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Show I Hogs Ripened f Old Pcnntylvnlan I t r f, I Knew the Benefit of !! His whisky t Allvens. :: Thore are but few people who can be Induced to believe that there ever was such a drink at "bog-rlpened whisky," but among the older generation genera-tion It would be no trouble al all to et-urt attlilavlta that such a bevernge wns well known In this Itnmcdlato vicinity, writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia liecord from I loy leu-town, leu-town, p. There was. In the days gone by. In a v1II.ik only four miles from here, a mnn who kept a tavern that soon beenmn famous through Its proprietor's pro-prietor's uiiltiue Inventions und Inuenl-ons Inuenl-ons contrivance, to nttrsct attention to his liotlelry. Then, aa now, to succeed suc-ceed meant tl.e necessity of being well udvertlac.l. In bin elfort to do some. thltiK new. "Uncle Hilly." as lie was culled, conceived an Invention that was pottnt In milking his tnvern tho most titlked about otto for miles around. The result, as kn.,wn to the patrons of the Inn, was tome good whisky, of some OKO, thnt had been continuously agl-tnted agl-tnted whllo within the oaken caals within which the dsjnka were kept for "ripening." What tho curious ones discovered nbout tho Invention wni this: When they went to see the ripening of the whlaky tiny found n hog pen with n pl.ink floor so balanced sh to sw.ng like a big b,irn scale. There waj an open side farthest front the feeding troiiKh, and tbe allies were fenced. The way the thing operated was simple sim-ple enough. Tho hogs were out In the yard nosing around, when they beard the tplnfch of the feed as It wat put In tho trough. Naturally, as the welgbl came first on the side farthest from Us trough, that tide of the floor tllM down under the swlne't weight Wcn they all got over to the trough II. at side. In turn, went down. And so the plank floor wat rocked bark and forth evory time a hog went In or nut. Connected with tills swinging platform plat-form was another one which received equivalent motion, of course, through the medium of a long lever. On this) second platform wrre set the casks of whisky which were to undtrgo tbe ripening rip-ening process. Of cottrso, every tliiiT the lower floor rocked, to did the upper up-per likewise, and tbe whi.dty wal shaken arou.ld with cvetyr imitlnn. Ni.ttiriilly. t'nrlo 1! lily's hers were fatter thun anybody clue's, boeauet they were foil so niucb oftener. Part of the ripening depended on reading the hoKS, so as to uiuke them ru.ia In through the npru door find Unit aliiko the plitUornts, |