Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-11-27
HOW A SMOKER GOT A HOME.

L began TO chew at the age OF twelve.
A few years later l commenced smok.
ing. The habit grew upon me till l
was smoking a large portion of the time
except when asleep. At length / uni
ted with the church, and very soon
abandoned the filthy habit of chewing
tobacco. 1 still, however, enjoyed the
cigar.
Just at this time l met a friend, who,
with a countenance beaming with love,
said: ut don't look we'll to see a mem
Der of the church smoking" You are
right" said l, and taking the cigar
from my mouth threw it into the gut
ter. That was the last cigar l ever
smoked. l was emancipated from a
slavery worse than Egyptian bondage.
now deposited the money l had
been SO long squandering for tobacco,
in the Seamen's Bank of Savings. l
will tell the boys what 1 did with it,
that they may see how unwise and in
expedient it is to commence the expen-
pensive, demoralizing habit of smok-
ing or chewing tobacco.
We had long lived in the city, but
the annual visits of the children to
their grandfather's made them long
for a home among the green fields. l
found a very pleasant place for sale.
There were over two acres of land,
with abundant shade and fruit trees, a
good garden, a fine view of Long Island
Sound-near the academy, churches
and schools, and a convenient distance
from New York. The cigar money was
drawn upon to purchase the place, and
it is mine.
l wish the boys who are tempted to
smoke could see how the children en-
JOY their new home, as they watch the
great streams, and the vessels with
their white sails as the course along
the sound. Sometimes over a hundred
are seen hit one view.
Just before and after a storm, we
hear very distinctly the roar of the old
ocean. 1t is then that we think of the
perils of the sea, and realize the dangers
to which the brave sailors are exposed.
The children and grandchildren are al
so interested in the horse, COW, calf and
chickens. They enjoy their plays and
sports on the green grass, which give
them health and happiness.
My smoking was moderate compared
with that of many, only six cigars q
day at six and one fourth cents each,
equal to $136 30 per annum, which, at
per cent. interest for sixty one years.
amounts to the small fortune of $118,.
924 20. This has afforded means for
the education of my children, with an
appropriate allowance for benevolent
objects.
Great as this saving has been, it is
not to be compared with improved
health, a clear head and a steady hand,
at the age of over eighty five years, and
entire freedom from desire for tobacco
in any form.-Luther Prescott Hub
bard, rs Wall Street New York.
CONVENTION AFTERMATH.
The Baltimore Convention was dis.
tinctively ''The Convention of Enthus.
iasm," and the intensity of purpose
that underlay all the joyous demon
stration will be revealed in the more
earnest, aggressive work in the coming
year against the allied foes Of God and
home and native land.
At the close of Miss Willard address
a white silk banner with golden stars
presented by Madame Demorest, of
New York City, was brought forward
by Mrs. Katharine Willard Baldwin
and handed to Miss Willard. This was
gaily waved while Miss Wizards
niece, Mrs. Baldwin, sang Tho White
Ribbon Star Spaugled Banner" q
beautiful poem written by Miss Kate
Lunden, a Scandinavian who did not
learn the English language till twenty
years old, and which was printed on
the back of the national program.
The flag to which the song referred
is of pure white silk, with fifty golden
stars representing the States and terri.
tories in which the union is organized
When the flag was presented and
Mrs. Baldwin began to sing, all those
on the platform rose to their feet and
in the center of them a remarkable
group was formed of which Miss Will.
lard was the central figure. At hel
left was Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant,
the noted English reformer, and on hel
right Mother Thompson, the leader
of the Hillsboro Crusade; while behind
them Miss Jessie Ackermann, round
the world missionary, recently return
ed from Iceland, waved over the heads
of the trio a little silken American flag
which she had carried one hundred
and fifty thousand miles in her mis-
sionary tour; Mother Thompson in the
meantime waving the white flag with
enthusiastic vigorin spite of her eighty