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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
The independent Boy.

The nonchalance of boys who are
sure of a dinner, and would disdain as
much as lord to do or say aught to
fconciliate one, is the healthy attitude
of human nature. How is boy the
master of society! Independent, ire
sponsible, looking out from his corner
on such people and facts as pass by,
he tries and sentences them on their
merits, in the swift summary ways OF
boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly.
ELOQUENT, troublesome. He cumbers
himself never about consequences,
about interests; he gives an independ-
ent, genuine verdict. You must court
him: he does not court you.-Emerson.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
The nts.uabIe Tiger.

Of all wild animals trained for men,
agerie and show purposes not one is as
hard to conquer as the tiger. Com
pared to the training of lions and ele-
plants the training of tiger is as the
breaking in of a vicious boarhound to
the first lessons in etiquette of club
by Newfoundland puppy. Even the
most expert wild animal trainers balk
at an assignment to break a tiger.
Not more than one in ten professional
lion trainers has the nerve to try his
hand at the great, ferocious, striped
cats.
AS matter of fact, there is no such
thing as tanned tiger" Few and far
between there are instances where the
animals are shown as trained and
broken in, but the friendship of the
animal for the trainer who may have
befriended it for years hangs at the
end of the mans black snake whip
From the day the acquaintance is
made to the day man and beast are
separated there is a Stealthy warfare
between them, the catlike slyness Of
the ponderous brute directed toward
the one aim of killing the man and the
vigilance of the master ever alert to
Illustrate that plan.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
The Harm Slang Does.

The use of slang tends to limit the
vocabulary of him who uses it. Now,
a limited vocabulary is almost as in
convenient at times as a limited purse,
and it is far more inelegant. If there
was practically limitless wealth within
the reach of him who was minded to
take it, it would argue a certain stu
pidity in any one who declined to avail
himself of the supply. The same as
sertion holds true with regard to him
who is willing to limit his choice Of
words. There is even more to be said
than that. There is a limitless wealth
of words at our disposal, but the most
of us are too stupid to make use Of
them.
There are about 100000 words in the
English language. The average edu-
Gated person is able in reading to IN
derstand perhaps $4,000 words, but
most of us who write and speak limit
ourselves to about 500 or 600. Indeed,
there is vast number Of fairly intelli-
gent people, or people who pass as
fairly intelligent, whose working Vo-
cabularies do not comprise more than
300 or 400 words each.-Household.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Shaving In Egypt.

The earliest reference to shaving of
the beard Is found in Genesis XII, Il,
where we read that Joseph on being
summoned before the king shaved
himself. There are several references
as to shaving in Leviticus, and the
practice is alluded to in many other
parts of the Bible. However, Egypt
is the only country mentioned in the
Bible where shaving was practiced.
In all other. countries at that time
such an act would have been consid-
cred ignominious. Herodotus men
tons that the Egyptians allowed their
boards to grow when they were in
mourning. So particular were they as
to shaving at all other times that to
have neglected it was to make one
self the butt Of coarse and ridiculous
jokes.
Even in this day and age when the
Egyptian wants to convey the idea
of man of low condition and sloven-
iy habits he always pictures to you
ia man with a full beard. This notion
is very ancient, a fact attested by
works of art found in burial monu-
ments dating back thousands Of years.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
CORRESPONDENCE.
SrOughIon.

Mrs Edward Young of Madison, better
known to our readers by her maiden
name, Miss Josie Olson, submitted to an
operation for appendicitis in Chicago on
Monday, and is reported to be doing
nicely. Mrs Young's father. Assessor
Knud Olson, and her sister, Miss Nettie.
spent Monday in Chicago.
A severe rain and thunder storm Wis
tied this locality early Tuesday morning
and in some districts did considerable
damage On the farm of Lawrence
Eighmy, one mile north of Mcfarland, IA
barn was struck by lightning and burn
ed to the ground A quantity of hay
and grain was lost but all the stock was
saved. John Lee, east of this city, had a
wind mill and tobacco shed blown down
on his farm, and on Mrs 0 Ell Olson's
farm, in the same neighborhood, to-
bacco shed was moved from its founda-
ton.
O. Roe, who has run large force of
assorters since Christmas time, for Ros-
enwald & Bros of New York. closed down
last week. Mr. Roe has put up the larg-
est packing ever put up by Stoughton
man. Mr. Roe has paid out $1,000 for
help alone in Stoughton, and total of
9AO,UUO 10 uelp dG tu0 several warehouses
combined. He has put up packings in
Soldiers Grove, DeForest and Deerfield,
besides his large packing here. The en-
tire packing appears to be one of the
best ever raised in Wisconsin and is val
ued at S250,000. A few more such en-
terprising firms would be big boom to
Stoughton.
Mrs G S Crosse, who has spent the
past two weeks in Washington, D G, re-
turned Monday accompanied by her son,
Charley, who has passed the required
examination and will be admitted to the
Annapolis Academy on June 10. Charley
will spend week with his parents be-
fore entering upon his duties as naval
cadet. The boy must remain in the SER
vice of the government for the next six
years. At the end Of four years he is
supposed to graduate, after which he
will cruise around the world for a couple
of years. The government will cloth
and board the young man, and in addi-
ton to his schooling, give him a salary
of $500 per year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
worst of All Expe,iences

