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evident impatience till the meeting was dismissed, 

 when the pipe was instantly lighted, and every- 

 body assailed with its odors. 



When the news was sprung upon a little village 

 in Ohio, that an old and respected deacon was 

 attacked with delirium tremens, no wonder that 

 consternation seized the residents. Nevertheless, 

 the report was true, and after several attacks the 

 good man died, a victim of tobacco. 



A Sunday-School scholar begged to be removed 

 to another class, but declined to give his reasons 

 till, being urged, he confessed that he couldn't 

 endure the tobacco-breath of his teacher. 



A student who went from Yale College to Union 

 Theological Seminary there learned to smoke, — 

 when he expressed his regret that he had n't learned 

 sooner, " thus securing years of delight." In all 

 fairness, however, it should be added that his habit 

 was formed in intercourse with fellow-students 

 fresh from college, and, with a single exception, 

 from Yale. 



While it is true that a number of young men 

 have given up tobacco during their course in Union 

 Seminary, it must be admitted that at least one of 

 the students, a man of abilities and earnest piety, 

 and who offered himself to the foreign field, was 

 unfortunately both a smoker and a chewer. In 

 speaking of this case, a young theologue perti- 

 nently remarks : M It has been my feeling that it 

 would be much better if, while he lays down his 

 life at his Master's feet, he would also give up this 



