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Show PRACTICAL KINDNESS. Uao llaudred Thnnaand (JratafoJ Holdltra. These war times bavo trlod men's souls In many unexpected ways, but like a shalt ot stiushiue and good chest out of tho cloud ot privation and en-durance en-durance has been the work that The American Tobacco Co. has done among tbo U. fl. Soldiers and Sailor, ever slues tha war began. for when they discovered discov-ered that tbe camps aud hospitals wore not supplied with tobacco they dccldsd lo provldo them, free ot coit, wltu enough for every man, and have already al-ready given outrlfbt to our Boldlera and Hillors over ono hundred thousand pounds of "llatlte Ax Dug" and "Duke's Mixture" BmoklnR Tobacco, and have bought and distributed fifty thousand briar wood pipes, at a total cost ot between fifty and sixty thousand thou-sand dollars. This work baa been done quietly and thoroughly, by establishing headquarters headquar-ters In each camp, so that every camp and every hospital ot tha United States Army has been supplied with enough tobacco for every rnsn and the sailor on thirty United States Ships In Cuban waters have shared with the soldier thla most welcome of all "rations." IVrhsps It will be only fair to remember re-member when we hear the remark again that "corporations havt no souls," tbst there Is ono American corporation cor-poration whose soul has been tried and has not been found wanting tn "prac- ,, Ileal kindness," |