The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-03-30


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been here ever since. ] am happy to b,
here, and cAnonly thank tod that He ha,
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myself upon her neck before she dies, anc
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Tobacco; or the Devils Cabbage.
By n. MUSTARD
Of the three great stimulants. rum, tobac
co and swearing, speak Of tobacco; which
evil article imagine to be the result Of tht
other two combined and produced in tn.
form OF a Vegetable. A spirit of poison in q
body Of filth is this tobacco, the enemy apo
oppressor Of man. By nature he abhors it
but nature subdued, his loathing is turned
to love, then it makes him fool and slave
p0ilutes his body and poisons his SOUL A
young man had better have both his laws
broken than use them in chewing tobacco
Disgust being first, the second impression
which seeing tobacco uaed makes upon the
mind is that it is in every respect a barba.
rous custom, and more like one of the bad
habits of painted savage than the luxury
OF q civilized being. Tie history Of tobacco
veri6es this idea, it having been first obtain
! ed of the North American Indians, as SORT
Of equivalent for the smallpox and several
other similar diseases, introduced among
them by the whites from Europe Ali
things considered perhaps the whites had
the worst Of the bargain. Even if tobacco
were not pure poison, but food good for
man, the manner Of its use would seem
enough to condemn it-chewe1 all day,
mouthfIl of mire; in smoke half swallowed
and puked forth from the mouth: pulyerized
and loaded into the nose like powder into a
gun; and these disgusting habits acquired
only by the greatest patience aud long -suf
fering.
The tobacco chewer is perhaps the most
disgusting of all. Whenever he is, at home
or abroad, his mouth, that would disgust a
ditch, filed with the loathsome mass, which
he forever chews and digests, his brains
serving as his bowels With gamboge teeth
and breath like swill barrel, splitting as
if his belly were a horse pond, the tobacco
chewer is everywhere, disgusting and dis.
! turbing everybody. A bar-room spittoon is
daguerreotype Of tobacco chewer's
mouth This fertile earth is all poisoned by
him, the sea is yellow with his vomit, and
the guif-stream rises in his mouth. Many
reasons have been given for natures cover
ing the face Of man with beard, some sup.
posing it to be protection for the throat
and lungs, others for ornament, &c &c,
but the simple reason is nature knew that
in the last days man would get to chewing
tobacco, and in pity for him she put the |
beard on his face to cover up his dirty |
mouth, which would not be fit to be seen
A law ought to be established by which |
every tobacco chewer should be imprisoned,
and fed upon nothing but fried plug tobacco
for week. hut the smoker! The atmos-
phere of Pandemonium it always seemed to
me must be tsbacco smoke. Who has not
seen the smoker, like a burning volcano,
vomiting forth smoke, and splitting forth
lava. Fuming and smelling like dunghill,
his poor nose standing like pier in the fog,
his head smoking as if it were baking
brick kiln, he, the smoker, infests this whole
earth, walking up and down it, the smoke
streaming from his month to the skies.
beiching his fifth upon everything his path
pollution before and behind him. He it is
who turns this foot-stool into spittoon. To
live with him is like having gas house in
the. neighborhood. Should the smoker
take the indians poisonous arrows in his
mouth, perhaps he would be better suited
Next is the sooty nose Of the snuff taker-
When powdered, this abominable stuff
makes pepper fit for the Internal cauldron.
The nose converted into dust-pan is load
ed with this dirt till it comes to look less
like nose than some animal rafting in its
SHE'LL or an ink-bottle with the bottom
knocked out That delicate sense which
loves the fragrance of the fair flower is de-
stroyed, and the debauched nose is stuffed
with the fiery dust till its appearance and
experience are more those of q candle extin-
guisher than the honest nose it was first
made.
A mans mouth full of rotten tobacco and
his nose filled with snuff, always make me
think of a slop-pail under a sink spout
Any one of these habits ought certainly to
satisfy the dirtiest ambition; but some there
are SO devoted to all three that with chew
ing, smoking and snufing, they are SO Steep
ed through that the very tears come out of
their eyes pure tobacco juice; they get into
society bearing upon them all the odors of
the stable; their hands turned dung forks
with conveying to nose and mouth the un-
clean morsel, and relieving themselves of
luids, &c, SO vile that the very dog
mex them-to express what such
men are, get some tobacco chewer to hold !
,ut his tongue. Yet for all this the only |.
'eason ever given is that tobacco is healthy !
This is libel Of nature, but for the salts
action of such as cincerely believe it, it will
e allowed that in some cases tobacco has U
cured diseas. And SO there was man in a
london that the plague restored to perfect V
lealth.
The crow to its carrion, the dog to his h
omit, and man to his tobacco This sweet 4
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'ondage Wherever man is there You'll A
ind him chewing tobacco. 1t oils the oath h
n the swearers mouth the cergymans iips d
re touched with it as with coal of fire: h
Ike fire beneath boiling pot, so is it to "
he brain of the poet Snuff is general on a.
he field Of battle; the Indian smokes it II
rhen the strife is done-beautliully is it re- If
erred to as the piping time of peace g,
yerywhere As has been said tobacco ..
eyels all distinctions though the line tells T
ut one half the truth,-it should read ITO h,
acco levels all stiaks and distinctions e.
'obacco is an exotic, being originally part g,
I the devils botany, and transplanted by I'll
i'm to earth, where it still retains strong q,
avor of birthstone, its native soil. In its W
lltlvation here it requires great deal of If
'anure to bring it to perfection, which | bt
1nsider a very significant fact. r.
Should any be disposed to sheer at these CO
.marks, thinking, perhaps, that the author. to
ke many other moralists is guilty OF that he
hich he condemns in others, they are as ar
,red that such is not the case Tobacco is IN
Ridden in all our jails, houses Of corrrec- tn
on, &c; and the author, when quite young, te
saring of the suferings of those therein. tn
pom being deprived of their customary to- IL
acco, his natural prudence prevented him tn
om ever contracting habit, which might
any time cause him the greatest misery.
ct every good man remember that the best lei
gument against tobacco is clean mauth al
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The Wife's Commandments. fle
/. Thou shalt have no other wife but me. tn
2. Thou shalt not take into thy house any th'
autiful brazen image of a servant girl, to col
w down to her and serve her for nm of
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