Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-06
eREtT MEN AsD TIE To
HABIT.

II Is pathetic 90 remember the
kelniess writhings Of Charles Lamb
ia the tolls OF the habit enfoiding
MIN like a coil Of Medusaen serpen,s
y, ike the tentacula 81 Se1fOund-
land octopus. 10 his Confessions
az a Dn,nkArd, he deserves The ex-
change OF one thraldom for another.
that OF the goblet for the pipe, Ana
hog Al first the latter seemed beniga
in the comparison, but at last became
a scourye OF scorpions. leaving him
No red night nor day. Spirit, dia
boli black anthropOpbagi, hooE0o-
lin. lepures. continually haunted
rim. Absddon yexed and haher
r,errlexsd him, TO him, Raleigh. who
brought the terrible weed over toe
seas. was a. one who had opened .
new PardOra box. fountain Of mex
batIstiAle woe 10 mankind, or a. the
dark angel who had uncorkef the
last Apocalyptic vial. io0sing the
nen,up and unending fioodsof wrath
r. engnlf and oVerw helm the weird
He would have sympaihized Win
DIR. Talmsges's denuncialion OF u
and lent him tr=pes and rbeiorieai
missiles 10 hufl at i.
Tennyson, according 10 Carlyle,
floats In and out Ia a great element
Of tobacco smoke, a vide, breezy
Comfortable figure OF man not easy
10 wsken, bat great when be Is once
aroused Cariyie's own pipe went
with MIN 10 the end. Doctor, lie
aid in his later days. when al some
he.lth resor, he had called In The
focal Esculapius, 'I'll do anything
We say but We maun ma TAX away my
nine. When he was usher OF An
nam he suffered, as he Always ala,
from dyspepsia He went forty mFies
IN consult a doctor of great local
fame who told aim to stop smoking.
He stopped several months, bat II
produced no effect upon his malady,
40 he took up his abandoned pipe
again 81 found he said THAT /
might as we'll have poured my woes
into the long, hairy. hollow ear OF
the great Iackass | met, Is 10 have
ridden forty miles to consult that
doctor" Bismarck always smoked
ike Vesuvius until the infirmities OF
advancing years compelled him to
exercise a certain discretion, but
even now that he has passed his
seyentieth birthday he is rarely seen
outside OF official hours and spaces
without hugh porcelain pipe with
its stem, yard long, hanging against
his waistcoat. IL is plain enough
that tobacco has been associated with
some Of the highest practical specu.
lation and imaginative work which
has been done in the world since II
was discovered, and II II could be
brought face to face with its enemies
In some court qualified 10 sit In
Judgment on its case II would doubt
d. less have good deal TO say for itself.
Webster hated tobacco, and IL hi;
guests at Marshiield waited to smokt
they had to go out TO the horseshed
In this way he was almost alone
among the public men OF his time
Clay chewed; Jackson smoked q
corncob pipe, giving audiences while
IN the W tlttt ttOuHt W tlF iuahuOt VI
people with that inexpensive calu
met (said TO be the best pipe going 10
his mouth. The Washington Of
that day, a. of some subsequent pc
RODS, was paved with spiitoons, one
President anchoring gigantic uten
sill OF this description, its crater q
yard across, in the middle OF his
reception room by way OF diverting
In that direction the noble exPectora
tional rage OF his visitors, some OF
whom, Ia the ardor of colloquy, spst
on the floor, out OF the window, or
perchance fortuitously, In the casua
neighhoring hat Such was the habi
of the American patriot of that pc
Rod, surviving vet In some of his
successors. II is a safe bet that when
Joe Blackburn called on the Presi
dent recently. in the heat Of his emo
ton be executed saliyary parsbolas
worthy OF the best DAYS OF the Re
public. hitting everywhere with a
noble disregard Of etiquet. cuspidors
or precedent Brooklyn Eagle.