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Show Drawing B Conclusion Too Hastily. Chicago Tribune. The eloquent temperance lecturer paused, wiped his perspiring brow, and said impressively to the man on this front seat, who had listened with the deepest interest to the discourse and evidently was touched by its pathos and argument: "My friend," it is never too late td reform. 'There is hope for the most hopeless. The past is beyond your reach, but you can control your future. You cannot call back to your pocket tho enormous sum it probably has cost you to paint your nose tho color it has now, but" "All it cost me to paint my nose as you see it," said the man in the front seat, rising up, "was 14.00, including railroad fare and boat hire. I went fishing yesterday. My nose will be as fair as a lily in a day or two. But go on with your lecture," he added, sitting sit-ting down again, "I am very much interested." |