Pat's Persuasiveness

The following anecdote is related of the late Mr. Greeley, who is well known to have been throughout life a. staunch advocate of temperanoe. Through all his electioneering campaigns, he sat at public dinners and suppers where wine and spirits flowed freely, but he never passed the bottle or touched the liquor himself . The waiters who knew his temperance principies were generally puzzled what to do when they carne to the row of glasses fronting his plate, as they fronted all others. Usually they were directed by a look or gesture of the master of the ceremonies to pass by him in silence. But on one occasion, an Irish -waiter would not abide such an apparent breach of hospitality. "Hadn't ye better take something, sir, to get up an appetite like, after yer long ride, sir ?" the hospitable Hibernian -whispered to the startled sage. "A little brandy and water wild do ye good - it would, upon iay sowl, sir. " The heartiness of the appeal touched the philosopher. He recognized the ring of true hospitality in his tones, and his heart relented at the idea of repressing such sterUng virtue by such a oontinued refusal. "Brandy and water?" he said. "Well, Pat, I'll take half that to oblige yoü. "Give me the water and let some one else have the brandy."