We have tried the cold water experiment faithfully, and we can testify that since we became cold water men, _we work better, we eat better, we sleep better, and we do every thing better than before_." The next speaker, a planter also, dwelt on the inconsistency of using wine and malt, and at the same time calling upon the poor to give up ardent spirits.

He said this inconsistency had been cast in his teeth by his negroes.

He never could prevail upon them to stop drinking rum, until he threw away his wine and porter.

Now he and all his people were teetotallists.

There were two other planters who had taken the same course.