The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-25

lines are out of order there's trouble all

lines are out of order there's trouble all
over.
Not long ago one of my men was
working with glycerin when it took fire.
The flames nearly smothered him, and he
staggered out Of the shop looking like a
person with the palsy; his face was work.
ing and every muscle was quivering and
vived, but it goes to show the powerful
effect Of the stuff. Why. If one were
to break a tiny vial of it in my big lab
oratory we'd all have to get out instanter
The poison is absorbed by the mucous
innings or the mouth and lungs directly
from the smoke, and the dread feature
IS that after you have smoked a while
the nerves crave the stimulating effect
and you become a slave to the habit Just
Ike whisky topper or, a morphine fiend.
"Legfsiate against it: that is the proper
teration Of food, does it? And you can't
buy poison in the crude form can YOU?
SO why should the. government allow mill
lions on millions of filthy cigarettes to be
manufactured every year?
Il don't know what we're coming to
nowadays. It's always something for the
cocaine, morphine, cigarettes, and fright
fuI Inventions for whirIing upside down
in loop-the-loop-ever to excite
the nerves. That's what the people want.
l was on my way down to Atlantic City
last Sunday in an automobile and l WASH t
sure about the road, so when | saw a BIZ
cycliSt approaching 1 determined to ask
him.
when he got abreast I shouted to him.
without slackening our speed He never
raised his head and the answer came to
US from half a mile back
Then saw 1t was a motor cycle.
Strenuous tinesi l should say so; we were
making thirty to thirty five miles an hour
passed each other about fifty miles an
hour.
Cigarettes Do Much Damage.
But about Cigarettes They do so
much damage it's hard to know where to
begin. By their evil effects on the nerves
they, of course, throw the whole physical
system out of order, and especially the
digestive organs.
"The meduiia obIongata is the large
nerve that controls the action Of the
stomach, and the effect of the acrolein
is to excite an undue flow of the peptic
stomach is empty. And your cigarette
smoker has no regard for the condition
OF his stomach. He smokes when he
goes to bed. and he smokes when he
Is dressing In the morning, and he smokes
all the forenoon. and he smokes all the
afternoon.
"A person will smoke a cigarette when
he wouldn't think of lighting a pipe or a
cigar. They are so Internally convenient
and small and inexpensive that he will
light one after another simply for want
or something to do.
1--WE a fellow working for me now who
nearly died from the effects a few months
ago. His stomach and all his digestive
organs went completely back on him,
and he had mighty close call. While
he was i'll he. couldn't smoke, or, I
should say, they wouldn't let him.
And when he finally managed to crawl
around had good talk with him about
it, and persuaded him to smoke cigars
instead. He tried it, and for a while he
was pretty well, but 1 saw the poor
wretch with a cigarette in his mouth
only a day or two ago. O.. it's an awful
habit Once it gets hold ON you it's
hard to break it.
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