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Show What Royalty Smokes. (New Orleans Democrat.) Making cigars for princes and" potentates poten-tates and crowned heads Is a great business busi-ness in Havana, and incidentally 1 may remarkj from what well-posted men have told me, that thev turn these royal contracts con-tracts to good use in more than one way. You see. It Is a good advertising feature. It gives the clgarmakers a prestige which they cannot get in any other way. King Edward of England has his cigars specially spe-cially made. By the way. that reminds me of the fact that we frequently find cigars in this country which are labeled with the English coat of arms, just as the cigars are labeled which are made especially for his majesty the king of England. Of course, they are not the same cigar. It is simply a catch system. sys-tem. All the cigars that are ,made for crowned heads bv Cuban manufacturers are bought by the men they are made for, and scrupulous care is exercised in the matter. The onlv men who ever get any of these cigars either get them on orders or-ders from royal personages, or they get them as guests of the royalty. A particular par-ticular kind of tobacco is used in the manufacture of these cigars. Take the case, for Instance, of the czar of Russia. Cigars that are made for him are branded brand-ed with the Russian coat of arms, and he buys all the cigars the factory can make out of the material and in the way specified in .his order. |