The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-03-27


very intemperate users of the stimu-
liant. Many men SIN IKE more cigars a
day than Gen. Grant was accustomed
to do, although physicians say that it |
is not the number Of cigars so mnch as |
the strength of them that affects the
health Among public men it is the
exception to find one who does not use
tobacco in one form or another, some
times in two ways, and almost all of
them firmly believe that tobacco does
not hurt them. Judge Kelley's case
has been cited as one where cancer was
caused by the excessive use of tobacco,
but he told the writer that the cancer
Gus affection of the cheek from which |
he suffered was due to the habit h.
had of going to sleep with quid of
tobacco tucked into his cheek, and
resting his head on that side. Judge
Kelley, now 20 years old, smoked aud
used the best fine cut immoderately for
fifty years. The operation which he
submitted TO in Paris restored his
health, and he has abandoned the
habit.
Vice President Colfax for many
years smoked ten or fifteen very strong
cigars every day. He was suddenly
attacked by serious vertigo while
Vice President, and he attributed it to
the narcotic poison. He at once stop
ped smoking yet Vice-Prtsident Will
son, who never used tobacco, was
stricken almost precisely as Mr.. Colfax
was. The late Senator Carpenter fire.
quently smoked two boxes of cigars
week, and his sudden collapse was at
tribuied, by those who did not know
how for tw' nty-five years he had burn
habit. That Mr.. Carpenter should
have lived to the age of 55 after living
a life of almost constant defiance Of all
the laws of health is regarded by those
who knew him as remarkable. Slro
Delmonico and Mr.. Ives, a well-known
manufacturer OF New Haven, died of
perfectly well defined symptoms of
narcotic poisoning, but both We're well
along in years, and both were never
without the stimulant.
Ex-President Arthur smokes less
than formerly, lighting his cigar now
seldom before dinner, but when in the
late night hours he was busted with
work his companion was cigar, some
times three or four. DR.. Hammond is
reported tn have once said that gener-
ally three or four cigars after dinner
harmed few men of average constitu-
ton, and Mr.. Arthur thought they did
him good. At all events, all of his
messages to Congress Were written un-
der the gentle stimulus ola fragrant Ha-
vana Most of Mr. Arthur's Cabinet
officers were good smokers. Mr.. Free
linghuyspn did not use tobacco, though
the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr..
Davis, liked good cigars, and plenty of
them. Tobacco was the only thing
that ever made Secretary Chandler
turn pale. 1t was rank poison to
him, and though he tried many years
ago to overcome the evil effects, as be-
came gond politician, yet he never
could. Alcohol, except in almost no.
m9pathic doses of the very best wine,
affects the ex Secretary of the Navy in
the same way. But Gen. Gresham
was a great smoker. He smoked on
the public streets, at his work. and
wherever he could Secretary Teller
liked cigar that would last a long
time and was not very strong. Secre
tary Line In smokes good many
pretty stiff cigars every day, and At
torrey- General Brewster liked on,
with body to it.
Gen. Sherman is pretty constant
smoker, aud he smokes, as he does
everything else, with nervous haste, So
that the cigar is more than half chewed
up Gen Sheridan likes good black
Reina af,er each meal, with one o,
two thrown in between whiles.
Nearly all the, Senators use tobacco
some of them constantly. Vice-Presi
dent Hendricks likes cigar, but ht
dearly loves the sweet Detroit fine cut
which he buys in bulk. Perhaps Sen.
ator Frye is the most persistent smoker
of Senators. If there be long session
Of the Senate, be will leave his seat
several times in the course of il, and
retire to the cloak room for smoke
In his committee room and other
places of unrestraint he frequently
lights one cigar at the stub of another
Poker Jack Bowen from Colorado
smokes constantly, and when he cam
smoke he has paper of fine cut a,
hand. The two New Hampshire Sen
ators, Blair and Pike, do not use to
bacco, nor do Senators Dawes anc
Hoar. The new Senator Chace O.
Rhode Island does not smoke, but Mr.
Edmnnds smokes few choice cigars {
day, ard now aud then rolls littl,
pill of navy plug under his tongue
Both Senator's Hawley aud Platt o
Connecticut are constant smokers, Gen
Hawley not disdsining a good old
fashioned chew. 1t is hardly possibl,
for any one TO smoke more, bigger, o
stronger cigars than the living skeleton
called Malone does, and his colleague
Riddleberger, is an almost constan
smoker. All of the Southern Senators
except Gormon and Joe Brown, use to
bacco, and most of them use it in tw,
"olr. oObes VI u lOTIut IL not UdTllC
ular about the flavor of his cigars, an,
it is standing joke among Senator
when they get poor cigar TO send
to him. He smokes it as happily a
though il cost dollar. Jones of Ne
vada, on the other hand, will smok
none but the best, and he makes ava
with ten or twelve every day. Bpcl
aside from few strong cigars a day
likes to tiillate his nostris with
pinch of snuff now and then, but
does not do it so publicly as Senate
Thurman did. Young Senator Kenn
is a great smoker, and John Loga
pnffs fiercely at big, black cigars. job
Sherman smokes little cigars, light co
ored, and has them made specially f.
him. Ben Harrison likes pipe in hi
office, but is more often seen on tn
street with cigar than without on,
Senator Conger likes to smoke thre
cigars a day. Senator Allison woul
rather smoke good cigar and blu
ont a king fnll Than IN dine at the mo,