Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — AFRAID OF HIMSELF. [ARTICLE]

AFRAID OF HIMSELF.

A big, tall Westerner staggered into a well known hotel the other night at about eleven o’clock, and demanded his money, which was locked up in the safe. The clerk bluntly told him that he couldn’t have it. • ‘Ain’t the monish mine?” he asked wrathfully. “Yes; but you can’t have it till to-morrow. You’d better go to your room.” The guest begged and threatened and demanded, but to no purpose.. Then he let a bell boy take him upstairs. When he had gone the clerk said to a bystander: “To-morrow morning that man will come down here and thank me for refusing to let him have the money. Whenever he comes to town with the intention of going on a spree, he takes out of his wallet all the money he wishes to spend that night, and hands me the remainder, telling me to lock it up for him and refuse to let him have it till he gets sober. About midnight or a little later he will come in and do as he did just now: try to make me give up the cash. But tomorrow morning he .will come down and thank me for refusing."—-New York Tribune. — ' ATTRACTING ATTENTION. In an English exchange a temperance worker thus describes a novel method for arousing the attention of idle people: “I have a notice board in front of my hov.se, a private one, on which 1 tack posters of important meetings, diagrams, drink maps, pictures, sayings of eminent men. scraps of poetry, etc. Some are exhibited one week, some for two, and it is astonishing the number of passers who stop and look. They closely inspect and read what is on the board. All classes are attracted, gentry,* traders, mechanics, farm laborers, and even sots, so that a good diagram or a striking picture is as useful as an ordinary lecture, and really more so, because it catches the attention of so many who never attend our meetings.