The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-02-05
OF PIPES and pUFfERs.
GOSSIP SY THE LATE DIR. MOTT CON-
orpnIhc e,a~H-cc 5otrSC SMOKING.

CEPM!Mc s....cc%<11;H;SS 40 SMOKING.
Dangers oc the Weed, and Some O '"e
pnblic neoplc Who Temp; Them-bres-
;drptS. statesmen. Authors and Editors
t IN. .brine--Some Good Ndvicc.
Special CorrcsponGencc.I
New YORK, -: 1T is curious
thing" said the late DR.. Alexander Aott
4 short time before his fatal illness car
ried one of the best all round New York
ers TO the ether shore, that we doctors
rarely agree on the subject Of tobacco.
Because nicotine is the active principle |
of the weed, is poisonous IN Its isolated
form. the inference has been broadly
drawn that the man who smokes or
chcws must be injuriously affected. The
experience of mankind, however, does
not confirm the conclusion. Ask any
consumer to state distinctly what kind
of. pleasure or kind of injury the daily
use oil tobacco produces, or why he con-
riuucs The indulgence, and not one III
hundred can give you satisfactory an
swcr. Who ever heard 4 man say he en-
loved smoking when he couldn't see the
smoke. or attributed his shake Iii the
morning TO the smoke of the night be-
fore:
Another point worth noting" contln-
led the doctor, lis that geographlcal latl-
Jude and constitution have much to do
with the popular habit. In New Eng
land. for instance, there is large and
conscientious body of men and women
who would suppress the use of tobacco
if they could by legislative enactment,
while from the cosmopolitan city OF New
York southwark, one is brought in con-
tact ~ - - - :. rs most offensive
forms. Chief among these is the cigar
cite. 1t is but short time ago that q
yaysician was suddenly summoned to
attend one of the brightest young men
in the metropolis. While saying good
ov to his hosts one evening he dropped
like :, lao 49, t-La.s followed succession
5f spasms: ;ar!=s s5! So! uncomfortable mus
cular moi:o;is siii;as5 lasted for nearly three
weeks. The doctor had all he could do
to save the young mans life, and it will
be months before he recovers anything
like his former health. Inquiry deVel-
oped the fact that on the day of the at
tack he7lad smoked forty of the poison
Gus pests. Now, if the nicotine stains %
often seen on the fingers of a cigarette
smoker can so easily discolor the outside,
what must be the effect on the more deli
cate membranes of the throat, lungs and
blood vessels. The truth is, more insidl-
GUS harm IS done to the system by the
indiscriminate and habitual smoking Of
cigarettes than by the use of bad liquor.
This brings out another thought.
There is danger in being miscellaneously
polite Among the patients of friend
of mine is a gentleman who is threat
ened with the loss of his arm from
poison which he is supposed to have
absorbed by handling q cigar after it
had been returned to him by q stranger
who had borrowed it for light. The
latter was probably engaged in some
business in which poisonous substances
are used, and, neglecting to wash his
fingers, had unconsciously left trace of
the poison that produced the disaster.
If smokers could see the filth that sur
rounds nine-tenths Of the men and wo-
men who manipulate the weed, their
careless and unclean habits, and observe
the nasty fingers and sometimes lips
that put on the finishing touches Of SO
called Regala, there would be larger
demand for cigar holders, and instead
of biting before lighting, they would use
knife to clip the folded end.
There are, doubtless, cases. contin-
ued the doctor, sin which cancerous' af-
fections of the lips and malignant dis
eases of the stomach are t-aceable to the
abuse of tobacco, but I have found few
among the records, compared with the
extraordinary number Of people in pub
lie and private life who use the weed,
that illustrate the idea of permanent in
jury to persons in general good health,
any more than would result from the in-
PRODUCTION into the system of other dele
terious substances. Fancy your German
philosopher working out his problems
without his pipe"
Take some of the test known of our
own people, especially those engaged in
intellectual work; the majority are great
smokers. James Gordon Bennett is ad-
dicted to cigars and cigarettes, and
happen to know, can use up pile Of
them during a night. Charles y. Dana
is an admirer of the brier root. Pulit-
zer, Joe Howard, Willie Winter and Still
son Hutchins are exceptionally abstem-
ious, for most newspaper men smoke
pipes The night editors f,ld in them
their chief solace. Senator Sherman
smokes the best Havanas, but his broth
er Tecumseh enjoys dry smoke.
Judge William D. Kelley, the pig iron
protectionist of Pennsylvania, INDUCED
in the habit for two generations. Gen.
Grant, as. we all know, smoked inces-
santly, and is pointed out as m example
of the evil; yet he says in his memoirs
that he tried for years after leaving West
Point to acquire the habit before he was
successful.
Chauncey Depew formerly could get
away with twenty or thirty cigars day;
now, his after dinner cigar is luxury.
Grover Cleveland enjoys smoking while
at work, and if you happen to meet him
on his travels. ten chances to one but 1t
will be in I; smoking car or on the smok-
ers side of u ferryboat. Bob Ingersoll Is
a famous patron of good cigars. but
many of the reverend gentlemen who
occasionally handle him without gloves
could smoke him out Of house and home.
! Randolph, of Roanoke" when he
; went abroad, carried a barrelful Of Pow
hatan clay pipes and corrcob pipes with
cane stems. Henry y. Wise was an in
vctcrate chewcr or tobacco, and in his
own home u drvotec of the pipe. Alex
ander T. Stephens, of Georgia, would so
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