Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-16
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THE EXPENSE,

Then there Is the deterioration OF the
land devoted to its production, which. as
we already remarked, is greater beyond
comparison tn an that resulting from any
other crop. Any one who smokes
cigar will notice the large amount of
ashes which is left. More ashes are left
from the combustion of tobacco than
from that OF any other vegetable cub
stances, 1000 pounds of tobacco leave
or an average 200 pounds of ashes. The
OILS. resins, and acids which tobacco con-
tains are derived from the atmosphere,
and hence cost nothing but the ash is
composed of mineral matters, and is
hence made up from the available plant
food of the soil. y crop of tobacco
1000 pounds to the acre-withdraws
from every acre of lind on which it
grows 100 pounds of this constituent
\ crop of whcai-3O bnshels to the
acre-withdraws from the soil Sc pounds.
Thus We see that one crop of tobacco
does as much damage to the land |on
which it grows as would III crops of
wheat One years farming of your
land iii tobacco inj ures it as much as VI
year; farming of it in wheat You can
take but two or three crops of tobacco
from Your land before it is well nigh
ruined for that purpose aud for every
other, until the soil has been renovated.
And tobacco can be grown with profit Oh
none but the best soils. Says Prof.
Brewer, - man may get rich raising
tobacco, bat a nation never will. A writ
er in Blackwood's Magazine years ago
called attention TO tl,i5 matter, pointing
to the blasted tobacco lands of Maryland
aud Virginia as examples. The Rev.
Dr. Hawes, in his sermon before alluded
to, predicted that the Connecticut Valley
would, in time, become as barren rs
those.
As to the value of property destroyed
by fires resulting from lighted cigars and
pipes, and from the still burning matches
which had been used to light cigars and
pipes, we can form no reliable estimate,
because we cannot tell with any degree
Of certainty to what extent conRagrations
are due to tbs cause We read nearly
every week Cf fines, the origin Of which
is chronielei as unknown. Hoy man5
of these result from the cause We are
considering it is, of course, impossible to
tell +; yet the attempt has been made to
estimate TIE amount relatively. "One-
third, or more, Of all the fires in my cir
cult" says an insurance agent, "have or
iginated from matches and pipes Fires
in England and fires in America are
kindled with alarming frequency by
smokers casting ABOUT fresrards." Facts
in abundance substantiate this. From
Harper's Weekly se learn that in the
forenoon Of July 80, last year, work
man On a canal boat lying at the dock of
the Standard Oil Company, at Hunters
Point, lighted his pipe and threw the
burning match On The floor Every plank
Of the boat was saturated with oil. and
Tie air was full Of iuaamable vapor.-
The boat was instantly enveloped in
flames, which communicated to the works
on shore, where were stored 14,00O bar
rcls of oil and ell we've consumed to-
gether.
4 fire very similar to the above IA is
origin, progress and results, occurred
about the beginning of the Year 1870 at
Marseilles, France. \ man staining on
the deck of vessel used to convey
naphlha and hcIosene, having lighted
his cigar, dropped the burning match at
his feet and thereby started conhasra-
ton that conzu'ucd property valued at
not less than million # dollars.
a confasra;;o.. in San Francisco some
years ago, kia,iied by lighted cigar de-
stroyed millions Of dollars worth.
A most destructive fire occurred not
long since in England, upon ore of the
Duke of Northumberland farms, near
Aluwick, in which barns, stables and
other buildings, w.,h their contents, also
large quantity Of grain iii stacks, were
totally consumed This was caused by
some burning tobacco which fell from the
pipe of laborer upon the straw.
The magazine in the barracks Of
Buenos Ayres exploded On the 10Th Of
December, 1859, killing l26 soldiers and
many women and children. just before
the explosion occurred, one Of the men
was observed smoking in room where
, several cases of powder were stored.
A great condagration On lsnd, wherein
human life is end angered, is sufficiently
appalling bat how much more appall
Ing is a fire at sea, with the prospect on
one hand Of being burned to death and
on the other of being drowned in eth
er case finding a watery grave. The
steamer Glasgow was burned at sea on
the Goth of July, 1869 The fire oligi
mated from lighted fuse which one of
r The steerage passengers had used to light
his pipe, and afterward thrown into the
hold where cotton was stored. The pass
engers, 250 in number, were rescued by
the Rosamond, Capt. Wallis. bound for
Nm, YnrL Put the vnasel anI carrn