The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-20


ana tne.r Kind. IL taIs country II IS
growing mo dIscepu,e among men
VINO nave regard Ior the IoIInoner
Mceues, ana II IS rare LAat one sees
among gentlemen the oIu-Clme caewer
VINO was Il uIs-urDer OF sound. s.gnC
and smell.
AIlaouSa the cAIei use OF tobacco
among the na,lyes ws-s III the pipe, !,
nda d very general secondary use IS Il
medicine IOf amos All luo lis luaL
aboriginal uesn was neIr - masters
were maze 81 ule leaves, tea was
STEPPED LrOm chem, ana the plant was
uSeu Is Il cudr - dSdIn>L ne sp.rIjS OIL
eVII. AS d medicine IC was ms. MIRO
Quced lnUO Europe, ana on that ground
II was recommended Dy tue cOurlS ana
church, ana poets sang Us praises
quite aS earnestly as tley Iater ala
when Il became the sOJtner OF troubled
MINDS, ana was anaCnematlzed by
court and Church ar Il very emIssary
OF sin.
tor eighty or ninety years alter the
CO4uInJIaas DtOuSnC - span ana
L became hnOWu ~ Other poOp4e, is
meaIcIndI QuaIIe4es were lis E1arn ana
recOmluenQd,IUH IL IoSO IL Was mrs.
SMOKED II HUIlaAu, ana W4iIe tAere Is
argumtIL as 20 Wueuaor So JOnn nav
lllDrs introduced IL mo EugIauu IL
1900, or tLdipn Lane, governor OF VIZ
gina under olr wafer halelgn ap-
ponUmeuJ, introduced It inIoSb, the re-
cOrus snow UnaC on the z.Ln OF july,
1886, wnen Lane ana his party from
me fglnld colony landed at KY
mouth Laey came ashore With their
pipes smohIng IKE furnaces and exclI-
Ell universal wonder and surprise. be
Cne UIme sooner or LAGER, the TOBACCO
naDlL rapIuIy spread among All classes,
SIR Wafer HaleIgh heading the list Oh
Missionaries. FROM England the SAIL
ors LOOK II 20 the Sweues, Russians,
and turks; the Portuguese and Dutcn
10 eastern Asia, and the ArmenlanS co
Persia. In I6VI II had reached as Tar
around as Java ana was seeming the
Pyramids of Egypt; in 1908 It's wreath
OF DIue settled upon the GreaC MOSuI,
and snorIIy atterward 1t hau overcome
the Germanlc people nike summer
cloud, they being the last to achnoW-
ledge its potency. thus, in less phan
quarter or century, TOBACCO con
quered the world and maze Wiling
OF every nation.
Truly, tobacco is King and Emperor.
hut IL was not ii ngnCless battIe the
conqueror won. AS long as 1t was
thought TO be a medicine, good for the
ills or man, 1t received the cOmmenda-
ton of the Church and State, but when
it became Il pleasure TO him Whch
was Likely 10 make him forget what Il
hard world this LIS TO live IN anyhow,
State and Church set their faces
against it, and all sorts OF DEGREES were
Illuminated against its use, some gong
at5 far as to make it crime punishable
by death. even the Turks, who now
swear by their smoking, tortured OF
tenders, and the Arabian Mussulmans
condemned il as unclean. y notable
attack was "A COunterblaSt TO Tobac-
CO.. written by James l. in his most
vindictive manner. Elizabeth, how
ever, who was a good fellow, didn't
object to smoking, and, no doubt,
would have tried cigarette II coaXed
a bit, nor did William, the Dutchman,
who dearly loved his pipe, or he
wouldn't have been a Dutchman. 1t
may be commented upon here that
women as a rule did not take kindly
to tobacco either among the unciViliZed
or civilized, although many ladies OF
the various European courts had their
pipes, the daughters of Louis XIV. OF
France being among the number,
though their royal father looked upon
the weed with distinguished di5esteem.
Many stories are told of the early
smokers-that one of the servant
water on his smoking master,
he was on fire, being narrat-
ed of many well-known men, with ale
or beer or wine or water m entioned as
the eXtfnguisher according TO the fam
cy Of the narrator. Smokers Were OBJ
jects of curiosity, also, and rural visit
Ors to London made it a point to gath
er where there was an opportunity to
see men smoking, and then in open
wonder they Watched, and
went home to tell the story to their
The tobacco habit die not get firm
hold among the less wealthy classes
until prices went down, for in the be-
ginning 1t was most expensive, and
was INDUCED in by the rich only when
hey were feeling flush. An ounce of it
was worth between four and five dol
lars of our money, and the finer quail
ties brought three or four times those
figures. In some places it was sold for
its weight in silver, and nobody ever
tried to establish a parity Ct 16 to l be-
cause they didn't have to. But there
was an effort to demOnetze tobacco,
as II were, and finally 1t me to pass
that poor man could have his pipe
and get as much satiSfacti IN out of it
as a rich man could out of his. In
those days the habit was called drink
ing tobacco, and tobacco drinker
was looked upon with as much discs
TEEN as liquor drinker was, which
varied according to the way people
looked at those things. IN early to-
bacco shop sign was no. al Indian. as
We know it in these tim :. but a negro
smoking. and it is not Of record when
the black skin gave way to the red.
Inc first European clay pipes were
made in Holland. In England the rich
had silver pipes, while the ordinary
pipe consisted Of a walnut hull with a
straw stem, very dainty pipe, too, it
was, the cOnnoisseur will note.
Benjamin Franklin tells a story of
the origin of tobacco which NAV be