The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-04-22

Mrs. McLead, OF Baltimore, secretary OF
Southern work, says her books show that
Mrs. Chaplin travelled over 10000 miles
last year, and spoke 1873 times. These
talks were made in churches, legislative
halls. colleges, universities, opera houses,
tents, public schools and lawn parties.
She wrote about 1900 letters and postals,
went from Canada to the Gulf twice, at
tended nine state conventions, took thou
sands of names of grown persons who
pledged total abstinence, and formed hun
dreds of children into Bands Of Hope.
Thousands of colored people also promised
not only not to drink but to .aid the tenn
perance cause in every possible way. She
also visited prisons and jails in II cities.
A lady said to her, "Y ou are burning your
candle out at both ends" and Mrs. Chaplin
replied, IF you will light one end OF your
candle, will put one end Of mine out.'
Thomas Carlysle, in conversation with
Mr.. John Morley about temperance, said
he could not understand what was meant
by compensation to the publicans. "If
any publican came to him and wanted
compensation. he would tell him to go to
his father, the devil, for it. ~ Philadelphia
Presbyterian.
Total abstinence we seek through volun-
tary action, for the promotion of individ-
ual virtue and of the general good. Legal
prohibition we seek for as a means OF
guarding our rights. LET the law cease
to appeal to us by taxing us for the sup
port of pauperism and crime caused by the
selling of Intoxicating drinks, and we will
cease to appeal to the law. ''-Rev. DR..
Mark Hopkins.
An exchange says: ''It has generally
been supposed that if a man licensed to
sell liquor violated the law and was con-
victed and fined, and paid the costs and
fine, that was the end of it, but in Venan-
go county the other day, after all this was
done the bondsmen had to walk up and
settle the amount of their bond, it being
held that the violation Of the law
made the bondsmen liable for the
full amount without regard to what
the saloon keeper did after conviction.
One Of the most revolving instances of
rum s deadly doings'' recently occurred
in Hoboken, N. j., where a young man
voluntarily gave himself up for arrest,
stating that he had quarreled with his
wife and hurt her so that she might die.
The police fastened to his rooms, where
they found the wife lying on the floor quite
dead, her throat being cut across. By her
side sat her baby boy, five months old,
dipping his fingers in his mothers blood
and smearing his face with it. innocent
of the great tradegy about him. The
neighbors bear witness to the industrious
character of the wife, and that she was
not given to quarreling. The husband had
been drinking heavily, and was filled with
maddened rage when he did the awful deed.
Miss Cleveland, the present mistress of
the White House, once wrote sGod sees
in the fearful cry of the bruised and
baffied mother, sister, wife. His own argu-
ment for the utter extinction of intoXi-
eating beverages, the suppression, root and
branch, of the liquor traffic."
On a recent Saturday the entire adult
population of Ste. Marthe village, Canada.
voluntarily assembled in church and
pledged themselves to abstain from alco-
holic beverages for the space of one year.
The village has population of two thou
sand persons.
Catholic legend says that the devil gave
a hermit the choice Of three great vices, one
of which was drunkenness. The hermit
chose this as being the least sinful he be-
came drunk. and then committed the
other two.-Rev. VIM. Reid. Edanbuuy.
Prof. Hitchcock, of Amherst College,
and member of the Massachusetts State
Board of Health, says that cigarettes are
more injurious than other forms of to-