"Good, clean soot; it's our life-blood, God bless it!" The smoke was one of his great enthusiasms; he laughed at a committee of plaintive housewives who called to beg his aid against it.

"Smoke's what brings your husbands' money home on Saturday night," he told them, jovially.

"Smoke may hurt your little shrubberies in the front yard some, but it's the catarrhal climate and the adenoids that starts your chuldern coughing.

Smoke makes the climate better.

Smoke means good health: it makes the people wash more.