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does n't make a summer," I will refer to George 

 Trask's disposal of this same plea, when the ease 

 was brought up of a great smoker who lived till 

 he was a hundred and four. After making several 

 inquiries, he summed them up : ff In a word, did 

 he love anybody, or hate anybody, dead or alive. 

 in this world or in any world?" "I think not." 

 "Well, well, your old man died fifty years ago, 

 and your only mistake was that you did n't bury 

 him." 



An eminent physician remarks that although, 

 owing to the wonderful power of toleration in the 

 S3'stem, there are occasional instances of long life 

 among tobacco-users, as among drinking men and 

 opium-eaters, yet it is, with rare exceptions, only 

 a dragging, half-and-half life, the natural and 

 moral forces being greatly diminished. 



There are good men, and men wise in most mat- 

 ters, who say : " Tobacco belongs to the same 

 category as tea and coffee, sweetmeats and confec- 

 tionery, which are to be taken with discretion. 

 When thus used, and in a manner gentlemanly 

 and Christian, its use is fitting and proper." 



Xow let the examples of this discreet, gentle- 

 manly, and Christian use be given, and that so 

 plainly that there shall be no mistake, — examples 

 by which no religious principle is violated, no 

 fellow-mortal harmed or annoyed, least of all, one's 

 neighbor, or friend, or bosom-companion. 



But, for argument's sake, granting this immacu- 

 late method, how about those abundant testimonies 



