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Show WHO KNOWS A CIGAR"! From the Now York ProHfl. It is rather .amusing that two dealers in cigars should bo unable to agree upon a manufacturer or importer to decide a bet as to the quality of one 25-cent por-fecto. por-fecto. At first blush 'It would seem oasy lo settle upon an expert of so high standing Hint his word would be accepted ac-cepted as if It wore law. But it la a fact that the man Is not forthcoming. A bets B $100 that the cigar Is a genuine Havana, B betting that it has not even a Havana Avrappcr Scores of so-called judges of tobacco have looked at it and in opinion are about evenly divided. B has possession. He now declares that he will smoke the cigar and decide for himself. One of the large manufacturers manufactur-ers in Now York declined to act as referee ref-eree on this ground:" "T never made a Havana cigar in my life, and know nothing of Havana tobacco." . |