Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-09-29

you VIII, clarity and ar0matlZe il as Won
may WIN all the art of the manipulation. is
the same fatal poison still, not to be inject
ed with impunity into the tender tissues of
the inward frame. Why will not We snuff.
takers, one aud all, genteel aud vulgar,
whether ye sport maccaboy in a golden box.
or the stale old Scotch in six-penny ordi-
nary-why will you not listen TO the warn
ing voice from the medical chair whittier
ye are wont to look for the exposition of
the laws of health, and for advice in sick
ness" Because ye love the thing too well.
See how noble minds bow themselves to
this contemplate yoke. There was the
brave Hancock, the pride and glory Of Mas
sachusetts-aye, of the Thirteen Colonies.
who planted the first signature to the olor-
Gus Declaration, as if lie meant the world
should read it at a distance. aud who. had
he not been leading actor in that event by
which nation was born in day. would
have immortalized his name by simply wri.
ting IT MCre-this magnanimous man hum
bled himself before old Mundungus, and be-
came his slave. A finished gentleman.
rather than expectorate in parlors and
among decent company, to whom he deem
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poisoned saliva, whereby such violence was
done to the digestive organs, and their kin
dred parts and powers, as eyentuated in a
paralysis of the stomach, aud that life was
cut short at filty-eight, which with better
habits might have been serenely protracted
to venerable octogenarianism, and mayhap
the sun of the patriots life would have set
on some Fourth of July, after long,
healthtul, and happy day
Some men will plead what they call their
Jul habit as an excuse for this unmannerly
indulgence. What produces the full habit {!
lntemPerance in eating. Let them be wise
and moderate in feeding the natural appe-
tIte, and no occasion will arise for resortinp
to so filthy an expedient as the grinding OF
tobacco with the reluctant teeth for the pur-
pose of tightening the system. would that
the man who has been splitting forty years
by little and little, could see all those HffLes
gathered into one great brazen sea, like that
IN the temple, which required twelve oxen
Tor IFS support. If he would not be as much
astonlshed at the amount of time employed
IN Killing the monstrous vessel, as he would
be disguised at the result of his labors, then
ne might be pronounced incorrigibly blind
ed by his own habit
Lord Stanhope made calculation touch
ing snuff, which is not here inapt. lie
maintained that every professed, inyeterate
and incurable snufl-taker, at moderate COM
putation, takes one pinch in ten minutes
Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony
OF blowing and wiping the nose, and other
incidental circumstances, consumes min
ute and half. One minute and half out
oil every ten minutes, allowing sixteen hours
to snuff taking day, amounts to two hours
and twenty -four minutes out of every natu-
raj day, or one day out OF every ten. One
day out OF every ten amounts TO thrty-six
days and half in a year. Hence, if we
suppose the practice to be persisted in forty
years, two entire years of the snuff-taker's
life would be devoted to tickling his nose,
and two more to blowing itl''
What precious appropriation Of time!--
let this man reproves the tobacco-chewer
for his ungenteel, sloven and wasteful habits.
II makes one think of the pot and the kettle
Let the reprover imagine what pile Of
black dirt the aggregated pinches of forty
years would make, and shut his mouth for
ever. These practitioners prey on each 9TH
er; they are always begging a quid or a
pinch, and live much Of this part ofiheir life
on charity. Somebody must spend money
however, for twenty-five millions year, ac-
cordng to Mr.. Fowler's carlul calculation,
are spent in this country in the article OF
tobacco Hard times indeed, when men can
lavish money i'll this style on single lust
Render, look at your own wastefulness -
How much dost thou spend among all the
three weird sisters" that have bewitched
thee Sit down and calculate bring out
the truth. | care not what you are worth
you cannot afford it. You have no right
thus to pervert the funds entrusted to YOU
1t is robbery. Why, there are men in this
free country, who spend one hundred and
two hundred dollars year for cigars. No
wonder they are half ruined before they
reach middle lle