The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-08-09
WHO IS THIS CITIZEN ?
CreenyilIe Paper Says the DiSpensaraes
Are Furnishing Blind Tigers
in PiCkenS.
Always Buys a Poor Quality OF the
Stuff and as Much as the
Law Allows.

The GreenvilIe> Herald p:ints the
following:
The records of tho West End dis.
pensary of this city show that one
citizen Of Pickens has purchased
more than 500 worth Of Iiqror aud
alcohol since tke dispensary of Pick
ons was voted ont. Monday uf this
week this citizen purchased tho full
amount of liquor the dispenser
would sell him, and this purchasers
trips TO the city have become 30 frn
q"ent that tho dist enser looks for
him now regularly every other dny.
1t could lot be learned whether
this purchasers patronage was con-
fined to the West End dispensnry or
not, as the other dispensers in the
city dn not know the man. There is
no question but that ti.is liquor
bought in such large lots is retailed
III Fickens county. ard there are
other unlawful dealers equally active,
from oil reports.
A we'll known citizens from Pick
Gus county was i'll the city yesterday
and called ut the Herald office. He
stated that he could testify to the
fact that whi$key as sold ut three
places III the town OF Pic&ens aud a
man could purchase any amount
from 1Oc Mt drink up to five gal.
Ions The cuuditions "o,e RAPIDLY
growing worse, he stated, and the
blind tigers had never been 50 active.
A former officer of Pickens county
was in the city yesterday aud his re-
port OF conditions was by no mems
favorable to the anti dispensnry
forces. He is authority for the state.
''0 ~ ut that n load Of liquor passed
I'll Iough the principal street of the
Town of Pickens Monday, m q this is
s"'a to be the condition gen orally.
It is prerostorous to suppose this
.tkens citizen who buys 80 much
o'spensary liquor consumes it him
Se'f. The only conclusion to be
ie'ched then is that it is either pur.
o'l"eed for bis friends, which is II
','ne under the dispeusary l:w, or
o'se he buys the liquor for retail =,
which last explanation is much more
P'Nuslble than The former. The
"n'Skey is purchased in half pint,
puts and quart packages, and alec.
nol is purchased by the gallon.
1t is said that the alcohol pur.
chased is used as basis for the
'munfacturo of crude liquor, whicl,
"l'h buyer himself makes. The form
"'ts for this "head-busting" beverage
is saidto be something like this: A
Quantity of home made tobacco il
osiled until thu strength is drawn
oqt. The juice thus obtained is
mixed with Quantity Of alcohol, an
"h hknown mixture to make the >bea |
Quantity of cayenne pepper and Il
vSry small amount Of cologne spirits
pere is no diepnting tho fact thnt
Ills large buyer Of alcohol does not
'u1e 1t for medicinal purposes, AID
'."e manufacturer himself is authority
j + the formula. The stuff thus
IA ado is said to be very much worse
Product than ono X corn purchased
HON the dispensnrles.
"A pecn'mI ltVI "oouG ciiu E,uI,-r.,
mans purchases at tho West Eud
dispensary is that he buys only one
X corn. II he retails this quality of
liquor together with the "pop skull"
Of his Owa manufacture it would ap
poar that his patrons were not very
particular about Quality, and from
the heavy buying Of this citizen in
the pnst fow days, it aprears that
quantity alone is the burning ques
Llon.
Under tho internal revenue laws,
dispenser cannot sell to ona pur
chaser of liquor more than fonr gal
ION" ana thrco quarts Mt one time.
The flckens man bought tho lirii
Tor tho last few days, aud the records
are authority for this statement.