Year: 1873

perhaps, tc ranch r:ore assisted in so do
ing.


Another element enters into the play
now. that of love of approbation. No
man likes to fail in en- undertaking vhere
another succeeds. No 6ne of party,
and neither one of two likes to be the
first to give over the battle. The consc-
quence then. may be that all, or both,
hold out TIL the victory is won


We have now suggested all the exped-
tents to aid You in overcoming the habit
of using tobacco of which we have a
knowledge at present. You can try
some one or other of these methods, CT
each and all of them in turn ard il you
are really in earnest, and are persevering
enough, you will surely find some way
out Of the difficulty. What is required
is pluck and persistence in other words
courage and constancy. With these
qualities in moderate development. all
that is now wanted is the will. And so
we will conclude this paper, and the Sc
ries. by repeating what we said not long
back "Where there's will the-e's &
way


ADDENDJM.


Just as we were about finishing the
last paper in this series, we happened to
open late newspaper when our eye fell
rson an item which had we had it in
time might have found fitting place in
the section which treats of the poisonous
properties of tobacco. But that was i'm.
possible the incident herein detailed
having occurred since that section was
published. It, is, however, So striking
an illustration of what we have therein
attempted TO teach that we cannot refrain
from introducing it here though some
what out of place. Verify the victims
of the tobacco plague seem to be increas-
ing in number, notwithstanding our eff
orts. If, in addition to what has been
said already, the perusal of this item.
viii have no effect in restraining young
men in the excessive use of the weed.
then nothing will that we can say. But
here is the item. 1t is a case OF
DEATH FROM SMOKING.
The New York correspondent Of The
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser writes :.
"A case in my own ultimate acquaintance
has this very week appalled, very large
circle of friends in this city. The vic
tim was exactly of my own years, and a
companion from early boyhood. For
thirty years at least he has been daily
smoker of the choicest cigars, but in all
his other habits temperate and regular,
and Of excellent constitution lone who,
of all n1cn. would have laughed at tue
suggestion that tobacco was killing him.
a week ago last Sunday night he was
stricken with the progressive paralysis
characteristic of nicotine, and on Sunday
night he died. His death was most
pitiful First, sight was lost, then speech
then motion of the neck, then motion Of
the arms and 90 on throughout the body
and he lay for fortnight unable to move
or make a sigu, save pitiful, tongueless,
inarticulate sound, which sometimes rose
to almost frantic effort, all iE' vain, to
make known what he wished to say to-
his family Or friends for his conscious
ness and mental faculties were left unim-
paired till within two hours of the last
to aggravaie to the uttermost the horror
of his situaton-a living soul in dead
body. The sense Of hearing was left
unmpaired, so that he was conscious Of
all around him, while az incapable of
communication with them az if dead.
save by slight sign of assent or dissent
to question The doctors were fully
agreed that tobacco was the sole cause of