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very small, expends five cents a day for tobacco. 

 Instead of this let him invest the money at com- 

 pound interest. The amount in ten years will be 

 $240.54; in twenty years, $671.30; in thirty 

 years, $1,442.77. 



"Twenty years ago," remarked a gentleman, 

 " on finding how much money I was wasting upon 

 tobacco, I stopped using it, yearly depositing the 

 amount thus saved. When it had accumulated 

 to three thousand dollars I built with it a house, 

 which I call my smoke-house." 



Said an inveterate smoker : " Twenty thousand 

 dollars falls short of what I have spent for to- 

 bacco." 



But we have not yet done with figures. In a 

 single Western town $3,098 were expended for 

 tobacco, and for the support of churches and schools 

 only $2,712. 



A Methodist pastor states that, while his whole 

 society expended in a year only $841 for the sup- 

 port of the gospel and other church and mission 

 work, sixty-seven of his church members during 

 the same time spent $845 for tobacco. 



At a Methodist Episcopal Conference held in 

 Massachusetts, Bishop Harris expressed the opin- 

 ion that " the Methodist Church spends more 

 for chewing and smoking than it gives toward con- 

 verting the world." 



It has been estimated that the smokers and 

 chewers among the preachers and members of the 

 Cincinnati Conference alone expend annually 



