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OBJECTORS SUMMONED. 



" But the appetite is so imperious." 



No one can deny this. Its clamorings are more 

 urgent than those even of hunger and thirst. Neal 

 Dow relates that when Pumpelly, in his tour round 

 the world, found himself and others in a great 

 desert without food or water, they sent off men 

 after supplies. And for what did these famishing 

 sufferers beg, as they hastened to meet the return- 

 ing messengers ? "Food? We were almost starving. 

 Drink? We were almost perishing with thirst. 

 No, we asked for no food, for no drink, but for 

 tobacco." 



While on the Pacific, the vessel went down. 

 Pumpelly relates that as the life-boat, his last 

 chance for preservation, was getting off, he be- 

 thought him of his cigars, and rushed below to 

 seize them, adding coolly, " People who smoke will 

 understand why 1 was ready and willing to risk 

 my life for a few cigars" 



Yea, verily, the appetite is "imperious." It is 

 a tyrant whose dominion is absolute. All the 

 more reason, then, why it should be trampled 

 under foot. Unless you set upon the tempter 

 your iron heel, it may strike its fangs through 

 body and soul. 



" With all your assertions and facts as to the 

 injurious influence of tobacco, smokers sometimes 

 attain a great age." 



Simply quoting the adage that "one swallow 



