The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21
HIS VIOLET DRUNK.

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 Semi Occasional Drinker. hs,
 'Liquor." remarked the New York
 newspaper man, plays queer freaks
 with men sometimes, and it Is one of the fafest things in the world to let alone. Now and then man may monkey with it and come off uninjured, but for one whodoes there are hundreds who do not
 I know of one chap in my city who IS in the same profession as myself, who, if he let whiskey alone, would be one ot
 the leaders in his profession, But he
 does not, and the result is that as soon
 as he gets started toward the top he fills up and goes down. He has had
 some queer experiences, too, and one
 recall is probably about as peculiar as happens to man It is funny, too,
 notwithstanding the cause of it is the
 mans life tragedy. Several years ago
 he went out one night to do the usual thing when he got his mind on it, and by midnight he didn't know anything,
 Indeed, he didn't know anything until about half-past ten o'clock next morn ing, when he woke up in bed in an eie> ! gant apartment. It far exceeded his | OWL TUUlIl, WIlGt sNdn q PASNIJ AAtS~ StAAS1
 for he had big salary and lived up to l it, and at first he thought some one or | his wealthy friends had taken him to l his house and put him away for the | night. |. i a1.,.. s 4. s s.,.,.-z
 There was no one about for him to
 make inquiry of, and he lay for some
 time wondering what happened, and l looking around the handsome apart
 ment in a kind of dazed admiration Of his surroundings. After while he saw a bell button, and at once got up and
 pushed it. Presently boy appeared and he asked him where he was. The boy grinned and said he was in the 5-------- --------
 hotel. The information quieted him. 1 though he could not tell how he got | there, and he asked for drink The boy procured 1t for him, and under its bracing influence he got up and pro-
 ceeded to dress. He had nearly fin ished and was at the glass conbing his
 hair when the boy came back bringing
 large bunch ofsfine violets tied witf 1.-two yards of purple ribbon. It was
 gorgeous affair, and the man said there . was some mistake and told the boy te take it back, but the boy insisted thal it was for him and the clerk had tole tolAe, :, him to leave 1t. The man was indig
 nant. but he had to accept the flowers
 and, finishing dressing as quickly as ii
 could, he left the bouquet and wen . down to the office. ...at- r=t- He wanted to know what kind of { . joke the clerk was trying to play ol < him, and what was he doing in such al elegant room, and why the flowers hat '' been sent, and what it all meant any . how. The guest was In bad humor but the clerk was laughing, and tol; i. him that nobody was to blame but him
 self. You came in here last night abou :. twelve o'clock he explained, and insist ' ed on having the best room in the house no matter what the price. We tried t . steer you into plainer place, but yol {, wanted to whip the whole office. so W = submitted and gave you the brida chamber, and before going to it yo handed out a ten dollar bill and ordere !" that a bunch of violets be sent up | . you at eleven o'clock. We were afrai i, not to obey your orders and the flower :! were sent as you directed. That's d 'a we know about it. The man was sobe : enough by this time to see what a foe U he had made of himself, and after pay o 2 ing for his room, which, by the wa! :. | the clerk who knew him, didn't charg e full rates for, he presented the violet . to the hotel office and disappeared {. The story got out, of course, and tn Z, drinker was jollied unmercifully abor o it. but it didn't make much difference, II for he had been on many a bat sine, z but never quite so peculiar one as thi 'e violet drunk, as he called it."-Com
 fort. 2. !,