The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-26

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In peace. The Worlds Work not
very long ago took up the subject
in an article entitled Bull Durham
in War and Peaes,ppi The. aTtisieo in
part Is as follows: ~. -,
"kipling caused many a pipe 70
,prff in approval when he made ZIG.
Ter say in The Captive 70 the reti1
coated English soldiers who offered
him some Smoking tobacco I thank
you, but | don't use any tobacco
you'd be likely to carry. =. Bulp
Durham Bull Durhaml take
il all back, every last word. Buff
Durham.-hcfe II you ever strike
Akron. Ohio. when this fool wars
over, remember you've Laus atom G,
2igler In your vest poeket-including
the city of Akron And Zipler
smoked in peace while he told his
graphic story OF war. !-. ..... .t
Down on the South African veldt,
as in all other parts OF the world
during the past generation, the smoke
Of Bull Durham has been precious
TO the sight and smell and to the
rest OF the FIVE senses, too, OF al! men
who find solace in my Lady Nicotine.
Very Likely young Zigler's father was
a soldier in an Ohio regiment OF
Sherman's army. and the sons fond
ness for the package with the Bull
was inherited. For down in Caro-
lima they tell you to this day that
the fame Of the tobacco was borne
north and south, to every part of
America, by the soldiers in Johns
tons and .Sherman's armies. II was
the one thing the men under different
flags had in common.
TO tell the story of this famous
tobacco in war and peace one needs
TO go TO Durham Here a modern
industrial city is found in place OF
the struggling town OF the sixties.
Here is the home Of Bull Durham,
great brick factory built around a
quadrangle after the manner OF the
colleges at Oxford, where the brand
has wide vogue. To the smoker
the whole building, with its acres OF
floor space would seem like vast
bowl Of some Brobdignagian's pipe.
50 fragrant is it Of his fayorite to-
baceo. And the other impression
that he would hay. from the moment
he entered would be cleanliness and
yet more cleanliness. Nowhere is
tobacco handled by. hand that is left
for the fingers OF the smoker himself
when he gathers from the pouch Just
the amount needed for his pipe. But
before the tobacco is brought to the
factory from long reaching ware
houses nearby. it has been going
through scientific process of curing.
10, begin with, II is the best grade
OF leaf from the Old Belt tobacco OF
North Carolina and Virginia. -
Every May, tobacco. in drying,
goes through sweat which throws
OIL the rankncss which the natural
leaf has when picket. IN HE 'Bull'
Durham warehouses the leaf is kept
sometimes two, sometimes three
years, depending upon the tobacco.
IN order to get Just the right mel
lowing of age; for tobacco is much
like wine in growing better as il
grows older When the curing has
brought the leaf to the desired con-
dition, II is brought to the factory
The right trained men who mix the
tobacco in the proportions for the
Bull Durham blend pick il from
various piles Of leaf with shining
pitchforks, just as farmers would
handle hay, They take from one
pile and then another, their prac-
ticed eyes and hands telling them
the exact amounts, and place il on
canvas carrier, which is moving
perpetuaiiy into what Is called the
breaker Here the leaves are broke,
together into mixture of pieces four
to six inches long. These are borne
forward BY the carrier, which Is ike
an endless chain, into the drier. where
the moisture is removed, thence "a
the cleaners, where every sort OF
foreign. substance is taken out, ieav.
ing only pure tobacco, then 10 the
cutters to be chopped up fine. ready
Tor the great bins, a golden store OF
Bull Durham. e. :. % 90 :
Ingenious packing machines WEIGH
Out and fill thousands upon thousands
OF i've cent packages, each contain
ing full ohnce and MANY good
smokes: When the fiiied package
drops from the machine. lflke A mel.
low plum. Il 10 caught IN 4 mould
that just fits H. Here Il Is Labelled
and i is MEN ready to go forth hear.
ing the famous Bull. known and hon.