The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-05-13
THE GREATEST CURSE OF ALL
BY DAVID PAULSON, Nj. D.
Supt. Hinsda1e Sanitarium

Supt HinSdale Sanitarlum
Years ago physician soaked in a
little water enough tobacco 10 make
a cigarette, and then injected this
tobacco juice under the skin of a
large cat, and in twenty minutes it
died in commissions
What will kill a big cat so quickly
cannot be good for small boy. If
you should see a boy rubbing sand
into his eyes you would think that he
was crazy, but is it not as idiotic to
smoke cigarettes that ruin brain,
nerves and digestion?
The tobacco is packed so loosely in
the cigarette that the smoker gets
the full benefit of not only the nico-
tine, but also of the poisonous gases,
and this is one reason why the cigar
cite is greater curse than the pipe
or the cigar.
Cigarette smoking shrivels up the
nerve cells so that the cigarette
smokers brain is soon crippled. He
cannot think as clearly nor as rapid
ly as other boys and for this reason
such boy never attains to high
scholarship. AS his resistance to
disease becomes less he becomes more
liable to contract typhoid fever, pneu-
monia and other infectious diseases,
and he will die from them much more
readily than the boy who has not
soaked his tissues with this poison.
Nine out of every ten boys in the
Illinois state reformatory were cigar
cite fends when they were sent
there, for this poison prepares the
boy for the reform school and the in
sane asylum as well as for the hos
pital, yet there were enough cigar
cites sold in this country last year,
if they we're laid end to end, to
reach twice around the world and
then there would be enough left to
reach from San Francisco to New
York and back again.
Thinking men are beginning to ap-
preciate what a harvest there will be
from this terrible sowing, and it is
for this reason that the state legis-
latures of Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and other leading states have
passed or are passing the most
stringent laws against this greatest
of all curses, for it strikes down the
immature youth while the force OF
other destructive habits is felt more
largely by those who have attained
manhood and womanhood. Thousands
of boys are ignorant of the poisonous
nature of cigarettes and of the fact
that the bondage of the habit is al
most equal to that produced by NOR
phine and cocaine So all should en-
brace every opportunity to enlighten
the boys in their community regard
ing the cigarette evil.
A Seattle man paid $500 for a pro-
cess by which rancid butter was to
be doctored and made to sell readily
as the real creamery article. He
then HE'D himself to Oregon. and
bought up all the COW grease be
could readily acquire, only to find
that it was himself instead of con.
sumers that had been buncoed. He
now sues to recover S., 500 damages.
There are dozens of farmers through.
out the northwest who have recently
bought prescriptions of this kind who
would like to get drawback, if this
suit turns out well. West Coast
Trade.
One of the experiment stations
bought ton of suspected bran, says
an exchange, and found that it con.
tanned 1000 pounds of bran, BOG
pounds of plaster, 300 pounds d
crushed oat hulls and 200 of fine saw.
dust. One ton of good bran will keer
COW 25O days, but q ton Of this
adulterated bran win keep her only
$50 days. Stations do good service
when they put farmers on their
guard against such practices.
You can get great values for cash of the
Morse HARDWARE Company in locks