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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
JANEsvILLE, WIS, Feb. 8, 1900.

But very little buying has been done
by local dealers of late, owing to the
fact that most Of them are straining
every muscle to pack Iii cases the h,noe
bulks of bundles that have been accn-
mulating in the receiving rooms durino
the past few weeks. The few that are
riding are somewhat Indifferent, and are
disposed to offer figures lower than those
prevailing some weeks ago.
Deliveries have not been very liberal
this week, owing principally to rough
roads and bad weather. When these
conditions change for the better there
will be greater activity.
In old leaf another fairly active week
has passed. During the past ten days L.
B. Carrie & Son purchased 500 cases 81
of Owen & Pepper of Footville, and
about 25O cases of Brodhead parties.
Since the first of the year this firm has
sold about 5000 cases of old tobacco
Other firms report good business.
The asserting rooms are running full
blast, and over 800 persons are employed
IN the nineteen asserting rooms of this
city. The principal firms are: S. B.
Heddles, 95; Fisher & Fisher, go; J. L.
Il M. f.. Greene, Is; L. B. Carle & Son,
IS; F. S. Baines, 40; A. n. Jones, so; J.
Marquissee, 50 and other firms have
large forces.-Farm and Home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
Lancaster.
LANCASTER New ERA, Feb. 6, 1900.

LANCASTER NEW ERA, req. b, l9UU.
There is very great concurrence in
the local trade that business is very dull
and this is attributed to two causes.
First, and mainly, to the disappearance
of nearly all the old goods formerly held
here 1t is said that there are very few
lots in the country that are larger than
500 cases, while nearly all the packers,
when they have any at all, have very
small holdings. Under such circumstan-
ces large sales are simply out OF the
question. Another reason is that the
new crop is now coming in, and packers
have their hands full in receiving and
asserting and packing it. The sales re-
ported to us are so cases sold by Bricker
& Snavely. of Lititz; AZ cases sold by
Isaac Stirk & Co., and 455 cases sold and
800 cases bought by B. f. Good s. Co.
We are informed by buyers that lots
of last years goods are getting scarce,
even the Havana seed, and there will be
none left when April comes along. The
warehouses are beginning to grow lively
and most Of them are now receiving.
We have also heard that there have been
some reflections, as many as thirty acres
by one packer, one day last week, and
some by various other dealers. The
reason we do not know. AS goods are
as high now as when the buying season
opened last fall, there ought to be little
difficulty in reselling these goods.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
New YORK, Feb. 10, 1900,


Trading the past weak slackened
somewhat in the market. Not exactly
because there was not an active demand
but very likely because the supply did
not satisfy the demand. For the cigar
industry remains buster than ever. In
the two largest centers of the cigar in
dustry, New York city the Ninth Penn
sylvania, the output for the month of
January shows considerable increase-in
the Metropolitan districts by thirteen
millions and in the Ninth Pennsylvania
by eleven millions over January last
year. Such increase in the cigar pro-
duction naturally create larger pro
duction in the leaf market, but the mar
ket is not able any more to fully supply
the demand. The stocks of all kinds of
leaf are greatly depleted, more SO than
they have been at this time for any num-
Der of years. There are very little do
mestic wrapper leaf left, and what is left
are only remnants. Of binder leaf, the
'98 Wisconsin has been reduced to mere
scattered lots; and of filler leaf there is
hardly anything left in compact lots
The sales summed up for the week to
about 1900 boxes of all kinds and grades,
The Sumatra market is in the same
|
sold out, while the stock in the larger
warehouses is picked out and reduced to,
minimum. Buyers have very little
choice left, and they have to take what
is offered. Sales for the week about 220r
bales.
In Havana leaf the trade remains ac-
tive The choice importations of the
first capaduras Of Remedies are nearly
all gone, and buyers have to be satisfied
now with second capaduras and some
nondescript leaf that but for the present
demand would have never seen this
market. In Vueltas the market has
still good supply Of most serviceable
leaf, but even that supply is going fast;
at least, as fast as it can pass the Ap-
praisers Department. Sales for the
week 1900 bales. AS for prices, they are
regulated aeGurding to the customers
needs: Journal,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16

