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A vol as in others" said the drummer for
r. !lrse compromising house. land remem-
Der once now the firm was with got stuck
ono day "A man drove up in a one-horse wa
gru carrying one barrel of whisky. which
H.. wanted to sell. He told US some kind of
!; story about an old uncle dying and leav-
ing it to him but as he couldn't afford TO
Use as good liquor it was he had con-
clrIie,1 "a sell it. We took the barrel into
the house. and. prying out the hung, we
slipped in the siphon and drew off a glass
of il to sample. And il was fine. The bar
I'll showed age. and the liquor tasted it. 1t
was worth $40 gallon ii it was worth a
cent. bur w uidn't give the man any such
pointers We knew by the weight that
there wdE at least forty gallons of 1t. and
made him an offer of $50 for the barrel.
He higgled i while but took the money at
last and drove away.
IN III. course Of a couple of weeks We
concluded to put that whisky in bottles and
sell il case goods, 81 We set the Siphon
I" Work at tie bung and began to draw 1t
of. After the fourth bottle had been drawn
The -iphGn refused to work. and exam
ir"d it To ind what wrong. We could
hot get nj il that way, and as the contents
seemed To he all right s9t the barrel on
GrG AM bored another hole in it. Then the
siphpn worked. but the liquor much
paer. ana one of the men tasted it, BY
George, it wasn't whisky at all 1t WAS only
water. cnlored somewhat from the charred
inside of the barrel. That scared us, and
smashed the head in 10 see what was
inside. ami we saw in a minute. The willy
CU~S. had fitted filled with fine old
whisky to the bunE where We made the ex-
animation before purchasing, and when that
Ial been emptied the whole story had been
told. He had probably paid s. for the gall
ION 80 I'LL the can, and We sold it for $50
bottle. but We didn't get blamed cent
Tor The thirty-nine gallons. more or less of
water that filled the rest of the barrel 1t
wasn't total loss of $50 to us. but it came
blamed near it that We would have
lynrhei that fellow if he had ever turned
W again. which he did not"
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Frequently there are inquiries made of
III" patent office in regard to a shoetie. or
s..If-ftstening shoestring.'' remarked a pat
cnt office examiner ia Star reporter. and
] really believe that anything in that line.
If at all practical. would produce more
Rooney than the mines of the kIoudtke.
SHOE manufacturers have been on the look
out for such invention for years. and it
vnr,ld ht. interesting to see how they would
hI against each other for the invention
should it develop. The shoe manufacturing
concerns are represented by a number of
clever and competent attorneys and they
keel, i sharp lookout for anything in their
line that turns up. There have been a
humber If inventions in the matter of self
t.eiUg shoeStrings. and patents have been
issued but they were not practical or not
susceptible u Improvement.
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As bread. cake and pastry cooks the Gu
bans are far in advance of what they are
IL some other things said gentleman
VIII" accompanied the Secretary of War on
his recent trip to Cuba. TO Star reporter:
indeed, th=y are superior to any that l
hay- ever ran across. Every ounce of
What they use in the cities of the island
grows in this country. and yet the way
they maxi and serve their bread and pastry
II IN 1IIr
Th. secret Of their success and art in mis-
line, il in the manipulation of the flour.
Their bread. rolls. rusks buns and pies are
simply dream-light, almost feathery. iii
Z stihle hot or cold Ihey nave a WONDER
fully -mprciSh taste, that Is, the more You
eat tn. more you want to eat Probably
New orleans leads America in the way of
bread and pastries, as far as pubic BAKER
is are concerned. but the bakeries of Ha-
Vz.ua -urpass them easily. As piemakers
tn. Cuhans are simply immense, which is
stating it hut mildly
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The concrete granite and granolithic
foot pavem .nts no doubt hurried along the
rubber heel explained well-known med
Iral EXPERT and specialist in nervous COM
plants 70 Il Star reporter. but it was de-
rusuded for yea rs 1t has come, however,
and it has coma TO stay. When people
walked on dirt roads or well-worn paths
there was no injury done to the spinal col
uu5u, he source of nearly all the nervous
complaints. But gradually the dirt road
and foot path passed away and hard and
Unyi-lding foot walks took their places.
Concrete of various forms first suppianted
TIN brick foot walk. and they in turn have
been dug up and granite formations laid.
There were and are many objections to the
brick foo; walk. especially as it wears out
or when it is improperly laid on clay found
sfirns instead Of bed Of sand. but there
wts and is nothing about il that injured the
Spine as does walking on these very hard
granite or marble floors. for the brick foot
walk was yielding to degree. Now the
elasticity yield must come from the
walk r. and rubber heels seem To do the
business. The laying of tile floors in the
public buildings has grown constantly. so
that no other kind of a floor is ever
thought Of for public building. The in
jury done the walker has no doubt been
great, and until the rubber heel came into
Use there seemed to be no escape from it.
Unless one has given the matter some in
Nestigafinn he will be surprised at the very
general introduction of the rubber heel All
of the shoe cObblers now keep on hand a
fun supply Of rubber heels So far the
price is in favor of the leather heel, though
the charge for putting on the rubber heel
is gradually getting down.
The civil service has done away with the
man or woman who expected to be or who
had been promised to be appointed when
tlIc next vacancy occurred. explained q
clerk in The appointment office Of the Post
Once Department to a Star reporter, land
IL doing - abolished one OF the most diff
cult problems in the matter of making APP
p'.;.' msn,s. Vacancies occur nowadays as
IL pii-n times. but as far as the classified
service, or departmental service, TO speak
more properly, is concerned. there are n,
promises Under the system there can be
none for appointments have TO be made
from certitlcations. and no one knows ir
advance who will be certified by the ciyi
service commission. Even the commission
cannot tell in advance of the actual Ger
tinCa,iOn for they deal out from the tor
o the list of ehgibles as the requests com,
Tor eligibles. | remember very we'll wher
THIS was not In former times appOint
ments Were often promised to persons VIII,
were sufficiently recommended wheneve
they could find out when a vacancy oc
curre'L Some curious things have happene,
II TINS connection. but they have long sine,
become only legends. One which / particu
larry remember happened soon after III.
GtoSe OF the civil war. Mr. lanes Mar