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Show IN THE FAR WEST. Hcr Freighter Kept tlio WhUlcj's Wnight anil Quality Unimpaired. A. man at one of the hotels the other night told an interesting story of how the freighters of the far west used to supply themselves with whisky, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. He said that some years ago when (ill freight was hauled in wagons, he happened hap-pened to make trip of several hundred hun-dred miles with a train of wagons carrying car-rying merchandise to remote Uatious. Nearly every wagon contained one or more barrels of whisky. "The fiiit night out I noticed," said he, "great activity around the whisky barrels. The wagons each hud a hatchet and a gimlet. They would knock up it hoop, bore a hole, draw all the whisky they wanted, then put about as much fine gravel in the httrrel as they had drawn out whisky, driven plug in tho hole and put the hoop back in place. "I learred afterward that the barrels bar-rels were weighed and the whisky tested before it wa turned over to th" freighters, and that when it arrived at its destination it was again weighed and tested. The gravel supplied the weight and bulk and the quantity remained re-mained Ihe same, nnd this is "why li was used instead of water to supply'the plnce of what hnd been taken out." I |