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HAMMOND, (Wesleyan| 4' Chairman of the District, and Resolved, 1st. That this meeting believing the Lecture just de- livered to be well calculated to promote a much n-eeded reform, and correct a growing evil, respectfully solicits a copy "f said Lecture for publication. 2nd. That a committee be appointed of the Ministers present, to print and circulate the same. I Ladi In my 1 myst that Be built that ( less > good hund shap( Good ing ] Musi Th tiou ' locoi puti* thin*. Tl wint titiec then] our cana own men soon Tl plica to til or to iieen delivered at a j the Evening ^^ ND, (Wesleyan) jecture just de- ' a much needed ctfully solicits a • i fi the Ministers ] PUFFING. Ladies and G-entlemen : In order that I may not envelope the weighty subject of my lecture in a cloudy obscurity, or be thought in a log myself, I must clearly define tht character of the puffing* that is, just now, the avowed object of my regard. Be sure that I do not include the fumigations of badly built chimneys, or ill-formed ovens; these are light evils that cannot at all times be avoided Nor do I mean the less wholesome and less pleasant puff from the pen of that good-hearted editor of your newspapers, wlio, for a few hundred cents, would puff all the sensele.-^s things in the shape of Candies, Patent Pills, Quack Medicines, Wet Groods, and Dry G oods, with all the half-educated, wander- ing prodigies, in the shape of self-styled Professors in Music, Mesmerism, Psycology, Phrenology, &c. This is pre-eminently an age of pulling, since the inven- tion of steam engines, men go through the world like a locomotive, puffing and blowing, for so much a mile. We puff ourselves, our neighbors, and our visitors, and every- thing we have, and a great many things we hav'nt. The times are hard, says B. to X. Come, let us raise the wind ; and off they go, pufii pull". B. puffs X and X. puffs B , until the community is persuaded they are both en- titled to a living, and that they have at leo.st exhausted themselves out of pure love for each otlu-r. Do not half our newspaper correspondents, letter writers, news agents, candidates lor office, and hangers-on, live by pulfiiio; ilieir own party, or the party whose own they would like to h , men who have got into office, or those who are hoping soon to gei in ? The pulfiirj;- now under consideration has no spei'iai ap- plication to the oiUs, or to the ins, to the wrong party or to the right one, to the church or to the chapel, to the rich or to the poor, for men of all classes and distinctions are seen paying devout attention to the smoky idol. HISTORY. Tin' iiiHueiice of Tobacco, as now used in community, oil tilt' physical, mi'ntal, and moral ugh. Hum bolt says, " the plant we call Tobacco has been culti- vated from time immemorial by the natives of Oronoko." It was not known to the Europeans till after the discovery of America; when Columbus and his followers arrived at Cuba, in 1492, they saw the ciyar smoked for the iirst time. It was not made as cigars are now, a leaf of tobacco was twiste I and pressed into a hollow stick, made in a forked manner, the two ends w^ere inserted into the nostrils, while the burning leaf, rolled up, was pressed into the other end, thus the smoker inhaled the sooty perfume until from the etl'ects of the narcotic, he fell down in ^ state of intoxica- tion and insensibdity. With the smoke, the Indian priests were ■«vont to stupify themselves, pretending to receive communications from the gods. So far from this habit being imitated by Colum- bus, or the first settlers in the New^ World, they looked upon it as a most barbarous custom. Hermandez de Toledo, introduced the plant into Spain and Portugal, and from Portugal, Joan Nicot sent the seeds to France ni 1560. From " Nirot " it receiA^ed its botanical { name j Drake smoki was amok J Itij into E puffin word drawi \i\ currec of Sir accusi the ro his mj maste and r " mast Sir" he wo this h ashes, the so( said, tl gold ir into g( inl; use. to drir "balm^ ' Whi their strong excom divine hibitr^i the pu Ten C adultei SIR WALTER. 6 in community, titution of our tliorno for the pist, and culln r> <'om<* to tht'if ' especially, be- t the luuks of to be furnished; iiul in respeotu- , our churehess, ti to use, or to in hood. regeta))les both poses, seems to lis intoxicated and riiny de- cases of obsti- has been culti- s of Oronoko." he discovery of ers arrived at [• the iirst time. of tobacco was ide in a forked nostrils, while the other end, until from the \te of intoxica- vont to stupify iiications from ted by Colum- d, they looked mt into Spain sent the seeds d its botanical I I I name Nicotine or Nicotiana. In 168(5, when Sir Francis Drake returned with the Virginia colonists, the practice of smoking was introduced into England. In ir)l'9, the weed was laken to India by a Portugese, ay.l it soon found its smoky way to other countries. It is admitted that Kalph Lane introduced the lust pipe into Europe ; but the honor of being th ' father of the English puffing club, belongs to Sir ^V alter Kuleigh; to him the word P-u-F-F was " a line of lengthened sweetness, long- drawn out." " It was about that time, that the well-known incident oc- curred, which does honor to the courage and common sense of Sir Waiter's servant. He went to bring his master his accustomed tankard of ale and nutmeg, but, on entering the room he observed smoke pouring forth in clouds from his master s mouth and nostrils, and concluding that his master was on fire, he dashed the cup of ale in his face, and ran ibr a bucket of water, crying out as he ran, " master's on fire, master's on fire." Sir Walter once laid a vager with Queen Elizabeth, that he would w^eigh all the smoke that came from the pipe, this he did, bj first weighing the tobacco, and then the ashes, the difference between the two was the weight of the soot and smoke. The Queen, when paying the wager, said, that although she had heard of many who had turned gold into smoke, he was the first, who had turned smoke into gold. In those early days, the term swoh iz/g- had not come into use. It was called " taking tobacco ;" they were also said to drink it, from the practice of swallowing part of the "balmy breath." « ENEMIES TO PUFFING. . ' M'hile on one hand "great men and. green worms" used their tobacco, kings, queens, divines, and physicians strons^ly denounced the smoky art. Pope Urban, YII. excommunicated all persons foundguilty of using it during divine service. In New England, laws* were en'dcted, pro- hibitnig its use on the Lord's day. In Switzerland, in 1()61, the public authorities placed the sin of smoking among the Ten Commandments, and immediately opposite thiit agains. adultery. The Sultan of Turkey, in 1720, made the use of 6 ENEMIES TO PUFKINO. tobacco a capital otleiice. At" one time smoking was for- bidden in Knssiu, on penalty ot" havinm" the nose cut olK King James 1. stands pre-eminent amon^^ those who opposed the school of pulhng. lie says, " 1 obacco is the lively image and pattern ol hell ; lor it hath, by allusion, in it all the parts and vices ol" the world whereby hell is g'uined. 1, It is a smoke — so are all the vanities of this world. 2. It delighteth them that take it — so do all the pleasures of the world deligJit men of the world. 3. It maketh men drunken and light in th(5 head — so do all the A'anities of the world. 4. It doth bewitch them so that they cannot leave it oil'— so do the pleasures of the world. 6. It is like hell in the substance of it, for it is a stinking, loathsome thing, and so is hell ; and llnally, were 1 to invite the devil to dinner, he should have three dishes. 