6 TOBACCO. 



An English firm has compiled a table showing 

 that in forty years the amount of tobacco manu- 

 factured has been more than doubled. 



J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., ascer- 

 tained as the result of careful inquiry that there 

 were sold in that place about eight hundred 

 thousand cigars, fourteen thousand pounds of 

 tobacco for chewing or smoking in pipes, and 

 about four hundred pounds of snuff; and all that in 

 a town of only six thousand inhabitants (in 1850) ! 



In Syracuse, the leading city of Central New 

 York, twenty-seven millions of cigars were manu- 

 factured during the year 1881. 



How often will a man go through life without 

 owning a house, when the money he expends on 

 this narcotic, if put on interest, would be ample 

 for the purchase of one ! How many a family is 

 cramped for the necessaries of life because the 

 husband and father w T ill not give up his cigar ! 

 And how many a man, reduced to beggary, holds 

 on to his pipe ! 



Wives there are not a few who are obliged to 

 sacrifice their artistic tastes to this juggernaut. 

 Books, music, pictures, excursions with the chil- 

 dren to the seaside or the mountains, a thousand 

 and one little refinements and brighteners of the 

 dull routine of life — all are swallowed up by his 

 rapacious maw. No matter what self-denials the 

 patient wife and mother may endure, provided the 

 husband is not robbed of his cigar. 



Suppose a young mechanic, whose earnings are 



