The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-07-12
w. c. 7. ]. COLUMN.

One department OF Importance next
that OF alcohol that the w. C. T. u.
takes @, Its twin brother narcotic,
tobac,Y ffopium lin its new dress, cigar
ette) esrphene and the other that move
in thi Mn what deadly mischief have
they <ssfough. Physicians botanists,
chemists pronounce tobacco the most
deadly poison known with one exception,
prussic arid. When all science en-
phatically states the very injurious ef-
feet that these poisons have on the
system it Is astonishing that people
will submit to become the slave Of these
drugs that fasten with such a hold on
the partaker.
Like strong chords they bind him till
escape is almost impossible. Not only
the who has learned to indulge this
fearful appetite but all his friends suffer
with him. He poisons his system and
the poison leaves a sting upon his own
soul. He polsons the atmosphere he
breathes till, to often, those nearest and
dearest, BIS they inhale the poison that
he throws off through the breath and
pores OF the skin, grow pale
and slcken and 60 down to death, sad
victims.
/, The children of such parents are in
ierior to what they would otherwise
have been, Inferior i'll statute, intellect,
and lack the all around Development.
DR.. j. HI. kellogg, in Man, the Master
piece says: "There is no vice or habit
to which men are addicted, whose re-
suits are more certainly transmitted to
posterity than are those of tobacco
using.
A vigorous man may use tobacco all
his life, and he able to convince himself
all the time that he is recieylng no in
jury, but the children OF that man, who
ought to inherit a vigorous constitu-
ton and high health, are instead rob
bed OF their righiul patrimonv, and
enter upon life with a weakly vital Or
ganism. with d system predisposed to
"AAoSc1h'S# SiIS uCoCl1CA ~ pIClllCJUtlS Ut
cay. The sons OF an inyeterate to-
bacco user are not as robust as their
father; and the grandchildren in case the
children use tobacco are certain to be
nervous, weakly, sickly creatures. THIS
fact we have verified is SO large a num-
Der otcases that we make the statement
fully prepared TO maintain it by indis-
putable facts"
The vital system OF theetobacco user
is weakened. The great important mus
Gle OF the body, the heart is enfeebled.
The lung capabity is greatly diminished.
The white c%orpurcles IN the blood, con-
tanning the resisting power against
disease germs, are stupified. 1t is be-
lieved that not less than $4,000 lives
are annually it's victims.
Ellen Battelle Dietrich sends this de-
lightful new version Of Rudyard Kip
ling's verse,
ga million surplus Maggles are willing to
bear the yoke"
She says; "As this circulates largely
in the United States, it may be we'll to re-
mind American men that thatrhyme was
written for England, and is vastly mis-
leading so fa1 as the situation in this
country is Concerned. 1t may be true
that a million surplus females in Eng
land gives man the opportunity to com
pei women to wed him with his cigar or
not at all. But on this side OF the
Atlantic the attitude OF the sexes Is
exactly reversed. There are, at this
present time, one million five hundred
thousand more males than females IN
these United States. | would, therefore,
suggest that we publish the following
supplement-, as a substitute for Mr..
Kip1ad 8 verse, to be used by American
,svaderh
M n>Ga surplus Patricks are eager to
u ,eor~the yoke,
out a man is only a man, and we won't
have him with his smoke.
Bring us another offer; we hold to our
first sworn VOWS;
If Patrick won't leave off smoking. we'll
take no Pat for a ."-Selected.
Tobacco weakens and deranges the
brain, causes nervousness the blues, the
horrors, insanity, and suicide.
It weaken every muscle, and d~erangcs
every organ, causes ca1elessness,
diminished activity OF body and mind,
it leads to the use OF alcoholic liquors,
and make the reformation OF the