The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-08-26
TOBACCO ON THE
FIELD OF MARS
He soidlors Ka gomploia wIlhom
h"was LaWtona Maxlm- what
zlgloF Said 10 Tommy Atkins

j obacc0 SIS as necessary 10 war as
powder and shot AT least It has
been necessary to American and Eng
lish soldiery ever since the use Of
the weed became general General
Lawton, who died gloriously at the
head Of his men In the far away
Philippines, used to have three rules
in regard to the care Of his soldiers:
First" he said, "A soldier must
have food second, he must have
clothes, and third, he must have his
proper ration of tobacco if he is to
be a FIRST class fighting man"
This last maxim Of the great Law
ton points out the important part
tobacco has played in war as well as
in peace The Worlds Work not
very long ago took up the subject
In an article entitled Bull Durham
IN War and Peace" The article in
part is as follows:
"Kipling caused many pipe to
puff in approval when he made Zig
Ter say in The Captive, to the red
coated English soldiers who offered
him some smoking tobacco: i thank
you, but | don't use any tobacco
you'd be likely to carry. Bull
Durham ?-'Bdll Durham / take
It all back, every last word. Bull
Durhan-herel IL you ever strike
Akron, Ohio, when this fool wars
over, remember you've Laughton G.
Zigler in your vest pocket--including
the city Of Akron And Zigler
smoked in peace while he told his
graphic story Of war.
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 tie s.ght and smell and to the
rest Of the five senses. too, of all 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. It 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
70 60 TO Durham. Here a modern
Industrial city is found III place Of
the struggling town OF the sixties.
Here is the home Of Bull Durham,
great brick factory built around
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 a vast
bowl Of some Brobdignagian's pipe.
so fragrant is it Of his favorite TO-
bacco. And the other impression
that he would hal { 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 q scientific process Of curing.
10 begin with, il is the best grade
Of leaf from the Old Belt tobacco of
North Carolina and Virginia.
Every May, tobacco, in driving.
goes through sweat which throws
off the rankness which the natural
Leaf has when picked Ia the Bull
durham warehouses the leaf IS kept
sometimes two, sometimes three
years, depending upon the tobacco.
IN order TO get Just the right mel
loving OF age; for tobacco is much
ike wine in growing better as Il
grows older. When the curing has
brought the leaf to the desired cor
dltlon, It is brought to the factory
The right trained men who mix the
tobacco sIn the proportions for the
Bull Durham blend pick II from
various piles Of leaf with Shining
pitchforks, just as farmers would
handle hay They take from one
pile and then another. their nrac-
tieed eyes and hands telling them
the exact amounts, and place It on a
canvas carrier. which IS moving
perpetually into what is called me
breaker Here the leaves are broken
together into a mixture Of pieces four
to SIX inches long These are horne
forward BY the carrier. which is ike
an endless chain, into the drier. evhere
the moisture IS removed. thence 10
the cleaners, where every sort oi
foreign substance IS taken out Ieav-
ing only pure tobacco. then 10 the
cutters TO be chopped I'D fine. ready
ior the great bins, a golden store of
Bali Durham.
Ingenious packing machines weigh
Ont end FIJI thousands upon thousands
of hve cent packages. each contain
ing a full ounce and manv rood
smokes When the filed package
drops from the machine. ike a mel
low plum it is caught IN a norId
that lust fits it Here II Is Iabeiied
and i is then ready to 60 forth bear'
ing the famous Bull, known and hon.
0Feu Wherever pipes are smoked"