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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

Since my last letter farmers have had
an opportunity to take down another
part of their hanging tobacco. In fact
there have been two damp spells, al
though the first only extended over a
small area. In some places where the
tobacco sheds we're built near to the hills
on the south and east, where the hills
kept the cold winds from striking into
and around the sheds, the tobacco was
in very fair order. This was Saturday,
Nov 26; but where the sheds on the
same farm were outside of the hill shell
ter, the tobacco did not get damp enough.
The stems retained their brittleness. The
last time much of the hanging tobacco
might have been taken down in the
night after it had done dripping, for in
the morning of Nov. 80 quite few took
down until the wind was blowing quite
brisk at about 10 o'clock a. m. In the
afternoon the tobacco was quite wet
from the constant dripping of the stalks,
but have not heard of a single man
taking down any in the night. Much
that was taken down lies in the .hake,
where it was placed when taken down;
for the weather since has been too cold
to strip in an open shed. In this local
ity most of the asserting shops have
started up, but [ hear of some where it
has been necessary to close down until
after good damp time, as only. few of
the farmers who have sold have taken
down all of their crop. Some are half
done, others have not more than fourth
of the crop down, and they are 10th to
break the crop in two lots, as it breaks
the cash in two parts also.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Bradstreet: "a good part of the tobacco
was taken from the poles the past week
and stripped, but still quite number of
acres are left hanging awaiting fur
ther damp" North Hatfield, Mass:
Francis G. Bradwell has sold IA cases
of old tobacco; I have not heard the
price. Miss Mary Mosher sold cases of
old tobacco at private terms. 1t is re-
ported that Mr. Mendleshon, of the firm
of Meyer & Mendleshon, has been riding
day or two the past week with F. P.
Jones, and that they purchased a few
lots of tobacco in Whately and Sunder-
land, but have not heard it confirmed,
so will put it out as rumor only
Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
Baldwinsville. N. Y.

The local market remains quiet with
but few sales reported. M. Rosenthal,
of the firm of M. .Rosentha & Co., of
Lancaster, Pa, was in town last week
and rode little with the firms local
representative, M. Tobin, looking for old
goods. The new crop still remains in
the sheds, the continued dry weather
making it impossible to take tobacco
down. A force of about so is employed
at A. Heinke's warehouse, handling re-
cent Ohio purchases.
South CRANKY w S. Cook has sold
his 1903 crop of tobacco, little hail cut,
at SC per pound, Sized Farmers are
getting little worried about getting
their tobacco from the poles. As the
most of them have sold in this place they
want to get it down so as to be stripping
it, No rain or damp weather to help
them yet.
The acreage of the 1904 crop of Big
Flats is much less than usual The
probable yield will not be over 10000 to
$4,000 cases. 1t appears as if it would
lack in light tobacco, probably on ac-
count of the cold summer. The growth
was only fair. Some buying has been
done at prices ranging from Ii to 131ac
in bundle. Enough has not been strip
ped yet to form an intelligent opinion as
to its merits.-GaZette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16

been made, and those who have got rid
of their packings are looking hopefully
to the future. The transactions that
have come to our knowledge are 116cs
sold and 50cs bought by |. Fl. Weaver;
Meisky u Heiland sold 15Ocs of 1908
goods and bought 100cs of the like kind;
this firm has removed from Marion st.
to more commodious quarters at the cor
ner of North Duke and Chestnut Sts.,
where it received two car loads of Con-
necticut goods yesterday. w. DeHaven
sold his packing of 5S6cs and John Long
necker also disposed of his, amounting
to 300cs. The sales in the aggregate
were 1302cs. For the corresponding
week of last year the sales were 330cs.
There is very little doing in 1904 goods.
The dry weather and impossibility of ex-
aiming crops has almost put an end to
transactions for the present. We have
been repeatedly asked why we do not
publish the tobacco sales made by farm
ers. We can only say we would gladly
do so If we could get them, but if Meth.
er growers themselves nor correspon-
dents will send them to us we cannot
make them public. We therefore, again
request all who know or have heard of
such sales to report the same to us.
We hear that tobacco grown on the
late Senator Quay's farm, on the Colum-
bia turnpike, was sold last week at
12&2c. We saw the crop frequently dur
ing the summer and it was fine one.
Around Salunga some tobacco has
been sold. The prevailing price in East
Donegal is reported at and &c, and 91a
and &c. In the vicinity of New Holland
the following sales were made:
Christian Sensenig, Ia Havana seed at
16&2c; Fl. M. Weaver, 13a seedleaf at
10&2c; Isaac Martin, 3a seedleaf at 919&.
&c; Milton Croft, La seedleaf at 41sc;
Joseph M. Weaver, 13a seedleaf at 10&2c.
There was a considerable rumpus
kicked up among our York county neigh
bors at Red Lion last week owing to
some irregularities on the part of certain
cigar manufacturers, but how serious it
all is we do not know.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
EVANSVILLE, WIS, Dec. Ia, 1904.

