Nebraska advertiser., 1869-11-11
p. T. Barnum's Art Of Money
Getting,


p. II. Barnum's Art Of Money
Getting.
Many persons knowingly violate
the laws of nature against their better
impulse, for the sake of fashion. For
instance, there is one thing that moth
ing living except a vile worm ever
naturally loved, and that is tobacco;
yet how many persons there are who
deliberately train an unnatural appe-
tite, and overcome this implanted
aversion for tobacco, to such a degree
that they get to love it. They have
got hold of a poisonous, filthy weed,
or rather that takes a firm hold of
them. Here are married men who
run about splitting tobacco juice on
the carpet and floors, and sometimes
even upon their wives beside. They
do not kick their wives out of doors
like drunken men, but their wives, l
have no doubt, often wish they were
outside of the house Another peril
GUS feature is that this artificial appe-
tite, like jealousy, grows by what it
feeds on ~ when you eat that which is
unnatural, a stronger appetite is crea-
ted for the hurtful thing than the
natural desire for what is harmless.
There is an old proverb which says
that ''habit is second nature" but an
artificial habit is stronger than nature.
Take for instance an old tobacco
chewer; his love for the iiquidU is
stronger than his love for any partfc-
ular kind of food. He can give up
roast beef easier than give up the
weed.
Young lads regret that they are not
men they would like to go to bed
boys and wake up men and to ac-
complish this they copy the bad hab-
its of their seniors. Little Tommy
smoke a pipe and they say, "If l
could only do that / would be a man
too uncle John has gone and left his
pipe of tobacco, let us try it." They
take a match and light it, and then
puff away. 1--WE will learn to smoke ;
do you like it Johnny ?" That lad
dolefully replies: "NOt very much ;
it tastes bitter ;" by and by he grows
pale, but he persists, and he soon of
fers up a sacrifice on the alter of fash
ion but the boys stick to it and per-
until at lost they conquer their
natural appetites and become the vic
tins of acquired tastes.
I speak ''by the book" for I have
noticed its effects on myself, having
gone so far as to smoke ten or fifteen
cigars a day, although I have not used
the weed during the last fourteen
years, and eve shall again. The
more a man smokes, the more he
Graves smoking; the last cigar smoked
excites the desire for another,
and so on necessarily.
Take the tobacco-cheWer. In the
morning when he gets up, he puts a
quid in his mouth and keeps it there
all day, never taking it out except to
exchange it for q fresh one, or when
he is going to eat; oh! yes, at inter
walls during the day and evening,
many a chewer takes out the quid and
holds it in his hand long enough to
take a drink, and then pop it goes
back again This simply proves that
the appetite for rum is even stronger
than that for tobacco. When the to-
bacco chewer goes to your country
seat and you show him your grapeTy
and fruit house and the beauties of
your garden, when you offer him
fresh, ripe fruit, and say, MY
I have got here the most de
apples and pears and peaches
and apricOts; / have imported them
from Spain, France and Italy,-just
see those luscious grapes; there is
nothing more delicious o more
healthy than ripe fruit, so help your
self; I want to see you delight your
self with these things; he will roll
the dear quid under his tongue and
answer, mo, I thank you, / have got
tobacco in my mouth" His palate
has become narcOtiZed by the nOXiOus
weed, and he has lost, in agreat meas
ure, the delicate and enviable
taste for fruits. This shows what eX-
pensive, useless and injurious habits
men will get into. l speak from ex-
perience. I have smoked until I
trembled like an aspen leaf, the blood
rushed to my head, and I had a palpi-
tatiOn of the heart which I thought
was heart disease, till l was almost
with fright. When / consulted
my physician, he said ''break off to-
bacco using" 1 was not only injur-
ing my health and spending a great
deal of money, but / was setting a bad
example. I obeyed his counsel. No
young man in the world ever looked
so beautiful, as he thought he did, be-
hind a fifteen cent cigar or a meers-
chaum!
These remarks apply with ten-fold
force to the use of intoxicating drinks.
To make money, requires a clear
brain. A man has got to see that two
and two make four; he must lay all
his plans with reflection and fore
thought, and closely examine all the
details and the ms and outs Of bust
ness. As no man can succeed in bust
ness unless he has a brain to enable
him to lay his plans, and reason to
guide him in their execution, so, NO
matter how bountiful a man may be
blessed with intelligence, If the brain
is muddled, and his Judgment wrapped
by intoxicating drinks, IL is impossible
for him 20 carry on business success
fully. How many good opportunities
have passed, never to return, while a
man was slipping a ''social glass;"