Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-27

III TIE ndDlt OF Witnessing the er1ectS OF
tobacco on new beginners, are very
we'll aware OF.
Smoking, chewing and snuffing are
the three principal ways of using tobac.
co. or these three ways imagine smok-
ing is
| The Most Injurious
and the most capable of abuse, since in
this process the active principles of the
tobacco are volatilized with the smoke
ana extensively applied to mouth,
nose and fauces, as well as the wind
pipe and lungs.
In no country, perhaps, is smoking
so much INDUCED in as in Germany,
where 1t has become mighty evil,
and the United States is fast verging to
the same condition. One German au-
thor, In speaking Of the injuries done
by the extravagant use of tobacco,
writes thus:
This plague, like the Egyptian
plague of frogs, is felt everywhere and
In everything. 1t poisons the streets,
the club and coffee houses; furniture,
clothes and equipage are redolent Of
the abomination. 1t makes even the
dizziness OF the newspaper doubly mar
cOtic. Every eatable and drinkable,
all that can be seen, felt, heard or un-
derstood, is saturated with tobacco.
The very air which We breathe is but
the conveyance OF the poison into the
lungs, and every man, woman and
child rapidly acquires the complexion
OF boiled chicken. From the hour of
their waking (if nine-tenths of the pop
ulatlon can be said to awake at all to
the hour of their lying down, the pipe
is never out of their mouths. One
mighty fumigation reigns, and human
nature is smoked dry by the tens OF
thousands Ofsquare miles"
The German Psychologists compute
that of twenty deaths between eighteen
aud thirty five years, ten originate in
the quiet and unnoticed
Abuse of the Constitution
by smoking.
Next to smoking stands chewing,
which, though less INDUCED in than
the former, is very extensively prac.
tised. The principal argument We hear
advanced in favor of this practice is its
power in preserving teeth. This argu'
ment carries with it but little weight.
Tobacco, like other narcotics and slim
ulants will sometimes blunt the sensi-
bility and relieve pain in diseased teeth,
and keep them much of the time from
coming in contact with acids and other
articles that might impair their struc-
ture.
shall Only refer to the third form in
which tobacco is used, namely, that of
snuff, by saying that in addition to the
general train of evils already men,
toned, the use of snuff tends to dry the
nasal membrane, injure speech, and in
duce catarrhal affections.
Lord Chesterfield, after stigmatizing
the tobacco habit in every form rs vul-
gar and filthy, adds:
"Besides, snuff.takers are generally
very dull and shallow people and have
recourse to it merely as iill-up to the
brain. by all means, therefore, avoid
The filthy CUSTOM"
This may seem severe, but it is from
the
Great Model Of GentiIity,
| Chesterfield, and should not be disre-
garded.
! will not undertake 10 give estimates
\ in regard to the amount of tobacco
| used. The general effects of the arti-
| Gle are the same, whatever may be the
manner of using it. The greatest in
Jury, however, is done by smoking.
| First, because smoking is much more
| extensively practiced than either of
| the other methods; second, because the
| active principle, the poison oil OF the to-
baccO, is volitiliZed in the smoke and
brought in contact with the large ab-
sorbing membranes of the mouth, nose,
throat, pharynN, trachea and bronchial
tubes, where it produces q direct and
powerful effect upon the nerves. There
are certain constitutions which the
moderate Use Of tobacco seems to affect
but little, but its excessive use will in
all cases gradually undermine the con-
stitutiOn, impair health, engender dis
ease, and finally bring the victim to a
premature grave. There are other con-
| stitutiOns which cannot bear even the
| moderate Use OF tobacco without mark
| ed injurious effects. Some cannot form
the habit of using it. 1t will make
them sick, nervous, weak, faint, and
the whole system will be i'll complete
| tremor. This is common effect or
persOns of a nervous temperament
But if used at all, whether moderately
or excessively, 10y the nervous or lymph
attic, 1t Is
In all Cases Injurious,
gradually poisoning the system and
Shortening life. shall not stop now t
dwell upon the points usually enumer
ated as the great objections to the use
of tobacco. These you all understand
and appreciate,
have another and more important
view to take of the subject, gentlemen
and it is this: by using TOBACCO
alcohol, opium, chlpral, and man.
l - n, Of tho UannrQI ma
ture, we violate the organic laws which
bear sway over our bodies, we make IN
roads upon our constitutions, ana pre-
pare ourselves to be miserable ant
short-lived. AS have used the term
"organic law" it may be necessary 10
me TO explain to be understood. W.
. find controlling mind and matter,
Three Sets of Laws,
which together are termed the natura
laws, hut suhdivided into physical, or
ganic and moral or intellectual laws.
The physical laws embrace all thu
phenomena of mere matter; stone 10
instance, when unsupported, falls 4
the ground with certain accelerated
force, and this motion Is said to tax,
place according to the laws of gravita
ton. An acid when applied to vege
table blue color converts it into a red
and this is said to take place according
to a chemical law, or the law of ATTN
ity.
Organized substances have anothe
set OF laws governing them termed or
ganic, differing from the merely physi
cal. a stone does not spring from s
parent stone; it does not take food from
its parent, from the earth, or the air
II does not increase in vigor for time
and then decay and suffer dissolution
but all these processes characterize us a!
organized and living beings. The or
physical. They enable organized bodies
TO great extent to resist the action OF
living animal or man may be placed in
an oven along with the carcase OF a
dead animal, and remain exposed to q
heat that will completely bake the dead
flesh, and yet come out alive ana MOI
| - =, H.. ;n;pral The 1pn1 flesh il