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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22
Tobacco Notes.

Mr.. l.. We'll left for his home in New
York Friday after several weeks spent
in the tobacco sections of this state.
Norm earle of GAINESVILLE, and John
Mooney for the American Tobacco Co.,
received purchases in this market on
Monday.
E. G. Hopkins passed several days of
the week in Crawford Co. looking after
his farming interests in the Kickapoo
valley.
Mr.. Ernest Leoni, of Manufacturer
Germany, who is interested in several
leaf firms in this country, has been pay
ing visit to the market points in this
state.
The demand for w. T. Pomeroy & Co.'S
celebrated Comstock Spanish Tobacco
Seed has commenced earlier than usual
this year. They having sent out over
so lbs already, which goes to show that
people know good thing when they
see it.
N. P. Strausse, manager of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company, is able to be at his
office again after an illness of one week.
Madison Democrat.
For Warehouse No. "a and wing
on warehouse No. Is. Apply to Heddles
Lumber Co. 8w3
f. G. Borden is in the market for
trash and other damaged tobacco for
which he will pay one cent pound. To-
bacco may be delivered at the ware
house of Whittet & Son, No. 3. 52tf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22
COMMON COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
EDGEKTON, Wis, Feb. 10 1901


The council met in regular session and
the meeting was called to order by Mayor
Jensen. All members were present ex-
cept Aid. Earle and Knapp Minutes of
last meeting were read and approved.
Aid. Doty offered the following resolu-
ton and moved its adoption:
WHEREAS, the city charter makes it the duty
OF the present common council to fix the
amount of salary to be paid to the incoming
officers of the ensuing year. thersfere be it
RESOLVED, By the mayor and common coun-
Gil that the salary of the marshal be $50 per
month; the assistant marshal $40 per month :
the city clerk 1925 per year; the city attorney
$50 per year; the superintendent of water
works $50 per month; the street commissioner
So per day for actual services.
Resolution adopted, all aldermen vot-
ing aye.
The renewal Of the electric lighting
contract was referred to the finance
committee to report at next meeting.
Bill of III. M. Benjamin Coal Co. for
1880 for coal for water works was pre-
sented and allowed.
On motion the council adjourned.
.HBNRY JOHNSON,
City Clerk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22
Puts Out Fire Without Water.

On Saturday evening Mr.. G. H. Acker-
man in the presence of our Mayor AL
dermen, and Chief Of Fire Department.,
G. w Hargraves, gave test to demon
strate the efficiency of new process of
extinguishing fires. Instead of using
water, which oftentimes causes more
damage than does the fire, chemicals,
in the form of dry powder was thrown
into the fire, where they produce gas
carbon deoxide, which acts as a blanket,
excluding the air and as result the
fire is extinguished almost instantly
Gas is surely superceeding water as a
means of extinguishing fires and as these
dry chemicals furnish the means of get
ting the gas to the fire without the use
of water or liquids, as heretofore, it
seems that long stride toward new
and better way has been reached. These
chemicals will not damage the stock of
goods, furniture, carpets or wall paper.
Are non poisnous and not dangerous to
flesh or food. They do not deteriorate
with age nor freeze, and anyone, woman
or child can use them. Every factory,
warehouse, store, residence and barn
should be supplied with them.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22
Obituary..

Mrs. John McGrath died at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Churchill Jan.
%, 1901. Her home for the past few
years has been with her daughter and
on Dec. Oath she went to Mr.. Churchill's
to visit. Shortly afterward she was
taken sick with la grippe settling into
pneumonia, lasting but short time.
The deceased was born in Ireland. She
died at the age of eighty-five She
leaves to mourn her loss two daughters,
Mrs. Joseph Mccain and Mrs. G. B.
Gary, also eight grandchildren. Funeral
services were held at st. Patrick's
church on Saturday.
JAMES r. MOLE.
After long and painful illness with
creeping paralysis James r. Mole died
at his home in GAINESVILLE Feb. IL, aged
seventy-one years.
Mr.. Mole was born in Cherry Valley.
N. Y, and removed to this state in 1914
and for thirty years has resided on the
farm where he died. He was of a quiet
and very industrious nature and by
thrift had become possessed of consider
able property. For many years he con-
Quoted large Jersey dairy, and was an
extensive tobacco raiser. He was also
the inventor of a successful tobacco
planter.
The deceased leaves a wife and half
brother, the latter residing in California.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22

