The Iola register., 1886-10-01
THE rosAcco HABIT.


An Jn,pressively Entertaining Treatise -
One who Knows All Al Mt 1t.
I am glad to notice q strong effort ON
the part of the friends of humanity %
encourage those who wish to quit tho
use of tobacco. To quit the use Of this
weed is one of the most agreeable
methods of relaxation. l have tried II
great many times. and can safely
say that it has afforded me much solid
felicity.
To violently reform and cast away the
weed and at the end of week to find .
good cigar unexpectedly in the quiet.
unostentatiOus pocket of an old vest, af-
fOrds the most intense and deliriOus de-
light.
Scientists tell us that single drop Of
the concentrated oil of tobacco on the
tongue Of an adult dog is fatal. / have
no doubt about the truth or cohesive
power of this statement, and for that
reason / have always been opposed TO
the use of tobacco among dogs. Dogs
should shun the concentrated oil of to-
bacco. especially if longevity be any OBJ
-
man who NAV have canine tendencies
or strain of that blood in his veins to
use the concentrated oil of tobacco as
sOzodont. To those who may feel that
way about tobacco would say, shun it
BY all means. Shun it as you would the
deadly upas tree, or the still more
deadly whipple tree of the tropics.
In what ] may say under this head
please bear in mind that do not speak
of the cigarette. / am now confining
my remarks entirely to the subject Of
tobacco.
The use of the cigarette is, in fact,
beneficial in some ways, and no pest
house should try to get along without
it. 1t is said that they are very popular
in the orient. especially in the lazar
come very mOnotOnOus.
Scientists, who have been unable to
successfully use tobacco and who there
fore have given their whole lives and
the use of their microscopes to the in
veshgation of its horrors, say that can
nibals will not eat the flesh of tobacco
using human beings. And vet we say
to our missionaries: mo man can be .
Christian and use tobacco"
l say, and say it, too, with all that
depth of feeling which has always char
acteriZed my earnest nature that in this
we are committing great error.
What have the cannibalS ever done
for us as people that we should avoid
the use of tobacco in order to fit our
flesh for their tables? In what way
have they sought to ameliorate our con-
dition in life that we shonld strive in
death to tickle their palates?
To me the statement that tobacco
tainted human flesh is offensive to the
cannibal does not come home with
crushing power.
Perhaps do not love my fellow-man
SO well as the cannibal does. know
that am selfish in this way, and if nv
cannibal brother desires to polish my
wish bone he must take me rs he finds
me. can not abstain wholly from the
Use of tobacco in order to crafty the
pampercd tastes of one who has never
gone out of his way to do me a favor.
Do ask the cannibal to break off the
pernicious use of tobacco because dis
like the flavor of it in his brisket9
VIII uCly any icSI'cCtaUic ICSfuCul VI tHC
cannibal islands to-day to place his fin
ger on a solitary instance where i have
ever. by word or deed, intimated that
he should make the slightest change in
his habits on my account, unless it be
that / may have suggested that diet
consisting of more anarchists and less
human beings would be more product
tive of general and lasting good.
My own idea would be TO send a class
of men to these islands so thoroughly
imbued with their great object and the
oil of tobacco that the great Caucasian
chowder of those regions would be fol-
lowed by such weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth, and such rcmorse and
repentance and gastric uphcavals that
it would be as unsafe to eat mission
ary in the cannibal islands as it is to eat
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