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Why I Should Not Smoke a Cigarette. < Prize Essay written by a student of Antioch school. Name will be an nounced next week.* My first duty in life is to my af terself-the man I ought to be. Far away in the years I am waiting my turn. My body, my brain, and my soul are in my boyish hands, the hab its that I form now should be habits that will carry me on to health and to respected, truthful and successful manhood; because habits that are formed in youth are lasting ones. Just as the bones harden and become older, so does the nervous system be come set in its ways of doing things. It has been found that the most se rious effects of tobacco is on the nervous system. . Therefore, I should not smoke a cigarette because I might want an other one, and so on until I formed .the habit of smoking. Cigarette, smok ing is a very injurious habit and also a foolish one. t Tobacco contains a poison which is called nicotine, and it is very injuri ous to the heart. In those who smoke tobacco to excess, the heart beats ?more rapidly than it should. When the habit has been continued for a .long time the heart's action becomes irregular, at one time beating too slowly, and at another too rapidly, and sometimes missing a. beat alto gether. The nicotine that is in tobac co is a narcotic, and it is so strong that a few drops taken into the mouth will paralyze the whole ner vous system and stop the beating of "the heart. Tobacco is from one to four per cent, nicotine. At one time it was thought to have healing value, but in a short time intelligent men thought of it as a dangerous drug, and they became alarmed at what would result in its widespread use. Dr. Kellog, the renowned scientist, says: "There is enough nicotine in one pound of tobacco to kill three "hundred men." Tobacco has an evil effect on rgrowth, because it is more harmful to the young than it is to grown peo ple. This has been proved by people making experiments on young pigs. Two guinea pigs were made to inhale tobacco smoke when they were four days old; one died in a short time, and the other weighed a great deal less than the normal weight. It is so generally known that cigarette smok ing hinders growth and stunts the young that most of our states have passed laws forbidding the sale of cigarettes to boys under a certain age. The laws of Colorado even for bid people to give boys tobacco, so that boys who use cigarettes are not only disobedient to their parents, but they are disobedient to the laws of their state. The Japanese government passed a law worded thus: "Smoking of tobacco by persons under the age of twenty is forbidden." If a boy wishes to become large and strong he should let tobacco alone. Professor Seaver of Yale university found among his students that the smokers were a great deal smaller than the non-smokers. Tobacco interferes with the mus ties, and it injures the mind. The ^muscles of the tobacco user are so -' weak that he cannot control them. This cdu be-easily seen by the trem bling of his hands. Sometimes he is so restless that he cannot sleep. To bacco users are not good marksmen, because their muscles are softened and slackened by the nicotine in the tobacco. Therefore, they do not make good soldiers. Athletes who are in training are not allowed to use to bacco. The effect of tobacco on the mind is more noticeable than it is on the .inuscles. In colleges where smokers and non-smokers have been com pared, it was found that the non smokers were much better students. 'They learn more easily and more quickly than the smokers. Most of (the backward boys in schools and col leges are tobacco uses. Fifty smokers and nfty non-smokers were compar ed in Kansas State Agricultural col lege and the smokers averaged 28 per cent, less in grades and made 74 per cent of all failures that were made by the one hundred boys. It is SQ generally known that tobacco in terferes with good work that many large business establishments will mot employ cigarette users. More and ?more, the doors of opportunity are being closed to boys and men who are destroying their mental and phy sical powers by tobaccco. Therefore, 5t is difficult for tabacco users to get 3M)sitions. It blights the prospects of many young men. Their nerves and .will power are weakened for life and .they are unable to fill responsible po sitions. Tobacco has a bad effect on the digestive organs, producing dys pepsia, diseases of the liver, weak ?eye, paralysis, congestion of the brain, cancer of the mouth, throat, lins, slowness of thought and irrita bility. I have heard some people say that smoking tobacco would cure certain diseases. This only shows their igno rance, because science has proved that it is not a medicine but a poison. If it is a medicine why does it destroy a person's health and make some peo ple sick to smell the odor? I know a man who took a chew of tobacco when he was a boy in school, and in a shorUftime he became very sick. He started for home ?but he was so deathly sick that he could not go far before he had to lie down by the road side. After a great deal of suffering he revived, went his way, and finally reached home, and told his mother of his experience with tobacco. This shows that he was poisoned. Just im agine how that mother felt! Some of the large cigarette man ; facturers soak their tobacco in a mild soluion of opium. This is why so many young men and boys who. smoke cigarettes become slaves to the habit. Tobacco in any form is the worst enemy of mankind. King James of England issued a protest against its use in which he declared it to be "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, md