The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-09-27

duatfial war. Millions Of public money
have been invested in cigarette-makine
companies. Cigarettes are the subject
81 advertisement In the daily papers
on an enormous scale utterly ineom-
iarable with that on which tobacco
and cigars are advertised.
The reason is not far to seek; the
cigarette is cheap and, even more than
that. il is a convenient form OF
smoke" The good cigar is not cheap.
il IS comparatively bulky and II takoa
some time to finish. The pipe must Be
kept clean, Il requires to be hlled and
pouch must be carried 10 contain the
tobacco. The cigarette Is ready n
smoke. scores can be carried In the
pocket and one can be smoked In q
snatched quarter Of an hour. me
cigarette y, therefore, popular, prob'
ehly mainly because Of It's conysnienca
That being SO it is important 70 coa'
side- whether cigarett smoking Is more
injurious from the point OF view oi
health than is the smoking Of eigaf
OF pipe. To begin with, much mildcl
tobacco can be smoked In cigarettes
than in the pipe and SO far this fact Il
in favor OF the cigarette. The usually
mild tobacco in the cigarette Is hot
IL the pipe. The cigarette Is practical
" in direct contact with the air from
the lighted end to the mouthpiece and
thus the smoke Is invariably cool
while the products OF combustion art
calculated to be complete The pipe
On the other hand. is more like retort
in which to some extent destructive
distillation with the formation OF aerid
oils is set up. One very strong objeo-
ton to the cigarette, however, Is that
the area OF combustion is very close IA
the nose and mouth and thas air u
constantly and invariably inhaled con-
tanning smoke from the lighted end,
which is ssually Of a very pungenl
type. infinitely lnore pungent Than h
the smoke drawn through the cigare.tA
Much OF the mischief from cigarette
smoking arises from this fact. the
cigarette being persistently held in the
mouth until burning Of the lips h
threatened. II the smoke from tina
burning tip of cigarette be purposely
inhaled for a time a sense OF stup1I
sets in, while the smoke drawn
through the cigarette may be breathed
in the same way with comparative i'm
punity. The same result is obtaincd
WlIn the tlkAIs huL III a bAatA AAAtAN az
phatic way. The use OF the cigarette
or cigar holder is. therefore, calculatot
10 ogviate two sources OF mischiet-trs
Inhalation OF the powerful Dungsni
smoke frons the lighted end and the N.
PRODUCTION OF tobacco juice and oils In
10 the mouth. A long and cleanly kept
pipe filled with mild tobacco preserves
the smoker against both continganciea
$50 asaNf a n -
tionally smoked, and not TO excess, II
is probably the mildest form OF fmvk.
ing. and this fact. coupled with ~
convenience and cheapness. is a sun
cient reason for It's immense popular.
ity. And It ie interesting to note thai
the tobacco war arose, not on accoun
ct the pipe or the cigar. but because q
the cigarette.-London Lancet
rhe Judges Pony.
Or one Of the western circuits o.
Nebraska Judge William Gaslin hai
ornamented his bench more years thar
the Oldest settler can remember and
the chances are that the Iurist VII
round out his days handing down do
eisions aud upholding the dignity o
the law. His name Is known far ana
vide as a terror 70 lawbreakers. and he
has the reputation Of being especially
Eeyere on horse thieves. Of whom Ne
braska has its quota. in the early dayi
of Judge Gaslin's service on the bench
It was OF no avail for horse thief u
plead for mercy In his court The cul
prit got the limit the law allowes
every time and the old Judge invart
ably made a little speech IN passing
sentence which explained bis nnimos
ity toward horse thieves. It went Like
this:
Prisoner. stand up. The Jury hai
found you guilty OF horse stealing an(
in accordance with that verdict I nov
sentence you to ten years Ia tho pent
tentiary at hard labor. the limit OF tns
law wish the law permitted me q
send you to the gallows. but Il doesn't
Let me tell you something. when
hrat came out TO this Western cou1trf
I didn't have . dollar 70 my name. bu
had a little pinto COW pony that
had brought with me. We worked ani
starved and slept together for years
me and that pony. Often when didn1
have enough to eat myself I rustlef
around and got food for that horse
and wouldn't have given IL up for aH
the other horses on the western plainn
Well. zr. after we had been torrtheB
for years, one night a snealsing. black
hearted coyote OF horse thief brola
into my stable aud stole that litii,
horse and rode It away. 1 got afts,
him and followed him for two dayl
and he rode that little horse until 4
was exhausted and then abandoned \
and took to the brush.
when I found my horse Il was 8
weak It could hardly stand. / took =
home ana nursed IT. but IL died y an
two weeks. Ever since then when
horse thief is arraigned ln my cousi
the image Of that poor little pony 81
mine. carrying that big. skulklng thia
across the prairie. comes up before M
eyes and give bim the limit Mr.
sheFin, remove the prisoner. ."--chlca,
go Daily News.
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