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Show AS THE DOC-OR HAD ORDERED. Patient Felt Bound to Take Alcoholic Stimulant Directed. Cnpt. Georgo II. Knox, tho richest officer In tho United States army, Is an ndvocate of temperanre. At Fort Mcintosh, In n tnlk with somo privates, pri-vates, ho said, recently: "Of course, If men wnnt to drink, they ran always find somo excuso for drinking. "I onco know a Now York man who drank entirely too much. His doctor, In order to modurntu his tippling n llttlo, ordered him to tako more light beer and less strong wine to every quurt of beer not more than a pint of wino at tho outside. "Tho putlunt said to mo ono evening even-ing a week ufterward, as ho rang for a bottlo of chnmpngno: "What n borol I'vo drunk eight glasses of beer to-day, and now I've gDt to get away with four glasses of wine. Doctor's prderB.' " |