Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-05-21

ually from your mouls-and not only in.
fuses deadly poison into your blood, but
leads you on TO an inclination for OCCASION
al isslpation-from that to seni-occasional
intoyication-and thence TO actual dam
nation. Mans mouth, my friends, was me-
yer made for tobacco box and | wonder
how any one can have the courage to chew
that which they dare not swallow. I'D like
to see man stuff some of the trash into his
Abdominal pantry. If he didn't feel uncom-
Portable about the Wristbands soon after, it
would be because sickness was afraid to come
near him. Do, dear friends, for the sake Of
seli-respect discard the noxious qud. and
not 60 squirting your dye-stuls along the
paths of decency and good breeding, as
though none but sucl, vermin as you we're
accustomed 10 walk therein. Pay some re-
gard to the deicacy of the feminine gender.
The ladies are not to be spit upon with inn
punty; neither should the fragrance which
surrounds the flower of their love be con-
taminatcd with efluvia of cavcndish and
plug. You may have your boots well polish
ed-your pantaloons and your coats cut ac-
cording to the latest fashion--and you may
shine forth in all the splcndor of attirc--but
how canyon have the audacity-the brazcn
impudencc-to look in the face of common
neatness, and proclaim yourselves gentlemen,
while tobacco juicc-that unclarIicd cs-
sence of Iilth-is oozing down from the COR
ners of your mouths into your wlilskers And,
augh! how can YOU ever have the cruelty to
apply your scurf-covcrcd lips to those of
virgin purity, or bedaub the cheek OF beauty
with your nasty kisses Just fancy, for Il
moment, how agreeable it would be to you if
your wives or your swect-hcaris were to meet
your embraces with guilds Of tobacco in their
mouths as large as bull frogs, and with
breaths thick and atout enough to hang pair
Of saddcbags across Yes, my friends, how
would you like that Not exceedingly well,
| ,row. Think over this matter when you
retro to your respective homes, if you have
| ItSOINt lIidt Nbul Ittll lItiIltlUIlt
shall not NEEDLE with that which levels man
witt, the brute, and renders him unworthy
of the station which he occupies in the scale
of being.
Shutting, my friends, is nearly ifno, quite
as bad as chewing and gricvc 10 observe
that females, as well as males, are addicted
toll When see women who speaks as
though her nasal organ was made of bell
metal-who says "prd'n" for pudding
whose skin is as yellow as the latter end of
autumn-l know she takes snuff in sufficient
quantities to make an Egyptian mummy
snecze in its sarcophagus and also know
that her brains are equally as dirty as the
| handkerchief she us-s-and that's enough TO
throw pair OF tongs into commissions. Many
pretended that they take snuff to clear their
heads. 1t clears their heads, in time, of all
sparkling, brilliant and original IDEAS, and
leaves instead, "A confused chaos of unfni,h-
ed thoughts, wrecks of fancy, and any num-
Der of untamcd chimeras. That is the on,y
way which it clears their heads, my friends.
The less dust you admit into Your nose. the
clearer your heads will bc-thc better your
heallI-and the more transparent your
morals.
My dear frlcnds-sincc we are TO be cur
scd with tobacco, will allow you to smoke,
very occasionally; for by it good moral les
sons are taught and from it much consolation
may be derived. When the waters If the
mind become troubled in sorrows sweeping
tempest, let man sit down and smoke a
good cigar or clean pipe, and lovely calm
ness will spread itself over the soul, like the
golden HUGS Of evening over sleeping lax.
Such is the comfort of the weed but while
til crumblng to ashes before you, what does
1t say 1t says that soon your bodies will in
like manner dissolve into the dust, and in
process of time be swept by the winds to the
four ends of the earth: that the fire of cxis-
tence, which now CLOVIS so brightly, will ere
long be reduced to a single spark, and tina,
spark Dc cXtinguished in the ashes of morta-
lily. The last wreath of smoke that curls
upward and vanisles in air,acts as pioneer to
the spirit in its flight to hcavcn-poin,s out
the way to immortal glory-and tells man
that he must be Invested of all such solids as
sin, wearing apparel, and flesh, before he
can rise to the realms of everlasting bliss
So mote it be W Y. Sunday Ncruury.
From the Philadelphia Saturday Coulter.
THE CASTLE.
BY }. WHEELER.
TN tell the tale as twas told to me"-Scor