Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-09-23
TOBACCO JUICE.

TOBACCO JUICE.
Considerable admiration has been
expressed for the fact that q Methodist
Church sued and recovered eight dol
lars from u mar who defiled the floor
of the meeting house by expectorations
of tobacco. We like that movement of
the Methodists for CLAN floors, but
how much grander the crusade if we
could also clean the mouths of the peo-
pie of this loathesome stuff. We
want to hear a man lecture about the
evils of rum if his breath smells of to-
bacco. We think it inconsistent for a
minister of the Gospel to preach of
purity when he has from day to day
to balance himself cautiously lest
there be from his lips an overflow of
yellow slobber. The time was when it
was thought a %concominant of ortho'
doxy for a minister to use the Virginia
weed. The times of such ignorance
God winked at; but now he command
eth all tobacco smokers and spitters to
repent. We greet these brethren with
the following advice: Go out into the
field or back yard, take the cud of to-
bacco out of your mouth and throw
the ad under the fence, and get
your dog or cat to scratch something
over the uncleanness and bury it out
of sight forever.
Let all Christian reformers know that
there is something in tobacco that
seems to excite thirst for strong drink.
Multitudes of men have got into the
beer shop through the tunnel of their
own pipe. We know Of many young
men who seemed to be reformed from
the habits of ~intoxication, who went
back first to tobacco and then to the
wine flask. Get q new toothbrush,
have some fresh water brought from
the spring, and for one hour submit
gum and tongue and roof of mouth to
securing and ~absolution. Thus, at last
come out a regenerated man, having
not only a clean soul, but a pure body.
Christian Herald.
CAN DRINK OR III IT ALONE.
The mar who can drink or let it
alone is again with us. He is a genial
sort of a fellow, and it might be harsh
to roll him together as a scroll OF to
boil him in oil, or bake him over a
slow fire, as he deserves. He feels sorry
for the slave to rum. why" says he,
"all you need is the will power. When
want to quit, l will surely quit"
The day will come when he will quit,
sure enough. The coroner will be mott
fed when the time comes, and therell
be a nice inquest with home comforts
and all modern Improvements, and if
our friend is rich the verdict will be
that he died of heart failure. If he is
poor, it will be that he died of alcohol
ism. The man who can drink or let it
alone is worth studying. -Heyworth
Reporter.
STANDING DISGRACE.
The bishop of London recently, in
introducing the temperance delegation
to the prime minister, pointed out tina
whereas IL takes / 900 people to supper
a bakers shop, and 700 or 800 to mar
tain a butcher, both dealing in tn
necessaries of life, there is in man.
parts of Great Britain a public nous
to every 100 or 100 inhabitants. Thi
is a standing disgrace to the couu
try.-Exchange.
FIRE AMONG POWDER.
know much is said about the PIT
dent use of ardent spirits, but we Nigh
as well speak of the prudent use Of tb
plague, of fire handed PRUDENT
around among powder, of poison take
p%rudently every day, or of yipers an
serpents introduced p~rudently into GU
dwellings, to glide about as a matte
of courtesy to visitors and of anus
ment to our children Lyman Beeche
II MATERNAL INSTINCT.
In their frozen room the man an
his wife are asleep, che on the broke
arm chair, he on the floor. The candl
crumbled into cascades of talloy
hardly Eliminates with its red ligl
their faces blue and black. They ha,
fought, as they always do befor
whisky makes them fall, stunner
Seated on the cot, without blankets
even sheets, the little three year Of
boy cries of hunger and cold. But h
elder sister, six years old, takes hi
from his bed, wraps him up in a shaw