Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-16
MORE ABOUT THE SToGY.
1t Originated in the Conestoga Region
Of Pennsylvania.

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You may spell il stogy or ''stogie"
In the latter case you follow the ex-
ample of Mr.. John Farmer, who is so
often wrong in 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 make stOgies; you surely
have spelled them; and you know that
there has of late been newspaper con.
troyersy over the respective merits
Of the Wheeling and Pittsburg brands.
We therefore publish with pleasure
an exhaustive essay by our valued cor
respondent, c. w. e.
At home they call it rat tail. It's
birthplace is Conestoga county, about
Lancaster, Pa. once famous as the
chief highway from tidewater to the
Ohio country. For many years, il viii
be remembered, Lancaster was the
greatest town of the interior, away
from salt water and navigation The
country about Lancaster and the Cones.
toga. highly productive, used to carry
its -four, iron and provisions to Phila-
delphia in huge wagons drawn by four,
six or eight horses, and when poor
Braddock started on his expedition to
the Ohio, Franklin, the illustrious, sup
piled him with $50 of these noble out.
fits. The armies of the revolution
used chiefly Conestoga wagons, and
made them everywhere familiar.
When the famous turnpike from Lam
caster to Philadelphia was built more
than a century ago, ii was to accom-.
modate these Conestogas They
crowded the still more famous Cum.
berland' 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
we'll adapted in price and vigor to the
sturdy wagoners. They liked It, the
demand increased. and only Edward
Atkinson can compute how many mil
lions were produced in the Conestoga
country, Wheeling, Pittsburg and
along the old pixies. Like the big
wagons, a very vigorous cigar. made
after the pattern of rat tail, came TO
be known as the Conestoga, soon alb.
breviated into the more familiar
Stogy.
Conestoga wagons preceded the rev.
olution, but the brave stogy came with
the more enlightened nineteenth cen.
fury, and should have Mr.. Atkinson's
attention. He can compute the horse
power represented by this stunning
smoke, the clouds II has produced,
and how the stogy compares with the
Oceanic or Great Eastern. Pennsyl.
vania has ever been n champion of
home products. and the stogy is such.
Nor is II in need of tariff protection
perhaps, since no tobacco will do for
the stogy save the vigorous growth
of the Allegheny mountain farms. Por.
to Rico and Manila can do much, but
they cannot hope TO match the power
the all-pervading energy of the true
Pennsylvania stogy. IL proves that we
are the strongest nation on earth
And really no army or navy is irwin
chile save that which smokes stogies.
II is all owing TO the stogies, perhaps,
that Pennsylvania is so strong and its
pig iron so potent, and every poet In
Wheeling or Pittsburg viii readily see
the idyllic resemblance between sto-
gies and the tallest chimneys.-Bos-
ton journal.