Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — SMOKES “FOURFERS” NOW. [ARTICLE]

SMOKES “FOURFERS” NOW.

■Mass Who Dropped from Twenty-Cent Clears aad Doesn't Complain. “I remember,” said the man of fallen fortunes, “and not with regfret, for I always look on life cheerfully, the time I smoked imported cigars, at 20 cents apiece, and when the idea I would ever have to smoke cheaper ones did not enter my mind. But circumstance* changed, and after a while I found 1 would have to give them up for a ttane, though I Dever doubted that I should get back to them again. So just temporarily, I dropped down to 10-centers, and. they were not so bad. “I found*l could get a pretty good sort of a cigar for 10 cents. The time came when the 10-center was as far beyond me as the 20-center had been, but Instead qf mending my fortunes continued to fail. Then I took to B-ceniters, and discovered it was possible to buy a very good cigar for that price. So I bought my good 5-centers, forgot the taste of the 10-centers and 20-centers, and was satisfied. It never -occurred to me that I could get below that, but I did. I dropped to the stogies, 8 for 5, and a good make, too. I liked the stogies, I smoked them for a time, and then—it seemed as thought Ways of adapting myself to the situation opened to me as my fortunes declined—l found a place where they sold four good-sized cigars for 5 cents, and that’s what I am smoking now, four for 5. “If I were to compare these with the 20-eetwters, it would be to the disadvantage of these, no doubt, but I have come down to the four-for-fives gradually, and so I don’t note the difference. I could, of course, be more economical still by smoking a pipe; but I prefer a cigar, and I smoke the fourfers cheerfully, never doubting that I shall in due time dimb back again to the fragrant Havanas.”