Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-29
WATER NOT FOR SALE.
And the Man Who Ordered n Drink of 1t in a Barroom Dazed
 the BarlSeeper.

seIu bet you five dollars that you can't buy 8 glass of plain water ln a single cafe in Washington" said the man with time on his hands.
 Taken said the other, foolishly.
 So they marched into hotel cafe to- gether, relates the Washington Star.
 ''Give us a couple of glasses of wa ter" sharply said the man who had made the bet to the barkeeper.
 "Vichy or seltzer?" inquired the bar keeper.
 s'Neither," said the man with time on his hands. "Give us a couple of glasses of plain water, and look sharp about 1t we're in a hurry to catch train"
 There was an expression of acute astonishment on the barkeeper's face by this time.
 "Plain water?'. he inquired. "What dye mean by that?"
 What do I mean by ?" said the man who had made the bet. s'I mean just water--w-a-t-e-r, water-the kind that comes out of the water spigot--Poto- mac water, the kind the shad roe swim in-river water-water from the water works-the kind you fill bath tub with-just plain water. That's plain enough, isn't it, or dye want me to draw diagram of it? And, say. get move on, won't you? We're bound for a train and we want drink"
 There was pretty sulky and ugly look on the bartender's face at this stage of it.
 "Say," he said, resting his hands on the bar and glaring at the man who had made the bet, "what kind of way dye call that to ask for favor, hey ?"
 ssFavor!'' exclaimed the man who had made the bet. What are you giving us, anyhow? Who's asked for any favor? Who wants any favor at your hands? I come in here anc! call for q drink, don't l. like anybody else? Is there any request for a favor in that? If I happen to want plain water, and not a highball or whisky sour or a | mint iulep or beer, where's the request for favor in that? Dye see me stand ing with my cap in my hand, asking for any favor? I simply ask you to pass me out couple of drinks of plain wa | ter, and, as Tve said twice now, I want those two drinks quick. I'm not ask ing for something for nothing-Im l just as willing and ready to pay for l plain Potomac water out of the tap as I would be to pay for gin rickey or a brandy smash, and I came in here with the fullest intention of paying you for the drinks. I still preserve that intention, but I want you to pass up the drinks in hurry, that's all"
 The barkeeper continued to glare at the man who had made the bet, and he made several moves with his hands l underneath the bar that looked as ii I he might be groping for a bungstarte1 or some other kind of weapon. But 1 he evidently thought better of that for he only bestowed a final glare upoI the man with time on his hands who wanted plain water and said:
 Say. dye know what you aret You're playhouse, and the sooner you take a quick walk the better it's going to be for you, see? IT you'd come il here decently and asked me for { couple of glasses of water, like a gen tleman, you'd ha' got lem quick, anG no comeback or rebate, but | don't stand for no bulldozing like what yot try to chuck into me-and it's yol for sudden gateway or it's going tC happen to you, and happen hard!"
 His attitude was, so menacing thar the man who had made the bet anG his companion hurried out. The same experiment, conducted along the same lines, was made at two other places and then the man who had foolishly 4 taken the bet passed over his five-dollal note without a aford