RAILWAY TIME CARDS.
CHICAGO. MiLWA UKEE d ST. Pa OIL.
Trains Leave Edgerton Station as Follows
GOING EAST.
No. 4, daily except Monday. :25 a. m.
No 800 SUNDAYS only .......... 1929 a. m.
No. 3O2, daily except Sunday 1913 a. IN.
No g. daily except Sunday -----. 10:4 a. m,
No 3O6 daily except Sunday. - 80 p. m
No ~ Sunday only. g.. -. 1857 p. m
No. g. Freight Monday only ...--- $50 q. m.
No. 3d. Freight daily Elk. Sunday -. ii 80 a. m
GOING WEST.
No. 1926. DAILY ...............---.10: 1911 p. M
No. l. Daily Sunday excepted. 1902 p. m.
No s. Daily except Sunday. $1,000 2:l2 p. m.
No 321 daily except Sunday. .----. 1914 a. m,
No Al, Sunday only ,....1O;2l a. m.
No n Freight except Monday ...... 5:55 a. m.
No 81 Freight except Sunday. $3.50 p. m.
Nos. and through trains for all points west
of Mississippi river.
j. A HENDERSON Ticket Agent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-02-22
The Ienten season began on Wed

The lenten season began on We'd
nesday and will last forty-seven days,
but only forty of these, corresponding to
Christ's period, are fast days. The sig
pificance of lent to those who observe it
is that it commentaries the fast of
Christ in the wilderness. his struggle
with the powers of evil, his crucifixion
on Good Friday and his resurrection on
Easter Sunday. Holy Week, the last
of Lent, is made the occasion Of special
ceremonies and the affairs of the church
are draped in black, which, on Easter
Sunday, is replaced with white cloths
and Easter lilies. Easter Sunday is the
day of days for church offerings, the peo-
pie giving to the church the amounts
they have saved by abstaining from
much meat eating and luxuries.
"A letter recently received from E.
w. Babcock, who is in Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia, states that the new century is
starting out very favorable for interests
pertaining to the present and future
growth and prosperity of that city and
southern California in general. The
winter season, he says, has been all one
could desire, rain fall in abundance,
which insures plenty of water for irriga-
ton purposes throughout the year. The
luxuriant growth of grain and grass,
over foot high throughout the valleys
constrasted with the snow-covered
mountains presents a view that is GER
tainly beautiful. Mr.. Babcock also says
that from the Reporter he and his family
are kept in touch with the events of in
terest concerning Edgerton and old
friends and acquaintance. He ex-
presses kind regards for all and wishes
them well-doing.
We have said that we would never
enlist again, but if it should become
necessary to resort to arms to get rid of
saloons and the liquor traffic, we would
enlist in the temperance cause if they
will take u.s. for we honestly believe the
liquor traffic greater curse to this
country today than slavery was before
the Civil war.-Evansville Tribune.
No question but what they will take
you, brother Libby. Carrie Nation is
eagerly looking for men of your stamp
to enlist in the great joint-smashing
cause which she has undertaken. Bar
row, beg or buy Ratchet, get yourself
into Kansas and WELD the weapon until
it clashes like pair of cymbals in the
master hand of brass band player. A
single raid on Kansas saloons will net
you more notoriety than a life work of
newspaper business in, a quiet town like
Evansville. Somebody will manage to
continue the high standard of the news
paper business of Wisconsin during your
absence.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07

on the snowy coverlet, and the wan
shriveled face on the pillow seemed
hardly human, but his eyes were bright
with returning life and dawning hope
HAS the princess escaped from the
tower at last? Is it really the old
Madge?" he whispered, doubtfully.
1T is the old Madge, DEAR" she
answered, tears and smiles struggling
for the mastery Of her mobile face, in
spite of the Doctors injunction as to
excitement. "Mr. Anderson is down.
stairs. We are the best of friends now
and he brought me here. Shall tell
him to come up?"
mot just yet" said Jack. happily
studying the face bent over him, and
finding in it all he had so loved--and
more. The cynical curl of the lips was
gone, the dewy freshness had come
back to the eyes. and brought with it
a sweet, grave womanliness that had
never been there before.
1T is worth far, far more than a
brain fever COSTS" he said at last, with
sigh of satisfaction,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
Salisbury as II Saint.

