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Show r J LND FAMEIN SMOKE. gnefr Tale of Dr, Vikarius, One of the Ancient Surgeons of I Vienna. Q VENTED THE JOINTED PIPE. i at5- Second Centennial of the Discovery to i ilfp: Be Marked by Several ! Celebrations. 'PPT. l.".j ht two-centuries ago rnis r, tho learned Dr. Vikarius, of Vi-1( Vi-1( returned homo from a round of ;ent i among his patients tired, wet an3 ' Blitly out of sorts. Things had gone lywith him during the day and a om 3.5 n "peoplo had dared to question his 'Portion -ical skill among others the newly 'u I'M le widow of Rittmwster Sehwackon-I. Sehwackon-I. who insisted that her husband's erchiell;1h wis due, not to disease, but to the prolnbit by the unwritten code of cus- h the llT e'??'hw' Pairly u the Anglo-bpamsh or Anglo-French , htr doer violate no social ethic if thev wander about arm in arm. each smoking the corn hiwk cigarette, which the young Gallant rolls with all the deiterity of long experience. But it isiu the mountain districts of Kentutky-the so called "moonshine area, -that tho most peculiar inhibition I'kced on the tobacco habit. There no woman is allowed to smoke until after marriage, and a recent traveler record the sad case of one fid Ronver, a maiden no-.v ,1) years old, who is still frantically engaged in husband hunting, "not that I ze stuck on tho men, but caze I want ter git some good outeu a pipe 'fore I die." Has it ever occurred to the reader that the Caucasian race is indebted if that word may be used-to tho so called inferior in-ferior races not only for tobacco but for ut-arly every other article now in use for stimulating or narcotizing the mental and physical faculties? We have taken tea irom China, coffee from Java and Ceylon, opium from India, alcohol alco-hol from the Arabs, (jmuine from .South America and tobacco from the Iudian. In n sense it would thus seem that the weaker and defeated nation has always revenged itself by inducing in-ducing the conqueror to employ ivs" jct drug. Tea and coffee of course are generally gen-erally held to be beneficial and harmless, and opium and quinine havo a high place as remedial agents, but none of the four can bo used inordinately without relentlessly demanding toll from a weakened weak-ened and disorganized system. It is said of Vikarius' invention that the joint?d pipe with separable tube and mouthpiece "has added considerably to the comfort of smoking and to the protection protec-tion of smokers from nicotino poisoning. Considering tho vast number of pipe smokers in tho world the discovery of tho German professor is one which almost al-most entitles him to recognition as a minor mi-nor benefactor of humanity." Feed. C. Dayton. 11HI 5 THE riPE OF LUXCRY. 1 that the physician had eased him of quart.; of blood in order to reduce a -r. There, too, was Hans Schmel, the ,rd maker. Hans had recovered un- r jar, ectedly from a dangerous illness, and doctor attributed the artisan's res-itiou res-itiou to tho use of a peculiar infusion 3ii Rhenish and powdered spiders' webs, r in the presence of a crowd of ac- 3 intances the ungrateful Schmel had 1.5I iiounced that ho "took none of the r-to-bo-cursed decoction" and there- ; was alive. Thinking of these things tho learned ':nrins doled his cloak, filled his pipo 2.9t i ht it from tho tiny lamp spluttering I his table. The earnest suction of his s brought no responsive volume of , ke. This was the last straw of alliance all-iance to complete tho -wreck of the i tor's overburdened temper, and ho Jied tho pipo to the stone floor, shont-Thou, shont-Thou, thou, too, beast that thou art, ultest me." "here followed a clearance of tho men- ' atmosphere, and remembering that ' had no substitute for hi3 shattered i nd Vikarius stooped and picked up i i fragments. The bowl was intact, I ; the stem was shivered beyond re- : r. What was to bo done? Tho doctor i ked about and saw the bundle of i eaten straw that was to be his pillow I the night. From it ho selected a 1 1 ife5 mmMmm I "' """" I THE MPK OF PEACE. j I kleu tube, joined it to the pips bowl Id cemented the union with moistened , read crumbs. The subsequent smoke ! totlied liia nerve3 and increased the no-1 I'ity of his mental faculties. From out j l.i reverie an idea was horn, which on , lo moirow took shape as a discovery, lid o that discovery he owes his fame. I As a Viennese empiric Vikarius would live found oblivion coincident with I ath's summons, but h-x live3 today in listory as ouo of tho world's lesser im-' im-' lortaLj because he invented the jointed Ipe.' Tho blood letter, tho player of : Intastic trick upon tho stomachs of r.ffering humanity, is well gone from l:o world's wide stage, but the man whe f ive an added enjoyiaen; to the rise of I bacco deserves, in tho opinion of many, ' lonorablo recollection, and for that 'ason the second centennial of tho dis-'veryniade dis-'veryniade by Vikarius istobecele-rated istobecele-rated with due observances in at least :ireeof tho capitals of Europe Bucha-?st, Bucha-?st, Vienna and Berlin. Tho vogue obtained by the jointed ipe since the day of itj invention is jmething remarkable. Even the In-!ian. In-!ian. tho original devotee of the smoke j oddess, accepted the improvement, and i he dreamy Turk found in the doctor's j obstructive principal a means for add- j PIPES OF COMFOBX. ag to the luxnrv of his solitary or social :'onrs. The calumet and the hookah -hke are elaborations of the Viennese Brecon's idea. So, also, in its many j f'3:ms, is the modern pipe ' that sticks -obi tho hatband of the immigrant or I pce?3 :n the veivet lined caso of tae millionaire. ' u It is enrions to note in this connection 'he varying views of different section yarding the use of tobacco. In some :riosof the United States it is against ije law to smoke on the street; in others Vro fe no restriction. Certain localities , r'"'5d the habit as ajniasculine one ana |