Weekly Chemawa American., November 13, 1903, Page 3, Image 3

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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BAD EFFECTS OF TOBACCO.
A good many years ago Germany
found out that many of her boys were
too stunted and short to serve in the
army, and it was discovered that the
use of tobacco when boys were young
stunted their growth. Germany then
made a law that no person under 16
years of age should smoke or chew in
any public street or resort, any to
bacco in any form. Then a fine was
set for breaking this law.
Thirty years ago the Emperor of
France found that the French people
were going insane from the use of to
bacco, and that the scholars in the na
tional schools and institutions who
used tobacco fell below in scholarship
those who did not. v Therefore its use
was forbidden. So you see the United
States is behind some other nations in
taking care of its boys. Now however,
the government forbids the use of to
bacco in all its naval and military
schools, because it causes weak hearts,
color blindness, unsteady hands, irrit
ability, dyspepsia, loss of memory and
power to study.
The President of Stanford Uni
versity, California, tells us what he
thinks about using cigarettes. He
says that his experience with it is
rather limited because boys who begin
cigarettes before they are fifteen years
old drop out very early, they are like
wormy apples, and drop off long before
harvest, and that few of them ever
advance far enough to enter college.
He also says: "There is one grim argu
ment to be made for the use of cigar
ettes by boys, it helps the survival of
the fittest. The manly boy does not
take to such things."
Four hundred years ago no civilized
nation used tobacco. Columbus found
that the naked savages on the island
of Cuba used tobacco to produce insen
sibility and it was first carried to
Spain as a medicine, but the habit . of
using it like the savages began to
spread. Think of that boys! The
habit was learned of the savages.
They would roll up tobacco leaves
and smoke till they fell down drunk
with the poison. Glen Mills Daily.
THE RICH CHEROKEES.
The reports of the Dawes Commis
sion and the attorneys of the Cherokee
Nation show that there are about 4,420-.
070.13' acres of land subject to allot
ment m the Cherokee Nation. From
this must be deducted reservations of
one acre for each country school, for
cemeteries, and small reservations for
mission schools and new towns along
railroads. The allottable land is
valued at $13,i33'000. There is now
being allotted to each citizen $325.60
worth of this land. The rolls show
that there will be 40,000 Cherokees on
the final rolls. The per capita share
of each, not deducting the reser
vations above mentioned, would be
$328.32, leaving a surplus of $2.72
in land due each citizen.
Read Good Books.
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you get, and always read the best
within your reach! Any book, or per
iodical is bad which takes the place
of something better. Enrich your life
in every possible way by self-improvementself-culture.
Success.