Show trin cleveland Plain dealer tells this horrible story we once knew a man to struggle for years to color a particularly obstinate meerschaum pipe he smoked incessantly no ho tried all the different kinds of tobacco put a bottom in it boiled it in tobacco juice but all to no avail it color he grew morose and sour shut himself up and smoked and smoked and smoked uttering savagely from froin between his clenched teeth color I 1 say D n ye e ill color c o l o r yell ye he gave up all business and devoted himself wholly to smoking determined as lie he said to color that pipa or die in the attempt one day dav lie failed to make his appearance at breakfast his room was opened and their lie ho sat in his chair dead the fatal meerschaum clutched clied tightly between his teeth the meerschaum was as aa white as when it first emerged venus like from the foam of the seap aea i but bitt we the afian man was turned a richdard rich dark brown tile the meerschaum had bad colored him |