To say anything regarding the leaf
that is hanging in the numerous sheds is
waste of energy. 1t would be merely a
rehash of what has been said for weeks
and weeks past. and the outlook for the
future would also mean a rehash for
weeks and weeks to come. Those are
the sentiments regarding the new goods
in this section at least.
The old goods are holding high hands
and the demand for them here for the
week past has been great surprise. If
all the deals were reported by the local
dealers there would be even a greater
surprise. The filler stock of 1901 and '02
has had an exceptionally good sale and
there remains but little of this class of
goods in the hands of the dealers here
now, and before the asserting season of
1904 opens there will be no great amount
of binder left.
The deals that were made for the week
past substantiates the above and are
composed as follows John Soulman
sells 119cs of 1903 and buys 38cs of 1901
BIS; S. B. Heddles ships 45cs 1902 export
and buys Goes of old goods; r, l.. Erler
sells 25cs of 1901; Geo. Ell. Rumrill sells
:i02cs of 1901 O2-'03 and received % cars
from the north; Fisher & Fisher sold 127
of 1908 low grades and NJ. f. Green
ships two cars of the old.
Mr. Brown of Riegal & Brown, Chica-
60, was visitor to this market Friday
December 9th
VII. Woeldieke of st. Louis, a dealer
in leaf tobacco in that city, was the
guest of Mr.. Abel Fisher Tuesday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
NEW YORK, K,sDec. 7, 1904.

The market in domestic leaf during
the past week has been devoid of any
special features. There is, nevertheless,
wholesome appearance to the situation
despite the fact that the approach of the
holidays makes itself felt. Among the
sales reported are some of the 1903 Penn
sylvania, amounting to 1900 cases at IA
to Is cents, filters out. A few hundred
cases of Havana Seed leaf from the New
England crop have also changed hands.
Numerous other small sales, ranging
from ten to fifty cases, are reported.
Sumatra = The volume of business
done in this type remains about the
same. The quantity of leaf in the hands
of the manufacturers is small. A con-
siderable quantity of goods arrives every
week, and the dealers and manufacture
ers are buying more literally than was
the case few weeks ago. A fairly active
market is reported.
Havana-The demand continues to
exceed the supply. Several small lots
were imported during the past week, but
have been taken up about as fast as they
arrive. A number of transactions have
been reported, but mostly in small lots
and with people in need of immediate
stocks. The decrease in the number of
bales imported for the first eleven
months of the year, as compared with
the same period of last year, is in excess
of 27 900. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET,
EDGKRToN, WIS.,, Dec. Is, 19(

EDGKRTON, WIS.,, Dec. lO, lSU4.
What has taken place in the market
regarding the new crop during the week
could be told in very few words. Zero
weather has arrived with the tobacco
still hanging dry in the curing sheds
and no immediate prospect for either
stripping or warehouse handling in sight
The movement in old leaf, however, is
different proposition, and remnants in
growers hands of stock of any years
growth find ready sale, when profits to
the producer are not considered. An
export and stogy demand is taking the
cheaper grades as fast dealers gather
them in, SO that quick sales and moder-
ate profits are helping along consider
able trading. J. M. Estes sold 25cs of
'O2 at 1Oc; o. E. Gulseth 41cs at 1870
Much of the 03 leaf in bundle is being
lifted at about former filler prices.
Among packers fairly active trade is
reported. We learn deal of some mag
nitude is under way but particulars are
not yet obtainable.
The shipments out of storage do not
exceed 500cs from this market to all
points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16

