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Show A3 OOOD A3 8LEEP. hW1 Why Insomnia Had No Terror for ths HHJ Late Senator Vance. HH During tho Inst term of tho lato Sen- ''HHJ ntor "Zcb" Vnnco of North Carolina n jHHJ man noted at tho capital and through- HhJ nut tho South ns n wit, ho was met HHJ walking down Pennsylvania avenuo JHJ nbout 2 o'clock one winter morning by iHHjl MnJ. E. B. Pope. I'l Scenting a senatorial poker party 'HHJ somewhere or olso a lato supper at iHHJ Chambcrlln's, Mnj. Pope, with feigned 'HH seriousness, snld: 'HHl "Good morning. Senator, isn't It a HHJ llttlo enrly for you to bo taking a ,HHJ ;HHJ "No, sah," drawled tho Senator, with iHHJ all his Southern dignity, "It la very :HHJ usual for mo to walk about Washing- fHHJ ton at this hour." lHH "Ah, I seo," rcpllod MaJ. Topo, back- :HHJ Ing water, na It woro, "Insomnia. I HHJ know how It Is myself." (HHl "Mnjnh Pope," said tho statesman, HHJ "I long ago vanquished Insomnia. It 'HVJ Is qulto truo that sometimes I go to 'HHJ bed and .can't sleop. Then I get up 'HHJ and tnko a good stiff dram of corn jHfl whisky. I go back to bed, and If sleep HHJ doesn't como Immediately I get up and 'HHJ tako another dram. I go hack to bed, HHJ and then, if I see thnt sleop is still HBJ backward about coming to me, I'll get HHJ up and tako a groat big dram. And HHJ do you know, Majah Popo, after l'vo :HHJ bad flvo or six drams of corn whisky, iHHJ I don't caro a rap if I nover go to HHJ 'HHJ |