Evening star., 1902-09-02
MAKING CIGARETTES
CUSTOM OF INDIVIDUAL ROLLING
INCREASING.
Sale of the Ready-Made Article is
Being Forced Out
by It.

From the Kansas City Star
Fewer cigarettes are sold and more |
smoked than ever before. It's all in the |
rolling.
Five or six years ago cigarette smokers |
paid cents for ten cigarettes, and nine |
times out Of ten one certain brand was
called for. II was the only cigarette so far
as sales were concerned Anti-cigarette
leaguers said It's popularity was due to the
drug placed in the tobacco and they looked
upon IL prime cause for yellow fingers
and weakened nlinds. The first efficient
war on the cigarette was waged in the col
lege towns, where the city councils placed
prohibitive licenses on their sale. In some
1t was $500 a year, and, as the retailers
profits on the cigarettes were already
nearly lnfnitesinnal the college boy had to
do without his smoke or turn to pipe or
cigar Cigarette manufacturers didn't
awaken until some of the larger cities
seeing now well the license worked in the
small towns alsC made the sale Of cigar
cites unprnfitable to the corner tobacconlst
Then the manufa ct urers felt the loss and
found a way out.
Made by the Trust.
As mos tobacco users know, practically
all OF the smoking tobacco and popular
cigarettes were made by the tobacco trust
Finding It's cigarette industry dying the
| tIuSt gave Win CdSH Stndll package OF
smoking tobacco a book of cigarette pa
! pers, and the cigarette smoker learned what
, was expected of him. Not only in the
| cities where the manufactured cigarette was
| not to be bought did the smoker roll his
! own cigarette. bat In cities like Kansas
| City, where the little rolls were always for
| any one with cents, men and boys began
| 10 be their own cigarette makers. The
| 5-cenI packages Of cigarettes have been for
I OF Fax EN u.
| with the paper free, and the once all-popu-
| lar brand rests in the cases, growing dry
| and dusty, waiting for the occasional Gus
| toner.
/ tnat cigarette where sell one now" said
. a deaier the other DAY. Men who smoked
, them are rolling their own now and MANY
"thfrs vno used pipes or cigars have be-
| come their own cigarette factory Some
| VINO Smoked that package cigarette for
! years say it has grown offensive to them
S-nce they took to making their own
Began With the Spaniard.
The spaniard taught the Mexican and the
mexican taught the cowboy. The man on
The ranch never knew the store cigar
cite because the average merchant in the
cattle country wouldn't trouble himself
with the prottless things. Besides. a COIL
pie of hundred boxes wouldn't SUNNY n
| cowboy in the Intervals between three and
| SIG month vlsltS tC tDWG.- so ii came that
the cowboy would buy a few pounds OF
gra1uIated tobacco ana a bale of paper and
| be supplied for several months. To them
cigarette rolling became an art. Always in
the open and in d country where the wind
never dies. they can roll o cigarette under
| difficulties that would seem insurmountabie
10 the messenger bCy Of the city.
On round up III the spring or on the
beef hunt III the fall every man carries
his three months supply of paper and to-
J J bacco. II may be sa.lOplng in the face OF
the prairie breeze when the cigarette ap
petite seizes him. He slips to one side In hi.
| saddle, riding on one foot and elamping tn,
other to the horse SO as to ride more evenly
| than ever. A piece Of crumpled paper j.
smoothed. just enough tobacco Is dropped
| into ii and q motion or two OF the fingers
| q scratching of g. match and the cowbo.
| is bending far over catching light. Tn,
Z cowpuncher seldom dampens the paper th
c ! ends are crimped only, and the little roll Il
. firm enough for his use. In prairie win,
there Is no toying with the cigarette, as ol
u I the stage in a society play. It's five or 81,
: | puffs and the end, and the horse has no
changed his gait from the hrst.