VALUE OF A TEMPERANCE PAPER.—In a certain town in Connecticut, where the Youth's Temperance Advocate had been taken in the Sunday School, its discontinuance was advocated on account of expense. A poor woman said it must not be given up; and should not be, if she paid the ten dollars herself, and earned the money by washing; for, said she, I had rather do that than have the little paper discontinued, and my husband be what he was before that little paper came into my family—a miserable tipler, spending his time and money in the low porter-houses.
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