for them at satisfactory figure. The
crop of 1899 cigar leaf, all told, is un-
questionably a good-sized one, but in
crease of production has not been pro
portionately as great as the increase in
the consumption which has been and is
now going on. There is no visible reason
why the present year should not be a
prosperous one for both packers and
iobbers, except in cases where radical
mistakes have been or will be made in
buying. g
Havana Inquiry continues strong
and goods are moving rapidly With
every passing week it becomes more evi
dent that the crop of 1889 will be alb
sorbed much earlier than usual, and
manufacturers, realizing this. are buying
as extensively as the high prices will
permit. One importing firm disposed of
732 bales of 1899 Remedies, 1st caps at
from IS to 95c, in bond, most of which
was sold to arrive Sales for the week
approximate 2,400 bales. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
New York.
NEW YORK Feb. 7, 1900.

The month of February was ushered
in with marked failing off of business
in the domestic branch of the trade, due
principally to the high prices demanded
for all classes of desirable goods. The
week past was the dullest experienced
thus far this year. The lull is not par
ticularly significant, however, and fol
lows very naturally a long stretch Of very
satisfactory business. The inquiry con
tinues fairly strong, and this indicates
that the calm in the market is only a
temporary one. Packers are hopeful and
confident Those who bought heavily
of the finer grades of New England
goods are waiting ratue, anxiously to see
what effect the predicted large produc-
ton of Sumatra will have on the prices
of domestic wrapper goods. However,
although rather stiff prices were paid to
the grower in most instances, the per
centage Of fine tobdccos, and particularly
light-colored goods, which Connecticut
will produce this year, win not be so
large but that market can be found
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
Edgerton,.

This is the time of year when con-
gressmen think they are doing kind
ness to their constituents by distributing
seeds which the agricultural department
has set aside for them. The tobacco
districts will doubtless be flooded shortly
with free packages of tobacco seed which
will confuse and mislead many farmers
unless they are put on their guard. We
have before us sample package con
tanning five varieties, three Of which,
White Burley, Tennessee Red and Yel-
low Pryor, are in no wise suitable to the
soil or climate of Wisconsin and would
positively be detriment to any grower
to plant. The others are Ohio Seed Leaf
and Zimmer's Spanish which might be
propagated without loss but it is e ques-
ton if either variety is as good as the
ordinary seed used in this state, The
point which the writer desires to raise is
that the tobacco farmers ought to be
very careful about planting fields with
any new and untried variety until they
have been proven to be suitable to the
conditions Of Wisconsin soil and climate.
Because the seeds are sent out by the
governments agricultural department is
not sufficient guarantee that they are
what you need Or ought to plant.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
SToUGHToN, WIS, Feb. 9, 1900.

Nothing new in the price of the weed
has developed duriug the past week.
The deliveries of previous purchases
continues brisk and all warehouses are
running in full blast. O. G. Lee has
spent the week in and around Sun
Prairie, F. L. johnson and w. Ell. Parish
in the Lodi section. Mart @. Green will
start in warehouse No. 8 with about 30
sorters on Monday.-Courier
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16

