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Show The Cigaret Boy. What is the future or a boy who Is a claret sinokciV Will he try to get a place In a store' A lad In Chicago ap- ! plied for ten positions, being met each 'time with the question, "do you 1 smoke clgaictsV" and was rejected In 1 1 every Instance. I The manager of a large department store sajs: "We don't want clgaret smokers; the film lias no use for a boy . wiLh dried no hrnlnq." I Will ho try railroad woik? The Iun Handle S) stein, the Michigan City Division, the Kansas City,' Fort Scott and Memphis, the South Carolina Caro-lina Division, the Union 1'aclllc, the Hock Island, Ihc Chicago, Thiillngton & Qulncy, have all Issued orders against clgaret smbkeis. They say, "It Is luu infill, and rendeis men unlit for service leqtilijng steady nerves." i IVihapshu is thinking to enlist in i tho army. The United States government govern-ment has prohibited smoking by the cadclsofWest Point and Annapolis. An army oillcersaysthat "nine-tenths of the people who fall to pass the medical examination fal If because of smoking; and some vhose. term of service has expired, desiring re-enllsl-meut, are astonished to Hnd themselves them-selves turned back Ih examination, with all of soldierly perfection In manual, simply because LTncIn Sam has no use for the tobacco heatt, ivhlpll nflirllt. ftill lilm In .nmn rtin. whlch might fall him In .omc emergency. emer-gency. The same Istrueof the navy." .Selected. Medical Opinion. Physicians have taken up again the ellect of tobacco on the human system Several experts have contributed opinions opin-ions to the Practitioner, and the general gen-eral Impression seems to be that smoking smok-ing is distinctly harmful to mowing boys. Most of tho writers unite In the opinion that the clgaret Is the most baneful form In which tobacco Is used. The reasons for this assortlon nru that Its convenient mrm leads to overindulgence and that the Inhalation Inhala-tion of smoko from It Ismoreqommon. Nervous symptoms uro more common in cases of excessive smoking, and I he ellect Is ajso bad on the heart. Then, too, Intestinal tioubles and sleeplessness sleepless-ness may also be traceable to the excessive ex-cessive use of tobacco. Compulsory methods should be used to prevent tho use of tobacco by boys under sixteen years of age for the reason that they have no dlscretlonand they -should not be subject to the deleterious effects of tobaccp. Albany (X. V.) Journal. ' Whole Land for Prohibition. ' Iceland, about half the size of Missouri, Mis-souri, has "no Jail, no penitentiary; theie Is no court and only one pollcr-inaii. pollcr-inaii. Not a drop of alcoholic liquor Is made on the island and Its 7N,00 1 people are total abstainers since they will not permit an liquor to be Imported. Im-ported. There Is not an Illiterate on ! the Island, not a child ten jears old I unable to icad, the system of public ( schools being practical! pcrfect.There aro special seminaries and colleges, sexeral good newspapers, alid a print-j print-j lug establishment which every jear ( publMies a mimuei of excellent books on various lines," Such is the repoit brought by northern travelers of this Incomparable and Ideal land. Itspeaks with a mighty voice of Prohibition The A anguaid Christian sobilety, not alcohol, Is thesemet of Intelligence. The Intel-leet Intel-leet glows upon what It feeds upon. Keed It on tho gossip of the wlnchon 1 and the saloon-bar, and It will he trivial tri-vial and shallow. Feed It upon great . truths, and It becomes great. Xo one ever sent beer Into' a pagan land and turned the crooked stick Into a steel plow, or tho cannibal's kettle Into a bakery; but Christianity liusriono" that over and over again. lt touches a heathen land wfth Its temperance teachings, and houses with glass windows win-dows take tho place of mud huts. I Schools spring up where ghost-d.mces and snake-dances ' were wont tube hcld.--Chrlstlan Kndcavor World. You cannot advance the highest interests in-terests of tho church and at the samo tlmn protect saloons, fpr saloons aio the chief enemies or tho chinch. Saloons Sa-loons cause tho loss of more souls, the misery and heart-bieak of more families, fam-ilies, and more social ruin than any other one cause. The chinch cannot bo ti no to her mission unless In every practical way she opposes saloons and saloon protectors. Her work Is to s.ivc men. Those'w ho protect saloons ' aid In this ruin. God will take away the glory of the church unless she resolutely fights for him against God's chief foe. -Church Work. If out of the faults and mistakes of yesterday we do not gain tho wisdom of today, we arc stupid scholars In the school of life. The young man who cannot sec anything but "111 luck" In the' results of his own blunders, Is never likely to provo a success. --Forward. By legalizing the liquor tralllc we share with the liquor dealerjlio responsibilities re-sponsibilities of tho evils of his business. busi-ness. Every man who votes for license li-cense becomes of necessity 'u pai trier to the liquor tralllc and all its consequences. conse-quences. William McKlnley: I do not' undervalue things of tho nation's body. 1 only desire that the) shall not make us forget that beside be-side the nation's body thoro Is also tho nation's -soul. -Theodore Hoosevclt. |
