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was repeated to Mr. Harper, he exclaimed, — 

 " Does that old drunkard say so ? He shall not 

 get behind me with his rum. I will show him that 

 old Joe Harper can give up tobacco." And from 

 that moment he never touched it. 



I knew a man in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 

 who was a great smoker from his youth till he was 

 about fifty, when his health was so undermined 

 that he saw he " must quit tobacco or die." He 

 did quit it and from an abject slave became at once 

 a freeman. At the age of ninety he declared him- 

 self stronger in body and mind, and better fitted 

 for work than at fifty. 



Dr. Titus Coan, of the Sandwich Islands, to 

 whom reference has already been made, relates 

 that when a boy, suffering from toothache, his 

 father crowded a piece of tobacco no larger than 

 the head of a pin into the defective tooth, which 

 soon put him to sleep. "But in a little while I 

 awoke, and felt my bedstead whirling round and 

 round like a top. I thought the whole house was 

 revolving and that my end was near. Retching 

 and in distress, I cried for help ; and my parents came 

 to comfort me and to assure me that this state 

 would soon pass off." 



It did pass, but for many years the boy could n't 

 bear the smell of the poison. At last, however, 

 resolving to be manly and brave like other young 

 men, "I began moderately, so that in time all 

 went well, and I felt that I had mastered the 

 situation, little dreaming that the seduction was 



