| Cast the glory of heaven about you, | | And arise for your Works are inane, | | You are dead said the scoffs of the stranger; | | A laugh for the cynic and clown. | | Go look; from the King to the granger, | | See the slaves the Tobacco-leaf bound. | | * * * * * | | O'er the graves we have marched in the past time, | | Still praying for dews of reform | | While raining down showers of poison, | | On those we should keep from its harm. | | | | | | ---*-------*===( Read. )===*-------*--- | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |[Illustration] | | | | | | | | TOBACCO | | | | NICOTINA Nicotianin. | | POISONS! | | | | COURAGE! MAN, COURAGE!! | | | | | | "Strive; for the grasp of the destroyer is upon you, and if you be not | | wrenched away, it will palsy you and crush you. Strive for the foe has | | seized upon your vitals: he holds possession of your Fort and renders | | your will a thing to be controled instead of a controling power. It | | chains the intellect and bids defiance to your better judgment. Strive | | like one who knows he has grappled with Death and the victory must be | | won or self be lost!" | | | | TOBACCO should never be mentioned except as a poison, one of the most |