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known. A year or two ago the United States Senate 

 took what the Seer of Chelsea would have regarded 

 as a retrograde step, and forbad smoking in the House. 



How only fifty years ago tobacco freed Italy from 

 Austrian dominion has already been told. Even now 

 many Hungarians are patriotically abstaining from 

 tobacco and alcohol to drive home their protest against 

 Austrian rule by the reduction of the State revenue 

 from these sources. 



Modern Germany was literally conceived and 

 formed in clouds of tobacco-smoke. Bismarck, the 

 creator of the German Empire, formulated his plans 

 in his pipe. It was the resemblance between the 

 pipes of Germany and Schleswig-Holstein that made 

 him declare the two peoples were ' separated brothers.' 

 Moltke carried out his part of the task under the 

 stimulation of snuff. The great German Chancellor 

 has graphically described the part tobacco played in 

 one momentous Session of the now defunct German 

 Bund: 



' I went to see Rechberg, who was at work and 

 smoking at the same time. He begged me to excuse 

 him for a moment, I waited a little while. By-and- 

 by I got rather tired of waiting, and as he did not 

 offer me a cigar, I took one out of my case and asked 

 him for a light, which he gave me with a somewhat 

 astonished expression of countenance. But that is 

 not all. At the meeting of the Military Committee, 

 when Rochow represented Prussia at the Federal 

 Diet, Austria was the only member who smoked. 

 Rochow, who was a desperate smoker, would have 

 dearly liked to smoke too, but dare not venture to do 



