The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-27
NYE ON NICOTINE
some ADVICE TO THOSE WHO USE
THE SEDUCTIVE WEED.

He Does Not Think Missionaries Should
Stop Smoking just to Please Some Epi.
curean Observation-Disclosures Let Them In.
3ulge.
copyright, 1895, by Edgar VI. Nye.1
''Died. yesterday at his residence
On Montgomery avenue, Shake Rag, n.
G., after lingering illness, brought on
by the excessive use of tobacco, Cicero
Ledbetter, husband of Mary Ellen Led
better, 1916, Ella Margaret Ledbetter,
1851, Viola Hope Ledbetter, 1853.
Realization Ledbetter, 1865, and Pomme
d'Terre Ledbetter, 1871, aged 100 years,
months and IL days. Funeral private.
Relatives of his late wives are cordially
invited.
"Has our husband went away
After such a lengthy stay?
Yes. he's found the land he sought,
And he knoweth what is what.
For, no matter what he did,
Now he knoweth quid est quid."
This above notice tells its own sac
tale. Such truths as these come home to
us with crushing force. They say ia Ian
guage which cannot be misunderstood,
Beware of tobacco, tea, coffee, choca-
late, ETC., or some day you viii be
corpse.
am glad TO notice on the part of the
friends of humanity strong effort TO
encourage those who wish to quit the
use of tobacco. To break off the use Of
this weed is one of the most agreeable
methods of relaxation. ] have tried it a
great many times, and l can safely say
that it has afforded me the deepest JOY.
To violently reform and cast away
the weed and at the end of a week to
find good cigar unexpectedly in the
quiet, transformations pocket of an old
vest affords the most intense and de-
lirious delight.
Scientists tell US that a single drop Of
the concentrated oil Of tobacco OF the
tongue of an adult dog is fatal l have
no doubt about the truth or cohesive
power of this statement, and for that
reason / have always boon opposed to
the general use of tobacco or esoteric Ie-
search among dogs. Dogs should shun
the concentrated oil of tobacco, especial
ly if longevity be any object to them.
Neither would / advise a man with ca
nine tendencies to use the concentrated
oil of tobacco as a sozodont. To those
who may feel that way about tobacco
would say shun it by all means, shun
it as you would the deadly upas tree or
the still moro deadly whiffletree Of the
tropics.
In what I may say under this head
please bear in mind that do not refer
TO the cigarette. ] am now combining my
remarks entirely to the subject of to-
bacco.
The use of the cigarette is, in fact,
beneficial in some ways, and no pest
house should try to get along without it.
1t is said that it is very popular in
the orient, especially in the lazar houses,
where otherwise life would become very
moncsoneus Most all the lepers IN the
orient, especially social lepeIs, use the
cigarette.
Scientists who have been unable 10
successfully use tobacco. and who there
fore have given their whole lives and the
use of their microscopes to the investiga-
ton of its horrors, say that cannibals
will not eat the flesh of tobacco using
human beings.
And yet we say to our missionaries.
No man can be a Christian and use
tobacco
say, and say it. too, with all that
depth of feeling which has always char
acterized my earnest utterances, that in
this we are committing a great error
What have the cannibals ever done
for us as people that we should avoid
the use of tobacco in order that we may
sit we'll or their ungodly stomachs? In
what way have they sought to amelio-
rate our condition in life that we should
strive even in death TO tickle their
palates?
Look at the history Of the cannibal
for past ages Read carefully his record,
and you Will see that it has been the his