1. A i)ig. 2. A poll and ling of mustard, and 3. Tobacco. Hav^e you not reason to forbear this lilthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received, so grossly misused." It is, says he, " a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, narmlui to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Among motlern opponents of the use of tobacco, the Rev. John Wesley, M. A., stands pre-eminent, and to this day the AVesleyan Church law forbids the admission of a candidate to orders, who is known touseSnuiti Tobacco, or Drams. TOBACCO, ITS NAME. A^ to the name it bears, Dr. Baird says it comes from the Indian word '■ Tabac" the name the iirst smokers gave to their pipe, which wo id, was, by mistake, given by the *^pania"tds to the plant itself. Huml)olt says, it is d«'rived from the word Tabasco, a Province of Yucatan in which the plant was knoyvn to grow. Others say, from Tobago, one of the Islands in the Gulf of Florida. Joshua Sylvester, an old author, says, that it derives its name from its nature, and its company, that it was first offered as incense to Bacchus. The ancients had divinities presiding over their fields, flocks, and herds, and iamilies. Such as Isis, Osiris, Horus, j Seraf f Merc they they his h thirst mug place j '^shag saloo] Hlthy 1 the S£i learnt and ti •Sav Thi Satani dark lokiiig was for- iioHc cut oil". iu<^ those who ' Tobacco is th« lih, l)y allusion, whereby hell is canities of this —so do all the tj world. 3. It . — so do all the lem so that they the world, o. , is a stiiildiii^-, were 1 to iuvite shes. 1. A pig. ceo. Have you .asely grounded, 3 eye, hateful to o the lungs, and rest resembling bottomless." of tobacco, the lent, and to this admission of a lutK Tobacco, or ; comes from th« rnokers gave to e, given })y the word Tabasco, a I was known to le Islands in the hat it derives its :hat it was lirst over their fields, 5is, Osiris, Ilorus, ITS NAME. 7 Serapsis, Jupiter, Urania, Venus, Adonis, Apollo, Hercules, Mercury, Bacchus, and a thousand others. To Hac(;hu8, they entrusted their vineyards, and all strong drink, and they were wont to sacrilice to " Baccho," and hold feasts to his honor This plant when eaten or smoked, creates a thirst for wine, or some liquid, and leads directly to the mug of beer, or to the pot of ale. The only becoming place for the custom of eating or smoking "y//^/at7," or " .sVm^'*," is in the house of Baccho, or Bacchus, and in our saloons and bar-rooms only should the i. apure incense of Hlthy smoke be found. Drinking and smoking come front the same source, and tend in the same direction. Says a learned gent, who had graduated in the School of puffing; and tippling: " Of cheering bowls I mean to sing the praise, And of tiic herb that can the poet's fancy raise ; Aid me, oh, father Phoebus, I invoke, Fill me a pipe, boy, of that fragrant smoke, That I may drink the god into my brain ; And so inspired, may write a noble strain." Says another would-be poet : " Which of their weapons hath the conquest goU Over their wits — the pipe or ale pot, For even the derivation of the name, Seems to allude to, and include the same Tobacco, as Ta-Bacca one would say, To cup-god, Bacchus, dedicated, aye." The same author says : Guns and tobacco pipes were of Satanic origin, and were foretold in the Apocalypse as the dark smoke from the bottomless pit : "Two smoky engines, in this latter age. (The shorter Satan's string, the sharper his mg«) Have been invented by too wanton wit, Or, rather vented from the infernal pit ; (runs and tobacco pipes, with tire and smoke. At least a third of mankind to choke, Which happily the Apocalypse foretold ; Yet of the two, we may, I think, be bold In Some respects, to think the last the worst, However, both in their effects accursed ; For guns shoot from-ward at their foen, Tobacco pipes homeward into their own. When, from the touch-hole, firing the wrong end. Into ourselves the poison's force we send.*" 8 ITS NATURE. i' TOBACCO, ITS NATURE Botiinists speak of Indian tobacco, cominonly known as Lobelia Inftata, having narcotic and emetic proper ties Also, of mountain tobacco, a j)lant having an acrid taste. , and stimulating and emetic properties, commonly called 1 Leopard' s-hane. \ The botanical name of common tobacco is Ni(!otianu ' Tabacum. It belongs to the same natural order af< Atro/ta j Belladonna, or Deadly Night Shade, and also to the Datura j Stramonium, or Thorn Apple, both of which are among the ' most powerful and deadly of the acro-narcotic poisons. Sylvester says : " Of all the plants that Tellus' bosom yields, In grove3, glades, gardens, marshes, mountains, tinlds, None 80 pernicious to man's life is knowiv^ As is tobacco, saving hemp alone. If there be any herb in any place. Most o[)posite to God's good herb of grace, 'Tis doubtless this ; and this doth plainly prove it, That for the most part graceless men do love it, Or, rather dote most on this withered weed, Themselves as withered in all gracious deed." Again : " If their tobacconiug be good, how is it That tHe lewdest, loosest, basest, foolishest. The most unthiifly, most intemperate, M ounces and one drachm, instead of one drachm an'd-a-hah by mis- take, was given to a stout man affected with ascarides In seven minutes he was seized with stupor, headache, pale- ness of the skin, pain in the bowels, indistinct articalation, and slight convulsive tremors, next slow, laborious breath- ing, then coma, and then death." The celebrated poet Santeuil was accidentally fciiled in this way at the table of a prince. A practical joker put a jiortion of tSpanish Snuff into his glass of wine, soon after drinking it he was attacked with the above symptoms, and expired in two days amid indiscribable tortures. Dr. Ogston, of Aberdeen, Scotland, attended a judicial investigation on the body of an elderly man, who visited a certain hous6 in perfect health, and in an hour was carried out insensible, the police took himto the watch-house, ob- serving that he tried several times to vomit, but could not. It was shown that he drunk some rum and that a powder of tobacco had been put into it^ to stupify him— on dissec- tion, the blood was found everywhere to be very fluid, and four ounces of serosity, or watery substance were collected f igle drop of th(^ ntry were well they used to dip ?aves, the arrows from slight llesh and even death ans are withheld . S. Its most re- le in large doses, muscles, tremb- ndency to faint, confused, pulse , the surface cold id in some eases L excessive doses, lausea,^ vomitnig, don of the vascu- '^ed by paralysis, ea of tw'^ ounces n*d-a-hali by mis- th ascarides In ", headache, pale- inct articulation, laborious breath- entally fciUed in ical joker put a wine, soon after 3 symptoms, and tures. ;nded a judicial ,n, who visited a louT wa« carried watch-house, ob- t, but could not. d that a powder him— on dissec- e very fluid, and e were collected ITS EFFECTS. n from the lateral ventricles and base of the skull, there were manifest evidences that he died from the eii'ects of tobacco. Dbath of a. Lad from Chewing Tobacco. — An inquest was liuld at Manches- ter lately' dn the' body of a lad aged 12, named John O'Neil, whose parents re- side in Green street, Ancoats. The deceased, had been employed at the works of Messrs. Brook & Waterworth, tobacco man-ufacturers, Sroithiield Market. About three weeks ago he complained of lightness and dizziuet; in bis head. He ceased work, and Dr. 0. H. Bradden was called in to attend him. The deceased seemed to have a constant disposition to sleep, ,w.ith loss of appetite, and he continued ill yiitil Monday week when he died. Dr. Bradden said that when he was called in ito attend the deceased, he had at first some doubts as to what was the matter with .him. The lad was very drowsy, complained of a pain in his stomach, and had a frequent desire to vomit There was great nervous depressions with a cold .clammy skin, and a very weak fluttering pulse. Witness attended him until death, and had since made a post mortem examination by order of the Coroner He found ,the mucus membrane of the stomach very much inflamed, the heart i)ale and flab- i)y, and the brain congested. The other organs were tolerably healthy. The mucus membrane of the stomach, and the covering of the mouth and throat were stained quite brown, and this must have been caused by the chewing and swallow- ing of tobacco. The cause of death was the absorption of nicotine, the poison- ous property of the tobacco. The chewing, in the case of so young a boy, would t)e sufficient to account for death. The jury returned a verdict of "Died from the absorption of nicotine." — Manchester Courier, Dr. Pereira, in his Materia Medica, says, ■' the practice of (,'hewing tobacco is conhjied to sailors, and we have less opportunity of marking its effects. Its use in that way deranges the stomach with dyspeptic symptoms, causes general nervous piostration, and more or less sympathetic derangement of the heart and other organs." Dr. Warren, " Chewing tobacco impairs the natural taste .