Daily Republican., 1884-08-12

One night last winter had the'pleasure
of riding on the cars for some distance by
the side of our correspondent j. g., of
the Western Reserve, and he gave me
some experience which want to repeat
to the young men. He said, as near as I
IN remember
"" When I was married did not drink,
and made up my mind / would not
smoke, but would spend each year the
amount OF money the cigars would have
cost In good books-agricultural sc len
tihc, and perhaps some novels by the
best authors. figured that one good
cigar day, with what / should give
away, would cost $40 year; and l have
faithfully spent that for books ever since
now have quite large library of useful
books, one of the largest in our vicinity,
and every year am adding to it. My
wife and read those books, and spend
our evenings talking about what we read,
instead OF gossipping about our neigh
bOrs. 1t was one of the best moves / ever
made"
Our friend is now not only, a better
farmer, but a writer, an editor land a lee
turer. Don't you think he was wise to &c
without cigars!
Not long since heard n Young nan
say, looking at the cigar which he Was
smoking A fire at one end Gait aud q
fool at the other" He was Joking, pre-
sumo, but was it not true : l have not a
word to say to the older men; but, young
men, with your own way to make in the
world, cannot you learn a lesson from
this actual exporter of young farmer
Drinking you will avoid, OF course. You
can smoke and be considered respectable,
perhaps, but every time yoa do it want
you to remember that for the sake of a
foolish and useless habit you are burning
up a library or farm.
Not long since, at junction where we
had to wait, two women came through
the cars where l was, cleaning up the
floors. The floor in my seat was flooded
with filthy tobacco spittle, and | felt
ashamed when | got up to let one of these
women clean out my pew. l told her
that, though appearances were against
me, had no hand IN making that dis
gushing mess, and wished the one who
made it had to clean it up. Last month
l attended meeting at an attractive
grange hall. AS the place was crowded "a
number OF men, mostly quite young, oc-
cupied the diuing room adjoining. After
the meeting, wish you could have seen
the filthy puddles of tobacco juice on that
nice white floor that farmers sons and
young farmers and other young men had
left there for their mothers and sisters, and
wives and sweethearts to wade through
and clean up. How can any tidy young
lady marry tobacco splitter: / would
ten times sooner live and die an old
maid.
They all do it," you say. No, they
In. ,f III 4 -
would put your foot down that no drink
ing, splitting young man should ever wait
on you. | have heard Mr.. Chamberlain
tell of seeing, some years ago, a German
girl sitting on box in a grocery smoi-
ing pipe, and with mug of beer by her
side. {" wasn't married then," he said,
" and didn't want to be. would soon
err have married rail fence than that
girl" 1t is poor rule that Son't work
both ways.
Young men, let me urge you to drop
these useless, expensive, disgusting hab-
Its, II you have already got into them If
you haven't, do keep out, and make good
us~ of the money you will save. Let the
city boys, who think it is smart, spit over
everything, and get at the fool end of q
cigar, and dwarf their intellects by the
use of tobacco while they are young, If
they must, but don't you pattern after
them. If you take my advice you can be
worth more money, you will feel more
manly, and every one will think more of
you. know of young man in Ohio
who not long ago applied for very de-
sirableposition. In his application, he
said, &C. do not drink, chew or smoke"
That settled the matter. Ask any honest
middle-aged man who uses tobacco
your father, If you wish-it he would adj
wise you to use it, and b will tell you, as
| do, don't do IL: YOU can do better