CRYING AND SINGING. - Mr. Henry Smith, well known as "the razor-strop
man," has recently delivered several interesting temperance lectures, from one of which,
the following is an extract: "When the meeting was over, I told my wife I would try it
(temperance) for one month. I did; and at the end of the month I found myself more
comfortable. When I was a drunkard, Wife cried, Mother cried, John cried, Ann cried,
Mary cried, Ted cried; but I had been a temperance man only a month before Wife sung,
Father sung, Mother sung, John sung, Mary sung, Ted sung, Grandfather Sung, and I
sung; and I bought a frying pan and I put it on the fire, and put a good steak in it, and that
sung, and that is the singing for a working man when he is hungry. Finding myself much
better, I went and signed the pledge for life, and I hope I shall hold on."