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Show TOBaCCO IN WARFAHE. The "4 I'u,, .r, ,n ln Ihe Wlnnlns of an Kiis'sement, It mny riiiiiii atruiiKe but It la a fact, neverthelna, tl:,t ti,aeco plnya a prominent mrt ,hB winning of a battle. Thin waa known to old cam-palmien cam-palmien in the civil strife of the '60's and it oK-i In u own dining the trouble with Hpaln. A striking Illustration Illus-tration waa furnished by the I'nltod Blaine troops before Santiago. One who win in the trenches from the first In tellies t his and his comrades' experience! apuke of tobarc i as fol-lowi: fol-lowi: "There wax a tobacco fnmlne from the flrat day but It vaan't tint tl after the two big general engagements, when we settled down to see thlnga out, tint lie effects began to make themselves felt. At that time our boys wero lufterliiK from about na many dlfforent kinds of discomfort as could be gathered together In onn heap. They were half starved, terribly ex-hauated. ex-hauated. wet, cold end dirty. They were without shelter or a place where they could lie down, except In the muddy trenches, where noliody dared light a fire for fear of attracting the aharpshootera, anil you would naturally natural-ly suppose that all thoxe thlnga would have furnished almniliint material for grumbling. Hut Ihey didn't. They were scarcely mentioned. Iho only itihject that was generally dlacusacd wns the chance of getting a amoko, and, when that chnnrn waa finally recognized rec-ognized as zero plus nothing, the whole company settled dwn to deep gloom. Up to Hint time our men hud been perfectly per-fectly contltlcnt of taking HnntliiKo and licking the Hpniiluida out of their boots, but the longer they remained without tobacco Ihe more doubtful they became. They had all aorta of sinister sinis-ter forelioillnga we wnuld gut the fever; the enemy would shell ua with big naval guns from tha fleet; over-whe'ttilliR over-whe'ttilliR lelnfnreelnents would be runnel acroa from Havana. AC the end of 21 hours the: n w.is only one man In nur detachment who still believed be-lieved we had a ghost ot a chance. He waa a chap who bad stolen throe big, black clgni-a from the saddlebags of a passing general. The company remained re-mained In Hint frame of mind, only growing sLnillly more mid more hope less, until the evening of the fourth day, when a rnmnilahury wngon threw off a bog of tobacco by mistake, thinking think-ing It was beef. Our men pounced on It like tigers, and In five minutes every, body waa amoklng and confidence In the American arms was fully restored. Tha troopers were. If anything, hungrier, hun-grier, colder nnd wearier than they hui been at llrat, but I never guar such a sudden revival of martial spirit In niv life." |