The sun., 1899-10-08
MORE ABOUT TRE SToGY.
1t Originated in the Conestoga Region of
Pennsylvania, Hence Its Name.
Ergm Ms BosLon journal.

It Originated in the Conestoga Region OF
Pennsylvania. Hence Its Name.
From TIE Boston Journal.
You may spell il stogy or "stogie" In the latter
you follow the example OF Mr.. John Farmer.
who Is so often wrong in his Dictionary Of Amer
icanisms." Mr.. Farmer. finding and quoting
a sentence with the word in the plural. chose his
singular form in defiance Of the advice of other
dictionary makers You may be brave enough
to smoke stoges; you surely have smelled them;
and you know that there has OF late been news
paper controversy over the respective merits Of
the Wheeling and PlttsbuTg brands We there
fore publish with pleasure an exhaustive essay
By our valued correspondent c. W. f.
At home they call it rat tail. Its birthplace Is
the Cuncstoga country, about Lancaster Pa, once
famous the chief highway from tidewater
TO the Ohio country. For many years, il will
be remembered. Lancaster was the greatest town
Of the interior, away from salt water and naviga.
ton. The county aCout Lancaster and the
Conestuga, hlgAly productive, used 10 carry It's
-four, iron AMI provisions To Philadelphia in huge
wagons drawn oy louT, SIX or eight powerful
horses and when poor Braddock started on his
expedition to the Ohiy, Franklin, the lllustrous
supplied MIN with a hundred and f.ty ui tn, 81,
NOBLE outfits. The armies ni the Reyolution used
Chi ny COnestoga wagons. and made them every
wnrr. ia nilIar W hcn The famous turnpikc from
PhadrlpnIH TO LANCASTER was built. rlorc than a
century ago. 1t was TO accommodate these ones
t9gaS They crowded the silll more famous
lng, ACROSS the State OF Ohio and through Indiana
an Illinois,
The Con'stoga teamsters liked their tobacco
and preferred the native weed. Some genius
along the road invented the rough cigar, made Of
Pcnnsvlvdnia or similar tobacco, ana well adapted
in price AMI vigor ~ the sturdy wagOncrs They
like II, the demand increased, and only Edward
AtNlnson can compute how many millions were
produced in tho Con"stOga country. Wheeling
Pttspurg, and along the Old pixies. Like the iig
wagons, the very vigorous cigar made after the
pattern o' rat tail, came to BE- known MS the Cone
stpga soon abbreviated into the more familiar
Stpsy.
Conestoga wagons preceded the Revolution.
hut the brave stDEy came with the NOR" enliGht-
cn"i nineteenth century, and should have Mr.
Atkinson = attention, lie can compute the horse
power Trpresent+d by this stunning smoke the
clouds II has produced, and how the stpgy com.
parrS " tn the Oceanic or the Great Eastern Penn
syivanIl has ever been a champion OF home prod.
ducts and the Stogy Is such Nor Is 1t IN need Of
tarlH protection. pcrhaDs since no tobacco will do
for the StrCy hut the vigorous growth Of Allegheny
mountain farms. Porto Rico and Manila can do
much, but they cannot hope to match the power
tho udur, III" all peryAdlng energy Of the truo
PrnnSylyanIa stOgy. II proves Tint are the
strong ~ nation on Garth And really no army or
navy IS lnvInClJl" say that WliCh smokes stngicS
II IS all OWING t. stOgi"s. p"rhHOS, that Pcnnsvl-
wanna IS 80 Strong and ITS pig lrpn so potent. and
every pot IN Wheeling or IrttSburg will readily
s." IN" lGy.Ir resemblance between stoglcs and the
talPSt chimney