Short Cuts [excerpt]

     “I see in the paper,” said Demosthenes McGinnis, as he rolled a quid in his cheek, “that an anti-tobacco shark in New York is wondering if the assassin of President McKinley was guilty of a greater crime than the President himself. Czolgosz merely killed a man, but McKinley, by smoking, set a horrible example to humanity. All of which naturally moves a man to throw away his chew—and hit the anti-tobacco shark in the eye with it.”