Can anything be worse than to feel
that every minute will be your last?
Such was the experience of Mrs s H
Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For three years"
she writes, II endured insufferable pain
from indigestion, stomach and bowel
trouble. Death seemed inevitable when
doctors and all remedies failed At length
1 was induced to try Electric Bitters
and the result was miraculous. I i'm
proved at once and now I'm completely
recovered" For Liver, Kidney, Stomach
and Bowel troubles Electric Bitters is
the only medicine. Only 50sts It's
guaranteed by Perry & Doty
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Hicks Forecasts For June.

The first storm period in June is CEN
trail on the 4th, covering the End to the
9th. There are good reasons to expect
the crisis of this period on and touching
the 3rd. High degrees of humidity, high
temperature, and very low barometer, on
and next to Wednesday, the 3rd, will
prove certain harbingers of severe
storms. If these conditions develop
about the 3rd, and actual storms are de-
layed, even up to the 9Th or 6th do not
be thrown off your guard until the con-
ditions eliminate. Vicious thunder
storms accompanied with hail and pos
sibly tornado centers, are among the
things reasonably to be expected at this
period. Venus doWnpours of rain,
amounting to cloudburst in many local.
ties, are also more than probable. You
can depend upon it, the storms of this
period will not be entirely over until the
barometer makes decided rise, and the
winds change and blow strong and much
cooler from the west and north. Some
very cool nights are sure to result when
the storms are over. On and touching
the 9th and 10th, look for reaction to
storm conditions - change to much
warmer, falling barometer and more
storms of rain, thunder, and heavy
squalls of wind. The regular summer
solstice disturbances will set in at this
time, making June thunder showers
probable almost any afternoon and even
ing. Under no circumstances should
one ever take refuge under green tree
in one of these vicious: June thunder
storms The regular storm period COW
ering the 14th to 10Th will reach it's cul-
minating stages about Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, the 18th, 18th
and 10TH The storm diagram shows
that the summer solstice is in full force
at this time. Many electrical storms
will be most natural, with some ener-
getic and dangerous wind storms. Put
away foolish forebodings and go about
your business. Make careful plans to
avoid the June showers, especially in
your hay making at this time. On and
touching the 21st and 22nd, look for the
return of storm conditions, with renewed
thunder and rain squalls, and much
harmless lightning at night. Most sec
lions will have sufficient rains at this
and other June periods. Central regions
may have too much, while extreme north
and south sections may suffer some
shortage The last week in June is COW
cred by combined Mercury and Vul-
can storm period. About the 25th it
will turn exceedingly warm, the baron
eter will fall and persistent cloudiness
and frequent storms of wide extent and
much energy will mark the closing days
of the month.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Noted Correspondent and Traveller.

Few newspapers in the United States
are able to command the service of as
brilliant corps of correspondents as
that of The Chicago Record Herald. Its
choice of Washington correspondent is
indicative of The Record Herald policy
of obtaining the best there is to be had.
Walter Wellman, the we'll known author
ity on political subjects and one of the
ablest writer's of the day, acts in that
capacity.
Mr.. Wellman was born in Mentor,
Ohio, Nov. 3, 1858. At the age of IA he
began his newspaper experience, e,stab-
fishing at that age weekly paper in the
little town of Sutton, Neb. In 1873 he
returned to Ohio, and year later estab-
lished the Cincinnati Evening Post. In
1884 he became the Washington cores
pondent of the Chicago Herald, and in
1892 he visited Central America and the
West Indias, and located the landing
place of Columbus on Watling's (San
Salvatore Island, and marked the spot
with huge stone monument. Mr.. Well
mans dashes to the north pole are well
known. In 1894 he made the first OF his
two arctic voyages of exploration, reach
ing the latitude of 81 degrees northeast
of Spitzbergen. In 1893 he returned to
the North, penetrated to Franz Joseph
Land, returning again to this country in
1899. On each trip he met with wonder
full success in the discovery of new
islands and lands, and brought back
with him scientific data and information
of great value to the American Geo.
graphical Society.
Mr.. Wellman has been volumlnous
writer for scientific magazines and popu-
lar periodicals. On returning from ms
arctic trips he renewed his connection
with The Record Herald, and is now the
Washington correspondent of that paper.
His incisive discussion of contemporary
affairs has given him high place in the
regard of statesmen and scientists of the
day.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
wanted: SO Men and women
To Take Advantage of Special Of
fer Made by Wilson Bros.

