tobacco is deeply rooted, and the system deeply affected by its use, it is necessary, on abandoning its use, to observe a proper regimen for a few days; to take but little drink, and to eat very moderately, and only bread of a physiological character, or in accordance with its laws, or good wheatmeal crackers, together with plenty of exercise and a warm bath every second or third evening, this plan pursued for ten or twelve days will enable the most inveterate tobacco chewer, or smoker, to emancipate himself from the habit with comparative ease and comfort, and with entire safety.

Tobacco is cultivated to a very considerable extent in the Southern States of the United States of North America, and from thence is exported in all directions to inflict on man-on suffering humanity-untold miseries and diseases; but what are among the evils produced on the producers of this evil plant-planted by the sordid spirit of gain and evil, and not by the pure spirit of benevolence and goodness in producing what otherwise might be for the highest good of humanity, viz., life-giving, health-sustaining fruits, which always tend in the consumer to spring up into long life. The following is among some of the evils inflicted on the country of its adoption :-The direct expense to consumers is estimated at £8,000,000 annually. The people of the city of New York spent in 1873 £2,000 a day for cigars, at a time when they were spending on bread £1,700 daily. At the present time the people of the United States spend on this vile weed at least £10,000,000 annually. What a vast amount of gold to waste on what gives no return to the consumer, but only engenders disease and idleness, and blights and withers wherever it touches, and all för a morbid appetite. If the men who now hoe tobacco were putting to hoeing corn, and if the men employed in tobacco factories were put to building railroads, and the women transferred to cotton looms, and the boys sent to schools; if all the tobacco plantations were

turned into wheat farms, and the capital absorbed in the manufacture of and traffic in he weed was invested in any other healthy commodity, it would add to the wealth and property of the country immense sums annually. Then, again, in the production of tobacco the land is deteriorated to a frightful extent, greater beyond compare than that resulting from any other crop. More ashes are left from the combustion of tobacco than from that of any other vegetable substance; 1,000 pounds of tobacco leave on an average 200 pounds of ashes. A crop of tobacco-2,000 pounds to the acre-withdraws from every acre of land on which it grows 400 pounds of the above constituents. A crop of wheat-30 bushels to the acre-withdraws from the soil 36 pounds. It is thus seen that one crop of tobacco does as much damage to the land on which it grows as would 11 crops of wheat! One year's farming of tobacco injures your land as much as 11 years' farming of it in wheat! The land being all but ruined after a few crops of tobacco. It takes the best soil to produce tobacco with profit. This plant of Satan impoverishes the land wherever produced, and all the nations who countenance its use are equally made poor, however its growth may enrich the producer. The blasted lands of Virginia and Maryland, through tobacco, are well known, and other parts of the world will soon be as barren, through this accursed weed. It would be interesting to have an estimate of the property destroyed and injured, together with lives sacrificed in connection with smoking; such an estimate would be truly appalling.

The explosions and fires caused by tobacco would represent a sum that would go very far in counterbalancing the revenue derived from its sale; and considered in all its bearings would more than equal in value the revenue represented by the insidious plant. And yet the ministers of the land are comparatively silent on this crying evil-with a few noble exceptions.

It is greatly to be desired that those occupying the important position of ambassadors of Christ, should particularly infuse into their sermons the every-day vices of mankind, and which is so patent to all observers, The heads of the Church might do much in this direction, holding as they do in their grasp a lever that, if properly applied and wielded, would cause to issue from the sacred edifices over which they have control, such telling denunciations of these vices, as to go far towards fulfilling that beautiful prophecy, when a nation shall be made in a day. The nations of the earth may be glad that the Queen of England, with her archbishops, are using their mighty influence in the direction of the evils of alcoholic drinks.

