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Show fl Appeal to CIul) Wo men to Aid in Stopping Habit of Smoking. H GENTLER SEX BECOME ' ADDICTED TO HABIT fl Alice Roosevclt-Longworth Set the Pace for Smoking, Oth-crs Oth-crs Have Followed. BY RALPH JOHNSTON. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW. YORK, Aug. I). In an' appeal to tbc club women of the country to aid fl her crusade against tliu iufluuncc o Domoa Nicotine among tbc women of this nation, Miss Lucy Pngo Gaston of Chicago declared that not only was the cignrctlo habit increasing among the gentler sex, but asserted that the prac-ticc prac-ticc among women had grown to such Hl lengths that many no longer were satis- lied with moro cigarettes, but had bo-como bo-como inveterate users of cigars. She spoke in vehement terms of what she called tho "pernicious influence" be-ing be-ing constantly oxerted by publicity 1 given to cigarette smoking 1)3 Alice Jioosevelt-Longworth and Miss Eleanor Sears, the famous golfer and social favorite of Boston. "Tho cigarette habit is growing rapidlj among tho 1 college girls," said Miss Gaston, "and it is high time that something was done to check it. Tho cigarette habit Hj has spread to Chicago, and it is quite common among society oiks. But I guess from all I hear ttinl it is much worse in New York, and one of tho first things J shall do when I get my organ-ization organ-ization perfect this fall will be to ap-peal ap-peal to members of the Colony club lie re. I understand that most of its members of high social standing are cigarette users. Women are too ncry-ous ncry-ous to try cigarettes to quiet their nerves, as many of them do." Enlarging His Estate. John D. Rockefeller's esiato at Po-cantico Po-cantico will in time be rounded out to suit the richest man in. the world. Al-ready Al-ready it is one of the finest, estates in the country but Mr. Rockefeller is con-siantly con-siantly adding to and improving it. Recently he purchased a stone residence on one of the highest points in West-Chester West-Chester county, from which views of tho Hudson river and Long Island sound - can be had. Together with the dwelling goes twenty-five acres of land, part of which is heavily wooded. On either side, to the south, is laud owned by Mr. Rockefeller whose recently completed residence is within a male to the south. To the north of the acreage is the prop ortv of St. Joseph's normal school. This is the only one of the recent editions and additions to the cstnte which al-ready al-ready includes several hundred acres. Original Press Agent. J notice- today Hamilton, the original press agent, has come back to the nows-1 nows-1 paper business. There, is hardly a vil- lage in the land from ocean to ocean or from the lakes to the gulf where the noted advance agent of tho greatest show on earth has not personal friends who will always be interested in him. lie is now sditor and proprietor of a uionthb paper for investors. Since he ceased being 'the advance herald of the Barnum circus, Mr. Hamilton, after tho death of James J. Bailey, has Jived in Baltimore and has devoted his atten-tion atten-tion to inventions. Recently he in-vented in-vented a contrivance for taking up the slack in a brake, and several of the prominent railroads have this under consideration. Both Hamilton and his ' fathqr were prominent newspaper men before "Tody" went into the show business. Associated with the only Tody is Allen Williams, who knows more about snakes than any man in the country. Improving Quality of Horses. - Transportation of high-grade horses for purposes of improving the quality j of the general draft horse has begun in Oregon to a large extent. Stockgrowcrs of eastern, central and southern por-tions por-tions of the state are buying heavy draft stallions of the purest blood, and arc paying from $2500 to $3500 each-In each-In response to the demand for stallion: Charles E. Stubbs of Denver, one of thi largest importers in the United State?, ' has investigated conditions in Port- , laud, Dallas, the Rogue River district and other points in the central part of the slate. Mr. Stubbs is the American who first interested the Belgium government gov-ernment in tho plan now in force of registering and guaranteeing tho pedigree pedi-gree of every animal which leaves tha country. On speaking of conditions. Mr. Stubbs says: "I find an activo interest in-terest in improving tho breed of tho heavy horse in Oregon, and my firm has succeeded in placing several very high-class Belgium horses in tho eastern part of the state. We arc shipping direct di-rect from that country to Tacoma, but soon will consign a large number of selected se-lected stallions to the port of Portland. Tn Oregon wo find tho ranch owner and stockman with money at hand to buy what he wants. In many portions of the state wo are selling our stallions to syndicates of breeders or to companies com-panies iu which wo invest equally with tho- farmer. They want tho .best animals to be procured, and are going at the problem of supplying the market mar-ket in a sensible manner." Mr. Stubbs has just returned from his twenty-first visit to Belgium, where he made selection selec-tion for future shipment. War Upon Rodonts. While no case of human plague has appeared in San Francisco in two years and four months, and no caso of rat plague has been found there in a year and six months, the deadly war on tho extermination of rats In the Pacific' coast metropolis continues without, relaxation. re-laxation. With this statement Acting Assistant Surgeon G. M. Converse of the United States public health aud marine hospital service introduces a ro-port ro-port ,jusl made public containing interesting inter-esting detnils of the anti-plague work. This war on rats is mostly in the na ture of prophylactic measure against reinfection. re-infection. Thirty laborers aro employed em-ployed exclusively as rat trappers. There arc in constant use about S000 traps of the cage aud snap varieties, During May S"(51 rats were trapped, in this time tho bait used was 321 pounds of bacon. 101 pounds of cheese and G20 loavc of bread. Bread was tho best bait in cage traps. A record Js kopt of the location where each rat is trapped. Destruction of rats by poison is now limited to the sewer's. During May 27152 pieces of poisoned bread were distributed on t boards placed in the sewers. City insjMJctors. acting under the United Stales authorities, havo been making a rninspection of all premises in the city, and Surgeon Converse says the result' at the present s(.i mo scemn to show that tho peoplo have learned a lesson of cleanliness. Substitute for Tobacco. "TIow would you on joy a pipeful of wood shavings saturated with a strong solution of pepper as an after-dinner smoke?" asked William V. Quinu of Portland, Or. Strange as this seems as a substitute for tobacco, it is, nevertheless, never-theless, used by the Indians along the Alaskan coast. l |