fer Made by Wilson Bros.
Wilson Bros, the enterprising drug
gists, are advertising today for fifty men,
and women To take advantage of the
special half price offer they are making
on DR.. Towards celebrated specific for
the cure of constipation and dyspepsia.
and get a fifty cent package at half-price
% cents.
So positive are they of the remarkable
power of this spec tic to cure these dis.
eases, as well as sick headaches and liver
troubles, that they agree to refund the
money to any customer whom this med
lclne does not quickly relieve and cure.
With DR.. Towards specific at hand,
you can eat what you want and have no
tear OF Ill consequences. 1t strengthens
the stomach, gives perfect digestion,
regulates the bowels, creates an appe-
tite, and makes life worth the living.
This is an unusually opportunity to
obtain so doses of the best medicine ever
made for half its regular price, with the
personal guarantee Of a we'll known bus
mess firm to refund the money if it does
not give satisfaction
If You cannot call at Wilson Bros.
store today, send them 25 cents by mail,
and they will send you a package,
promptly, charges paid.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
!. Seek a Missing Financ;er.

Milwaukee, June 2.-Henry Her
man., alleged defaulting inancier OF
Milwaukee, is believed to be in De
troit. The American Bonding COM
pany of Baltimore, which may lose
$4,000 by the disappearance of Her
man, is making a strong search for
him. An agent of the company is now
in Milwaukee investigating the claims
held against it by the Plankinton bank
estate, for which Herman was as
Signee.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Reliance Wins Again.

Matinicock Point. L, l., May. 20
The three cup yachts, the Reliance.
Constitutions and columbia started in
the fourth of the preliminary trials
over the SGlencove course. The Reli-
ance won, beating Columbia about a
mile and three quarters. There was
an accident to the Constitution. AS
she drew near it was seen that the
top mast was gone, but that the main
mast was still standing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
STRIKE LOOKS LIKE Il FAILURE
Cotton Mills in Massach usetts Resume
Work with Half q Force.

work with Hail @ FOrce.
Lowell, Mass, June 2.-After nine
weeks of idleness the Massachusetts,
Boot, Merrimac. fremont & Suffolk,
Appleton & Hamilton corporations re-
sumed the manufacturing Of cotton
goods with fully so per cent. Of the
usual working force. Figures made
public by the mill agents through
Agent w. S. Southworth, secretary of
the Cotton Manufacturing association,
tend to show that the efforts of the tex
tile council to enforce the demand for
q 10 per cent increage in wages will
fail.
The council, however, claims that
the strike has just begun; that the past
nine weeks suspension has been lock-
out on the part of the agents, and that
the test was simply that which was
anticipated Monday, April 1, when the
strike order was to have been effective,
lMad it not been fOfestalled by the
Qagents on the preceding Saturday.
9f;; The officers of the union, in which
are concentrated the skilled crafts, do
not sadmit that the. strike has been
Understanding the day or that the mills
cans te6ntinue to: run. They say hat
even If 80 per cent. of the operatives
return To- work it is simply the general
force of unskilled.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
A scotchman Who Smoked In Church

Sir Walter Scott in his Heart of
Midlothian" refers to, one. Duncan of
iKhoockdunder, an Important parsonage,
who Smoked during the whole of the
sermon from an iron pipe tobacco Dor
rowed from other worshipers. We are
told that at the end of the discourse
he knocked the ashes out Of his pipe,
replaced it in his sporran, returned the
tobacco pouch to it's owner and Joined
in the prayer with decency and atten-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Driven Desperation

Living at an out of the way place, re-
mote from civilization, family is often
driven TO desperation in case of accident,
resulting in burns, cuts, wounds, ulcers,
etc. Lay in a supply of Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve. It's the best on earth. 25c,
at Perry & Doty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
He Recommends a Combine.

