Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-25
Agricultural.



Thore are few that make either an occa.
sional or habitual use Of spirits OF tobacco
that will not, like the wrltor Of the following
article, acknowledge THOR IN Effects Why
thon do they use them7 Why do the people
Of the United States annually inhale tho nox-
ious fumes Of more than Z, 600 millions Of o.
gars2 Why do thoy snuff mp their noses
-four million pounds Of iobacoo dust Be-
sidestho cigars and lho 1ndf they annually
dehle their months with filthy Juice, and
poison the air with tho smoke Of $50 million
pounds Of tobacoo Why DO the people Of
this country pay every year more than The
value Of all the property in this state for liq-
nor and tobacco, when nearly oil who use
eilhsr aoknbwleage is evil eject ~ n
u any dizziness employers prefer those
Who neiihsf drink nor use tobacco The
writer Of The following article speaks only Of
the danger Of FIRE from having hired help on
farms who have The smoking habit, and lie
effect in Eliminating the disposition to labor
which he has learned from his own expert
once. Though smoker himself, he cannot
afford to hire those Who smoke Il he can get
those who do not wa aFaf wH
'Tf farmer can have choice between the
man who smokes and tho one who does not
he cannot afford. TO hire the smoker. Tho
smoker spends TOO much time hunting for
his pipe and tobacco and firing up when 1t
work, and though he pretends TO smoke and
& work ht the same time the Pipe takes most Of
hisaltention and tho emplnyers Interests suf-
for But moro than this occurs-- smoking
makes a man lazy. The first effect is to
brace him up q little, but few momenis later
itrelaxps his sinews, bis energy Gags, and he
fools like crawling undor the shade and tax.
ing nap know how Il is, for am on 90
casional smoker myself. II have business
on hand l postpone smoking, knowing BY
experience that smoking unhta me for labor
mental o. physical ~
II did not realize how many times q day
my men smoked until employed them IN
tho Office during rainy weather Some Of
them could not dispense with smoking from
the morning until the noon bell, but wanted
TO indulge two or three times, feeling uneasy
under the reatraint. I 40 not doubt these
men would smoke six or eight times daily in
the fields, and every smoke would entail
loss Of ten minutes, cay one hour each day
or one day per monthA-R lose Of S12 for
eight months. sssume that The risk OF hav-
ing a arnoker about The promises is worth an.
q other Sl2 for eight months. No matter how
careful the men may try to be, they are LA
Dle 70 iay the burning pipe or cigar down and
forget 1t until tho buildings ere in flames. or
70 drop match in an absent minded mo-
ment that costs the proprietor several thous-
and dollars.
Again / say know how il is myself. /
am ono of the most cautious Of men, and
never enter q bnrn or shop with lighted Of.
gar, nor light one in the barn. One day de-
string to enter the barn, laid my lighted Of
gar on block two rods away, between The
barn and wood shed. Coming out OF the
barn was met by some visitors and tho Oh
gar was forgotten. We walkeddown through
the berry fields, and whom we came back we
found people lighting Ere. The Cigar bad
been blown on the block u fell down
among dry chips aud litter, and we came
near being burned out Smoking is not only
a foolish waste OF time and money and a
sOrrco Of danger to property il undermined
3 healthi and unless the occasional devotee IL
, eerupulously neat makes him less compan.
ionable. The inveterate, perpetual smoker
is nuisance.e