Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-13

levpd the consumption in the islands
considerably exceeds that which is sent
away. The Spanish Government lad a
monopoly both for the purchase of the
leaf and the sale of the manufactured
cigar. But the native cultivator, nat
urally enough, kept for his own use or
for that of his friends or for clandes-
tine sale the best product of his gar
dens
In the remoter districts authority
Was too weak 20 enforce the monopoly
, and the native enjoyed unmolestej the
fruits of his abor. In them none par
ticipated more largely than the friars
who. NORMALLY the spiritual guides
We're really the paramount rulers
among the natives The converts were
alw avs supplied with the choicest of
the cigarrO and cigarrito.
A cheap tobacco. called ava grass. is
very much smoked by the Ma.ays
which they put in dried leaf called a
rocco, rolling the tobacco up in it like
a cigarette. The Malays of certain
districts keep the tobacco in pieces of
bamboo: but it is badly prepared and
never exported.
noticeable peculiarly of the cigar
trade in Cuba is that each man knows
how to make but one kind of cigar
The workman who makes concha
cannot make d rega!ia nor is lie re-
qnred to do 50; nor can an espanola
be rolled ny man whose speciality is
tie partaga.
A concha is a short. thick cigar. its
name being derived from it's shape,
having fancicd resemblance TO
'shell. The regatta is generally large
in size and well favored. Espanola
takes its name from red and yellow
ribbons. the colors of the Spanish flag
with which the bundles of the brand
arc tied. A partaga is of d large size
rather long, and is named from the
owned of the mandatory in Havana
at which the variety was first made.
Among European smokers the noes
chaum and the porcelain bowl find fla
vor with the German and the rivalry
between their respective merits affords
constant topic of controversy among
the bUrghers or youths of the UNIVERSE
ty. The possession and becoming use
of the pipe mark the transition from
youth to- manhood, and the rauchen
rank being assumed. the pipe. which is
Ie'oSIilIeu eInDISm ana representative,
is seldom out Of the hand Of it's owner
The smoking habit is perhaps more
rooted iE Holland than in any part of
the European world. The old King
Nillam--known in his country as Va
der " illem-had great dislike to to-
oacco smoke, while the court painter,
Kun. declared he never succeeded in
taking a likeness unless he had pipe
in his hand. and found fumes. He re-
fused to paint the portrait of his royal
master unless the King gave way to
MS foible, which. Notwithstanding his
prejudices, His Majesty very good hui
moredly consented to do. The King
had not been long seated in his chair
When. overcome by the smoke. he fell
asleep, The artist continued his work
for little time, unwilling to interrupt
his soyereign's repose. when he follow
ed the royal example. his brush fell
from his hand. and monarch and sub
iect were siumberinS and snoring to-
gether. Willem was The first to awake
and exclaimed to the painter: Why.
sir. YOU are asleep He was of
course reused. but having no time to
reoollect in whose august presence he
Was. exclaimed abruptly and irrever-
emily: why, you fell asleep first
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