The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-08

1ooacco, as well as alcohol, VIII in~
crease the rate of functional action
without adding TO functional power.
With the majority of people the use OF
tobacco. either by chewing OF smoking,
will very materially increase the fire.
quency of the heart beats, and, corse-
quently, the rate of functional action.
While it does not produce the amount
of mental disturbance that alcohol does.
it produces greater disturbance to tho
nervous system, or organic life, and,
therefore, exhausts the reserve force of
the nervous system more rapidly
than the former. But because
it does not craze the mental
powers, but rather soothes them,
the tobacco user vainly imagines that
he is benefited rather than injured BY
such indulgence. But as tobacco can
not be built into the organism to add to
its stock of reserve force, nor can it be
burned in the body for the evolution of
heat, it must therefore be cast out of
the system, and this will consume q
considerable amount of reserve force
already in the organism and which
should be husbanded for the future ex-
igencies of life. More than this, it con-
talnS poisonous principles inst directly
lower the life forces. especially in per
sons of nervous temperament This
poisonous effect on the nervous syStem
is so great in some instances as to pro-
duce instantaneous stoppage of the
hearts action and consequent sudden
death. With almost every person the
beginning of the habit is attended with
extraordinary sickness and suffering,
and why so many young men persist in
its use until the habit is fully formed Is
a mystery it is hard to explain. It is
true that after a person has outlived the
repugnance of the organism to the in
PRODUCTION of the poison and continues
in its use, he gets a soothing and ex-
hilarating feeling that is very agreeable
to most persons; and were there no bad
effects to follow, this might be some
compensation for the suffering endured
at the beginning. But bad effects never
fail to follow its use, and although
it does not craze the mind, it evidently
lowers and debases its action. The to-
bacco habitue can not have the extent
of mental power he would have if he
avoided its use and lived true to the
laws of his being. This effect is prob
ably produced by its injury to cell
formation of the frontal brain. 1t Ger
tainly acts injuriously on the blood
cells, as has been revealed by tho
microscope.
Some of the injurious effects of smok-
ing the weed might be avoided by
properly arranged cigar-holders or long
stem pipes, if kept well cleaned. And
the smoker who lives quiet and order
ly life may reach extreme old age, al
though any great sudden shock or ex-
element subjects him to risk of pre-
mature death. A perfectly healthy
organism with large amount of re-
serve force is capable of resisting al
most all approaches OF diseased action,
let it come from what source il may;
while an organism deranged by had
habits, exhausted of its reserve of vital
force, is ready to fall prey to any great
disturbance of the life forces. This fact
is strongly verified by the report Of
Lieutenant Greedy, of the Inflated
Arctic expedition. OF the nineteen ct
his men who succumbed to the intense
cold and short rations, all Of them wero
tobacco users but one, and he was tho
last one that died; while not one of tho
six who survived and we're rescued
used the weed at all. And this Is .
complete verification of scientific teach
ing. The increased work imposed upon
the organism by the use o. tobacco, to-
gether with its directly lowering effect,
exhausted the reserve force of the or
ganism of these men, and they had no
capital of vital force to draw on when
their daily rations were cut short, and
the intense cold they were subject to
and which required active exercise to
keep up the temperature of the body
befell them, they inevitably died; while
those who did not use it had suf-
ficient reserve force to keep up the
internal fires of life until relief
came. And almost every day there are
reports of men suddenly dropping out
of existence from this lack or reserve
force, which should have been carefully
conserved for the trying ordeals which
are liable to come to us all. While it 10
true, then, that persons may indulge in
the use of either or both alcoholics or
tobacco all their days, and under favor
able circumstances live to extreme old
age, vet they are subject to great risk
of premature death, and their lives
have not been brought up to that stand
ard of excellence it was possible for
them to reach, and towhich they should
have aspired. That the use of these
substances hinders the growth of the
nobler faculties of man is a generally
conceded fact; and that such indu1-
gence by the great mass Of the people
of this country is the most prolific cause
of the increasing Generalization of our
people is equally true. Then let every
young man in the Nation, who aspires
to reach a nobler manhood, never in
dulge in these debasing habits.-IlIi-
10is Agriculturist.