Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-09
DANGER In SMOKING.
Need OF an Invention That viii
Make Tobacco Harmless.
Experience of Man Who Used Cigar
ettess Cigars. Meerschaum and q
Cern-Cob with Very Little Salts
faction to Himself.

Experience of a Man Who Used Cigar
ettess Cigars, q Meerschaum and
Cern-COb with Very Little Salts
faction to Himself.
When / lived in London travelled every
day some distance on the underground rail-
way, writes Luke Sharp in the Detroit
Free Press. / got on at Turnham Green sta
ton, in the western suburbs, and got out at
the Temple, right in the heart of the me-
tropolis. This was in the morning. In the
evening, naturally, / reversed the journey.
The morning journey was the up trip, and
on that one / had to climb stairway to get
to the train, and when the journey was fin
ished l found myself down under ground.
When the down journey was ended it left
me away up on a station perched on an en-
bankment. 1t is wonderful the curious ex-
periences person can have in place like
London.
The journey under ground never quite
suited my taste for travelling. The scenery
in the tunnel is not at all beautiful nor
even interesting. But what most objected
to was a certain sulphuriness in the at
mosphere which seemed to irr1tate my
breathing apparatus l asked the COM
pany to remedy this, but they claimed that
that was the style of air demanded by the
clined to change it merely to oblige one
captious man, who would probably growl no
matter what they did. They said that if l
wanted mountain air | should 20 TO
Switzerland. pointed out to them that it
was very convenient for person living in
Switzerland to come TO his Office in the
Strand every morning at nine O'clock, but
that made no impression ON them, and as
had not time that year to build an elevated
road to suit my own requirements had to
put up with the underground, although L
managed to give the company good deal
of trouble with my complaints.
This roundabout introduction is for the
purpose of showing how annoyed by the
smoke of the engines, / took to smoking my
self. A physician whom l suspect of having
a grudge at me recommended me to smoke
while on the underground journeys, and al
though up to that time l had never
smoked a Whit in my life, took to the
apparently mild and harmless cigarette. 1
thought could get as little of the effects
of tobacco out of a cigarette as out of any
form the weed assumes, and still adhere
to that opinion.
Without intending to brag in any way, 1
may say that by perseverance and strict at
tention to business, soon augmented my
ability as cigarette consumer. l began in a
small way, smoking three or four cigarettes
day, and by industry got to be a regular
wholesale establishment burning up from
forty to fifty cigarettes every twenty-four
hours. Naturally was very proud of this
and came to be very much respectfully
dealers in tobacco-and they pointed to me
as an example of what might be done by
logged adhesion to the work on hand
Not feeling quite up to the mark, 1 one
day consulted my regular physician. He
felt my pulse and shook his head gravely
When my doctor shakes his head it means at
least five dollars out of my pocket, so 1 be-
gan to feel alarmed.
"Do you smoker he asked.
YES
"What %
"Cigarettes."
How many day 90
About sixty three"
"Well, they're killing you; you'll have to
stop"
'Is tobacco so injurious as all that ~
Tobacco No. But cigarettes are. You
can use all the tobacco you want-but take
it in the form of good cigars"
Well, switched off on the cigar habit.
applied to the smoking of cigars the same
habits of earnest application that had been
so signally successful with the cigarettes.
Next consultation had on the subject of
health with the NJ. D. (same man) he said:
Smoke any!''
GA little"
"What gu
Good cigars"
How many Z"
| "Oh, five or six day."
"Well, you'll have to stop that. It's kill
ing you"
'Why, thought you said that tobacco
| was -
1 IN oil,
! of cigars. Tale to pipe. That's the only
rational way of using tobacco"
So began ''hitting the pipen Got N.Y.
self a nice ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS beautifully
and began to color it. When 1 tackled
/ the doctor afterwards he said:
! use tobacco at ala"
Eyes"
"How?n
''In pipe"
'What sort of pipe!"
"Nice meerschaum.'
Lets see it,"
took the pipe out of its silk-lined case
and he looked at 1t and then at me in q
plying way
mo harm in tobacco, is there?"
sob, no harm in tobacco he said "Of
course not. But should think that man
of sense would see that smoking the same
pipe is most dangerous occupation. 1t
gets saturated with nicotine and so you'll
have to quit this pipe or write out receipt
for your life insurance.
'sWell, what am l to dol Chew or snuffln
Neither. Take cheap pipe that you can
throw away. Buy a new one every week -
then took to the corn-cob plpe-retail
price five cents. 1t has label on it that
reads: Missouri Meerschaum." 1t is made
by some patent process from the cob of
Indian corn, and 1t is very light and porta-
BILE. took great comfort out of the corn
cobs They are vanished on thesoutside,
and when you get a good fire started this
varnish begins to szzle and fume and fill
up the room with a delightful burnt leather
odor.
The physician called in on me one day
while was smoking. "Good gracious l'' he
| cried, aghast, don't you know that the corn
cob is the most deadly thing you can
smoker
81 throw one away every day or two and
take new one. buy them by the car lot
! job lot, you know"
THAT'S just the trouble. The varnish on
| a new pipe is of the most dangerous char
acter, and when you inhale it you won't live
very long, let me tell you that"
Now, what l want to say to inventors is
I this Set your wits to work and invent
some plan by, which tobacco can be con-
| sumed without endangering life. A life
| saving system as applied to tobacco will
/ make the fortune of some future inventor.
AN OLD SALTS YARN.
| How Peter johnson Was Used as q Plug
to Stop a Leak on Shipboard,
! Old Peter Johnson, a familiar Landmark
! OF South street, and who, in the memory of
the oldest deck hand in this city, has never
been known to stir away from his seat on
! an old hox at the coruar of Ssonth cfraat a m