The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-02-27

they are n OF conforming TO natures re-
quirements; they are not the Germans of
Tao tus,-ruddy, tough, happy, and in.
dom liable. To lay the whole blame of
this decline upon smoking, which is
only one of many bad habits OF theirs,
would be absurd. What I insist upon
IS this: Smoking, besides doing its part
toward lowering the tone Of the bodily
health, deadens our sense of other phys-
ical evils, and makes us submit to them
more patiently. If our excellent Ger
man feIlow-citizens were to throw away
their pipes, they would speedily toss
their cast-iron sausages after them, and
become more fastidious in their choice
OF air for their own and their children's
breathing, and reduce their daily allow
ance of lager beer. Their first step
toward physical regeneration will be.
must be, the suppression Of the pipe.
| One hopeful sign of the future is,
that this great subject of physical
aids and the physical obstacles to yir-
tue is attracting attention and rising
into Importance. Our philanthropists
have stopped giving tracts to hungry
| peoples at least, they give bread first.
1t is now recognized truth, that it
takes certain number of cubic Yards
for person 10 be yirtuous in; and that.
consequently, in that square mile of
New York in which two hundred and
ninety thousand people live, there must
be-absolutely must bean immense
number Of unyirtuous persons. No
human virtue or civilization can long
exist where four families live in a room,
some Of whom take boarders. TheIwav
to regenerate this New York mile is
simply to widen Manhattan Island by
building three bridges over the East
River, and shorten the island by max
ing three lines of underground or over
ground railroad to the upper end oft.
We may say, too, there are circles
not many, it is true, but some--in
which mans religion would not be
considered very valuable acquisition,
if, when he had got it, he keeps on
chewing tobacco. Such fragrant and
abominable violation of the Creators
laws, by person distinctly protesting
special veneration for them, would
be ludricous, if it were not so per-
nicious.
The time is at hand when these SIM
pie and fundamental matters will have
their proper place in all our schemes
for the improvement of one another.
The impulse in this direction given by
the publication of the most valuable
work of this century-Buckle's Ills
tory of Civilization in England" will
not expend itselfin vain. Ifthat author
had but lived, he would not have dis
dained, in recounting the obstacles to
civilization, to consider the effects up-
on the best modern brains of poison
that lulls their noblest faculties to tor.
por, and enables them languidly to en-
durc what they ought constantly to
fight.
1t is not difficult to stop smoking, ex-
cept for one class of smokers, those
whom it has radically injured, and
whose lives it is shortening. For all
such the discontinuance of the practice
will be almost as difficult as it is de-
sirable. No rule can be given which
will apply TO all or many such cases;
but each man must fight it out on the
line he finds best, and must not be sur
prised if it takes him a great deal long
er than sail summer" If one of this
class ofsmokers should gain deliverance
from his bondage after two years
struggle, he would be doing well. A
man who had been smoking twenty
cigars a day for several years, and
should suddenly stop, would be almost
certain to relapse or fall into some
worse habit,-chewing, whiskey, or
opium. Perhaps his best way would
be to put himself upon half allowance
for a year, and devote the second year
to complete his cure,-always taking
care to live in other respects more wise
ly and temperately, and thus lessen the
craving for stimulant. The more
smoke is hurting man the harder it is
for him to stop smoking; and almost
all whom the practice is destroying rest
under the delusion that they could stop
without the least effort, if they liked.
The vast majority of smokers-seven
out of every ten, at least-can, without
the least danger ormuch inconvenience,
cease smoking at once, totally and for
ever. managed it in this way: when
ever my time came to smoke, which
was four times day, | drank good
stiff glass of whiskey and water. This
/ did for two days. On the third day,
! drank three times, and on the fourth
twice. For about week after, drank
a little whiskey once a day, whenever
the desire to smoke became dangerous,
generally after breakfast. Before one
bottle Of Bourbon had been imbibed,
had forgotten both the pipe aud the
liquor, and having never since had an
uncomfortable desire to indulge in
either. Yet had been smoker for
thirty years As ! have now given
trial to both sides of the question,
beg respectfully to assure the brother
hood of smokers that it does not pay to
smoke. 1t really does not. Lcan
work longer and better than before, i
have less headache. I have better