It is not generally known that a
statue of Lord Salisbury as a Christian
warrior appears in one of the inches
of the INTEREST," g and beautiful reredos
in the chapel of All Souls College, OK
ford. About forty years ago the pre-
mier was elected fellow of this col
lege, and about the same time an elab-
crate stone screen was erected in the
chapel attached to the Fellows house.
The sculptor evidently preferred to
make his own saints instead of accept
ing those canonized by the church. and
Lord Salisbury was chosen to fill I'm
the vacant gap, and is therefore i'm
mortalized as Christian WARRIOR
Chicago Journal.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
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A COOPERATIVE COLONY

An Example Is the Settlement of Cosmo
in Paraguay.
Comparatively few persons are
aware of the existence in Paraguay OF
little English-speaking colony
named Cosme, and of it's attempt to
organize a community on the highest
cooperative lines Beginning in 1894
as the result of secession from the
New Australia colony, the founders of
Cosme seem to have steered clear of
the shoals and quicksands which
wrecked the parent movement. One
or the fathers of the colony, al
though he is quite young man, is
John Lane, who says of the colony:
I'VE are running now on the lines on
which New Australia started; we are
comnlunlstic in so far as we share
our, earnings equally, irrespective OF
the capacity of the individual. The
present outlook is highly satisfactory,
but we want more adult members. Our
present population is sixteen women,
all married, and twenty-six men; for
ty-tWo all told, exclusive of the chill
dren. We have $4,000 acres of land
half forest and half pasture, but only
the forest land is good for cultivation
In the matter of finance our assets ex-
coed our liabilities, and that is gener-
ally considered to be sound position
We can easily raise our own food sup
ply. Every family lives in it's own
house, and the bachelors have houses
of their own but take their meals at
the cooperative dining-room, their
cooking being done for them by col
ony labor. This cooperative COM
monwealth is governed by what is
called a parliament, although it is on
ly committee of three, with a chair
man or director of the colony. The
ballot is taken by casting papers into
hat. Speaking of the industrial con.
ditions in Cosme, Mr.. Lane said re-
Gently: 1--WE have a forty-five hours
week, eight hours day for five
days and five hours on Sat-
urday. Work starts just after
sunrise and the men are en-
ployed in sugar-making and timber
work. The married women are not on
the organized working staff. They look
after the homes, and any work they
do outside is voluntary. Single WON.
en- would be on the working STAFF"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07

Jack Downing IS downed at last 1"
said some wOuld-be wit among tha
sWaying figures on the ball room floor
Brain fever"
The words drifted into the conserva-
tory where Madge was sitting, and for
a moment she thought the lights had
gone out. Then they blazed I'D again
with ten-fold brilliancy, and at the
same time the white light of reason
and common sense that had been so
Ions obscured in the girls soul flashed
out with all its old power, shattering to
atoms the shell of worldliness and
sceptlclsm which had closed around
her heart.
Seeing that Dick Foster was scan.
ming her with look of cool curiosity
she composed her face and summoned
up all the self-control she possessed.
will go home now, if you please.
Mr.. Foster" she said coldly.
Il x x
He has simply been overworked.
my dear child" the old doctor repeat-
ed, soothingly. LAS you know his
1ather was obliged to go to Europe for
a prolonged vacation; and that threw
the Whole responsibility of the BUSH
ness on the boy. He has carried the
weight nobly for one so young; but I
warned him weeks ago that he was
OVERRIDING, and must slacken his pace.
l suppose he couldn't see his way clear
TO do it. He has trained nurse and
the pest OF care, and We'll pull him
through all right"
Although Madge went home CON-
vinced that she had fattered herself
TOO much in thinking that her insig.
nlhcant doings had brought about
jacks illness, she was not entirely re-
assured. Even if she had added little
TO the load he had been carrying she
mad done nothing to tighten it. and
she might have done so much. She
haa not dreamed it was so heavy.
And while he was toiling like a
slave, you-you We're flirting with Dick
roster" she said contemptuously to
the pale face that confronted here as
she took the fading flowers from her
hair and shook down the shining coils.
+ 4 i 4
Jacks hands lay like withered leaves
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
FAVORED BY Y
Il ~ A KING.

