The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-08
Tobacco To The Rescue.

owes his life 10 cigar, says the Chi
cago Tribune. One day he was walk.
ing in one Of the gardens Of Paris,
when he noticed the. be ==s 5siug foi.
lowed by shabbily dressed man, Who
evidently had some purpose in view
which included the historian.
n. Guizot finally sat down on o
bench, and his unwelcome follower
seated himself there also, all the time
watching him with g threatening air
which might have proved disconcert-
ing 20 man troubled with nerves.
The historian was not troubled. He
pulled a cigar out Of his pocket and
lighted it.
AT the action the strange man arose
and muttered that he had been mis-
taken, as the scoundrel he meant to
kill did not smoke. The historian
was considerably puzzled by this oc-
currence until he learned several days
aftcrward that man answering the
description Of the fellow who ha1 fol-
lowed hin. had been arrested for
murderous assault on public official
He had mistaken NJ. Guizot for this
official, and no doubt would have
made the assault on him had he not
pulled out the cigar.
The late King Humbert. of Italy,
in his youth was habitual smoker.
Ono day while driving through the
streets of Naples he happened to drop
cigar which he had just lighted.
de noticed that singularly dejected
looking citizen darted forward and
grabbed the cigar from the street.
He thought nothing more of the mat
ter, until some months later, when it
was recalled to his memory upon re-
ceipt Of an unsigned letter relating
that the writer had been on the verge
of committing suicide when he had
CHANGED 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 add
ed that he was happy to say that the
troubles which had threatend to over
whelm 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
bis life with cigar. The singer had
just started on a long railroad jour
ney when the man with whom he was
looked in the compartment drew a
truculent looking knife from his pook-
ct and announced that he intended to
cut his throat. The singer recognized
that he had to deal with craEy man,
and he saw that GOODNESS alone could
save him, and 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 oigar?" 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 man
had smoked it, offered him anothes
big one. The man continued smoking
the singers cigars and luckily for the
Italian, he had good supply. The
man was still smoking when the train
stopped at tho next station and Mario
managed to hand him over to the police.
A plot against tho life of Mazzini,
the Italian patriot, once failed because
Of his courtesy with q box Of cigars.
It cams to his knowledge that an at
tempt was to be made on Ills life. He
procured. a. box of the finest cigars
and waited for his would be assassius
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 man who had just handed
them good cigars, and they set abou,
awkwardly, until Mazzini said:
Gentlemen, take another cigar. I
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 whero men saved themselves
from embarrassment, not from peril,
with using cigars. When Bismark
was entering Paris with tho German
army. he noticed tina. some French
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