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Show A SOLDICt; , ricrw of Two llumlre'tl llitlle I'voW the Vnlue of Toliitierclln o, Sfuuy yeaw ago Colonel Lnin.i-nowsky. Lnin.i-nowsky. who had been twenty three years In the iirmj of Napoleon Bonaparte, Bona-parte, arose lu n temperance meeting, tall, vigorous mid with the glow of health on his face, and made the following fol-lowing remarkable speech: "You see before you a man seventy years old. I have fought UOO battles, have fourteen wounds on my body, have lived thirty days on horseflesh, with tho bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my drink, the canopy of heaven for my eoerlng and only a few rags for clothing. In the desert of I'gypt I have mnrched for days with the burning sun upon my head, feet blistered -with the scorching sand, nnd with ejes, nostrils anil mouth filled with dust, nuil with a thrlst so tormenting tor-menting that I llae opened the veins of my nrms nnd sucked my own blood. "Do you ask how I survived all these horrors?, I answer that, under the providence of Owl, I owe my preservation, preser-vation, my health ami vigor to the fact that I never drank a drop of spirituous liquor hi my life, nnd," continues! con-tinues! he, "Ilnron Larry, chief surgeon of the French army, has statetl as a fact that the 0,000 survivors who safely returned from I'gypt were all those who abstained from ardent drinks." I,cver. |