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Show He Hadn't. Tho temperance re vival in Detroit has set many men tc tli inking seriously. O.ie ol th( serious was discovered coining out ol a Larned-strcet saloon one day re cently, and an acquaintance collared him and said : "You have bren drinking." "Not a drop," was the reply. "But I saw you wiping off your mouth." "Yes, I wiped ofl my mouth, but I hadn't been drinking." "That's honest, is it?" "That's honest. If you den't believe be-lieve it, Binell of my breath." He turned his face, the other got his noso down to inhale, and as lie staggered back be called out: "If a little whi-ky will kill that smell you go and get it right away and I'll stand between you and the pledge, and pay for the drink to boot." |