The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-11-06
Something to Avoid.

Young man! do you doubt that the
effect of the use of tobacco is demor-
alizing? Go to the clubhouse, that
gilded threshold to life of degenera-
cy and degradation, where the card
pack takes the place of the catechism,
and the average topics of conversation
are the latest horse-race, walking
match, prize-fght, billiard or sparring
exhibition. You will find there every
individual to be an animated minia-
ture volcano, breathing forth fire and
smoke, and at intervals belching out a
defiling lava-stream. Take the next
step down to the wine and sample
room, where the fashionable rowdy
and professional gambler robs night
Of its peaceful quiet, and under its
cover fills the pages of life's record
book with words of blasphemy and
deeds of infamy. Go to the gambling
table where one is robbed of his
money, and his moral life crucifed,
and you will find that tobacco holds
high carnival. Go to the grogshop
where manhood is so swiftly wrecked
and the Divine image obliterated, and
it is tobacco smoke overhead and to-
bacco juice underfoot. Go into every
haunt of sin on the face of the whole
earth, and tobacco, alcohol, and curses
are the nefarious and diabolical trim
ity-the great triple enemy of the
human family. Question every young
man you meet, with cigar or quid OF
tobacco in his mouth, and he will be
found to have strayed away from the
protecting care of a mothers lnt1u-
ence, and the shadow of the church
and Sunday-school.
1t has been discovered upon investi-
CATION, in the Polytechnic Schools of
Paris, that the non-smoking boys are
decidedly superior in general scholar
ship and mental vigor, to those who
smoke; and the German Government,
approaching the injurious effects of
tobacco ON the physical constitution,
has made smoking on the streets by
boys under the age of sixteen, an Of
fense punishable by fine and impris-
Onment.
Smoking or chewing tobacco is a
process of distilling or extracting an
oil which is so deadly a poison, that
two drops placed on the tongue OF a
cat will produce death in four min
utes: will take the life of the largest
sized dog, and by puncture in the
nose of a squirrel with a pin dipped
in it. will cause death in six minutes.
The sudden deaths Of Gen. Dakin, of
BROOKLYN. and of DR.. Hallock, of New
York city, was due to the paralysis of
the heart, caused, there is little doubt
for thinking, by tobacco poison, for
thev were inveterate smokers; while a
great many lives are closed prema-
turely through its influence, and hun
dreds of thousands are daily living on
the verge of the same probability.
If you would not destroy your
health, and deaden or callous your
moral sense; if you would not acquire
habit which is generally contracted
in boyhood, and Of which the testi-
mony of unnumbered thousands of
men is, that they would so gladly
shake it off if they could" habit
which is a constant, and which be-
comes an incalculable drain upon the
pocket as well as the constitutions; d
habit that has not one single virtue
that can be plead i'll extenuation fOl
its existence; then live in the purify
ing atmosphere of the church ano
Sunday-school. and under the iptlu-
ence and council of mother unseltist