The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-24
FAIR HAVEN NOTES.

| church on the practical topic, The Cigarette" He said:
 Magistrate Crane of New York city in pronouncing sentence upon young man. urged the ministry to make the cigarette a frequefter text for sermons to young men. I believe in the wis dom of this suggestion. An evil which so frequently is condemned by tie press, the courts and the chemist, ought to receive it's earnest condemna- tion from the pulpit.
 If young man will smoke, let him use the cigar and the pipe rather than the poisonous cigarette. It injures the body, doing it gradually and insidiously rather than suddenly. A small amount of nicotine will kill a cat, one of the hardest animals to kill.
 Tt is positive enemy to the nerves, eyes, throat digestion and heart. It has been well called, grave rusher' and that every cigarette smoked is an additional nail in young mans cof- fin. Out of twenty young men who came up. for examination at West Point, more than one-fourth were re- jected for tobacco heart
 Tt affects the mind for evil Educa- tors say that persistent cigarette smokers seldom reach the high school. It interferes with keen business abi- lity, causing blunders. Eighty-five per cent of the errors made by 200 clerks in a railway office were traceable to thirty-two clerks, who used cigarettes It hastens many young men to Insanity or to an early ,leaph. One young man was arrested in this city for cruel treat ment to his mother and sisters. He was judged insane and the insanity was traced to the use of the cigarette.
 Any number of genuine cases can be cited of young men going to an early grave after two years smoking. Heart failure and quick tuberculosis are frequent results.
 1t also blunts the morals and this is one of the most serious results. A young man distributing obscene lltera- ture was judged Insane becauee of cigarette smoking. Another young man proved defaulter and the real cause was said to be cigarette smoking,
 ''In 1897 five billion cigarettes were made in the United States Tn the last ten years the number has been increas- ing, What must be the deleterious ef- feet upon the youth of to-day, no one can intelllgently estimate.
 "The Chinaman said, drink make Chinaman one fool The cigarette must make the American young man number two, The churchs vital duty is to warn the young and to work for law forbiddng the manufacture of the cigarette
 The class of 'O7, Strong school. which graduated Friday, went to Double beach Saturday for their outing. It was much like a class day, as the his- tories were read. About one hundrad went along. The reading of the class histories took place on the large pavil- ion and these bright and witty papers proved very entertaining They were read as follows. For the first dlvi- sion, by Miss Ruth Mansfield; second division, Miss Ruth Taylor; third di- vision, William Bree and for the fourth division Irving Fowles One of the in- teresting features of the day was a game of baseball, the Strong school team having played a game with a picked team of Fair Haven boys who were invited to accompany the class. The Strong team won, a5 to O. Princ- pal Sherman l. Graves who accom- panied the class, umpired the game. There were other games and diversions and the outing was most successful aud enjoyed by everyone who went Basket luncheons were served and the young people returned home in the early evening with happy memories of their last gathering as a class for some time to come.
 The funeral of Madeline, only daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs1 Arthur Knifin, was held at the home of her parents in East Haven yesterday afternoon. About year ago this little girl fell and dis located her hip and later when she, with her mother were visiting relatives in Washington she was taken very i'll and the trouble settled in her hip. She spent some time in a hospital and was then taken home. She suffered great ly from tubercular meningitis, which was the cause of her death.
 Beginning at p. m. Saturday the draw of the East Chapel street bridge was closed until early evening to allow the dredger to dig out the channel and many people watched the operations from the bridge. All of the Light house, East Haven, Momauguin and Branford cars were run via Grand ave- nue and Ferry street until the draw was again opened.
 Yesterdays fine weather resulted in many from this section taking trolley rides to the shore or the country and in the afternoon and evening the cars went crowded Many power boats went down the harbor, taking out many peo- pie, 1t being fine day on the water. While ths heat was not quite so pro- nounced as on Saturday, still it was a pretty hot day.
 Mir. and Mrs. Walter s. Bishop of Grand avenue upon their recent outing in Brattleboro, Vt, had some excellent trout fishing, having caught about 100 fish. One woman caught trout weigh ing nine and half pounds and ten fish weighing thirty pounds
 It is hoped that Rev Dr. Mitchell of Attleboro, Mass, would preach in the Grand avenue Congregational church the first two Sundays in August, but he is now on his vacation in Califor- mia and will not return in time He was a former pastor of this church.
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