davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

There is general raking after the cart
to gather up the low-grade crops that
could not be sold last fall and winter
at even low prices. They now buy them
at from Is to Is cents through. These
and similar low-grade crops are given in
our report of sales at New York 1t is
singular thing that trade papers can
always give the price of low grades, and
so seldom make mention of those that
command from rs cents to ST. per pound.
There are but few who are fooled in this
way.
The outputof cigars for the months
of July, August and September was
LOTS, ,84O,6 ,666 cigars, showing an increase
of SO, ,750,917 over the same time in 1900.
1t is seldom that so fine an outlook for
high prices occurs as is now upon US. 1t
only now depends upon the tobacco
growers to insist upon such price as it
is reasonable for them to ask. The fact
that some damage has occurred to the
early y-cut leaf is only an added reason for
high figures to prevail.
Our CORRESPONDENTS write as folloWss
South Deerfield: "Most growers who had
early crops or portion set early, took
down from one to three acres some 10days
ago, and find fine thin leaf of light
color, with some pole sweat on the low
est tier, with but little above that
Probably many crops will be assorted by
the growers unless dealers will pay 20
cents in the bundle and no docking on
the delivery. Docking has been prac-
ticed to such an extent the past two
years that the grower doesn't know
whether his crop is sold or not, Or only
Ion~ n oli ho hoe
the money. One dealer said last year:
we dock them all on general principles,
for We paid too high price for it, while
other buyers paid as agreed They can
buy again, while the others can by pay
ing liberal amount down. Dealers are
hunting for every little crop of old leaf
and pay from 15 to Is cents for crops SO
poor as to be unstable at over 10 or II
cents last year. Dealers express great
difference of opinion as to value of the
tent tobacco Some say it will not
stand any sweat or any water, and Is bet
ter than good binders" Montague:
"There has been a slight amount Of dam
age to our tobacco, but it is largely cur
ing we'll, showing light colors and an
elastic and handsome leaf" Vernon, VT:
Tobacco is curing down finely. There
has not been any tobacco taken from
the poles. The next damp weather
stripping will commence. No sales re-
ported and don't hear of any buyers
around" East CRANKY, Ct.: 1--WE have
a fine lot of tobacco. It is of light color.
A good binding leaf. Very free from
damage. A small amount of pole burn.
No sales of late" We learn from pri-
vate source that our friend Graves of
Suffield, Ct, is to add to this years acre
age 30 acres of the same old rundown,
plain land, making it 5O-acre patch.
Aside from this he is third owner in
the syndicate that cultivated this year
60 acres in tobacco. Hatfield: "Consid-
erable tobacco has been taken down and
stripped, and growers are we'll pleased
with the outcome of the crop. No sales
of late. Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08
EVANSVILLE, WIS, Nov. l, 1901.

Genial sunshine during the week has
done much toward curing out the hang
ing tobacco and nearly all of the early
and medium late crops are about cured
out. Some of the later ones are curing
slowly but each day makes an apparent
change for the better and there is but
little fear of much damage by freezing.
In an article recently published in the
Gazette of this city, that paper stated
that much of the hanging tobacco is cur.
ing out black. We have made diligent
inquiry and are convinced that this has
been very good fall for curing out to-
bacco and much of it is of good texture
and good color and we take vigorous ex-
ceptions to the Gazette's article. A small
percentage of the tobacco is yet uncured
and some of that may yet cure out be-
fore we have hard freeze, which may
not come for some weeks. Such reports
get in the eastern papers and create
wrong impressions.
Buying of the 1901 has declined to the
sale of few crops in any part of the state.
Farm and Home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

