10 TOBACCO. 



York ! " What a record to appear on the heavenly 

 ledger ! 



COST FROM FIRES. 



The destruction of property from fires occa- 

 sioned by throwing away the ends of cigars, or 

 matches used in lighting them, comes properly 

 under the financial head. 



It is stated by Dr. Ritchie that in London fifty- 

 three fires occurred in one year as the result of 

 smoking. He adds : ff I have more than once 

 seen a carpenter under a London station light his 

 pipe and cast the half-burnt match among the 

 shavings." 



From the throwing down of a cigar, or a match 

 used in lighting it, the Bateman Hotel in Pitts- 

 burg, Penn., took fire and was destroyed. The 

 son of the proprietor was fatally burned, while the 

 wife and four daughters perished in the flames. 



What shall we say to the setting on fire of a 

 forest near Lowell, Mass., by ministerial cigars? 

 to the burning of several buildings in Fall River 

 from juvenile cigars and matches? to the consum- 

 ing of a church in Chicago from a carpenter's pipe ? 

 and to the destruction of three millions' worth ot 

 property in one of our cities from a half-smoked 

 ci^ar which a vouns; man threw down ? 



So infatuated are the devotees of the weed that, 

 in spite of the strictest regulations, workmen 

 sometimes persist in smoking even amid the most 

 dangerous surroundings. 



In a single day pipes and matches were found 



