130 TOBACCO. 



Even your pleasure excursions are half spoiled 

 by this ever-following foe. If you venture to 

 protest, you may be told that, if you don't like it, 

 the world is wide, and you can go elsewhere. 



Unfortunately, good sir, the world is not wide 

 enough to afford us a hiding-place from smokers. 

 To make sure of this, we must get into another 

 and a totally different world. 



Of the ^Vest someone writes: "Tobacco is 

 here the ever-present deity. Circles into which 

 whiskey gains no admittance are cursed with to- 

 bacco. The judge on the bench and the lawyer at 

 the bar, the witness in the box, and the jury in 

 their seats, are, in three cases out of four, rumi- 

 nating animals, and are all tributary to the tan- 

 colored flood which deluges the court-room. The 

 railroad car and the stage-coach, the steamboat 

 cabin and the bar-room, the lyceum hall and, alas ! 

 the Christian conference-room, are all splashed 

 with disgusting fluid. Chewing, smoking, spit- 

 ting, are the low and vile enjoyments of animal- 

 ized man." 



Could not substantially the same picture be 

 drawn of the East and the Xorth and the South? 

 And what a picture ! 



Writes Dr. Harris : M I have seen the floors of 

 the lecture-rooms of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania as filthy as any stable before the groom 

 has performed his morning cleansing. I have 

 seen the passage between the seats of a railroad 

 car in such a foul and mucky condition that no 



