The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-30

OF all stripes and varieties of cranks
there are few who can hid their own
with those who have the tobacco habit.
A peculiar sight to be seen in Will
mington Del, until few years ago, was
one of the wealthiest and oldest citizens
of the place driving beside his coachman,
who always smoked huge black cigar;
the sight of a coachmaa smoking white
on duty was in itself remarkaG:e enough.
but it was the way the man blew The
smoke into the old gent;emans face that
would have attracted the attention CT
even a stranger.
!. The coachman would take huge puff
of the weed, and, with cheeks pulled
with the smoke, lean toward the man
beside him as if to whisper something
into his ear. Then he would send the
entire charge of smoke into his employ
| erIs face who invariably leaned toward
| the coachman and stuck his nose into
| satisfaction.
For over five years this man was a
familiar sight on the streets of Will
| mington. The doctors had forbidden
him to smoke, but he had been an in
yeterate smoker, and he was obliged
] to be satisfied with the conpl omisa of
| having some one else do the smoking,
| while he enjoyed the aroc'a.
Another way to get around the COM
mandment not to indulge in the weed
| was the novel method employed by a
wealthy resident of Orange, ~. J who
| likewise had been deferred from actual
| smoking by the predictions of his physi-
.. clans.
| There was more method than madness
| in the system, for it was based on the
well-known fact that the principal en-
| joyment in smoking is lima ginsry and
dependent not upon any taste, but on
seeing and curling of the lazy wreaths.
Instead of lighting his cigars, there
fore, the man simply po them into his
| mouth and Smoked cold In yhis he
| simply bit off the end of the cgar as il
he were going to light it, and then
puffed exactly as if fire were eating its
| way up the tobacco.
Every 10 or 20 minutes the cigar tc
all appearances perfectly preserved. was
| thrown away as useless, the contention
being that it was smoked out" Fo,
/ years this smoker INDUCED in his pet
| habit in the same extraordinary way
| claiming that putting the air through the
cigar exhausted the flavor exactly the
same as would have been the case had
it been lighted.
/ Another cranky notion in the tobacco
Eline was that of an old police magistra t
named Davis, who died several years
ago in Orange. at the age of 80 years, ant
who. the good people said, killed himsel
. by the excessive use of chewing tobacco
{ The judges habit. however, was dis
Etinctly peculiar one. in that he In
Fvariably used cigars for this purpose
not the entire cigar but merely tn
points. His claim was that there wa
not in the entire market a brand @
tobacco that suited him as well as tn
. one end of the cigar, and he said tina
in discarding the rest Of 1t he took onl!
the choicest part.
Natural though 1t may seem that tn
nose of a smoker of fine cigars shoult
become peculiarly sensitive. there was
remarkable instance in this respect Il
the person of a cigar manufa cturer liv
ing in West HObOken.
This man smoked only the very bes
| cigars. and, finally. 1t became almos
unbearable for him to remain for an,