Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-09
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
EDITED BY JONESBORo W. c.. T. U.
LOVE AND TOBACCO.
Miss May Cozzens. a bright youn

MISS May CoZZens, q bright young
lady OF Nenty su mers. had spNeral
devoted Ndurers Tho one she decid
ali.y pre- rfIeu or certain %c0uWenda
de reu sons was u Noung iugn named
ierbert Barnes. But h. had one habit
which she considered almost pernicious
and a very great drawback. So great
indeed that she had rejected his pro
posal of marriage and frankly told
him the reason. Herbert was much
amazed, of course, as more than one of
hit lady acq%uaintances had said they
liked the odor OF a fragrant cigar.
When he expostulated with her and
declared that the majority OF men used
tobacco, she only replied that she could
not and would not tolerate it in a hus-
band. why, May" he once said,
just look at the immense number of
great and famous men, as we'll as men
OF the highest character for morality
and goodness, who have INDUCED in
its use. And can you blame me for
following in such illustrious foot.
steps?" In his anxiety to win her and
yet retain his beloved cigar, he made
many quotations from the poets in
favor of smoking. Such as this, from
Charles %Sprague, ITO My Cigar :"
Eyes, social friend, l love thee well,
In learned doctors spite {;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,
And lap me in delight"
From Byron
Sublime tobacco! which from East
to West
Cheers the tar's labors or the Turk
mans rest.
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,
When tipped with amber, mellow
rich and ripe"
rIOn LOWELL
"Nicotia, dearer to the muse
Than all the grapes bewildering juice
We worship, unforbid, of thee ;
And as her incense floats and curls,
In airy spires and hayward whirls,
Or poises on it's tremulous stalk
A flower of frailest revery."
But Miss May had made up her mine
and what is harder to unmake than 6
thoughtful woman's settled convic
ton?
"Where is the man who has the power
skill
To stem the torrent of q woman's willY'
So our friend Herbert realized, anC
gave up in despair. And yet he coult
not at once give up this overpowerinl
habit. 1t had become riveted into hi
very constitution and life. Here wa
an instance of how all controlling is
fixed habit. 1t seems to become a par
and parcel of ones very existence ant
hardly to be torn away except will
life itself. Time passed on. Herber
sought the society of other ladies les
particular and strongminded than Mis-
Cozzens, but Der image still haunted
his heart, and it seemed as if he mus
win her and toss this vile habit to tn,
Sahara of desert life, where it properly
belongs. One day as he was passing
modify along the street he deserted
number of small boys busily engaged
in cigarette smoking. His better anC
manly nature at once reproached him
Was he not forever setting an evil ex
ample to such young immortals al
these who must needs initiate the baC
habits of their elders? He flung fal
from him the cigar he was enjoying
and said ~fervently within himself: "SC
help me, God, | will use the vile weeC
no more" Soon a change came owe.
him that he could hardly believe. H,
seemed to have awaked from a hideouI
dream which had at times been min
gled with a not unpleasant stupefac
ton. He could think clearer and bet
ter, and his physical health was ia.
more enjoyable than before. And al
this came about by a resolute exertiol
of the will. Ere long he again sough
Miss Cozzens' society, who % per
ceived that he had broken the slavisl
habit, and to his renewed expression
of love did not turn an averted look
but frankly confided to his keeping
woman's best treasurer devoted, low
ing heart. ALEXANDER MACAULEY.
NEW YORK CHILDREN.
Nearly nine thousand children il
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