PRESIDENT HARRISON'S RESOLVE.
It is related by a Chester (Pa.) lady that when General William Henry Harrison was running for the presidency he stopped at the old Washington House, in Chester, for dinner. After dinner wine was served. It was noticed that the general pledged his toasts in water, and one of the gentlemen from New York in offering another said: "General, will you not favor me by drinking a glass of wine?" The general declined in a very gentlemanly manner. Again he was urged to join them in a glass of wine. This was too much. He rose from the table, his full form erect, and in the most dignified manner replied: "Gentlemen, I have refused twice to partake of the wine-cup—that should have been sufficient; though you press the cup to my lips, not a drop shall pass the portals. I made a resolve when I started in life that I would avoid strong drink, and I have never broken it. I am one of a class of seventeen young men who graduated, and the other sixteen fill drunkard's graves all through the pernicious habit of social wine-drinking. I owe all my health, happiness and prosperity to that resolution. Will you urge me now?"