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Show THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. "This cold weather," remarks Representative Repre-sentative Johnson of South Carolina, "reminds me of a story I heard about a feUow who lived near Charleston, who was In the habit of putting water In his toddy. One cold day this fellow had Imbibed pretty freely with several of his neighbors, and be had been remonstrated remon-strated with for ruining his liquor by putting water In It. On his way home he fell by the wayside,' and was found stiff and cold In death next morning. "One ot the dead man's friends who had been with him the night before was told ot his death, and he said: " 'Well, Jim waa cautioned not to keep puttln water In his liquor, an' now It's frls in his stomach an' killed him dead as a door nail.' " |