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jf your mouths and spitting smoke into other people's faces. Or to 

 make a sewer of your mouth and chew and spit the vile brown juice 

 from the wads made of the leaf of the weed, that no animal will eat, 

 and known as the tobacco plant. Worse yet, when you know of the 

 nasty way it is soaked and prepared and packed into, not over clean 

 boxes, and handled by scores of dirty hands before it enters your 

 mouth. It is a prolific source of dyspepsia. Smoking especially pro- 

 duces all kinds of nervous disorders, is one of the large causes of 

 insanity and of kidney disease as well as of rheumatism and neuralgia. 

 The nicotine contained in the poisonous weed is dangerous to health 

 even when taken in minute quantities. The use of tobacco is one of 

 the chief links that still bind the race to its ancestry of barbarism. It 

 will never stand the advance of civilization. Let it severely alone. 



INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY TIIK HIGHWAY TO WEALTH AND F AIM 1C. 



What is it you want ? Not now, but in your sober moments, when 

 you think it over. A good time now a little indulgence now and pov- 

 erty and discontent for the rest of your life, or a little self-denial now, 

 and years of pleasure after ? 



As sure as fate it may be stated that the only highway to wealth and 

 fame is economy coupled with industry. The world is full of examples of 

 brilliant, bright boys, who became poor, wretched, ruined men, while 

 their ungifted brothers or neighbors have won ease and comfort or fame 

 and riches. How was it done ? Simply by the practice of economy in 

 youth or before they had won independence and all along persistent indus- 

 try. There is no royal road to fame or wealth. It is a universal experience 

 that the path to success means tireless industry and the cutting off of 

 the little leaks in resources that swamps so many every year. 



Read over and over again the suggestions we have given. Abide by 

 them and you will succeed. Disregard them and you will be sure to sink, 

 perhaps to find a life of degradation and poverty. A life is not acci- 

 dent Things do not "happen.' As a man soweth so shall he reap. 

 And if he sows nothing he will reap only the whirlwind. 



