Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-12-25
from the American Agriculturist.
Tim Bunker's Reasons
against Tobacco,


discharge of smoke from his pipe tina
would have done credit to locomotiv,
Because yom do :" replied a littl
gruffiy.
Wal meow | don't see the pcth {
that, Squire
a do. You see Seth, you and you
farm are a standing argument ag;n tc
bacco You are always smoking, smok
ing, smoking, and you have pretty muc
smoked your brains out"
" Y You weren't in any particular DANCE
on that pint, Squire
We'll, admit | am not so smart a
some Of my neighbors. and it becomes M
to take care of what little brains | hav,
got"
"Jest So" said Seth. 81 see."
Your eyesight is darkened half thu
time" continued, "by that cloud o
smoke, and you don't know exactly wha
you are about. You waste time ant
money as well as brains. 1t takes yor
about one half the time to load your pipe
and the other half to smoke it. And i,
is great deal worse since you have got
them big Dutch pipes, with big bowls and
crooked stem, than it used to be wher
you had that old stump of clay pipe
that lasted you five years. Then you
only put in pinch of tobacco, and you
had to stop in about ten minutes, to take
breath and charge anew. But with these
big-belied things, that hold half paper
of tobacco, you smoke and smoke, and ii
seems as if you never would stop. You
make every place blue, where you CO.
You go out to feed your pigs in the morn,
ing, and it takes you twice as long to do
that chore as it used to. You 60 into
the garden to hoe, and you pay more at
tentlon to your pipe. than you do to your
hoe. ou stop and squirt around every
cabbage as if it was covered with lice
and you don't do an hours work in the
whole morning. The weeds get the start
of the cabbage, aud your garden looks
well can't compare it to anything else
but Seth Twiggs, in the world d-,ceedg -
You 90 into the field to work on thej to-
bacco, and the worms get the start of ycu
and what the worms don't kill, the weeds
smother, SO that your tobacco fields look
worse than your garden. wouldn't have
a man on my farm, at half wages, who
used tobacco, because you do"
Yes, see, said Seth, "and Parson
Spooner couldn't have said it better This
has been a dreadful season for weeds
"Season :" | continued, don't lay it
to the rainy season. This thing grows
upon you, and lazincss goes down into
your bones, as smoke goes up into the
heavens. You go about dreaming you're
making a great stir, and when night comes
you find next to nothing done. Tobacco,
like wine, is mocker, and il man don't
want to be fooled, he better not touch it.
That is my opinion on tobacco, as IIGstra-
ted in the life and services of Seth
Twiggs, the smoker"
Then, to come to the question in the
abstract it is nasty; there is no other
word that Just expresses it. Don't a man
belong by nature to the clean beasts, and
what right have | TO make myself nuis-
ancc among my kind? 1t is offensive to
every sense Look into the smoking-room
Of hotel, or 4 steamboat, and was there
ever a stable fouler ?-splashes of juice.
elected quils, cigar stumps, and a rcck
that smells to heaven Won't the world
be foul CROUCH without my joining the
smokers and chewcrs ?"
And it is an expensive habit. Your
tobacco would cost you thirty dollars a
year if you did not raise it, and if you
take into account your loss of time under
the influence Of the weed, it costs you four
times that sum- You stop to talk with a
neighbor, and it makes you long-winded,
your brain is so befuddled that you never
know when you have done. Many a man
spends fifty dollars year for cigars, and
if one has good deal of company, it is
mighty easy to use up a hundred. Your
friend, who smokes. never knows when he
has enough. lie always wants one more
of the same sort, and the result is, that
your box Of lIavanas is gone mighty quick
and you can't tell how or where. This
makes quite hole in the income Of a
man who lives by his hands, or by his
pra'ns'- 4 have brains enough to sec that
It is very very bad for the health. The doe.
tors all agreed on this, even those who use
it. 1t don't help digestion. 1t don't
save the teeth. There are better ways ot
reducing the fesh-eating less for in
stance. And if the doctors were not al
agreed, every man who has his eyes open
can see that no man has sound health who
uses it in any shape. They call them
selves we'll, but have headaches, indiges
ton, don't sleep well, are nervous, have
the flgcts, or some other complaints
Occasionally they break down under pa
ralysis. Many make complete wrecks o
their bodies. Always life is Shortened
Now what right have ! to make an inva
lid of myself, and 60 through life sighln!
and groaning. when I ought to be well
1t is worse for mans mind than 1t is 10
his body. 1t makes him tergetful. Id
loses the control Of his powers, and can
think connectcdly. lie forgets the name
persons, and places, his own plans, am
In short about everything except to smoke
There was eur minister, the one we ha'
before Mr.. Spooner, smoked himself on
of his pulpit. His health failed and hi
sermons FILLED worse than his health.-
They were SO fogsy that even Hooker
town, that never dismissed q man before
could BOT stand it any longer.
Then it is a bad thing for vorals.