Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-12-15
From the Amtflcan AgFlcuIEuFl@I.I
Tim Rnnker's Reasons against Tobacco.

..Why don't you use tobacco, AMI raise
it like other people, Squire Bunker" ash
ed Seth Twiggs one day Of me, WITH ms,
charge Of smoke from his pipe that would
shave done credit a locomotive
because you do" replied little
,gruttiy.
oval meow don't see the peth Of that
Squire"
II do. You see Seth, you and your
farm are a STANDING argument ag1h TOBACCO.
You are always smoking, smoking smoking
aad you have ptely much smoke your brains
out"
you weren't in any particuar danger on
that pint, Sqaire.
"Wop Z admit Pm not 50 smart as some
Of m, neighbors, and il becomes me to take
care Of what little brains I've got
..Jest so, said Seth. Il SEE"
tsYour eye sight is darkened half the
tins" continued "by that cloud OF smoke,
and you don't know EXACTLY what you are
about. You waste time and money as well
as braiDs. 1t takes about one half the
time to load yonr pipe, and the other half
to smoke it. Aud ii is great deal worse
sjpce you have got them big Dutch pipes
with III. bowls and crooked stem. th@n II
used to be when YOU had that old stump
OF clay pipe that lasted you five years
Then you only put in a pinch Of tobacco,
and you had 10 stop il leu ninuLc>, Ia take
breath and charge anew. But with these
big-beicd things, that hold half a paper Of
tobacco, you smoke and smoke, and it
seems as if YOU never would stop. J on
make every place blue, here you GO
You 20 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 90 into the
garden to hoe, and you pay more attention
to your pipe, than you 90 to your hoe
You stop and squirt around every cabbage
as if it We're covered with lice, aud You don't
10 III hours work III the whole morning.
The weeGs ret start of the cabbage. and
your garden looks hke--weIl | can't com
pare il to anything else but Seth Twiggs in
all the world-wee3y You 90 into the
field to work on tobacco, and the worms Get
the start of you, and what the worms don't
kill, the weeds smother, SO that your tobac-
co fields look worse than your garden.
wouldn't have a man GU my farm that used
tobacco, at half wages. Now maybe you
can see that Idou't use TOBACCO, because you
do"
Eyes | see," sal Seth, "and Parson
Spooner couldn't have said it better =
This has been dreadful season for weeds.
Season" | continued, don't lay it to
The rainy season. Til, thing grows upon
YOU, aud laz,ness goes down into your bones
is smoke goes up into the heayens You
go about dreaming you're making great
Btil, and when night comes you tind next
TO nothing done. Tobacco like vine, IS a
moeker, and if a man don't wan, to be fool
ed he better not touch it. That is my opin-
ion on tobacco as illustrated u the life and
services of Seth Twiggs, the smoker"
Then, to come to the question IN the alb
stract, it is nasty; there is no other word
that just expresses it. Don'ta man belong
by nature to the clean beasts, and what
right have | to make myself a nuisance
among nv kind 1t is offensive to every
sense Look into the smoking room Of
hotel. or steamboat, and was there ever
: stable fouler .-splaSneS OF JUICE, eJected
quids, cigar stumps, and reck "that smells
to heaven" Won't the world be foul
enough without my joiniuo the snokers an I
Chewefs!
Aud it is a very expensive habit. Your
1o6aqeo 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 intiu-
ence Of the weed, it costs you four times
that sum. You stop to talk with neigh
Dor, and 1t makes you long winded, for
your Train is SO befuddled that you never
now what you have done. Many 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. He always wants one more
Of the same sort, and the result i, that your
boz Of Havanas is gone mighty quick, and
YOU can't tell how nor where. This mak.'s
quite hole IN the income of Il man who
lives by his hands, or by bis brains.
have brains enough 10 Sc that ! can't al-
fold i.
1t is very bad fog the health. The Coo
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