provisions; and even at this day, as well as in former
times, more care is taken to procure tobacco than bread
to the soldier. Every soldier was obliged to have his
pipe and his matches.]

[Illustration: The faithful attendant.]

Tobacco smoking, however, can boast of many patrons besides warriors,
physicians and statesmen, some of the finest writers of the last three
centuries have indulged in the weed. The following extract from the
"Australasian" entitled, "Tobacco Smoking" refers to many literary
smokers.

"Burke felt himself precluded from 'drawing an indictment
against a whole community.' The critical moralist pauses
before the formidable array of the entire social world,
civilized and savage. The Cockney, leaving behind him the
regalias and meerschaums of the Strand, finds the wax-tipped
clay-pipe in the parlors of Yorkshire: finds dhudeen and
cutty in the wilds of Galway and on the rugged shores of
Skye and Mull. The Frenchman he finds enveloped in clouds of
Virginia, and the Swede, Dane, and Norwegian, of every grade
or class, makes the pipe his travelling companion and his
domestic solace. The Magyar, the Pole and the Russian rival
the Englishman in gusto, perhaps excel him in refinement;
the Dutch boor smokes finer Tobacco than many English
gentlemen can command, and more of it than many of our
hardened votaries could endure; but all must yield, or
rather, all must accumulate, ere our conceptions can
approach to the German. America and the British colonies
round off the picture, adding Cherokees, Redmen and
Mongolians _ad libitum_. The Jew whether in Hounds ditch,
Paris Hamburgh, or Constantinople, ever inhales the choicest
growths, and the Mussulman's 'keyf' is proverbial. India and
Persia dispute with us the palm of refinement and intensity,
but the philosopher of Australia is embarrassed when he asks
himself to whom shall I award that of zealous devotion?

"Dr. Adam Clarke, who could never reconcile himself to the
practice, deemed it due to his piety to find a useful
purpose in the creation of tobacco by all-seeing Wisdom, and
as that discovered by the instincts of all the nations of
the planet, and practiced by mankind for three centuries, is
wrong, the benevolent Wesleyan of Heydon, applied himself