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education addresses by myself and my Assistants. Education, temperance and economy are subjects vitally connected in the present and future of the freedmen, and when faithfully presented, in all their relations and bearings have great effect with the people. The most signal instance perhaps of the success of the temperance movement is at Christiansburg under the faithful labors of [[C.J.?]] Schaeffer, Asst. Supt, and of the Misses Eastman. Their success has gone so far as to have extorted the cry of Demetrius of old, from the whiskey dealers, "Our craft is in danger." That the Christmas holidays should pass without the sale of whiskey enough to produce a fight, created general comment and was judged to be an innovation upon ancient prescriptive rights. The tobacco reform began not by a positive pledge of abstinence but by the men in the night school, giving their pipes and tobacco to the ladies, "to see if they could stan' it", and they did stand it, and are happy in their second emancipation. Their pledge was that the first tobacco they used should be that which was left with the teacher. Their self respect and love for their teachers helped them to brave the miseries of