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Show VT.lUutuu as Ililuklna Maa. Uvery one drank In tho days of Waahlngton, and tbo father of hli country always had wines upon hli table. ta-ble. I haa nowhere teen It Hated that he ever drank to excest, although he usually coniumed (lie glauet of Madeira wluo at dessert. During his youth ho waa a ery fair politician, and among tho Items of hit election expenses when ho wot a candidate for the home of burgeaiea of Virginia wero a hogshead and a barrel of whisky, whis-ky, thlrty-flva gallons of wine and forty-three gallone of beer. |