Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — Had to Have Their Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Had to Have Their Tobacco.

Tobacco has often proved more than a panacea to the victims of war; it has been a source of courage and inspiration. At Saarbrucken in 1870 the Brunswick hussars galloped, cigars in mouth, amid a hail of bullets into a Aass of French troops. The uhlans in their advance movements invariably carried pipes in their mouths, substantial, capacious pipes, large enough to hold an ounce of the weed. And whenever the conquering troops entered a surrendered city they at once claimed not money nor food, but tobacco. The mayor of each town was directed to find cigars for everybody before anything else was done.