Show I I Fir First t Drink that Costs I New York Sun San SanSome Some of or these theM dips I believe called dipsomaniac dip by toy the people with the whisker and pre prescription pencils are queer bugs bogs bu to study said Maid the maager er of a drinking place situated in Use tile midst of many II activities I am acquainted with a good many of t the periodical drinkers who because the place is S near to their business have the habit of ot breaking out in here when tuned up for their toot and Ive got a pretty fair mental line as to when they i are scheduled for their drinks i 1 But I dont have to be acquainted with at fa dip to know that he belongs to the periodical bunch I can spot spat one oe with half a minutes sizing up There is generally something about the th most of them when about to embark on a and haveit yet taken the first one that is unmistakable I There was one of them in here only yesterday afternoon He was waa middle aged stout ed and a looker He pushed through the swing ewing doors in a slow alow kind kiDd of ot way and then walked to one of the front windows and gazed out nut Ut blankly gnawing first his nails and then his mustache It wat wa ut hard for forme forme forme me to se so that there been a trickling warmer beneath that mans waistband for quite a few and that he was one of the kind who when he did go against it got hurt and aDd hurt hart bad I 1 dont mind that Id rd rath rather er fr not see Bee people like Dire this start to oo do o othir their thir pouring 00 Well V ell several times he began to sort of edge in the direction of ot the bar and hed edge back slowly to his hili place in front of the window wiD ow and gase gaas out thoughtfully some more He Eie was hav hay having havi ing ig i g his little old rasse and ani an thinking of the th gray aftermath But the old stuff finally won out its a 1 to 10 shot according ac to my experience ence enee En e that it generally does with the pe periodicals periodicals The last fast time he started to to the left Itt he te got g all aU the way to the bar He looked uy up u at me with a apale apale apale pale pleasant smile and aDd said saidI I think Til rn try a dry Martini I INow Now Im 1 not a nor DOr any anything anything thing like one but th man maa had ad a pretty good map on oi him So I just It over to him and took a chance Dye think better Detter Judge I Ia a aske kt d him Youil excuse my rubber ing but you seemed to be wondering a alot alot lot over it and aDd so 80 I suppose you figured it out that one would mean a good lOOd eh h Na N T offense n sir air airn He flushed tu bed and then smiled and lIld andl I knew that Id won out I Your guess t is correct he said Its a thing that has as been perplexing me all 11 the afternoon And you are also right rl ht in supposing that one means met as a good many with m me although I 1 hope my doe nt placard that fact as it Jt seems stema to have done to you I bavent had a drink in nine months I was wondering a moment ago aco whether Id better eat or take a drink If It I drink I wont want wt to eat perhaps for a couple of weeks If It I eat I wont want wa t tto to drink That place across the way aY I said to him pointing to the restaurant on the other side aide has got some seine broiled shad today that would make a birds bird A teeth leak Has ItT It he be asked brightening up Believe Ill rn go KO over and get some thanks and out he went and aDd over to the restaurant re I 1 saw him hint coming out of there about an hour later munching a toothpick and a nd looking contented all over It pleases aMS me to think that I kept that man away from a that would have nave wound up with the ce cei ceri cerise i ri rise is zebras for tor he be was w the dip all aM 11 over In look and manner But its mighty rare that I 1 gong in like that for Im here to sell goods and andt yo t to keep patients out of the tizzy tissy wards ward where the purple bugs pugs walk valk with legs lep downward on the ceil cell ceilings ceilings ings Its a cinch that the tM dips wont j gt t together to put pansies on the sod Im lying under One of the dips who so 80 hesi heel hesitating hesitating tating by several records as the one Ive been telling about came caine romping in one oDe afternoon last test week I knew him Hes chief clerk for a big brokerage house and he mixes war medicine about once every six months always winding up in a cute little soft softly papered lypa ly red room by himself with a mus mu ular male nurse nuree hovering around his hammock When he came toping loping through the swing doors breathless and panting I knew that he was due again apIn and I knew there was no use in saying any anything anything anything thing to him either He made the bar barin barIn barIn in two Jumps he said hoarsely to the head barkeep 14 Sure said the head barkeep but What 00 Blast It ft anything so if Its s quick said id the dip Jiggle J me up an absinthe e frappe in a hurry will your you You Yon see Bee be he had bad his mind all aU 11 made xi up UJ l before he started for this thi palace where here v he always slides off oft the aqua ve ye vehicle hicle hil and nd so 80 he busted for here as as he got out of his office sos h he have a chance chan to te think it over The turn tam banker was burning such holes boles In him that he be have topped stopped to take a think about It if hed hedv v anted wanted to I saw him 1 m with his shoes poked out of a hansom haD Om cab front up uptown uptown town toun last night and aDd hes he about ready read for fir his hili cunning little private insect ln pa Ps pavilion ilion now BOW But most mo t of the dips before they with the first one are all up on ona a kite about it even when they set get it v within eight feet of the place where the goods for which they hanker are rest resting resting resting ing The most moat undecided one of the Jot lot Jott that hat t Fd Id r clapped a Jamp amp on for tor a ah long v hile h lie in late one afternoon in March He was a big natured looking chap hap of 46 48 or so 80 but for all aU that I could see that the was strong upon him Got any an dicer dice he ht inquired of or me and I handed ha him over a box He shook poker dice with himself for four or JIve five passes and aDd beet 10 t all of them which caused hm bm to look displeased He wanted the dice to tell him that he could call for hiss in an the way wa of the wet stuff but the dice were on the side aide of his hill wife and aDd family Got a pack of cards carda r he be asked me IDe then chucking the dice away In disgust cU gust gustI I pulsed him taIm over a pack of cards He cut Ut them about forty times in accord accordance accordance a ance nee with a little HUla system s em of his own the cutting to decide the No 1 hooter for tor him as I could see But ut the tile cards earda were oa on the side of hone home