Litchfield enquirer., 1873-05-08

l said, GA man may become rich using to- bacco, but nation never will. 1t IS al- 1 so predicted that in time the Connecticut l Valley will become like the blasted tobac- co lands of Maryland aud Virginia.
 It Is confusing to think of the variety l of ways in which tobacco is directly or indirectly consumer of force, and an ex- pense. Aside from those already glanced 1 at, and not stopping save to al1ude to the
 vast destruction of property by fires which 1 have been caused by careless smokers, give d thought to the cost of pipes, snuff | boxes, cigar-cases, etc. Think also of the time devoted to the enjoyment of this in diligence. The chewer may say that it takes no time from his occupations to
 chew, and that it requires but an inap- 1 preciably short time to relieve his mouth
 of it's disgusting product; but the habitu- al smoker cannot affirm that he wastes no
 time as he recalls in thought the hours
 spentin delicious languor. .dreamily watch 1 ing the upward curling rings of smoke from his cigar; neither can the snuf-taker flat ter himself that his pet indulgence is not 8 great tax up his life. Imagine the cha
 grin of a certain sea captain who had used snuff fifty years, when passenger on
 board his ship one day made an estimate
 of the time which this practice had requir- ed of him. More than year was the az gregate of the moments spent in snuff taking and the consequent but otherwise
 unnecessary care to preserve degree Of
 outward cleanliness. .@
 These are but hints respecting the act ual cost of tabacco, but how great is the sum of even these !-C -Congregationalist. Those Carpets.
 The annual ceremony of taking up and whipping, and putting down carpets is al
 most upon us. It is one of the ills which flesh is heir to, and cannot be avoided.
 You go home some pleasant spring day at peace with the world, and find the baby with clean face and get your favorite pudding for dinner. Then your wife tells you how much younger you are looking, and says she really hopes she can turn that walking dress she wore last fall, and save the expense of a new suit, and then she asks you if you can't just help her about taking up the carpet. If you are fool, and you generally are by that time, you tell her, of course you can, just as well as not Then she gets saucer for the taoks and stands and holds it, and you get the claw, and get down on your knees and begin to help her. You feel quite economical about the first tacks, and take them out carefully and put them in the saucer. Your wife is good about holding the saucer, and beguiles you with an in- teresting story about how your neighbor's
 little boy is not expected to live till morn
 ing
 Then you come to the tack with crook head, and you get the claw under it and |. n1 1ao off, and the carpet comes of, and as it won't do to leave the tack in the floor, be- cause it will tear the carpet when 1t is put down again. you go to work and skin your knuckle, and get a silver under your thumb-nail, and tell your wife to shut up about that everlasting boy and make up your mind that it does not make any diff ference about that tack, and so you be- gin on the corner where the carpet is doubled two or three times, and has been nailed down with 8 shingle nail. You don't care a continental about saving the nail, because you find that it is not good time for the practice of economy; but you do feel little hurt when both clauses break of from the claw, and the nail does not budge peg. Then your manhood as- serts itself, and you rise in your might. and throw the carpet claw at the dog, and get hold of the carpet with both hands, and the air is full of dust and flying tacks and there is a firing of carpet yarn all along by the mop board, and the baby cries and the cat goes anywhere, anywhere out of the world. and your wife says you ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk so-but that carpet comes up.
 Then you lift one side of the stove, and tell you wife to get the carpet from under the it, but she cant, because you are stand
 ing on it. So you try new hold. and just after your back breaks, the carpet is clear. You are not through yet Your wife don't tell you any more little stories, but she gets your old coat and hangs it on you, and smothers you with that carpet, and opens the back door and shoves you out, and intimates that the carpet needs whipping. When you hang the torment ing thing across the clothes line the wrong way, and get it right, and have it slide off into the mud, and hang it up again, and get half pint of dust and three broken Jacks snapped out of the northwest corner into your mouth by the wind, you make some observations which you neglected to mention while in the house. Then you hunt up stick and go for that carpet.
 The first blow hides the sun and all the fair face of nature behind a cloud of dust and right in the centre of that cloud,
 with the wind square in your face, no matter how you stand, you wield that cudgel until both hands are blistered and the milk of human kindness curdles in your bosom ..... ..
 You can whip the carpet g longer or shorter period, according to the size of
 your mad; it don't make any difference to the carpet, it is just as dusty and fuzzy. and generally disagreeable after you have whipped it two hours, as 1t was when you commenced. Then you bundle it up, with one corner dragging, and stumble into the house, and have more trouble with the
 stove, and fail to fin3 any way of using
 the carpet stretcher while you stand on the carpet, and fail to find any place to stand, of from the carpet, and you get on your knees again, while yonr wife holds the saucer, and with blind confidence
 hands you broken taeks, crooked tacks, tacks with no points. tacks with no heads, tacks with no feathers, Jacks with the biggest end at the point. Finally the carpet is down, and the ba-
 by comes back, and the cat comes back,
 and the dog comes back, and your wife smiles sweetly, and says she it glad the job is of her mind. As 1t is too late to do anything else you sit by the fire and smoke, with the inner consciousness that your are meanest man. in America. The next day you hear your wife tell a friend
 that she is 90 tired; she took up and put
 down that great, heavy carpet yesterday. Utica Herold.
 TALcoTT & POST.
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