Show WHICH IS IT Now the report comes that Colonel Roosevelt Roosey r sa says s 's he lie docs does not drink much of any brand brandy or whisky not more than does docs s the pious ious Lyman Ab bot bolt bott t That flint does not settle an anything thing because Mr 1 Lyman Ly Lyman Ly Lyman man Abbott bbott for know all we know may maybe be a still till drunk We Ve ba have e known men that did not drink th i in i public but would go home and in the bosom of their families families fam ili s drink a quart of whisky every night But Mr Abbott does not look like a drinking man He looks to us in his picture we mean of course course like a gentleman who w would Uld like to say his prayers every hour and who mixes in worldly a affairs airs merely as a bluff But there are only three thre conclusions One is that the colonel must t b be slandering Mr l Abbott bott or must be drinking drinking- gin instead of f whisky or brandv brandy I gin or old fashioned New England rum or that he lie is crazy because his course for the last two months has lias not been that of a level headed sob r man We have hare given him credit for be being ng how- how you so every nig nigh If he has not been lieen then i it is dead certain that he has been so carried earrie-d away by ay his own egotism ambition and self est esteem em that lie he le has lost his head |