The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-14
MORE ABOUT THE sToGY.
II Originated in the COnestOGa RE-
Rfon OF Pennsylvania.

From the Boston Journal.
You may spell il srogy or "stogie" In
the latter case you follow the example OF
Mr. John Farmer, who is so often wrong
in his Dictionary of Americansms. Mr.
Farmer. finding and quoting a sentence
with the word in the plural chose his sim
suar form in defiance of the advice OF
other dictionary makers You may be-
brave enough 10 smoke stogies; you surely
have smelled them; and you know that
there has of late been newspaper contro-
vetsy over the respective merits OF the
Wheeling and Pittsburg brands. We there
fore publish with pleasure an exhaustive
essay by our valued correspondent. c. w.
h.
Al home they call II rat tail It's birth
place IS the Conestoga country, about Ian
caster, Pa, once famous as he chief high
way from tidewater TO The Ohio county.
For many years, II will be Remembered
Lancaster was the greatest town OF the
interior, away from salt water and navi-
CATION. The country about Lancaster and
the Conestoga, highly productive, used 10
carry It's -four, iron and provisions to Phil
adeiphia in huge wagons drawn by four,
six or eight powerful horses, and when
poor Braddock started on his expedition
to the Ohio, Franklin. The illustrious, sup
piled him with a hundred and fifty of these
noble outfits The armies of the Revolution
used chiefly Conesioga wagons, and made
them everywhere familiar. When the ia
nous turnpike from Philadelphia to Lam
caster was built, more than a century ago,
Il was to accommodate these Conestogas.
They crowded The still more famous Cum
berland road, built by Uncle Sam to
Wheeling, across the state of Ohio ana
through Indiana and Illinois.
The Conestoga teamsters liked their to-
bacco and preferred the native weed Some
genius along the road invented the rough
cigar, made OF Pennsylvania or similar To-
bacco, and well adapted IN price and vigor
TO the sturdy wagoners. They liked IT, the
demand increased, and only Edward At
kinson can compute how many millions
were produced in the Conestoga country,
Wheeling. Pittsburg, and a4ong the oil
pixies Like the big wagons, the very Wig
oTOus cigar, made after the pattern of a
rat tail, came to be known as tho Conesto-
ga soon abbreviated into he more familiar
stogy.
Conestoga wagons preceded the Revolu-
ton, but the brave stogy came with the
more enlightened nine eenth century. ami
should have Mr.. Atkinson's attention. He
can compute the horse power represented
by this stunning smoke, the clouds Il has
produced, and how the stogy compares
with the Oceanic or the Great Eastern
Pennsylvania has ever been a champion
of home products, and the slogy is SUCH
Nor it is in need of tariff protection. per-
haps since no tobacco will do for the
stogy but the vigorous growth Of Allc-
ghany mountain farms Porto Rico and
Manila can do much, but they cannot hope
to match the power, the odor, the all-per-
vading energy of the true Pennsylvania
stogy. II proves thai we are the strongest
nation on earth. And really no army or
navy is invncible save that which smokes
stoges. II Is all owing 70 stogies per-
haps, that Pennsylvania Is so strong and
its pig iron SO potent, and every poet IN
Wheeling or Pittsburg will readily see the
idyllic resemblance between stogies and
the tallest chimney.