The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26
PIPES OF SOME FAMOUS MEN.
THEY PUFF INSPIRATIONS THAT
MAKE THEM GREAT.


Declares That No Cigarette SmoI<-
err Has Ever Accomplished Any
thing Worthy of Note.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Note the pip Of great men-great men
never smoke anything but a pipe. The
wri er Of This knows, for he smokes one
himself TIE Emperor WIN am used to
smoke German cigars of cheap and Won
derful nature. His s.eadiness and states
manlike restraint of late is entirely due
to the fact that lie now smokes a pipe.
This pipe certainly leaves much TO be
desired. II is great, long pipe of the
usual German character. with an abom-
Unable, nonabsorbent china bowl. 1t holds
two ounces of tobacco and the covering
cap is a so den crown. The long stem,
too, is decorated with gold and silver, and
gilt German eagle. Now. the true smolS-
er abhors fancy pipe, and in the Kali
ser's you see his extravaganza material
lied When Wilhelm smokes "a plain brier
lie will lie great Emperor
Eisn arck, who literally made the Ger
man empire, conceived ana fashioned it
in the smoke of his meerschaum. 1t was
a huge pipe, and Bismarcks Lolicy was
great one. A day could never have con-
ceived it,
Car smokes IA Plain Bricr.
The young Gar has proved his mettle.
and he smokes PLAIN brier of the bull
deg variety. This also is the favorite of
the Duke of YORK 1t exactly accords wi h
the sturdy ChaTac.ec of that sailor
Prince. He became enamored Of the bull
dog brier when a MILDLY. with no hopes
of the crown when he used to sneak up
to The fight ne tops to smoke in. secret.
The Prince CT Wales d. e. not sm Ike
pipe.
The Shah of Persia proclams his ORR
entail luxury an extravaganza by his pipe,
which cost $4,000 1t is hookah,
ablaze with diamonds, rubes and emer-
aids. The mouthpiece and upper and
lower joints of the stem are pure gold,
incrusted with gems. The sultan used
to smoke hookah. All his recent trou-
bles and weaknesses are due to his aban-
doning the pipe for the weak cigarette.
When NJ. Loubet was elected President,
eighteen months ago. France tottered on
the edge of revolution and anarchy. Look
how NJ. Loubet has lived down his un
popularity and safely steered the ship of
the republic through the rocks of the
Dreyfus affair and military revolt.
The explanation is simple. NJ. Lou
bet smokes a pipe. None of Frances
rulers for years past have smoked. True,
NJ Felix Faure, the late President, puff
ed cigarettes. But they don't count. To
smoke is to be a statesman, and NJ Lou
bets neat brier spells stability as surely
as cigarettes mean weakness.
Kruger's Two Pipes.
Kruger is great man. The way he
has raised the 'Transvaal, engineered its
affairs and attempted TO throw off the
yoke of the British power in South Africa
proves his power Dom Paurs pipe is
historical. Up to a year ago ID was
home made article. The bowl a German
visitor left behind. To it Mr.. Kruger at
tached stem from a Kaffir pipe and
the mouthpiece he made himself
The legend runs that this pipe in which
he has smoked all his policy for twenty
years, has been inseparably connected
with his affairs. When he got the indie
! pendence of the Transvaal returned IN
1881 the stem broke. Just before the
Jameson raid a bit was Clipped off the
china bowl. When the murder of Edgar
occurred which led to the renaissance of
the Outanders' agitation, and eliminated
in this war, the pipe fell 10 the ground
and was smashed to fragments.
A year ago he had a pipe specially made
in Dublin. 1t is of brier and the bowl,
| carved with the Transvaal coat-of-arms,
holds an ounce of tobacco. Two stems of
cut vulcanite-one long and one short
can be fitted at pleasure. There is no
doubt that this pipe made Kruger lose
his usual caution and send the ultimatum.
His bent brier is the favorite bluff of
King Leopold of Belgium, and Is the key
| note to his government of the people
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is a prince
ling of weak ambitions. He puffs a spe-
cially made pipe of meerscheum and am
Der, which cost him SO, 900. No man could
be wise and statesmanlike with such
pipe.
A Long-FeIt Want.
If the first and second fingers of mans
! hand are stained yellow on their inner
surface, the disciple of Sherlock Holmes
viii conjecture that the man Is a cigar
cite smoker; and If the hand is also trem-
ulous. that he smokes cigarettes in ex-
| cess. The habtual pipe-smoker also is
likely to leave a mark on his hand; 4
is on the extremity of the little finger
Of the ieft hand. and is a mark produced
by burning. This Is because he uses
that finger to stop his pipe.
The problem of pipe-stopping presents
some difficulties They must be faced. be-
cause, unquestionably, the pipe must be
stopped. Stopping is essential to cool and
pleasant smoking. When the tobacco
works up lose after smoking. or when it
DuTIS uitNeHly, the DlDe-SnOker is IkelV
to remedy matters with the little finger
of the left hand. Now, the little finger is
not a thoroughly efficient pipe stopper
II gets burned and, owing 10 the pain is
removed rapidly, before the work is near
ly complete. Also a finger which has Just
been used for stopping pipe does not look
pretty; purists might consider the habit
uncleanly, though the ash OF an aromatic
herb Is not dirt. Against this we have to
remember that the smoker always has his
little finger with him, and other forms OF
stopper not always. He can use IL when,
but for that finger, the pipe would have
to go unstopped. And even If he has an
artificial stopper in his pocket or on the
table beside him, the use Of IL involves
two actions, picking IL up and applying
it. while the use of the natural stopper
only involves one. This is an important
consideration; the perfect smoker will
never take any unnecessary trouble, and
never bother himself with needless APP
paratus.
So far we have seen that both the me-
chanical and the natural stopper have
their advantages and disadvantages The
more general use Of the mechanical
stopper is desirable--though the little fin
ger will still be used in emergencies And
this general use would be brought a bout
more easily II tobacco shoppers, in com
mon with most other apparatus for the
smoker were not designed and manufac-