Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-21
BY w. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON.

but in tho cafe and. in tho drawing
room they erjoy it as we'll rs in tho
boudoir and tho bath. by cool foun
tains, in marble paved patio, among
the, orange trees, or lolIing at noon o.,
their silkcn-hnng couchcs, they love
to smoke, and their lords have spoilcc
their own breaths aud taste too flee
tua'ly to mrkc any objection. Wher,
both or neither cat garlic it amounts
TO the same thing. a.
In Seville we saw tobacco factory
erected more than n hundred yeurs
ago ata cost of nearly two millions
of dollars the" 1t is Six hundred
and fifty two feet long, and five hun
drcd and twenty.four feet wide. Five
thousand persons arc At work in it all
the time, putting tho imported tobac
co into cigars or cigarett, and ma
king SNUFF, and they use two millions
Of pounds OF tobacco every year.
Most OF theso workers arc women.
Mothers who bring their children have
nursery arrangements provided for
them during the hours of work. But
the most OF them arc young women,
a classby themselves, known us Gig
arcras, or cigar. girls. Smart at their
business i'll the factory, they arc wild
as hawks and gay as lailis ut the bull.
fight on Sundays, or tho dance on tho
srccn. This is the largest establish
mcut Of ths kind in SPAN, and produ-
ces as good an article as any other;
but thv cigars made in Spain are not
as popular with good judges as those
brought Il rec ly from Cuba. The
manufacturers there prefer sending
The best to London, New York, or
Paris, where they fad u reader mar
ket for tho high priced article. A"d
tho Cubans arc as cute IN concociiry
peculiar favors for their cigars as the
Frehch or tho Italians for their wines,
or Jcrseymcn for their cider. The
cvnaoisseur in tobacco pays quarter
IF a-dollar (more or less) for "tirst.
rate" cigar, A,d smokes il with doll
cious enj''yme"I at his club, or after
dinner i'll his study, rejoicing in the
dreamy, balmy lansuor that softly
steals upon. his senses, soothcs his
nerves, and makes him sweetly obliv-
ious of the cares aud tolls OF the day
just passed.. llo is sure 1t does him
good. And he does not know, and
will not believe when ho is :od, what
every one knows who looks into the
subject to learn, thut at the very root
aud source of the business thero il az
mich connection Of tobacco as there
is of c.:ffco or wine Potash and 80.
da are in abundant use TO impart pc
culiar pungency to the plant. And
many,in the excited atmosphere of
Now York or London lie, demand a
.sedutire cigar more soporific than the
narcotic plant in its natural state.
For them, cigars are made Of tobacco
leaves stepped In opium Many of our
clerEymen, renowned for eloquencc
aud piety and learning, denounce with
blazing zeal the baneful practice Of
smoking or che wing opinm, habit be-
coming almost as common in the Uni
ted States as in China. But these same
excellent men are daily smoking OPT
um in their cigars, quito unconscious,
of the evils, physica land mental, they
arc gradually but surely inhaling
with overy breath ahey drw through Ii
this venomineus " eGd. ~
The cigar burns freely when first
ligh.el its ashes are grayish white
and the ring is faint at tho esd, the
SMOKE rises lightly, s:a.:d tho taste, il
any, is nearly imperccptiblc; therefore
they kno,O it is good cigar. But the
npiam- eater is not mora surely sui
eide than: they Dyspepsia: often fol-
lows, md nervous debility, dcsp' nd
ency, melancholy, insomnia, mnladies
supposed 10 be relieved by what is
producing cause. Epilepsy, and npH-
plexy are now known effects. Dr&De.
cla6eld told q friend of mine he must
quit tobacco or die. = 81 shall die if l
do" ho said, to no. He preferred to
sms4kc and die. And he did. Yet TO
was a. noble Christian clergyman, will.
ing to.d:e f"r-Ghrist at any time, bu,
not, willing to givA apshisf cigar and
live fer Christ. -. ,.%.i.. j.
I utwherc are we going? IT IRE
,tnemberrrigh,iy, we started off in the
Cars from Toledo, and somebody vas
smoking; / had to open, the window
tto get breath, and haVe beer blazing
/ away atthe smokets ever ,sinces W.
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