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Show shops with fresh fruits and vegetable i Of late these farmer saloon keeper have engaged largely in stock raising, keeping fat cattle and hogs on places? that can hardly support rabbits. Naturally Nat-urally they have to buy grain; and while they are at it they might as well purchase enough." So great quantities are bought and consumed to fatten the stock and restore fertility to the? runout run-out farms. How much of this goes to fatty tissues for the animals and how much to the illicit stills nobody knows, though when a man who keeps two cows uses ten bags of whole corn a week it may be inferred that the stills get the larger portion. Another method adopted by the men who cannot afford to own farms and thus make their own whisky is to give heavy patronage to the men who peddle spring water of certified purity. Though all the Maine cities and most of the larger towns have public waterworks water-works there is no other state of its population in the union where so much feo-called spring water is sold. Every place of 5,000 inhabitants is supplied (by three to ten water carts, representing represent-ing as many springs. The teams call at houses and stores every day, leaving full jugs and taking away empty ones. OX late the liquor dealers have begun to patronize those water peddlers very freely, buying ten to twenty-five gal-J , Ions a week. When asked why they buy so much water, paying from "halt a cent to a cent and a half a gallon for It, the dealers say that typhoid fever is abroad, and they fear their customers may catch the malady. N. Y. Bun. MAINE MOONLIGHT. Crooked. Whisky aa It la Made In the Temporanoa State. (A. LiQUor That Carre It War Down aad Blake n Man Disown Ills Parents-Dodging tho Larr. r -' Tor 0 years after the passage of the Heal Dow law there were many illicit stills in Maine, all of which yielded a fair profit to the owners. The hard times, which lasted from 1873 to 1887, drove most of the manufacturers out of the lousiness. Soon afterward an Or-land Or-land genius discovered a way of mak- Ing whisky from alcohol by mixing it with water and croton oil, and then the revenue officers reated, believing there were no offenders in the State. The compound which was put up by the Orland man has been known under various names. It was generally called "split," on account of the way the alcohol al-cohol was divided, though the inventor and his friends have always termed it "ten-minute whisky," because of the hort time in which it was prepared. The cost and manner of making two gallons of ten-minute whisky are aa follows: To orya gallon of oleohoi, t alucd at one dollar, add 20 cents' worth of croton oil. Shake well for en minutes and add a gallon of pure water. The result re-sult is two gallons of 40-rod whisky,. v at a cost of 60 cents a gallon. Three drinks of thi3 mixture would make a good man disown his parents. The ten-raiiiuto whisky came into general gen-eral use and the owners cf the illicit 1 tills moved over- the line into New 1 Brunswick in order to live, alcohol . enme to Maine by the quart, gallon, barrel bar-rel and hogshead until the Boston deal- ' era grew curious and sent secret agents j down east to learn what became of o much raw spirits. When they found out that it was made into ten-minute whisky they doubled the price. Meanwhile the price of grain went lower and lower every day. Corn,, which had generally sold for 70 cents a bushel, and had not gone, below 50 cents since the days before the war, dropped to 40 cents last fall, held there nil winter, and had a downward ten- j dency when the spring of 1897 opened, j According to the Maine standard a j bushel of corn, when sprouted, roasted, ground up, fermented and distilled, will ; yield four gallons of whisky, and with ' corn at 40 cent a bushel good corn j whisky should not cost over 20 cents a gallon. As long aa alcohol was sold ! at one dollar a gallon, it was cheaper to make ten-raiuute whisky than run the risk of conducting a still; but when alcohol and the internal revenue tax on whisky went up, and the price of corn went down, the distilleries started once more and are reported to be doing a good business. Though some of tho Maine liquor ' dealers are rich and proeperous, most of them lead Rorry lives, and are glad l enough to get through the year with- , out falling in debt. A their real busi- 1 ness must be concealed, a majority of ' these men conduct cigar or candy j stores, or make pretense of being victu-I victu-I alters and boarding house lfeepers. The ffw who have saved money enough buy furnis in the country, which supply the 1 |