Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-11-25
TOBACCO A FEATURE
AT TERcENTENN|AL
Plant Has for Generations Been
Stable Of Trade In
This Vicinity.
HOW It OVERCAhE ROYAL DlsfkV0F
King James Said its Striking FUN,
es" Resemb'ed styaian Smoke,
but the World Continued to Use
the Pipe-Fine Exhibit Planned for
the Exposition.
(By James Boy,eo

ioVaCcI! HOW tnSiduouS It's Sc.
duclire influence. What u stimulant
10 energetic manhood anil how snoth-
ing TO the reposc of old age. Tobacco
lis y plant indigenous to America
ana the fact that il is nov aud has
becn FOR generations u staple OF trade
70 the environment of the jamestown
Exposition gives it right TO pre-
cedence over all other products os
Inc earth
Alexander ana Caesar knew I not.
nemoStheuese and Cicero eNcogitatet
tAeir rolling sentences ana Sunoguus
periods with the inspiration of its
aiu indeed the history OF the world
untll the sixteenth century, contained
no treatise on this plant. which is
now consumed by more than 500 200.
VoV people III different parts of the
globe. The reason for it is quite
obvious, The continent from whence
VI sprung and the primitive people
Who used it, We're unknown until
S9lumhus's voyages brought America
TO the knowledge OF the rest OF the
universe.
1t is one of the striking anomalies
OF American collegiate life that the
youthful mind is Instructed for his
basis OF general knowledge in thing;
European, AStatlc and African. AS
Ia protest against this. the full.grown
aid weltinformed American at The
! present day might ask why is the
, civilization which Columbus found
among the aborigines neglected and
! the murderous deeds of imperial Ne.
ro's played up as field OF study
-, n
way OF DEPRESSION, and By VARYING.
the French phrase, let us now return
TO our tobacco.
The earliest Information we have
cancerning tobacco is To be fouai
IN ne ever reliable Las Casas, the
! tallhfuA aud conscientious record OF
, things seen aud done during the co.
tumbian expeditions. Las Cacas tells
US That on approaching Cuba the
eNpedltlon:Sts saw the native smoN.
'ps II weed rolled up in the form
I OF tube
The American Cyclopedia under
the word tobacco says: The plant
ana the dried aai prepared leaves
~ Nlcot!ana tabucum and other sps-
cleS OF Nieotiana. 4 genus OF the Sol.
anaceae or n'Shtshade family. Tho
name of the genus commentaries
that OF Jena Nicot, Il French AEi5ess-
ator 10 Podtugal. who in 1860 sent
the seeds from lisbon To- France. Us
these OF Il highly valuable medicinal
p!ant which was The known through
| cut Portugal, having been introtitreed
IN 1890. The botanical specific name
and the common name came IRON.
tobago or tobaca. the native term in
Santo Domingo for the tube ur pine
through which the smoke Of the. burn
ing leaves was Inhaled The native
Braziians name for the plant was
petum, which the Portuguese intro
dnced into Europe"
! On the same subject the New
International Encyclopedia inns
speaks: Tobacco seed was frsE
taken 70 Eur5pe by Gonza!o rernan-
: de2 de Oviedo who introduced n into
Spain. where it was frs cultivated
las an ornamental plant 1iil SicoIJ
MauardeS extol!ed it as noses sing
medicinal virtues"
As the weed found It's Vav tnto
popular use il cTeatei cSEsteFLa Ton
ana brought on Imposition from
high personages- James tfa F-f-sr n.
England, who wrote pedaut;caIEr on
all subjects, issued the fDIFa9l1g fr;I.
mination "A custom I0a fhs5TIe 70
the eve, hateful to the nose. 6arrf,It
ito the brain. dangerous 70 tle hinge
aad in the black, stiukiny flmes
| thereof nearest resembling tha hor.
| riole Stygian smoke cf the d. fhaE
is bottoaless."
Notwithstanding the 7oysE dts
favor with which it met, the g-a 81
tobacco spread Throughout F.nraDe
and Asia indeed throughout TIE en-.
tire world, with rapidly gn avs,
ITO any other article of Commerce