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Show PORTERS TEST CONNOISSEURS. ., The case of the car porters who have swindled the Pacific coast line, by substituting their own cigars, cigarettes- and liquors for thosc-of ,the railroad companies is a comment on traveling connoisseurs. connois-seurs. It appears that more than one colored genius conceived of buying drug-store whisky at So cents and retailing it at 20 cents a drink, thereby clearing a profit of $3.15 on every quart. It has long been held by experts on smoke and thirst that if one were blindfolded blind-folded he could not tell what he wns drinking, and would not even know that he was smoking. Apparently the porters -went further, says the-Nc-w York. Sun. and with cynical contempt tested the consumers con-sumers with their eyes wide open. It is not difficult to imagine the satisfaction of an old stager who insists upon having his twelve-year-old, five star bourbon, and gets a blend of the worst and newest |