-
J The prospects of the cigar leaf trade
| are amply set forth by the y. S. Tobacco
journal as follows:
| There has not been year; not for the
| last ten years at least, when the chances
for brisk trade in domestic leaf were so
! bright and promising as during the cur
| rent year. The old crops are pretty
| nearly all moved from the tobacco rails
| ing districts in the country and there is
| no superfuity of stock in the city trade
centers. In the meanwhile the cigar in
dustry is forging ahead it's increase all
over the country While there will be
thus found an early demand for the new
crops, these do not promise to be of
uniform usefulness. It will not be a
question of price. For if any material
is in demand particularly in urgent de-
mand, the price hardly plays any role.
And there cannot be any substitute for
cigar leaf in any cigar. A scarcity of
Havana filler leaf could be bridged over
by substituting some other cigar leaf for
it. A scarcity of one kind of wrapper
leaf could be supplied by another but
when the general crop is short or it's
usefulness impaired the price effect is
absolute. If the calculations are correct
that the old Pennsylvania will be con-
sumed before the new becomes market
able, the fact that packers had to pay &c
or Sc more for the new crop will not
count. The manufacturer will either
have to pay the advance or stop manu-
featuring.
Of more serious embarrassment will
prove the impairment of the new crops
by certain defects. There is not one of
the new crops that is expected to turn
out uniformly fawless. The domestic
wrapper leaf will not be as thin and light
as it was in certain crops of the 98
growth It shows a tendency to darken
and thicken and to develop white veins.
Nor. does the binder crop promise to be
of such general usefulness as was that
of the '98 crop. The consequence will be
a largely reduced quantity of leaf suit
able for binder purposes. And as for
the fancy filler crops, there will not be
that richness and abundance of them
that made them such favorites in the
past two years. The trade is, therefore,
confronted with the condition of an in
creased demand for a material that will
in many instances not prove equal to the
uniform quality and usefulness of for
mer productions. However, as the de
mand is certain to be, the consumer will
have to make the best of it,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16

The best crop sale of the season, con
sidering the number of hogsheads Of
fered, was made at the Kentucky Ware
house on Thursday by Mr. c. J. Harris,
Of Shelby county. On crop of eleven
hogsheads, Mr. Harris averaged S114O:
the highest price received being S1625
and the lowest S610 The crop was a
red one, well handled, and brought sew
eral cents over its valuation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.

EDGERToN, WIS, February 16, 1900.
The market conditions remain about
as heretofore reported. There seems to
be but little active effort made at
present toward buying the new crop. A
quiet business is all the time being done
though the question of prices is the chief
incentive dealers have for adding to
their holdings and the sales are there
fore considerably lower than the average
quotations for the crop. Unless fresh
buyers enter the field the balance of the
crop seems destined to move slowly.
Sales coming to notice since last report
are:
VIM. Flaherty, Ga at Gaze.
Mrs. S. G. Humphay, 5a at t71a&2c.
Chas. White, liza at Gaze.
Condor & Sherman, Ga at 61a&2c.
J. G. Richardson, IA at 61a&2c.
e. T. Watson, IA at 614&2c.
Aug. Lemke, 5a at 615&2c.
Chas. Keiglow, 5a at 515&2c.
H. Dickinson, 5a at 519&2c.
Geo. Lackner, 22a at sc.
G. G. Goodhue, 5a at 4c.
The demand for old stock continues to
be prominent feature in the trade.
Packers are sold down to much smaller
stocks than for some years past, with a
prospect that every pound of Wisconsin
leaf will be needed before the new crop
is saleable. The only transaction of mo-
ment coming to notice is the sale of 157
cases of 97 by John Holton to Child. G..
l.. Culton reports the sale of about 400cs
Of '98 for the week.
Dealers are still busy receiving former
purchases, which are steadily coming
into market. The tobacco is generally in
very good packing condition and rejec-
tions or complaints are rare,
The shipments out of storage reach so
car loads, 1446cs, from this station to all
points for the week past. The receipts
from outside points for handling in this
market was % carloads of bundle leaf.
Since last report 725cs of cigar leaf were
exported from New York.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
New York.

Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
j. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 12s
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, Feb. 13, 1906:
100cs '99 n. E. Rav. forced sweat at &c
to SOC.
50cs '98 N. e. Hav, 10 to 60c.
115cs '98 n. E. seedleaf at 30 to SOC.
395cs '99 Pen. seedleaf at II to 13c.
190cs '99 Pen Hav at II to 11Ac.
5O0cs '98 Wis. Hav. at 915 to 13c.
145cs '97 Wis. Hav. at 81 to 10c.
250cs '98 Zimmers at 10 to lac.
Toes 97 Zimmers at 16 to Tic
Total 1820cs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16

