Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-09
HOW GIG ARBrrEs ARE MADE

ran across cigarette factory the other
day. Whewl l wouldn't write-or, rather
YOU wouldn't dare print what l saw
Dirty butts of cigars, fresh from the filth
OF the muddy streets, are the cleanest and
incest OF the material used in compiling
these precious roads to ruin. / came down
town on Madison avenue car this even.
ing. and on the tail end there were three
little chaps, the eldest about fourteen.
Each smoked a cigarette and spat his little
life away. | ventured to ask if they en-
joyed the odor. They said they did. Aud
the taste? Certainly. On inquiring l
found they had well-known brand Of
cigarette. noted for its "opium soak and
It's terrible smell when burning. Poor
little devils. They can't last long. They
wero pale and sickly, puny and often
sivo. What kind of men will they
make? Men? They're men already in
their own eyes. They and majority
of our little lads are full of the slang Of
the day, up in all the catches and abun.
dainty able to hold up their end of con-
versation. l subsequently saw these three
boys in Niblo's Garden. 1t would have
done yen good to hear them talk. A blind
man might reasonably think he was listen
ing to three old men. Nothing was new.
They had seen it ell before, and better
done at that. Down went The curtain, out
went the boys, but before they felt the first
breath of fresh air from the street each
puny hand held cigarette to the vile
smelling mouth and puff, puff. they sick.
ened everybody in their vicinity This is
an old grievance Of mine, and don't care
to bore you with it, but | feel it keenly.
Day by day the vice grows stronger.
There was time when cigarette smoking
was confined almost entirely TO Cubans,
who knew what good tobacco was aud
made their own cigarettes. Gradu
ally the habit spread. Dealers follow suit.
Makers became INSCRIPTIONS. Little
dirty boys were sent out to pick up cigar
stumps. Other equally disgusting material
was also utilized. Opium was made to do
duty. Cheap paper took the place Of rice
paper. l wish these boys could see the
stuff their paper is made from. Wouldn't
it turn their little stomachs? l trow, |
trow. The cheap paper, the old stumps,
the opium and the chemicals used to make
them "stropg," deserve to be shown mp.
Parents have no Influence with their Sons.
Why not? Because they smoke cigars or
pipes themselves. The boys charge all the
good advice they get to their fathers desire
to keep them down. There is but one way
to deal with American boys. Reason with
them through their eyes. Ii every nico.
tined stomach was made public, if every
time fellow died Of too much cigarette
tine fact was made known, if the proud
boys could be shown rag factory and q
stump grin Ter. it seems to me the cigarette
business would be wound up very soon
Corresponding Pniladelphis Times.
a boy died in Philadelphia of hydro
phobia. In one of his struggles bit OF
frotn from his lips flew into his fathers
eye. The man had nervous tempera
ment and e imagined that he had become
inoculated with the disease. he felt al
the symptoms, gave the peculiar coughs
resembling bark, aud writhed in agony.
A physician assured him that hydropho bIa
could not possibly have developed IN few
hours. nor ffom such a cause, but that
made no difference. Powerful doses of
chlorsl were required to quiet him. and he
was left almost life.e=s by the violence OF
the attack.