Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Age and Decision. [ARTICLE]

Age and Decision.

A friend mentioned to us this week one of the most remarkable illustrations of decision in bieaking away from a long-contin-ued habit that we have ever heard. It was in the case of a relative of his; a venerable old gentleman ninety-four years \)f age, who had been in the daily habit of using his pipe and tobacco for more than seventy years. As the result olf mature deliberation, he one day suddenly surrendered the weed and all its accompaniiiie/its into the hands of his family, with the very empha'tic declaration: “There, take ’em away; I’ve done: 1 shant smoke, any morle; I won’t die with a pipe in my nn.’uth.’’ This determination was not in consequence of any consciousness of impaired vigor by the use of tobacco, for the old hero had never been sick a day in his life, had never been obliged to call a physician, and had never known anything whatever of the depression of disease; but it I came from the exercise of a wise, manly resolution. All honor to a veteran of nine- ■ ty-four, who could conquer a habit that had endured through “three• score and ten !” John I.eighton, Esq., of Boston, is the man. ! Clinton Courant.