TOBACCO LEAVES 



resplendent, but it will move the initiate 

 in the cult almost to tears. It is disfigured 

 by all sorts of horrible improvements ; has, 

 as a rule, patent sanitary arrangements 

 of the most complex and unnecessary na- 

 ture; things which the seasoned smoker 

 cannot tolerate. The choice of a pipe is 

 a thing to be left to the expert; and for 

 him to delegate the office is the highest 

 mark of confidence he can bestow. Lon- 

 don Globe. 



SENTIMENTALISTS have frequently be- 

 wailed the passing of the noble redman. 

 They say that he is disappearing with the 

 other denizens of the once free and track- 

 less plains. Civilization is wiping them 

 all out. The buffalo has vanished before 

 the furbelow, and where the wild antelope 

 once roamed, the tame cantaloupe now 

 thrives. In a few years hence there will 



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