Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-06-27
HOW TOQUIT SMOKING
NEW Works. MOST USEFUL. ClTI.
ZEN TELLS HOW HE DID IT.
Went Up Into the Woods, Miles from
Any tobacco or FIR. cn Is, and Fought
the tight Out Alone-An0ther und
Ouite different Case.

Zone Of the pleasantest tive-minute
visits l have lately enjoyed was with
the man whom Roosevelt, with his con-
tempt for the via media even in words,
calls the most useful citizen III New
York. Jacob Kiis. His coming was
like westerly breeze, and in minute
we had left our desks and were laugh
ing with him. He has the most intec-
tious Of laughs-the laugh of the hope
full man. He was Off in u moment on
one Of his jolly little stories. Burn
your bridges; that's my motto. Did
ever tell you how quit tobacco? Well,
just gave it up ut one blow Heroic.
some one remarked. doubtless having
memory of successive defeats in Il sim
liar undertaking. Yes, my wife says
it was the most heroic thing ever did.
l went up into the woods 100 miles,
where there wasn't any tobacco, sent
my guide Off on an errand with the
one means Of travelling we had-a steam
launcll-and then l settled down to fin
ish up my tobacco habit. In week
was cured
Now, there are other ways of cur
ing oneself Of this habit, but the most
original way was pointed out to me
by portly, good-natured, and healthy
man Of 90, who looked to be not over
so: Twenty years ago. he said, 4
found that was using too much to-
bacco, for was not without some form
of nicotine every hour Of the day. So
one New Years eve sat down and
with box of cigars before me decided
to smoke the old year out and quit.
At five minutes before midnight threw
the stub Of my cigar into the fire and
arose to retire, remarking to my wife:
II am not going to want to smoke any
MORE" She laughed at me, but l meant
1t. The next morning before starting
for the Office placed three or four
cigars in my pocket as usual. and my
wife, seeing the act, said triumphantly:
Il thought you were not going to smoke
any more" replied: II didn't say
that; said was not going to want to
smoke any more. If want to smoke
I shall smoke" But l have never had
the desire and have never smoked since
that time
"That was certainly an odd sort Of
mind-cure, and 1t leads me to I'm anec-
dote of personal experience which l
shall not ask to be explained. One
evening last week l turned from a
newspaper to book shelf, thinking to
read something soothing and substan-
tial before retiring. CHANGING over the
volumes l Mt length picked up "Plu-
tarch's Lives" and began to read Of our
somewhat dissipated Socratic friend.
Alcibiades. Before l had read page
feeling came upon me that an ami
versary was connected somehow with
that book. read on, but the annivers-
airy thought haunted me and spoiled
my understanding Of the text until
turned at last in desperation to the fly
leaf and saw that the book was bought
March %. 1881, just twenty years be-
fore! Now, one can understand In a
vague sort of way how he can come
suddenly upon friend Of whom he had
just been thinking, but how bit of
writing posted on the flyleaf Of book
can reach down through twenty years
of time and tantallze ones brain Is
something beyond my thought, and l
am not seeking an explanation."-Lis.
tener, in Boston Transcript.