The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-01-03

same. Your practices tend to kill and
they do kill; slowly it is true, but not
the less surely; and murder is murder,
whether it be committed in one day or
ten years; and unless | mis- Judge that
good Being who cursed the murderous
Cain. he could not have been more an
cry with him, when He saw the white
face of the murdered Abel upturned to
Heaven, and his blood crying from the
ground, than he is with the stepped aud
reeking tobacco-chewer--a moral and So
cial corpse-tarrying among men aud
poisoning the air they breathe with the
exhalations of his decayine, yet living
carcass. True, you have not driven the
assassin's dagger, nor stolen within sa-
cred precincts for unhallowed purposes !;
but you are the self.immolated victims to
your own base appetites, and you have
dedicated the temple Of the immortal soul
to profane uses; you have defled its in
ner sanctuaries, and set up within them
foul deity of carnal lust; at whose tyran-
nous behests you bow down and do hom
age.
A young man may forget his mother,
and fooget God he may become de-
baucher and libertine; drunkard and
despoiler of maiden innocence and beau
ty; oaths may flow like rivers from his
lips; he may practice almost any ysrecies of
vice in the whole black catalogue of sin !;
and he is not yet an utter apostate from
virtue, he has not yet branded himself
with a sign sufficiently palpabe to all the
world that he is renegade from the
ranks of decency and truth, until he has
so infused the subtle poison of tobacco
into his veins and mudded over the port
ais of his speech that his every impreca-
ton may rush forth on a food of its own
appropriate incense; here his degradation
is eliminated even Satan himself could
ask for 10 more, now he is sure of his
victim for he himself has put on the
finishing stroke which shapes him to the
ideal of his master, and completes the iu-
sigma of the Internal order to which he
henceforth belongs. And now if there
are any of my cherished companions here
who are taking the first step toward such
an unnatural condition, | ask them for
their own sake and for the sake of hu-
manity to retrace those steps before en-
tering on the occupation of training chill
dren sin the way they should CO." There
is delicate point in this question; and
that is where the sexes meet. Were | a
young lady [ would never suffer the ad-
dresses of a tobacco user no matter what
his other qualifications might be. He
might be great in intellect as Napoleon,
rich as Crpsus, beautiful as Adonis, and
he might WOO me with a voice whose
tones were softer than Apollo's lutte, and
he should never get near enough to me
10 put an arm around my waist at least
not a conjugal arm Nay: rather than
walk through life by the side of such an
incarnated pesnlence, my feet should take
the solitary path Of celibacy, and the ros-
es on my cheeks should "waste their
sweetness on the desert air" of the sur,
rounding region. Ladies Of Potter Ccun-
ty call on you to exercise this evil
spirit bring against it your array Of pu-
rity and loveincss. You can convert a
dozen young men where | can convert
cne; and if you can not do it by argu-
mcnt, you can do it by,,showing him in
unmistakable terms that so dark planet
as he, can never glide into the galaxy of
your charms. Thus you will add weight
to the issues of decency and indecency,
and Increase a thousand fold the chances
of the former. There is one other habit
to which school teachers in common with
other people are addicted, viz; drinking
tea and coffee or in other words taking
stimulants. Every person who knows
the ditferance between stimulation and
nutrition, knows they are stimulants and
proceed in effect on the same principle
of more powerful stimulants. The prin-
ciple differance between them is in de-
gree, not in kind. In view of becoming
teacher | should not use them and for
two reasons in the first place lie should
adhere closely as possible to the simple
tiles of nature; in the second place: they
are pernicious in consequence. To the
unpervcrted appetite, there is nothing so
sweet as water; it is pure, it is beautiful
and free aud one of the express uses to
which it was ordained from the first, was
to be beverage for man. To believe,
and act upon the belief, that we can make
better beverage than the Creator can
make, is burlesque on His wisdom and
an insult to His goodness. Teachers, you
who are to be examples to your pupils,
should some inquisitive little fellow
among them,-in obedience to your in
structious to always find out the aohy of
everything-inquire why you drank these
decotions, could you explain to him how
it Improved the quality of water as bev-
erage to Withdraw it's delicious GOODNESS