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

Of us breathe yitiated air, and keep nine
tenths of the body quiescent for twenty
two or twenty-three hours out Of every
twenty-four. Immense numbers cher
ish gloomy, depressing opinions, and
the day set apart for rest and
recreation into one which aggrayates
some Of the worst tendencies OF the
week, and counteracts none of them.
Half the population ofthe United States
violate the laws Of nature every time
they take sustenanCe; and the children
60, crammed with indigestion, to sit
six hours in hot, iil-ventilated or un-
ventilated school-rooms. Except in a
few large towns, the bread and meat
are almost universally inferior or bad;
and the only viands that are good are
those which ought not to be eaten at
all. At most family tables, after a
course of meat which has the curious
of being both soft and tough,
a wild profusion ofingenious puddings,
pies, cakes, and other abominable trash,
beguiles the young, disgusts the ma
ture, and Injuries all. From bodies thus
impertectly nourished, we demand ex-
cessive exertions of all kinds.
Hence, the universal craving for arti-
fetal aids to digestion. Hence, the
universal use Of stimulants, whisky,
Worcestershire sauce, beer, wine, cof-
fee, tea, tobacco. This is the only
reason can discover in the nature of
things here for the widespread, in
creasing propensity to smoke As all
the virtues are akin, and give loyal aid
to one another, so are all the vices in
alliance, and play into one another'S
hands. Many smoker will discover,
when at last he breaks the bond of his
ssrvitude, that his pipe, trifing a mat
ter as 1t may seem to him now, was
really the power that kept down his
whole nature, and vulgarized his whole
existence. In many instances the sin
gle act of self-control involved in Civ
ing up the habit would necessitate and
include complete regeneration, first
physical, then moral.
Whether the Coming Man will drink
wine or be a teetotaller has not yet,
perhaps, been positively ascertained;
but it is certain he will not smoke.
Nothing can be surer than that. The
Coming Man will be as healthy as Te-
cumseh, as clean as Shirley, and as well
grooned as Dexter. He will not fly
the female Of his species, nor wall him
selfin from her approach, nor give her
cause is prefer his absence. We are
not left TO infer or conjecture this; we
can ascertain 1t from what we know of
the messengers who have announced
the coming of the Coming Man The
most distinguished ofthese was Goethe,
the nearest approach to fhe
complete human being that has yet ap-
peared. The mere fact that this admir-
able person lived always unpolluted by
this seductive poison is a fact of some
but the important fact is,
that he could not have smoked and re-
mained Goethe When we get close to
the man, and live intimately with him,
we perceive the impossibility of lis ev-
er having been smoker. We can as
easily fancy Desdemona smoking ci-
garette as the highly groomed, alert,
refined, imperial Geethe with cigar in
his mouth. In America, the best gen.
tleman and most variously learned and
accomplished man we have ad,-the
man, too, who had in him most of what
will constitute the glory of the future,
was Thomas Jefferson, Democrat, of
Virginia. He was versed in six Ian
guages; he danced, rode, and hunted as
we'll as General Washington; he play
ed the violin well, wrote admirably,
farmed skillfully, and was a most gen
erous, affectionate, humane, and great
souled human being. 1t was the des-
tiny of this ornament and consolation
of his species to raise tobacco, and live
by tobacco all his life. But he knew
too much to use it HIMSELF or, to speak
more correctly, his fine feminine sens
es, his fine masculine instincts, revolted
from the use Of it, without any assist
ance from his understanding.
There is no trace of the pipe in the
of Washington or Franklin;
they never smoked; so that
we may rank the three great men of
America-Wa ashington, Franklin, and
Jefferson-among the exempts. Wash
ington Irving, who was the first literary
man of the United States to achieve a
universal reputation, and who is still
regarded as standing at the head Of our
literature, was no smoker. Two noted
DIR. Mott and John Quincy
Adams, after having been slaves of the
weed for many years, escaped from
bondage and smoked no more. These
distinguished names may serve as a
set off to the list of illustrious smokers
given.
Among the nations of the earth most
universally addicted to smoking are
the Turks, the Persians, the Chinese,
the Spanish, all slaves of tradition,
submissive to tyrauts, unenterprising,
averse to improvement, despisers Of
women. Next to these, perhaps. we
must place the Germans, = noble race,
for two thousand years for
the masculine vigor of the men and the
dignity of the women. Smok-
;Do is a hlioht unon thia valuahle broad