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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
Connecticut valley Tobacco Market.

The news from all around is good news
for the farmers if they will profit by
what they read or hear The market is
about all cleaned up of old tobacco;
even the 1904 crop it is said will be alb
sorbed by the manufacturers before the
new year comes in, for the transactions
are frequent if not large, and with
clean market l can see no reason why
the next year will not be good one for
the grower. There is some riding among
the tobacco men, but there has been
very little buying that | have heard OF.
One firm sent their agent out with in
structions to buy all the hail-cut that he
could. After riding for three days he
went back to New York without buying
a pound, but hear that he is coming
again next week. The inference is that
the growers are asking more for hail cut
than the buyers were anticipating. Well,
| am glad that the growers are awake to
the possibilities of the situation. and [
hope that they may realize all their ex-
pectations, but / sadly fear that they
will not if they all ask as much as one
man that heard of and that was 10c for
hail cut that he did not SELL
Our correspondents report as follows:
Conway, Mass: "Very little tobacco
has been stripped here yet. A few buy
ers have been in town looking around,
but no sales have been made that have
heard Of They want to buy our tobac-
CO as low as usual" Bradstreet, Mass:
Tobacco is in fine shape to come down
and our farmers are awaiting a chance
to put in the bundle. [ report the sale
of one crop of nine acres by Edgar H,
Field to Meyer & Mendelsohn of New
York at private terms" North Hatfield,
Mass: "No sales here that | have heard
of, but several buyers have been looking
around and putting out a few feelers,
just to see how the growers feel in this
vicinity. In fact, there is but very little
of the crop stripped, and the tobacco
cannot very we'll be examined" East
Whately, Mass: II have no sales to re-
port, though some buyers have been
looking around and offer prices which
could not be accepted. Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
NEW YORK, Oct. Is, 1905.

Sales of domestic leaf continue brisk,
the trading being chiefly in Pennsylvania
Broad leaf, Gebhart and Wisconsin, the
demand being heavy, in consequence of
which prices are reported as stiffening.
1t is impossible to even approximate the
number of cases that have changed
hands during the week, but every firm
dealing in these types has been busy.
Sumatra. "A steady and consistent de-
mand continues for this class of goods.
While it was reasonably sure that the
fall inscriptions would not make any diff
ference in prices or in the range of the
choice offered buyers, they did to cer-
tain extent have deterrent effect, and
helped to give the market the appear
ance of a waiting game. The fact that
there will be no more inscriptions this
year has stimulated the market, and the
prices That were paid at the recent in
scriptions also helped to convince buyers
that the chances for better prices are nil.
Havana "A marked improvement is
noted in the tone of the market here
this week. While stocks here of both
old and new are decidedly small, the
buyers have displayed less hesitancy in
paying the price demanded, with the re-
suit that considerable more business, in
point of volume, is reported, and with
drawals have been larger than for some
time. Several hundred bales changed
hands.-Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
NORTHERN COUNTIES.
SOUTHERN COUNTIES
THIS is a good time to stop all species

THIS is a good time to stop all species
of graft. To stop cheating 10 the sale of
goods, lots, farms. To stop passing &c
loaves for 5 cents. To stop watering
milk and palming off half cream and
half skim milk for pure cream. Tt stop
selling old hens for spring chickens To
stop making peck out of six quarts and
a gallon out Of three quarts. To stop
putting three layers of measly peaches
under one layer of good fruit. To stop
paying low price for good days work.
To stop loafing an hour or two of the
time for which you are paid to do honest
work. To stop bounding candidates for
office for contributions for which you
cannot and do not intend to pay. 10 stop
trying to get rich by making sonaeone
else poor. To stop running down your
neighbors goods in order to sell your
own goods. To stop lying about horses,
stocks, in the hope of getting the better
of your neighbor There are many things
that must be stopped if we would put an
end to grafting.-Ex.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
NUMBER ~

crops are not anxious to SELL and are
willing to wait until it is cured, which
process is going on very satisfactorily.
There is no doubt about this being a
great crop, and the growers are so well
pleased with their years work that there
is reason for believing it will result in an
increased acreage next year.
The cigar industry continues good,
though there are cries from all sides for
goods for cheap grades of tobacco. These
are hard to find, and it looks as if great
many manufacturers of cheap cigars
will have to shut up shop. The manu-
facturers of the better grades of goods
all report business as being excellent
New Era
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
BaldwfnsyiIle. n. Y.

