The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-09
DOCTORED CIGARS.
Some Useful Points on the Manipulation of the Weed.

Some Useful Points on the Manipulation
 of the Weed.
 Because cigarettes are said to con
 tain an admixture of certain drugs
 which are believed to be deleterious to
 health" said Washington dealer in
 tobacco to Star reporter, many be-
 nevolent ladies and well intending gen.
 tlemen the later, in all probability,
 having never cut open, much less snlok
 ed, a cigar in their lives, think that the
 small roll of leaf so dear to the hearts
 and purses of other men is loaded with
 all sorts of inf1ammable and dangerous
 materials.
 "As a matter of actual fact, cigars
 are. as a rule, made of pure, good to-
 bacco, free from any factoring pro"
 cesses or manipulations which add to
 the already sufficient poisonous quali-
 ties of the active principle of tobacco
 nicotine. There is enough of the mar
 cotc in that clement.
 "The so-called 'doctoring' is largely
 matter of popular fiction. The real leaf
 of the tobacco is too cheap to attempt
 to palm off a smoking substitute. The
 poorer grades of the weed are rank
 enough with adulteration, The cigars
 put on the market nowadays are vastly
 superior to those smoked by men some
 years ago, and especially is thus true ot the domestic leaf which, by improved cultivation and quality of the seed, and advanced methods of curing, packing and handling, has undergone a change in keeping with the times. Beyond a slight sprinkling of innocuous flavoring ,Io11 ha 1 fume on handkerchief, cigars of to- day are straight goods, More than ever do men call for a certain brand, even in the cheaper and nickel grades and it is ofttimes difficult to get them to adopt a new one which we wish to 1n- troduce to the trade.
 Several brands of nickel cigars are made from the clippings of higher priced cigar There are as many grades of tobacco as of woolen goods. Some men don't know this. Some men don't know the difference between Connecti- cut and a Havana cigar, and never will. In fact, the ignorance of some men about tobacco is conceived of only by those who deal in it. They are worse than some women buying dry goods some men; not all. These men are great bores, as other men of observing bent of mind must notice, when the first kind are explaining to us what they think they know about tobacco when made in the form of cigar
 Tn smoking tobaccoes there is great deal of admixture of different kinds of leaf, but it is tobacco leaf all right. The finest grade of smoking leaf comes from Henry county, North Caro- lima, and I include plug chewing tobacco in this grade. It is a beautiful golden green color, of exquisite flavor, so fine that it is almost exclusively used as a mixer to give grade, flavor and ap- pearance to inferior qualities. There is something in the soil of the country which produces this leaf, for it is found nowhere else in the United Etates, and it brings the highest price. Smokers will recognize these tiny golden fleeks among the darker grains in their boxes of high grade smoking tobacco. The of plug tobacco gild, as 1t were, the outer surfaces with this golden green leaf and it is very attrac- tive to the eye of chewers. The interior of the plug will be composed of other | and darker grades.
 Tt is in the making of plug tobacco | that the 'doctoring processes come in l more than in any other form of tobac- 20. Plug tobacco is made sweet by | adding a proper proportion of molasses in the preparation of the plug, accord | ng to the grade. Some plug grades are | very sweet and strong. A special | grade is made for the United States navy, and it is very strong. Most | chewers prefer the sweet plug, but | some will chew only the dryer kinds. I have beard it said that if chewers could gof through a plug tobacco fac .ory they would be less inclined to in 1ulge in their habit. A bakery is often l dirty place, and so is candy fac .ory. Places where things are made are usually more or less filthy, and plug tobacco factories are no exception 90 the rule Restaurant kitchens will | urn the strongest stomach while the kitchen in a mans own house is place o be avoided just before and after meal time.
 "Down in St. James county in Louis- vile they grow a quality of tobacco snown as Louisiana perique which S as black as your hat and the strong st grown in this country Two ounces If the real stuff will bring up to good standard a pound of a milder grade if inferior tobacco. If this tobacco were to be smoked clear it would make a man intoxicated from the pow rful nicotine. It is almost as strong ss plum.
 "The demand for cigars and tobacco # all kinds is on the increase. Men moke much more than they did, and hey certainly chew a greater quantity f plug. Long cut, while still selling, oes not compare with the other" DOG ON A NEWSPAPER ROUTE.
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