The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-06-12
The smoker. car.

Reader, have you ever, eithsr by s1tdsdf
or design, beenfn the smoking- Of 3 MIL
road train well under WY? L not, NJ bees
Of You to improve the first portun,ity 10 do
SO. It will enable you to see life in new
phase, and You may possibly learn ., lesson
from it. = I. = Il - @
z We think we are safe in sayiug there. isn0-
life, either animal Or vegetables, less tenaciouS-
than that OF man, which could continue
long within it's smoky precincts. Thirty.
forty, and sometimes as many as fifty pipes.
and cigars of all kinds and conditions, ins
full blast, are giving off their clouds. of
poisonous smoke, which fills the entirecapae
city Of the car. = ~ ~
Fumigation so thorough would soon clear
an infested ship of rats and other yernoin.
Plants subjected to. its influence would be-
poisoned to death in short time. child
would be soon sufocated, and strong men.
who have not been accustomed to- such an;
atmosphere, would succumb to its poisonous
influence.
The human physical organization ia Of
wonderful endurance. We have only to
notice the vast amount or poisons, adiainis-
tered by medical advisers in their daily prac-
ace, which the system rejects, always with
more or less injury, to be convinced of that
fact. Without going to extremes for illustra-
lions, we see how tea, coffee, pepper, spices,
ana Otner things not natural to mans an
petite, or beneficial to his system are, after
constant and moderate use, not only received
oy the system without opposition, but finally
hunger is induced which thew alone can
satisfy, or which at least it is difficult tooyer-
come. The same may be said of the use of
spirituous liquors, arsenic tobacco in its
various forms, opium, and many other forms
OF polsons. Perhaps man was so constituted,
expressly to enable him to Withstand the
poisonous atmosphere of the smokine-car.
The smoking-car may be taken as an IL
lustratlon of mans moral as well az his
physical nature and tendencies. If the doc
trine of total depravity, as once taught, was
| true, we might suppose ourselves born in a
spiritual smoking car, whose cloudy con-
| tents were In exact consonance with our un-
holy condition, and amid which We should
revel with the highest enjoyment. X
But in these days of more liberal views,
we are taught that men are only naturally in
clined to evil ways, and readily believe that
in our individual cases the inclination is so
very little from the perpendicular that there
Is no danger of fall. Our neighbor, who
INDUCES in awhole pipefull of sin, may be in
danger, but our little cigarette can work no
harm. In fact, we see no reason why we
should not be allowed to smoke it if We
choose. - - - - =
The little sins are but blossoms of which
the larger ones are the fruit, and the season
of growth is sometimes exceedingly short.
One wrong thought or action is followed by
another as readily and inevitably as is the
cigarette by the cigar
The confirmed sot had his first glass of
wine, and he who stands lowest in the moral
scale, his first departure from the paths Of
righteousness. - 800 . - t---.lt
We are all journeying on LIES railway,
and on each train there is a smoking-car.
Those who enter it do so from choice. They
may be urged or influenced by others, but
the decision, the yes or the no, is with them.
More or less of the dust of the road will be
found on each one of us. We shall not run
| into the terminal station with our apparel
| fresh and clean, let us do the best We may;
but we can show that we have striven to
| avoid contamination, and that we have at
least kept clear of the denominations of the
SmOkinp-car. AZ -