ALOR,
Bellefonte, Pa., August 29, 1924.
THE TREACHEROUS CIGARETTE.
By L. A. Miller.
Ah vice! how soft are thy voluptuous ways;
‘While boyish blood is mantling, who can
‘scape
The fascination of thy magic gaze!
A cherub hydra round us dost thou gape
And mould to every taste thy dear, delu-
sive shape.
—Byron
A highly respected old lady criti-
cized me on my recent article entitled
“Fragrant Weed.” She said it was all
right as far as I went, but I failed to
say one word against the most fatal
product of tobacco, the cigarette, the
“kind that kills.” I would like your
views on that disastrous subject.
Do cigarettes kill ?
It was said that young Prince Na-
polean was rapidly declining in health
on account of their excessive use be-
fore he joined the British army, and
went to fight the Zulus. His mother
and friends were hopeful that the hab-
it could be broken if he were removed
from the temptation and engaged in
something that would fully occupy his
mind. The sequel shows that the
asagia of the heathen Zulu promptly
consummated the half-finished work
of the cigarette.
There is no doubt that the Prince
was in delicate health, and the conclu-
sions of the eminent physicians whom
he consulted, that the excessive use of
cigarettes were the causr of his un-
timely decline ought to be satisfacto-
ry. How much his other habits, his
dainty diet and band-box style of liv-
ing had to do with it will never be
known. The facts as given to the
world are that he was growing thin,
listless and stupid, and that he smoked
on an average three cigarettes an
hour, except when asleep which was
only about three hours out of twenty-
four. Had the Zulus not interfered he
might have been of some use to the
world, even if it was only to pass as
a horrible example for the benefit of
other young men.
Probably there is not one cigarette
smoker in a hundred who has not had
the sad fate of John Morrissey’s son
held before him. After the champion
prize fighter had reformed he resolv-
ed to raise his family right, as well as
to be a good man himself. The fates
seemed to be against him, for he went
to Congress soon afterward, and his
son, who had sworn with him never to
drink intoxicating liquor, fell an easy
victim to the seductive cigarette.
The boy found no trouble in resist-
ing the demon of drink, but the fawn-
ing, insinuating devil that lurks in
“Lone Jack” crept upon him while he
lounged on luxurious divans or strol-
led listlessly in the cooling shades of
evening. When the sly devil was dis- |
covered its fangs were so deeply sunk-
en and firmly set that no power short
of death could effect his release. He
died, as the doctors declared, from the
excessive use of tobacco in the form
of cigarettes.
Aside from the fact that the boy
had been tenderly raised, lived an aim-
less, idle life, but little is known of
him, therefore it cannot be determin-
ed satisfactorily whether the weak-
ened condition of his nervous system
was due primarily to cigarette smok- |
ing, or the uncontrollable habit to the
state of his nerves. It is a fact, how-
ever, that he died on the threshhold of
manhood and eminent physicians said
the cigarette was the cause. It is aw-
ful to contemplate; there is no doubt
in my mind that thousands of our
youth are daily going to their graves
from excessive use of cigarettes.
Were the cigarette to confine its
operations to the dude element of so-
ciety alone it might be tolerated, but
instead of doing so, it has invaded our
schools and colleges, taken prisoners
the flower of the land and the hope of
the nation. The boys are wild and
thoughtless and have an idea that it
is the proper thing to do, and there-
fore do it, regardless of the advice of
their teachers and in the face of hor-
rible examples. Not only are the boys
addicted to the habit, but the board-
ing school girl takes a whiff on the
sly. She does it to drive the mosqui-
toes out of the room in summer and
to cure the toothache in winter. When °
she gets home she smokes because she
is lonesome, and after she is married
(woman-like) because she wants to
and isn’t afraid.
It is not generally known to the un-
initiated that cigarette smokers in-
hale the smoke, taking with it into
the lungs no more air than is neces-
sary to carry it down; by this means
they experience the narcotic effects
sooner and more sensibly than by
merely drawing smoke into the mouth
and blowing it out again. In. the lungs
it comes into almost immediate con-
tact with the blood, which it must vi-
tiate more or less. Veteran inhalers
retain the smoke until scarcely a trace
of it is visible in the exhalation.
Those who have formed the habit of
smoking cigars seldom change to ci-
garettes, while a cigarette smoker
finds very little satisfaction in a cigar,
probably because the smoke is too
strong to inhale and the poison ab-
sorbed by the mucous membranes of
mouth and throat does not produce so
sensible and satisfactory effects as
when taken into the lungs. It is
something like a change from whis-
key to beer.
