Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
FEW Go:D JUDGES OF cIG.pS
The Work Of the Imagination In smolin,.
Old Dealers Confession.
Nsw York Tribune

vi" btdihi = CONCESSION.
Nsw York Tribune.
tall young man of rather dp5isb
pearapce was leaning over the ciosr.oP
III an old established Broadway tohooae
store, talking to the owner, when
porter entered The young man -
evidently been there for some time
had said great deal more than H. I -
tener cared to hear. There was n lool'
weariress and Impotence upon the -
prietor's intelligent face, which cava ~ ~
to one of relief as he turned 10 1oit "a!
several new customers who came in ,..; IN
the reporter. He attended the want va
each with such apparent elaboration thai
the young man seeing there was re-
chance of his being able to resume the
converation or monologue, for some TIM
puttonso up MS snort overcoat and start
ed out.
"That young fellow will force me .
bounce him yet" said the cigarman as
soon as his loquacious customer had A.
parted HE has been here for the lss4
month about three times a week for a ~
center, and each time he talks as lone ~
he can about how his cigar smoked ana
how that one did not snit him. and bor
he can tell good cigar on sight. and oii
that sort of thing, until am ready To san
asleep"
You do not consider him connois.
sour, them"
well, should say not. A competent
Judge of cigars is hard to find Tbe
longer | am in the business the more
am convinced that there is no article
which men think they know so mucb
about, but In reality know so little of, az
a cigar. | feel perfectly safe in saving
that not one man in hundred can tell
coed cigar when he sees it, or even when
he smokes it. Oh of course Won smokers
won't admit this to be true, but it is an
the same. Don't imagine that have an
exalted opinion of my knowledge of the
subject. | have been in the business
over twenty years, and yet l would not
venture to assert with any degree of as
surance whether cigar was domestic
or an Havana.
THE imagination works almost as ex-
tensively In the smoking Of cigar as it
does in the construction of a novel
have proven this to my own satisfaction
again and again. Sometimes lust for the
fun of the thing, | put a few two.for,a
quarters in the scent box and then
watch the look of disgust that comes over
the faces of the patron of that box as they
light these expensive brands. Sometimes
they will actually throw the more costly
cigar away. On the other hand, I've seen
the two-for- quarter customer enjoy the
aroma of 5-cent straight which for a
joke had put in his favorite box
"The popularity of certain cigar de.
ponds upon the smokers liking for that
flavor. To obtain various favors manu-
facturers have secret combinations OF to.
baccos, and these are as numerous as the
combinations of the notes of the music
scale. sample one is a Pennsylvania
filler and a Havana seed or Sumatra wrap
per. An honest 10-cent cigar is made up
of Connecticut, Pennsylvania or Wis
copsin binder with an Havana filler and
Havana or Sumatra wrapper. Havana
seed is the seed of Havana tobacco grown
in this country. A mild form of impo.
sition is to mix the Havana filler with do
nestle tobacco. Few smokers or dealers
know the difference. There is no bust
ness in which good name is worth more
than IN mine. A place that has the rep
utation bf handling good stock can sell
almost anything. Taste in cigars is
most deceptive, and dozen men would
have as many different opinions on the
same weed. Hence it is almost impos-
sible to sell cigars on their merits. Many
are sold simply on the advertising they
receive"