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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. bacco and against a a habit 27 liquor were wholly removed from the home. life-long habit, however, especially one so fixed was upon him was not an To fight as such easy task to set for one's sel1. His stomach craved the liquor and apparently would not be satis It was perhaps three months before Myron Tan fied without it. a breakfast upon his stomach or be free from in consequence of the poisoned condition of the system, and especially of the stomach, but he held on to his pur He was asked to quit by degrees, to pose; he would not yield. at a time, but he never could understand the logic item one quit ner was able to hours of nausea of temporizing. keep or compromising with things. done, they must be done in the most effective If things manner. must be In conse told by physicians, of the radical change in his habits, he became almost totally blind, and for weeks remained in a darkened room unable to stand the painful effects of sunshine. quence, so he As an antidote for his blindness the doctor prescribed snuff, was of which he kept up while he lived, although on two dif ferent occasions he made an effort to throw it aside, only to learn that as a consequence his eyes each time became bad. He died at the use the home of his son, Joseph M. Tanner, in Forest Dale, 11, 1903, in his seventy-sixth year. January |
