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eigar reached him. "How good that smells!" 

 he murmured. 



"Do you not smoke?" 



"Not now. Once I did. But there came a 

 time — and 0! what I suffered! Never again! 

 Never again!" He shook his head with deci- 

 sion. 



At another time it was a man from political 

 life. 



"Twenty years ago," he said, "I smoked. 

 My friends presented me with boxes of the 

 best cigars. Unthinkingly I used them until, 

 one day, as I sat before the fire smoking, it 

 occurred to me that my health and nerves were 

 not as sound as they had been. I had grown 

 nervous to an uncontrollable degree. Sud- 

 denly it came into my mind that I had brought 

 it on by the use of tobacco. I took the eigar 

 from my lips and threw it on the coals. 



" 'There!' said I, 'that is the last tobacco 

 I shall ever touch ! ' 



"I kept my word, too. It was a severe 

 struggle, but I conquered. ' ' 



Eecently we have read of a man who laid 

 aside the money he had been accustomed to 

 spend on tobacco, and in the course of not so 

 very many years he had saved enough to take 

 a trip around the world. With how much added 

 zest of mind and body he^would enjoy that 

 trip! 