dangerous to the lungs." I think it looks silly to see a boy or man with a cigarette in his mouth, ' and making a smoke- stack of his nose. No pure-minded, manly, gentle boy will smoke cigarettes. I don't admire a boy who smokes cigarettes any more than I do a girl with snuff in the corners of her mouth. I don't know of anything that is more filthy than snuff users, or tobacco chewers and smokers. Cigarette smoking also leads to bad associations. The majority of the smokers are among the drunken, gambling and loafing classes. Most of the criminals tried in our courts to day, began as boys smoking cigar ettes. The tobacco habit is very expen sive. There are $800,000,000 spent every year for tobacco in this coun try. This means that something w'ill be lacking in the home of the tobac co user. Just think of all that money being burned or chewed. Now it can be easily seen why I should not smoke cigarettes nor use tobacco in any form, for what is said of cigarettes can truthfully be said of tobacco in any form. So the right thing and the most sensible thing to do is to avoid its use. 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After reading Its testimonials I decided to try Car dui, and am so thankful that I did, for I began to improve when on the second bottle...I am now a well woman and feeling fine and the cure has been permanent for it has been two years since my awful bad health. I will always praise and recommend Cardui." Try Cardul today. E 78 Our Seeds -PRODUE Big Crops Buv now and be prepared for the I early planting of OATS WHEAT RYE BARLEY CLOVER (Crimson and White) ALFALFA VETCH -Also Onion Sets Lawn Grasses I Turnips Lettuce Radishes Spinach Cabbage Peas and all otber seeds L?RICK & LOWRANCE COLUMBIA, S. C. DW FOR IBIA'S ive Show id Week 52 to 27 SHOW af cars to be featured in the ver seen in South Carolina. Come to the show and see ? SHOW he new Spring Styles to be direction of Mr. Daniel A. rom New York featuring new scenery and staging. Parades Dancing )f American Legion Social Events all Columbia Stores write Secretary Columbia ;ary Columbia Chamber of M Roads Seem Pressed Flat By Wonderful New Triplex Springs THE wonderful Triplex Springs of Overland 4 ef fect such a change in riding comfort that bad roads now seem to ride like good roads. Overland 4 has the steadiness of larger cars of long wheel base, with the light weight, ease of control and low fuel and tire expense of 100-inch wheelbase. Equipment, including Auto Lite starting and lighting and three-speed transmission, is high class, in keeping with the general character of the car. i J. D. Holstein, Jr., Edgefield; Consolidated Auto Co., J. P. Bland, Manager, Johnston Lumber for Sale! I already have on the yard a quantity of lumber cut to. stan dard dimensions which I can deliver at once or I will cut as desired when bill is submitted. Will deliver lumber in Edge field. Let me have your orders. D. W. SMITH, Edgefield, S. C., R. F. D. 2 _U_,_ Galvanized Corrugated and V Crimped Roofing Have two thousand tvro hundred (2200) sheets Corrugated No. 2? gauge Galvanized Roofing In 6, 7, 8 and 10 inch lengths. One thous and four hundred (1400) sheets V Crimped in same lengths. This is car that left factory Jan. 21, expected any day. You ought to use our Lead Headed Nails in putting on roofiing. Send for circular. Columbia Supply Company 823 West Gen ai's Colombia, S. C .??Ki YOU, the buyers, are the real builders of wagons. You put the final Okay upon the use of certain materials and con struction when you buy a wagon containing them-and refuse to buy a wagon that does not. We want to show you how the Thornhill Wagon is built. Upon a plain statement ef facts we are willing to rest our case. ' We believe the Thornhill way would be your way if you should build a wagon. Fer spokes and axles tough second growth highland hickory ii used For hubs and felloes the sturdy white oak is preferred. This wood gro' s upon the mountain side. The ground is hard the climate severe. It has to fight for life. It has ncarly twicc the strength of oak and hickory that grows under softer conditions. Outdoors under shelter it remains for three to five years. Th? gip dries in it, giving it a strength that's kin to steel. Full Circle Iron Malleable Front Houri Plato Trussed Bolsters and Gears Long Wear Beds lobten Can't -inna tn Turning In turning and backing up, with the ordi nary circle iron, which is only a half circle, alsters run off the end of the track and iiang. It is difficult to make short turns and back up. The Thornhill full circle iron gives a continuous track on which the bol sters can tum. The gears of Thornhill wagons stay in line for life. Instead of the usual front hound plate, a hound plate of malleable hon is used.'It is a metal jacket braced at eight points that keeps gears from erer getting out of line. rs. to the Adjustable Brake Lever On the front bolsters of Thornhill wagons are heavy iron plates running along top and bottom-connected by rivets that run clear through the bolster. Strength and lightness are combined. Rear gears are strongly ironed. There are braces on both top and bottom that extend the full length of the % hounds. Solid tmst bars extend the full length of the axles giving them double strength. If you examine the beds of Thornhill Wagons closely you will see at once thc superiority of the construction. Thc bottoms are rc-iuforced over front and rear bolsters. Come in and examine this wagon for yourself. We will take pleasure and pride in showing you a Thornhill-The wagon made of tough highland oak and hickory-with features all others lack. , t [610-N] BETTIS CANTELOU