170 TOBACCO. 



One of this latter class, a sick banker, in making 

 an extended pleasure trip through the country, 

 represents that at the stations he usually found the 

 G'<r/itleme)i's Room "a smoking pen; " that on the 

 boats, whenever he took his seat, K a smoke fac- 

 tory " would be planted in his face ; that when on 

 the cars, with the stopping of every train, gentle- 

 men were sure to be at the open door filling the 

 car with smoke, while along the route the stock 

 was frequently replenished by the passage through 

 it of a lighted cigar ; that he came to shun the 

 palace-cars, as he there had to pay higher prices 

 for less comfortable seats, and for staler smoke, 

 which, from the close vicinity of the smoking- 

 room, was distributed without stint. This banker's 

 experience quickened his inventive powers to the 

 extent of making some adequate return, in the form 

 of a thousand trumpets imitating cigars. Armed 

 with these, boys were commissioned to go forth, 

 and, like another Gideon's host, to blow their 

 trumpets in the ears of all offenders ; and thus 

 avenge on their sense of hearing the torment they 

 inflicted on others. 



This tobacco habit is making fearful strides, and 

 sometimes under an illusive guise. A friend tells 

 me of a journey he took on The Limited Express 

 of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Road. 

 Attracted by the proclamation of a fine library in 

 the cars, he sought it out to find all the books 

 locked up, and the room so dense with smoke that 

 he could scarcely see from one end of it to the 



