The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-02
DO O SMOKE
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Weed In tbs Market.
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Weed In tbs Market.
BY the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, July 1.-'sChoice Havana ciears,
the real imported article" are II q dis
count with many Of the smokers of the
city, just Mt present. Not because the
smokers aforesaid have contracted Q taste
for the less expensive and more common
"Siaughterhouse Regalla," but because Of
the very doubtful quality Of the first-
mentioned hiRh-priced goods. Especially
does this disgust for the latter find lodg-
ment in the minds Of certain ''tony''
young men with pork and bean incomes
aud pate de Joie graz tastes who allowed
themselves to be talked into purchasing
boxes Of $50 of genuine Havanas" from
the quartette Of swarthy gentlemen now in
the city. The story Is the same one s,
often heard.
A few days g four dark c~omplexioned
men, well dressed and with a strong
foreign accent, genuine OF affected, made
their appearance In the city N after
securing peddlars' licenses began opera
tons. Usually travelling in pairs they
carry a small black satchel I'm which are
two boxes OF cigars, each containing go
OF alleged Havanas. Quietly dropping
into nm office or counting room they look
w tA,N'st w. wv
served. Assuring themselves that no
prying eyes are watching their move
ments they ask the intended victim
whether he smokes. Receiving an afilr-
NATIVE reply one Of the fellows then opens
the valise and taking out a box OF the
cigars he draws n out from Inc center
of the package, into which they are tied,
and offers IL To the gentleman honored
with their visit. The cigar Is found
to be IN excellent article, and he is then
asked how he would like n box, and that
at a price he knows is only about
half what a local dealer would charge.
The polite stranger says that the cigars
were struggled direct from Cuba by him
self and partner, but owing TO he watch
fulness of the revenue officers il was
found impossible TO sell them nearer to
New York than Butte, hence the necessity
of going so far inland to dispose Of them.
Then, too, only two boxes are left, and IL
the gentleman really desires a delicious
Havana now Is Lis only opportunity TO
secure such and at prices ridiculously low.
But, should the gentleman buy the cigars,
he must, above all things, never say a
word about IL, for should the affair
become known, the obliging stranger and
his partner q certainly be arrested
for smuggling and selling tobacco without
n icense.
Usually this settles IL. The cigars are
bought and the purchaser hides them as
securely as does the miser his gold and
many n ~pleasurable siesta
while %lounging comfortably in his room
after the days toll is over.
OF course IL Is unnecessary to say that
the cigars are the rankest of domestic
as the purchaser soon finds out,
for, with the exception of the one given
him by liz spurious s~mugglers, the entire
lot is not worth a dollar a THOUSAND. The
only thing the victim nj do is Ia kick
bip.Salr NIL .fx.n his t.Sp,,.xul.slN n,.xa ~ A.
Chinese ~janitor.
The "smugglers" have been ia The city
n day or two, but have already lone
an immense business.