The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-03
to complain of as the deadly solutions
with which they are
FLAvORFD FOR DECEPTION.

Will "uASu sACy oiO
FLAvORFD FOR DECEPTION.
Oil Of vslerian. and sometimes the
English or American root, is used for
this purpose; the poisonous tonqus
bean almond oil, that lie deathly poi
son, oil of lemon, of cloves and of Gin
namon. Opium is largely used in
fancy FIVE cent cigars. Sometimes
the tobacco wanted for filling is cased
in old stale cider, or wine Of vinegar
is blown upon it the filling being
mostly scraps, and the Aavoring being
40 neatly done as to prevent the pos
sibility of detecting it by the smell.
Rum is used to give a nice odOr, but
only in fine goods.
"Cigar dealers who do not manu-
facture may have one or two good
brands which they may pay as high
as s37 or S38 and sell for FIVE cents
and they may pay as much as SO for
q ten cent cigar; but behind this
small and select stock they have q
mass of cheap goods wherein they find
the big profits"
GROCERY STORE CIGARS.
come from Pennsylvania, mostly from
the neighborhood of Lancaster. They
were wholesale at Sill per 1000 be-
fore the reduction of the tax, and
now can be had for SO Farmers in
Pennsylvania who have tobacco
patch, after selling the best part of
their crops, make up the refuse into
cigars. manufacturing themselves, as
nearly all own moulds for this purpose.
Houses In New York and Philadelphia
send men out REGULARLY each year to
buy up this product, and they are
thus got before the consumer. Five
cents IS all a grocery keeper dare
ak for cigar few keep ten cent
article. No. they are not made IF
brown paper and cabbage leaves: the
poor quality of tobacco used in them
Is as cheap as anything in the world.
Saloons keeps about the same brands
as the groceries and get them i'm the
same way.
PICNIC CIGARS
are the cheapest made. They sell for
So or SO per thousand, are most a
product, and are got
from the wholecale grocery houses.
They are gotten up especially for
crowds. in which they are sent around
each recurring year without being
recognized as an old and worthless
You get The same
cheap brand at church festivals and
society balls and occasionally they
will be sneaked i'm at the tail end of a
cheap banquet.
The greatest fraud perpetrated up
on the community, is the trick of the
sO-calied Spa niards and sailors who
travel in pairs around private Offices
and through public buildings, offer
ing
SMUGGLED GOODS
for sale at astonishing sacrifices. The
team have a satchel full of cigars and
they may swoop down upon a custo-
mer together or approach him one at
time. In the latter case the man with
the satchel remains outside while the
other chap carries in a few boxes. These
boxes have good cigars on the top row,
or so distributed that the vendor can
easily select one. apparently at ran
dom, and offer it to his victim as a
sample of what the box contains.
Then he begins by making 81 or IS
for a box of 100, but will finally
come down to s. or 81 and make his
sale. He represents the article to
here been smuggl d, and to bea clear
Hanava cigar. The buyer is nicely
taken in. for all such cigars are manu-
featured right here, and the box does
not cost the swindling agent more than
81 SO or 81 80. These smokers are
made of tie very worst trash in the
and the cheapest grades of
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Wisconsin
tobacco being used in their manufac-
ture an noxiOus drugs being used to
flavor and give them an agreeable ap-