In his annual report recently issued,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson devotes
much attention to Connecticut shade
grown tobacco. Despite the disastrous
financial results attendant upon the ex-
tensive operations of 1902 Oh, the secre-
tary says: The tobacco experts of the
Bureau Of Soils see no reason to change
their belief that the method of growing
tobacco under shade in the Connecticut
valley will produce a wrapper leaf of
great excellence, which can be econom
ically used by the trade, and it would
seem that the industry should be estab-
lished upon a commercial scale. The
failure of the Connecticut tent tobacco
enterprise from a commercial stand
point, Mr.. Wilson ascribes to unfavor-
able climatic conditions and a poorer de-
mand for the leaf than expected. Cuban
seed tobacco, grown under shade in Con
necticut, was exhibited by the depart
ment at the Louisiana Purchase exposi
tion and to it was awarded grand
prize as being leaf of the highest
standard of excellence for cigar wrap
pers. Carrying the secretary's deduc
tions further, it is found that the average
received for the 382 bales was COL cents
per pound. AS the sales were probably
all made by dealers who naturally ex-
pect to make good profit, it is unlikely
that the Connecticut producers realized
an average as high as 60c per pound.
From these official figures of actual
sales of Connecticut shade grown tobac
co, it is at once apparent that the wild
expectations of the leaf selling at i'm
ported Sumatra prices of 81 per pound
or above. have far from materialized
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
New York.
New YORK. Dec. 10. 1904.

A boom, quite unusual for this season,
struck the leaf market the past week.
For over 5000 cases of seed leaf were
disposed of, surely transactions of extra
ordinary size considering the nearness
of the close of the year generally char
acterized by extreme dullness. Of this
amount nearly one half was Gebhardt
seed, about 1000 boxes 1903 Wisconsin
and the balance Pennsylvania broad and
other leaf. Almost all this quantity was
contracted for by the larger factories
which commence to realize the fact of
the shortage in the stock of leaf tobacco
and are Fastening to get under cover in
time. In pursuing this policy they are
able not only to yet get the available
leaf not only for their needs but to git it
also at lower price than what they for
see they will have to pay il they should
merely depend on waiting policy and
buy from hand to mouth Under con-
ditions prevailing, prices are bound to
rise from one to two cents on all grades
of leaf within few months. And the
extraordinary splurge of the market dur
ing the past week unerringly forecast
the rising market. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The long continued dry weather ex
tending over greater portion of the
fall, preventing any movement of tobac-
co from the shed to the warehouse is
proving quite disappointment to grow
ers who are generally able to realize on
their tobacco for holiday shopping and
tax paying time. The buyers, too, were
somewhat anxious to see a few of their
earlier purchases put through the ware
houses, and take an inventory of the
grading before adding to their holdings.
Until damp weather arrives buyers can
see nothing to be gained in riding or are
likely to pay much attention to the
country. Fortunately considerable sugar
beet money is coming into the tobacco
sections this year that will help tide over
the present situation, brighten Christ
mas prospects and relieve the tax gath
ering stringency.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
Lancaster.
LANCASTER New ERA, Dec. 6, 1904.

LANCASTER New ERA. Dec. 6, 1904.
Although the holidays are only three
weeks away, very fair volume of busi-
ness was done during the past week. In
fact, there appears to be an active de-
mand for desirable goods, and there is
little trouble in selling them when they
are found. The volume of trade thus
far during the fall is regarded as very
satisfactory, and the fortunate ones are,
of course. content. The profits have not
been large, but still some money has
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16
Farms for Sale.

One good tobacco and stock farm, 100
acres, very productive and equipped for
business; only two miles from city; good
roads and near cheese factory or cream
cry.
Farm of 46 acres adjoining corpora
ton. All under cultivation, very fertile,
good improvements Social advantages
of the city with it's schools and churches.
These properties will be sold right.
Address l.. III. HAYMAN,
5Ow4 Boscobel, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16

