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Show I'M TOBACCO, jlgfg The Bureau of Statistics informs us that the Kg United States consumes 440,000,000 pounds per , , jlfl . annum of tobacco, or 5.40 per capita. This opens H a wide field for the moralist. It would be easy to : , . B figure out how many farms that amount would I : i I purchase, how many people it would supply i. l i H . homes to, how many heart-aches it would buy 1 ! H surcease for. But then if the tobacco were ig- j B nored the blessings would not follow, for man is a ( ! B 1 selfish animal; if he did not buy the tobacco he I .1 would buy something else. Leaving off the use of j ; j B the weed would not make a philanthropi f him. j ! , i ' fl Then tobacco is not so bad. It is almost a neces- " ' fl sity to millions of people, for to paraphrase a ' j ' little lt ! ' i fl Knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care, j B The death of each day's life sore labors bath, IB Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course. 'sH ' ne of) the chief nourishers in life's feast. |