Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-29
LET us ALL SMOKE
ON WALTER RALEIGH
lust Five Minutes Tonight Tor
Tribute to Tobacco's First
Press Agent, Whom King
Jimmy Beheaded.

(The ladies will pardon us II we ask
them to withdraw for few minutes,
this story being for the males oi the
snecies only. Items very interesting To
wives. swcethearts and mothers VIII be
found elsewhere, and the men ought To
have a bit of news to themselves once In q
while)
Now then:
Saw. fellows, do any of you know what
dav this is, outside of the fact that u is
Tuesday, October 20, 1918? All right
hut we cant 90 ahead until somebody
quiets Bill Binks, who s yelling tna1 ne
was married year ago today and
Bill being muzzled by some one sit''ne
on his head we proceed: a..
Three hundred years ago today, gentie-
uen one of the finest old scouts that
ever drew breath cashed in his chips and
became ready for that planting season
which comes to us all He was SIR Walter
| Raleigh. British knight, soldier, adventur-
| er gentleman. son-of-a-gun with the ladies
and what's probably more than these all
rolled into one, the man who introduced
| tobacco to Engllsh-speaking people anu
| laryclv because of II King James had
| Sir Walters head cut OIL
! History saws that Walt was mixed up
| in some sort of reasonable proceedings,
holding out bucaneered Spanish doubioons
ON Jimmy or irving to put somebody else
on Jimmv's lob as king. but everybody
knows YIN had an awful Crouch on
| tohacco-couldnt stand the aroma OF II
| or something so you can bet your iaS'
chip that it was tobacco when reaiiy
brought about Waits loss OF his bean ana
consequent death.
Long before this, Walt had made a
great name for himself. He was one of the
bandomest chaps in the British realm, q
scrapper from the drop OF the nat nh'
old family. good education, and all tha'
sort of thing And besides, he had made 9
tremendous hit with Queen Elizabeth
who although she was an old maid, knew
a real good-lookcr and regular iello"
whom she saw onc-she was noted tor ne
taste in such matter in fact. Walt was th'
e,,y who took off a perfectly good new
overcoat he was wearing cost hum abou
hundred bucks old stylel and put !
down on a puddle so her royal males',
wouldn't get her feet wet. some spoF'
Oh? Knew how to handle en-, what
Walt had d lot Of business dealings Wit
America. which was a howling wildnes
then. but was growing good tobacco Jus
the same He found the Indians got 10
| of Measure out Of the weed, tired 1t hun
: self fell for il good and hard, and lik
$ the good fellow he was passed u OF
, When Lizzie died, Jimmy took the thron
7 and started right after Walt and his t'
z bacco. because he didn't like the odor
: the smoke.
$ II took him some years to get Wait
: ooat-head we mean but he got J
: Walt HI d game as YOU make en-. re
n the headsmans 5 Ak, said il was good TO
:. for the Job and ought 70 make hum appe'
I, very suddenly in Heaven. And then Whe VIII
+ the headsman loitered on the Ioh, wa
/. specdcd him up and asked HIM what u
e Sam Hill he was bumming for,
So. fellows, let's have smoke
lr Walt "a sort Of silent tribute to u
IF memory Of a fellow who was sight bctt
II sport than we are, generous, hlg
o spIrited whole -souled English CENT?
ic man. and they don't make them mu
+ better than that Tonight, after dinn
d let's all find nice easy chair, cigar,
Is nlpe or a cigarette, and then slt down, t.
1f the kids and the 'Mlssus were nu
Al thinking with Waits shade NJ our elbt
:, and devote five minutes to quiet, souii
n companionship with il. He'd do IT
= vo,1 If YOU were in his boots and ne
yours. All IN favor say Ave No
Is santlnr voices Ii will be done
Of Ladies. we know doggone well y
N wore listening. : all right We rea
C. think You'll approve-even u We 90 ma
s. mess with the memorial ashes