Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-22
NARCOTICS IN RICE PAPER.
The Council Bluffs Dealers Do Not En-
courage the Cigarette Trade.
THE LAKE SHALL NOT RUN OUT.
Services i'm the Churches To-Day
More Saloon Raids-The Congress
sionai Contcst-A Young Mans
Teeth Knocked Loose.
HE LAKE SHALL NOT RUN OUT.
Chats on Cigarettes.

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the counter in Il wcllknown Broadway
cigar store.
II can't do it, my little man; you're
too much of kid to be smoking. Wait
till you grow"
There was look OF disappointment
over the bcgrimmod face of the urchin,
and he went out muttering something
about rats"
DO you have many boys asking for
cigarettes" asked the BEE man of the
| dealer.
Many? ] should say so. It's almost
equal to the demand for picture cards
| The boys get them in gooi many places,
| but won't sell to them. | don't believe
| in it, and besides that don't want to be
bothered with them. They want pen
ny's worth, or nickel's worth, and they
are more fussv about this and that par
| ticular kind than any of the older smok
| urS.n
"Is the sale of cigarettes on the in
| crcascY'
Yes, find it so. We don't sell cigar.
| cites here as cheap as they do in Omaha.
| There they sell such bunch rs that for
| ten cents. There's twentyin that bunch.
| Now they cost us $3.50 n thousand, which
makes nine cents for that bunch. The
'lllhilSt NtNlclS SUI lllClll Ctlll IL UulltI
| profit That don't pay. We never sell
them less than fifteen cents, or two for "A
| quarter. That's for the leading brands
| OF course, there are some cheaper ones,
and some Il good deal higher The prin.
cipal brands go that way, though It's
| queer about cigarettes. Smokers are
very fussy about the brand.
| There are three principal, favOrite
| brands. There amt much use in trying
| to sell any cigarettes that amt known.
| A manufacturer has got to advertise his
| brand all over the country and make it
| known to everybody, and if he don't do
| that he can't expect to get any trade. 1t
is different with cigars. A good many
smokers will take almost any brand that
| the dealer hands out to them, and rely on
| his Judgment. But fellow buying Gig
arettes almost always calls for partcu-
| lar brand"
DO you think there is much opium
| put into cigarettesY'
II think so at least there's something
| of that sort put into them, for | notice
tnat when man gets to smoking cigar
cites it is hard for him to break off. He
don't get the same satisfaction smoking
| tobacco in any other form. One leading
brand, in particular, believe, has opium
III it, for when man gets to smoking
them he won't have any other kind,
| although am sure there is Just as good
tobacco in others. ! know of one brand
of cigars that has the same popularity.
When a man begins smoking them he
won't like them, but after he gets in the
habit he won't smoke any other kind if
he can help it,"
'Do you have many lady customers?"
No; that is, there's none who come in
to buy cigarettes, but there's number
who send here for them. There's more
| womfn smoking "sgar@ttes Sig"ttes than what
most folks think"
"Why don't you make your own cigar
cites, as you do your cigars?"
ut wouldn't pay. We couldn't begin
to make them as cheap. The big factor
les put thousands of dollars into ma
help. They get girls at 50 cents n thous.
and to make them. Some of the girls are
quite expert and they can make from
1900 to 1900 day. Even at that it
doesn't pay them very well Then house
has got to advertise big all oyer the
country. That takes money. A small
factory would have hard work TO sell its
cigarettes. Folks here would buy almost
any of my cigars, but they would not
think of buying 4 cigarette made by me.
| don't take any stock, though, in these
newspaper reports about their using old
cigar stubbs for making cigarettes. 1t
wouldn't pay, and they couldn't do it
anyway. You could tell it right away.
You never could do away with the par
ticular flavor OF an old cigar stub. It's
all nonsense"
There's one trick III let you into,
which Is often played on dealers. When
anyone wants a nickles worth of cigar
ettes of course tho dealer taxes part of
package and passes them over the
counter loose. Some dealers work off
their cheaper brands this way, brands
ihnf Iny- Il ntl,
put some of the cheap brand into the
wrapper of favorto brand, and when
they hand out n few cigarettes loose the
purchaser thinks they are of the kind
named on the package and does not
know any different. If he did he would
| refuse to take them. Some of the
| cigarette manufacturers try to pre-
vent this by having their mark on
| each separate cigarette, besides having
the mark on the package. Then dealer
canuot make any such changes. A great
deal depends upon cigarette brand.
| One of the leading brands was out of the
market for three months, The factory
had n contract for furnishing France
with large number of cigarettes, and
in filling that contract they could not
supply the home trade. For three months
| you couldn't get any of them. 1t was
| bad policy, for the clgarette-smokers got
used to other brands, and when the fac
| tory tried to get into the trade again
they found it uphill work. They are just
beginning to get back the trade, 1t seems
almost harder than to get the trade on
| new brand"
| TAUGHT FREE-In about an hour, beau
tiful photo painting to introduce our col
ors. No knowledge of painting required.
| Received first premium at st. Louis fair
One hundred dollars earned monthly.
Miss Christie, IA Main street.
| Barnett and Boards.
EStroot Commissioner Barnett was fly.
ing around Yesterday trying to get some
authority to act in regard TO q dangerous
briuse on Benton street. at ought to be
seen to at once, but there is only one of
the committee to be found in town. |
have hunted for him, and have not found
him, and the two others l learn are out
of the city, II takes longer oftentimes 10
| hunt up a committee and get authority to
make some little repair than it does TO
do the work, but that is according to the
rules must get orders"
Why don't you put up some boards
! and keen nnnnla from nninn nU..r 10