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Show Goats' Milk in Distant Russia Makes Hootch No Prohibition Laws to Prevent Stilling of Alcoholic Product, as Potent as Rawest of Corn Whisky ASTRAKHAN. Ort. 14. Home made hootch isn't peculiar to dry America. lSrn In the southeastern part of Kuro- pean Russia, a here thr re are prohibition laws, tht-re ran be found moonshine made 1 from gouts' milk tht Is ss ooint m new 1 corn whivky. The Kalmucks, who. before1 the mr, were living like ttriurcns In ; the time of Abraham, hm long ueii food ut strung liquor. Sow, although the ' great cattle k.nas sre reduced io poverty, i their herds uvcimett-d ui.d their riches I dlserd, the oUl thirst still persists In' spite of the revolution and In epiU uf( prohlMtory laws. And the Kalmucks still manage to t -I lofy It. Lead ins a nomadic Hie un the I sienes. slong the lower .reaches of the I Volff.t. pitching their tent where pasturage pas-turage Is god and moving on to greuer fie'ils as the eld one dry up. the Kal-1 Kal-1 mucks are not particularly easy piey to 1 revenue officera, Th-tr stitlft consist of thiee kettles. In one of whi-h thv plate the sour milk j ehtch Is elieariv fermeiited. The serond j Is rotmected to the first by a which j carrlea ofr the siaatn. uti'l m water Jacketed in the thud The drink which I Is prepared from the distilled milk la satd I to have a. splendid kick and a (laorl which is all its own. j |