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r< We plead for the poor sailor in his isolation 

 from the world. By all means, let him retain his 

 tobacco." 



The surroundings of sailors are sufficiently un- 

 favorable to mental and moral growth without 

 unnecessary additions. There is a tendency to 

 sluggishness in the monotony of sea-life, which 

 needs to be resisted rather than strengthened. 

 Shall the sailor, then, be encouraged to use a nar- 

 cotic which aggravates the difficulty he constantly 

 encounters ? Though he has the broad ocean for 

 a quarantine, and can use tobacco with less annoy- 

 ance to others and less peril to himself than any 

 other class, shall we not make every effort to free 

 him from the bondage of this appetite, and to 

 devise some resource which, instead of benumbing 

 the faculties and killing all ambition, shall arouse 

 and stimulate? 



In some of our boarding-schools for boys, we no 

 sooner enter the hall door than we are startled by 

 the sickening fumes which rush forth. So sur- 

 prised are we that we can scarcely gather voice 

 to speak. The boys are evidently learning some 

 things on which we little reckoned, and from a 

 most unexpected quarter. And you, a gentleman, 

 a Christian, perhaps, to whose care a confiding 

 mother has trusted, it may be, her only boy ; you, 

 whom he is accustomed to look up to as his model, 

 are giving him, by your example, his first lesson 

 in this vice ! You surely have not considered how 

 harmful it has proved to the young, so much so 



