St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-13

MN1HAso - claimed the customer;
S~ S<RsD ''you don't say So"
"Fact sir; but here's something
equally good in an Havana filler, at the
same price,"
II don't want anything else; I've sort
o. got used to the old kind and no other
cigar seems to fill the bill any more.
The last box of them l bought here
went to smoke inside of week, and |
must have some more of the same brand
to-day or bust. FL try elsewhere"
The shopkeeper looked after the man
as he went out, with grin, and then,
turning to a reporter, who had come in
for a package of cigarettes, said:
That's another of 'em."
another of what?" inquired the
newspaper man, liStleSsly striking a
match beneath the edge of the counter.
''DRUGGED TOBACCO FIENDS."
s'New to me. What are they?"
CPL tell you confidentially." said the
dealer. ''lt'S a solemn fact that about
half the domestic cigars sold nowadays
are drugged with one thing or another.
Morphine. choral and all sorts OF
'nerve-sOothing' stuff are used for the
purpose, but most of all valerian. These
pOisOnS, in connection with the tobacco.
produce very agreeable effect; but of
course they create necessity for more,
and pretty soon the smoker, say, of a
valerian-loaded brand finds that no
other cigar suits him. So he goes
ahead taking the poison in this way,
without knowing it, until he is slave
to the valerian vice. OF course you
know what an awful hold that particu-
lar drug soon gets upon man and
what an effect it has upon the constitu-
ton"
''Valerian. you say, is used more
than any other kind of pOison?"
Eyes, it is the tavorite drug for cigars.
1t acts very pleasantly upon the nerves,
and the man who has to work hard with
his brain finds that it rests him. Be-
sides, it has an effect peculiarly its own
as an antidOte for alcoholic poisoning.
The tippler who has been spreeing over
night finds that nothing SOberS him up
so quickly as cigar medicated with it."
''And how is the drug put into the CT
CARS, pray?"
HOW CIGARS ARE LOADED.
''That is very simple. A solution is
made of it OF the proper strength. and
the workman, before rolling the cigar,
sprinkles few drops of it over the to-
bacco leaves The latter are rolled into
shape, and your weed is ready loaded"
''Are not these drugs eXpensive"
Rather; but very little is required
for each cigar, and the investment pays.
In this way, you see, each manufacturer
retains his customers by creating Spe-
cial vice which his own goods can salts
factOrily supply. That man who left
the shop just after you came i'll is one
of the fiends. He has been smoking a
brand of cigar which, | think, is loaded
.s4I, fo haf 10 no
latest Ingredient. you know. And now
he finds that nothing else satisfies the
craving. Bad, isn't it? But I've got to
sell all these brands of cigars that are
on the market or else go out of the bust
hess. l can't afford to have my Gus
toners go to the place across the street
because they don't find what they want
here. Poisoned cigars are what the
people wish to buy, and must supply
the demand or go bankrupt"
rs this cocaine that you speak of par
ticularly dangerous?"
''PhySicians say it is. I've heard that
it comes in the shape of leaves from
Beru, where sucn leaves are chewed by
the natives for the wonderful powers
of endurance that the juice gives. About
six years ago, Pve understood, it was
discovered that this juice applied to
any portion of the body, would render
that portion insensible to pain. 1t used
to be worth dollar drop then; but
now it's comparatively cheap. Cocaine
has all sorts of surprising uses; but It's
a dreadful habit to acquire. A little of
it in cigar braces the smoker up aston
ishly; it beats DR.. Brown-Sequard's
elixir. However, it soon attacks the
brain and
LEAVES THE VICTIM A MENTAL
WRECK"
''Do you think of anything else that
is put in cigars to make them more
agreeable for smoking" asked the re-
porter.
''No," said the tObacconist. Though,
now | come to think of it. small fire
works are the very latest things in
cigars. of the sort one gives away to
ones friends. Explosive smokables are
no longer considered the thing for such
practical joking; they may injure an
eye or badly SINCE a whisker. But
very much condensed Bengal light, or
even an almost microscopic Roman
candle, will satisfy the requirements of
humor quite as satisfactorily and with
out accidental peril to the victim. We
have a few such always in stock; help
Yourself to a couple"