The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-05-11
WAS GOULD INSANE9
Financial Worry and Physical Ex-
ertion Not the Gre safest De-
stroyer of Human Life.
For Humanity's Sake. After Thirty-six
Years OF housekeeping Slavery,
He Tells How He Was
Set Free.

Caldwell, Nj, March 10, 1s95.-tSpecial.l
Since one of our prominent citizens suffered
30 terribly from tobacco tremens, has made
known his frightful experience in behalf Of
humanity, the ladies here are making tobac-
co-using husbands lives miserable with
their entreaties to ut once quit tobacco.
The written statement of s. j. Gould ID
attracting widespread attention. When in
terviewed tonight he said: II commenced
using tobacco at thirteen; I am now forty
nine; so, for thirty-six years / chewed,
smoked, snuffed and rubbed snuff.
pants on, and for long time used two
ounces of chewing and eight ounces Of
smoking day. Sometimes l had a chew
In both cheeks and a pipe in my mouth at
once. Ten years ago quit drinking whisky.
tried to stop tobacco time and again, but
could not. Ny nerves craved nicotine andI
fed them, till my skin turned tobacco
brown, cold, sticky perspiration oozed from
my skin, and trickied down my back at the
least exertion or excitement. Mynerve vigor
and my life was being slowly sapped. made
up my mind that had to quit tobacco or
die. On October / stopped, and for three
days suffered the fortunes Of the damned.
On the third day l got so bad that my part
ner accused me Of Icing drunk. fsaid, No,
have quit tobacco For Gods sake, man,
he said, offering me his tobacco box, take
chew; you will go Wild and 1 was wild.
Tobacco was forced into me and was taken
home dazed. ] saw double and my memory
was beyond control, but / still knew how
to chew and smoke, which l did all day un-
til towards night, when my system got
tobacco soaked again. The next morning
looked and felt as though had been through
q long spell of sickness. / gave up in de-
spair, as thought that could not cure my
self. Now, for suffering humanity, I'll tell
what saved my life. Providence evidently
answered my good wifes prayers and
brought to her attention in our paper an ar
ticle which read: Don't Tobacco Spit and
Smoke Your Life Awayr
g"What q sermon and warning in these
wordsl Just what | was doing. 1t told
shout guaranteed cure for the tobacco
habit, called No-To-Bac. ] sent to Drug
gist Hasler for box. Without grain of
faith spit ont my tobacco cud, and put
into my mouth q little tablet upon which
was stamped No-To-Bac. l know it sounds
like a lie when tell you that took eight
tablets the first day, seven the next, five the
third day, and all the nervecreeping feel
ing, restlessness and mental depression was
gone. 1t was too good to be true. 1t seemed
like q dream. That was a month ago. /
used one box. 1t cost me 81, and it Is worth
q thousand. Igained ten pounds in weight
and lost all desire for tobacco from the frs
day sleep and eat well aud have been
benefited in more ways than can tell. No,
the cure was no exception in my case. /
know of ten people right here in Caldwell
who have bought No-T0-Bac from Hasler,
and they have teen cured. Now that rea-
iixe what No-To- BAG has done for me and
others, know why it is that the makers of
this wonderful remedy, the Sterling Rem
edy Company, of New York and Chicago,
say: We don't claim to cure every case.
That's Frauds talk, a lie; but we do guar
antee three boxes to cure the obacco habit,
and in case of failure we are perfectly will
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