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Show HE TALKED TOO MUCH. "There goes a young man whom I saved from going- to the dogs through drink," remarked a court stenographer, "fie Is a tip-top fellow and has plenty of ability, but two nr three years ago he began to let red JiquoF get the best of him. He had a good position at the time, and I don't think he exactly neglected his work, but it got to be a common thing to see him standing around barrooms in the evening about two-tjiirds full and talking foolishly. A few of his intimate friend3 took the liberty of giving him a quiet hint. As usual in suet: cases, he got highly indignant and denied point blank that he had ever been in the least upder the Influence of . liquor.. All the same, he kept increasing the pace until it became be-came pretty easy to predict where he was going to land, end it was at that stage of the game I did my great reformation refor-mation act. "I was sitting in an uptown restaurant restau-rant one evening when he came in with some fellow and took a seat at a table without seeing m. He was Just drunk enough to be talkative about his private affairs, and on the impulse of tlve moment I pulled out my notebook note-book and took a full shorthand report of every word he said. I t wag the usual maudlin rot of a boozy man, and included numerous candid details of the speaker's daily life. . "NeJrt morning I copied the whole thing neatly on the typewriter and sent it around to his office, in less than Jialf an hour he came tearing in to me with his eyes fairly hanging out of their sockets. 'Great heavens, Jack,' he gasped, 'what is this, anyhow?' " 'It's a stenographic report of your monologue at - 's last evening, I replied, and gaye him a brief explanation. explana-tion. "'Did I really talk like that?' he asked faintly. . " 'I assure you it is an absolutely -erbatim report,' paid I. "He turned pale and walked out, and from that day to this he hasn't taken a drink. His prospects at present pres-ent are splendid. All he needed was to hear himself as other heard him." New York Press. |