The impending conflict between two
great tobacco trusts, which will doubtless
be the greatest battle between industrial
giants in the history of manufacturing
combines, not only calls attention to the
modern tendency of trusts to get each
other by the ears, but also directs atten-
ton to the vast amount of tobacco that
goes up in smoke each year. The Uni
versal Tobacco Company of this country
has joined hands with the Imperial To
bacco Company of Great Britain, which
represents 80 per cent. of the European
tobacco industry and has capital OF
S75,000,0O0, to fight the Consolidated To
bacco Company of America. 1t is an
nounced that still further alliances with
smaller companies are being negotiated
by the Universal Company, while the
president of the Consolidated Company
is reported to have declared that he
"will capture the British trade in four
years or lose S5,OO0,OOO in the attempt" +"
This impending struggle is one OF many
industrial combats that tend to confirm
the prediction of many of our best econ
omists that the big trusts will ultimately
destroy each other. When two giant
trusts get at each others throats the
consumers of their particular commodity
are certain to profit by it. The late
James G. Blaine always classed tobacco
as one of the "necessaries OF life. Al
though not user of the weed in any
form, he always maintained that its al
most universal use by men precluded all
possibility of it's being classed as ''lux-
ury." Regarding the products of tobac-
CO as ''necessaries of life" the fight be-
tween the great trusts for the control OF
the trade assumes greater popular sig
nifcance and Importance. Statistics tell
US that upon this globe are produced
each year the amazing total of $4,000
tons of tobacco and that most of it goes
up in smoke. For thousands of years
before the discovery of America the peo-
Piles Of the earth, outside the western
hemisphere, never dreamed of the exist
ance of the plant that has now become
a tworld wide solace for mankind and
which how requires more than two mil
lions of acres for it's production. The
feature of the fight that is of most sig
nifcance in the industrial world, how
ever, is the fact that two great trusts are
in fierce competition and the fact that
the prize for which they are contending
is the t'British trade" which covers all
Europe Chicago Record Herald.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08
New shoe shop.

Charlie Huhn has leased the rooms
over Mrs. Haskins' millinery store and
is conducting shoe shop there. He is
a first class workman and his prices will
be found reasonable. If you have mend
ing give him trial.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08

Cuba consumes nearly one half of her
present production at home. yet her ex-
ports of leaf and manufactured tobacco
are valued at about S20,0O0,0OO. The ex-
port for 1899 included 226, 6,268, $50 cigars.
The greater part of the Cuban tobacco
trade is now in the hands of two or three
large concerns that control the output
and, in many cases, stand behind the
purchasers by advancing money on the
crop. The application of this system is
chiefly responsible for the very rapid re-
cuperation, since the war, of the Cuban
industry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08
For Sale.

About 1900 A 1 white oak fence posts.
Will be sold in lots to suit. Apply to @.
FL. Bliven, Carlton Hotel, Edgerton, or
P. S. Bliven on farm at Lake Koshko-
nong. 45W5
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-08

A study of the conditions of the cigar
leaf tobacco industry of the country is OF
keen interest at this time, when the crop
of 1901 is being sold. According to the
report of the commissioner of internal
revenue, the average quantity of domes-
tic leaf used to make 1000 cigars is 1811a
pounds, while the average quantity used
to make 1000 cigarettes is 3.8 pounds.
The tobacco used in the cigar and cigar
cite output for the year ended June 80,
1901, was approximately 128, ,448,475 lbs.
To this add 2O,OO0,OOO lbs. used in smok-
ing tobacco and scraps and 24,865, ITO lbs.
imported, and total of 173.313. .645 lbs.
was apparently consumed. But on June
80, 1901, there was IL, ,896, ,518 lbs. in bond
this would leave 155,417, ,127 lbs. as being
used. Deducting 5,417,127 lbs. as ex-
ported and total of about 15O,00O,OOO
lbs. would be required. This amount is
practically the size of the domestic crop
raised in 1900 or in 1899, being little
more. This shows conclusively that the
market is bare. Allowing for the same
output of cigars and cigarettes as in 1901
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1902,
and for the same imports, quantity used
as scraps and smoking tobacco, and for
export, and last years crop will fall
nearly 100000 lbs. short of being able
to supply this need. The outlook under
the same conditions for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1908, when this years
crop Q901 of cigar leaf will be put to
use, is far less encouraging for manufac-
lures, being some 1877 million pounds
short This is one reason why'the crop
of 1901 should bring the highest prices
in years. Wrapper leaf growers will also
be interested in the fact that while the
output of cigars is 2H billions greater
than five years ago, the imports of Su-
matra wrapper leaf have remained prac-
tically the same, about 100000 pounds
for several years.-N. E. Homestead.
This from the n. Y. Leaf: A friend
residing in Wisconsin writes me that
there is some very pretty B tobacco in
this years crop, but of good binder stock
the quantity is small. Old Badger state
tobacco is being quietly picked up by
foresighted manufacturers, and it looks
now as il the supply of these goods
would be entirely cleaned up before long.
There are not many people in the trade
who have taken the trouble to post
themselves on the binder situation of to-
day. To those of us who have been
gathering statistics, the question of sup
ply and demand for the next eighteen
months presents some very interesting
features.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
NO return TO PARTTSANsHTP.

