Arizona republican., 1899-10-31
ABOUT THE STOGY.
It Originated in the Conestoga Region
OF Pennsylvania.

| 1t Originated in the Conestoga Region
OF Pennsylvania.
You may spell it stogy or 'stogie.'
In the latter case you follow the ex-
ample of Mr. John Farmer, who is SC
often wrong i'll his Dictionary OF
Americanisms" Mr. Farmer. finding
and quoting a sentence with the word
| in the plural. chose his singular form
in defiance of the advice of other die
tionary makers. You may be brave
enough to smoke stOgieS; you surely
have smelled them; and you know that
there has of late been newspaper con-
troversy over the respective merits of
the Wheeling and Pittsburg brands
We therefore publish with pleasure an
exhaustive essay by our valued CORE
spondent, G. w. F..
At home they call it rat tail. Its
birthplace is the Conestoga country.
about Lancaster. Pa, once famous as
the chief highway from tidewater 10
the Ohio country. For many years, it
will be remembered Lancaster was
the greatest town of the interior, away
from all salt water and navigation.
The country about Lancaster and the
Conestoga, highly productive, used to
carry its flower, iron and provisions TO
Philadelphia 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, supplied him with $50
of these noble outfits. The armies of
the revolution used chiefly Conestoga
wagons. and made them everywhere
familiar. When the famous turnpike
from Philadelphia to Lancaster was
built. more than a century ago, it was
TO accommodate these C0nestogas.
They crowded the still more famous
Cumberland road. built by Uncle Sam
to Wheeling. across the state of Ohio.
and through Indiana and Illinois
The Conestoga teamsters liked their
tobacco and preferred the native weed.
Some genius along the road invented
the rough cigar, made of Pennsylvania
or similar tobacco. and well adapted in
price and Vigor to the sturdy wagon
ers. They liked it. the demand in
creased. and only Edward Atkinson
can compute how many millions were
produced in the Conestoga country.
Wheeling. Pittsburg and along the Old
pixies. Like the big wagons the very
vigorous cigar. made. after the pattern
of a rat tail, came to be known as the
Conestoga. soon abbreviated into the
more familiar StOgy.
Conestoga wagons preceded the rev
olution, but the brave stogy came with
the more enlightened nineteenth cen
tury. and should have Mr. Atkinson's
attention He can compute the horse
power represented by this stunning
smoke. the clouds 1t has produced, and
how the stogy compares with the Gee
anic or the Great Eastern. Pennsyi-
vania has ever been II champion Of
home products, and the stOgy IS such.
Nor is it in need OF tariff protection,
perhaps, since no tobacco will do for
The stogy but the vigorous growth of
mountain farms. Porto
Rico and Manila can do much, but
hey cannot hope to match the power,
he odor, the all-pervading energy of
he true Pennsylvania stogy. 1t
proves that we are the strongest ma
ion on earth. And really no army or
navy is invincibIe save that which
smokes stogies. 1t is all owing to Sto-
sies perhaps. that Pennsylvania is so
strong and its pig iron so potent, and
very poet in Wheeling or Pittsburg
will readily see the idyllic resemb
ance between stogies and the tallest
.himney.-Boston Journal