TOBACCO LEAVES 



ing-car and indulge in a dry smoke myself. 

 I always like to have a cigar in my mouth, 

 and I use up a good many of them that 

 way. I used to smoke from twenty to 

 twenty-five cigars a day." Philadelphia 

 Record. 



TOBACCO IN WAR 



THE war in South Africa has taught 

 many things of greater and of less im- 

 portance. Perhaps nothing that it has 

 demonstrated has been more marked than 

 the important part which tobacco plays 

 in the soldier's existence. Whether this 

 is to be reckoned as a great fact or a small 

 one, there can be no doubt about the truth 

 of it. Yet the Duke of Wellington's ar- 

 mies had no tobacco worth speaking of. 

 If they did not forbid its use, at any rate 

 the Iron Duke's officers were directed to 

 advise their men strongly against it. 



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