The cigarette antedates the pipe
and cigar by many years, and, as near-
ly as can be determined from history
was the original method of using to-
bacco. Christopher Columbus, on his
first voyage of discovery, said the na-
tives on the Isle of Cuba had a filthy
habit of rolling up the leaf of a nox-
ious weed, setting fire to one end and
inhaling the pungent and nauseating
fumes from the other, which they
called tobacco.
It is probable that the word “tobac-
co” was equivalent to our word smok-
ing; refering to the act or habit, rath-
er than to the plant or roll. The worst
effects of cigarette smoking are found
among the young. Prominent physi-
cians who have given the matter stu-
dious attention, say that they know
that it checks physical development,
retards growth, impairs the nervous
at least, leads to early decay and
death. 7
They have found that not a few of
their lady patients who complain of
general debility, nervousness and loss
of flesh are in the habit of smoking
cigarettes on the quiet.
One of the worst features of the ci-
garette habit is the hold it takes on
its victims, especially if they are
young. The appetite is more like that
of opium than tobacco. An ordinary
cigar smoker can break off at will, or
at least with a little effort, but not so
with the cigarette smoker, and what
makes the condition more pitiable, he
feels and knows that he is doing him-
self a fatal injury and yet cannot stop
it. His will power is gone, and he
flounders around dispairingly and
hopelessly.
Teachers, parents, the church and
Sabbath schools should make an indi-
vidual effort with a view of calling a
halt to this distressing calamity. The
cigarette ought to go.
U. S. Farmers Will Profit on Wheat.
Unfavorable weather in foreign
countries and a cut in the world’s
wheat acreage are putting money into
the American farmer’s pocket.
“While it is impossible to forecast
market prices,” say officials of the de-
partment of agriculture, “with a
smaller crop than usual in the north-
ern hemisphere, the world price and
the domestic price will tend to remain
at a high level.”
Recent attempts to place the praise
for an advancing wheat price upon the
achievements of political parties,
however, are misdirected, officials say.
Not politics, but world conditions are
responsible for the cheering news.
Political parties don’t govern the
rain and sunshine of Central Europe;
neither do they bring droughts to the
lonely steppes of Siberia and the roll-
ing plains of Little Russia.
Fears had been entertained for this
year, as a result of the large world
crop of wheat in 1923. It reached the
astonishing mark of 8,500,000,000
bushels, excluding the product of Rus-
sia, which was once more a factor for
the first time since the war.
But the great crop was consumed
much more rapidly than any one had
dreamed, and the carry-over this year
is not materially larger than that of
last, according to a review of the
wheat situation by the department.
State Prosecutes 1195 Food Dealers.
Six thousand six hundred and nine-
ty-three samples of food products
were collected and analyzed and 1195
prosecutions were brought for viola-
tions of the State’s pure food laws in
1923, the report of the bureau of
foods, department of agriculture,
made public recently, disclosed.
Receipts from licenses issued and
fines collected during the year total-
ed $432,521, while expenditures were
$83,133.
Prosecutions were conducted against
i155 dealers for the sale of stale eggs
as fresh eggs. Other prosecutions in-
| cluded eighteen where fruit syrups
were colored with coal tar dye, thirty
in which cakes were colored with the
same dye, ninety where cherries con-
tained sulphur dioxide, 318 where miik
was low in butter fat and total solids,
143 where the non-alcoholic drink law
was violated, twenty-six where milk
was watered and nine for the sale of
sausage unfit for food.
In addition the bureau issued 4070
oleomargarine, seventy-five cold stor-
age and twenty-nine eggs opening es-
tablishment licenses. Its sixteen field
agents made 19,894 inspections and
. investigations and its chemical sec-
tion analyzed 3881 samples of fertil-
iizers, feeding stuffs, paints, oil and
other materials.
i Black Ants.
Few people in North America real-
ize what a terrible nuisance ants can
be. In some parts of the Argentine,
i people spend half their time in de-
‘ fending their food and goods from the
attacks of the black ant. At certain
‘seasons of the year when these in-
sects are most active, the folks have
i to take the most extraordinary pre-
cautions. Here are a few of the
things that are commonly done. Every
chair and table and bed has to have
its legs standing in small tins full of
kerosene. No carpets can possibly be
put on the floor for the ants would
' soon eat every scrap of the material.
