The record-union., 1895-04-16
THE GIFT OF CAB
Silence is Not Away Golden-Excep-
tions TO the ltule.

silence is Not Always Golden-Excep-
tions TO the ltule.
We have been told that hanging con-
spicuously in a modest saloon down
town is legend which says: "Wind is
not taken here for drinks Z" The pro-
prietor of that establishment has evil
IDENTIFY been hurt, financially. He has
had pleasant fellows drop in on him and
tell him funny stories, take a drink with
him and 60 out in a funny way without
paying. After you have slapped a good
fellow on the back and laughed at his
story, you do not feel like Immediately
asking him to pay for the beer he has
consumed while entertaining you with
his talk. That is the way the saloon man
down town has felt about it, says a writer
in the Minneapolis Journal. The boys
have stood him off too often, and given
him too many songs and too many
dances, and too little hard money for the
liquors that have crossed his bar, in
schooners or other vessels. And now
when plausible chap drops in and says:
Charley, l heard a good thing to-day"
/ Charley does not Immediately ask, "W hat
( is it?' He has been forbearing until he
has ceased to be virtuous. His old sore
hurts him, and he looks up TO his sign as
if he had a friend in that who would
stand by him, and he repeats to himself
aud 10 the jolly chap who has just
dropped in: wind is not taken here for
drinks ~
That settles it. Wind should not be
taken anywhere for anything that money
ought to be paid for. Hundreds OF poor
women trying to live honestly by keep
/ ing boarders, are the victims of slick tel
lows who come with the gift of CAB, and
no baggage. They tell pleasant stories,
advocate reforms, perhaps say grace
! beautifully at table, or talk in meetings,
and talk well, until the landlady begins
to talk of money for board, and then
they are dumb and go elsewhere 10 work
their CAB. a man who has red hair, and
a national reputation for story telling
told so many stories in Texas that the
people who laughed sent him to Congress.
/ The lawyer, to be successful, must have
the gift of CAB, or he must be associated
in business with one who has it.. The
preacher must have it, and have it
largely, il he would gain promotion in
his church. The drummer lives on it
and gets wages for it. The stump speaker
stands on ii. Gabis his platform, The
auctioneer cultIvates 1t. 1t is his stock in
/ trade. He assumes a gilt of CAB, if he
/ has it not, and he gets there all the same
/ with hIg little hammer, and knocks down
/ houses and lots and furniture until the
/ buyers can not rest. Men gifted with
/ gao are apt TO make friends tired with
/ talk; it would be some consolation if they
got tired themselves. But such a thing
! was never known.
silence is golden and speech is silver"
| This comparison was made before the
| free coinage question came up. II is a
rule with exceptions. Silence may be
| golden, and proud men full Of such gold
nave starved because they would not
speak OF their necessities. The gift OF CAB
is ready money. Reading makes a full
man." SO does eating, for that matter,
though of late there have been a great
many people who couldn't swear to this.
Much study makes learned man. But
the man who is learned and silent is soon
| forgotten, if he is ever remem Sered The
wise man down town may say be gives
no drinks Tor wind" but all the same he
must pay tolls on good talk. The man
who has something to say and the wit TO
say it we'll is a power. Silence is golden:
but the gift OF CAB somehow is most apt
| TO take the cake