Evening star., 1922-05-28

law permits. 1t is interesting to note
the different kinds of jags that these
extracts produce. An old-timer thai
we picked up the other day for in
toxicatfon declared that he got
greater kick from a certain kind OF
extract than he did from the 'hootch
that is now being peddled.
while we are endeavoring to run
down all cases of contraband liquor
and intend to have the bootlegger
punished, yet we are especially keen
to get the individual that sells liquor
to young boys and girls. The greed
of some of these violators Of the law
has become such that they care alb
solutely nothing about the age o.
the individual to whom they sell their
stuff.
GIN the early days of prohibition in
the state of Maine. they used to
bring whisky into that state in china
eggs. and the memory of this method
of transportation evidently had lin
gered in the mind of 1.-The Virginia
bootlegger who endeavored to ship
into the district some fine old peach
brandy by similar method. 1t was
just by accident that We discovered
his method of transporting his pro-
ducts.
sT think one of the most novel
ways of transporting liquor that we
have run across in some time was
that of a man We caught COM
ing over from Virginia with hre
extinguisher filled with brandy. He
Indignantly denied knowing anything
about having any liquor and We
hemently protested his. innocence.
zone of our men. who was down iii
Virginia for a month or so. noticed
that a man with a small farm kept on
buying potatoes every week and he
observed that the man did not make
any outgoing shipment. He finally
located the still in an old abandoned
of fiery liquor
Down near Richmond we un-
earthed a plant which consisted of
three or four ice cream freezers. and
this individual had 50 arranged his
equipment that he was turning out
many gallons of very palatable wine.
I'VE ran across a rather complete
equipment couple of weeks ago on
the roof of a building in this city and
it certainly was cleverly camou-
tagged. Even an aerial observer
would have thought it was part Of
the ventilating system of the build
ing.
"1-HE singing of Sweet Adeline'
and other old time popular bal.
lads was the means of calling our
attention to the fact that a near
beer saloon was selling producr
with greater kick in 1t than the
law allows. and a safe rule for a pro-
hibitisn officer to follow is to watch
with arms around each others shoul-
ders,s stand on the street corners and
pipe these old ia shioned lays. You
generally can find that the source
of inspiration possesses an Illegal
content of alcohol
You will, no doubt. recall reading
in the papers some time ago of a
fire of a mysterious origin. The ORR
gin of that fire was the explosion of
still. The people who were making
the liquor had neklected the laws of
physics, with the result that when a
certain temperature was reached
this still, which was only fairly well
constructed, was shattered and the
flames of the heating apparatus were
thrown against the curtains of the
room.
Some would-be humorist got me
out Of bed about o'clock on the
Ist of last month, telling me that
there was a still in operation on
street and giving nae the number.
When 1 arrived at the place found
it was Photographic shop and the
wag had pasted sign up for me to
read: These are not moving pictures;
they are stills the latter being the
technical definition of photograph.
1t was an April fool joke. but IL 1
ever lay my hands on the individual
who got me out of bed at that hour
Of the morning he'll be stiil, and II
am afraid permanently still.
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