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A TOBACCO STORY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 9.

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A TOBACCO STORY.

A good story is told of Mr. Joseph Harper, one of the original "Harper Brothers." He was an excellent man, but a great tobacco chewer. Mr. Harper had a neighbor who was a notorious drunkard. A friend was one day laboring with the man, and entreating him to stop drinking. "Why, I could no more quit drinking," he replied, "than old Joe Harper could give up tobacco." When this remark was repeated to Mr. Harper, he exclaimed: "Does that old drunkard say that? I will show him that old Joe Harper can give up tobacco." And from that moment he never touched it again.—Standard.