El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-20

Il was TO boil down a lot Of tobacco
stems and pour the colored water
into the fresh whisky Even today.
a Denver man viii often smell a bot
tie Of liquor, II coiored. before tax
ing a taste. TO ascertain II II has been
-tobaccoed-"
The bootlegEers have 20 color all
they sell to the Indians. but they do
more to whisky intended for the In
dams They put In an extra amount
Of the tobacco boilinEs and then add
a little chloroform or ether 70 give
the proper Kick These ingredients
are often put into the liquor sold In
the city, too, particularly II II Is
what Is known as niger whisky"
for sale in the black belt Of the
city.
The freshly distilled "moonshine"
hasn't a bad taste-they say-and is
not unlike the stuff the Kentucky
mountaineer Of a few decades ago
was reared on Those old moonshin-
ers wouldn't drink whisky that had
been aged They liked Il Just as Il
dropped from the worm IN some cave
sim In the mountains and thought
putting It in wood to age It ruined It
Making a still
There Is a United States law reg
ulating the sale OF distilling ap-
paratus. but they say that IS easily
overcome. For instance. an autOmo-
bile garage man will purchase a still
and register II properly with the fed
eral authorities on the plea that he
y ants II 70 make distilled water for
batteries
In n month or n week he can
report Il stolen. Who can prove
that Il FnEn't EfOIenF He can
get anOGher-ff the thing does
not happen too Often-and some
mOonshlner gets away to
mouutain cave with an uppa-
rutuH for turning out the stuff
that produces kicks, temperE
and troubles and often drives
dull care away.
Sometimes a moonshiner pretends
to be an automobile man. even TO
the extent OF renting a small shop
somewhere and opening up for few
days, just to get possession OF the
closes and silently slips away with
his embryo still
The stills for making liquor have
TO be operated ont in the mountains.
because the odor Is easily detected
in cities. and, while stills have been
cities. very few professionals or
amateurs take such chances
Making Fruit Brandy.
Corn is principally used in the
manufacture OF this whisky. although
good brandy Is often distilled from
aprieots, peaches. prunes and other
fruits.
". H. Fryer United States assis-
tant district attorney in Ell Paso
until recently. tells a story OF a man
down near Waco who was indicted
on q charge OF making liquor from
certain dried fruits.
when the man was asked to tell
how he made It." said Fryer. 7
looked over at the jury and every
man on il had out a pencil and he
v as either writing on his cuff or on
the back OF an envelope or some
thing"
II called their attention to the fact
that Il Is a felony TO have in ones
q formula for the manu-
facture Of Intoxicating liquor, and
you should have seen the pencils fly
ing back into vest pockets
Every man on the jury had con-
voted for prohibition IN his
home town for the past 20 years, but
be had also been 3 regular patron Of
he interurban to Fort Worth and
Dallas until those towns went dry.
The jury acquitted the man"
DoctoriuE Grape Juice.
Grape juice Is the great substitute
,or liquor where the bootlegger can
not supply sufficient liquor. In
Denver they say the California grape !