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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 143, 17 June 1881, Page 1

TO SMOKERS.

The following let<er*£o the editor ap- ; pears .in , a recent 1 number of the '. Aberdeen 'Free: iVm:-r;Sir:, In glan-, oing.over the columns of a copy of tbe New -Zealand Herald- of . tbe ; 6tb '> December, 1 880, ' I 'observed tt e fo'« 'lowing paragropb, wßich J, think: yoq would do.well to insert; i»: your .paper the first opportunity:— i-* On Tuesday lest Mr R.H^Ma'ithewfl/'pf^'ngonni; Dnderwent a Bey,er|e operation ., in the District Hoepitfti, and now, lies in a very precarious condition. Ha was- a heavy •moker, and sotne six or nine mpnths ,bjo he got thVu]Qderfiido' l of;hia.j^ poisoned by the. use of a dirty,. pipe, since then there had been a very nasty sore. As it continued to g-t worse, he came up to Auckland a week, or two ago for advice on the matter.; Dr Pnilson web consulted, and for b week or bo be thought the sore might be checked by the useof caustic, bat seeing that true .cancer indications were: Betting io, it was decided to excise (he diseased portion. As stated/ tbe operation was performed on Tuesday I .at, and it will'be 'impoaeible for eoine time to say how the patient may get 00. Yeetetdi y ho was; very, low, but hopes firn entertßi6ed 6fhiß uhiraate recovery., The doctor, before the operation was made, considered that the disease would ri suit in death' ia the course of' three moDitie; and, should he recover from |he effaots of the operation,; he will probably ei)j6y, ; many j.e&ra of uteiful.'iUe. 1 ' No doubt many Btnokdrs will -read this < warning withoufc being; greatly ocio^ed' by it, but the subject 1 is .one in which ; I takp .,a'peQuliar,iQ^ere.bt. . J^or.tw^ntyf^ve years, I ©njpy.ed cpy } pipe, j as. thoroughly as any of your readers can possibly' doi aud ; ttiflHe ',a'|ooe. wbb" have' tasted pf. the Bmokai.'d enjoy!ment Will. b,e 'IbietoTreaiiie wtiat,ii;gave up when; I parted, company with my pipe; About • went Jr; years, ago I was eittiog^ by m f\ • 6reaida f in ] tne. aq(C p^fitling jmy^ipV, i ten an/old acquaintance looked in to!: S e mej he noticed what I was engaged/ ,i> doinp^and, without ; any .ceremoby, 1 he, called!! ftte Pi P* 0 *?. and", eai iJ, 't T wou)d, advise! yoi: -to drpp ! ib.ati?'/: JEori 'some time, previous he had been cori* o^rned about the condition of his t ngue, of which; I was qoite. aware, and, thinking; he was infl uenceiJ , by this: at the time he spoke to me, I asked him to ; show me his tongue, on which he pointed out a eore' about the size ofX'. pjea on the^side of ;itj , This sore con? tinued to trouble him so much that at last be resolved' to go through to. the Aberdeen Infirmary. •Whe.n.he went there he con Butted the late .Dr, Eeiihj who took the case in. .at once. Tie doctor BBked hioVifhe was a smoker, and on receiving 1 an onswei* in the affirmative, said, "Thousands ere ruibiog their, health by smoking tobacco. I '. It, appears nothing could be done by way of care for my friend^' One day; after, when I asked if he waß improving, he said, putting his -thumb to his right jaw, " There is something, hard here! which I don/^ilceV.'^jiir^^Vy ! goi^orße,anjijit last He; w^^pbligJe^ .] ti remain indoors. I viaitjadr him from ino to iixaftMloiig as he wt« abl& t'6 ) speak', and >'mbngß> ; the" last; 1 w.ofdii'^ ; flai.^to'-m^^'ere,;' '" Are'.' ir,om the pipe ; r If ifch^d not, bfeni.ior the pipe; I •; would -Wo.tr ihave bee'n^lying. here to-day." Sadtosayi his ton^qe came, oat before he difid. This melaDcholy circumstance wag not without its efficts upon me for I laid- aside my pipe 1 ' tbien,and for twenty years I have, abs t aiiied froni the use of tobacco. 1 took ' the warning ilvao, and I ask you to insert this In the hope that some others will now be- persuaded, to give up a. babit fraught writh Buch dirq Jcodeequences. It. is, I think, high time that something should be dbce to prevent young boys from ruining thpir constitutions by becoming early ; a^dlc*©)J ( to, smoking tQbac.co. y: ,:

■\ The bouncing West" in commonly I siip- ■> posed to be the .bright particular, ihot-bod; offabulous tales, but. the most apocryphal Cdld > weather storyvthis year comes from' ijitchi. = field, Conn. ;. A man by the uam& «of Brigtit went out in the mprnibg.to pump water ;f6r his stock. As he .had not returned '■ &i ' noonhis wife started out. to seek him. Theife he : stqod at the well pumping; literally, ."fop his -i life ; f or, through -a hole in the trough -the i; Xvaterhad flowed around his boots, and freezing solid, -fastened him securely irihis tracksTo keep from freezing to death the farmed haa.contuauefltQipnmp.TiolentlyalVtheinerri^' ■'ing,, aWho.Ugb s the well^ Mm, .soon> iexhausi^d \ Rkmife sot bimiree%;]ceeping,fiftit;ar§iin(i :i his feodtß, : !' Tli6istaihaa>the same defM&a :> 4wt>ms*ffoww JioWwft^, '■>■■> vi ' ] V.A <.-I tt-'iSOij-i'j'"/ iiO'i;'..ji-{ s ij. -„.■,; ;i "■'.in, 1 '