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Show CONVICTS GATHER WEEDS FOR LIQUOR EORT MADISON, la.. Otf. 17 State prison authorities Investigating the apparent Ineffectiveness of the Hl'ffhteenth amendment to function In the penitentiary Monday discovered that convicts had Invented what to all Intents and purposes might bo termed a human stll!. (lathering certain weeds growing In the prison yards, the prisoners placed them in buckets of water, according I to the Investigators, and after me I connection reached the deelred de-I de-I gn e of fermentation. the Inmates swallowed it. following it up with chaser consisting of water in which sugar and yeast had been dlssoh ! The result, the Investigations ms-closed, ms-closed, was a startling Jag that lasted almost Indefinitely. The prison yard weeds have been cut |