Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
Ton years ago l00.0Oo,0OO ciear.

Now tho number made and smoked
 m a year goes into the billions. Tn, worst feature of the cigarette smok ing habit Is that, when it is done
 according to Hoyle" the smoke i. inhaled into the lungs and hreathed out through the nostrils. This in. troduees narcotic poison quickly through the system and forms {
 habit as seductive and as hard to
 break as that of smoking opium
 The Medical Record is authority
 for the statement that, once the in-
 haling habit is thoroughly formed
 1t cannot be broken. Tho confirmed
 cigarette 6endn is practically in
 curahle. Perhaps the practice oI
 cigarette manufacturers of mixing
 opium with the tobacco which they use, has something to
 do with this. At any rate cigar rette-smoking is too dangerous a habit for either old or young to fool with.
 Jerry Simpson. the .'sockless,. i. is in trouble. At Cleveland he made a speech denouncing the millionaires in true reformer style, after which he went to restaurant with Con- gressman Tom Johnson, rich dem ocrat, and some other boon com panions, and indulged in cham pagno supper. The committee of the peoples party heard what was in the wind, followed him 10 the restaurant and upbraided him for his insincere actions. They also refused to pay him for his speech, whore upon Simpson grew indignant and defiant. It's the old, old story of the professional agitator. He is much the same the country over, whether he wears socks or not.-Ex.
 The report of Superintendent of the Territorial prison, Hon. Murray McInernay, for the quarter ending on tho first instant, makes very healthy financial showing. The en- tire expense of the prison for the quarter wes Sl0,9SSs5, tho per diem of cost Sll9.29, and the per capita cost was Sl.2 cents, the least per capita cost Of maintaining the Ter ritorial prison in the history of that institution. 1t is also to be remem- bered, in this connection, that in the quarter just passed the prison sewer has been relaid m concrete i2 inch pipe, the north wall completed. and the construction of the female ward pushed, so that it does not appear that the low per capita of mainte- nance of the prison is because i'm provements arc not going on. To the conscientious discharge of the duties of the office of Superinteud- ent and the ecareful business conduct of the commissioners, the people of Arizona may attribute this real re- form and they may thank Superin- tendent McInernay for his fearless nerve in determination to cut of the fearful abuses that have been permitted to prevail at the peniten- tiary, and the firmness of the pres ent Board of Commissioners and the Territorial Government in back ing him up most thoroughly. The time of peculatioa at the Territorial prison has como to an end, There will be no mora Sl00 DOT month su- pernumerarios that never turned a stroke but simply were a means of robbing the people of the Territory. -Phenix Herald.
 Brigadier-Genera Kautz, com manding the department of tho Columbia, in his his annual report speaks of repeated troubles betwe, n the Indians and white settlers in tie Kootenai river country, In closing his report, General kautz says that he regards the highest duty of our small army in time of peace to be the acquisition and dissemination of mil litary knowledge among the people. Recruits for the army should be obtained from young, ambitious and energetic sons of patriotic citizens, the army should cease to be the re- fuge of the inefficient, indolent and wandering element of the country. Recruits should be furnished from all parts of the union in proportion to the population, to serve as a rule only ono enlistment, and then be TO- turned to their homes to serve IS officers in case-o of war and instruct ors for state military organization in time of peace. The support of the government to this end would raise the standing ofenisted men at once and secure the enlistment of proper material, which cannot now be obtained in view of the low esti- mate tho average civilian entertaius for soldier in tho time of peace.
 Hon ?. R. Brady, ademocrat from the crown of the head to the soles of his feet, is open in his expres- sions of disgust at the water article of the proposed constitution. He denouaces the betrayers of tho peo- pie and sa s he will work with all his strength and will against the adoption of such an unjust instru- mont. Mir Brady wields a wide in- huence and does not wax wroth without good cause,-Florence En-
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