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Show TOBACCO. jig The Bureau of Statistics informs us that the , Kg United States consumes 440,000,000 pounds per ; j H . annum of tobacco, or 5.40 per capita. This opens ; m a wide field for the moralist. It would be easy to I ; ' I H , figure out how many farms that amount would , j j . I B purchase, how many people it would supply i ; ' ! mm ' homes to, how many heart-aches it would buy Hffl surcease for. But then if the tobacco were ig- , I Iffll nored the blessings would not follow, for man is a ' HI selfish animal; if he did not buy the tobacco he ifli would buy something else. Leaving off the use of L vmw tne weed would not make a philanthropist of him. ' ' ,! ! H 'IS Then tobacco is not so bad. It is almost a neces- r i ' .jiBI sity to millions of people, for to paraphrase a jH Knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care, (H The death of each day's life sore labors bath, flSH Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course, lH (One of) the chief nourishers in life's feast. |