The Irish standard., 1905-02-11

why, SuOhS u SOou ClSdI VI pipe.
No one has to smoke anything or
drink anything, but it's been my ex-
perience that no boy ever lived next
door to an orchard that didn't jump
the fence and swipe apples once in a
while. don't know that I'd care
much for em if they didn't try the
apples, anyhow, but this rum business
wont do you any good.
l ought to know what I'm talking
about, boy, I've owned forty or fifty
saloons in my time, and was glad to
get out of that business l know as
much about drinking rum as any one.
I've drunk lot of it in my day.
l never was a drunkard, but I've
drunk too much, lots too much, and
smoked too much.
About the only thing l brag about
is that never smoked cigarette in
my life.
I'm an advocate of temperance in
all things, and especially in smoking,
/ 1
great eater, but cut that out. 1 only
eat two meals a day and I'm better
off for it.
! Now, lad, I'm not posing to you
as horrible example or anything like
that. I'm simply telling you what I've
learned by experience. would have
been champion Of the world for years
longer and probably never would have
been whipped had it not been for in
temperance in living-in eating and in
drinking and smoking. I didn't drink
| much i'll training and the smoking 1
J did did not hurt me materially, but
, ut that did too much Of it, and when
[ met Corbett you could have whipped
! NE if YOU made me run after you long
enough.
| had wonderful constitution.
! have a wonderful constitution now,
! but smoking and drinking never did
! it any good. They haven't worn it
out as they would have worn out
some men, but still they did me no
good.
This Lucy Page Castor out here is
doing good work and it looks to me
Like she's going at it in sensible
,, fashion. Take her advice, boy, if you
won't take mine. She'll give you more
facts than will, but 1 know about
these things.
There's Muldoon. He's the great
est trainer that ever lived. He won't
let any one who smokes cigarettes
come near him. He permits those
! under him to smoke cigar once in Il
while, but if they smoke one of those
coffin nails they go through the ropes
and out.
1--we been great smoker and I
never thought it hurt me much.
always cut it out when training, ex-
: cept couple of cigars day to keep
me from getting nervous. l wouldn't
have needed them, but was so used
to smoking I missed it. 1 smoke
pipe in my room and cigar in the
streets. I found in training that
smoking dried out the throat and
breathing apparatus.
1--we had trouble with my throat
for years. 1 had an operation per-
formed. The best specialist in New
/. York when he examined me said:
John. cut out the smoking 1 said.
I knew we'll that's what you'd tell
me-
but cigars and pipes don't come
near cigarettes for hurting fellow.
They hurt even powerful man and
what they do to kids like you is
sufficient
I'm sorry you ever drank. It's
lad for men and Worse for kids It's
a had game either way you take it.
Now. I'm not against whiskey, as
whiskey and l amt arguing that no
one should touch it. I think maybe
if it was rightly used whiskey would
lie a good thing. But it amt used
right and that's the end of it. No
fellow can say where it will land him.
Eve seen lots of good fellows try to
fight it to finish, and go wrong or
get put away.
'.That rum hasn't wrecked my con-
stitution is due to the strength of the
constitution and not an argument in
favor of drinking; besides, I've never
fought it consistently, and besides I've
been an easy drinker except by spells.
1 know a fellow in New York who is
1O5 years old and drinks whiskey
every day-but he might be 125 now
if he never drank. That's old enouglt
to use in my lecture.
drinking rum takes lot out of All
athlete, smoking dries him up inside
and cuts his mind. If you're think
ing of ever being any kind of an
athlete don't touch tobacco or rum UNI
less the doctors tell you to-and they
never will
I'm all my experience with doctors
they never prescribed but a couple of
spoonfuls of whiskey and two bottles
of ale for me. I'd never have been
able to lecture from experience or
what they gave me.
Nov, boy-cut 'em out THEY'LL