^nd relish for food, lessen^-; the appetites, and weakens the powers of the stomach, and induces nervous diseases." Dr. Mussey, "It is a mistake to suppose that smoking to- bacco aids digestion — the very uneasiness which it were desirable to remove, is occasioned either by the pipe or the quid." If tobacco facilitates digestion, how comes it, that jStfter laying aside the weed in dll its forms most persons ex- perience an increase of appetite and digestive energy, and An accumulation of llosh ? Every medical man knows well that the saliva which is so copiously drained oif by the scandalous pipe and the infamous quid, is the first and most important agent which nature employs in digesting food. Men who used the pipe in the morning as an appe^ 12 ITS AfFKCTS. ^ ( I'l titer,, and after breakfast ji9 a digester, in the forenoon as a strengthener, and agaiii befoi^e dinner as an appetite*, atid after dinner as a digester, then three or four times during the afternoon and evening for the same cause, and before going to sleep as a reposer, have found that in a jail or penitentiary they were compelled to live without beinc slaves to smoke, and found out that they could eat, and work, and sleep without stenchifying themselves with the acrid juice, pungent dust, or poisonous smoke of tobacco. Dr. Charles Clay, of Manchester, England. '* The saliva secreted from the glands within the mouth, which ought to be pure and unadulterated, is strongly impregnated with the dust and smoke from a filthy pipe, is secreted in too large quantities, and drains the system of its strength, and brings on that very indigestion it was recommended to cure. Thus silently, slowly, but certainly the strong con- stitution is undermined, and that sallow, emaciated, nervous countenance shows th«^ enemy that has taken the citadel." Professor Hitchcock says, *• I group alcohol, opium, and tobacco together, as alike to be rejected, because they agree in being poisonous in their natures. In popular language, alcohol is placed among the stimulants, and opium and to» bacco among the narcotics, the ultimate effects of which upon the animal system is to produce stupor and insensi- bility, most of the powerful vegetable poisons, such as Henbane, Hemlock, Thorn- Apple, Prussic Acid, Deadly Nightshade, Foxglove, and Poison Sumach, have an effect on the animal system, scarcely to be jdistinguished from th^t of opium and tobacco. They impair the organs of ^ge^tion, and bring on fatuity, palsy, delirium, and apo* plexj- In those not acustomed to it, tobacco smoke excites uausea, vomiting, dizziness, indigestion, mental dejection, *'and in short, the whole train of nervous complaints." An eminent German writer states, ** that one-half the deaths occurring in that country, between the ages of ,.e.ighteen and twenty-live is attributable to the practice of 'smoking and chewing." Dr. Waterhouse says : — " I never observed so many pallid faces, and so many marks of declining health; I never knew so many hectical habits and consumptive aflfections as of late years ; and I trace this alarming inroad on young constituUons principftllf to the pernicious custom of smoking." the forenoon as a an appetites, atid four times during cause, and before that in a jail or ve without being ey could eat, and smselves with the Qoke of tobacco, md. ♦• rho saliva uth, which ought impregnated with is secreted in too t' its strength, and recommended to \y the strong con- maciated, nervous taken the citadel." cohol, opium, and ecause they agree popular language, nd opium and to» 5 effects of which upor and insensi- poisons, such as 5Sic Acid, Deadly ch, have an etiect stinguished from ir the organs of elirium, and apor ceo smoke excites mental dejection, omplaints." hat one-half the ^ reen the ages of to the practice of \ j %FF£CTSON TUESKAXN TOBACCO AND INSANITY. 18 ly raarlcs of declining mptive affections as of oatitutions prin'ci^a'llj^ lif anything can restrain our young men from the per* nicious nabit of tobacco-smokingf and chewing, it may be such warnings as are contained in the reports of their ter* rible results m France : From 1812 to 1832, the tobacco tax in France produced 28,000,000 francs, and the lunatic asylum contained 8,000 patients. The tobacco revenue has now reached 180,000,000, while there are 44,000 paralytic and lunatic patients in the hospitals ; showing that the increase of lunacy has Iccpt pace with the increase of this revenue of tobacco. These statistics, presented by M. Jolly to the Academy of Science, in connection with the closing words of his speech, containing a fright. ' ful warning to those now '.brming the pernicious habit of smoking, now increasing ; so rapidly : "The immoderate use of tobacco, and especially of the pipe, pro. ' 4uce a weakness of the brain and in the spinal marrow, which causes madness." Dr. Kirkbrid' , of Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, refers to four cases of insanity brought about through < smoking. The Kev. Adam Clarke, D. D , quotes from Dr. J. Borrhi, " that the brain of an immoderate smoker on dissection, was found dried and shrivelled up by his excessive use of the pipe." Dr. Solly, the eminent writer on the brain, says, in a late clinical lecture on that frightful and formidable malady, softening of the brain, '* I would caution you, as students, from excesses in the use of lobacco and smoking ; and I would advise you to disabuse your patients' minds of the idea that it is harmless. I have had a large experience of brain disease, and I am satisfied now that smoking is a most noxious habit. [ know of no other one cause or agent that so much tends to bring on functional Jisease, and, through this, in the end, to lead to organic dis- ease of the brain, as excessive use of lobacco." No man in Great Britain is so competent to speak on this subject as Dr Solly. I may here remark, that the testi- monies I have collected on these subjects are from the most eminent men in their profession in Europe and America, TOBACCO AND THE EYE, A shoemaker, a great smoker, whose sight had faile<\ called on Dr. Alexander, the celebrated occulist, the Di . examined his eyes, and said to the man, that short pipe stuck into your mouth is doing it all, yoa have destroyed your nerves and burnt your eye bolls out of their sockets." I '■I 14 EFFECTS ON THE EYE. Among the usual symptoms caused by tobacco are the Ibllowing, as attested by thirty eminent M. D.'s : Spitting up Food, Paiu in. the Stomach, Acidity, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Disrelish for simple articles of Food and Drink, Eructations, Flatulency, Constipation, Constipation alter- nating with Diarrhoea, ralpitation, Tremulousiiess of nerve, Fullness in the Head, Giddiness, Stupor, Depression of Spirits, Weahiess of the Eyes, Losi of Vision^ loss of liesh, in some cases Tendency to Flesh, General Derangement of the Liver, Pallor of the Countenanc^e and Sallowness. There are in Canada some melancholy cases, in which excessive smokinff destroved the organs ot vision. S N U F F 1 N (} . But what of that elegant snijtfbox ? ——' Oil, how it tingles up, . ^ , The titillated nose, and fills the eyes, . . • . And breast, till in one comfortable sncexe^ The full collected pleasure bursts at last." Sneezing powders were in vogue long before we learned to smoke tobacco. Ever, since the days of Hippocrates, w^ho used sternutatories, or nose dust. Old snuti'ers become lead to the acute sensation of sneez- ing, and mix pounded ulass with the snuli" so as to give it a greater degree of acrimony, and to stimulate the living membrane of the nostrils. Salt is also mixed with it to give it a greater pungency. You would ill compliment r the quality of the dust, if you said it w^as not to be sneezed f at. The more you sneeze, the more jou compliment the dust. It was \ Shakspear And A po Heg In the Ci a spoon ; £ dust from times have day. Snuff is I serves the ation of pe of Salt, the have their snuff to be nose, he sir F D n A T A \ SNUFFINrt. ir, are the ;pitting Loss of Drink, 1 alter- f nerve, jsion of tlesh, in it of the which It was probable to the use of this cephalic powder that Shakspcare refers.in his play of Henry IV. It reads thus: " He was perfumeil like a milliner, And twixt liia finger and liis tluitnb he held A pouncet box, which ercr and anon He gave his nose '' In the early records of snuffers we are told that they used a spoon ; ana then a brush or hare's ibot, to brush off the dust from the upper lip. Some of the Octocrenarians of our times have been known to empty two and three boxes a day. Snuff is said to be quite an auxiliary to sociability, it serves the office of the Indian Calumet for the reconcili- ation of personal difficulties ; the Pipe of Peace, the Grain of Salt, the Pinch of Snuff, in savasje and half civilized life have their own power. One enthusiastic rhymstor claims snuff to be far in advance of the pipe, and as he tickles his nose, he sings : Oft looks the votary to smoke, Unsotiial, diimb, and gruff; jBut many a brain -tickling joke Hath owed its breath to snuff. For trgumeftta' or satire's sake, We might each other huff, Did we not learn to give and take' By interchanging snuff. learned .pocrates, of sneez- o give it le living ith it to npliinent sneezed ment the 1 The piper rtiust avoid the fair Wlio loaths tobacco's puff; But unohtrusi'vt is the air Which men acquire froin Snull'; Another kind t)f ba>ccy box Is used by Sailorn rough : The way Uiey rhoose, rertucment .shnck.* ; But— Chcstei-fielrt took Miuffi I've taken it five-aiKi-thirtv re«rs ; . At fifty, still I'm tough ; And if my seventies it cheer*, m yet be apt to snuff. 16 ■NUFFINO. Another still more attentive to his nos? eafs -; '* Knows be, that never took a pinch Nosey 1 the pleasure thence which flows T Knows he the titillating joy Which my nose knowi. Ob, nose t I am as fond of thee As any mountain of its snovfs, I gaze on thee, and fe^i the pride A Roman knows." Napoleon was an inordinate lover of snuff. He took a large spoonful into his nose when on the field of V7aterloo. He wrote to one of his Generals, ''the battle is ours" — but before the next hour, he found to his surprise, that the Duke of Wellington, who never used tobacco in any form, was up to snuff. The powder of Tobacco proved a poor aux-' iliary to fortify him against the powder of the enemy. In the Court of Chancery, in England, Curran, the eloquent Irish Barrister, was making a strong appeal to the Judges, when his opponent, tried every way to divert his attention, and destroy the force of his arguments, at lastj findikig that Curran was making out a strong point, he arose, and ofJ'ered the orator a pinch of snuff, Curran, turned most politely to his opponent, and said with be* coming gravity, had my nose been designed for a dust hole, it would not, sir, I imagine, have been placed upside down. But let us hear of the mental and physical effects of snufhng. I will give only a few quotations from the most eminent writers on the subject : Dr. Lanzoni states, ' that an individual in Lis practice, fell into a deep slumber and died, lethargic on the twelfth day, in consequence of taking too much snuff. Uv. Front says, " that most severe and peculiar dyspeptic symptoms are produced by inveterate snuff taking is a fact known to all tht; profession. 1 have^ more than once seen such cases terminate fatally, with malignant diseases of the stomach and liver." Dr. Solly says, " the free use of snuff is very detrimen- tal to the brain and nervous system." Dr. Bowman says the least evil that you can expect from the use of snuff, is, to dry up the brain, emaciate the body, enfeeble the memory, promote indigestion, wd entirely de- stroy the delicate senae of smelling. . " li tireiy rosy cl tioji," of him tejideii, neud, g, imder t "■«quen ^^dvd hit of the spirits, a «^» ibrm iums." • I'epute. . ^r. «aj siiice the jiisease h have kuo\ veterate si The ceU <^^d custc country^ iL putJeinan] ^^iiger audi tts if he w/ t^i-usts, aiL Vt3st, or iioj gild satisiil fcome, he s| ''^^ic sjiuifitj and to whf severe snuj with aJi uij others basl generally a dusting thi J>lediciiie, i effect of th. peevish, irr i; [ KiNUFFlNG. 17 ook a erloo. -but Duke 1^ was r aux- n, the peal tcr divert 3nts, at oint,lie 3uTraTi, ith be- st hole, } down, ffects of e most )Tacticef twelftb lyspeptic ^ is a fact lice seen [es of the letrimew' 3ct from the body, Itirely de- *' The most delicate females have their complexion en- tirely ruined by ISiiuli', for a little dust they sacriiice a rosy cheek, an enfeebled memory, and a sound constitu- tion." " You can always see the weed in the complexion of him or her who is a sLve to it " " 8nuHing- lias a strong- tendency to encourage a determination of blood to the head, giving rise to apoplexy." Snutf keeps many females tinder the continued iniluence of hysteria, and gives an early stamp of age to many a young man and maiden. It frequently causes dyspepsia, produces symptoms as il' a hard indigested substance -vas pressing on the tender part of the stomach, it produces remarkable dejiiession of spirits, and a gloomy and distrustful spirit." "Snuft-tak- ers form a large proportion of the inmates of Lunatic Asy- lums." These statements are from gentlemen of highest repute. Dr. Salmon says, " More people have died of apoplexy since the use of iSnult', in one year, than have died of that disease in a hundred years before. Almost every one I have known die of late of that dreadful disease, were in- veterate snulfers." The celebrated Leigh Hunt, says of Snuffing ; — " It is an odd custom, which if met with suddenly in a foreign country, it would make us split with laughiu"'. A grave gentleman takes out his casket from his pocket, puts in linger and thumb, and with the most serious air possihl(\ as if he was doing the most important action of his lile, thrusts, and keeps thrusting at his nose, shakes head, (>r vest, or nose, or all three, as if he had lully done his duty and satisiied the most serious claims of his well-being. Some, he says, take it by lits and starts, those are epigram atic snutf-takers, who come to the jioint as fast as. possible, and to whom pungency is everything ; such use a sharp severe snuff, a sort of essence of pin-points, some take it with all urbanity and x^olished demeanor — some irritably, others bashfully, some in a manner as dry as the dust its^df, generally with economy, others with a lavish prolusion, dusting their clothes and furniture, followed with a sniil and a great bah !" The Professor of Surgery in the Vermont Academy of Medicine, in 1831, was an inveterate Snuft-taker ; and the effect of the habit on his. nerves and temper, rendering him peevish, irritable, and lickle— was obvious to all his students f i ! I 18 SNUFFINO AND ABSOKPTION'. and friends. He died lately in a lunatic asylum, from in- sanity, produced by the use of ynufi'. Governor SuUiTan says, "■ His brother killed himself by Snuif" Dr. Twitchell believed that Tobacco caused many of the sudden deaths on record, as it poisoned the fountains of life and brought on diseases of the brain and heart. A college of Physicians, gave their opinion that in our country, America, 20,000 die annually by the use, in vari- ous ways, of the weed I have shown, I think, sufficient evidence of the fatal consequence arising from the use of tobacco, when applied to the animal frame internally. 