The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26
SCHEMES TO GET A DRINK
SOME WHICH ARE WORKED BY
THIRSTY ONES IN TENNESSEE.
Many Devices Whereby the Wayfar-
ing Brother Can Dig Up a Sip
nF IlEnnG (,I,nn,.

iuS bIotIi'f NaiI DIS Up SIP
of Good Cheer"
The ingenuity of a man with a
thirst in Tennessee is working over
time, says a returned visitor
never heard of or saw so many
schemes for getting drinks on the
sly. Even the umbrella member is
in the business, carrying two or three
short nips in the hollow of each UNI
brella handle. One of a group of
commercial travellers with whom |
talked told me story of big an
gular colOred woman who increased
the symmetry of her figure by strap
ping around it certain dubious re-
ceptacles-demijohns, I suspect
the contents of which she sold on
the quiet, thus reducing her girth
and increasing her wad.
Many arrests for "bOotlegging"
are being made in the state and the
blind tiger is everywhere. mer-
chant selling a bill of goods always
slips in bottle as a gift. By many
devices stOrekeepers manage so they
can dig up a sip of good cheer wa
ter when it is urgently sought by
a wayfaring brother. brand of
soft stuff" known as prohibition
beer is on the market. Being non
alcoholic it may be sold within the
law. The merchant in addition to
his stock of prohibition beer will
have stored in his blind tiger depart
ment a stock of sure enough beer.
When stranger a man unknown
to the community, and who may be
a spOtter, comes into the joint and
calls for prohibition beer he gets it.
| But if the caller be a citizen whose
beer thirst is a matter of common
! knowledge in the town the store
keeper fishes out a bottle of real
beer.
In the moonshine districts a dollar
| placed on blind tiger" stump will
| turn to a bottle of booze before
morning. An improved scheme in
this same class is to have a blind
! drawer in a partition wall A dollar
| placed in this drawer will turn to
whisky when the drawer is again
| opened. If one is assigned to a %
room in a blind tiger hotel he will
find a 81 bottle of whisky in the
room. If he calls for a So room he
will find two bottles or a jug of fire
water under the bed.
went into shooting gallery in
Well | won't give it away-and was
told that my poor shooting was due
to unsteady nerves. A wink went
with this remark. Some pantomime
followed and then a little brown
Bette was fished out of a closet
1t was disclosed later that my poor
craftsmanship had been due to the
fact that the bell had been pur-
posely removed from the target
The express companies stock I'D with
dummy packages and when the thirst
victim enters the express office and
inquiries if a package has been re-
ceived for John Smith he is an
sWered in the affirmative and after
receiving the package departs in
peace.
The prohibition laws in the south
are not uniform in their operation,
and as result some strange bust
ness freaks have come about. In
, Chattanooga, for instance, prohibi-
lion failed to carry, and as a result
IL mas become the leading wildcat
, distributing point in the south. A
saloon man named Rose, exiled from
dry Atlanta, moved his traps to wet
Chattanooga and started a distribu-
ton agency His business has
reached mammoth proportions. He
| operates through the express compa-
MES and daily sends out many thou
sand packages to all parts of the
south.