Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-22
cies-st.s Fl,nd, Not Wanted.

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you can't get a responsible position in
any big railroad company east Of the
Mississippi.
The telegraph companies won't EN-
ploy you. The stresl-iai!road people
have no use ior you.
Aud YOU pighi as well give up trying
20 get anything 70 do in any OF the Dig
stores.
Pipes. cig>r+. chewing tobacco-no-
bods says word against Ihsse-but the
cigarette mGst 90
The merchants sud Tie raiload men,
and all ihe big employers have said 1t.
TIE Rock Island railroad recently sert
al investigator all through its shops, its
offices, and its railway stations, and
ererY mau vino smoked cigarettes re-
coi,ed notice to qnil.
1he Burlington, the NeF YORK Cen
lral, Chicago and Northwestern aud the
Peausyl lydnla railroads all issued prin'ed
slips for would be einploJ es to i'll out,
In these blanks is the question, Do you
smoke cigaletles?'
II The man Shoi filing oui the blank
writes yes" after that question, he viii
never get the place nc Is asking for
Marsh / Field. the BIZ dry goods man
Of Chicago, discharged every man in his
place vino smoked "A paper pipe over i~o
years ago.
Macey's, 5icgel & Cooper, L2rd x ray-
l,r, McCrcasy, Wsnamaker's all these
bug stores ol NeS YORK, have instructed
their suporiutendeats TO employ no
cigarette smokers.
You cant .eii goods or figure profits,
or even 20 on the road ior any Of the
large eastern wholesale Or retail tirm',
il you smo:e cigarettes.
You cant get into bank oi any
standing in auy oi the large eastern
wholesale u retail firms. il !on smoke
ciga'o .cs.
Why? Because the men "ho manage
large bn.inrss affairs have discovered
that man who smokes cigarettes is
only hall a mal.
The nicotine in ,he cigarette ddlls and
clouds hi, mind SO thit MS faculties are
nev,r more than hall awake.
A cigarette fend is as irresponsible as
an opium Gead, and much mora dan
gefuus.
Tire opium fend is complete wreck.
No one expects anything Of him. lie
dreams his way into death, ior the most
part unmJ'es,ing aud unmolesled.
But the cigarette fend takes his place
in the society OF othernen. lie is given
responsibilities which he cannot bear
and trusts which he canot keep.
It has been proven beyond a shadow
OF doubt that the cigarette habit not
only affects the body and the mind OF
its victim, but that it undermines slow
ly and insidiously, but none the less
surely, the moral stamina. A cigarette
fend does not tell the truth
He cannot.
Ills mind is so dazed with the subtle
poison which has crept into his system
that he cannot tell the difference be.
tween the truth and lie.
Facts are no longer facts to him, but
only possibilities. Such a man cannot
be trusted in any business which de-
mands accuracy.
The cigarette habit stupefes and dulls
the perceptions. No cigarette fend can
be trusted in a telegraph office or in a
semaphore tower, or in any place where
man needs quick perception and deci
sive judgment.
1t is hard Tor tie cigarette ferd to
make up his mind quickly. He wavers
and donbis Therefore. no man who
smokes cigarettes can get employment
a, gripman Tor any Of the big railroad
companies.
Human lie is too precious to be in
trus ed to a man whose BRAIN is dazed
with nicotine.
The cigarette heart is a well. known
disease.
Any doctor Of any practice at all
knows its symptoms at first glance.
When jolly, good-naturcd, healthy,
whooping boy begins TO grow pale, and
listless, and, stupid, watch him-he's
smoking cigarettes
The first package or two won't hurt
him particularly, but il he once gets the
habit fastened on him it Will take years
Of hard work for him to fight himself
back into normal possession Of his tacul-
ties
No boy who smokes cigarettes can get
into West Point or Annapolis.
1t takes man to be a soldier. No
dul..eyed, hall awake cigarettf smokers
need apply, Exchange.