Show GALLOPING IN THE SADDLE With With the Wind Blowing a Gale the Cowboy Rolls I I His Cigarette and Lights It Too Fewer cigarettes are arc sold and more smoked than ever before Its It's all In the rolling Five or six years ago asro cigarette smokers smokers amok amok- ers era paid 5 cents for ten cigarettes and nine times limes out of ten one certain brand was called for It was the only cigarette cigarette cigar cigar- ette cUe so 50 far as sales were concerned cigarette Anti-cigarette leaguers said Its p popular popularity pular- pular It ity was due to the drug placed in tn the tobacco and the they looked upon it as the prime cause for yellow fingers and weakened minds The first efficient war t ton on the cigarette was waged in the college college collese col col- col- col lege lese towns where the City Councils ls placed prohibitive lIcen licenses es on their sale In some It was OO a year and as t the e retailers retailer's profits on the cigarettes were already near nearly Infinitesimal the college boy had to do without his smoke or turn to pipe pip or cigar char Cigarette manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- didn't awal awaken en until some flome of the larger cities clUes seeing how well the thelIc lIc license nc worked In the smaller towns al also also also al- al so made the sale sate of ot cigarettes unprofitable able to the corner tobacconist Then the manufacturers felt fell the loss and found a way out As most tobacco users know practically call cally all of the smoking tobacco and popular cigarettes were made by the to tobacco tobacco tobacco to- to bacco trust t. t Finding Its cigarette In Industry industry In- In dying the trust gave ave with e each small package of oC smoking tobacco a a. book o of cigarette papers and the cigarette cigarette cigar cisar ette eUe smoker learned what was expected of ot him Not only In cities where the manufactured cigarette waa was not to be bought boucht did the t smoker roll his own ci cigarette cigarette cI- cI garette but In cities like e Kansas City where the little rolls were always alwa's for anyone anone with 5 cents men and boys bos began began begrin be be- gan grin to be their own cigarette makers The Tho cent 5 packages of cigarettes have been forgotten for the cent 5 package of tobacco with the paper free and the once popular all r brand brond rests In the cases case growing dry nn and dusty waiting for tor tho the occasional customer Six years ears ago we sold fifty packages of or that cigarette where we sell one now said a dealer the other da day Men who smoked them are arc rolling rOiling their own now nos and many others who used pipes or cigars ha have hae e b become e colI their own cigarette cigar cigar- otto cUe factor factory Some who ho smoked that package cl cigarette for fOl years cars 8 say 1 it has grown orr offensive c to them since they took to making their own The Spanish taught the Mexican and the Mexican tau taught ht the thc cowboy The Theman Theman Theroan man roan on the ranch never knew the store cigarette because the il ero average e merchant in the cattle country countr wouldn't trouble himself with ith Ith the profitless things Besides a couple of or hundred boxes wouldn't supply a cowboy in the intervals between three and six months visits to t town wn So It came that the cowboy cowboy cow cow- bo boy would hu buy a n few fe pounds of granulated granulated tobacco and a bale of paper and be supplied for several months To them cigarette rolling roiling became me an art always al In the open and In a country where the wind never dies the they can roll roil rolla a cigarette und under r that would seem Insurmountable to the messenger bo boy of the city On round up in the spring or on n the I beef hunt in the fall er e every man carries carries carries car car- ries his three months' months supply of paper and tobacco He ma may be galloping Inthe in inthe inthe the face of or the prairie breeze e when the cigarette appetite seizes him He slips ships to one side Elde In his saddle riding on one foot Coot and clamping the other to the horse so as to ride more evenly than ever ever- everA A piece of or crumpled paper Is smoothed Just enough enouch tobacco is dropped Into it and a a. motion or two of or orthe the fingers a scratching of a a. match and the cowboy Is bending tar far over catching a a. light The cowpuncher seldom dampens damp lamp ens ns the paper the ends are only and tho the little roll Is firm enough h for his use In Iii a prairie wind vInd there Is no toying with the cigarette as on the stage stas-e in a society pIa play Its It's five tl clor or six puffs purrs and the end and the horse has I not changed his gait from the first first first- Kansas City Star |