The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

tenderloin of the terrapin and the eggs
and Tin of the green turtle.
"A waiter friend OF mine at Coney ISL
and made IS in one day with bone.
How was that?'
well, he had a srloin steak bone and
used it on all sirloin customers. lie
would get cheap Acc steak in the kitchen
and insert this bone underneath il en-
route; then he would ask If the guest
would have it carved. and OF course
the guest would. Then lie would
bring the sirloin steak as ordered. With
the bone apparently cut out and laid on
one side. After the guest was through.
Mr. Waiter again took possession OF the
bone, which he kept under his jacket
ready for another 81 srloin steak victim.
Walters are often, | am afraid, some
what given TO this sort Of thing, especially
at the seaside resorts. go also are the
proprietors. | am glad If the walters get
even with some of the robbers roosts In
which they are employed.
Once / thought | would ike clambake
at Long Branch. l had done well the
previous winter playing tc standing room
only, and SO | sand to two or three trends:
LET US make merry. BeGo.d, the clam
is white for the harvest. We Will go even
to Pleasure bay and We will open water
melon"
And we went forth. We had quart of
unshucked clans with drawn butter. 1t
was drawn by an amateur artist from
Throgg's Neck. We also had "a water
melon. That was ALL In New England
this meal would have been 20 cents or 81
perhaps.
Our bill was $2s, without wine. Ever
since then | take my dinner with me when
go to Long Branch.
Yesterday we saw house at Lancaster
in which natural gas had been used to ex-
cess. One winter day Mr.. Natural Gas
sprung a leak under the street, and as
there was no method of egress except to
follow the pipe along to this gentleman
house, it did SO, and thus filled his cellar
full of nice new gas that had never been
used before. BY and by the hired man
was heard to scratch g match briskiy
against himself, and in an instant there
was not brick left on top Of another
brick. The house was literally demolished
and wiped out of existence.
There were seven people in the house,
and, strange to say, not one of them was
killed. Some, of course, were injured, but
all recovered, and some were hardly hurt
at all. You would not believe it to look at
the house.
Lancaster is also supplied with a
drunkards' retreat. 1t is not one of the
keeley brand, but sort OF independent
institution, using similar means. but re-
fusing to pay tribute to the great mo-
nopoly at Dwight. I visited the institu-
ton, and can now say that L am we'll
man, returned to my family and friends
with no more desire to touch alcoholic
liquors than anything.
The place is pleasantly located in the
residence portion of town. l visited it at
the hour when the patient receives his jab
no There ia q
cept the liquid given. That is not known
to the average citizen. All we know is
that the patient has his circulation
brought up to bichloride of gold stand
ard. and he is given full value among
other men.
Leavenworth institution. at was in my
case, at least. alcoholic insanity. No sane
man would have done as did. Practic-
ally was not right sober man for two
years. Finally l had a chance to sell a
silver mine in Utah. / was to have $50, 600
for it and share of the stock in the new
organization, also TO be an officer of the
company.
"A friend came to me the day before the
meeting at which the money was to be
paid and the election held. George he
SAID, for Gods sake try to keep sober I'M
til this matter is safely settled. 1t is the
turning point in your life. Afterward, If
you want to have a.httle spree, have it,
but not now.
such time go and fill himself up with
whisky? Well, did. When L came to
myself it was day after tomorrow. The
buyers of the mine had gone away, and
though 1t was three years ago they have
not yet returned.
II started out for Dwight then. sup
pose. did not quite know where / was
a. III
worth, branch institution, and stopped
there. Everybody deserted me. My
father-in-law, to whom | wrote for little
help, wrote me savage letter about fetch
ing up in drunkards' home, etc, re-
moved my pelt, as it were, and then
anointed me with Tabasco sauce.
Everybody forgot me but my wife,
She sold the COW and came on to encour-
age me at Leavenworth. You think, per-
haps. it's all easy after you get 10 the in
stitute. A little jab in the arm. a few tea
spoonfulls of medicine and bath and you
are we'll. Do not believe it. For weeks
and weeks would jump out of my skin if
a man dropped shingle nail on the side
walk fifty feet away. You can't give
man new nerves in three weeks when he
has been ten years destroying them. But
you can quell that insanity for few
weeks and in that time get the best of it,
if you really want to be human being in
stead of a sorrowful joke on humanity and
a feeble-minded horror to your friends.
MY wife stuck by me. Hurrahed for
me even when ! sat and cried and almost
gave up the fight; read to me and patted
me on the back and gave me good things
to eat instead of telling me what worm
/ was. She talked about everything else
except my lost and undone condition.
Even when she prayed for me she did
not come down to the footlights and
hold the center of the stage while she
did it. She did it on the sly and drew