Within the precincts of quaint old
Bardstown is situated one of the old
est Catholic church buildings in Ken
lucky. 1t was the first cathedral west
Of the Allegheny mountains and is a
MAGNIFICENT structure and is the only
house of worship in America that
boasts bell presented by royalty. The
interior in the magnificence of its APP
pointments is not excelled by any
church in the south. It contains rare
paintings by the old masters, one alone
the altar piece-being valued at $780,
300. This magnificent work of art is
the production of Antwerp artist, Van
Bre. It depicts the crucifixion and is
pronounced by connoisseurs to be the
most splendid work of it's class in the
world. 1t is q feet in height and IL
feet in width, and was presented to
Father Flaget, the first bishop of Ken
lucky, by Louis Philippe, King of
France. Another rare painting-now
worth it's weight in COLDS 1.-THE Mar
tyrdom of St. Bartholomew" by Van
Dyke This picture is catalogued' in
the list of the great artists produc-
ton and it's present location is also
noted. The numerous smaller paint
ings which the church contains were
donations from the King of Italy.
But the most interesting feature Of
the old church is it's bell. This, too,
was a gift from Louis Philippe. When
that unfortunate monarch was driven
from his throne in France he fled to
Bardstown and sought the hospitality
of Bishop Flaget, whom he had known
in Europe He was received with the
utmost kindness, and shortly after his
arrival, through the influence of the
bishop, he was enabled to form class
in French, which he taught in little
building which is yet standing on st.
Joseph's College grounds. Philippe
was grateful king and never forgot
the many kindnesses rendered him by
the good bishop. When he was re-
stored to his throne he presented to the
church the painting above described,
together with the bell.
This bell was broken in 1887 and
was recast by Louisville bell founders.
The recasting was complete success,
and in order to retain for it its his
toric surroundings the same metal was
used.
The old bell is one of the most mu-
steal in America and when the at
mosphere is clear it's tones can be dis
tinctly heard for 10 miles.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
ABOUT VANILLA.
A Plant Esteemed for Its Flavor and
Aroma.

| "A Plant Esteemed for Its Flavor an,
The vanilla is an orchidaceous
climbing vine, which often reaches
over 30 feet in height, and is usual.
about the thickness of ones little fin
ger. The vine is round, knotted at in
terv2ls, and covered with dark greer
spear-shaped leaves. 1t throws out {
number of thin arms or aerial roots al
1t rises, which, attaching themselves t.
nelghboring trees, appear to derive
therefrom such nutriment that the
vines are little dependent on the soil
IN fact, often when all other modes Of
supply are cut off these holdfasts will
entirely nourish the plant. Occasional
~ the wild vines completely cover the
branches of the tree, and, running
from it into adjacent ones, they will
hang in huge festoons and arches 50
thick that they seriously impede ones
progress In the bush. The vines bios
som profusely-usually in the spring
the strange and delicate flowers, with
their long, struggling and pale yellow
petals, springing from the angles
where the leaves branch off. After a
rev days existence, the flowers wither
and fall, and as their chance of fertili-
cation through any of the outside
agencies on which they depend is a
brief one, and precarious at best, it is
not surprising to find that very few
OF them are succeeded by fruit. This
takes the form of a large pod, and
strange to say, although the pods at
tain their full growth within fifty
days from the fall of the petals, they
take fully seven months more to ripen
The pods vary from to IL inches in
length and are about like a banana,
put are better described as resembling
knife sheath; hence the name
vanilla. which is corruption of the
spanish word vainilla-a small scab-
pard. Each pod contains a quantity
OF small black granules surrounded by
oalsamic pulp whose peculiar COM
plnation of oil and acid is supposed to
1mpart to the pods that delicious flavor
and powerful aroma for which they
are so justly Observation-Disclosures
Journal,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
A Wonderful Apple