1 will only quote one or two instances of its poisonous effects when applied exter- nally. It is not necessary to smoke it, or chew it, or snulf* it, or drink it, by making an infusion of it. It is such a deadly poison that animal life ca?inot endure its approach and liv^e. It would be a very simple experiment to make an infusion of tobacco, and bathe your arm and chest in it,, and yet by so doing, you wo\ild be convinced that you had admitted a most fatal foe into the citadel. The siualt q^uantity taken up by the absorbents would produce the most alarming consequences. The experiment would not be so marked on a person whose system had been under the influences of Tobacco. Dr. Clay,, of Manchester, England, gives the following : '• A little boy agsd 8 years, had been long aflfected with tinea capitis, or Scald Head. His father applied the juice of tobacco to the diseased skin. The fluid was applied five minutes to 2 p. m., the child aln^ost immediately complaia> ed of giddinesSj and loss o£ sight ; so that his father said smilingly, '^ the boy Li drunk," he soon became quite sick, his limbs tottered, face grew pale, was covered- with a cold sweat, was helped to bed, grew paler and very thirsty, his limbs be- came motionless and at 5.30 he expired." The tea of tobacco applied to the pit of the stomach, causes fainting, giddiness, vomiting, and cold sweats. The tea, when applied to sores, ulcers, ringworms, has been known to cause fainting and convulsions. Orphila, the celebrated FreJich writer on poisons, says, " A woman applied to the heads of her children to cure a disease of the scalp, an ointment made of pulverized to- bacco and butter, the little ones soon experienced dizziness, vomiting and profuse sweats." I A Itirmt tov/n one parcels ot parcels in the horse : which wa^ symptoms thought he no cause U bacco he h this fully t A farme] *>f Tobaccc sheep that mortificatic ly ones) die some days 1 months bef A little b hired man ; the end thai and sick, aii all peed fo cousciousnt There is ; besides smd The leaf is plugged wi young Cana is a luxury people, that the practice or Montreal soon have, i with th=^ ide become fash Dr. Clay tail is praci mation of k ABsimrnoN. 19 A. farmer living north of Napanec, Canada West, rode to tov«^n one morning on a fine young liorse, he bought two paT«;els of tobacco and put them with ionio other small parcels in a bag across. on the horse, the prespiration from the horse moistened the weed, and it gave forth its poison, which was taken up by the absorbents. The horse showed symptoms of dulness, weakness, stupor, and the owner thought he would have died. The Horse Doctor could lind no cause for the sudden attack, until he heard of the to- bacco he had carried seven or eisrht miles across his loins ; this fully explf'ined the cause of the trouble, A farmer I could name, was advised to make an infusion cf Tobacco and apply it along the neck and spine of some sheep that were lousy. He did so, and to his very great mortification, he found eleven of the ewes, (the more weak- ly ones) died next day, the more robusi: lived, lingering for some days before they recovered, two of them were some months before they were considered safe. A little boy was sent to purchase a plug of tobacco for a hired man ; on his way to the field he nibbled a corner off the end that was uncovered, he staggered, and grew blind, and sick, and faint, was borne to his mother, who sent with all peed for Dr. S. After some hours he was restored to cousciousness, and in a few days recovered. PLUGGING. There is yet another way men learn to use the weed, besides smoking, chewing, and snuffing, i. e., " plugging," The leaf is moistened and rolled, and the nasal organs are plugged with the leaf. It is said to be a rich treat (?) Our young Canadians have not as yet learned the new art, this is a luxury in store lor them. We are such an imitative people, that if a run-away Arab or Japanese sKould bring the practice with him to one of our large cities, Toronto, or Montreal, or even to New York or Boston, we should soon have, in town and country, young men so enamoured with th^- idea of a plug in each nostril, that it must soon become fashionable, and then of course necessary. Dr. Clay says : " Plugging the nostrils with a roll of pig- tail is practiced in some parts ; fortunately this consum- mation of iilthiness is not very prevalent in this country \\ 20 HAUITS Jjo they make tj that they d( But they sedative, an< ii't us have { cigar," are s opium and 1 VVhat were to one of h] urged to tell o they impart tone and vigor to the mind ? Do they make the tongue more eloquent i I can find no proof that they do. But they have an opposite effect, tobacco smoke acts as a sedative, and checks the How of ideas. The phrases, "come, let lis have a quiet pipe," *' come, let us have a comfortable cigar," are significant oi this sedative action, and yet uiiliko opium and hi'iibane, it does not generally dispose to sleep. VVhat were you chewing so briskly to-day said a minister to one of his elders, the man smiled and blushed, when urged to tell, he said, I knew you could'nt preach if I slept, ^o I eat tobacco to keep me awake. What a pity that the good elder, w^ho thought so much of his dear minister, had not tried the effect of what Sammy Hick calls, a " bit of prayer." OFFENSIVE AND INDECENT. 3. It is a most vulgar and indecent habit. A young man step'd into a watch-maker's last week, to purchase a ring, during the few minuti^s he was there he filled the shop 22 OFFENSIVE AND INDECENT. with HHioke, sent out Heveral lonjz; P-ti-f-f-h into the face of the ch'rk, h^'smeared the counter and lloor with the saliva i'rom his lilthy mouth, and left without purchasing any- thing, saying, "" I'll call again." If the smoke was smoke from burning pine, or maple, it would be bad enouij^h. If pure UAOCA smoke, worse and worse ; but when he had mixed the barca smoke with his iilthy and impure breath, and the stench from his dirty, rotten teeth, and lilthy mouth, and then sent three or four whiffs into the face of the younj»: gentleman, the clerk, and filled the shop with his polluted and pollutinff smoke, and assured the owner, and the clerks, that when they had suificiently breathed the vitiated air, he would come and puff and spit again. I said to my- self, the law should apply a rod to that young man's back. Solomon would require a good many rods if he lived in our day.