New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

SOURCES the extent of which is incalculable;
added to which he has, by a strange mixture OF
daring speculation and wise investment trans
formed himself from of the poorest into one
of the richest sovereigns in Christendom He,
too. has smoked all his life, and contents him
self with a cigarette when he cannot get hold
of one of his favorite brarwood pipes Of which
he has a large collection
The most inyeterate smoker of all the anointed
of the Lord in the Old World is the fat and
Jolly King Charles of Portugal, who is rarely
seen without a cigar of which he smokes forty
a day He is the most sunny tempered, jovial
and kindly hearted monarch in Chr1stendom.
When he came to the throne his people We're
bent upon proclaiming republic. But by his
mingled good humor and shrewdness he has en-
tireIy reconcied them both to the present form
of government and to the dynasty. Il @~
Even the Pope smokes. and is the first Pontif
OF the Roman Catholic Church to indulge in
cigars his predecessors. notably Plus TX and
Leo XIII having contented themselves with
snuT.
Perhaps the fact that Emperor Nicholas IS
ford of cigarettes will not be regarded just at
present by most people in this country as
testimonial in their favor, Yet 1t must not be
forgotten that reforms such those which are
ncv being instituted in his dominions cannot
very well be brought about without popular up
heaEalS,
But when quiet has been at length restored, and
when his people have settled down to the enjoy
ment of the concessions made to them by the
crown he win be remembered then, and will
likewise live in history as the Gar who endowed
Russia with Constitution.
1t is a peculiar fact that the leading Moslem
rulers refrain from smoking. and 1t was doubt
less owing to the fact that he never INDUCED
in tobacco himself that the cigarettes OF the late
Khedive Tewfil were so abominable. Indeed.
am convinced that one of the reasons why he
was subjected to so much bullying and badger
ing by the various ministers and consus ac-
credited to his court was because the cigarettes
which he was wont to offer them were so ex-
ecrabIe that it required the strongest dose OF
courtesy possible to make even a pretence Of
smoking them the result being that he had TO
Ee>r the full brunt of every disagreeable hrst
thought that came to the mind of his foreign
visitors, his cigarettes offering no inducement
for them TO reflect before speaking, ana tend
ing moreover to irritate rather than to soothe
their temper.
Tewfk failed to realize that tobacco was what
the late Lord Ampthill was wont TO descIioe as
a piece of diplomatic machinery" of the utmost
Importance. ! often wonder If those who hhe
Justice David Brewer. are accustomed to wax
eloquent on the subject Of the alleged pernictous
effects of the her0a ncotina. realize the I'M
portant part which it has played during the last
two hundred years in the history OF the world
its influence upon the course of political events
having been almost invariably of beneficial
character Not only have its narcotic properties
tenG-1 4n soothe the angry passions OF those
entrusted with the conduct OF international re-
lations hut It has also afforded them the oppor-
tunity of thinking before they spoke, and allowed