest glh' Whlskey, brandy, port wine
sherry and other liquors, and those he
had taken to expert chemists for an
aiysls IN the samples of pure Holland
GIN, said he, I'VE found Deutral sDir-
It's, rotten corn, juniper berries. tur-
pentlne and vitrol. We dropped the
"hlte OF an egg and an oyster. both
easily digestible articles. into this
compound and saw them shrivel up
into hard, stringy masses. This shows
how nicely drop of gin aids diges-
ton.
I'm the sample of fine old hand
made Kentucky whiskey' he contin-
ued, We found neutral spirits. glvce-
rlne, sulphate Of zinc, chronic acid. ere
osote, unslacked lime and fusei oil
eVaporated in a box will make the
toughest cat you can put in that box
Insenslble in less than an hour.
POISON IN ALL.
But the port wine said Mr.. Peters
that rich, truity drink which solid
respectability is proud to take after
dlnner-that was worst of all. What
DO you think we found in the best sam
pie that ! could buy? Well, there
were neutral acid, glycerine, licoriee.
Zlhc, mercury, antimony, salts OF
tartar and ether, muriatic acid and
alum.
Il nave statistics to show that one
hunnred times more imported port
VINE Is sold than can be made from all
the grapes in OpertO. 1t is the same
with all other wines. Madeira pro-
duees 10000 barrels Of wine per YEAR
and America alone drinks $4,000 bar
rels et Madeira wine in that time"
In the best lager beer he could get
Mr.. Peters said there were discovered
pepper, ginger, vinegar, capsicum.
cream of tartar, acetic, nitric. citric,
tartaric, sulphuric and prussie acids
nitric, sulphurie and acetic ether
spirits of nitre, the oils of vitriol. tur
pentine and cassia caraway seed.
cloves, JapOnic extract, bitter almonds.
0rrls root, grains of paradise, Spanish
juice, black ants, dried cherries, orange
peel, corlander seed, white oak bark.
tannic acid, fennel seed, cardamon
seed, wormwOod, copperas, alum. sui.
phates OF iron and copper, liquorice,
opium, gentian root, quassia, cocculus
indicus, tobacco, saltpetre, log wood.
marble dust, eggshells, hartshorn, nut
gals, potash and soda.
POLICE PROTECTION.
"One ounce Of whiskey," continued
the speaker, ''is a good big drink.
There are l2S of these in a gallon.
which at ten cents drink brings in
$3.50 for what costs the saloon keeper
just Sl.7O. But how is it these 5000
are allowed to stay open beyond their
legal hours and have their petty crimes
winked at? 1t is not police stupiditv.
1t Is police completely.
by police mean not the patrol
men, but the captains and commits
sioners who, by the elaborate system
OF blackmail they maintain on these
live like princes, though they
not so long ago were paupers. | know
little saloOnkeeper in this town who
told me only short time ago that he
put up 81 week to the police regu-
larly for tie privilege of keeping open
on Sunday. If all his companions
were taxed the same small amount
there would still be the neat sum of
S4OO,OOO per year spent for police pro-
lection"