Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-08
ToBAccoIN CIVILIZATION.


The American Indian, it would
appear, must be given rank among
the worlds most universal benefac-
tors--or else malefactors-for he
gave to Europe, the East with the
possible exception of China) and
civilized America the gift of his
pipe, which is curious, because eau.
casian culture forbade the accept
ance of any of the scanty belongings
of Aboriginal barbarism except this
most foul, most useless of them all.
The Red Mans malodorous inven.
ton was, however, promptly rein
forced by the broader genius OF his
"pale faced" brother, to whom he
had passed it, in the addition of the
/ plug and snuff.box to the pipe, each
a new torn of the enjoyment of the
=" weed" Besides, the Spanish in.
vader improved on the original con-
trivance itself, and the white man
now rolls the leaf into a tube which
he calls cigar. actually combining
stem and bowl and tobacco all in
one.
Civilization has very much per.
verified the use Of the pipe Of barbar.
ism. The stolid aborigines employ.
ed the Calumet (pipe) for symbol
rather than for an instrument of en-.
joyment. The white man found it
the censor OF the red mans religion,
and the sacred fumes of burning to-
bacco rose from it, in the great
cathedral of natures virgin forest,
to the sGreat Spirit" as sincere an
offering as the clouds of Roman in.
cense that rise with prOpltiatOry fra
GRANGE at the high altar Of st.
Peters, itself, to the Christians
God. 1t figures none the less in
diplomatic and social relations, and
several whiffs, by each of all con-
cerned in it's passage from mouth to
mouth around the mystic circle con-
firm treaties and cement friendships,
that this, otherwise treacherous and
false, creature will hold them sacred
as life. s.....S...
Received to ornament the lawn,
then recommended for high medi.
cinal qualities, it speedily threw off
the insidious DISCUSSES and stood re-
vealed, the luxury Ito think of it y
it has been for three centuries and
more. Thereupon, also, the Occi-
dental world challenged the intrud-
er, aud Church and State-with the
false prophet OF the Orient thrown
IN for full measure-made a common
attempt to place it under the ban.
Their Holiness, the popes Urban Ill.
and Innocent XII, Illuminated against
it.
The Turk made smoking a crime,
and Sultan Amuret Nv. decreed the
most barbarous forms of death pen
atty for the drowsy indulgence. For
smaller punishment, the Turkish
smoker had his nose perforated by
his offending pipe, whilst the Rus.
sian transgressor had that most use
full and ornamental member of his
countenance cut off altogether.
The good British King, James /,
sent forth CounterblaSt to Tobacco
wherein be delivered his Judgment
on its uses in good ringing English,
thus: "a custom loathsOme to the
eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to
the brain, dangerous to the lungs,
and in its black, sinking fumes
thereof nearest resembling the hOrri-
bleStygian smoke of the pit that is
bottomless."
The history of this intruder from
barbarism into civilization is the
marvel of modern times. A plant
defied the pope's decree, who IN.
crowned kings. Nor was the Eng
lish Couaterblast more harmful than
the Roman thunders. The Turk
guarded the western borders of the
Orient with characteristic barbarity,
and now holds the hookah (pipe) in
despensible to the sensual pleasures
of even the harem. Every enemy
of it's early history is it's slave. and
it has become cosmopolitan. 1t is
the agricultural product of many
countries. 1t floats on the current
of commerce into all lands. In a
year, the United States of America
produce 57O,OOO,000 pounds, and
England imports 100000 pounds Of
cigars.-Rer. Hiram King i@ thu
Guardian.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
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