One of the most striking circumstances OF the
recent successful canvass was the entire absence
during IT all OF the partisan spirit. This was NOT
due wholly 70 the nature of the ticket presented
for 10 q certain extent the ticket was ratheF
bipartisan than nonpartisan, but was due 10
the spirit of the voters, who would not listen
with patience 10 arguments based upon other
than municipal conditions. 1t was in this non
partisan spirit that the great victory over lam
MANY Hall was won, and now there must pe 10
return tc partiSanship in local affairs
1t is perfectly proper for certain democrats
for instance. 10 plan 10 wage contest Withlh
their own party. and the fact that they were IN
the fusion does not in any way limit their actVi-
ties: but the suggestion that municipal patron
age here may properly be used TO this partisan
end on the ground that the fight is against Iam-
many Hall, is essentially immoral and one 10
which we do not believe the leaders OF the
Democratic organizations which joined the
fusion movement would listen for moment
The citizens Of this municipality are evidently
determined to weed out the whole patronage
idea in the bestowai of public offices. and the
sooner all the leaders realize this the better
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT,

Martin Engel, the Tammany leader OF the
Red Light district now insists that he Is the
most honest and hard working of poultry deal
ers. and never cared much for politics. anyway
His chief object in life he says. is TO sell fine
chickens at low prices. Martin resembles
Henry " of France and his great Prime Min
ister the Duke OF Sully, both of whom de
clared that they were seeking to bring about
such state of things that every peasant be-
tween the Spanish border and the English
Channel should have fowl in his pot
That is. Engel talks if his overwhelming
passion were to increase the sum of human
happiness and to bestow the greatest good upon
the greatest number of people The truth, OF
course is that Engel IS typical district leader
of the Tim Sullivan type, who has been
working politics for many years TO fill his
own pockets. and who is now running about
like an ancient and apprehensive hen squawk-
ing loudly in confusion and alarm. and f1utter-
ing in deadly fea- of the axe. Engel ought to
lose his political head in a hurry
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
SOCIAL AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.

Washington. Nov. II (SpeciaD--Attorney General
Knox drove to the White House this morning al
II o'clock and took Mrs Roosevelt out for a long
drive They returned about O'Clock. the horses
being so covered with foam that their groons could
Knox goes out TO speed in the suburbs ne drives
fine nair OF sOrrel horses. harneSSed 10 no-top
buggy with light road running gear ana narrow
bax hody Under the whip his horses can cover d
mile on good roads in much less than three minutes
Judge AnSIey wilcox. OF No, OIL DeIaWaIe-aVe;;.
the oath of Office is making a visit at the Whlie
House He arrived In the forenoon, ana SHORTY
after o'clock Just after the great army OF 9epaIL
ment employees had left the State, War ana Navy
Blilding the President and Judge WILCOX went loE
a ride horseback - -,,,. - NJ
Roosevelt Miss Alice Roosevelt and their guest
Judge Wilcox was Senator Francis l. warren u
wyoming -. -. 1, .
Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt went out N a
closed carriage this afternoon 70 make cans ne
White House coachman snd fOotman appeareG Lor
tha first time in a new livery. ordered from New
work tailoring establishment. The ne" costume
is more attractive than the which II superSedes
The men are uniformed in long paddock coats Win
double row OF solid Sflver-llke buttonS- a I'm
white cord runs down the trousers, ana REQ "hlIe
80 hIre COckade GecorateS the hlgn SIX rat
dinner tonight Mr. and Mrs. James X SneHletu
NJ and Mrs John R Proctor and MI Foulhe' IA7
1an, tiviI Service Commissioner
Mrs Gardiner Hubbard presented her gId!lu-
daugbter Miss Gertrude Hubbard Crossr1an at Yea
AT Twin Oaks on Saturday ,r. a.. ,,+
IiIxeIv 10 return 10 Washington this winter. ,.-
sarias of luuCheonS has been gwen N InlS 81!
Foraker. whose marriage 10 fSdIluoI
thews will take place next THURSDAY IT Clhcilna'h
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
EDUCATION N THE SOUTH.

