Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-08

When Louis Napoleon learned this
fact few years ago, he caused COM
parative examination to be made Of the
smokers and the non-smoken in all the
public schools and the educational insti.
tutions, and the results to be tabulated.
The non-smokers were decidedly superior
in physical health, Intellectual acquire
ments and moral department, Upon this
the use Of tobacco in the public institu-
tions of education was by law forbidden,
and thirty thousand tobacco pipes were
broken in one! ~ A et
We never find a healthy person among
those who work in the tobacco business.
In any sickness, tobacco-worker by the
side of an otherwise healthy countryman,
is slow and doubtful of recovery. The
children of tobacco users are compare
lively feeble.
Tobacco demoralizes, it makes a man
careless about his hair; he lets his nails
go uncleaned his clothes are soiled in
a word he is dirty.
Those who live outdoors may use to-
bacco without feeling it so much; but
not men Of sedentary life. There have
died in New York within few years
three excellent clergymen, all of whom
would now be alive had they not used to-
bacco. e. ...gf .v .8s
The difference in the operation Of to-
bacco and alcohol is this while alcohol
causes tangible changes in certain organs.
tobacco gradually lowers the vital tone
of the whole system, so that the life ends
sooner than it ought to.
1t is calculated that there are 235, 900
smokers in New York now. At some
hotel bars in the city thousand dollars
a day are spent for tobacco and rum. A
moderate smoker" uses say not over
four cigars daily; an immoderate one
ten or fifteen. Cigars of good quality
cost fifteen cents piece at wholesale, and
twenty-five cents at retail. Call the
price however only ten cents; if these
2S5,0O0 smokers are moderate" they
are paying ninety-four thousand dollars
day for cigars, without mentioning
drinks" This is an expenditure of
thirty-four million three hundred and
ten thousand dollars year for no good,
but for harm.
DIR. Parker ended with some forcible
observations upon the Christian duty of
abstaining from the slow killing of him
self with tobacco by minister; which
he said is just as clear as the duty of not
cutting ones throat; and with refer
ence to the slow operation of tobacco, he
gave the young gentleman good speci-
men of their own profession, by reading
to them text out of the big Bible on
the desk, from Ecclesias.es, and most
closely to the point /" Because sentence
against an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the heart of the sons
of men is fully set in them to do evil"
A LANDLORD RErALATED UPoN.-A
gentleman well known to our merchants
as New York drummer, named Frank
W, stopped at the little town of Sa-
lem, Ohio, on Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago railroad, a few weeks ago. He
was hungry, and fifteen minutes was all
the time allowed for refreshments. At
least seven of the fifteen minutes had
elapsed before Frank could catch the eve
of the waiter, when he was furnished with
cup Of coffee and plate of beans.
The beans were but half devoured, when
the landlord came along and demanded
dollar. Frank protested, but the land
lord was obstinate, and all " aboard"
being heard, our drummer friend was
compelled to shell out. Shortly after
ward, being at Cincinnati, he inquired at
the telegraph office if he could send a
dollar dispatch to Salem, to be paid at
its destination. The clerk told him he
could, when the following was sent, c.
o. d. e.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 10, 1868.-To
E. M. Stone, Salem, Ohio; still think
the price Of your beans too high.
FRANK W.
History does not record what Stone said
or did on receipt of this dispatch, for
which he had paid his dollar. But his
feelings may be imagined.
HORRIBLE DREAM REALIzED.-Our
readers will recollect the account which
we published the other day Of the terri
BILE death of Mr.. Ehrler, of this county,
who was crushed by rock while mining
near Mineral Point. Mr.. Ehrler had q
dream the night before the accident,
amounting to presentiment of what fol-
lowed. He was SO impressed in his
dream with the idea that he was being
crushed with rock, that he got out Of
bed while yet asleep and called for some