Prohibition in Rhode Island
By Editor
PROHIBITION in Rhode Island has driven the liquor dealers to the novel shift of smuggling whisky into the State in those porcelain imitation eggs commonly used as "nest-eggs." The other day, in Boston, there were cases containing 147 dozen supposed eggs, on a truck on the way to the depot to be shipped to Newport, Rhode Island. One of the cases happened to tumble off when lo, the sham "eggs" were found to be as full of whisky as the proverbial real egg is full of meat. Each egg contained about enough whisky for a common drink. A small hole had been made in the big end, the whisky poured in, the hole covered over with water-proof-cemented cloth, the egg chalked all over, and the work was done. They looked exactly like real eggs. But fortunately, or unfortunately, according as it is viewed, the whisky dealers did not insure the eggs against breakage, and in one short moment all their ingenuity came to naught. We cannot imagine what the whisky men will do now, for this scheme must certainly have been the last resort. We think after the failure of this, Prohibition will surely prove a success in Rhode Island. Prohibition forever say we.