The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-09-15
BAD SOUND ADVICE TO
YOUNG MEN.

In "Timothy Titcomb's" letters, from
the pen of DIR. HOLLAND, we clip the
following, which should meet the atten-
tion of every tobacco user, aud especially
the young:
alt is entirely natural for people to
form habits, so that if the bad habits b.,
avoided the good ones will generally
take care of themselves had no in.
tention when-I commenced these letters,
Of saying anything about dogmatic the
ology, but | take the liberty of suggest
! ing to those who are interested in this
kind of thing. tha: if there be anything
that demoustI ates total depravity, it is
the readiness with which young men
imbibe bad habits. have seen original
sin in the shape of "a short six )" sticking
out of the mouth of u lad of ten years.
1t is strange what particular pains boys
and young men will take to learn to do
that which will make them miserable,
ruin their health, render them disgusting
to their friends, and damage their repu-
tatiou. ..-.f
Some of the fashionable bad habits of
the day are connected with the use of
tobacco, Here is drug that young
man is obliged to become accustomed to
before he can tolerate either the taste
or the effect of it. It is rank vegeta-
BILE poison; aud in the unaccustomed ami
NAL produces vertigo, fsintness aud hor |
rible sickness. Bnt young men perse-
we're in the use of it, until they can en-
dure it, and then until they lore it.
They 60 about the streets with cigars in
their mouths, or into society with
breath sufficiently offensive to drive
all unperverted rostrils before them
They calculate their saliva upon the
sidewalk, in spitoons which become in
corporate stenches, In dark corners of
railroad cars to stain the white skirts
of unsuspectiDg women in lecture rooms
and churches, upon fences, and in stoves
that hiss with anger at the insult
And the quids after they are elected
They are to be found in odd corners, in
out-of- f-theway places boulders,
bulbs Horses stumble over them, dogs
bark at them they poisol young shade
trees, and break down the constitution
of sweepers. This mag be an exagger-
alton of the facts, bat not of the disgust
with which one writes of them. +.
Now, young men, just think of this
thing You are born into the world (
with sweet breath. At proper age,
you acquire a good set of teeth. Why
will yoa make of one putrescent oxha-
ation, aud of the other a set of yellow
pegs? A proper description of the hab
It of chewing tobacco would exhaust the
ilthy adjecrives Of the language, aud ]
poll the adjectives themseivs for further {
lse and yet, you will acquire the habit, 9
md persist in it after it is acquired !!
t is very singular that young men will q
.dopt a habit of which every man who is o
is victim is ashamed There is, prob t
bly,, no tobacco -ehewer in the world Y
Who would advise young man to com Q
nence the habit. have never seen a 7
lave of tobacco who did not regret his t
'ondage; yet, against all advice, against |,
ausea and disgust, against cleanliness, o
gaiDst every consideration of health 8
nd comfort, thousands every year bow il
he neck to this drug, and continue to q
'ear its repulsive yoke. 2hey will i,
hew it; they will smoke it Ia cigars and n
ipes until their bedrooms and shops Z
annot be breathed in, and until their 81
reath is as rank as the breath of foul 81
east, and their clothes have the odor b
f sewer Some of them take snuff ..
ram the fiery weed up their nostrils to u
ritate that subtitle sense which rarest N
overs were made to feed-in all this al
orking against God, abusing nature, CO
ervertine sense, iujuring health, plant y,
lg the seeds of disease, and insulting b.
,e deceneies Of life and the noses of the eii
orld. te