The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-11-03
NUMBER A.

and to-day there are on Crosby and
Mott streets alone. as has been found
from personal inquiry, over q hundred
men who make a living by gathering
thie refuse tobacco. That number may
be found ON two streets, and it is GER
tainly safe to say there are others in the
same business.
Is it not Just trille odd that rs the
demand for cigarettes increased SO did
that for cigar stubs. A member of q
large cigarette manufacturing company
said to the writer: 'sYou have heard Of
the now alkaloid from tobacco which u
French chemist has just discoveredp
Well, our chemist was on the point Of
making that discovery just as it was
announced to The world, and | as
sure you il is one of the most powerful
Of poisons. being very similar to sui
phnric acid.
Every boy knows that rice-papcr.
wouldn't hart fly in case he should
smoke it; therefore when he buys cigar
cites he Is always careful to get those
which are wrapped in that kind OF pa
per, or at least those which it is said
have ricc-paper around them. Now let
any boy go to u paper manufacturer
and ask him the simple question as 10
whether he or any one else could make
paper from rice. and the answer will be
that rice has no fiber, consequently pa
per could not be made from it. The So
called rice-paper is made from rice
straw, and 1t Is easy TO imagine Just
how much rice there Is in Ii. The
cigarette papers are neither more nor
less than kind OF tissue paper Of
different degrees of tineness; and that
statement came from the samc manu-
facturer who told about the poison.
IL Is well known that tobacco acts to
certain extent upon the brain as
liquor does. Not long ago gentleman
who was anxious to know how this
stimulant or narcotie--since IL acts on
different natures in both ways might
affect the brain Of growing boy, asked
one Of tho leading physicians in this
city what Ills opinion was in regard to
the matter. This is what the physician
replied;
Il can tell you what you want TO
know. or can tell you how to find out,
without any Of the big words you arc
afraid of. Smoke one cigarette, then
put u clean cambria handkerchief to
your mouth, and breathe through it two
or three minutes. You will find yell
low deposit which went into yourlu lungs.
and II you have any common-sense you
can tell yourself whether il is likely to
be injurious. Had this physician
known Of the story with which this
article begins, he could have said to
what extent ii might be injurious.
Tobacco does not often kill people,
for we know lots of old men who have
always used it, and they are lively as
crickcts.' some bright boy may urge.
But If he will study into the mat
ter u little further he viii prob
ably find out that these men
either did not use tobacco when they
were growing boys. but only when they
became men. with their minds and bed
les developed aud hardened to cndur-
ance, orthat they had strong constitu-
tions, such rs we seldom find among
our city lads Of to-day.
And now, boys, for last argument,
even though II seems trivial one after
the terribly sad story which has been
told you. This smoking Of cigarettes
makes you ridiculous. Grown people
think you silly and laugh at you when
they see you trying to be men by this
silly cnricaturing of what all grown
up smokers themselves pronounce
foolish and senselcss habit. -Haypcr'S
Young People.