The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-02

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 birch stick, chew it to a pulp and then dip it into the snuff. Slippery elm IS also used in about the same way, the eVldeht desire being to get a substitute Aor cheWlng gum that will carry a fla Vor With It, So universal is snuff dip ping III the South that no concealment oL the habit Is made there and dipping partles," where the women sit around and talk, while indulging in their fa- Vor1te vice. are so general that com ment on them has practically ceased.
 Providence, R. l., is said to have the
 dublous honor of being a great snuff distributing center. It disposes of some 3,o0O pounds every two weeks. Fall
 River is not bad second for it gets fld or ton of snuff monthly. Sales in Boston are enormous and the amount used is increasing slowly. The sa es Ill Manhattan and Brooklyn are not large as yet, the average amount sold py retailers being not more than three pounds weekly. But the demand is gradually increasing.
 There is a large sale of snuff in the Northwest, particularly among the SWedes and foreigners of other nation- alities in the timber regions At least 50 per cent. of this class use black snuff, while the kind that is popular among women is called Scotch. There are several varieties of black snuff, some of the brands being named after cities, as Stockholm" "Goteborg," 'Norrkoping, 'Kalmar," etc. These brands are all manufactured in Chicago after Swedish recipes.
 l The Scotch brands that there is most call for are Strong Scotch" Salt Scotch" and Sweet Scotch" with "Maccaboy" next in favor. The people of Texas are credited with using the strongest brands
 In talking of the subject recently G. J. Smith, who is secretary of the Amer ican Snuff company of New York, a concern which supplies the bulk of the snuff used in the country, said: Tt is rather late in the day to con- demn the tobacco habit or any feature of it. For 250 years the use of tobacco in all forms has been written and in weighed against on the platform or the pulpit, but in 250 years it has made the conquest of the world. The excessive use of tobacco in any form is bad, but so is the excessive use of anything. You can eat too much, you can drink too much. In the same way you can smoke to much or become slave to the use of snuff.
 'In the South snuff is chewed by both men and women and I believe that it is growing in the North. All that l say about that is that it is bet ter than chewing tobacco. The old hab- it of snuffing tobacco through the nos trils, however, l regard as a dignified, harmless and even healthful practice Snuff is a disinfectant and when used through the nostrils is of real value Many doctors use it in the sick room and it is becoming generally recognized as an excellent catarrh cure, for it stimulates the membranes and help to invigorate and strengthen the nerves of l the nose.
 ''The habit of snuff taking in the old fashioned way is on the increase. It ! would probably surprise you to know | that of the 25,000 places, more or less, | in New York city in which snuff is | sold, there is not one where q dark l coarse grained snuff, used for snuffing [ alone, cannot be obtained Where snuff fing has died out you will probably find out that it was through lack of proper distributing methods"
 It is an interesting fact that the old Bronx mill, in which the Lorillards- Jacob and Peter-irst began the of snuff and tobaccos in this part of the country in 1760 still stands in Bronx park. It is being pre- served by tie city and is an object of much curiosity and attention from the younger generation.
 Another pioneer in snuff making here was George w. Helme, whose son is president of the American Snuff com pany. The elder MT. Helme, who died a few years ago, left an estate it is said, valued at sSOOOo 900, and his fac tory at Hemetta, N. J., employed over LOGO hands, when it was sold to the combine, which now controls it.-Brook- yn Eagle.