National Republican., 1875-07-12
WHO WAS THE INKBRIATEl
A Lucky Man on a spree-Bad Thing for q,

q LUCKY han On bpree-bao In1nR 1or Jo."
We have sympathy for 10 -, but the follow.
ing incident is too good TO keep He is scientific,
polite and humane bartender. By humane we
principle Of refusing to sell man more rum who
was already sufficiently inebriated to be oblivious
of his conduct. He illustrated this practice one
evening about the LIST instant. A gentlemanly
person came in and demanded a thirst-quencher
Appearing to be very thick Of utterance, and in
thirst had already been suficiently quenched, and
declined to serve him with stimulants. And he
was not a sable son Of African descent, either.
drunk Is generally able TO look, the applicant
slapped bis pocketbo down upon the marble
slab, while he ripped out something very like
thic (hic) m able T. pay for a thic5 drink" and
down he sunk to the floor insensible The bar.
keeper took care Of his pocket book, and had him
laid away for q sleep In quiet back room.
When locking up for the night, 10 put the
strangers pocketbook with his own into his
pocket and mounted to his sleeping apartment,
after having told the nightWatch that If the
stranger avoke all right and asked for his treas
ure to come and wake him and get it. Sure
the narcotie ehsets @ of tbe stfmHIan.s "hs6 bsd
been slept away and really required renewal
before more sleep could be obtained, the
gentlemanly lodger swoke and demanded drink
self to JOS room, with "Mars'r 10! Fore God
he's don woke all right and wants his pocket
OOOh. 4NO eOOucE etlu Judu QOQ6S Llo pocket
book was handed over to the watchman; the
watchman passed it over to the lately inebriated
stranger, and the latter went joyfully on his way:
only too glad to find that he still had the where.
with to slake that never-ending thirst at some
one Of the alLnight houses which are kept epen
for the refreshment of Denighted strangers but
which, we are happy to say, we never see fire.
quented by our own citizens. They are only
Kept open all night In strict obedience to the In
junction which obigates US to stake In strans ersn
but We fear that the angels that they thus en-
terta1n pnawares are ''faIlen ANGELA .s f-
But TO return to our friend Jo. He awoke at
the usual hour, and having performed those yarf-
ous morning vocations incident to the toiIet-and
regarding which We desire to say lust here that
Jo1 Is scrupously neat and tasteful-ke descended
10 the bar and produced his pocket book as he IN.
necently supposed until he counted the.contents
ape found them TO aggregate only eight dollars;
whereas, ne had supposed they were about thirty
nine dollars. One glance further aud the truth
nasned upon his mind. He had qiren the stranger
the tcrong pocket-book. He only lost about thirty
dollars, and be says Jack Sargent promised to
md 1t Tor him before night. He charges that whole
sum to his humanity-a sacrifice to his humane
principles. He didn't cuss much; he amt that
sort. He declares he will hereafter let mea mind
their own affairs. As for Jack Sargent, he says
he found so many gen inebriates had
been about that night that 1t was impossible TO
IDENTIFY the friend Of Jo but he heard ofone fellow
who was so ounexpeetedly enriched that he adopted
professional tramp for companion; and he did
have this get out on him Tor anything: 1t would
cost him no end Of drinks-and he Is thirty dollars
out, too. No, we shant give his full name, nor
tell where he lives. When zoe befrIend man,
We go the whole figure, There's nothing mean
around here.