Tobacco Withdrawal in a Boy
THERE is a young lad in this city who has a good place and attends faithfully to his duties. He had one bad habit, and that was chewing tobacco, in which he indulged more freely than men who had chewed for fifty years. Last Saturday a gentleman offered the boy $5 if he would quit chewing for a year. Another followed suit, and a third, all signing their names to a paper agreeing to give the same sum. The boy said he would win the money, washed his mouth, and began right away. Sunday he felt badly, and Monday he was worse. Tuesday he shook and trembled like a man with the delirium tremens, and yesterday he was confined to his bed, from which he has not got up, and it will be some time before the effects of the poison in his system can be worked out.—Hartford, Conn., Times.