The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-04-18
BILL NYE ON NICOTINE
SOME ADVICE TO THOSE WHO USE
Is THE SEDUCTIVE WEED. 49,,


. Is THE SEDUCTIVE WEED. :.
He, Does Not Think Missionaries Should
Stop Smoking just to Please Some Epi-
curean Cannibals-RatherL Let Them In
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/, Copyright, 1895, by Edgar ". Nye!]
.Died. Yesterday at his residence
on Montgomery avenue, Shake Rag, N.
c., 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 Ledbotter, 1871, aged 100 years.
8 months and II days. Funeral private
Relatives Of his late wives are cordially
invited. ''.'
"Has our husband went away
After such q lengthy stayP
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."
The above notice tells its own sad
tale. Such truths as these come home to
Us with crushing force. They say in Ian.
guage which cannot be misunderstood.
Beware of tobacco, tea, coffee, chooa.
late, etc., or some day you will be a
corpse. =, E*-,.rl :.
I AM glad to notice on thepart 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. I have tried it
great many times. and I can safely say
that it has afforded me the deepest joy.
To violently reform and cast away
the weed and at the end Of week to
find good cigar unexpectedly in the
quiet, unostentatious 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 on the
tongue of an adult dog is fatal. have
no doubt about the truth or cohesive
power Of this statement, and for that
reason I have always been opposed to
the general use of tobacco or esoteric re-
search among dogs. Dogs should shun
the concentrated oil of tobacco, especial
ly if longevity be any object to them.
Neither would advise man with Ca
nine tendencies to'use the concentrated
oil of tobacco as sozodont. 10 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 more deadly whiff1etree 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.
It is said that it is very popular in
the orient, especially in the lazar houses;
where otherwise life would become very
monotonous. Most all the lepers in the
orient, especially social lepers, use the
cigarette.
Scientists who have been unable to
successfully use tobacco, and who there
fore have given their whole lives and the
use of their microscopes to the investiga-
ton of it's 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 I say it, too, with all that
depth Of feeling which has always char
aoterized my earnest utterances. that in
this we are committing 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 on 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