The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
Cigarettes..

A few years ago cigarettes In their
present form were unknown. Cigarettes,
so-called, were of Spanish make, SO
loosely rolled that they required rerol-
ing by resident smokers. Then was in
vogue, andi is now to q less extent, the
practice of making ones own cigarettes.
Properly shaped and sized papers were
furnished, in which Turkish tobacco was
rolled by the ostentatious young smoker.
Then sprang up manufactures of cigar
cites already rolled and prepared for the
smoker. The increase in manufacture
has hardly kept pace with the demand,
for it is said that during last summer b
supply at some watering places fell short.
Cigarettes are used more in summer than
in winter, as the bare hand finds it un-
comfortable and the gloved hand comes
clumsily to the business. At first cigar
cites were simply rolled and papered;
later, mouthpieces were added OF paste
board, wood, corn husk and glass, the
latter being last years addition Facto-
ries are in New York, Baltimore. Roches-
ter and elsewhere, and the larger ones
employ from five hundred to one thous-
and operatives in rolling cigarettes. One
cigarette-making firm has an automatic
machine that performs the labor of many
operatives. Paper-and tobacco are fed
in at one end, and from the other comes
out cigarettes ready for use. The perique
cigarettes are made In Louisiana. Per-
ique tobacco grows only in certain parts
of this State. It is put into rolls and al
lowed to remain until cured, and satur-
ated to the requisite state of blackness
and strength. The wooden mouthpiece
cigarettes come from Virginia; those with
glass ends are made In Baltimore, and the
brisk variety in New Orleans. Turkish
cigarettes from Dresden, st. Petersburg
and Odessa and other places, made from
tobacco grown in both Asiatic and Euro
pean Turkey, have limited sale, owing to
the increased cost, which is a hundred
per centum greater than American cigar.
cites.
The SALE, as already intimated, in.
creases, All classes smoke cigarettes.
The old smoker may be welded to his
cigar, but In his moments of brief leisure,
or short interim in business. suggest the
quickly consumed little cigar, unless he
is like a noted literary man who collected
stumps, and then made it's rule to smoke
so many cigars and SO many stumps pei
day, until the stock of the latter wa,
consumed. The objective point of tht
anti-tobacco society should be cigarettes
for they have aided, as nothing else has
to make youthful smokers. After q die
of sweet fern the boy passes to cigar
cites. From smoking q full power cigal
he is likely to lie under the fence for thu
greater part of . day, but the cigarettt
is not so mastering, and in time tn
young smoker passes to the strongest o
tobacco Observation-Disclosures Or. 1.
Journal.
THERE is now a substance which i,
both professionally and popularity in.
dorsed and concerning which, Mr.. J. B
Ferschweiler, Butteville, Oregon, writes
I have often read of the many cures eff
fected by st. Jacobs Oil and was per
suaded to try the remedy myself. 1 wa.
a sufferer from rheumatism and expert
enced great pains, my leg being 30 swol
len that I could not move it. Iprocuret
st. Jacobs Oil, used it freely and wa
cured.-Fseeport Qu.) Bulletin.