126 TOBACCO. 



formed, a large number of tons. This vast tobacco- 

 shop, which is unequalled in the world for size, 

 covering, as it does, an extent of five acres, and 

 which is rented by the government for fourteen 

 thousand pounds, or seventy thousand dollars, 

 annually, has been christened — it would seem 

 rather ungallantly — The Queens Warehouse. 



WHAT PROTECTION AGAINST SMOKERS? 



What shall be said of puffing pipes or cigars 

 along the streets and upon the sidewalks into 

 the faces of men, women, and children? AVhat 

 right has any one to fill God's pure air, which is 

 as much mine as his, with such loathsome fumes, 

 so that I am compelled to keep my mouth tightly 

 closed, and every few steps make futile attempts 

 to blow away the noxious cloud ? 



"To be sure, it is a shocking thing," Dr. John- 

 son writes, "the blowing smoke out of our mouths 

 into other people's mouths, eye^, and noses, and 

 having the same tiling done to us." 



Says Xeal Dow : " The forcibly taking away 

 one's pure air by tobacco-smoke is as much steal- 

 ing, in the moral sense, as picking one's pocket." 



Must we go out and come in all our life long, 

 making an everlasting but unheeded protest? 

 Will deliverance never come? Even in places 

 where it is forbidden, can we have no security? 

 It is not simply disagreeable, it is oppressive, suf- 

 focating, I would say intolerable, except that we 

 have to tolerate it. 



