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stuff," but insisted on continuing the use of 

 tobacco. Two weeks from that time he was in Tobacco Fed 

 Oakland, California, where he met some old com- 

 rades of the 6o's. They, not knowing his weak- 

 ness, tempted him ; he yielded. Once started, his 

 own fears were realized. A few days later he 

 was sent to his home in Washington, D. C, where 

 he died of delirium tremens. 



A well-known Methodist preacher, who was 

 recently silenced from preaching for drinking, 

 told me a few days after his dismissal that as far 

 back as he could remember he had had an inordi- 

 nate appetite for liquor. "My father," said he, 

 "was a habitual drunkard, and I know that the 

 appetite is abnormal in me. I know what it is to A Minister's 

 battle with the ordinary temptations of life, for I Experience, 

 have fought the battles common to all men; but 

 this appetite is abnormal. Even when I have not 

 tasted a drop in five years, this miserable demon 

 continually craves liquor. Now, after twenty 

 years of successful ministerial life, ~it has finally 

 brought me to shame and made me a disgrace to 

 the Church and the cause of Christianity." 



In the study of some two hundred families in 

 which one or both parents used liquor or tobacco ^^ A tite fof 

 I found many cases in which the appetite for Narcotics Inborn. 

 narcotics was unquestionably inborn. 



At T , Nebraska, a young lady consulted 



me about her appetite for tobacco. Her mother 

 had used the weed habitually prior to her birth. 

 The young lady despised the filthiness of the 

 habit and was fully cognizant of its injurious 

 effects ; yet the appetite was so strong that, despite 

 her "pride and abhorrence for the unladylike 



