McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-23
HE STOPPED SMOKING.
Bin Nye's Resolution against Tobacco and
Hour 10 Resulted.

Bin Nye's Resolution against Tobacco and
Hotc IL Resulted.
lhave again renowned the pernicious
and terrible tobacco habit. Most every
year quit smoking and lead different
life for several weeks, and it is pleas
ure that | would not forego. The Joy
of busting a long established habit and
asserting a manly independence of it,
even for three weeks, is good time.
Tobacco is filthy weed-that is, it is
poisonous and venomous plant this
week. 1t will be so until further notice
/ remember very well the struggle had
to break off last winter. The doctor
said | never would have flesh enough on
my bones to catch a shrimp if l didn't
stop the use of tobacco, so l stopped
For weeks | was uncertain whether [
would renounce my pipe or not. 1t
was solace to me when | was lonely,
it gave me much pleasure, and seemed
to me, after a stormy and tempestuous
career as postmaster, to be a very mild
sort of vice. But l wanted to get fat,
SO one day when was over at Bootjack
Camp, l threw my pipe over into the
woods as far as the strength of a great
resolution could send it.
l can still remember how it went
hustling through the air, and how l
went hustling through the air the fol-
lowing week. on my hands and knees,
hunting for it.
1t was about those days that / rashly
resolved to keep diary. 1t hardly
shows the marks of use, but / will sell
it at reasonable price to any one de-
string an easy running diary, with
place to stick pencil when not in USE
[ quote few entries from the same:
Jan. 1, 1SS4.-Have resolved to quit
the use of tobacco and to keep diary
showing what L did each succeeding
day, so that future generations may
know the inner life of a great man. [
also desire to keep strict record here
of my various private expenses, so that
/ may know from month to month
where my money has gone.
Jan. 2.-How gloomy everything
looks to-day. Made several New Years
calls yesterday, am told. In an I'M
guarded moment, perhaps, / did; but it
was unintentional. l did not smoke,
however, yesterday. | feel much bet
ter without tobacco in any form. Think
| am gaining flesh. l do not notice it
so much in my body, but my head and
feet are certainly much larger than they
were yesterday. How much more hap
ply and light-hearted we are when out
from under the thralldom of an old vice
that has clung to us for years like-like
vice, as it We're. Paid fifty cents for a
pound of marshmallows to gladden. the
hos re nd VIII 10 in,
brown study on the way home, ate them
all. When | quit the use of tobacco |
notice that | want to eat everything |
see. Came near eating the infant class
at the Sabbath school yesterday.
Jan. 81 am getting little bit irri-
table / notice, and several of my friends
have called my attention to it. A police
man last evening first mentioned it to
me down town. Guess we can fix it for
So or Sc. | shall have to get new coat
and, perhaps, a new nose. | can not
tell yet as to the nose. When the swell
ing goes down so | can see over it bet
ter shall be better able to Judge. At
present it shuts out the landscape a
good deal and gives me sinister ex-
preston.
Jan. Went out walking in the
woods to-day. The air was crisp and
frosty. l strolled over about where /
threw my pipe along in the latter part
of the year 'S3. l did not want the
pipe, and yet, when l found it, after
searching three or four hours, [ felt
secret thrill of pleasure. do not know
why. l brought it home, thinking it |
might be convenient for some one who |
had no pipe. and who might still be
slave to the abominable habit. l have |
in my mind party who might thus be
benefited. He is a young man of great
promise, and none know him but to
love him, none name him but to praise.
1 will save the pipe for him. He will be
pleased and gratified. He is my wife's
first husband.
When l started out / announced in
this volume that 1 would quit the use of
tobacco and keep diary. l shall con-
tinue to do so, making, however, a
slight change in the arrangement, by
which I shall keep the tobacco and quit
the use of the diary. This diary is now
for SALE Smoking tobacco taken in
exchange. No addional charge for the
four days work already done on the
work