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in such cases. Six cents a day for forty years at compound 

 interest would amount to ])etween three and four thousand 

 dollars, and if then invested at six per cent, interest would 

 yield an annual income of over two hundred dollars. " Look 

 down my throat," said a hard drinker to a doctor, "and see 

 wliat is wrong there." " Nothing, sir, nothing," was the reply. 

 "Hut there must be, after what I have swallowed." "Why, 

 what hav(i you swallowed"? "A fine faiin, twenty negroes, 

 and .f 10,000, all in grog." And e\ery .smoker is \\\ similar 

 circumstances; for instead of a respectable sum in the bank 

 and the prosi)ect of a snug little annuity, ho has nothing to 

 show for all his exi)eiiditures in this line in health, cash or 

 material possessions, only the grim recollection of having puffit^d 

 it away in smoke. 



2. 1 abstain from the use of Tobacco because of its FiltJuj 

 and Ojjensife chaiacter. The Tobacco plant is the filthiest 

 weed that grow.s, so filthy that the only animal known to use 

 it is the African rock goat. The mere smell of it will ehas(^ 

 away from our garments mosquitoes, flies and moths. Jhit 

 however offensive it is of itself art has rendered it still more 

 so, as ap[)ears from the following. Dw Clarke (piotes thus 

 from a treatise written by Simon Paulli, physician to tlu! King 

 of D(!nmark ; " MiMchants frefi[Uontly lay it in bog-hoiise.s, to 

 the end that, becoming impi'cgnated with the volatile salt of 

 the excrements, it may b(^ rendered ]>ri.sker and stronger." 

 Speaking for himself, Dr. Clarke says: "A dcahu' once 

 acknosvledged to me that he freiptently sprinkled his rolls and 

 leaf with stale urin(; to keej) them moist, and presei-ve tlu? 

 flavor. A friend of mine, whost; curiosity led him to see 

 Tobacco spinning, observed that the boys who oju'ned out the 

 dry i)lants liad a vessel of urine by them, with which they 

 moisti>ned the leaNcs to ])repai't^ them for the spinner. Do the 

 'J'obacco chewers l<now this, and yet (.'ontinni,' in this most 

 abominable and disgusting practice ] Can any person think of 

 the above with a (jnid in his mouth'? ^^''ero this otlensivcness 



