TOBACCO LEAVES 



years killed him. He is the only illus- 

 trious man whom I have never met who 

 gave up trying to learn to smoke after one 

 trial. Mr. Russell Sage is the only man 

 whom I have met who did the same thing. 

 He told me that he once tackled a cigar, 

 and that the cigar then tackled him. The 

 rest is silence. 



Edward VII., England's king, is an- 

 other gentleman whom I have never met 

 who is a smoker of the first rank. His 

 cigars have been made especially for him 

 for many years, and are worth ninety 

 cents apiece, or nine hundred dollars a 

 thousand. As Prince of Wales, when he 

 offered a cigar to one of his " set," it was 

 etiquette to refuse it, and social suicide 

 to accept it, though I think Mr. John L. 

 Sullivan took one from his divine hand 

 without losing caste. 



Another great man whom I have yet to 

 meet is Carlyle, the London Diogenes. 



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