A Lesson on Tobacco From a Child
THE superintendent of schools had been addressing a school of young children against the use of tobacco, when a small boy raised his hand and inquired: “Please may I ask Mr. — a question?” “Yes,” replied the teacher. “Well, what for do you smoke?” The superintendent turned red and had not much to say. The little fellow had noticed that the examination papers, when returned from the superintendent’s office, were highly perfumed with tobacco smoke.—Fitchburg, Mass., Sentinel. AN ex-mayor of Denver, Colorado, is reported as saying: “Whenever we extend the saloon limit a little, we have to add to the police force. And everybody doesn’t seem to realize that the extra policeman costs more in a month than the saloon nets in a year.” The liquor-license system is, even in dollars and cents, a loss to any municipality, besides the great injury involved in other respects to the public welfare. THIRTY-TWO deadly poisons are used in the manufacture of wine. Of all poisonous liquors in the world, Bourbon whisky is the deadliest. Strychnine is only one of the poisons in it. A certain oil is used in its manufacture, eight or ten drops of which will kill a cat in eight minutes and a dog in nine minutes. Wholesale dealers dare not drink the stuff they sell. A CRUST in the open air makes more blood than a roast of beef eaten in a close room.