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mouths from disease, it is a dangerous as well as a 

 beastly habit." 



A Detroit paper gives an account of a squalid 

 old man whom a reporter saw picking up cigar- 

 stubs. In his collection, he also had "ends of 

 villainous five-centers-stubs picked out of office- 

 spittoons, and swept from the floors of saloons." 



After replying to the reporter's questions, a 

 policeman took him to a little tenement, in the 

 front room of which were a man, a woman, and two 

 girls. Passing through to a back room, they found 

 live dirty boys sprinkling cigar-stubs from a rusty 

 old pot, then cutting them into shreds and spread- 

 ing them out to dry, after which the whole mass 

 was taken to the front room. Here, with shreds of 

 this stale tobacco scattered all over the floor and 

 around their bare feet, the slatternly woman and girls 

 were rolling out the repulsive material. Wetting 

 the wrappers with their lips, they would poke the 

 hair out of their eyes, and then, moistening the 

 finger tips of the same hand with their tongue, 

 would smooth out the edges till a dainty cigarette 

 was the result. The man's business was to do up 

 these cigarettes into bunches, and then put fancy 

 labels on them. 



" Are there many who smoke this second-hand 

 tobacco?" asked the reporter. The policeman's 

 reply was : " Thousands upon thousands. Not 

 such as this old scavenger, but nobby young bloods 

 who never did an hour's manual labor in their 

 lives, and never will ; young fellows who wear the 