ho and aDd fireside too and a the big man got to scowling i over that i He Me stuffed the cards back baek into the holder and tossed them over to me meOnce Once Onee more he muttered and aDd then theft he asked aked me if I 1 had any kind of book around the place I passed ss ed him out an old ld novel that I found in Ind my uty desk d k He began beran to open the book for the 1 hr t letters again a system that tha hel arranged in his mind for the put pur purI I l 11 of ot finding out whether the book boo would woud Id permit of his taking a hooter I Ifould uld fould see by the deepening glower on his I hart hH rt that the book bouk too tOd was all on the sid of ot the hearthstone and agin gin him Isbn himon I Ion on th t h question He picked up the book and slammed it down o on I th bar barAh barAh barAh Ah fudge he said ald disgustedly di gu gi m m a rye highball Whenever yer I J see a man with eyes a abit bit arant a ant come in by himself and spin spina bar har before bl ordering I a B e x n ri n the t hf that hes he making the cola do the arbitrating as all to whether hether hell order other a soft one or a ball bail with action Its mighty mI rare that they abide bide by bythe bythe bythe I the decision of ot the disk They usually u have haTe it alt all framed up when they came in that U make just one spin for it and if it goes against t them the soft stuff tur for them and the suds Buds to be cut out But Bat when the spin does go against them tUrn they make it the best two out of ot three and then thee the beet best three out Jut of ot five eve and so 80 soon soon on until they get the piece of or silver stiver or go their way One Ofle of the dips not long ago o was 1 resolute enough for about half halt a mitt i ute to stick ctt to the o stunt It went wet against a iD t him Jalm He H I looked I like a aman aman man luau whose horse and been disqualified after winning by two days and a halt half a seltzer and aDd lemon Jemon emon be he said solemnly to the barkeep The barkeep was setting getting the soft one ready when the dip I know him and aDd he be been beeB on Oft a for four I months had another idea Ides He Rc spun sp n the I coin eoln again and then again to make it ItI the th best two out of three and won Then his bis mush looked like that of a aman aman I man just found a bill in inthe Inthe the watch packet of an old pair of ot oti j i I trousers Just make that a Scotch and soda little Willie Yore Vere de Vere he be said to the barkeep slid and after alter about fourteen of or em he be was telling me how MW sadly they ud misunderstood tood him bim at home borne He uHe was hunting bunting Tor br great suits auks eggs eggson I on the top of spas pas trees treS about ten days later and was duly hiked to the ward where the spiders are eight feet high and carry a cops club in each claw Ill mention something about certain dips of wealth and high degree that I It t know of that got round around much yet That Is I isa in the hands of ot the private flys the unofficial uno gum lUm gumshoe gumshoe shoe people with the badges Their folks have framed it up that way on them for the dips own good and of course that of or the folks putting up the jobs There was a case of it in here a ait abit abit bit it lees less than two months ago gO The main squeeze of a big firm that deals In n mercantile paper down the line was the he one who had bad two shadows besides his is own trailing after him He uHe was a periodical right He e always made his bit in here Hes les an elderly man and the thing has been telling on his system s stem during the past couple of years and upon his busi bust business ness fleas ess too I 1 understand UA A few years y rs ago his cavorts used to happen lappen only about once in every six months but hed been gradually cutting the he intervals down until he got into the way of lighting his battle pipe and picking taking up the tomahawk k about once every very month He was as too high an elderly party for me ever to have the nerve erve to close in with ith on the subject of the he meaning of his first ball to him hi when he came in after a few weeks weel s absence and asked for his brand but butaU buta all aU a the same I often felt like humming a chord or two into l his liis is ear about how near ear hed be getting to the rest wreaths and nd immortelle stuff if It he lop off of ft his habit of sailing alose to the Jameses Jameses every month or so And to get off on the track and bump on n the rails for a minute I never could get next to it why wh a man of that age could stand flor r a dozen dosen such hot lam bastings hastings per annum as these th S getting games sure are Well a little less than two months ago he came in with what bat tailor pallor of the th dips on his face that I knew tn w so well w ll Right behind him trap ed a couple of fellows I know heyre two of the best flies for one of the he detective agencies and anda a pair who always work together I nodded to them I think they hey had bad any connection with the visit to o my place of the elderly gentleman I with the periodical rum ache I was behind the bar and changed cha the tile time of day with him My usual brand he said then and andI I put the glass out and the bottle be beside beside side it One of the private slid alongside in a flash and picked up the bottle The other grabbed the elderly party U Not today sir he said politely The wealthy dip was a lion flea in a half bait halfa baita a second of course and demanded of ot them what they meant U We are going up town with you to your home sir said the detective who had taken hold of the elderly gentle mans arm arTs and the two to of them simply walked him out of the door he was as so weakened with dissipation that he be could put up no resistance re and stuffed him into a carriage He H been in here since for the I very reason that got him put away awa somewhere as I saw LW aw in the paper papera a afew few days after the thing happened in inere I ere his wife and children applied for fora a trusteeship on his estate or some old egal legal thing like Uke that and they edged I him into a sanitarium for treatment The signal for this was his taking a first I I drink and the private sleuths sl were along with him himas as they the had been for fOI fora a week without his knowing it they i told old me later to catch that signal There are quite a 8 number of pin beaded young dips whelps that are not genuine periodical tanks at all an but that go p on OR the bats because they think I Its corky and cute who are tagged about boot all 11 the time by private flies awl and I know that being tagged about to see that they dont connect with the crimson eye I think they ought to be besent besent sent to North Brother Broth island or have a hose boss Do e turned on Oft them theta twenty five hours a day |