his heart, another odorous smoke, which man inhales and
breathes forth again to soothe his pain and to vanquish
fatigue and anxiety.

"In the early times of the introduction of tobacco, smokers
in many countries were condemned to infamous and cruel
punishments; had their noses and their lips cut off, and
with blackened faces and mounted on an ass, exposed to the
coarse jests of the vilest vagabonds and the insults of the
multitude. But now the hangman smokes, and the criminal
condemned to death smokes before being hanged. The king in
his gilt coach smokes; and the assassin smokes who lies in
wait to throw down before the feet of the horses the
murderous bomb. The human family spends every year two
thousand six hundred and seventy millions of francs (about a
hundred millions in English money) on tobacco, which is not
food, which is not drink, and without which it contrived to
live for a long succession of ages.

"In the discomfitures and disasters which befell the Army of
Lavalle, in the civil wars of the Argentine Republic, the
poor fugitives had to suffer the most horrible privations,
which can be imagined. By degrees the tobacco came to an
end, and the Argentines smoked dry leaves. One man, more
fortunate than his comrades, continued to use with much
economy the most precious of all his stores--tobacco. A
fellow soldier begged to be allowed to put the economist's
pipe in his own mouth, and thus to inhale at second-hand the
adored smoke, paying two dollars for the privilege. What is
more striking still, when, in 1843, the convicts in the
prison of Epinal, France, who had for some time been
deprived of tobacco, rose in revolt, their cry was 'tobacco
or death!' When Col. Seybourg was marching in the interior
of Surinam against negro rebels, and the soldiers had to
bear the most awful hardships, they smoked paper, they
chewed leaves and leather, and found the lack of tobacco the
greatest of all their trials and torments."

Elsewhere, inquiring what nervous aliments harmonize the one with the
other, he says:--

"The only, the true, the legitimate companion of coffee is
the nicotian plant; and wisely and well the Turkish epicures
declare that for coffee--the drink of Heaven--tobacco is the
salt. The smoke of a puro, of a manilla,