Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-24
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Tom Clark Gets in Red Hot Shot Upon
Two Wits Who Rallied Him

Tom Clark Gets in Red Hot Shot Upon
/ Two Wits Who Rallied Him.
Since RECORD UNION representative
took advantage of private lecture by Tom
Clark on the baleful effects of cigarette
smoking, and on the revelations of the
other world as unfolded to him in dream
concerning the fate of the cigarette fend.
Mr.. Clark has been overwhelmed with con-
| gratulations, which he modestly receives.
as gentlemen should. Now be il known
that Tom had no more idea that his an
! athemas upon the cigarette fend were to
| be transferred to print, than that some day
| pln-featherS may crop out beneath his
shoulder-blades premonitory OF a flight on
| wings to better world. Nor, since the
| RECORD UNION man took such liberties
| with conversation in the strict privacy of
bob-tailed street car, has he yentured TO
! meet Tom Clark, for even wits at
! times become wrathful, and there was
no assurance in newspaper row. that
Clark might not call around with club.
However 1t is ascertained that SO much
good has been born of Toms sermon, that
he ought to be thankful that he has been
an humble agent of benefcence. He has
been blessed in private, prayed for in The
closet, and thanked upon the highway.
Wives and mothers have gone out of their
way TO call upon him and say God bless
you, Mr.. Clark
One very pathetic case, among several
has come to our knowledge. A mother
who read Clark's sermon, was put upon in
quiry as to the possible habits of her three
| sons, the eldest not yet sixteen To her
amaZement and inexpreSsibie grief she dis
covered that the two younger were already
\ hah Tod 10 tUa, H..
younger of thetwo was found 10 be so much
slave TO the habit, that deprivation
drove the child nearly wild. The agony of
that household can be fancied, not de.
scribed. The elder of the bows has
been sent TO military school near the
coast, the younger lad has been packed
OH to mountain farm and put
under the guardianship of a firm, fatherIv
man who abhors tobacco more than Tom
Clark does the parrow-gauge railway of
hell. member of the household referred
TO says that that Sacramento mother went
down upon her knees and thanked God
Tor putting 1t into the head of Tom Clark
to say what he did, and into the noddle of
the RECORD. UNION man to print it. All
which, however, is but q trifie to the stir
that has been made in the community and
which Will presently be at boiling point,
since 1t is learned that it is the intention to
demand OF the authorities enforcement of
the law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to
minors, and to make the penalties for its
violation more severe
But at the outset of this item il was the
intention merely to relate how Tom Clark
sent hot shot into two brother wits. These,
Q. NJ. johnson, who understands the ms
and outs of the carpet business better than
he does the earnestness of Clark, and John
Ioomey, who is not nearly so well versed
IN hack hire as is Clark on the cause of that
deadly aff1iction, ''the cigarette heart put
about to poke fun at Tom the other day.
Got yourself into print, didn't YOU?
Worked off one of your cigarette SERMONS,
eh, on durn' fool reporter, you did.
Think you're smart, don't you-two col
| umns of Tom Clark to one newspaper.
Bah
So the two rallied him and nut their
sarcasm beneath his ribs. Conscious of bis
| innocence of intent to gain notoriety. Tom
CLARK bore their assaults in patience until
1 they were exhausted and then he opened
up the battery of his wit
Look here you two smarties it's very
true that they have given me two columns
in print, but not O. my asking. Yes. got
two columns and amt dead, either. But
do you fellows know what they'll give YOU
one OF these days?-one line, in fine type.
that's all,
johnson and Toomey, dead. Ne fiowers.'"