The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-02

saw an account of an English man, a cigar maker, by trade, while laboring under a fit of des- pondency, and home sickness, cut his throat with razor. No won der that cigar makers get despon-
 dent and home sick, and sick in every other way, imbibing poisons as they do, by the mouth, nose,
 lungs and skin, everyone of those
 pores that count by tens of millions
 drinking in continually poison, the
 rankest poison. The poorest man 1 ever saw was a cigarmaker. I
 never passed his shop, without
 looking for him, so striking was
 his emaciated appearance. Talk of living skeletons! This man look ed like Death himself, and Keller is losing ten thousand doll ars ev. cry year, by not putting sc, tn e in his hand and mounting him on the Pale HOrse. Go in any tobac- co factory, cigar factory, or snuff factory. and bring out a healthy
 man if you can. Most people that are addicted to the use of tobacco
 live in every other respect the most temperate life, and would be very
 healthy, athletic people if they
 would let tobacco alone. Still they insist on poisoning themselves. In
 stead of being strong as they
 should be, they are weak. Instead of being fresh and full habited, in good, comfortable order. they are as lank as 'grey-hounds, "caved m" all over Instead eff being light
 hearted and happy, enjoying the
 good body and good things that God has given him, he is down. hearted and gloomy. And yet you
 might as well talk to a tobacco
 worm about giving up the weed, as to those, so completely are they
 enslaved to the poison All of Us have friends in this same lamenta-
 ble condition n--emaciated, weak, ! irresolute, sour, "blued' and "hOr- rore'l" often casting longing looks
 into deep waters,and druggists win
 dows, Respondent as 10 business and health, and family felicity, grcen,mustered perhaps, and with cause cause of their own making.
 Inquire into it, dig around the root Ofthe matter. and ten to one. you will find the cut worm at work the worm of tobacco, or its fcl- low-alcoh ol-perhaPs both. For be it known that these two worms,
 have.formed a perpetual partner ship in the boring and deadening business. Tobacco, being the most insidiOus borer, introduced himself first, making the subject porous and bibulous, so that alco- hol has no difficulty in crawling in, and saturating the system with its virus, completing the job-that is, the deadening. Tobacco so de- strOys the sensations and functions of the mouth, that mild, natural drinks are not tasted; hence the tabacco eater, ,craves strong drinks, something that will goad tic dead ening nerves into feeling. Look
 into his mouth and you will find that the mucous membrane does not have the appearances that it does in healthy person. And to- bacco produces n sense of exhaus- ton in the whole system that calls for an artificial stimulus. Alcohol ever at the elbow. steps in sup plies this strong drink and this ar tifcial stimulus. l don't believe it is any exaggeration to say that tobacco is responsible for m ore drunkards than alcohol Smoking naturally calls for drinking. Do we not see the two allied, ever un- der the same colors, "liquors and cigars" "beer and pipes"-al' ways. Even where Biddy Pathric can furnish but one decanter, shute. a tumblcr of 1.-two for cent.' When a table of old gout- toed wine-bibbers take a supper" what do they do? Drink and smoke When party of trappers, or Indi- ans or sailors or soldiers, get to town and "have time of it," or "blow out" what do they dol Drink and smoke. When "BloOds" go ont on a bender or "bust," what do they doa Drink and smoke. When low, unprincipled men and boys, thieves, williams. rOudies, rakes, murderers, the filth and oil- securing of humanity meet togeth-