The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-28
FOR THE CHILDREN.
Quitting Tobacco.

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careful perusal. It certainly suggests
some facts which deserve the most Sc
rious refection.-ED.
Did you or any of your readers ever
| try quitting tobacco? Well, if you did,
you know how to pity poor Teller that's
been In the worse trouble for the last
week than he's had for many long
year. And if you never did, you ought
to try it once just to be able to sympa-
thise with other folks. Tell You what
it is, it's leetle the hardest job I've
undertaken since I tried to make rails
out of a black gum when ] was a boy.
Talk about your rheumatic, corns, and
toothache! I'd rather have them all than
this hankering for tobacker. It's worse
nor thirst for whisky. quit that easy,
but tobackerl You'd as well try to
shake off a leach that's just begun to
draw, as to get clear of this Internal
OF 1 beg pardon; this in-in-intolera-
BILE appetite
But / must tell you howl come to
quit. You see, I had been using the
weed for nigh on to twenty years, and
had begun to think that I could get
along about as we'll without Betsy
that's my old woman, you know, as to
do without my twist and my pipe. But
l took sick this summer and was ailing
long time. Granny Miller said / had
the dyspepsia. did you ever have it
If you did, know I am sorry for you.
Well, Granny fixed up some roots and
varbs and gave me to take but it did
no good. So says I to myself, Granny
don't know what's the matter with me,
and I'll just step over. to Joe Higgins
and borrow his doctor book and see if I
can't find out. Well, / hunted for dys-
pepsia and read it all over, and con-
Guided that had that; but thought
Pd.read on Well, read over several
other diseases, and I concluded I had
them too. So says I, fBetsy, I am
MORALLY ruined, and L believe I am
going to die" $50 no, Bill, /" says she,
1T hope not" "But I tell you I is,
for I've. got every thing what's in this
book, and the old gal began to cry.
Now / never could bear to see her cry,
so, says, ''Don't fret, wife we'll send
for DR.. Wilson and see what he can do :"
So, our biggist boy was soon mounted
on old Sal to go for the doctor. "Don't
let the grass grow under your heels, !"
SAYS Betsy; and Jim gave the mare a
rake with the tremendous peach limb
that he had in his hand and started in
gallop.
Well, after considerable time here
comes Jim and the doctor. "Well,
Bill" says he, ''what's the matter ?"
81 don't know, doctor, says I. 81
believe I've got the dyspepsia, heart
disease, bronchitis, neuralgy, and 1
think I'm taking the consumption"
The doctor was awful ticlzled and
laughed right out. But he examined
my tongue. "Why, Bill" says he,
"your tongue looks like you had ty-
plus fever. s'My stars" says I,
s'have I got that too? ?" Just then I
took out my twist and cut off large
hunk of tobacker and put in my mouth.
"Bill,' says the doctor, chow much of
that do you use in a day?" Not
more'n a half pound, I reckon"
says l. "Bill," says he, 81 wouldn't
be surprised if your trouble comes
from tobacker." And then he set
to and described my symptoms
great deal better'n I could done
myself-headache pain in the chest,
difficulty of breathing, sacidityss of the
stomach, heartburn, &C., &c. So, I had
to think that the doctor knowed all
about it; but I wouldn't promise to
quit. The doctor wasn't pleased bit.
Howsomever, he gave me some stuff to
take that was mean enough to make a
SOW wean her pigs before they were
week old, but 1t didn't do one bit of
good. Thinks I to myself, if I've got
to have dyspepsia, and all the rest of
the diseases-heart-burn especially
and take such truck as this, Tn goner
c. T In al IF
the dyspepsia, and Betsy wouldn't let
me off with the physic, I concluded I'd
quit the tobacker.
Well, 1 made the resolution and you
know, when q man sets his head to do
thing, it's half the battle generally. I
say generally, for this time it wasn't so.
I thought it was a mighty task to say
I'd quit but it wasn't a circumstance
No matter how [ would reason, the
craving was there, and there it would
stay. Needn't say a word about logic
/ tell You it won't do at all when this
longing for tobacker is the question.
Just as well try to talk baby to sleep
when it's mammy's been gone all day
and it wants to suck right bad as to
think that argument will do any good
against the love of tobacker. 1t takes
strong Will and time to do it I could
let it alone for that thing never came
along that 1 couldn't let alone when 1
resolved to but the appetite was etern-
ally wanting it. I have read about a
man chained to a rock and O vulture
turned on him to eat him up. If he
had some tobacker to chaw, and didn't
have some one to say stop, he was bet
ter off than me.
Howsomever I consoled myself that
it would soon be proved that it wasn't
the tobacker, and then could go at it
again. But, in spite of all i could do.
I couldn't help feeling that the doctor
must be right, for never had the heart
burn from the time throwed away my
last chan! ate sweet potatoes (they
were always sure to bring it before) but
it wouldn't come tried fat pork, but
I was all right. I even tried butter and
sorghum, and that wouldn't fetch it.
So [ just came to the conclusion that I
was all right in my liver and was only
diseased with tobacker and SO I expect
to stay quit.
As L suppose you will like to hear
how I git along, I'll write again before
a great while.
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