The National tribune., 1903-07-09

across the street to old Henry, introduced
them to one another and explained to the
latter the accomplishments for which the
former was held famous. Henry had at
the time quite n stock of liquors on hand,
but, being in too happy frame of mind
to disappoint anybody, he bespoke the ser
vices of Mr.. Flora for the manufacture of
two barrels of cider from dried apples and
brown sugar. Two whisky barrels were
thoroughly cleansed; the large kettle in
which hogs were usually scalded and lard
was tried ont, was secured, and with this
the cider factory was established. After
the newly-made cider had been filtered into
the barrels by means of a sieve and funnel,
the barrels were stood up on end against
the rear wall of Henry's bar room, along
side of the shelves behind the bar, which
contained the liquor bottles, glasses, tum-
blers and other paraphernalia of the re-
tail liquor trade. Along the side walls of
the bar room, upon which hung several
dozen Of large strings of red peppers, were
piled up about 5000 pounds of -four in 100
pound and 50-pound sacks, and about 40
sacks of beans. The front of the bar
room, facing upon the street, had one door
and two windows.
Neither Henry Glassman nor the writer
had the least idea of the manufacture of
cider or its treatment in its different
stages of becoming the saleable article. A
few days before the time when the cider
in the barrels ought to have shown signs
of fermentation or becoming "fizzy" Il do
not remember exactly what Mr.. Flora
called it,, this gentleman received a mes
sage from the sutler at Fort Crittenden, re-
questing his services as cider maker and
general liquor doctor. Before Flora left
for the fort he gave old Henry a paper
containing prescription, with the injunc-
n cpnI b1t n fn ha lr,r,,S Sfp
at Tucson, in case the cider should mot
get steam up" within a given time, and to
pour some of the powder into each barrel
through the faucet hole. Two days, or at
most, three days, after said operation the
cider would be ready either for sale over
the bar or for bottling. The last words
heard Flora say, as he started, were
''That stuff will do the business, sure"
Well, there seemed to be no fermentation
or "steam-up" forthcoming, and Glassman
gave the mail rider 50 and the prescription
foI ''tha stuff" which was brought just
one day after the death certificate from
Hermosillo had arrived. 1t was n white
powder i'll package, weighing about two
pounds. GlaSSman came over to the store,
showed it to me, and asked my opinion as
to the quantity required for each barrel.
thought it best to begin with small
quantity, which could be increased as
OT Ulu UOC ueVelDp.
Henry's mind was not very much given to
the matter, because he had sent ''the docu-
ment' to the widow On the previous even
ing, and he knew that the priest had al
ready cognizance of it. He was there
fore anxiously and momentarily expecting
an important message from his lady love-
and was very impatient as to all other
matters. He said: 81 am going over and
am going to put one-half of this powder
in each barrel and shut them down tight
to keep the steam in." He departed. 1t
was not till later that learned from him
that, after putting in "the stuff he had
carefully knocked the bungs tight, also the
faucet holes and finally plugged the vent
holes.
He had been gone about 10 or Is min
utes when he returned, crossing the street
in great strides. AS he entered my door I
could see great expectations fairly oozing
out from his animated features. He handed
me letter with a trembling hand, while
he could hardly articulate the words:
"From her-boy just brought-read-
quick"
l opened the missive and read, while
Henry steadied himself with his arm
around my shoulder, as follows:
Thanking you sincerely for the trouble
you have taken in procuring the legal proof
of my former husbands death. now beg
10 state that, there beng no other impedi-
ments to our matrimonial union, p
Here we were startled by such a tre-
mcndous sound Of an explosion in the near
neighborhood that l dropped the letter and
ran to the door, followed by old Henry. At
the moment We reached it another similar
thunder-clap made the very air tremble
Across the street we could see things
tumble about in a dense cloud of dust.
Henry, starting on run across the street,
exclaimed:
Dat ish mine cider,--poot de py
widow ish minew
Both of these assertions were true
enough, but the marriage was considerably
delayed on account of the havoc created
by the explosion. When we reached Glass
mans premises We found the front door
the street. They had evidently acted as a