Show COWBOYS TOBACCO United States States Laws Play Havoc Havo With the Weird MI Mixture ture The United States pure food law has jias as played havoc with wih tobacco smoking in Texas The Te le long habits of If the cow cowboys cowboys boys have hae been revolutionized by an an innocent looking little pamphlet issued recently by the t e government goy It I con contains tame aina the analysis of various products productS that hat are in general use md nd among them hem a popular brand of smoking to tobacco tobacco o bacco which tomes comes in little sacks sack and ands andis Is s popular throughout the tho southwest When Jim Belford came in from his ranch to get his mall mail mal the other lay day he h I ranc found this pamphlet in his po box says a Uvalde Tex correspondent correspondent dent of the Kansas City Star Str It IJ had hadeen been een sent to him by his old friend frend Major Mose Harris Hars of San Antonio deputy United States internal revenue collector for tor the district Major Major Har Hr Harris ris rs had written upon the front leaf of the pamphlet This will wU tell you what hat kind of If stuff we have been ben smoking Belford took the pamphlet over to I the he store and glanced through it i while his lis order for tor ranch was being filled filed Under the heading of ot the brand of tobacco which was smoked by al almost almost almost most every evel man in this region Its is an analysis analysis analysis was given as follows Tobacco 27 21 per cent alfalfa alala 63 tier er cent arsen arsenic aren ic 6 per cent opium 1 per cent fluid 3 a per cent Could It i be true that he lie had been ben smoking alfalfa to say nothing of Q arsenic and opium He read the an analysis analysis over a second time Then he arose and walked waked over to the counter where the storekeeper was as wrapping wr up the goods gods he had bought bough Bill Bi put me up about three threeS pounds of alfalfa mixed with arsenic and opium and a little tobacco thrown in he ordered Bill Bm stared at Belford In amaze amazement amazement amazement ment the matter mater of you yuu Jim You know kno I dont keep any uy of them things on sale except tobacco he said I r did have a few bales bale of al alfalfa alfalfa falfa fala hay here last summer but it did not pay me to carry it so I quit uit Oh yes you do sell sel all aU of them hem and you have got them in stock right now Belford quietly replied The imputation that he lie did not know what was contained in his hi stock of or goods angered Jennings and an the tho out outcome outcome outcome come might have resulted somewhat seriously had the th argument been pur pursued pursued pursued sued much luch longer longerI long r 1 I want you ou to read this document Belford said sid Its Is from Washington and is official Jennings read the tobacco t bac o analysis and announced a forthwith that he ld not believe beleve a word of or it It took Bol ford some little time to convince him that the analysis had been officially made and must be correct What am I going to do with all al the stuff I hae have on hand Jennings In Inquired inQuired Inquired Judging from th the amount of alfalfa in it i it ought to make good cattle feed Belford suggested be beIn beIn bein In luck if you you aint aln t mobbed by some of the cowboys when wen they hor beer that youve selling them alfalfa and arsenic arsenie of ot tobacco and ati other othi things in the he he guise The first thing that attracted Bel BEl fords attention aten lon that evening when he herode herode herode rode UD up to his ranch corral was a bunch of his cowboys sitting upon the tu board gate each with wih a rolled role cigar cigarette cigarette ette ete in his mouth and the strings of a tobacco sack hanging out of his hip pocket They were the very picture of or contentment as aR they poured the wreaths of smoke from their mouths months Belford rode up UD in front of or then theM and silently looked them over for lor a min minute mm in ute Should he break the toe news to them Would it not be best to t let continue in Ignorance of f the the kind 1 of stuff they were smoking Then Th n he thought of the arsenic and opium anc and I decided to tell tel them about it i You are a nice nie set of ot I he said ald by way wao of a beginning The cowboys looked at him in Jn sur surprise prize prise Its Is a wonder every one of ot you and me along with wih you have not been lo ho coed from using arsenic and opium he continued The cowboys were aroused by this thi time They demanded to know what he meant by his insults I mean that that tobacco which weve all al been smoking is Ilsy al alfalfa alfalfa falfa fala arsenic and opium and Ive Ive got the document here bere to prove it I Mr Ir Belford then th n read the he analysis of the tobacco from his seat in the saddle addle When he had finished the cow cowboys co cowboys boys solemnly threw away thir hir cigar cigarettes cigarettes ettes etes and emptied empted their sacks of to tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco 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