Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — Securely Wedded to His Pipe. [ARTICLE]

Securely Wedded to His Pipe.

As Is well known, Thomas Carlyle, the great. Scottish essayist and historian, was a slave to tobacco. In his home, his study or out of doors he was seldom seen without his pipe and he smoked the strongest tobacco he could procure. During a large part of his Life he was a sufferer from Insomnia and his friend,' Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, once suggested to him that one who suffered so much from sleeplessness and indigestion ought not to smoke so constantly. Carlyle replied that he had once given smoking for an entire Jear at the instance of a doctor, who assured him that hiu only ailment was too much tobacco. At the end of the year he was walking one. evening in the country, so weak that he was hardly able to crawl from tree to tree, when he suddenly determined that whatever was amiss with him ‘that fellow at least did not understand it,” and he returned to tobacco and smoked afterward without let or hindrance. In his latter days he used a clay pipe made In Dublin and known as the “Repeal” He was unable to renew the supply and Sir Charles Duffy assured him that these pipes Were strictly reserved for true Isillevers in Irish nationality and promised him a supply if he qualified in the ordinary manner. Carlyle never qualified.