Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — His Warning. [ARTICLE]

His Warning.

Noform of tobacco is S 3 dangerous ns that found in cigarettes, because the nicotine of the smoke iB taken unfiltered and undiluted into the lnngs. Even if the paper in wh ch they are rolled is not poisonous, the tobacco within is sure to be. Not long ago a chorister boy of St. Mary’s Church, Brooklyn, died in St. John’s Hospital. He was a bright boy and an exquisite singer, and had many friends. Tais is his story, as he told it to his nurse: He confessed that hisdisease, of dropsy in the legs, had originated from cigarette smoking. Some days, he said, he smoked twenty cigarettes. As he continued to smoke, the appetite grew upon him w'th such force thnt he could not withstand it, and it began to affect his health. “But why," asked the nurse, “did you not stop when you began to see the results?” “Ob, I couldn’t,” he replied. “If I could not get them, I almost went wild I could think of nothing else. I worked extra hours, instead of spending my regular wages for cigarettes, so that my grandmother might not suspect me. For mouths I kept up the habit, though I knew it was killing me. Then, nil of a sudden, I seemed to fall to pieces." During all his sufferings he never forgot what brought him to this condition. A few days before his death he called the nurse to his bedside, and said he thought he had not lived in vain if only those boys who are still alive would profit by his pain and death.

Getting the Best of an Auctioneer. A story is told of Auctioneer Wells, who was provokingly annoyed while in the exercise of his profession by the ludicrous bids of a fellow, whose sole object seemed to be to make spoit.for buyers gather than himself to buy. At length, enraged beyond endurance, the knight of the hammer, looking round the room for a champion to avenge hie wrongs, fixed his eyes upon a biped of huge dimensions—a very monarch m strength, and cried oat: “Alarkjw, wh*t shall I give you to put that fellow out?” “I take one fi£e-dollar bill.” “Done, done! You shall have it." Assuming the ferocious, knitting his brows, spreftding'his nostrils like a lion's, and putting on'the wolf all over his head and shoulders, old Marlow strode'off to the aggisessor, and, seizing the terrified wretch by the collar, said to him in a whisper 'that was heard all -over the room: “My good >£rin’, you go out with me, I giv«e you two dollars!” “Done, done!” said the fellow. “Hurrah, hurrah!" shouted the audienoe. The auctioneer had the good sense to jorin in'the laugh, and coolly forked over CheV.