The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
MICROBES IN CIGAR FLAVOR.
Statement Of German Scientist WHO
will Copyright Discovery.

state MEM OF u 0SAC"s'oS W A-~
will Copyright Discovery.
American tobacco dealers and tobacco
users are excited over the discovery,
claimed by n German professor, Herr
Suchsland, that the aroma of tobacco is
due to microbes. He has captured lot
of the microbes and copyrighted and pat
ented them.
The question whether u copyright on
micrObe will hold at law Is one yet I"
come before the courts, but if it is de-
cided to be legal Herr Suchsland will own
the n1icrobe process for turning o-cene
cigars into dollar ones.
10 this eruditc Teuton all tobacco looks
alike. He doesn't care whether It comes
from Connecticut or Havana: The only
point he il interested i'll is the breed or
the micrube that browses upon the leaf.
He secured box OF. the finest cigars
made in Cuba, sfted the microbes from
them, and drove the little creatures down
to the patent office, where they were duly
tying little labels around their necEs
reading, patent applied for
The holder Of the copyrights took out
papers OH all microbes found breeding on
cigars costing more than a quarter of 4
dollar apiece. 49,,
h1 lie E III f6E t ssod scee 9s tSe Ts es
Of PENNSYLVANIA and the rich bottom
lands of the Connecticut valley bales of
the worst tobacco produced in this coun-
try will be shipped to him for treatment
Wien the highly trained microbes see
the leaves; which will be sterilized be-
fore they are shown to them, they will
20 to work and cover them with them
selves: 4 5=ceiit New London imperfecto
will gradually develop DIS the microbes
thrive upoi it until it Is ready for sale
80 CinnfnQpnS
'rhe tobacco leaf itself has no partic-
ular favor," says the German professor.
1.-THE taste you get is from the cremation
of the microbes. Some bacteria are en-
bowed with a heavenly flavor when they
burn.
"Others, like those found on the Pitts
burg stogies, taste like the fumes from
an old hawser in process of combustion.
:, 81 firmly believe that l can copyright
my microbes and have the monopoly of
the result of their labors. l shall not
sell any .of.-the creatures themselves.
Cigar merchants may not call upon me
and take away microbes in their own
cages. All l shall deal in will be the
microbe treatment.
'Of course, any one can buy dollar
cigar, and, catching the microbes upon
my copyrights hold, his conduct will COM
pare with that of the counterfeiter who
Pounds a private mint.
II shall stop him by injunction and
other appropriate legal process.
"One of the great convincing proofs of
the value of my discovery is that took
a German grown cigar, and, by the mi
crobe process, made it fit to smoke. l
do not think 1t Is cruelty to microbes to
leaf itself mas no hator."
Distinguished connolsseurs who have
smoked cabbage-leaf tobacco 'microbed'
by Suchsland say they cannot tell it from
the finest leaf grown. If this is really
SO, the market value of Cuba disappears
almost at one fell swoop.
The Cuban microbe, it is found, may
be domesticated in Germany, and if he
can live there he can dwell here. a CT
genous to our soul. He is not quite the
same creature that inhabits the Cuban
plantations, but no doubt both have the
same habits and can thrive i'll the same
localities.
The first step to be taken is the whole
sale slaughter of the stogie and the two
fer" microbe in this country. so that
there may be more room for the spread
of the real Cuban variety, who is really
worth smoking.
The authorities ON copyright law do not
all think that microbe can be protected
from infringement by the man who dis
covered it. The point is made that pat
ents run only a few years, while microbes
have been running over tobacco leaves
ever since the world began, and, there
fore, all exclusive rights to them must
have expired.
Herr Suchsland's discovery has not yet
started flow of psychologists toward
Havana, but he says that microbe ex-
perts will have charge of all the planta-
lions in the not very far future.
They will examine the leaves through
strong glasses and ''shoo" off any cheap
microbes that have invaded the pastures
of the 81 style of bacteria. Whenever
the cheap microbes drive off the dear
ones the leaf will be sterilized and the
culture begun all over again.
Every plantation will contain microbe
hatcheries. In all go-ahead establish
ments the practice of allowing the hen
microbe to sit upon her eggs has been
discarded. The work is done now with
incubators, by which process Il larger per-
centage of chick microbes is raised.