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Show PRACTICAL KINDNESS. One Huudrod Tliuusuml Grateful Soldiers. These war times have tried men's soula in many unexpected ways, but like a shaft of sunshine and good cheer out of the cloud of privation aud endurance en-durance has been the work that Tha American Tobacco Co. ha8 done among the U. S. Soldiers and Sailors ever since the war began for when they discovered discov-ered that the camps and hospitals wera not supplied with tobacco they decided to provide them, free of cost, with enough for every man, and hava already al-ready given outright to our Soldier and Sailors over one hundred thousand pounds of "Battle Ax Plug" and "Duke's Mixture" Smoking Tobacco, and have bought and distributed fifty thousand briar wood pipes, at a total cost of between fifty and sixty thousand thou-sand dollars. This work has been done quietly and thoroughly, by establishing headquarters headquar-ters in each camp, so that every camp and every hospital of the United States Army has been supplied with enough tobacco for every man and the sailors on thirty United States Ships in Cuban waters have shared with the soldiers this most welcome of all "rations." Perhaps It will be only fair to remember re-member when we hear the remark again that "corporations have no souls." that there is one American corporation cor-poration whose soul has been tried and has not been found wanting in "practical "prac-tical kindness." |