Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-25
What cigarettes Arc Made From.

Occupants of the rear platform will take
pleasant interest in knowing what young Mr.,
ChickaboO has been doing for a living.
Chickaboo, who is eight years old, is an i'm
migrant recently arrived in New York. A
day or two ago he was taken before one of
the police justices of that city, charged with
the crime OF being a vagrant. THIS he de-
MED, and offered to show that he was in a
regular business by which he earned money.
The business proved to be the gathering OF
cigar stumps and other bits of tobacco from
streets, cutters and puddles. In support of
his statement he put in evidence the
dirty basket which he carried with
him, which was half full of muddy,
Water-soaked and disgusting remains OF
formerly fragrant weeds. Young Mr.. Chick
abOo said that he was in the habit of SELL
ing these ~pickings to the sm III manufacturer
of cigarettes, who pay ten cents j pound for
them. Exactly how much washing and
purifying this rubbish receives before it is
rolled up in the form Of cigarettes is one OF
those mysteries of the business about which
little is known. One thing Is certainly known,
namely, that a great many little children,
much like the juvenile Chickaboo, are regu-
larry employed III making just such disgust
ing collections. l. must be a pleasant re-
Election 70 the cigsre;te-youug man who puffs
his liberal incense into The faces Of his fel-
low-passengers that the stuff be holds be-
tween his lips was gathered from noisome
cutters ana HitHy puuuIeS.
Bertha anu HEarOld-A Novelette,.
81 should smile"
As Bertha Redingote spoke these words
she lay cOquetIlshly in . hammock that had
been swung between two giant oaks that
reared their tall heads aloit in the broad
Lawn, at the edge OF which stood her fathers
stately residence. A little foot, enmeshed
in a s.lken stocking, whose delicate texture
displayed to advantage the trim ankle
within, peeped out from beneath a fleecy
white dress, while the laughing eyes and fair
forehead of the girl were surmounted by a
coronal Of sunniiy gold tresses Of which any
hair-store might IA We been proud.
so you like ice-ceeam?' said Harold Nc
Iutyre, bending overthe ammock and look
ing tenderIy into L rtha's blue eyes.
81 should smile, said the girl again, get
ting ready to put on her slipper and start.
You are right" said Harold. "Ice-cream
Is a good thing Perhaps some day next
week / will buy you some"
The look OF happy expectancy faded from
IT, the girls lace. WHAT time is it2' she asked.
Zen minutes to g." replied Harold.
Then" said B-rtha, IF you start right
away you Will get home in time for supper"
-F'om "BhbEag Baek" by Nacat HaLtsad.
The Oar sinta0 Greed.
Pail Nal gazette; "Those who themselves
explicitly reject the Darwinian creed yet can
not possibly escape from many of its imPli-
cations. 1t runs through almost all the beat
thought OF our time; 1t tinges our uniformed
public notions; it reappears under a hun
dred DISCUSSES 10 works on law and history,
in political speeches and religious discourses,
in artistic theories and vague social specula.
tions. Our very novels and poems are full
OF latent Darwlnian germs. II We try to
think ourselves away from it We must think
ourselves away en'irsly from our own age.
Wuoever builds at all must build largely
from materials supplied by Darwin or bv
Dlrwinisns. Whoever deals with social
forces must deal with forces greatly nodded
and remOlded by Ddrwiniau ideas. The
physici, N who wholly neglected Darwinian
results would fall behind in the race-would, |
in fact, be naturally selected for quiet ex-
t%inctiJn; the statesman who wholly over
looked the political and ethical implications
OF the Dtrwinisa beliefs, the strength of the
new intellectual factors introduced by Oar
winisnism, would be incapable Of really
guiding The political thought of to-day"
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EHonOring "a Hero.
During the smallpox epidemic at South
Bethlehem, Pa, last winter, the Rev. w. B.
Morrow, OF the Protestant Episcopal Church,
aud the Sisters Of S.. John the Baptist miu-
istered heroically to the sick and suffering
for more 1aau six week.. \ substantial to-
ken of the gratitude OF the people has been
given through the presentation to the Rev. \
Mr.. Morrow OF a very valuable watch and
guard chaia, with a massive gold cross PEN
daut from the latter. The watch, upon
touching q spring, strikes the hours, chimes
the quarters, AMI rags The added minutes.
Tue gilt was mad exclusively by the men
employed at the b thlehem Steel aud Iron
COmpany's works, with the exception that
the Roman Catholic minister and three other
members OF that communion not employed
at The works were admitted by the men TO a
share in the gift. Taose taking part in the
formal presentation were two Roman Catho-
lies, two Moravians, a Lutheran, a Metho-
dis, aud a German r formed, who, on the
evening of June -, handed this valuable
and significant tertimouial 10 Mr.. Morrow