''Why should one-third Of the coun-
try fix the price for two-thirds, and
256 looms control 3.400? I believe that
if the ingram manufacturers of Ken
singtOn would form a combination and
adhere to a uniform selling price much
of the complaint of injurious competi-
ton of outside mill districts would be
done away with. There is no bitter
ness between the ingram carpet manu-
facturers and their Weavers."
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney. bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kiimer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended foreverything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder troubleit will be found
just the renedyyou need. ltihas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp and how to
find out if you havekidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to AsssFszSk
Dr. Kilmer& CO., Bing
hamton, N. Y. The s 9s I. :. s<s3Y5ssE9
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Root
dollar sizes are sold by-all good druggists.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
MANY Chi1dren are sickIy

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children, used by Mother Gray, nurse
in Children's home, New York, break up
colds in "a hours, cure feverishness,
headache, stomach trouble, teething dis
orders and DESTROY worms At all drug
gists, 25c, Sample mailed FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, n. (.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05

living with the governor. The talk
about harmony is now impossible y
Conditions would lie prettily for some
"mutualizing of interests" Gas Private
Secretary Murphy once happily
phrased some negotiations, for there
will be senatorship, a governorship
and Il lieutenant governorship to be
snapped up the sleeve, to say nothing
Of the plums and distinctions that lie
embedded in a presidential election
like jewels in a diadem-but the fac
lions can never come together La
Toilette must be all in all and the 9TH
er side would not now trust him. 1t
will be fight to a finish with party
lines erased to a great extent. The
business interests of the state under
the leadership of the big shippers
will raise the cry of conservative adj
miniStratiOnv
The governor, with his constant in
vasion of the democracy, will make his
appeal to the farmers and the toll
ers. One cannot permanently divorce
what are known as the business in
terests," especially in a slow, cautious
state like Wisconsin, but Pingree,
Golden Rule" Jones and Tom John
son have achieved big things by
frankly abusing people with property
and throwing themselves On those who
have little or nothing ahead.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
LOST Four Men i'm a Gale.

ST. Johns, Nd. June 2.-The United
Statesan- fishing schooner, Helen f.
Written. of Gloucester, has arrived
here and reports having lost four men
in last wee ale
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05

cures maze by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
It is the great medi-
cal triumph of the nine
teenth century, dis:
covered after years Of
scientific research by
Dr.. kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der specialist and is
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Brutality Frank.


The Wife-What will you do, when
you have no little wife to mend your
clothes for you? So,
The Wretch-Have money to- buy;
new ones.-EXchange s:...t. .8~oi
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
DO YOU GET UP .z-
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Ingram Weavers Hold a Meeting.

The ingram carpet Weavers held a
big meeting and reaffirmed their dec
laration for 10 per cent increase in
wages, in addition to the demand for
the fifty-five-hour week. Representa-
tives were present from each Of the
siXty-three ingram mills, numbering
5000 employees, whose action effects
1000 other workers. In reply to the
contention of the manufacturers that
because of competition elsewhere in
the trade they could grant neither the
advance in pay nor the shorter work
week, the meeting issued a statement
through President Settle. in which, aft
e. showing that so per cent. Of the in
grain carpet of the country is made
in the Kensington district in this city,
he asks
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-05
Part of tho Liquor Interests.

A strong factor in the situation will
be the probable opposition of the liq-
uor interests to LaFollette, following
the antagonism of the brewers who,
through Emanuel Phillips of Milwau-
kee, were active in the freight COM
mission fight Hitherto, LaFollette
has had his share of support in the
liquor interest, indeed, Phillips was
one of his Milwaukee lieutenants. 1t
is a curious fact that with all his re
form proclivities, Governor LaFol-
lette has let alone this liquor question
He apparently has no convictions on
the subject and when he had chance
to rebuke the abundance of beer at
Camp Douglas last summer where
thousands of young men many from
small communities, were being tempt
ed, the governor declined to mix in the
matter. The liquor question, next to
the school in religion, is the most deli
cate of all issues. While the liquor
men are not afraid of LaFollette him
self interfering with their vested
rights" he has a good many conscien-
tious people behind him whose reform
impulse may break out in any direc-
ton. An organized movement against
him directed by the brewers working
through the saloons would be a seri-
Gus matter for him. Mr.. Rabcock has
long been regarded as a friend and
champion of the brewing interests and
ifsas stated, he is TO manage, the anti
LaFollette campaign, every saloon
that Mr.. BabcOck can reach will have
a picture in it and it won't be LaFoI-
lette