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Show I For Tobacco Chewers Cedar Oity, Auk. 26, 1909. Editor Reoord: Since the series of atr meetings held last week, Hud dn fttoi for some time pretloua, wy v, ' attention has been drawn to tbe utter disregard wbloh some proplo have for pabliti building!. While some wtv I oannot use the term gAntlemen make it a point to attend only euob I . meetings aa tbe ones in quoatlou, or politioal meetings, and never a Sunday Sun-day meeting, they eeem to forget whore tbey are, and when they become uUioiently interested In the speaker's controversy their flrkt thought is to tako a chew of tobacoo. If perobance tbuy gt in come far corner, so much tbe better, and when they leave tbe building tbey generally leave their curds In shape of a pool of filthy tobacco juice on tbe lloor, or spatter ed en the aide nails so fll'by that a hog would not deign to look at it Aud this thing happens frequently in both the Tabernacle an? Ward ilall Hero Ib where we go to worship every Sunday nnd I want to ask ynu, or your readors, if it looks any way I nice, capeoialiy to tbe 1 idles, who go. perhaps ttio next Sunday and have to tako the eatno seats ooaupied by tbe tobcaoo chewers. "Well," enye one, "didn't tbe janitor clean tbe build-In??" build-In??" It ho did, he woul-l need to either repnper a part of the walls or pblnt the floor for tbe stain of tobacco juice is not so easily cleaned. There ia absolutely no exouce for such utter disrrgard of sacred place?, but if there was an excuse it would bo simply tbe ignorance wbloh prompts it. It ia something like the Btory ono of our returned missionaries told mo a few yeara aluoe. An old southern geutlomuu who was a notorious tobacco cbewer, who called one day oo a wealthy acquaintance nod Boating Boat-ing himself in the parlor while talk-J talk-J ing business bo began to spit at tbe side of bia chair on a splendid WlltoB rug. The pHrlor maid quickly pot a spitton there. The old man turned and began spitting on tbe oppoflito side of tie chair and tbe maid moved tbo ppltton to tbut side. This happened a number of times when the old man glared at tbo maid and roared out "Look bjar, If you don't take that gol darned thing away I'm liHble to iDHkp a mis lick and spit rlgbt in ter It " II soerxs that quite u number are in tbe habit of making a "mlB-lick" and tbe result is a lot of Itltb to bo cleaned up' after tbe meeting. I would certainly adriso such men to at leutt have a little regard tor others, even if they havo oono for themselves. Oon. S. litoncy. |