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rum. It is destroying our race, and it is sure to 

 destroy the farms producing it also, as it has done 

 some of the best land in Virginia." 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A man, distinguished for scholarship, but, un- 

 fortunately, equally distinguished for inordinate 

 smoking, paid the penalty in a manifest retarding 

 of his mental movements — his thoughts and words 

 coming so slowly as to be painful to the listener. 

 This clogging of the intellect his physician unhesi- 

 tatingly attributed to tobacco. 



A smoking club of three young men came to its 

 end within two years of its formation, all its 

 members having smoked themselves to death. 



A striking account, well authenticated, is given 

 concerning a man in Detroit, of fine constitution and 

 regular and temperate habits, except in the one mat- 

 ter of cigars. For thirty years he had smoked with 

 seeming impunity. But the day of reckoning 

 came at last! He complained one night of feeling 

 unwell, and from that moment a gradual numbness 

 stole over him. First his sight left him, next his 

 tongue was paralyzed ; then he lost the power of 

 moving his head. Thus member after member 

 was clutched and held as in a vise, till he lay 

 sightless and motionless, helpless — alive, yet 

 dead. One sense alone was untouched, — that of 

 hearing ; and he exhausted himself in frantic efforts 

 to reply to the questions put to him. For a little 

 time he rallied, but his constitution, undermined 



