The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-05-25


laugh at the fear that may have once over
clouded his vision
Draining and Smoking.
The art of drainage is a fine art
Within our generation it has made vast
strides Of progress You sec here and
there close by II railway station, huge
piles of short red tubes, ready for being
conveyed along the line in all directions,
and distributed among the farmers They
are like macaroni manufactured on
large scale, and dyed red They are
made, however, not of -four, but of clay.
They are not food, but they are producers
of food Look 10 the next square pile Of
drain tiles that you pass near station
on the railway, and think that in few
years, out of these hard tiles, as great a
heap of wholesome food will spring.
These clay tiles are better than bread
they are bread makers There is poetry
in that pile OF drain tiles There IS life
in the coarse red clay pipes, constructed
for the purpose of carrying needless
water out of the earth reverence them.
There is death in the smooth white clay
pipes, constructed for the purpose OF
carving needless smoke into human
bodies hate them with all Your heart
The red pipes laid in the ground draw OF
the morbid moisture, and leave the field
waving all over with yellow grain the
white pipes introduced into the mouth
drain away tipe JUICES of life, leaving be
hind sunl5cn eyes, sallow cheeks, and
pithless limbs Smokers, a word in your
ears. That saliva, which you draw
abnormally from the pores of your checks
and squirt upon the ground-sometimes,
when the wind is contrary, upon me
that saliva is the drink which your Maker
has wisely and mercifully provided, and
which your stomach absolutely needs, in
order that it may convert your food into
blood, and flesh, and bones. That
precious liquid is needed within your
own body, and it is not needed on our
floors and railway carriages. 1t hurts
You to want it, and it is not agreeable To
us to get it. He was great man--thcv
should erect a monument to his memory
who said, You complain of Your
stomach your stomach has more cause
to complain of YOU"
A clever young rean who liked tobacco,
and therefore cultivated arguments to
justify its use, attempted once to turn
aside this blow, which, without compunc-
ton, l was dealing on his darling.
Granted, he said, that smoking drains
off vast quantities Of saliva which is gen
b-ated in the fauces as a necessary ingrc-
dent of the gastric juice-such is the
profuse fccundity of nature, that the
more YOU draw off to pour upon the
ground, the more springs up in the mni-
titudinous pores of the mouth; so that
while he who saves all has nothing over,
he who wastes most prodi galiy has no
lack" / replied by a story; and have
since been informed by men of science
Il L Il. Il.
crush the specious augmentation drawn
from the redundancy of nature. A long
headed. sharpwitted old man, Adam Bell
by name, who fished a portion of the
river Earn, and farmed the land on the
adjoining banks, gave NE long ago
graphic description of a tea party at
which he had once been taken in. \
new tenant had taken possession of
farm, and to celebrate his
accession had invited in all the comforta
bic classes Of the neighborhood to drink
tea at his house. At time and place ap-
pointed the guests convened, old Adam
among the rest Everything was in the
newest fashion. the fisherman reported:
of china cups and silver spoons there was
a great and glittering profusion, and the
mistress Of tho house was beyond all
precedent liberal in the distribution Of
her tea. Hand in your cups, gentle
man" she said, as she filed the teapot
once more from the boiling kettle "hand
in your cups again, there is plenty here.
:" did not thank her" said Adam, aside,
and with one eye queerly closed, Il did
not thank her for her tea, for by that time
| could have seen TO spear a salmon seven
fathoms deep in il" After all the saliva
that a smoker spills upon the ground
there is some left, it may be conceded,
TO 90 into the stomach but the oftwatered
remnant is thin and pithless.-Aynot.
Az OwL's RgTALIATros-Som time
since one of my servants brought me an
owl which be had captured 1t was
fine, vigorous bird placed it on side
tahla whara IL at with the solirnnitY of