A very large assemblage filled th Hallon Wednesday night (16th) to he: pros and cons on the tobacco question, which was raised by Mr. John Frye Jen; grant weed las Nicotions Labacnm, Th gutheri ing, included a large percentage of s and the friends of the in the nity, as was evidenced by the verdict, The Chiiirman, the Rey, H. Hodges in opening the proceedings read the terns of the resolute t the use of tobacco reed as bein phy Hy mentally and morally injurious, and moled to Inivt history vf the ats of the leaf in Europe and the fons for and against its use ruters and other personnes, Mr. Joux Frven, the lo of the atti native. ile of the at profuved his indictment by thy ndiuission ut the fact that he came befure the ueuting as a deserter foun the great army of tulmces users, and anil he was prepared to face the volleys new would be aimed at him by his former conmades, He said he wok uy his present position in the i torvsta ut si onan religion, which he After venturing th y woman in her heart ts felt ai utter repugnance to the use vf the foul w on to which eomseut by the done the inge: needs it wma dows not require it, aman does not require it. He text walled upon the ladies of the audience to discounter at mental, mud moral evil, (Cries of hi a9) trid only by oxannply did, but by voting again then gave an aeowunt of uw the use of tobacco was taken by civilized the half nuked savage trim Aweriea, and mentioned the f the Spanish conquerors fea where. the aborigines found a weapon of offence and defence in the juice of chewed tubneco which they squirted with disastrous effect into the eyes {their enemies. The story ut Raleigh's rvant's action on first seeing his muster ejecting simuke from his mouth and aes triis, and of the Mahommedan verse of the origin of the tobaee were next cited, had pro me of rst virulent poisons known, His sbtoments were startling, even if old, but the sino ion of the audience edt when he ins formed them that a pound of tubacey tains enough of nicotine to poison three Hundred men and a single innocent lookin cigar sullicient to kill two y in the subtle form of nicutin the physical evils which Mr. Fryer as resulting from the use of the on the authority of numerous physi are the sunker's sore throat, the suk cancer, dyspepsia, its malignant action upon the corpuscles—which the microscope proves,—that peculiar form of heart disease known as "narcotism of the heart," nervousness, trembling of the hand, colour blindness, and paralysis. This ap: palling list however did not exhaust Mr. and he proceeded at length to show its her diary effect, quoting in support of his theory the opinion of Dr. Pidduck of St. Giles! dispensary, whom the audience no doubt rust have believed had a very pleasant experience with his maiden pipe,
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