How Cheap Cigars Are Made

The room wns low and long. with four wiudows on the north side. Near one of these windows sat a wonian nbout 40 years oíd, bunching cigars from a pile of strippings close by. At another window were two men finishing the cigars, and in the farther part of the room were two beds and a table, with dishes on it. While the pretended dealer was talking with one of the men in regard to the , cheapness with whioh it was possible to manufacture cigars, the door opened, and a ragged littlo girl entered with a dirty canvas bag on her arm, the contenta of wliich slie emptied into a barrel near the door. She then sat down and eommenced to strip tobáceo from the pile bci'orc montioned. The man who did the tidking was very loqnncious, and stated that he could sell cigars for about $7 a thousand. He said that the wrappers used wfere of Western tobáceo, while the fillings were sometimes of " much üner quality." To illustrate this latter assertion he showed the contents of the barrel to whioh the little girl had contiïbuted. It was half l'dled with a mass of what might be called garbage, culled from the streeta, and consisting of scraps of brown paper, ca-bbage-leaves, and eigar-stunips, some of which were, no doubt, stumps of Havana cigars. The manufacture!' then took his customer iuto another room opening from the stairwuy, where there was a kettle in a brick fireplace, and a plank on whleh wère spread out the gleanings from tho barrel, ansorted and separated to dry. He showed how the burnt ends of stumps were exit off and the remaini'er unrolled ; how dried cabbage leaves, boiled with tobáceo sterns and sumach leaves, could be converted into "very fine tobáceo," and closed his explanations by extolling the virtues of the tonka bean, valeriau and ammonia, as flavoring extr.ictfi.-