Show WHEN JOHN L BROKE AWAY in eight years of A abstinence from john barleycorn the former pu nil gillat has ha saved eight years yeara ago almost to a day john L sullivan unshaven and unkempt kem pt emerged from a bar of 0 the grand hotel at broadway and thir lleti street stood for a moment look ing back at the door and then walked uncertainly uptown it voas las 8 in the evening and the former 11 hit it brushed shoulders bith well groomed people hurrying to the thea tera ile he aaa as the derelict in thi stream on his face there was a halt half smile but it baan wasn t a pleasant one at the corner of thirteenth street ho he met marry cohen and a ne cespa spa pier per man with both of v hom he be vas as acquainted ile he growled something in coherent in response to their gr breting etIng and was apparently about to pus pass on hut but he paused and turned toward t em cm I 1 ive ve lust just hem been turned donn dofan n in that barroom for a drink lie he eald aid 1 I a anted one drink more and dian didn t hiva the price they the dian didn t give it to me they put me out the dian didn t send the proprietor or the in dinager to put ut me out chev slut the porter I 1 iia N 1 I spent 5 ON er tint bar and th they y put me out because I 1 wanted a drink doln k and could rit t pay for it there s only one thing y ou can figure out of a proposition like that quit drinking to 10 night I 1 quit tile the former champion a friends ex ei pressed indignation or the treatment lie he had received it roused no spark of anger in the hie big fellon ile he nas too filled ich the sene of shame and mortification still brooding over the indignity he ha ind hid suffered suf ferd he accod cohen and the man to murpha s saloon at sixth avenue and thirtieth street cohen ordered a drink Su lllian filled his malsky glat to the brim hoys boys I 1 said he I 1 heres here s UIO the I 1 list for me that 9 tho the true story etor ot of john L I 1 sul ahins last drink eight bears 3 ears haie baie classed and the john L nho anas as tottering on the edge of the gutter looks eight nears ears lounger todi tod t than he did that night and lie he lias has floo nev nenn I 1 ork correspondence to cincinnati times star |