TOBACCO LEAVES 



continue the process as long as the pleasure 

 which they derive from it is not of the 

 nature of a penance; and so intoxicate 

 themselves with this smoke that their senses 

 are in time almost out of the mind's con- 

 trol. There are some who smoke so greed- 

 ily and furiously as to fall lifeless to the 

 ground, and lie there for the greater part 

 of the day or night. Some, on the other 

 hand, smoke more temperately, until they 

 merely become giddy, and carry the process 

 no further." 



Wu's TRIBUTE TO TOBACCO 



MINISTER Wu's oration on General 

 Grant Memorial Day contained a notable 

 tribute to tobacco smoking which is well 

 calculated to grieve the narcotics commit- 

 tee of the Women's Christian Temperance 

 Union. If the words are not before long 

 used for an advertisement by cigar manu- 



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