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Boys, Don't Use Tobacco.
BY ALVIN JovENIL.
Bows. don't use tobacco.

BY ALVIN JOVENIL.
Boys, don't use tobacco.
1t is unmanly. Men use it, and
therefore some boys fancy it makes
them appear more like man to be
seen with a cigar between their lips or
a quid of tobacco in their mouths.
When a great artist seeks to portray
perfect man upon his canvas, or the
genius of great sculptor to fashion
his speaking form out of the silent
marble, do they employ the cigar or
quid as an emblem of manhood? No;
never. Who ever heard of Hercules
with a cigar in his mouth or Apollo
with his cheek pulled out by great
quid of tobaccO2 The fact is. bows.
the cigar and the quid are the signs of
the lack of manhood, placards that
say to all that read Alright: Manhood
wanted within" The mean the sur.
render of just 80 much moral strength
and the yielding of the will to the
serfdom of an imperious master--to-
baccO.
1t is selfish. The boy who uses to-
baccO thinks more of the qualification
of his own perverted tastes than of
the wishes of his father or mother. 70
please himself he pains those nearest
and dearest to him. No better adver-
tisement of selishness can be had than
the cigar and quid.
1t is unhealthful. The boy who
uses tobacco cannot be as strong, as
intelligent or as we'll a man as he
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the stuff. 1t will give him tremb-
ling hand, dimness of vision and in
tellect, and a complexion like the
pimply skin of picked goose. In
fact it will make a sort of tobacco
pickle out of him. Now boys YOU
all have far nobler career before YOU
than this picking process, and if you
accomplish what the world has right
to expect, you cannot afford to waste
any of your health, your intelligence
or your strength for the little enjoy
ment you can suck out of ten cent
cigar or nickel plug of tobacco.
1t is expensive. Many a well-stock-
ed farm, dry goods store and pleasant
city home has gone up in smoke. If
| you doubt the truth of this statement
figure out the following example: "If
boy begins to use tobacco at the age
of 10 and continues its use until death,
fifty years later, at an average daily
cost of 10 cents, low estimate, what
will his tobacco bill amount to, and
how much might he have saved at the
age of so, had he put this money out
at 6 per cent interest ?" The result
will surprise you. Ten cents day
for 365 days is $3.50; $3.50 a year
| for fifty years, means 81, 125 without
interest. With interest the amount
would be very much larger. What
boy among you can afford to puff or
blow that amount of money out from
between his lips? Besides it is a pos
tive sin thus to waste a possible power
for good.
So far have only spoken of those
things which concern yourself, but YOU
are, by no means, the only one whom
your use of tobacco will affect. Boys,
out of regard for others, don't use to-
bacco.
It is offensive. The breath of an
habitual user of tobacco, is, to put it
mildly, an Offense to the nostrils of
anything human. Perfumes and con-
diments may disguise but they cannot
remove the filth. What selfrespect-
| ing boy cares to make himself a "stench
in the nOstrils" of his fellow-beings.
Do I put it too strongly? Take
your seat by the side of one who for
| 20 years has been saturating himself
with tobacco, and you will find that
my language is not half so strong as
the polluted air he cOmpells all to
breathe who come near him. When
the wind is right such a being can be
plainly smelt at a distance of ten rods.
Women, children and some men, are
often for long periods, obliged to
breathe air, every breath of which has
been rendered offensive, if not posi-
lively injurious to them, by the stale
fumes of tobacco exhaled into it.
Boys, be noble enough not to require
any one to suffer on your account.
1t is robbery. A strong expression.
l know, but it has the merit of being
true. Your wealth and your powers
of mind belong not to yourself alone.
but also to mankind. To waste your
money, your health or your intelH.
gence is to rob your family,
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ces-the world-of what in part. at
least, belongs to them. Many an I'M
educated man or woman might have
the best education our country offers
had not their fathers cared more for
the fragrance of good cigar" than
for the culture of their children. Many
a man might have been a source Of
strength and comfort to his family and
of lasting benefit to mankind, had not
tobacco weakened his body and dulled
his brain.
1t is a bad example. If you smoke
or chew your example will influence
others to do the same. Indeed, am
quite positive you would not smoke at
all did not some one set you the exam
pie. Did you never use tobacco your
example would probably keep others
from forming the habit. Boys be wise
and generous and say with Paul: "If
meat maketh my brother to offend.
will eat no meat while the world
standeth, lest make my brother to
Offend"
Boys, don't use tobacco, Because it
is unmanlyj it is selfish it is unhealth-
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