I am quite unhappy about poor Mr. Chute: besides, it is cruel to find that abstinence is not a drug.

These little abstinences are the cockades by which the party are known,the rallying points for the evangelical faction.

All athletes recognize this fact, as while training for a contest, rigid abstinence is the rule, both from liquors and tobacco.

Abstinence, if nothing more, is, at least, a cautious retreat from the utmost verge of permission, and confers that security which cannot be reasonably hoped by him that dares always to hover over the precipice of destruction, or delights to approach the pleasures which he knows it fatal to partake.