The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-07-03
"HAvE A CIGAR"
Some Of the Tricks Practiced on
the Unsuspecting by the
Makers ofthe Weed.

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st-Dispatch.
Young gentleman of dudish ap-
pearance and with a kangaroo limp in
his walk, walked into a Fourth street
cigar store yesterday afternoon. and
moving in a cautious circle around a
Post. Dispatch reporter, who was light
ing a ten cent weed at the counter,
asked the clerk for cigar.
Nav. nav; not that beastly
aht Gle" he said, waving back the
box containing the brand the repOr-
ter was smoking, 81 want all twer-
ty-6' cent seegaw, We know-impo'led
very mild. and with a naice rose
watah or cinnamon favah, We knaw.
Cigaweets a. too weak TO ME emmy
moan. | have made up nv mind 70
disca'd 'em and heahaftah my STYLE IL
he impo'ted twenty-f' centers, ez
mild ez you Gavin get 'em me boy"
HE GOT HIS IMPORTED CIGAR,
liz ii like a nUvince at the business
and m.ved out of the store looking
like chap that was taking his first
dose of a very bitter Medicine.
A"quarter is big price To pay
for a smoke, the reporter suggusted.
Especially the clerk answered
when the person paving for it knows
as little shout the Babylopish pleas
ure as this young man appears to
know. But the cigar is imported
YOU can see the two stamps on the
box. and % cents is what the cigar
sells for everywhere
DO you really think the reporter
asked. amy man can get his moneys
worth ont of cigar he pays a quar-
ter for p
In my opinion said the clerk, it
depends largely upon the Imagination
of the man. For my part, l think
the domestic cigar every bit as good
as the imported cigar and there IS no
domestic cigar of the ordinary size,
Il inches, made tina; is worth 800 a
thousand at wholesale. You can get
from the manufacturer the best cigar
made, and just as good as anybody
could wish to smoke, for about S4o
thousand. Figure it up yourself. To
make a thousand will require IA pounds
of Havana, the best of which i'm the
market can be had for 81. per
pound Connecticut wrappers will
cost SIS more boxes 90; stripping 81
stamps So; rent so cents. That's
about s45. The very best cigar, Con-
necticut wrapper and Havana filler,
will not cost more than 500
Are not cigars of unusually poor
quality manufactured for special lines
of trade ?
'Plerty of them. There are cigars
made to be sold in drug stores there
are grocery cigars, saloon cigars, pic
mic cigars and the article sold in cigar
stores ih~t have no mandatory of
their own hui deal in job goods.
DRUG STORE CIGARS
he continued. "are made to look nice;
their appearance. not their quality, is
inquired into. They come principally
from New York and are purchased at
$50. s35 or $40 thousand and easily
retailed at ten cents apiece. Just as
people are fooled when they imagine
they get the best quality of whisky in
drug stores, so are they mistaken in
purchasing their cigars there. These
cigars which are represented as Ha-
vana filled are really composed of the
cheapest grade of domestic tobacco,
the first of Little Dutch that comes
from the Mama valley, or of the
Pennsylvania or Wisconsin leaf is
used for filling and a Sumatra wrap
per is put in, because this bran is
"a remarkable for its beauty to the eye
as il is for its bitterness in the mouth.
1t is 80 bitter that even the cuttings of
it cannot be used. The Sumatra wrap,
which come from the Indies, costs from
$1.15 to s1.o0 yer pound, and three
pounds will make !, 900 cigars. Do
mestic wrappers for the same cigar
would cost So or $40. This is the ten
cent cigar. on which the druggist
makes clear profit of seven to eight
cents. Few druggists have five-cent
cigars. Those who have get them
from New York at S24 to $25 per L.
600 they are made of domestic scraps,
cuttings and strippings, with Wiscon-
sin binder and Pennsylvania wrap
per. do not say that all drug stores
keep cueap and bad cigars. That moet
of them do, have no doubt, but l
know one or two druggists who pay as
high as $50 for their stock"
1t Is not SO much the tobacco that