The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-12
AS A JUDGE Of CIGARS
D. F. Hallahan Can Name the
Brand After the First Puff.
HE ENJOYED AN ALEXANDRIA
Expresses the Emphatic Opinion That
They Don't Have Anything in This
Country That Compares With
the Manila Cigar.

Some people may have labored under
the impression that County Treasurer
D. F. Hallahan doesn't know a good
cigar when he smokes it, or that he
can't tell you the brand of a cigar after
the first puff. Those who have had this
impression will hurriedly discard it
when they know that Mr.. Halahans
discerning taste has been put to cru
cial test and that he came out with fly
ing Colors.
Mr.. Hallahan, day before yesterday
received a box of the finest of the fine
all the way from Manila where his
brother, John, is captain of Company
NJ. Mr.. Hallahan was afraid to take
the cigars to the court house, for the
reason that they would have lasted
about as long as snowflake in Porto
Rican temperature So he left them at
his place of business on Commercial
avenue, and when o'clock came and
the boys got through with their work
Mr.. Hallahan took them all up and
treated them to an 'Alhambra" Mar
tin Martin was one OF the men in the
party. Martin wouldn't play joke on
man for the world, but 1t just hap
pened that presently he was to have an
opportunity not to be overlooked.
The Alhambras were all nicely
Wrapped in tin foil and Mr.. Hallahan
passed them around. Everybody took
off the tin foil and lighted up, except
Mr.. Hallahan. He held his in his hand
The thought struck him that he ought
to keep one of the cigars as a souvenir.
so he took another and put it in his
pocket. Just then somebody came in
and invited everybody to have some
thing. Everybody. of course, walked up
and accepted the invitation. Mr.. Mar
tin took Baltimore cigar. AS he was
already smoking one of the Alhambras
he held his Baltimore in his hand Ev-
erybody was talking about the senator
lal situation and We're very much pre-
occupied. Mr.. Hallahan still had his
Alhambra with the tin foil removed in
his hand and Martin spied it.
say. Dan, let me look at that cigar
minute, will you?"
Dan handed over the cigar Martin
looked at it critically. He deity switch
ed the Baltimore for the Alhambra and
handed the former to Dan. Mr.. Hala-
han put it in his vest pocket and the
party walked up town.
The party stopped at a cigar store on
Main street and Mr.. Hallahan submitted
his Baltimore to the man behind the
counter.
What do you think of that? Is that
the pure stuff?''
Now the man behind the counter has
been in the cigar business for a long
time and is "wised up" on all kinds of
cigars. He looked at the smoker
smeled it, turned it over and looked
some more: then he held it real close
to the electric light and looked at it
again.
why, of course that's the pure stuff:
anybody could tell that; you can tell by
the fuzz on it."
Mr.. Hallahan took his cigar. said he
would smoke it after dinner and went
home.
Yesterday Martin asked him how he
liked the Alhambra
Aren't they fine? I never enjoyed
anything so much as l did that cigar
from Manila. They don't have anything
in this country like that, do they"
And Martin, like the guilty wretch
that he is, agreed with him.