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this kind, he found himself in the highest state of 

 nervous excitement. The falling of a book startled 

 him like the firing of a pistol, and the creaking of 

 his own boots made his hair stand on end. 

 Alarmed by these symptoms, he instantly broke 

 from the habit, and found himself born into a new 

 physical, mental, and spiritual life. 



Thurlow Weed, according to his own account, 

 smoked cigars during fifty-four years, giving away 

 in that time eighty thousand. Being in Saratoga 

 for his health, Dr. Freeman, an old friend, called 

 on him. When some reference was made to 

 the cause of his being there, the doctor, pointing 

 to the cigar still burning in Mr. Weed's hand, 

 remarked, — "I see the time has come when that 

 luxury must be foregone." "Do you mean it?" 

 " I do." "Then that is the end." And with true 

 Spartan heroism he threw away his cigar and never 

 touched tobacoo again. 



CHEERING TOKENS. 



It is a cheering fact that many German, French, 

 English, and American physicians of the highest 

 standing are waging war upon this drug. A meet- 

 ing of Sunday-school and week-day teachers in 

 England has been held for the purpose of consider- 

 ing measures to check its use. It was presided 

 over by an eminent ph}'sician of a royal e} T e-inh*r- 

 mary, who affirmed that paralysis of the optic 

 nerve and other diseases of the eyes were directly 

 caused by tobacco. 



