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Show SMOKED HIS CIGAR BY PROXY Bismarck Gave Cherished "Weed" to Wounded Soldier and Enjoyed Watching Man's Contentment. ' With all his brusqueness and even, (Bt times, brutality, Bismarck, says Frederick Marvin, had much of the "live-and-let-llve" philosophy, and it humanized him so that men loved him nd willingly followed after him. The story of the last cigar at Koeniggratz Illustrates what has been said, says the Yorkshire (Eng.) Post. "The value of a good cigar," said Bismarck, as he proceeded to light an excellent Havana, "is best understood ;when it is the last you possess and fhere is no chance of getting another. !At Koeniggratz I had. only one cigar left in my pocket, which I carefully guarded during the whole of the bat-tie, bat-tie, as a miser does his treasure. I iflld not feel justified in using it. i "I painted in glowing colors in my mind the happy hour when I should enjoy it after the victory. But I miscalculated mis-calculated my chances. And what was the cause of my miscalculations? A poor dragoon. He lay helpless, wltli eotfii arms crushed, asking for something some-thing to refresh him. I felt in my pockets and found only gold, and that Would be of no use to him. But stay, St had still my f treasured cigar! I lighted this for him and placed it between be-tween his teeth. You should have seen he poor fellow's grateful smile I I never enjoyed a cigar so much as that one which I did not smoke." |