Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — An Understanding Arrived At. [ARTICLE]

An Understanding Arrived At.

About 10 o’clock this morning a tramp went into a C street saloon and devoted ten minutes in a very zealous manner to the lunch table. By the time he had masticated about a pound of corned beef the barkeeper stepped up and re marked : “ This table is for drinkers.” “ Then why don’t yon bring on your drinks ? I’ve been here ten minutes, and haven’t seen a drop of anything. If it’s a drinkin’ table, where’s the fluid ?” “ I mean it’s for the patrons of the bar,” said the barkeeper. “ Then why ain’t they here ? I s’pose you mean that a man must spend money at the bar before he eats?” “Exactly.” “That takes me in. I took a drink here last summer and didn’t eat a mouthful, and if I ain’t entitled to a lunch on that drink then this system must be a failure all round.” “But the place has changed hands since then,” said the barkeeper, picking up a bung starter. “Ah, indeed?” replied the urbane bummer; that fact, as your gesture would imply, raises a new and embarrassing complication in our diplomatic relations. I will, therefore, recede, as it were, from my original position and await the assembling of tiis Peace Congrees. He liad been gradually backing toward

the door as he spoke, and he dodged out just in time to evade the projectile hurled at him by the indignant saloonatic. — Virginii (Ncv.) Chronicle.