=. If the agricultural department were
to use discretion in preparing packages
suitable to the different sections of the
country, there might be some excuse for
maintaining the free distribution of seeds
humbug, but as matters have continued
for years past a good deal of money is
worse than wasted in sending out seeds
that are never used, or if planted are a
positive injury to the farmers who pro-
pagate them. If the tobacco grower
were to attempt to plant fields with such
seeds he would find he had produced a
crop that was unsaieable and the loss of
a seasons work would be considerable.
It can therefore be readily seen that our
congressman ARE liable to get their con-
stituents into trouble rather than do
them kindness by indiscriminately
sending out seeds that are nowise calcu-
lated to their conditions. Isn't it about
time to call halt on such foolishness?
Will some one call the attention Of the
agricultural department Of the govern
ment to this matter, and let's have an
end to this humbuggery?
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16

Lead, oil, turpentlne, varnish, japan
and sbellac at lowest cash prices at G. FL.
Dickinson's
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16
=
7 II Hangs
I On. -

If it was only health, we
might let it cling.
But it is cough. One cold
no sooner passes off before
another comes. But it's the
same old cough all the time.
And it's the same old story,
too. There is first the cold,
then the cough, then pneu-
monia or consumption with the
long Sickness, and life tremb-
ling in the balance.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-05-31
BELATED. LOVE.

l have known husband to neglect his
wife in his pursuit Of pleasure or bust
ness. and when finally she died he
wrung his hands over her dead body.
called her his angel wife, said his heart
was broken and desolate, and climaxed
the whole by having built over the IN
conscious body the finest marble monu-
ment in the graveyard. She asked FOR
love anu he gave her stone. And 1
thought as 1 pondered over the whole
scene that if some of the loving words
he was pouring into the dead ear had
been uttered in life, and if some Of the
dollars he had spent on the coffin had
been invested in way to make life and
body easier and less toil-worn, she would
have been the happy-faced wife and
mother of the home circle instead of
sleeping alone under the cedars and
among the white monuments on the hill.
side.
What we want is kindness in life. and
not in death. It is not flowers scattered
on her coffin lid that will make a woman
happy, but bunch Of them tied +n~o+her
in the form Of bouquet AMI given her
with the words, II love you" That
makes her pulses leap. the crimson come
into her cheek, the light come into her
eye, and the warm, nappy feeling rush
to her heart.
We want kindness shown US IN this
ilfe. This is what our Sc. want look for:
this Is what the children need-they
crave to be treated gently and kindly In
IRE, not went over in death. Hearts
now" When dead we d, not hear fhs
cries OF affection around the comm. or
reel the tears dripping from overfowine
eyes on their faces. Be kind now,-Re-
vival Sermons.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-05-31

sooeeosefal eostrsAi0e5oa, thos h u the
noDe paStlsan, unfafS, fnfhnoos ana
snaelbnsshlo o3ectioo nv thae ms evee
aisgFaoeA the Statute books Of any
STATE In the Unloa.
We pledgs ourselves % increase the
efficiency OF the pablo school system
IN North CaRoh M aad point 70 she
70 It that the Peoples Party has done
more for public education in North
Caroiiaa than the Dem0cratio party
ever did In gWics the length Of time.
To the Populists Of North Carolina h
to be credited the apst great Increase
In the public school system.
We pledge ourselves to the care OF
the unfortunate class In North Caro-
lima and to an increase In the neces-
sasy facilities for the same. As IN
earnest Of our sincerity, We point 90
our past record in this particular. and
say that no "Legislaturs in which
Populists have had controlling voice
has ever turned . deaf ear TO the de-
mand Of the unfortu nate, or been fol-
lowed BY An urgent appeal for sddi-
tionxi provision 40 has been recently
issaed BY the Board of Public Chsri-
ties because of the failure of the Dem
ocratic Legislature to make such pro-
vision - seen and urgently needed 1t
the time they were consuming their
time in enscting political legislation
and creating new Offices during the
session of 1899.
Labor IL indispensable to the crea-
ton and profitable use of capital. Cap
ital increases the efficiency and value
of labor. Whoever arrays one against
the other, is an enemy Of both. That
policy IL wisest and best. which har-
monies the two on the basis Of absO-
Lutte justice.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-05-31

