The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1885-04-17
Drinking ON the sly.

" Oar business does not come en-
tirely from people who drink. for
percentage OF the money that goes
+ into the till comes from those who
are supposed to he strictly temper-
ence people," said the cashier in the
/ bar-rOom of one the large hotels
/ that face Madison Square. "How
do they do il! "Oh, us easy
enough tor Il man who wants his
bitters 10 get them right here, even
I ii lac is an ay0wed blue libGon man.
There Was a Boston clergyman
stopping bere last week. Ofcourse
he does not Giink-certaiuly not
every morning at breakfast, we
sent into tue dining room a glass
OF seltzer lemonade for him, which
1 he drank to wake his stomach up,i
as he told his friends at the same
ttble. Oue-quarter Of that lemon
ade was pure Holland gin, which,
| being white in color, could not be
detected by the person sitting next
4 to him. Yes Of course he knew
the gin was III it, for he has been
stopping at this hotel when in the
city FOR soue fifteen years, and
taere WIS an understanding reach
ed between us a long time ago.
'.Then there Is the wife of a
naval officer OF high rank, who al
ways stops here while her husband
is on one OF his cruises. With des.
sert ut dinner Sue has two small
caps OF very black coffee, aud her
friends always speak of how much
more animated aud entertaining she
is alter dinner than before it. She
becomes then really beautiful
talker. The true reason is that
there was stiff pony OF the best
French brandy III each of those lit
tie cups of black coffee"
NOV look there, watch thaf,n
SAID The speaker, stopping sudden
4 ~ aud noddiUg his bead toward
the door OF tie room, snow You'll
have a practical illustration of
what [ say"
AS lie spoke three gentlemen
walked in and strolled up to the
bar. Each OF them wore silk hats
and large solitaires in there shirt
fronts, two taking whiskey, and
the third a bottle of ginger ale.
"YOu keep it mp better than l
thought you could, Aleck, said one
ofthe whiskey drinkers to the third
man as he came up to the cashiers
desk to pay the check. "im blessed
If didu't think Billy would win in
side of two weeks"
pm going to win that bet, and
| don't you forget il, = said the third
conplacently. "Cbereis only IA
month yet, and then the times up"
''Tbe man who drank the eiUger
aie," said the cashier, when they
had left the room, sis in the Gus
tom House, pretty near the head
OF l.. He made bet OF 1000 two
months ago with Que OF the leaders
OF the county Democracy that he
wonldn't driuk drop OF anything
tor three mouths. Two or three
times day be comes and takes a
bottle of Belfast ginger ale with
some of his friends. The barkeep-
er over there will be $500 richer
when the Custom Hoase man wins
tue bet"
"Why y asked the reporter doubt.
fully.
"Don't you see,' said the cashier,
in disgust. ''the barkeepcr has a
peculiar box lrCm which he takes
those bottles of giHgcr-ale. Each
bottle in the box has been carefully
opened, so as not to destroy the
tiufoil capsule over the cork, and
has been liked with old rye whiskey
-one-quarter whiskey three-quar-
ters giuger ale. Do you tumble
now :"
"There was Que old fellow, a re-
tired merchant aud a pillar OF the
Fifth Avenue Church, who stopped
here last winter, who always at his
meals bad "A lemon sent to him in
glass. One end OF tue lemon was
sliced of, aud the lemon was care
lully set up on the other end ia the
glass. he sucked the Juice from
the lemon after be had done eating,
and everybody thought he took it
TO help bis Digestion. SO be did.
but the lemon was about halt full
of the old stuff,7 so that be had
good 'whiskey sour every time.t |
could go on telling you for an hour
of games like these. IL seemed to
be mania with a great many peu-
pie to hide the fact that they drink
anything, and they will 90 to any
amount of trouble 10 deceive their
iTeiuds and acQnaiu,euces. But
we who are behind the scenes, as
II were, know all about it. OF
course We never give it away. Tor
II IS worth a good deal OF money TO
as.
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