Secretary Taft has become an ardent
advocate of opening the doors of the
country to the admission of Philippine
tobacco at greatly reduced rates-one-
quarter of the present Dingley tariff
schedule on imported tobaccos. The
Taft idea is that it would add greatly to
the prosperity of the Philippines and as
sist the government in the development
of our island possessions. President
Roosevelt, too, it is feared, shares this
opinion with him, in a measure, for in
his message he says, "We should GER
tainly give them lower tariff rates on
their exports to the United States.' The
same argument was applied to Cuba
when the ad ninistration advocated con-
cessions for their sugar and tobacco.
This country can afford to be magnani-
nous if it is not done to the expense of
our own industries, but when it comes
to throwing the tobacco of these islands
in competition with the tobacco growing
industry of the United States it is going
a little too far and strong opposition will
develop against the proposition. If our
infant colonies must be helped let it be
done by direct appropriation instead of
at the expense of American products.
Congressman Babcock, who is mem
ber,ef the Ways and Means committee
in congress, as we'll as Messrs. Adams
and Cooper, represent large tobacco
growing constituents who will look to
them to stand by the farmers 10 their
districts when the matter comes up in
congress.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-12-16

One of the paragraphs in the presi-
dents message that will attract some at
tention in the tobacco trade is the fol-
lowing: 'The soils of the country are
getting attention from the farmers
standpoint, and interesting results are
following. We have duplicates of the
soils that grow the wrapper tobacco in
Sumatra and the filler tobacco in Cuba.
1t will only be question of time when
the large amounts paid to these coun
tries will be paid to our, own people"
To which Prof. Whitney Of the Agricul-
tural Department remarks: 'No one
will take issue with the president for his
pride in the resources of the country, or
his patriotic optimism, but it does seem
that he is trifie too enthusiastic in this
prediction. 1t may be only question
of time when the growing of Sumatra
wrapper and Cuban filler is confined to
this country but there is little doubt the
tobacco trade will be highly pleased if
the admission of Philippine tobacco at
25 per cent. of the Dingley rate were
made contingent on the production in
this country of sufficient Sumatra wrap
per and Cuban filler to supply the de-
mand." With deficiency piling up in
the treasury of many millions it sounds
strange to hear any part of the admins
tration advocate any reduction to lower
levels of tobacco products that pay so
large part of the revenues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04

whin he snapped his watch was tur- rble; but tn look he give tn dinner was aven worse. He set there fir two mortal hours miditatin' what form tn assassynations wud take an Fletchin' each wan iv us in his mind
 I walked home with him to see that he came to no harm. Near tn house he wint into bakers shop an bought four pies an a bag iv doughnuts. I've promised to take thim home to me wife he says. I thought she was iy
 town says I. She'll be back in a
 week. says he; 'an' annyhow, Misther Dooley. I'll thank ye not to be pryin'
 into me domestic affairs he says.
 "An, there ye ar-re. Whats tn use iv goin' up again tn laws iv Nature, says I. If Nature intinded ye to be A little roly-poly, nttle roly-poly yell
 be. They aint anything to do that
 ye ought to do thatll make ye thin an keen ye thin. Tn wan thing in tn wurruld that'll rayjooce ye surely Is lack iv sleep an who wants to lose his mind with his flesh. I'll guaran' tee with tn aid iv an alarm clock to make amy man Twin skliton in thirty days. A lady with a young baby won't niver get no chubbier nor tn gintleman, it's father. Tn on'y ginooine anti-fat threatment is sick. ness, worry, throuble an insomnya. Tn scales ain't amy judge iv beauty or health. To be beautiful is to be nachral. Ye have gr-reat nachral skinny beauty while my good looks is more buxom. Whin I see an ol fool
 in sweater an two coats sprintin' uI
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tn sthreet an groanin' at ivry step I want to Jine with tn little boys that ar-re throwin' bricks at him. If he takes off tn flesh that Nature has wasted on his ongrateful frame, his skin won't fit him They'se nawthin' more heejous to look at thin fat man that has rayjooced his weight He looks as though he had bought his coverin' at an auction. It bags undher tn eyes an don't fit in tn neck.
 "An man is foolish that thries to be too kind to his stomach, anyhow. Fletcher's idee Is that tn human stomach is a kind iv little Lord Faun- tleroy. If ye give 1t much to do, 1t will pine away. But Dock Casey tells me 'tis a gr-reat, husky, good-natured pugilist thatll take on most annything that comes along. It will go to wur- ruk with grim resolution on a piece iv hard coal. It will get tn worst iy 1t but what I mane Is that 1t fears no foe an doesn't dhraw tn color line. I wud put 1t in tn heavy middle weight class an 1t ought to be kept there. It requires plenty iv exercise to be at it's best an If 1t doesn't get enough, it loses it's power ontil a chocolate eclair might win against 1t. It mustn't be allowed to shirk it's joo. ties. It shud be kept in thrainin' an, says Dock Casey, if it's owner is a good matchmaker an doesn't back it again opponents that ar-re out iv it's class or too nanny at wan time, 1t will still be doin' well whin tn brain is on'y fit fir exercise"
 Dye expict to go on accumylatin
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ON PAINTING.
BY F. P. pUNNE. convrieht. 1904, by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.