— Prov. 10, 13. On this point I cannot allov/ myself to speak all 1 think. I have been so often insulted in the shop, post office, V^otel, steamboat, rail car, committee room, and such places, 1 might use too strong language. I prefer to make others speak. Hear Rev. H. W. Beecher. *< It is the most filthy and vulgar of all practices. Xt is the result of imitation. Boys of tender age aping the filthy vices and impure practices of their elders.'' Dr. R T. Trail, " It is difficult to find, among the thou- sand ways that human beings have worked out the prob- lem of sensual depravity, a habit more intrinsically filthy and indecently disgusting than smoking, chewing, and snuffing this noxious weed*' Hon. Horace Greely says: " I wish that some budding Elia not a slave to narcotic sensualism, would favor us with an essay on '' The Natiu-al affinity of Tobacco with Blackguardism." The materials for it are abundant, and you have only to open your eyes or you nostrils in any city or town promenade, in any village bar-room to find yourself confronted by them. Is Broadway sunny yet airy, with an atmosphere general and inviting; so that bachelors and fair maidens throng the side-walk, glad to enjoy a walk and not unwilling to be admired. Hither, as Satan into Paradise, but not half so gentlemanly, comes the host of tobacco smoking loafers, to puff, puff their detested fumes into the faces and eyes of purity and loveliness, to spat- ter the walk and soil the costly dresses of the promenaders with their vile ex- ])ectorations. After them comes the chewers with their quids and spittle, indus- triously polluting the fair face of earth as their precursor) poisoned the sweet breath of heaven. I have intimated that the tobacco consumer is — not indeed oeccsiarily an and chewing •( uucorrupted hc chewer insists unconscious of letters before ij gentlemen, traj public hall, an( twelve smokers beneath the not I'lifi; gradually of some foul pc tracting the au( "If he who V and annoyance dulgence which a blackguard^ v what does ? I ( however steep t of the b'hoys, a I'll agree to find O. S. Fov " I have seen compare at all i pan bly less filti is disgusting, bi tobacco puddle ' mouth ! Tlieu ^ about a decent Boul destroying ' But if ^ol all the impi The teeth a smell like tl else the moi tobacco-eatc We are to improved b sion is, that ficrs, school a very cone smokmg hij living, you asylum. OFFKNBiVK AND INDECENT. '2,^ face of saliva ig aiiy- snioke rh. If ac had breath, mouth, ! youiifj olluted lid the vitiated to my- 's back. J in our I think. (», Viotel, places, 1 B others f imitation, elders .*' he thou- lie prob- ly hlthy nff, and lism, would {guardism." eyes or you Rnd yourself lere general alk, glad to to Paradise, fors, to puff, less, to spat- heir rile ex- nttle, indus- Bd the sweet — not indeed oeccHiarily and inevitably, but naturally und nsuully u bluck^'iard, tliiil uniuliing and chewing -tends in tiiat direction. If any man can doubt it, let liini ride with uncorrupted senses in tiic stage or oinnibusscH wliich the tobacco smoker and chewcr indists on defiling with the liquid product of his incesstiiil labors, seeming unconscioud of its utter offeurfiveaess ''N(i smoking allowed iieie," is in largi; letters before his eyea, and yet he putt's and spits in the presence of ladies and gentlemen, transforming the car or buss into a miniature tophet. Or go to the public hall, and even some churc lies, and innidc the doors and lobbies* ten or twelve smokers have commenced, and with a long-nine i)rojecting horizontally from beneath tiie now of each, a fire ut one end and a fool at the other, they puff, j)ufl', puff, gradually transforming the atmosphere, none too pure at the best, into that of some foul pestilential cavern, choking the utterance of thi speaker, and dis- tracting the audience," " If he who will selfishly, recklessly, and impudently inflict so mucli(li8C(»mfort and annoyance on many in order that ho may enjoy at a particular place an in- dulgence which could as well be enjoyed where no one would suffer by it, be not a blaukguard, who can be? If such conduct does not indicate bad breeding, what) does ? I (4o not say that every smoker or chewer is necessarily of that cla-s, however steep the inroclivity that way, Ixi* show me a gtniiitie blackguard— one of the b'hoys, and no niiatake— who m not a lover of tobacco ia sottie shape, aad I'll agree to find you two white blackbirds." O. S. Fowler says i " I have seen many disgusting pictures ©f the filthiness of chewing, bnt none comjyarc at all with the reality. Street-sweeping and sink-cleaning are incom- pan biy less filthy than tobacco eating and smoking. The dog re-eating his vomit^ is disgusting, but tobacco-spittle more so^ Wl»ata concentration of vileness is a tobacco puddle ? How utterly nauseating and loatlisome if retaken into th» mouth! Then was it not quite as vile when expelled from the mouth ? Talk about a decent man chewing tobacco ! What can be more body defiling and Boul destroying ?" ' But if tobacco ch-ewers could spit out witb their quids, all the impurities oi' the weed, less evil would be done. The teeth and gums are soaked in it, until they look and smell like the filthy juice in the spittoon. Of all things else the mouth should be clean.- Of all other things the tobacco-eater's mouth is the very essence of defile oaeat. We are told that pork, fish, beefV and venison are much improved by a week in the smoke-house, and the conclu- sion is, that the habit of smoking in our stores, shops, ot- hers, school-rooms, and churches is not so very bad. Not a very conclusive argument, not very. If you saw a man smokmg his horses, hogs, sheep, and horned cattle, while living, you would txxiuk him a fit subject for the lunatic- asylum. 24 OFFENSIVE AND INDECENT'. Query. — Do the smoking habits of the present age ac- count in any way for the large number of rusty, musty, fusty, crusty old bachelors in all our communities ? Like smoked hams, some of them are dried almost to excess. ♦' May never lady press his lips, His preferred love returning, Who makes a furnace of his mouth, And keeps his chimney burning! May each true woman shun his sight, For fear his fumes might chok« her, And none but those who smoke themselves Have kisses for a smoker.'' I would not exclude smokers from the privilege of mat- rimony, I would only enjoin upon th^ young man to look up a smoker for his wife, on the principle, that " what is good for the gander is good for the goose," it is more than probable, that such a couple, would turn out to be both gooses. We hear now and then, of female smokers, seldom of ehewers ; " out West a foraging party in Illinois, called at a house and found a woman and three girls all chewing tobacco," one of the party remarking, " that she was the first woman he ever saw chewing tobacco," the old woman exclaimed, " Wall, no, w^har was you brought up ? Never seen a woman chaw bacca, gess you haint been round much, don't you have any ladies w^iar you Y^'as raised ?" It is not the mouth, lips, and teeth only that are rendered filthy by its use. The breath, especially of tobacco-smokers, is most impure. Meet a man on the street or in the shop, who has graduated in the school ©f puffings and you can hardly take breath, the stench is so powerful. The lungs are one of those doors through which the system casts out noxious matter. The system abhors alcohol, and accord- ingly rejects it at every breath. So tobacco loads the breath of the smoker, tobacco smoke in th(^ mouth, throat, nostrils, passes into the system and is rejected, as an intruder, and thrown ofl' through the lungs. The lungs essentially con- sist of hollow vesicles, or air cells, so numerous that what- ever we inhale affects a surface as large, at least, as the sur- face of the whole body. Smoke is something— it is not n3thing — the smoke of the wood is the dust of the wood mixed wit bacoo with Rev. Jo] " No, I am r see a man taki the smoke is ni system, and as thrown ; so do Why, then, it n ened, simply fo that take up fro them into the c Here the in the breat Hon, corrup It would your visito; stranffer ha( used by an( vulgar to 63 iilthy pipe, your decaye is not the m If you wa temperanqe Where men hours togeth the, stoves, ar —but I forb Governor Pow story-telling and Hshing a persona ful in eJectioneerii the weed himself, was iu Henderson ing characteristic A citizen of He ^er who made inq " He lives in yo " Yes, one of oi "Very sociable " Remarkably sc « Well, I though OFFENSIVE AND INDECENT. 