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Show "Behold In me a Christian martyr." said the late Sir William Vernon Har-court. Har-court. when on medical advice some years ago he gave up smoking for s time. He was previously one of the greatest lovers of the weed In the House of Commons. The one thing which annoyed an-noyed Mr. Gladstone sometimes was the smoking of his colleague. When his throat was giving him distress in 1898. Sir William resigned himself to abstention absten-tion from smoking. Formerly he would smoke ten to fifteen strong cigars a day, and it was a hard fight for him to give up the bablt at bis time of life. . |