The meeting during the last week in this city
of the executive board of the Southern Educa-
tional Conference marks another step forward
in the benefcent work Of that organization
whose name most accurately describes its char
acter and purpose. For it includes in its mem
bershiD some of the wisest and best known edu-
Gators of the South, and il aims to promote
education in the South Irrespective of race or
color. There is another reason also why the
Southern Educational Conference deserves the
sympathy and support Of the public. Its aim is
not to pauperize the South by taking from It
the duty and obligation of paying for its own
education, but rather TO help it in such way
that it will ultimately be able to help itself 1t
because the principles guiding the Educa-
tional Conference not then fully realized
that the efforts of the North just after the war
TO promote the education Of the negro failed at
first to command the sympathy of the South
Without at all intending it, the philanthropists
of the North seemed to many in the South to be
Extensively fiinging n dole of charity to them in
a form calculated to raise the negro TO plane
Of social equality with the whites. 1t can do no
harm now to admit that the North and the
South did not fully understand each other at
that time. Some of the earlier ideas in the North
IN regard to negro education are now seen to ha
erroneous, while the assumption of few North
ern radicals that the South opposed negro edu-
cation is shown by facts to be utterly ground
less.
But the problem OF education in the South is
far better understood to-day than 1t ever was
before. For the whites as well as for the
negroes of the South industrial training must
for some time to come form the basis Of all
education. And while more attention has hean
paid in recent years to the Industrial education
Of the negro there is much truth in the remark
OF President Alderman of Tulane University
himself one OF the most sagacious educators or
the South, that 1.-The most effective way of helm
ling the negro is to help the white man little
more In his stupendous task The education NJ
lone untaught white man to the point where II
us clear to him that knowledge and not preiu-
dice must guide his conduct and that. for tbe
honor OF his name and country and his nos
"terity he must deal with these peopIe IN I'm,
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
MESSAGES FROM ROF4LTf-

THEY ARE SENT TO DIR. JOHN a. IRWIN BE
CABLE FROM ENGLAND
The erst congratuIatory message sent out by tne
PRINCE Of Wales formerly Duke OF CoTn"all anu
vo-k Uras received yesterday morning by Dr. Jonh
. irwin president of the British Schools ana Onl
1-ersities Club Of New-York, who on SATURDAY go
ing presided at dinner at Delmonlcos III oe-e
tton of King Edwards birthday
The message dated at London. reans;
Tho p-,nca of Wales sincerely thanks the nern-
bers of the club for their kino hisSSA7A 4. B1GGE.
King Edwards message. dated at sanoGihs"aA'
to DR.. Irwin was:
am commanded by the King 70 thank y9I ySc,oos ais
,L-c,i~h vOI the members OF the BRITISH octUuS ,.S
and Universities Club OF New-fork l9r ETH vs.
congratulations -
Lord wolseley former commander-in-chiei - ~
british army in his letter Of regrets Wrots'
fancy that the people of America DO u noI gyfsS-
c,ate fhe really cordial feelings which an sss
~ .be Atlantic But II you heard EngllSn Peog'T
talking between themselves or the CtIIe nis,ssI
fseI Certain that every American Wouiq pc 4rnoade
al the manner in which reference Is %Syond the
a. tbs+ great country free our own, peyoiiu Ni
Atlantic. -,
Lord Strathcona telegraphing from NioI's.1 ~,
where on Saturday evening he was hoidiiis ~
mar IN honor OF King Edward, said:
Wa CONGRATULATE YOU on celebrating this even,nff'
=, . We are doing. the birthday or ring E-d"aiN "
and wish all prosperity 20 your ctN2D CHESTS
otber congratuIatory messages were received nol'
from, ord Roberts Field Msrshal, V S colrios ord
PPaunrefote British Ambassador at Washington
a nd General Kitchener.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12