25 ge ac- misty, Like iSS. )f maii- to look what is re than be botli dom of lailed at hewing as the womau Never much, iidered mokers, le shoi), you. can e lungs asts out accord- ; breath nostrils, ler, and lly con- it what- the sur- is not e wood mixed with the carbon and the gases. No man smokes to- bacco without inhaling tobacco. Rev. John Wesley once said : " No, I am not astonished at that ; I will not be a-stonished any more, when i see a raaa taking smoke into his moath tor the sake of letting it out again ;" but the smoke is not all let out again, it is absorbed into the blood and tissue of the system, and as smoke blackens the chimney and walls of a room upon which it is thrown ; so does tobacco smoke render the lungs and blood and brain impure. Why, then, it may be asked, are not the air cells and cavities of the mouth black- ened, simply for this reason, that there are thousands of absorbents, or fine vessels, that take up from' those surfaces the fine tobacco deposited by the smoke, and'' carry them into the circulation. Here then we have it ! tobacco in the pipe, in the mouth, in the breath, in the blood, in the brain, in the entire circular lion, corrupting all the tbuntains of life. It would be thought exceedingly vulgar, ,to sit down your visitor to table, to eat ofi' the plate from which a stranger had just eaten, or to use the knife and fork just used Dy another, without washing, but how much more vulgar to expect your visitor to breath the smoke from your lilthy pipe," rendered more filthy, as it came in contact with your decayed teeth and your lilthy mouth. Tobacco smoke is ^ot the most healthy thing to give to your visitors. If you want specimens of the vulgar, look to oTir halls of temperanqe and our lecture rooms, our stores and hotels, where men meet on business, or pleasure, and spend a few hours together — w^hat cataracts of saliva are mouthed round; the, stoves, and wood boxes, and corners of seats and benches —but I forbear, it is disgusting. Even to read of it. Governor Powell, of Kentucky, was never an orator, but bis couversation, story-telling and social qualities were remarkable. His great forte lay in estab- lishing a personal intimacy with every one he met, and in this way he was power- ful in electioneering. He chewed immense quantities of tobacco, but never carried the wf,evi himself, and was always begging it of evei-y one he met. His residence was iu Henderson, and in coming up the Ohio, past that place, I heard the follow- ing characteristic anecdote of him : A citizen of Henderson, coming on board, fell into conversation with a passen- j^er who made inquiries about Powell. " He lives in your place, I believe, don't he ?" «' Yes, one of our oldest citizens." "Very sociable ?" ' " Remarlcably so." '"Well, I thought so. I think he is one of the most social men I ever met in all 26 CAUSES INTEMPEEANCE. my life. Wonderfully sociable. I was introduced to him over at Grayflon Springs' hut summer, and he hadn't been with me ten minutes, when he begged all the tobacco I had, got hia feet up in my lap, and spit all over me. Remarkably •ociable." As a habit, it is more or less connected with the eWl of intemperance. It if a fact that most of those men who were once pledged in sacred promise to abstain from intoxicating drinks, who have broken their pledu;es, are men, who, au the while kept up the habit of smoking, and in the com- pany of smokers, you will always find drinkers. Says Dr. A. Clarke, " Have you not seen that the use of tobacco leads to drunkenness? Do you not know that habitual smokers have the drink at hand,, and use it, and is it any wonder, for the great quantity of moisture which is drawn ofl' from the mouth by this means, creates a thirst for stimulants. You may well tremble, says the Dr., for you are in danger." ' Says Dr. W. A. Alcott, " Tobacco smoking feeds the love of strong drink in two ways. First, by creating that mor- bid thirst which water never satisfies. Secondly, it so far impairs the appetite for food, as to render an extra stimulus necessary, which stimulus is sought for in strong drink. Tobacco in the mouth and blood heats the system, creates thirst, and water to him is insipid, hence he nies to strong drink. Let the Temperancs men beware of tobacco in every form, it is one source of the deadly stream that flows through our land. Says Dr. Burdell, '* Those who use tobacco throw off the fluid designed for the stomach, consequently that thirst which craves the ale and then the rum." Says Dr. Rush, "Tobacco smoked or chewed renders simple fluids insipid, hence the brandy for the cigar smoker, and I dare assert that ninety-five cases out of every hun- dred, who smoke and chew, if they be not drinkers now, will soon be." It is policy for the saloon keeper to puff himself, and furnish pipes for the young boys and young men, by them they create a thirst, and brandy brings cash. It is an expensive habit. An ordinary smoker told me he paid for his indulgence of the weed, not less than flO a year. Three cigars a day amounts to about $40 a year. Six cents a day for cigars for forty years, with interest, amounts to $3,374. A young man assured a friend of his that he s each, wh his healtj Upwards . Dr. Ah five cent themselvi would an off" in sm< Says Di -annually : million fo Anothei "The cost which is at lea description, an eign missions. You all dollars a y( everything tobacco. A nose them feed and cJ giy^ a shii honest and) incessantly] smoke. ' ■" l^achurchl five for preachit the eye of a nee communicant so dren the cheap ll other provisions worth of tobacc It is well knoj chew it, though f flian, civilized ai noxious plant?"! The Earll takes to the for the agrJ ^g sixteen IS EXPENSIVE. 27 1 Spring* ,d all the oaarkablf e^al of e once icating vho, all ie com- 2 use of )W that b, and is /v^hich is a thirst Dr., for th3 love tiat mor- it so far stimulus Irink. 1, creates ;o strong )bacco in bat flows »w off ^hjB at thirst renders r smoker, p^sry hun- kers now, er to puff nd young •ings cash. old me he han tlO a 10 a year, h interest, end of his that he smoked fourteen cigars a day, at about two cents each, which made over one hundred dollars a year, it hurt his health he said, and he reduced the number to seven. Upwards of $50 puffed off yearly. Dr. Alcott says he knew a family that consumed twenty- five cents a week, were very poor, could scarcely find themselves in bread. This with interest for forty years would amount to more than $3,100, a handsome sum to go off in smoke. Says Dr. Coles, " The American churches pay $5,000,000 Annually for tobacco in all its forms, and less than one million for foreign missions." Another writer says : " The cost of the tobacco consumed annually in the United States is $1 7,000,000, which is at least three times the amount ezpeaded for religious purpose of every description, and fifty times the amount contributed by all denominations for for. eign missions. How large a part of this sum is paid by professing Christians 7' You all know poor families who spend ten and twelve doUars a year in smoke. Their houses smell of it, clothes ^ everything about them is filled with the offensive smell of tobacco. As soon as they enter a shop or church, you can nose them a long way off. They can't afford it, they can't feed and clothe their children, can't pay their bills, can't give a shilling a year to any good cause, can't even be honest and pay for the bacca; and yet they smoke and puff incessantly. Is it Christian to cheat your creditors for smoke, ■"lea church member justified in paying fifteen dollars a year for it, and oaly five for preaching ? Can such a Christian (?) with a pipe in his mouth, get througk the eye of a needle and enter heaven ? What are the celestial prospects of the communicant so poor that he can pay nothing for preaching, nor afford his chil> dren the cheap luxury of a spelUng book, yet, when Saturday comes, lays in, among other provisions for the Lord's day, thirty cents worth of meat and twenty eenii worth of tobacco ? It is well known that this poisonous weed will kill dumb beasts. Indiani may chew it, though it is degrading for them to hanker after it. How can a Caucas- sian, civilized and Christianized, pollute his mouth and injure bis nerves with this noxious plant?" The Earl of Stanhope makes a calculation of the time it takes to the snuff-box, allowiuj? only one and a-half minute for the agreeable ceremony of preparing to sneeze, allow- ing sixteen hours to every