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Show LIQUOR DISTRIBUTED IN THE RAILROAD YARDS There was plenty of good cheer for Christmas at tho froight yards yesterday, yester-day, according to a report coming from that quarter early today. The "cheer" was of the liquid nature and was "dropped" by one who had arrived from tho west on board a freight train, with a sack said to contain about SO pints of "fair to medium" whisky. According to the report, the modern St. Nick was stealing from the train, when a car oiler unwittingly remarked re-marked that 'there's an officer comin" this way." The remark worked as If by magic. The guilty one Immediately showed an Inclination to be rid of all evidence of "having liquor In his possession" pos-session" and he beat a very hasty retreat. re-treat. The sack of "delight" was deposited with as much haste as though It were a bomb with a burning fuse and Its late owner attempted to get as far away as he would from a gas bomb from the Hun trenches. As the "unknown" "un-known" was going north for the county line, the men of the wards were gathering gath-ering with great gusto for the "cutting "cut-ting of the melon." It is said there were plenty of bottles to go around and then some. The receipt of the unexpected liquid present, will serve a two -fold purpose, the furnishing of cheer and a good preventive for tho (n flnnnrn |