232 TOBACCO. 



HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS. 



A miserable tobacco-slave, who had tried again 

 and again to break his fetters, but in vain, ex- 

 claimed in his despair, " Tobacco is killing me by 

 inches, and yet I cannot help using it." And it 

 did kill him. 



For such persons, with energies so sapped by 

 the narcotic that they have neither grit nor grace 

 for the breaking of their yoke, the best plan would 

 seem to be a retreat where this insidious foe could 

 be effectually excluded. Said a Boston man : "The 

 tobacco-disease is the great disease of our times, 

 and the most difficult to cure. I will give land 

 worth a thousand dollars towards an institution for 

 the cure of tobacco-victims." 



I have recently heard of the bondage being bro- 

 ken by animal magnetism. Dr. Dodge, the well- 

 known magnetic healer at Riverside Institution, 

 Hamilton, 111. tells me that he has produced with 

 some inveterate users of the weed, an utter loath- 

 ing of it, and that this loathing is not a mere 

 transient mood, but an abiding condition, so that 

 the result is total abstinence, unless the enfran- 

 chised slave chooses, by the same process as in the 

 beginning, once more to come under the tyrant's 

 yoke. 



For one who has no magnetic opportunities, but 

 is willing to enter on a warfare against this appe- 

 tite, there is a right physical as well as mental and 

 moral treatment. The dreadful poison has wrought 



