Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26
The Weed Among the Beers and Chi.

The Boers grow and manufa tnre a
tobacco OF their own which l. of snch
dctCstablG odor To- civilized man that
remember durng the Zulu war we used
To tip the Kailir or A!rikander drivers
OF mail-carts not To smoke except dur
ing the halts ut stages, and then always
To lceward. Ii was no use TO offer
them our superior article, for the
dreadful Dutchmca ssorned it as trash.
Equally odioHS is the ortI.narv tobacco
oil the Chinese. The Boer stuff smells
rank and green and acrid; but The Ce-
lestial has n heavy, clinging. cloggin2
odor that suggests opium in the oom-
position. The south African leaf when
ready for consumption looks like
crumbled hay, with miscellaneous dead
garden-rubbish and the SweepingS of a
conseTvnt ory, added, Ii is full of tlSirs
and knots andthreads of vegetable mat
ter. md iS.dfgI general GREEN'S gray
-tint. The Chincsc,- on the other hand,
is curiously sbft; itlifts up in silky sKeins
OF cNquisitcly fine hair-likc strands, and
is of n deep ehicoTy-Callor. -:.nd -resom;
blcs sonle veg ble .6ler st ePed in
laggcry rather than tobacco leaf The
Boer tobacco blows out of the pipe--it
is so dry and vagrant; hat the other
pals down into the pipe close and firm.
and the bowl has TO be filled rs lightly
as possible in orIer to obtain any
dranght at all. T0smoke a pipe of the
former is-to scorchr the tongue aud to-
20 about all day with the taste of Tur.
KY rhubarb in your mouth; To venture
on the latter is To enjoy cool. highly
aromatic pipe. with the subsequent pen.
atty Of y ddinesy iC0il fek- headachc. as
after a-BfundeAnE administration of
clilpIIfotms 1T rcgaires only an ek
fort Of the stomach Is lIvi urn z To
Boer TOBACCO a second time: To re-
turn 10 Chinese q second time YOU
must turn Chinaman. In singular con-
tra,t TOT I 9th tlrcyc disc gree lbIe herbs u
the tobacco, of the red Indian, Avhich6s
both light and fragrant even when
there is no tobacco in il. For the saw.
age can not Slways obtain the precious
leaf; andlvery. oftenCwhen hecan, econ,
omy and, il may be, taste leads him TO
adulterate it with various vegetable sub
stances of pleasant flavor. The mos.
usual is the inner bark of the red will
low, which l have helped Navajo In
dians, in the valley OF the Rio Virgin,
to prepare in the following way: The
young withes of the willow ~nre, cut
into lengths of about two feet; the outer
bark is removed. and the inner is then
peeled up in long strips. one end being
left adhering to,the ryvfthes. These are
then stuck into the ground round a
charcoal, fire, -and-kept there till the
strips of bark, : hanging down in a
fringe, shrivel up with the heat, aud
curl themselves into crisp rmglets
round 2tiiel upper ends, When they
seem sufficiently dry they are crumbled
up in the hand into pieces of the size of
ordinary bran. To this; If the shrub
growsin the vicinity the smoked leaves
Of 3 species Of sltnaclI Il added, which
are simply rcpar by ronstfng them
over the cinders and then .crnmblino
them. If, finally, a leaf of tobacco
be crushed dp and mingled with the
willow and sumaehs a-';;smoking MKT
ure" OF an agreeable aromatic flavor
and fragrance and of harmless mildness
is obtained. It's smoked, TO correct the
heat, in long-stemmed pipe, ending in
a capaeioJts cylindrical bowl Tofl CLAW.
which. .npmparee'with the small reed
stemmed opium pipe Kind Of fnstr,i-
ment Which the Celestial fayors, or the
villainofislt hnclean dhudeeen of thf
Boer, IS as much superior TO both as the
mixture smoked in it is superior to
either of the others. ST. James Ga.
Eette.
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Removing tan: A wash to remove
tan is made of sliced cucumbers soaked