SOCIAL AND ESTHETIC VIEW. 147 



Not so apt disciples were two New England 

 ministers who, being at the same place, at a con- 

 vention, some years later, walked down the rail- 

 way-track for their daily smoke. 



It is not uncommon to find among temperance 

 lecturers ardent devotees of the weed. A total 

 abstainer, yet a tobacco-sot ! 



We have suffered quite enough from these demi- 

 semi-reformers. Our parlors and our chambers, 

 our halls and our sanctuaries are often desecrated 

 by their performances. " Why don't you use the 

 church for your temperance addresses, and devote 

 to the cause the money you expend in hiring a 

 hall?" "Oh, it would never do, the church is so 

 fearfully defiled by these lecturers." When such 

 men come out from a smoke-room, pallid, trem- 

 bling, and bearing the nauseous signs of the in- 

 dulgence, instead of mounting the platform to 

 exhort others to temperance, would it not be more 

 fitting that they should take the back seats, and 

 listen in silence and humiliation? Thou that sayest 

 another shall not drink, dost thou smoke or chew ? 



CIVIL RIGHTS VS. TOBACCO. 



Wh}' cannot the civil-trespass law be brought to 

 bear on this matter ? Our statutes forbid that any 

 man shall, from greed of gain, or to gratify any 

 unnatural appetite, cause a nuisance in any public 

 place w T here all have equal rights and a common 

 interest. Is not the wide-spread use of the w r eed 

 a nuisance so offensive, so unwholesome, that, if 



