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Show WHEN DOGS DROPPED OUT. A story was printed hero the other v day, says the New Yurk correspondent correspond-ent of the Cincinnati Times-Star, about a well known young man In New York Society who attended an ornate dinner In Washington. Ah time and other things flowed on, ho slid beneath the table. His friends took him to the hotel, but being cheerful friends, they selected a hotel where ho was not known. In tho morning he waked up, to flud the Rtir- roundlngs unfamiliar He telephoned to the clerk "What is If" he asked "Raleigh," said the clork. "Falelgh, North Carolina, or Raleigh hotel9" he asked. Which recalls ono of tho stories about Edgur Bccchcr Bronson, tho newspapor man and adventurer of these parts. Mr. Bronson used to favor fav-or Ja dollcato little tlpplo he called the Bronson cup. It wns composed of Scotch whiskey and curocoa in equal parts "Tho boauty of it." Mr Bronson explained, ex-plained, "Ib nothing ever happens to you In n conscious moment You go on and on nnd by and by. without having tho faintest intlminatlon that you are becoming loaded, you simply blow up From that time on only the Rurnlcs are lit to handle you. Mr. Bronson had boasted tho beauties beau-ties of his drink to a friend nnmod Johnson Mr. Johnson entne to town ospeclall to est It Messrs. Bronaon and Johnson began On Thursday. On Sunday evening Mr BronEon was aroused from slumber to bid his friend boodby Mr Johnson was qullo unaffected unaf-fected by his potations He walked scrupulously from bar to bar. to say goorby to friends ho had mure His color was good, lilt eyes bright, and his walk was unswerving "I centaln-ly centaln-ly have had a plensnnt afternoon," said Mr. Johnson. "And now I must go back homo I have a note in bank I promised to moot on Friday morning." |