Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-15
Talent and Tobacco.

| TIE ,ston Traveller, 10 recent issue, says:
James Ps.too has recently written a letter,
which has had wid qlatati0o, * x2ortiDg writer's
and br.o workers TO throw away their pipes.
! This reopeDs the di:clsSi0r OF social topic
which sff rds the latgesf room for honest diver
gene, Of opioion Suppose. without attempt
ing to decide the mot point as to the sound
ness of Dir. Paftno's siv;c:, We Odulge 10 few
| RAT dom obseres:iors 90 TIC prominence of the
! pipe 10 literature.
MIR. P.rtou's c>uasc to btaia workers may
! be wise or not bat that he is in minority is a
fact of which there caa De little question. The
coosum oto1 cf tobacco iooreas:s yearly. aud to
| this incrcasa .brs!o workers, ne believe, con.
tribute a very large proportion. EoclIsh liter
sture, ss Taole nav be SAID TO be surchsrged
with smoke. Aoti tcb,cc .uisss can point. it is
true, 70 the fact tho. Shak,pesre's pages
do not c1otaio siuslo reference to the
weed. Bl: this porab, cxrptlon only
serves to emphssz tho rue. Lord Bacon
eulosiz.s Tobacco dec ariog that 'it com.
iorteth the spirits and di-cbargeth wearl.
uess, which it wcrka,h partly BY opening but
chiefly by the opista vir;u, which condenseth
the spiri;s." Ben johnson aud Dtummond.
aad Fietchcr and Bsaumoo. constantly removed
their friendships over q pipe. The great Dr.
Barrow pronounced his pine to be cure-all,
| hi. Paophsrm.cIu. Sir Thomas O7erbury
calls suokios that delectabe psstime." Box
| hore. the great Dqch scloar. smoked almost
| iucessaptl7 in bis study. Sir Isaac Newton not
oply loved his pipe b1. mad pls"fuI aud some.
what uogsllsct way of u-ios the 6osers OF his
| It1v friends for shoppers. Steele wrote bis
| spl.ndid essays Uith 3 pipe 10 his mouth, and
Addison SEQ, out hia brightest tnlogs from
cloud Of snok,. Df7d,n oved his "wh'f''
onIy second TO his P.och," aod Congrieve was
! ford of soothiog lang-stem1ed cay-the
| church warden" Of the oien time. Daniel
| D .foe m,ds bis pine bis nearess friend. AL
the literary 1oeu of Queen Aune's day appear
wresthed 10 fragrant olyuis, aud 90 period,
| surely, has gl79o us greater oumoer OF great
writer's Charles Lamb wss Tonga yvotee OF the
weed, bef1re he weoto his Celebrated farewell
robac 10, 10 which he anstheua z d II as
Filth O. the mouth au1 fox o the mind.
| C,niug dow, TO later .iuas W. fad tho ex'
| ample of Sir Wake, Sc,;, the puCco OF ro-
| maucars op the sane -lda. HIS no9e!5 are tolI
of tobacco. His CHARGERS are c)DtlnusHy
snuffi ~ or suckinx. DJnlnieosmpson heard
! Meg Msrrslies sioalug 90 the stairs soa sToan'
| ed deeply, "pufiua ou. ee'W:eo Wo''Gs huse
| 9oIu ncs Of tobaeca snoSs nc makes tue
old hao herseIf . disciple of the weed. Iotro
dn,ino her 10 Harry Bar;ran "bu.lly engaged
with a short black tobacco pipe" Shelly, Elgar
ppc and Tom Moore are three modern poe!s
Ohio are TO be set dowo ou the other SIDE ss anti
tnb,rc,oists M.c,u!sy. go thick, may be
sdd.d to the numoar.
| Ia our owo day Dickens aud Iannyson, VINO
stand. at least 10 potulsr estimation, as the
| EopIish Isurestes OF prose aud poetry respect.
iy.ly, are to b, seq. down as ardent lovers OF
nicotne comto.t Spucgooo has preached some
| alcnnsnt sermors 10 dcteocs OF the pipe, de-
clarIoe 90 one occasion that nc had always
| smoked and aIRsfa Intended to smoke TO the
| oIorv Of G 3D." 90 this side ~e think wa shall
not orr io setting dowo LoustelloW, Lowell,
Aldrioh and CIeuueos. at least, as disciples
ofSir Walter Raleigh. Oliver Wendell Hones'
# he follows bis oTo advlce 10 young meu' 'I'
must be set down as OF contrary n.ou' p 1At'
Baecher is no. attached to tae Weeq, ous oos
ton cle,y7u.n. Whoss fame once elm )st flVa!eo
tbat nft6c Br,ys.yn pastor, was deeply deVote1
tnit "If YOU gsu. to fnd out IT Mr: - Is
IN hie stud ? YOU uesd not ring the bell out JUST
look and see if the GrDoke is pouring "us ot tue
| window" ono of bis descons was soh1 W sAI W
neople who waited to see him. e,,-
l1ow;ng story: Tho vsue f gold cigir'
ssit h. lis best u1da-stooi when 1t Is Inc !ast
vou nossess. snd mere is 10 cnance oI gst.'hs
sOo,per sOo 4. Koaiggr,tz mad only one eis,ii ,i
left in my pocket. which carefully sasfddsa das.
dnrior the whole of The b.ttle AZ m'sst does
bi. rsssure did not feel justified IN usins It,
i'1 I osipted s in glowing colors IN my mi nd, the
hsnpy hour in which should ENJOY u ni's. ."u ~
victory Bat l had mlscslcu'Heo cnah.''s
And WHIST .sEed one Of the company; was was
the c.u.e Of your miscs'cuict.oh inv h.pIs.s pIu
eitsp giss both stns cru,hcd aurnuring fr s'ne me-
ons founa hsd only sod .nd h, V2ud be of no
use to HIM But stay hal sti! my tse1arSa !, nsl
Lighted ;os tbcp t5f mn hsve s"a sem The
ts,low,s 9ratelu, smile nsyar enjoyed cigar
'o'Io" -. tb.t ono which did not smokeI'