From chairs and beds nothing is ever
allowed to hang down so that it touch-
es the floor for the ants would soon
food has to be kept in vessels stood in
large bowls of water so wide that the
ants cannot reach it. Once a jar of
sugar was left standing on a shelf
and, in the morning, it was found that
every trace of the sweet stuff was
gone. Seeing that the jar was in a
bowl of water, no one could under-
stand how the robber ants had got in-
to it. Then a single strand of a spi-
der’s web was found leading from the
wall and it was over this that the ants
had passed.
What He Wanted.
Wouldn’t you like to be able to do
this every so often?
A somewhat timid looking stranger
was walking slowly down the store.
The floorwalker didn’t like it:
“See here, my man. You've been
walking around here a long time with-
out buying. Now, what do you
want?”
“Guess I want a new floorwalker,”
stated the old gentleman addressed.
“I’m the owner of this outfit. I bought
it yesterday.”—Gas Magazine.
Stands Poor Show.
A Denver man’s first wife is bat-
tling his second and third mates for
a rich legacy he has just received.
When three wives set in to fight for
‘a man’s pocketbook, he’ll wind up feel-
ing like a European war debt.—New
Orleans States.
Sr ——— A ———
True Love.
Wife—“Didn’t I hear the clock
strike two as you came in last night?”
He—*“You might have. It started
to strike eleven, but I stopped the
thing so it wouldn’t awake you, dear.”
—Cougar’s Paw.
system, dulls the mind, and indirectly
'CRABBED OLD SILAS
_arrived recently opened what
climb up and destroy everything. All |
Bi TE
FINALLY SAW LIGHT
Reformation Really Gol
Him Out of Two Holes.
Silas Atkinson was as industrious as
he was vindictive and crabbed. His
only daughter, Martha, who lived with
him in their brush home in the hills,
was falling a victim to his tyranny;
she bade fair to go overworked and
starved to the grave as her mother
had gone, 2
Martha found favor in the eyes of
big Ben Thomas, a neighboring lad
who was seldom too busy to come over
for a wsit; but old Silas soon stopped
such nonsense.
“Now lookee here, Ben,” he sald. “I
need Mgrthy's help, and I'm a-going tg
have it If you'll come and hire out
to me you kin see her, pervidin’ youl]
promise never to say a word of love
or anything to keep her off her work.
I'll shoot you if you play false! Will
you come?”
Ben agreed and became a member of
the household. Martha galned new
spirit and new color, though her toil
was not lightened.
“Guess he’s given up marryin’ and
takin’ her away,” muttered old Silas,
chuckling grimly. “Why, she's worth
twicet as much as she was, worth a
whole man’s wages and don’t cost g
cent! I got Ben cheap too. Those twq
lovin’ fools makes a good bargain for
me i
One June morning the two men wery
digging a well; Ben was working the
hoist at the top, and Silas was at the
bottom, digging.
Finally Ben pulled the bucket ont oy
the hole. “Old man,” he called down '
the well, “I've quit! Marthy and me |
has some important business to lool |
after downtown. You ain’t hardly safe
to be trusted out just now, so I'll keep |
this rope up here. Now don’t yell tog
hard; it’s bad for the throat. Good: |
by 1”
The angriest man In all the histor) !
of the hills stayed down in the well |
that afternoon, for no rellef came in’
answer to his shouting.
At sunset Ben's smiling face ap
peared at the opening. “Old man, we'v¢ |
Just been married. I toted fair, and |
haven't sald & word to her about love
while I was workin’ for you, but I quif ’
this mornin’, you know. It was all ar |
ranged before I come. You've stol¢
her youth and her money all thesg |
years, but now she’s goin’ free and
safe. You'll sign a release of you,
daughter and your promise to be good |
before you ever get out of that hole
Will you sign now?” x
Old Silas would not sign!
never, never!
Ben yawned. “Well,” he said, “I'n
goin’ back to the house for the night
where Marthy has our weddin’ supper
Say, but {t's grand! I'll come out herq
in the mornin’ and see if you're rea
sonable.”
He came in the morning and agai;
at night and once more on the second
morning, but Silas was still firm.
On the second night, however, thy
man capitulated. “I was an old fool,"
he sald. “I robbed and was killin’ hep
with overwork. I'll pay her up hon
est, though I reckon you ought t¢
leave me here in this hole forever fo
what I done in the past. But say, Ben
I'd sure like to taste Marthy's weddin
cake! Do I get out?”
He got out; and the Grandpa Atkin
son of later years couldn’t have bee
finer if he had been born with a halo!
