The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-23

S1c htku tnpic Dut no ce!sou act oswss'
Pipe, = paper Of tobacco. . dish Of coffee, a
wax candle and . supplement, with zach az
air Of chserfulness and good hnmor that, oil
tho boys in the coffee room (who seemed 70
take pleasure in surveying him wSrs ~
once employed on his several errands."
Andrew Freeport with heavy. quot:tiona
out Of Bakers Chronicle. or playing back
CANNON with bis chaplain Mt Covealy nall,
We mover miss the ever faithful pipe.
Then Game the great boistsrous VT.
Harry Fielding, who has painted for NJ thes
clerical smokers, Parsou Adams. When
Tow-wouse, in Joseph A~ndrews,' refuses.
like an ignorant sinner, ~ h0 is, to make a
small advance upon tho pawn Of his rsvsr-
encs's manuscript sermons CAS- we'll worth
a hundred pounds as a shilling was worth
chronioler, twas extremely detected At this
disappointment, nor knew he what further
stratagem to try. He jmmediat sly applied
to his pipe, his constant friend and COM
forter in his Affections. and, leaning over
the rails, he devoted himself to meditations
And then, my Uncle Toby" waving his
tobacco pipe" as he grew excited over Trims
proficiency in his catechism and the manuel,
waving his tobacco pipe az he would have
done his sword at the head of n regiment
or as Trim explains the peculiar anxiety Of
SWEEP W3uoW Whuuhu, iuyluk ~ uoWu hS
tsnderly upoa the tenders as it had been
spun from the unravelling Of q spiders
Web"
But in Sterne's day smoking had begun
"to 90 out" as old Sam Johnson Expressed
it. johnson himself did npt smoke, but he
had q high opinion Of the pips, and Sir
John Hawkins heard him say that "inssn-
ity had grown more frequent SINCE smoking
had gone out of fashion,"
Person, as nearly all great scholars have
been, was q most resolute votary OF the
pipe, and in speaking OF the decline OF
smoking said to DR.. Maltby: "Sir, when
smoking went out OF fashion, learning went
out of fashion also.' l.
But it was only a temporary decline.
Learning came in again, and smoking with
it, inc which, after the long staRnation in
thB world of letters, literary men began to
conRregate again, and Lamb, and Southey,
and Coleridge and Goodwin met at the
Temple, We find the pipes going as cheerily
as ever they did at buttons or Child's.
Byron, also, was 9 lover of the Virginia
weed.
OF the literature Of smoking since it's
restoration it would be an endless task to
speak,. There is scarce an author of note
who does not pay his court to it, n 1T is
note worthy again that the noblest charac-
ter in the fiction of this century, perhaps
the noblest in all fiction, is u smokeS<-Col.
Thomas Newcome, g. b.
Bulwer, when but a stripping among l0en
of letters, went SO far as to say that 1.-The
pipe ripens the brain and opens the heart,
the man who smokes thinks like a sage and
acts like a Samaritan" That increasing
years have but confirmed him in his opin-
ion we gather from the following passage
(ungallant, l OWN in What Will He Do
With IT, ''Mr. Wolfe drew a long Whit
and took a more severe view of affairs. He
who doth not smoke hath either known no
griefs or refuseth himself the softest con-
next to that which comes from
heaven. What, softer than a woman"
whispers the young reader. Young reader,
woman leases as we'll as consoles. Woman
makes half the sorrows which she boasts
the privilege to soothe. Woman consoles
us, it is true, while we are young and hand
and scolds us. On the whole then,
in this scale, the weed in that.
Jupiter, hang out thy balance and weigh
them both, and if thou give the preference
to woman all / can say is, the next time
Juno rufhes thee-Oh, Jupiter, try the