141) TOBACCO. 



Windows may be open at right and left ; but, 

 apparently, they consider it a sin to spit out of 

 them. Well, it would be a pity to sully the fair 

 face of Nature ; indeed, one might well compas- 

 sionate a country drenched in such narcotic show- 

 ers. 



By lamplight, as by daylight, the process goes 

 on. And what scenes do the flickering lights dis- 

 close ! Men, shaken out of their dignity, tumbling 

 and rolling every way ; while some, from their 

 horizontal positions, now spit more directly upon 

 their neighbors ! Women, huddled up on the 

 seats, starting, even in their slumbers, at these 

 ever-threatening showers ! 



Will any one deny that this fashion is an out- 

 rage against all propriety ? Ought passengers who 

 have paid honestly for their tickets to be thus 

 doomed to perpetual terror? 



Daniel Webster said: "If gentlemen must 

 smoke" (or chew, he might well have added) "let 

 them take the horse-shed." This seems to have 

 been the prevailing sentiment in that staunch tem- 

 perance town, Oberlin, Ohio. Years ago, a doc- 

 tor-of-divinity smoker, who was passing a few da}'s 

 there, found himself out of cigars. After a long 

 hunt in search of them, he was directed to a host- 

 ler who might, perhaps, supply him. He sought 

 him out, and obtained a cigar ; but when told that 

 he must go behind the stable to smoke, such a 

 sense of shame came over him that from that time 

 he foreswore the indulgence. 



