The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-03-13
[From the Covington TO- Gazette.]
Tobacco-Force of Habit.

than those OF weaker. Men who were
providentially gifted with energetic tenn
permanent, can break through the meshes
of habit, and change the entire economy
of their respective existences.
But, we observe, that our good friend,
the editor of the jackson (O.) Standard.
is absolutely certain that a person who
contracts the habit of smoking or chew
ing can never overcome 1T. He has often
seen the experiment tried, but never
knew it to succeed. In plain terms, he
believes the devoted victim, who con-
tracts the useless and pernicious habit of
smoking, chewing or snuf6ng tobacco, is
IA goner, past redemption or retrieve.
He or she may make efforts, feeble or
strenuous, to break the fetters, but he
never. knew anybody to prove finally
! successful On the contrary, like the
traditional strawberry mark" OF the re-
covered individual in the play, the habit
is irradicable.
Now, Mr. Macl1ley, in order to prove
your rule good, by furnishing an excep-
ton, (if for no better purpose,) we will
modestly adopt the language of the Ne
gro MinstrePs stump speech and exclaim,
"Look at Julius Caesar; look at Napoleon
Bonaparte; look at all de CRATE men OBJ
histry look at meP The subscriber
began to puff at long mines and four-fora-
centers at the nascent age of. of thirteen
disposit on, that the admonitions, warn
| ings, bookings and occasional foggings,
administered by a affectionate guardian
uncle, only more determined us in our
folly All our gains from rabbits and
muskrat's skins, and the sparse presents
OF friends, were wasted on the narcotic
weed and, at the age of seventeen pro-
NOTED to the rank of pressman in city
printing office, we were inVeIgled by the
designing little imp who acted as ROLLER
boy, into the nasty practice Of tobacco
| chewing and went through stubborn
and regular course of sickness in inaugu-
rating another unnatural habit From
that time onward, for twenty full and
eventful years. we used tobacco with
pertinacious industry and industrious
pertinasty and adding to smoking and
chewing, intemperance-no in drinking,
but in putting and mastication, At first,
we respected the parlors of our lady
friends and the sacred precincts of the
religious sanctuary, but we now shame
fully confess that we becameso degraded
as to disregard both. Editing a weekly
journal, our mouth, shirt-frill-(in those
days we belonged to the ''ruf1ed-shirt
gentryl )-and copy-deslz and vicinity,
furnished a nauseous tout ensemble as un-I
pleasant to imagination as to description
We became dyspeptic petulant, misan-
thropic. The enamel of good set of
teeth was destroyed, by the hard, abra-
siVe tile of the dry tobacco leaf Heart
burn and ptyalism became chronic dis
eases; and we were far gone in the most
mischievous effects of pernicious habit
With these stubborn and disagreeable
facts staring US. in the face, in all their
stern reality, we resolved to SToPl And
stop we did-one bright morning in the
"merrie month of May" now almost
twenty-six years ago; and the weed,
Nacotld, has not since defled our lips /
We quit with halfconsumed plug of
Cavendish in pocket, which was retained
there until triturated to powder and
then cast to the winds. By adopting an
active process of producing artifieially
perspiration, (Vapor bathing) we soon
became rid of the insidious principal in |
the blood which led to the desire for |
"more," and soon lost the taste for tobac- |
co. From writing 'Odes to the Indian |
Weed
" Sublime tobaccor sang old Albion s bard, i
AND gran1ITsd to thy charms the Tyres award;
VINO knows thy merits, far as earth doth reach; |
While sea men, tempest-tosS'd, thy virtues know |
And, bIess'db by thee, they half forget their woel
such was the strain of ditty we pro-
duced at eighteen!-we became denun- |
ciator of the poisonous drug. When we |
behold a monument of mercy" who by |
reason of strength, has withstood the |
concentrate poison imbibed from miles /
of cigars, cords of dog-leg and the expec-
torations of hogsheads of saliva, we sim I
ply wonder how long he would be likely /
to live, if he had not contracted the de |
leterious habit. We shun smoking cars
and 'bar-rooms" made hideous by fellows |
splitting on hot stoves, and obliging in
nocent persons to snuff their abomina-
tions; regarding them as so many To- /
phets, and suffer deserved, retributive |
punishment in the presence of smoking /
and splitting, whenever forced into the |
company of spitters and smokers.
For the encouragement of others, suf-
fering from habit of indulgence in tobac-
co, we may add that our fighting weight"
increased from 175 TO 200 lbs. averdupois,
within month after the Abandonment,
and though generally over that maximum,
has never since been steadily less. And
our experience, .as to worldly
success, has been decidedly adverse, we
seldom suffer from melancholy and never
from dyspepsia.
The Transcendant Teacher, who "went
about doing good. declared that it is not
what goeth into the mouth that defiIeth
the man." but it is we'll known He did
not allude to tobacco. His remark was
based upon customs existing when He
made it, and we know that the Jews of :
that day had contracted no taste for, and !
had no knowledge OF tobacco, nor of any
more deleterious than eocultts
Iadicus, Sir Walter Raleigh did not
bless [2] the world until some fifteen {
afterl
well known Methodist preacher is {
quoted as having said: "a strong will, {
yentisn and the grace of God are all nee |
9ssary to enable man to break through
he habit of tobacco chewing" We beg |
% amend. by striking out the word
'gentian." That habit is two-fold in its
habit of bearing foreign +
ubstance in the mouth; and the habit of Z
having physical system affected by the !
licotin. The former is even more man.
latory than the latter No man can Quit t
hewing, by the use of substitutes-liquo- i
ice, hickory bark, slippery elm. camo-
nile flowers, gentian, or any other drug
The sole remedy is to gut, and that short s
'tf wash out your mouth clean your s
emaining teeth, sweat out the tobacco I
nd assert your manhood" 1t has been t
lone, friend Mackley, and it can be- s.
The tobacco user and abuser is not a L
lopeless victim.
A gentleman was staying at a little a
french country inn, and there was :