The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-04
SIX GOOD CIGARS
SAVED SIX LIVES
Dramatic Instances lnsWhl = z:
theWeed Worked Against
Fate.

This may, not be sufficient excuse Tor
cultlvatirg d fondntss for tobacco III gen
era and expensive clgnrs III particular tuct -
4 if excuse be heeded--but It's strangely
true that cigars, generally good cigars,
have many times saved valuable human
lives. FL
MI Guizot, the great French historian,
for instance. owes his life to % cigar,
( One day he was walking In one q the
gardens Of Paris when. he noticed that
ne was being followed ~ u Dolly l
purpose lii view which included the his.
torlun.laSS.'i Il.
Nj. eulzot finally sat down on n bench
se9 ne loHw e Kin
with g threatening air which might have
WITH :'nei ssaHS'' ' rio historian was not
troubled He pulled cigar out OF his
pocket and lighted 1t.
At that action the strange man arose
and .,muttered TINT he had been mlstak EN-,
sc99ndre he 'an1 % M
puzzled by this occurrence until he
learned several days afterward that q
man answering the description of the fell
low who had followed him had been ar
rested for n murdcrous assault on n pub
lie official, against whom he had a grudge.
He had mistaken NJ. Glizot tor the OIL
ciai a q, no doubt would ,ha a,, made the
Y The late King IIumbert. ofs.,Italy,. in
rs youth was an hnbittal smoker. One
iwhlc5 he had Just lighted. Ho noticed
that q sinEularly dejected-lookin citizen,
faasa fna h5Et hs f m5s
of the matter Until some months later,
when 1t was called to his memory upon
receipt. Of an unsigned letter relating that
hitting suicide, when he had CHANGED to
pick up the cigar which the King had
( droppcd. ~
changed dG tbs obi s ., II lis Soushta
for thu. time being and the impulse to
SUICIDE t,il > e had been overcome; H. added
him then had left him., In that case the
k,ng's cigar saved not himself but tho
Then there is the story OF how Sig.
with a cigar. The singer had. just started
on q long railroad journey when tho man
With whom he was locked in the COM
from his pocket md announced TINT no
recognized that he had to ,doal with a
mah sava he saw that VAS eo Ss
\ probable that a strugg Q would end In the
maniac accomplishing his purpose.
Before you, begin, wouldn't YOU Ike to
murderous companion. l.t{. "
tho nan ~ ls' y; ssde his knife Ny
had in Ills case, and Wien the crazy
man had smoked It he offered him San
other big one. The; man continued smok-
the Italian he had q good Sllpply. The
man was still smoking when the train
stopped at the next station, and Mario
managed to hand him over to the po-
plot against the life OF 5Nlazzini. tho
Italian patrlot. once failed because Of
bis courtesy 60 VIII box Of cigars It came
to be made on his life.a2He procured a
box Of the finest cigars and waited for
his would be assasslns to .eall, on him.
ga sn hs Taken s' nSuo * s sS th
they took them and began to SIN oke
They did not find It ehsy to start kill
Ing a man who had just. handed them
good cigars, and they sat about awkward
IT, until Mazzinl said:
Gentlemen, take another cigar. be-
lcye you game to o. kill ne? Why DO you
The ASA sSins muttered some words of
lame regret and left.is
Two more instances are. given to show
where men saved themselves fro p :. en- n
cigars. When Bismarck was entering
Paris with the German army he noticeG
that some French workmen. were gath
cred Mt the gate, evidently prepared
to make hostile demonstration. Quick
IL he turned his horse; toward them and.
pulling out a cigar, asked their leader
for a match. The man handed him one
and the attitude Of the Frenchmen
changed completely as the German leader
thanked the workman courteously
Edwin Booth once thus disarmed a
small mob of men who had been hired
to make demonstration at a perform-
anco he was giving on one OF his tours,
They had been hired by rival ACTORS 10
attend Booths performance and cause
nh uproar which would spoil the play;
They We're seated In two upper boxes and
Booth learned The plan. lie sent them a
box of cigars and expressed the hope
that they would be ,plesed win them
even if they were not with his perform
ance. The policy succeeded and the mon
who were hired to hiss stayed to APP
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