The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-02
GREAT MEN WHO SMOKE.
Illustrious Devotees Of the Pipe and
Cigar.
from the Ne,o York Star

from the Ne,o York Star.]
Some authors assert that smok-
ing dates back into antiquity. Bo
this as it may, we can surely trace it
back to the aboriginees Of America.
The smoking of herbs or leaves for
medicinal purposes has been prac-
ticed from q very early period in
many countries. Inasmuch as pipes
have been dug up in places under
the Roman wall, in the north of
England. and ut tho Roman stations.
it has been taken for granted that
the Roman soldiers smoked 1900
years ago.
Oliver Cromwell was q bitter
enemy to smoking, rs were also
Charles I. and Charles II. But,
notwithstanding persecution, smok-
ing grow in favor, and in the reign
of William III. it was almost uni
versal custom. "Pipes grew long,
then, and, ruled by a Dutchman, oil
England smoked"
Some of tho Puritans were moder..
ate smokers in England and also in
America, and some of the New Eng
land women enjoyed indulging in a
pipe.
Mrs. Mary Rowlaudson, wife of
Rov. Joseph Rowlandson, Of Lancas~
ter, Mass, had the misfortune to
be captured by the Indians in the
year 17G5, during King Phillips
war Being brou ht into the pres
ence of Phillip, that redoubtable
chieftain courteously offered her q
pipe, according to the Iqdian GUS
tom. ''Bnt smoking" $she says,
did not suit my present feelings.
For though I had form serly made
use Of tobacco, yot l had nsed none
since I WAS taken" TheHushion is
not yet entirely obsolete among the
women Of New England, and :; in
dulged i'll by soma of the women of
tho West and South.
In 1859 Cardinal st. Croix, who
was a great smoker, introduced to-
bacco into TALLY.
In 1G90 Pope Innocent XII. OK
communicates all who should take
snuff Or use tobacco ir church but
in 1724 Pope Benedict revoked this
bull. asie himself used tobacco i'm
moderately.
Perhaps the most celebrated fe-
male smoker was Madame Dudevant
George SANDY. who loved to smoke
cigar, while at work on her inter
esting novels. Emily Faithful is
very fond Of smoking cigarettes.
Robert Hall, the celebrated di-
vine is said to have preached his
most eloquent sermons after smok.-
inga pipe in his vestry. This was
also the case with Doctor Pnrr, who
sometimes smoked twenty pipes in
one evening, and never wrote well
except under the influence Of tobac-
co. Bishop Kennel relates that
Thomas Hobbs, the philosopher Of
Malmesbury, retired to his study
every day sitter dinner, and had his
candle and ten or twelve pipes Of
tobacco laid Ivy him then shutting
, the door, he fell to smoking, Think
! ing and writing for several hours.
Although he smoked excessively, he
lived to the age of 90.
Sir Isaac Newton was very fond of
his pipe. He lived to ripe old
age, and lost but one tooth,
! which would seem 10 disprove the
assertion that tobacco Injuries the
teeth. Alfred dc Musset, Prosper
Merimee, and Eugene Sue we're
. excessive smokers. Lord Palmer>
son was great smoker, and smoked
his ten or twelve cigars day, to
"preserve his health" he said this,
too, after he had passed his eighti-
eth year.
| 'nomas Carlyle, in mild weather,
likes to sit or walk in his garden
and smoke long clay pipe. Lord
Lytton, Lord Eldon, Louis Napo-
leon, Moore, Campbell, and Byron
were moderate smokers. The late
j. N. Kamble, author Of "The Sea-
ms in Engl,nd," was q tremen-
dous smoker. Lord Beaconsfeld
l,vod the long Pipe in his youth, but
in middle age pronounced it "the
tomb Of love- He gave up smok~
ing years ago to please his wife.
John Milton never went to bod
without having first smoked a pipe
and drank a glass of water. Addi
son used to frequent Buttons" 1"
whore he had pipe in his mouth at
all hours. Fielding, the famous
novelist, both smoked and ohewed.
Dickens, Jerrold, and Thackeray all
puffed. Sir Walter Scott smoked in