Show HOW THEY SMOKE Manner in which Our Great Generals Handle a Cigar The use of tobaooo is euppoaed to be an essential to mililtary success but there is a ourions difference in the manner in whhh great generals handle a cigar General Grant lor example who is the greatest smoker of the age uses his as if he enjoyed it He cute oft the tip with his pocketknife pock-etknife and once lighted the cigar never leaves his lips until the fire geta BO close to his mustache as to singe it and then he sticks it on a wooden toothpick and hangs on until the lad whiff can be drawn He is a connoisseur connois-seur in tobacco and always smokes a medium strength cigar which he imports im-ports himself from Havana fle smokes slowly and deliberately with the greaeat enjoyment and believes that to knock ofi the ashes spoils the flavor of a cigar He does not use a great many a day although he is constantly smoking A box of fifty will last him a weak or ten days General Shermans habits are the very reverse He smokes quite aa constantly as Gan Grant but usea five cigars to Grants one anil he is not particular about the quality He knows a good cigar when he tastes it but is indiflerente whetherhe has a Wheeling stoga or a Reina Victoria in his mouth He smokes as if it wes I a disagreeable dut to be performed I aa rapidly a3 possible chews the end that is in his mouth and bitea it oil m chunks so that his cigar is consumed con-sumed at one end as it is at the other Grant always talk with a cigar in his mouth Sherman never does He laya it down somewhere when ho starts to make a remark forgets where he put it and lights a fresh one when he has finished what he wanted want-ed to say The result is that his desk or the furniture around the room in which he happens to be smoking is usually loaded with several half consumed con-sumed stubs At his headquarter when he was in Washington it was generally the case that these stubs were to be found in every room that he frequented and the staff officers called them Shermans old soldiers u The general is an abent minded individual and his carelessness of the forma of etiquette is the result of pro occupation rather than indifference to propriety He has frequently been known to barrow a cigar to get a light and then throw the other mans cigar away without regard to consequences consequen-ces General Sherman is fond of tobacco and fojoya a quiet smoke but he cant do any thing else when he has a cigar in his mouth without losing his fire He breathes through his nose and unless he pays strict attention atten-tion to the business of smoking his cigar goes out every other minute The result It that the carpet around his desk and the cuspidor beside him are usually strewn withghalfburned matches for he generally needs a box full of them for every cigar he smokes I called his attention to the fact the other day and he said Yes thats the only extravagance I am guilty of Somehow I never could keep my cigar lighted and if I bad one dollar for every match I hava wasted I woali be as rich as Vandr bill It ia interesting to see Grant and Sheridan smoke together the one as if he came by it naturally and the other as if he enjoyed iibut didnt know how to dolt very well Grant never relights a cigar but if he had Sheridans habit he would use up a 01 box fifty in an hour General Butler always takes what i is called a cold smoke He never i lights a cigar but always carries one with the wrong end in his mouth I thrust away down his throat until i I only an inch or GO is visible fie doesnt chew it but rolls his tongue around the tobacco as if he enjoyed the taste When he dictates letters speeches or briefs to his stenographer he keeps his cigar in his mouth tips his chair back puts his feet on the table and shuts his eyes When he finishes the dictation if he wants N L IUU uutco wiinoii uub at uuue ua goes to sleep until the stenographer has I finished writing when he wake i up signs his name and goes about other business He has the happy facility I that is also attributed to De Leiseps the famous French engineer of going go-ing to sleep whenever he desires to regardless of time place or oiroutm stances Sleep with him is as ranch a matter of will power as writing or walking or talking and it is said that he can wake himself up whenever he wants to He looks at his watch finds that he has fifteen minutes unoccupied un-occupied shuts his eye takes a snooze and wakes up at the and of the time as promptly as if he had sn alarm clock beside him Logan smokes by spells For weeks he will not light a cigar and then he will smoke constantly Daring the period of abstinence he usually carries car-ries a cigar in his pocket and gnaws off a chubk to chew TV boo he feels like smoking He likes a pipe better than a cigar and owns several meers chftump but Mrs Logan doesnt like that sort of thing and the General never sees them while she is i about Judge David Davis is a habitual smoker but always uses a five cent cigar Whether it is a vitiated taste or a measure of economy is not known but it is i a fact I asked theo the-o lar man at the capitol today what sort of tobacco the statesmen used Ha said the southern men usually bought cheap cigars as did the country coun-try members from the northern States bat the city members used expensive ex-pensive DDCICarl in Inter Ocean |