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Show All She Asked. "The late Justice Harlan," said a Washington lawyer, "wns an advocate advo-cate of'temperauce in eating. In drink-ini?. drink-ini?. In the use of tobacco, In all things. "Justice Harlan, praising temperance temper-ance at a lawyers' banquet, once told a story about a young wife who said to her husband: "Jack, dear, I do wish you'd stop drinking! Every time you go to one of these banquets of yours, you get up the next morning pale and tired, you won't eat anything, you Just gulp diwn nine or ten glasses of water. Do stoi drinking, won't you. dear? I Inow it's bad for you." " But all great men have been dirking men,' Jack grumbled. 'Ixxk at Webster, look at Poe. Look at "Well." Interrupted hla wife, 'you Just promise, dear, that you'll quit drinking till you're great and I'll be satisfied."' Burlington Star. |