Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-24
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TOBACCO TO THE RESCUE.
Cigars Have Saved Great Men From
Assassination.

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Cigars Have Saved Great Men From
Assassination.
Cigars have saved mems lives. M.
Guizot, the great French historian.
owes his life to cigar, says the Chi
cago Tribune. One day he was walk
ing in one of the gardens Of Paris,
when he noticed that he was being fol-
lowed by a shabbily dressed man, who
evidently had some purpose in view
which included the historian.
M. Guizot finally sat down on a
bench, and his unwelcome follower
seated himself there also, all the time
watching him with a threatening air
which might have proved disconcerting
to a man troubled with nerves. The
historian was not troubled. He pulled
a cigar out Of his pocket and lighted
1t
At the action the strange man
arose and muttered that he had been
mistaken, as the scoundrel he meant to
kill did not smoke. The historian was
considerably puzzled by this occur
renee until he learned several days af-
terward that a man answering the de-
scription Of the fellow who had follow
ed him had been arrested for mur-
derous assault on public official. He
had. mistaken M. Guizot for this OFF,
cial, and no doubt would have made
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out the cigar.
/ The late King Humbert, Of Italy, in
his youth was habitual smoker. One
day while driving through the streets
Of Naples he happened to drop cigar
which he had just lighted. He nQtlced
that a singlarly detected looking citizen
darted forward and grabbed the cigar
from the street. He thought nothing
more of the matter until some months
later, when 1t was recalled to his MEM
ory upon receipt Of an unsigned letter
relating that the writer had been on
the verge Of committing suicide when
he had chanced to pick up the cigar
which the king had dropped.
The smoking Of this, he said, had
changed the moodiness Of his thoughts
for the time being, and the impulse to
suicide had been overcome. He added
that he was happy to say that the
troubles which had threatened to
overwhelm him then had left him. In
that case the Kings cigar saved not
himself but the other man.
Then there is the story Of how Sig
nor Mario, the famous tenor, saved
his life with cigar. The singer had
just started on q long railroad jour-
ney when the man with whom he
was locked in the compartment drew
truculent looking knife from his pock-
ct and announced that he intended to
cut his throat. The singer recognized
that he had to deal with a crazy man,
and he saw that coolness alone could
save him, as it was highly probable
that struggle Would end in the ma
Mac accomplishing his purpose.
Before you begin wouldn't you like
to smoke good cigar?" he asked OF
his murderous companion.
THAT wouldn't be bad idea," said
the man, laying aside his knife. my
nerves will be steadier."
Mario gave him the biggest cigar he
had in his case, and when the crazy
er big one. The man continued smok-
ing the singers cigars, and luckily for
the Italian, he had good supply. The
man was still smoking when the train
stopped at the next station and Mario
managed to hand him over to the po-
lice.
A plot against the life Of Mazzini, the
Italian patriot, once failed because OF
his courtesy with g. box Of cigars 1t
came to his knowledge that an at
tempt was to be made on his life. He
and waited for his would-be assassins
to call on him. When they came in he
handed out the cigars. Taken back
by this vancouver they took them and
began to smoke.
They did not find it easy to start
killing a man who had just handed
them good cigars, and they sat about
awkwardly, until Mazzini said:
Gentlemen, take another cigar.
believe you came to kill me. Why do
you not proceed to business.
The assassins muttered some words
OF lame regret and left.
Two other instances are given to-
show where men saved themselves from
embarrassment, not from peril, with
using cigars. When Bismark was en-
tering Paris with the German army he
noticed that some French workmen
were gathered at the gate, evidently
prepared to make g. hostile demonstra-
ton. Quickly he turned his horse to-
ward them and pulling out a cigar
asked their leader for match. The
man handed him one and the attitude
OF the Frenchman changed completely
as the German leader thanked the
workmen courteously.
Edwin Booth once thus disarmed
small mob Of men who had been hired
to make demonstration at perform
ance he was giving on one Of his tours.
They had been hired by rival actors to
attend Booths performance and cause
an uproar which would spoil the play.
They were seated in two upper boxes,
and Booth learned Of the plan. He
sent them a box Of fine cigars and ex-
pressed the hope that they would be
pleased with them, even II they were
not with his performance. This policy
succeeded, and the men who were
hired to hiss, stayed and applauded.
In GOOD CoMPANY.-The members OF
the Druid Park church were very ex-
elusive saws LippincOtt'S, Before any,