Show old nick the champion long distance smoker has the champion long distance smoker of the world colsum U U ing 1 1000 cigars a day on an average they call him old nick not because he is la in any way diabolic but because he can hold an amazing amount ot of nicotine and it takes very little effort of 0 the imagination 6 old nick as a hu iaan aan being for or in makeup make up he performs all the functions of 0 the flesh and blood lover ot of the weed even to the action ortho of the lungs old nack nick is merely an ingenious apparatus for or testing cigars uncle sams mechanical man is no fastidious chooser of 0 what he smokes the most expensive imported brand and the humblest of the domestic are the same sama to him in the lower lefthand left hand corner of his mechanical anatomy Is a jar in the cork of which are inserted the tubes holding four cigars the receptacle contains water which takes up the nicotine so it is that nond of it gets into the lungs of old nick and the smoke that goes out from his mouth the exhaust Is wholly free from nicotine the lung is at the extreme right and inhales and exhales the smoke of the cigars cigar A tube leads into the lung from the jar into which four individual cigar tubes ar are a placed there Is also an intermediate jar which arrests ir wh alever of the nicotine may have escaped from the direct repository thus you see that thal while old nick may be literally soaked in nicotine and ve be a confirmed inhaler he has none of the vice of the inhaler tor for the smoke that enters his lungs bears no deleterious elements |