snuff-taker's day, in forty yearg 2S IS EXPENSI'E. the man spends two entire years of his life engaged in tickling his nose. TV ho caiji fully calculate the time lost in iisingj or time lost with tobacco, and the whole expense to community! If our Couixcil would pass a by-law that those young men should eat up, or swal- low down, or puff out, or snuff in, one ^nd a-half miles of plug in the next forty years, at so many inches per day, we would have a rebellion. Many a young man pays more for this needless indulgence than for his edu- cation. Many a man will die, and leave his family without a cent, who pays more for this weed than would have paid for a life assurance of two thousand dollars. On the authori- ty of McGregor it is said that New York City pays daily 110,000 for tobacco smoke and saliva. It is estimated that there are fourteen hundred cigar manufacturers in the United States, employing seven thou- sand hands, assuming that each makes twenty-five hun- dred a week, which is as few as he could live by, the total per week makes sev<>nteen million liye hundred thousand, and in forty-eight weeks they make eight hundred and forty million dollars. The annual expenditure including pipes, cigars, and snuff, is estimated at thirty million doUarg. This is by far too low an estimate for the article, but, if we include the fhnr wasted in puffiing, snuffing, and sneez- ing, &;c.. Dr. Alco+^i says we have one thousand millions of dollars. Enough "kioney to build two railroads round the earth, sixteen railro^s to the Pacific, enough to build one hundred thousand churches at teii thousand dollars each, five hundred thousand school houses at two thousand dollars each, employ one million ministers and teachers at one thousand dollars each, it would support three millions of young men at college at three hundred and fifty dollars eacn. The tobacco used would, in & few years, pay the national debt. Cut these figures down one-half— cut them down to suit your own notions, even then, if you ptg a Christian, a patriot, a frieiid of God or man, you will noik trifle with this stupendous iniquity. Are you a professor of religion ? Do you indeed pray for the spirit of purity to cleanse you from all defilement, that you may be a " vessel fit for the master's use," that "your body may be a temple of the Holy Grhost," " that your body may be a member of Christ," " tj^at you may present your body a living sacrifice, holy and accf'ptable," " that Christ may be Goa in how cai your m< It with So, CO to the J iK)bler a Rev. J religion chewing the chu; ^5ome ini earth! e; faction a and thei: to appea: destitute tual cpiK Of sm say, that at presei] men gres their mii the child "Some practice i curj;ain, £ I wish tain vessi good bre( quently i their imp be ever k To sun ;Our youn; and wlio loss of tin science, i( ^f the imi IN THE CHXJHCH. 29 .ged in me lost ' whole pass a r swal- f miles inches tig matt lis edu- without ,ve paid aathori- ys daily jd cigar 311 thou- ive hun- the total lousand, Ted and icluding 1 dollars, e, but, if id sneez- millions Is round to build d dollars lousand achers at millions y dollars , pay the cut them ^ou ^'.re a will not eed pray filement, lat "your our body sent your at Christ may be magnitied in your body," " that you may glorify Goa in your body," then, with these requests on your lip, how can you have the quid in your teeth, and smoke in your mouth, how can you ste^chify .that body and saturate lit with tobacco? ♦' If e'en from the bocly'8 purity, the tniod Receives a secret, sympathetic aid," 8o, conversely, it is true that the body's impurity impart^ to the mind a sympathetic depravation of iis higher and nobler attributes. Eev. A. Clarke, D. D., L. L. D., says, " to the scandal of r^^ligious people the abominable customs of smoking and chewing tobacco have found their way to the house of Grod, the church is scandalously abused by tobacco chewers, Some indeed take it, they say, to help their devotions. O, earth ! earth ! earth ! I cannot hear, says one, to my satis- faction and advantage Without it, it quickens m y attention, and then I profit by the jsermon. iSuch perso^is are unlit to appear in Grod's house, and show that they are wholly destitute of the spirit of piety and of a Lieiise of their spiri- tual cpndition. Of smoking persons, he says, I am sorry to have it to say, that this idle and disgraceful custom prevails much at present among ministers of most denominations ; these men greatly injure their own usefulness, they smoke away their ministerial importance in the families where they visit, the children and servants pass jokes on the piping parson.' " Some of the most disagreeable things relative to the practice against which I have written, are still behind the curj;ain, and designedly there, and it is there alone, where I wish every persevering smoker to seek for a cer- tain vessel named a spittiiiff-dish, which, to the abuse of good breeding and the insmt of all delicate feeling, is fre- quently introduced into public company. May they and their implements, while engaged in this abprninabie work , be ever kept out of sight." To sum up all in a few words, as a closing thought for ,our young men who are commencing to learn the evil habit, and who ought to count the cqst There is loss of money loss of time, loss of health, loss of friends, loss of a good con- science, loss of mind, and loss of life, and in many cases loss flf the immortal soul. 30 OIVE IT UP. In the words of Dr. Adam Clarke I would say, oh, if you have commenced, desist, " for the sake of your health, your property, your time, your friends, your voice, your memory, your judgement, and lastly, for the sake of your soul, de- sist." If chained by the power of habit, if you love your pipe, oh, pray earnestly for divine help to abandon it, now, and for ever. ISay, as did S. W , when he went home on the evening after he had experienced the converting grace of God, and went to the corner where the pipe was always found, he took it, to fire up as usual, when he felt condemned, at that moment the words, " old things are pas- sed away, all things are become new," came to his mind, and he threw away the idol, saying to his wife, Mary, " I'll smoke no more, the Lord helping me, I'll smoke no more." He then went to the pantry, took out the gin-flask, and in joyous triumph said, " I'll drink no more, old things are passed away, thanks be to Grod, I am a new man, I'll drink no more." Go, my young friend and imitate his example ; resolve in strength divine to break every snare, and stand up for purity, liberty and life. Be no longer a slave. If you have not yet bowed your neck to the yoke, yield not to the filthy habit. Why shouldst thou destroy thyself? Fly ! oh ! fly from the habit, as from the poison tree of Java. How can you, as a temperance man, reprove a tipler with a pipe or a quid in your mouth ? How can you, as a profes- sing Christian, advise sinners to turn from their evil ways, with a glass of gin in one hand, and a pipe of tobacco in the other ? These habits destroy your power with God, and your power with men. To mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts, to you I ap- peal, to discountenance, under all circumstances, the vile practices of smoking and chewing. O, as you love your sons, your brothers, and your husbands, as you love the cause of truth, purity and righteousness, frown down these polluting practices — reprove them at home, disapprove of them abroad, and cease not until the foul stench of tobacco is driven from every home in the land. Then, with our churches and parsonages free of debt ; our Sabbath schools well furnished with good reading ; our Missionaries well supported, and the church treasuries all replenished ; we may look for God to bless the church, and the church to bless the world. O FINIS. if you , your mory, il,d, and u I ap- he vile e your )ve the n these rove of :obacco ith our schools es well 3d ; we to bless