"I see tn good woman goln py nefe at a gallon today" said MT. Dooley.
 she's thryin' to rayjooce her weight" said MT. Hennessy-
 What fri"
 q don't know. She looks all right, said MT. Hennessy.
 "Well," said MT. Dooley, tis a sthrange thing. Near ivrybody know is thrvin' to rayjooce nis weight. Why shud a woman want to be thin onless she ia thin? Tn idee iv female beauty that all great men firm Julius Caesar to mesilf has held, is much more like abar'l thin a clothes pole Hogan tells me that Alexander's wife an Caesars missus was no light weights; Martha Wash'nton was short but pleasantly dumpy an Andrew Jackson's good woman weighed two nundhred an smaked a pipe. Hogan says that all tn potes he knows was in love with not to say fat but ample ladies. Tn potes thimsilves was thin but the ladies was chubby. A pote whin he has wurruked all day at tn typewriter wants to rest his head ou a shoulder that won't hurt. Shake spears wife was thin an they quar- reled. Tn lady that tn Eyetalian pote Danty made a fool iv himsilf about was no skiliton. All tn pitchers iv beautiful women I've iver see had nanny curves an sivral chins. Tn phottygraft iv Mary Queen iv Scots that have in me room shows that she took on weight after she had her
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cross to tn boss. Thin he raysumed his reglar meals an made up his mind to cut out tn sugar. I see him at breakfast wan mornin'. Nature had been kind to Carney in tn mat ter iV appytite. I won't tell ye what he consumed. It's too soon afther supper an the room is close. But, an nybody, whin his wife had tottered in with tn last flap-jack an tainted an
 whin I begun to wondher whether it wud be safe to stay, he hauled little bottle firm his pocket an took out small pill. Whats that?' says I. Iris what I take in place iv sugar. says he. Sugar is fattenin' an this rayjooces tn weight says he. An ar-re ye goin' to match that poor little tablet against that breakfast?' says I. I am,' says he. 'Cow'rd,' says I.
 "The latest thing that Carney has took up to make tn fight again Ma ture is called Fetching. Did ye iver hear iv it? Well, they'se lad be tn name iv Fletcher who thinks so much iv his stomach that he won't use 1t an he tells Carney that if he'll ate on'y wan or two mouthfuls at ivry meal an thurly chew thim, he will ivinchooly be no more thin skin an
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dhress made. Tn collar looks to be chokin' her.
 But nowadays 'tis tn fashion to thry to emaciate yeersilf. I ct sup per with Carney tn other day It was tn will iv Hiven that Carney shud grow fat but Carney has a will iv his own an fir tin years he's been thryin to look like Sinitor Fairbanks whin his thrue model was Grover Cleve- land. He used to scald himsilf ivry mornfn' with a quart iy hot wather on gettin' up. That did him no good. Thin he thried taldn' long walks. Tn long walk rayjooced him half pound an gave him a thirst that made him take on four pounds iv boodweiser. Thin he rented a horse an thried horseback ridin'. Tn horse liked his weight no more than Carney did an Carney gained tin pounds in tn hos pital. He thried starvin' himsilf an he lost two pounds an his job f'r bein'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04
Rival Organizations.
rom the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The man who had been keeping his seat in crowded street car spoke at last to the young woman who had been eye ing him intently for five minutes or longer.
 T know I ought to get up and let you have my seat. madam" he said, "but I'm pledged against that sort of thing. I have just joined the Sit Still Club an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04

organization we have formed in our part of town, and If I should violate the solemn obligation took when I becameI a member of that body I should be ex- pelled and held up to the generation of all the other members
 That is all right. sir," replied tho young woman. You mustn't mind my, looking at you. I'm a member of tho Stand and Stare Club"
 After which she continued to stand ana stare at him.