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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 322, 12 August 1868, Page 3

The Prospects of Smokers. —The Leader prints the following quaint negro story which is going the rounds of the American papers. Amongst the many welcome visitors and speakers on the lecture list of the Sabbatarians is a woman of the name of Sojourner Truth. Her courage, her originality, attract large audiences, and give her great popularity among the class of people in that neighbourhood. A few months ago she lectured in the college-hall at Milton. She was the guest of Mr. Goodrich, an out-an-out temperance man, and a noted hater of tobacco. Now, Sojourner, who does not intend to smoke hereafter, is given to smoking here and the morning after the lecture she was puffing away with a long pipe in her mouth, when her host, Mr. Goodrich, approached her, and commenced conversation with the following interrogatory : Aunt Sojourner, do you think you are a Christian ?' " Yes Brudder Goodrich, I speck I am." " Aunt Sojourner, do you believe in the Bible?" "Yes, Brudder Goodrich, I believe in the scripters, though I can't read em' as you can." " Aunt Sojourner, do you know that there is a passage in the scriptures which declares that nothing unclean shall inherit the kingdom of heaven ?•' " Yes Brudder Goodrich, I have heard tell of it." Aunt Sojourner, do you believe it ?" Yes Brudder Goodrich, I believe it." " Well, Aunt Sojourner, you smoke, and you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, because there is nothing so unclean as the breath of a smoker. What do you say to that ?" " Why, Brudder Goodrich, I expect to leave my breff behind me when I go to heaven."