Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-08-06
Use and Abuse of Tobacco.

We copy from the Baltimore Gazette:
Not the use, but the abuse How many
times in everyday life do we have occasion to
apply the words Now, as to tobacco, we are
not disposed at all to quarrel with its modrr-
ate decent use, but when its abuse makes men
selfish and it becomes the fruitful parent of bad
manners and causes those who use ii 20 he
guilty of acts inexcusable and offensive, then
no cenSure can be too severe. AS often pr;tc-
ticed it is distinctly proper subject for legiS
lation, aud we are sustained by II late writer
who has taken up the subject warmly, when he
says that those who reckleSSly ''cNpectorate to-
bacco juice in public or in private places ought
to be handed over 1T once TO the police; ii is
an outrage upon every gentleman, and an in
suit to every lady What right have men to
render public promenadeS or public vehicles
churches, theatres, or public halls filthy lay amy
act whatsoever? y man is no more privileged
to empty his saliva upon the pavement than to
empty any other offensive matter there and it
is quite time that this plain principle should be
enforced upon the savages, well-dresSed or i'll
dressed, that frequent our public places. Acts
of this kind would be impossible in any COM
munlty in which the people were properly edu-
Gated to An understanding of mutual rights
and obligations. Public smoking is only less
in degree than that of public eXpectoraton.-
The men who frequent public promenades and
exhale the smoke of cigars or pipes into the
iSQt every paSser-by, are simply unmanner-
! a. u ~, '-h hrutes; they are either men who
polite society, or n hss Jaws anu restraint: OF
their obligations well enougffNeo.id'P ha
utterly reckless by selfish indufreese,e~o1ii so
they have lost all regard or concern for the CON-
fort or rights of others. Men of this character
need the interpositon of the law. People are
not permitted to commit indecent acts upon the
highways; they are not permitted to be drunk
or disorderly, and hence it ought TO be compe-
tent for the law to include in this class of re-
straints public tobacco smoking and public eX-
pectoration oftobacco juice. They are in them
selves fully as Objectionable, while, by their
prevalence, they are much more crying evils.
The universal grandfather will not much
longer succeed in lodging the search
his scientific descendants. \ recent Eng
lish newspaper tells US that
One at least of the missing links between
the anthropomorphou apes and home
sapiens has, it is reported, at last turned
up, a Mr.. Bond. an Indian surveyor, hay-
ing secured two specimens of race pos
sessing some very simian characteristics
who inhabit the hill junyles of the West
ern Chats, living chiefly on roots and
honey, and being without fixed dwelling
places. They have, however, civilized
tendencies, for they exchange honey, wax
and other produce of their forest haunts,
for tobacco, as well as for cloth and rice
The diagnosis of this remarkable and
! primitive type of humanity is very inter
esting. The forehead is low and retreat
ing, and the lower part of the face project
ing like the muzzlc Of monkey the legs
are short and handy, while the body and
arms are comparatively long. The most
striking character is in the hands, which,
with the fingers, are contracted SO taat
/ they cannot be stretched out flat; the
palms and fingers, more especially the tips
of the latter. are covered with thick skin,
the nails being small and imperfect. while
the feet are broad and covered on the up
| per as we'll as the lower surface with thick
skin. These people are not without reli-
gion, practising. apparently, a species of
nature worship. The mountains of India
harbor several very ancient races, who
have there found refuge from the success
/ sivs waves of invasion. which. as in the
case of Italy, have swept over the PENN
sala from prehistoric periods, and whose
strange and primitive customs and habits
have already thrown light upon impor-
tant chronological problems World.
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