—Youth’s Companion.
Neves,
Baby Tours in Suitcase
A customs inspector examining bag
gage when the Cunard liner Albani
thought was a suitcase and to his sur
prise a four-month-old baby smile
contentedly up at him. The extraord}
nary crib was well ventilated and thy
‘youngster was glving part of his timy
to the contents of a nursing bottle.
The parents, Dr. and Mrs. Charle
Lewls of Los Angeles, explained .tha
their young son was very much a:
home in his new quarters. The docto
said the baby was born in Vienna. A,
he and his wife had to do much trav
eling it was a burden to carry th
young son in their arms, so they hai
had the special case made for him
The special case is 12 inches wide an |
86 inches long. The doctor sald f |
was a safe and sanitary method a!
transportation, says the New Yor!
Times.
King’s Train in Museum
The court train of the late King Lua |
wig II of Bavaria has been repalre(!
and refitted in the state rallway shop; |
here and returned to Nuremberg:
where it is kept in a railway museum |
The train cost a fortune, the cai:
used as the king's drawing-room hav |
ihg been wonderfully furnished. Thy
tables are of marble and the chair |
of blue silk with heavy gold orna
ments. !
The celling of the car, too, Is of gold
while the coat of arms of the Wittels
bach family and the initials of th
king are displayed freely on all th(
cars jn gold rellef.
Most Prized Order
Prior to June 26, 1002, the day upoy
which King Edward VII would hav(:
been crowned, but for a sudden at
tack of appendicitis, the highest honoj
in his gift would, in most people's es
timation, have been the Order of thy
Garter, and it 1s still the premier or
der of chivalry in the world. On tha!
"day, however, a new “Order” was In
stituted, which, for real distinction
takes precedence of any other, It i
the Order of Merit, which Is limit
to 84 men and women of extraordinary
eminence.
Sg ide
Icy Mountains, Coral Strands, Con-
tribute to Electric Light.
Pennsylvania, school teachers, ever
alert to present new ideas in an at-
tractive manner to their pupils, may
care to clip out this article for use
next month when the schools reopen,
says the Pennsylvania Public Service
Information committee.
Ships must sail the Seven Seas, and
far-off ports from Greenland to Bra-
zil must gather cargoes for the ships,
because the United States uses nearly
a millien electric lamps a day, and be-
cause the simple looking filament and
bulb and - base of a modern electric
light contain elements from almost
every land under the sun.
The tungsten filament is mined ia
Australia or China or Norway, and
the pure metal must drawn
through diamond dies before it be-
comes the tiny coil that glows in the
bulb. To counteract the formation of
gases in the bulb, the filament is dip-
ped in a solution containing phosphor-
us from Canada, and cryolite, a min-
eral from Greenland’s icy mountains.
The slender wires that support the
filament at the top and bottom are
made of molybdenum, from Australia
or China or Spain, and the lead-in
wires, to which the ends of the fila-
ment are joined, are made of nickel
from Canada.
The joinings in the base of the lamp
are soldered with tin from Cornwall
or from the Malaysian tin mines north
of Singapore, and the heat deflector
at the base is made of white mica,
which comes from India.
The copper wires that lead through
the wall to the electric switch are
insulated with a covering of Canadian
asbestos, French ochre and carnauba
wax from South America, and the in-
sulating material that comes in sheets
is based on rice paper from Japan,
kraft paper from Sweden, or burlap
paper from Scotland.
Electric conductors for high wvolt-
age, and those elements subject to
heat, are insulated with mica from
India or China, which, in turn, is var-
nished with Indian shellac, copal gum
and kauri resin from New Zealand.
Marriage Licenses.
George Bowman Smith, The Counts
Mills, and Effie Jane Shaw, Clearfield.
James M. Stover, Zion, and Sarah
Mulbarger, Pleasant Gap.
Malcolm J. Brown, Centre Hall, and
Bessie B. Shope, Howard.
Larry Bliss Faulkner and Katherine
M. McAllister, Morgantown, W. Va.
David O. Dunn and Esther Behrers,
Altoona.
Clair G. Vaughn, Altoona,
Edith M. Casher, Sandy Ridge.
Oliver D. Snyder, Tyrone, and Em-
ma M. Vaughn, Sandy Ridge.
and
Often Efficacious.
“Bunkins used to think the theatre
was demoralizing,” remarked the
manager.
“Has he changed his views?”
“Yes, I converted him.”
“How 7”
“Sent him a pass.”
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