The following are a few brief cases of accidents by smoking and lighted matches used for the pipe or cigar: In the year 1847, a fearful aceident took place at Dover, near Shakspeare's Cliff, where previously many thousand tons of Roundown Cliff had been blown down by the celebrated Cubit, civil engineer, to form part of the railway between Dover and Folkstone. In a cave -near this spot-dug out of the cliff, a quantity of gunpowder had been stowed away; there was also much loose powder under feet. On the day of the accident, about twelve or fourteen men connected with the railway, went into this cave for some purpose, and while in this hewn-out cavity one or more of these working men-so it was reported-lit their pipes to have a smoke, and in throwing away the lighted match, the loose powder under feet ignited, and that spread to the whole stock, and a dreadful explosion was the consequence, by which the poor fellows were blown out of the cave, and across a double line of rails, over a wall, and on to the sea beach; and, I need scarcely add, that all, or nearly all, of them were killed. I myself witnessed the scene of this fearful catastrophe very soon after its occurrence.

In "Harper's Weekly," for 1872, we learn that in

the forenoon of July 30th, a workman on a canal boat laying at the dock of the Stanford Oil Company, at Hunter's Point, lighted his pipe and threw the burning match on the floor. Every plank of the boat was saturated with oil, and the air was full of inflammable vapor. The boat was instantly enveloped in flames, which communicated with the works on shore, where were stored 14,000 barrels of oil, and all were consumed together.

A fire, similiar to the above in its origin and results, occurred about the beginning of 1870, at Marseilles, France. A man standing on the deck of a vessel used to convey naphtha and kerosene, having lighted his cigar, dropped the burning match at his feet, and thereby started a conflagration that consumed property valued at not less than £200,000.

A conflagration in San Francisco, some years since, kindled by a lighted cigar, destroyed property worth about a million.

A fire occurred a few years since in England, upon a farm belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, near Alnwick, doing damage to a considerable extent, in which not only stables, barns, and other buildings were totally consumed, but also a large quantity of grain in sacks. This originated through a labouring man dropping from his pipe some burning tobacco upon the straw.

The magazine in the barracks of Buenos Ayres exploded on the 29th December, 1869, killing 126 soldiers and many women and children. Just before the explosion, one of the men was seen smoking in a room where several cases of gunpowder were stored.

The steamship "Glasgow," was burned at sea on the 30th July, 1869. The fire originated from a lighted fusee, which one of the steerage passengers had used to light his pipe, and afterwards thrown into the vessel's hold, where cotton was stored. The passengers-250 in number-were rescued by the "Rosamond," Capt,

Wallis, bound for New York. But the vessel and cargo proved a total loss.

The late great fire in Boston, United States, was supposed (on good grounds) to have been caused by a match which had been used by a labourer to light his pipe.

A fearful catastrophe (which is well known) happened at Ferndale Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Davis and Sons, in 1873, or about that time, by which 170 individuals and upwards of thirty horses were destroyed, which there is very little doubt was caused through the use of the pipe, a lamp key was found sewn inside a collier's cap.

A paper published in 1869, stated that, "The wellknown firm of Messrs. Curtis and Co., at Hounslow, the eminent powder manufacturers, suspected that the workmen employed in their mills did not obey their instructions with a proper degree of strictness, and on a Friday morning the men were all searched on coming into the manufactory. In the pockets of fifty-eight men were found tobacco pipes and lucifer matches." The only wonder is, that a vast number of similar accidents do not happen as those detailed above, and which have happened from time to time at the Hounslow mills.

Were statistics properly and truly gone into, relating to the doings and mischief caused in connection with tobacco, it would be found that the country would be most immensely the gainer by the utter annihilation of this vile weed from the face of the earth. Strictly speaking, it should be held as a most serious offence in any one to grow such a plant, which produces so enormous an amount of misery, wretchedness, disease, and deaths among the families of mankind. It has been said that Sir Isaac Newton smoked, and if he did, it may in some measure account for that impaired intellect with which it is said that great man was afflicted some years previous to his death. John Milton smoked, and no doubt his blindness was caused princi