Show th tm of a tamona ackor who died at eight in its discussion of the question whether it is injurious to smoke tobacco the cleveland plain dealer recalls the history of van klaes a famous old merchant in holland who was such an inveterate smoker that he was nicknamed pop big pipe he made a large fortune in the india trade and built a mansion near rotterdam in which he collected every imaginable kind of pipe it was said that he smoked one hundred and fifty grammes of tobacco every day and died at the age of ninety eight years in malting his will after bequeathing to his relatives friends and charities a large proportion of his estate he added the following clause 1 I wish every smoker in the kingdom to be invited to my funeral in every way possible by letter circular and advertisement every smoker who takes advantage of the invitation shall receive as a present ten pounds of tobacco and two pipes on which shall be engraved my name my crest and the date of my birth the poor of the neighborhood who accompany my bier ahall receive every year on the anniversary of my death a large package of tobacco I 1 make the condition that all those who assist at my funeral if they avish to partake of the benefits of my ivill must smoke without interruption iurino the entire ceremony my body shall be placed in a coffin lined throughout with wood of my old havana igar boxes at the foot of the coffin ahall be placed a box of the french tobacco called caporal and a package 0 our old dutch tobacco at my side place my favorite pipe and a box 0 f matches for one never knows what may happen when tho bier arsts in the vault all the in alic funeral are requested to cart ca rt upon i the ashes of their pipes as bluy pass it on their departure from the gr ariu iu 13 it is said that van klaas tin the day that he made this eccentric will boned a notary who wai ulo a notable smoker and said to him till i y pipe and yours I 1 am going to dir he then dictated the 11 an r 1 |