Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — Cemented with Blood. [ARTICLE]

Cemented with Blood.

The greatest calamity that can befall a confirmed smoker is to have his cherished meerschaum broken, as frequently happens by a fall or other accident. When this happens, the fractured idol is generally taken to a jeweler’s and the dismembered parts rejoined by means of silver bands. This, of course, is expensive, but when was the time that a Yankee could not overcome difficulties of this sort at trifling cost ? A smoker of Biddeford, Me., happened to drop a handsome meerchaum pipe from his knees to the floor, and the stem parted in the middle. His friends immediately expressed their sympathy with him, but the man was not in the least disturbed by the disaster. He simply drew his knife from his pocket, extracted blood from his arm with one of the keen blades, and rubbing the broken ends of the pipe in the fluid placed the’m together, and laid the article on a table to dry. It was a novel experiment, but it is said that it will work successfully every time, and that if a pipe is onrie broken and cemented with blood it will never again part in that place.— Biddeford Journal.