10 have the memory of John Grant
VINO brought to Maine a remarkable
distinction half century ago. the
farmers of Waldo and Kennebec coun.
ties of the Pine Tree state are to hold
celebrations in the several towns OF
the countryside. Grant was looked
upon as harmless crank when he was
alive, fame coming years after he was
dead. The story goes that he was the
son of an Irish soldier who deserted
from the British army during the
Revolutionary war and married a half
breed Indian squaw, from which union
many of the Grants in the east are
said to have descended. The elder
Grant was part lumberman, part farm
er and more than half hunter, getting
a precarious living from many callings
and dying week after he received no.
tlce that pension had been granted
him for his services in the war of 1912.
John Grant, the son, inherited more
than 1000 acres of land and lot Of
bad habits from his father.
Invented New Apple.
John Grants only claim to fame lies
in the fact that he invented a new
breed of apples in the days when he
was given over to sin. Most new and
desirable varieties of apples are pro-
duced by planting the seeds of the
natural fruit, and selecting the best
result OF many paintings as the tree
from which SciOnS should he cut
Grants method of begetting a new
fruit was wholly different from any
thing that was then known, because
ne may be said to have whitfield out
his apple tree with pocket knife.
thereby performing feat that even
Nature at her best had never attempt
ed. About 200 acres of Grants farm
were in orchards, which yielded him
great quantities of cider, for which
there was a good market. He could
grow and harvest all the sour fruit he
cared to use but when he tried to raise
sweet apples, of which he was very
fond, the sailors who went past the
foot of his orchard on coasting
schooners, walked in by night and
stole every sweet apple as fast as it
was fit to eat, often breaking down
the trees in their haste to secure as
many as possible.
Grant tried shot guns, steel traps.
bull dogs and many kinds of profanity
without effect Then, after enduring
many disappointments for five or six
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
Remarkable Ac-
connplishment of
a Maine Farmer.

years, ne swore big oath that he
would build an apple that should fool
the sailors and enable him to have
some sweet fruit in his cellar for the
winter.
Stunned as the Evil One.
The Indian blood in his veins had
made Grant quick of observation and
enabled him to learn things about ma
ture that are concealed from most
men. He was led to believe that if he
could split the scion from a sweet
tree and another scion from a sour
Tree In halves, and place the half of
sweet scion against the half of sour
scion and make them fit so exactly
That both sides would live if they
We're inserted in healthy stock, he
would produce a fruit that was sour
on one side and sweet on the other.
On trying the experiment he found
mat such result was not possible
frcm the terminal bud of the twin
scion. but all shoots further down the
graft would yield sweet fruit on one
side and sour fruit on the other.
Though the terminal bud is hard to
make live, Grant was successful in
about one trial out of ten, and when
his sour and sweet apples were found
growing in the orchard, the builder
of the fruit was pronounced as one
possessed of Satan. and Stunned by
the truly good as If he had been an
emissary from the pit
When it was done and his orchard
was grated to sweet and sour apples
the sailors went to other orchards
for their fruit, giving Grant time to
attend prayer meeting. where he be-
came acquainted with a clergyman
who wrought his reform. Indeed,
Grant always declared that his CONVEX
sion was directly due to his ability to
produce an apple that was proof
against the sailors, because not only
did the absence of the thieves enable
him to go to the prayer meetings, but
it was fact that man who could not
swear had no business with an or
chard infested with nocturnal thieves.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
Church in Bardstown, KY,
Has Gifts of
Louis Philippe of France.
Turned the Tables.

A lecturer was once decanting on
the superiority of nature. over art.
when an irreverent listener in the au-
dience fired that old question at him:
How would you look, sir, without
your wig?" Young man." instantly re-
piled the lecturer, pointing his finger
at him, you have furnished me an ant
illustration for my argument. Ny bald
ness can be traced to the artificial hab-
it's Of our modern civilization, while
the wig l am wearing he raised
his voice till the windows shook-"is
made OF natural hair!" The audience
testified it's appreciation of the point
by loud applause and the speaker was
not interrupted again.