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Smoking positively forb idden ! 



JVb smoking abaft the shaft ! 



Nicht rauchen! 



Hier wird nicht ger audit! 



Niet rooken! 



JSFefumez pas id! 



11 est defendu defumer! 



And what means the label, Smoking-car? 



Think for a moment of the potency of a habit 

 which makes the public parading of such rules 

 necessary. It is bad enough as it is — indeed, it 

 is often more than the innocent part of the travel- 

 ling public knows how to bear ; but were these 

 very few and sometimes ill-kept regulations en- 

 tirely done away with, such a dreadful tyrant is 

 this tobacco, that a reign of terror would speedily 

 ensue, when no uncontaminated man. woman, or 

 child would dare to venture forth. Is not this 

 strange lack of consideration and courtesy due, 

 in part, at least, to the benumbing, and may I not 

 add demoralizing, influence of the habit? 



Would that the regulations were far more strin- 

 gent ! that our railroad directors might label 

 certain cars — For the Unclean, and then prohibit 

 smoker or chewer from entering any other ! As 

 it is, the irrepressible smoker follows you wher- 

 ever you go. You seat yourself in a car, and in 

 utter disregard of the printed ordinance — Smok- 

 i n 9 forbidden — in some subtle, indescribable 

 fashion, the dreaded odor assails you in front and 

 in rear. You pay an extra dollar and retreat to a 



