300 TOBACCO. 



ly used tobacco myself, but was forced to abandon 

 it entirely when I realized that it was simply a 

 question of how godlike a man I proposed to be." 



Prof. Ruggles, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, 

 N.H. : "All those receiving aid from college funds 

 promise to abstain from the use of tobacco. Sev- 

 eral scholarships have been founded on this basis." 



Rev. Edward A, Lawrence, Baltimore, October 

 3, 1892 : "The aesthetic abhorrence which most of 

 those who do not use tobacco feel for the weed is 

 usually more deep than loud. The many mute 

 sufferers, therefore, have reason to thank you for 

 voicing their protest in such form that it expresses 

 in emphatic words both the discomfort which it 

 brings to the innocent victims and the disrepute 

 which it brings to the offending victims." 



Rev. Dr. J. H. Ecob, Albany, September 29, 

 1892 : "To give carte blanche to one bad habit is 

 to make easy the entrance of the next comer. For 

 there seems to be a sort of free-masonry among 

 bad habits ; no sooner does one get possession than 

 it invites seven others. Tobacco is the enemy 

 within who secretly conspires to pass the keys of 

 the castle to the invaders without." 



FRANK CONFESSIONS . 



A friend in the Revenue Service who is an invet- 

 erate smoker has given me one of his experiences : 



"In the summer of 1878, while at Charleston, 

 S.C., I was attacked with malarial fever, and sent 



