100 TOBACCO. 



mellow one's theology ; instancing an eminent 

 Western divine who has become a total abstainer, 

 and who, he says, grows more and more conser- 

 vative and afraid of progress. He claims that if 

 this divine had continued to smoke, the extreme 

 blueness of his dogmas would have passed off in 

 the blue vapor of his cigar ! 



Still another benefit, according to a doctor of 

 divinity whose long experience entitles him to 

 implicit credit, is that the habit gives to a man " a 

 sense of deep humiliation of which his unpartaking 

 brethren can know very little." 



"If any one smokes to overcome a bad smell," 

 sa} T s Eussell Lant Carpenter, — " he only adds to 

 the nuisance ; the ashes and smoke are two dirts 

 the more." 



PROTECTING AGAINST MALARIA AND TYPHOID. 



There are those who plead that tobacco is a 

 safeguard against malarial diseases. 



Dr. Solly makes answer, — "I dispute the 

 alleged benefits of even moderate tobacco-smoking 

 as a preventive of damp or malaria." 



In a cit} r daily appears the following item of 

 consolation for lovers of the weed : M A Virginia 

 physician says he has never known an habitual 

 consumer of tobacco to have typhoid fever." 



A Massachusetts doctor reports the case of " an 

 habitual consumer " who has had typhoid every 

 summer for five years. Dr. H. J. Cate, of 

 Saratoga, knows M an habitual consumer " who " for 



