Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — It Made Him Hot. [ARTICLE]

It Made Him Hot.

Free “shines” for a year with every pair of shoes, freelqnches at every bar, free soda water with every cigar, free with every package of baking powder—the development of the idea proceeds. It some cigar dealers from sls to S2O a week to supply the soda water. It costs about 15 cents a gallon, and some stores require from fifteen to twenty gallons a day. The other day a man walked Into one of these stores, says the New York Post, drank half a glass, put it down, and asked: “Don’t you give flavors?”

“No,” retorted the dealer “we give favors, but some men don’t seem to know how to take them.” But that was not the worst. Another man came in, filled the glass threequarters full, and then added It to some whisky from a pocket flask. The next man sniffed the whisky when he took up the glass. “Where do you keep the whisky?” he asked. “Now, that makes me hot,” was the dealer’s subsequent natural comment.