Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — Dialogue and Demonstration. [ARTICLE]

Dialogue and Demonstration.

“You snjoke thirty cigarettes a jhyr “Yes, on the average.”-. “You dont blame them for your rundown condition?” J “Not in the least. I blame my hard work.” The physician shook his head. He smiled in a vexed way. Then he took a leech out of a glass jar. “Let me show you something,” he said. "Bare your arm.”

The cigarette fiend bared his pale arm, and the other laid the lean, black leech uppn it. The leech fell to work buisily. t Its body began to swell. Then all of a sudden, a kind of shudder convulsed it, and it fell to the floor, dead. —- “That is what your blood did to that leech,’ said the “physician. He took up the little corpse between his fingers and thumb. “Look at it" he said. “Quite dead, you see. You poisoned it.” “I guess it wasn’t a healty leech, in the first- place,’ said the cigarette smoker Bullenly “Wasn’t healthy, eh? Well try again.” !, And the physician clapped two leeches on the young man’s thin arm. “If they both die,” said the patient “11l swear off —or at least cut down my daily allowance from thirty cigarettes to ten.” Even as he spoke the smaller leech shvered and dropped on his knee, dead, and a moment later the larger one fell beside it. “This is ghastly,” said the young man, “I am worse than the pestilence to these leeches.” “It is the empyreumatic oil in your blood,” said the medical man. “All cigarette fiends have it” “Doc.” said the young man, regarding the three dead leeches thoughtfully, I half believe you’re right"