The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-17
ADVICE TO ~cIGAR.sMoKERs.
Buy "Twenty-fve'' Boxes, and Do
Not Select LiRht-Colored Cigars.

Buy "Twenty-hve'' Boxes, and Do
Not Select LiEht-COlored Cigars
Have you noticed the change that
has come over the trade respecting the
standard cigar-boxP" asked a leading
dealer of a New YORK Mail and Express
reporter recently. Not very many
years ago the standard box held one
hundred cigars. Now the standard
holds but fifty. and the still smaller
box holding but twenty-five is rapidly
pushing to the front. Is this nOt ac-
counted for on the principle that as
nations become more civilized the coins
in use become subdivided to meet the
demands of a more diversified trader
May it not come from a leaning to-
ward a fresh cigar? When one man
wants to consume a box containing
one hundred cigars he finds the last
row too dry, and hence his change to
the fifty or twenty five box.
but" continued the dealer, III the
wholesale and retail tObacconist of
this country do not soon awake from
their long sleep they will wake up ONE
fine morning and find that their trade
in costly Havana cigars is in great per-
il, and The work they are now refusing
to do will be many times harder when
the critical point IS reached. The point
in question is that foolish freak of ma
tY,rn Nhn ingorn FoghiOn for Hrbf oA1Dr
ed cigars, and without one word of com
ment or explanation the tObacconists
have been catering to that silly within.
Matters have gone from bad to worse,
until whole crops of tobacco have been
ruined in the endeavor to supply some
thing that nature would not produce.
In the tobaccO-growing districts of
Cuba the crops have been cut long be-
fore maturity, and, as a natural conse-
quence, very inferior tobacco was the
result The customer still asks for
~light-colored cigars, and at the same
time condemns the inferior quality of
later-day tobacco that, nine times out
of ten, has been spoiled in order to
satisfy his craving for a pale cigar,
This is all wrong, and it is within the
power of the retailer to counterfeit this
tendency on the part of tba con-
sumner and bring him to a realizing
sense of his own danger, 1t is need
less to lay down a set of rules for the
guidance of ~tobacconists. They know
that the soil and climate of Cuba will
not produce a light cigar tobacco any
better than any ether. When nature
produces a tobacco light in color it is
unsuited for cigars is a well-known
fact the world ever. This is the rule
that nature herself has made, and when
you get a pale cofor you may know
that the tobacco has been doctored and
is unfit in richness, aroma for a delic-
Ious smoke. The crop of Havana to-
bacco is dark; the coming crop will, in
all probability, be dark also; and if
the dealers do not bestir themselves
and enter into the work Of converting
theif misguided customers they will
imperil their trsde of the finer grades
of cigars. The Havana tobacco sxcels
all other for cigars. The Mexican and
Manila weeds are favorites for che
roots. The Kentucky tobacco is in.
termediate in character. The tobacco
Of Virginia is the best for pipe smok-
ing, while that from Maryland is used
for tho cheaper grades Of cigars.