Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-11-10
A BSys First smoke.

Johnny Chatfie" INDUCED in his
first smoke little while ago, and the
Texas Siftings publishes his expert
ence. 1t will do all boys good to read
it: ave swore off smoking III
never smoke no more you can just
bet your sweet lifs-I consumd my
arst cigar las Sunday mite and it will
be my las smoke for all time and
little eternity throwd in. The preach
er las Sunday morning sed that
smoking was insidious habit LIE
called cigars vile weeds that soothed
the brane but emptied the poket and
ne showed that if people quit smok-
ing the money ssvd wood buy four
milliun loves of bred for the poor
and 2 miliun copies of gospel tract
for the heethen. don't like heeth-
ems becaws they eet missionaries and
dress in a scandulus manner with
nothing but tawel around them and
they are always having collexuns
took up for them in the church and
they got severl of my hard ernd dimes
that they buldozed out of me at Sun
day-school. Its not fare to take ad.
vantage of boy that way is it,
Boys has more need of dimes than
heethens has. But didn't start to
write you about heetheus l wanted
to tell you about how Experienced
a Change of Hart about smoking 1
thot Id be more like a man if l
learned to smoke and / asked Fred
McEvans if he knew what a insidious
habit was and he said he didn't no
I sed Id sho him 80 lit cigar and
Just made the smoke pour. Fred sed
it was splendid and that I was old pie
on the smoke and felt gay as |
pranct round smoking loaYes of bred
and gospel trax from the heethen.
The smoke began to get in my eyes
aud didn't step so bi and after
little when the cigar got about half
smokt l felt as if fresh air was what
l needed more than cigar and l
didn't seem to care about the gospel
privileges of the heethen nohow but
Fred he sed I smoked like an old
boss and I mad up my mind to stick
it out but before the cigar was half
finisht cold SWEET broke out on my
forehead and my stomuk got sort of
uneesY and then the furniture begun
to climb up on the ceiling and the
doors swept places with the windows
and 1 remember seeing Fred sitting
at table up over mantel peece
and the nextime the table came round
l GRABBED it and laid my he'd down on
1t and waited for deth I useto be
afraid to die but l WASH t afraid to die
then. The wagis of sin is deth but
8 cent cigar can give sin moren ten
yards start and beet it every CHATTER.
Fred be went home and told ma that
I was in the last Gasp and she came
and carried me home and ma she Pc
roosed her Every man his own Fizzi-
shun for she doesn't believe in doctors
and she thot l had the colera morbus
or some such disunwellness and she
stued me in q warm BATH and red
some more in the book and changed
her mind about the symptums and
she thot it was mezels and gave me
spirits of nitre and suffer beet up with
the white of egg and while that
was gettin in its work on me she Pc
roosed the book some more and l was
80 six l didn't care and she found in
the book that the symptums didn't
fit meezles after all and she got some
Kasteroil and reckon she wood have
give me that and then found she was
on the rong trail again and that it
was only soft corns that l was suffer-
ing with but she unfortunately smeld
my breth and then the Gig was Up
she saw it was the insidlous habit
that l had and she was Madden any
boys mother you eyer saw she just
GRABBED me and damned me till she