The Victorious Pipe
If we are to believe the enthusiastio advocates of smoking, tobáceo will be as important in the next great war as medical attendance. In the Franco-German war it was the pipe against the cigarette. The German's pipe is large enough to hold au ounce of tobáceo; the Frenchman's cigarette is a mere pinch, and the French were often without this small amount of nerve f ood and consolation. The Germán authorities were not more anxious to give their troops plenty of food than they were to provide them with an ever full pipo. The Daily News correspondent related how a maimed soldier, lying amid the dead and dying before Metz, asked for but one relief - a cigar. General von Bentheim at a critical moment of a great fight saw one of his men coolly smoking and firing at close quarters. "Give me a light!" shouted the general. The soldier obeyed, with a quiet sinile, and the next moment the general, inspired by the courage of his subordinate, gathered up his shaken battalion and led forward his half decimated forces to victory. The Daily Telegraph correspondent related that while the firing was going on at Saarabrucken a party of Brunswick hussars came galloping into the fray smoking their ciears. iust as if the French were 20 miles awa. -
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