Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-02
Mem and Things

I'm these times of financial stringency
1 constantly hear men say that they
cannot afford to smoke good cigars,
and that they are therefore compelled
to confne themselves to cigarettes or
pipes,'' said Maj. Gen. Daniel e. Sickles
While in a jocose mood the other day.
The veteran warrior Is an inveterate
cigar smoker Nov, there is no rea-
son in the world, continued the gem
eral, smiling broadly, why one should
smoke good cigars in preference to bad
ones. liking for cigars is not nat
ural, but acquired, and in the case of
most men is acquired with difficulty
and in the very teeth of their stomachs.
1t is just as easy to acquire taste for
very bad and very cheap cigars as to
acquire taste for very good aid dear
cigars. The man who takes the form
er course can smoke at a nominal eX-
pense, while to smoke good cigars Is
an expensive occupation. This grand
economic idea flashed upon me some
years ago at a time when l imagined
that | could smoke nothing but the
best Havanas. | think the notion took
possession of me shortly after / first
became a member of that wonderful
organization known to us as the board
of aldermen of the city of New York.
Anyway, | began to cultivate a taste
for bad cigars. 1t was rather trying at
first, but in a very short time l found
that bad cigar was just as satisfac-
tory as d good one. Pursuing my In
vestigations in this department of
science l tried the Italian cigars at
cents each. l don't mean the Viz
ginias'-those long, thin cigars, with
straw running through the middle or
each, for they are made of fairly good
tobacco-but the black and gnarled
'Cavors, which are without doubt the
worst cigars the world has ever seen.
now greatly prefer a Cavor' to the best
Havana ever made. OF course, my
friends don't agree with me, but after
all my 'Cavors' do them no harm. On
the contrary single 'CaVor' VIII dis
infect the entire house in which 1t is
smoked There is not mlcrobe known
to science that will not curl up and
die gladly when the smoke OF 'CaVor
reaches him."
William Travers jerome has many
admirers and many enemies, but what
ever else he may have he certainly has
a high appreciation of the american
people. Jerome has been described as
a practical idealist; an active dreamer
By that is meant one who not only mas
ali the shadowy ambitions of the build
er Gf air castles, but also has the force
and personality to make them realities
once he was asked if his ideals were
not too high. You can't make them
too high for the American people," he
replied.
Col. John A. Roebling has given away
his 100000 country home at Asheville,
N. c., because against his protest the
town voted for prohibition. He Is NOV
ing to Trenton, N. j. The colonel Is
fond of animal life and his estate was
stocked with the finest breeds or i've
stock. Some time ago he developed
fad for collecting snakes, and had many
varieties in cages on his country place.
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Rear Admiral Henry S. Lyon, nero
of the Samoan disaster in 1889, victim
of three wrecks and veteran OF the
Civil and Spanish wars, was retireo a
few days ago, and has settled down TO
a humdrum life in the little village OF
Paris. Me. The law says that the re-
firing age in the navy Is 81 though
physically the admiral is as good as
ever, and has as fine stock or nautl-
cal knowledge and experience as any
man living. When given shore duty II
was largely as an ordnance officer or
inspector of ordnance, torpedoes and
small arms, regarding which he is
recognized expert.