Excerpt from Stories That Take It is said that Chauncey M. Depew, who for years was one of the most successful after dinner speakers, has had a regular set of scrap books, marked Politics, Lawyers, Edu cation, Religion, Women, Patriot ism, and other subjects. In these books his secretary classified various stories and other material gathered from time to time, so that, when Mr. Depew wished to prepare an after dinner address, he simply called for one of these books, selected such stories as he thor ht most appropriate, and shortly afterward his speech was ready for delivery.

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