fragrant violation OF the Immigrant laws.
We demand that the Federal government
shall take cognizance OF this nenacing
evil and repress 1t unde. existing laws.
We further pledge ourselves to strive
for the enactment Of more stringent laws
for the exclusion Of Monaghan and
Malayan immigration.
We indorse municipal ownership Of
public utilities and declare that the adj
| vantages which have accrued to the
public under that system would he null
tiplied an hundred fold by its extension
to natural interstate monopolies.
We denounce the practice Of issuing
injunction In the cases Of disputes be-
tween the employers and employees
| making criminal acts by organizations
which are not criminal when performed
by individuals, and demand legislation
| to restrain the evil.
| We demand that United States Sen
ators and all other officials. as far as
practicable, be elected by direct vote Of
the people.
Relieving that the elective franchise
and untrammelled ballot are essential to
= government Of. for and BY the people.
the Peorle's Party condemns the whole
sale system Of Acknowledgement BY CO.
crcion and intimidation adopted In some
States as unrepuhlican and undemo-
cratic. And we declare II to be the
duty OF the several State legislature. II
take such action as will secure a full
free and fair ballot and an honest count
We favor home rule In the Territories
and the District Of Columbia. and the
early admission Of the Territories al
States.
We denonnce the extensive red tame
system. political favoritism. crnel and IN
necessary delay and criminal eva.
sion Of the statutes IN the man
agement Of the Pension Once
: md demand the simnIe and honest
; execution Of the laws and the fnlfllment
nv the nation Of It's pledges Of service
pensions to all Its honorably discharged
veterans.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-05-31
RE MARKABlE SCENE.
Colored Missionary Makes . Favorable
impression.


Hot Springs. Ark. Snecial.-Another
moment of the Southern Baptist Com
vention Monday evening. He was Rev.
Charles :. Morris. young man Of
brown skin and with eloouence that
thrilled the big assemhIage. He Is a
MISSIONARY among the blacks Of Africa
and had been granted a few minutes for
the purpose OF making plea for mis-
sionarv work in the dark continent. A
half dozen other missionaries had inst
tolu OF their labors and. while the con-
vention listened with great interest. II
remained for the negro TO stir the great
Gathering to tumultuous enthusiasm
when, with sniendid elouuence. ne told
his hearers that Carey was not the first
modern missionary, but the pioneers
were the godly women who took charge
~ the slaves when thpv landed IN Oh
Virginia and clothed and fed them and
gave them the Gosnei.
II was some time before ex-governor
Northen. the rresident. could obtain
silence after the negroes sneech The
crowd, however. could not he restrained.
md broke forth into fresh applause
Crowds pressed forward and struggled
70 get near enough 10 throw money on
the platform. Several hundred dollars
IN silver and notes were at Morris feet
he ssKed the audience not to give money
70 him. but turn II over to the treasurer
md have u used to send messengers
throughout the South m arouse the color
cd peorle to cooperation In the mission
work In Africa. The authorizing of
money was so spontaneous that even
after the eloquent black .ad refused II.
i was flung hack at HIS feet.
It's, the last day Of the convention.
was crowded with hnsiness. The con
vention adopted resolutions to renort on
the relations to the convention suetajn-
ed by the UNCONVENTIONAL rarers. There
vas a eood-sized collection taken nm for
the Southern BAPTIST Theological Sem
mary. The finance renort showed an
increase Of more than % rer cent FOR
foreign missions over the preyious v-,r
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-05-31
PREVENTED A TRAGEDY.

Timely information given Mrs.
He"rRe Long. Of New St.aitsvilIe. Ohio
nrevenfed a dreadful Tragedy arh
saved two lives. A fri9htfu, cnush
nsd long kent her awake every night
She had tried many remedies and
'"c'rrs hDf steadily grew worse until
'reed tn frv Dr. Kings New Discovery,
O"e bottle wholly cured her. and she
"'':es fhIs marvellous medicine aIec
cnre" Mr.. Long nf a severe attack ~
rnenmon'a. Snrh cures are positive
pr"nf or the matchless mevif 81 this
erand Vemedy for curing al thveat
r"est ard innr frouh'es. Only 50c and
m. Every bottle guaranteed. Trial
n"ffIes free at All Dug Sto-es