The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-08

The New York World prints the foI-
loving as the observations OF the bar
keener of Fifth Avenue Hotel, who has
presided there for quarter OF CEN
fury.
.tThere is one place in the world
where the real truth is told, ana that
ia over the bar. There is one man
who hears more of the real stories OF
human weakness and ambition than
any other kind of functionary, and
that is the barkeeper.
81 have had men hand me fortune
in money to keep while they hnlsheo d
Jag, and have had man hand me
the secrets of community to keep LOT
the rest Of my life, which means nelth-
err profit nor pleasure to me.
81 have seen a man working for SIS
q week who teok drink or two day
90 up by steady application to posi-
ton of importance and a yearly raise
of paw to the head of the house and
the increase of captain of industry
II have seen men with fortunes and
the fairest prospects in the world go
down as surely as the days passed ana
increase their rum consumption IN the
same ratio, not because they were VIC
Tins of alcohol, but because they were
victims of their own lack of strength
of purpose and character.
"Tbere isn't anything in the world
that will stop man who has thS VI
talitv of success in him, and | nave
seen men get positions of trust and
consequence standing at the end OF a
bar.
"There is nothing in the world for
which so many excuses are made as
there are for drinking whiskey'
"When a man has had a piece OF
good luck he wants to take a drink;
when he has had some misfortunes he
wants to take drink.
HWhen a man is thirsty he wants to
take a drink; when his appetite IS on
he wants to take a drink so as to
sharpen it up.
1.-THE morose man drinks to cheer
him up and the cheerful man drinks
to be more so.
"The money made in drink doesn't
come from the topers, because a man
who has become a topper won't have
much to spend after awhile.
''The man who stops IN for one
drink once in awhile in the aggregate
is the man who keeps the saloons
open.
"Whiskey makes men lie, but 1t
makes more men tell the truth, ano II
man goes to the same place to drink
often enough he will show his true
character sooner or later, and the
man who does things for living that
society doesn't condone is more apt
to be on his good behavior all the
time than the man. who is living an
honest life.
'When you see a man talking and
making fuss in a public bar when
he is in his cups, you may depend on
it that he is nearly on the level, even
if his personally may not be OF the
incest, because only those with moth
ing of great import to conceal Will
take chance on getting loosely load
ed and telling something thatwiII hurt
himself or some friend.
"With very few exceptions l have
seen every great public man in the
past twenty-five years come in here at
some time or other, and my recollec-
ton is that the one who stopped and
had a little tipple once in while were
the ones whose memory lived the long
est after they passed away.
1.-The man who likes a drink and
doesn't do so because he IS afraid he
may overindulge is the kind of man
who does the real work in the world,
because it takes courage and firm
ness of character of the highest kind
to resist the temptation of liquor if
ones temperament bankers after it,
and man who can conquer himself
to that extent can conquer almost any
thing else.
"Whiskey makes some men talka-