self a sufficient reason for refusing to respohd
! favorably to begging and claims.
Mr.. Low is not new 10 New-Iork politlcs anu
men, He is widely acquainted among all classes
i of people When he wants an assistant WIN
! certain qualifications he knows where TO look
for him If the right man IS not Immediately
in sight he knows where to seek expert aiu III
finding him. and he has the habit and dis
position of profiting by such aid Inder tiese
circumstances there is little reason to fear that
Mr. Low will not of his own motion asselh"e
! an official household quite as wen eQuppeu III
character ability. eminence and unseihsh pa
triotism as any which he could be persuaded 10
appojnt by personal petitions and pressure oi
organizations He is perfectly competent 10
discharge his duties of appointment WITH su'N
advice as he himself will seek. and he ought 10
he permitted TO give his attention 10 this anu
other important subjects pertaining 10 Ills au
mipfstration unhampered by the petty am
bItions and selfish squabbles of rival place hunt
ers No party organization has any right TO
make claims on him. Parties Joined to elect
him on the distinct pledge that they expected
nothing and onIv wished the citys affairs in
trusted to him. with his high record of inde-
nendence. ability and sound judgment Nor
has any individual n right to urge" his own or
anybody ese's ambition. The men who ought
10 work under Mr. Low for the redemption or
New-York are not those who want the task, but
those who will take it up reluctantly, because
Mr. Low believes. after looking over the Whole
field and considering all suggestions. that they
are the hest mon to be found for the work to
be done.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12
NOTICE.
In Respect TO the Memory OF
Our Late President.
Business This Place VIII Be Conducted
the Same Sundays.

was doing what he thought the right and
family entrance open. in strict consistency
with this patriotic deCara tion. In other words he
said: In memory OF late President. I will
duct business to-day the II l volat-
ing the law A sermon IN a sentence 1 thought"
Spell chicken said Paola teacher to boy
in the primary class.
Il can't do it. ma'a I amt got that far along
said the boy but can spell egg. "-(kansas City
Journal
November is important month to marrying
people In certain villages In the Netherlands. and
each Sunday bears its distinctive name TO indicate
on the Thursday previous to the first Sunday, when
the fair held and the various couples perform In
the country dance which opens the revels On the
following Sunday-Review Sunday-the single young
men and women, after morning service walk up
and down for inspection. and make mental choice.
On the second-Decision Sunday-each young
salutes the he favors. and judges from the
sponse the measure OF his success. The third
Purchase Sunday-the parents are interviewed and
marriage settlements arranged. During the follow
ing week the couples married but not until the
fourth-Possession Sunday-doec the bridegroom
take over his newly acquired property
81 treated mule, and he didn't kick
much you have said the doctor to the obstrep-
erous patient.
"Oh, we'll. the mule didn't have to pay your BILL
said the patient. quickiy.-(Yonkers Statesman.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-12

woman had been paralytic, unable to move arms
legs open her eyes-was living corpse On
their bringing her him. Father John arose:
stood before her. and. asking her name, ga1ed
open her eyes. After several attempts Audotya
(the paralytic) did Look me straight in the
face said Father John. and cross yourself Slow
Iy and with great effort the woman succeeded in
making the sign of the Do it again, said
Father John. and again With ever Increasing
faith the repeated the movement Stand
up said Father John, and the woman arose. Then
he moved from his place, bidding her follow Now
walk round me-, said Father John. and the lately
seemingly dead woman slowly approached and fell
the On this she moved away without any
help All this took place In the presence of thou
sands who were unable to restrain their tears.
"The Boston Transcript" says: The work of
putting in place the large bowder in Woods Hole.
Baird, is nearly completed. The erection of this
memorial is the result of resolutions adopted at
meeting of the American Fisheries Society, held
there in the summer of 1900. The monument Sc
lected by the committee is large bowlder. taken
from the shore OF Nonamessett Island, given by j.
Malcom Forbes, whose father the late John Muir
ray Forbes. greatly interested in the estab
lishment of the fish commission station. The bowl
der stands the ground of the station, the
residence building 1t is of common white stone.
weighing about five tons. The will have
large bronze tablet affixed, which will be suitably
inscribed. The late Professor Spencer F. Baird was
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for the United
States seventeen years previous to his death in
1886. and previous to that time had been actively
the government, through the Smithsonian Institu-