ch Hasheesh is made.]

[Illustration: Two Shoeblacks.]

First Shoeblack--What yer doin', Bill?
Second Shoeblack--Learnin' to Smoke.

The Drink Craving

Probably the best use a man can make of his leisure time is to read
good books and to follow their advice, and the worst use he can make
of it is to indulge in intoxicating liquor, and to go where that will
lead or take him.

It is said that "Dipsomania," "Alcoholism," or the
"Craving-for-Drink" disease can be cured in most persons by certain
remedies an proper management, and the time has come now when the
lovers of human progress everywhere feel that this fearful curse must
be grappled with, and, if possible, stamped out like the smallpox, or
any other terrible disease. One writer sums up the evils of drinking
as follows:--

"It injures the health.
It shortens life.
It originates hereditary disease.
It ruins the character of thousands.
It destroys the peace of families and of individuals.
It causes husbands and wives to neglect each other, their children,
and their homes.
It makes wives widows, and children orphans.
It bereaves parents of their children.
It reduces families to penury.
It hinders the amelioration of the poorer classes of society.
It makes time hard and trade bad.
It is a cause of quarrels, robberies, and murders.
It is a cause of suicide.
It fills our prisons.
It fills our poorhouses.
It fills our hospitals.
It fills our madhouses."

_Books, like strong drink, will drown a man's cares_
_But do not waste his wealth,_
_Books leave him better, drink the worse,_
_In character and health._

[Illustration: Two talented men gradually poisoning themselves with
Brandy and Tobacco.]

[Page 205--Pipes of the World]

Pipes of the World
Showing one of Cole's "Similarities of Mankind"

[Illustration: Pipes of the World.]

[Page 206--The Supreme Being]

GOD

Go to the top of a mountain so that you can see 50 miles in all
directions; you then observe a space 100 miles in diameter. Now the
_world_ contains 25,000 such areas as that. Our world is amazingly
vast, but our sun is a million times as large; yet we see rolling in
space thousands as large as our own, which probably have accompanying
worlds. And again, beyond this the telescope and astral-photography
reveal to us that _to the right, and to the left, before and behind,
above and below, and to every po