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in this country where the use of Tobacco Is so pre- valent, ii perhaps may readers to know the reception which this offensive, though fascinating weed, met in some of the European countries its first roduction.

 In ENGLAND, its then Monarch, James the lst, em- ployed his pen in writing against its introduction and use, describing 1t 'oathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs "and in the black stnkng fame thereof nearest resen "bag the horrible syaian smoke of the pit that is bot "tomless.'' In 1604, the same Monarch sought to abolish ltslntroduction by heavy mposts and in 6D9 commanded that no planter in Virginia should cu- tiyate more than 100 lbs. of it.

 In Rome in 1924, Pope Urban the Sth punished all tvho took snuff in the Church with excommunicaon and in l690, Innocent the Eth attached the same con sequences to a similar use of it.

 ln 1884, the use of Tobacco in Russia, was punish ed by cutting of the nose.

 Switzerland, in the Canton of Appengei, ii iG5Ss, smokers were summoned before the Council and pun- ished; and lnn-keepers obliged to inform against all who smoked in their houses and in the Canton of Berne in l66l, the police regulations classified and adultery and smoking placed in the same class, and punished alike.

 In stfatsburgh in I7l9, the Senate forbid it's cut- vaon.

 In Turkey, Amarah the 4th, issued an edict which made the use of Tobacco capital felony.

 These are only few of the difficulties which To- bacco had to encounter and eventually to surmount.

 Cincinnati Whig.