The market which has remained quiet
for several weeks has been active during
the past few days. N. P. Bowen of Ell
mira was here early in the week and F.
P. Blair of New Cum berland, Pa, has
been riding with Charles Mills. Frank
Dunham is reported as having made pur
chases for Taussig & Co. of Chicago and
Wallace Lee has been riding. j. w.
Upson was in Ohio last week and made
purchases of thinner, Dutch and Geb-
hart filters, buying car load of old
and also some of this years crop. A.
Heinke is handling old Onondaga at his
warehouse Gazette
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
NEW YORK, Oct. 81, 1905,

The boom is continuing to sweep our
market, not so much in the volume of
transactions as in prices realized for
every type of leaf. Demands for leaf are
continuous, never known to have been
so consistent, bnt the supply is not ade-
quate to them. Even at the advancing
figures buyers are anxious to get their
supply, but every week is confirming
more and more the predictions made by
the u. S. Tobacco Journal that there is
not enough stock on hand to feed the
ever increasing output of our cigar in
dustry- Packers are offering profits to
their customers on Pennsylvania filler
leaf sold them only few. months ago,
for there will be but limited quantity
of the 1905 crop left for the open market
and that only at an advanced figure of
25 per cent. The same condition pre-
walls with the Wisconsin binder stock.
AS for the domestic wrapper leaf it has
been nearly cleaned out altogether. The
Sumatra will have to do service till the
new crop becomes marketable and in
spite of it's many drawbacks it is begin
ming to move at a satisfactory pace. In
the Havana market the prices for the
new Remedies are causing the manufac-
turers the same trepidations as the do
mestic filler stock does, but then dollar
Remedies the trade had to stand before.
AS for factory vegas the new treasury
regulations to go into effect any moment
as published exclusively by the u. S.
Tobacco Journal, will cause havoc as to
their future prices.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
WISCONSIN, TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, Oct. 27

EDGERToN, Wis, Oct. 27, 1905.
Similar conditions prevail in local mar
kets as for some weeks past. Buyers are
doing somo riding in the country dis
tricUs, those of the American Cigar Co.
being most active, which is reducing the
unsold remnants of the crop to point
where only scattering lots remain. The
following sample sales have come to no.
tice:
A. A. Kaupanger, Tia at 10&2c.
Hans Nelson, Sa at 1917 SIC.
Geo. Barton, Ia at 81 &2c.
j. S. Prescott, Ga at 9&2c.
T. Kingsland, Sa at 91a&2c.
S. A. johnson, Ga at 6&2c.
Henry johnson, IA at 915c.
G. T. Walker, Ga at 10, 6&2c.
F. Ackerman, 3a at 10&2c.
j. Onsrud, Ia at 911s&2c.
John 0. Lee, IA at 1922.
Ole Vethal, 20a at S&2c.
And. Vingar, Ia at 9&2c.
The local markets have been we'll pat.
ronized by out of town buyers during
the week and transactions in cured leaf
have been plentiful. Mr.. Rich of Lam
caster has secured from local packers
300cs. c. L. Culton purchased from diff
ferent packers about 800 cases of 1904.
Fl. w. Child, 500 cases of the Soverhill
packing of 1904 A. Jenson & Sons
have purchased 66 cases of '04 of L.
Severson and 50cs lot of Ed Simonson
& Co. at Stoughton. w. T. Pomeroy &
Go. report the sale of 5Ocs lot, which
embrace some of the transactions of the
week.
1t has developed that very little leaf
was removed from the poles during the
casing weather last week. Packers gen.
orally discouraged it, fearing the return
of warm weather. They also much pre-
fer to have the tobacco come in and out
of case few times before stripping.
The shipments out of storage are only
moderate and do not reach above 500cs
for the week to all points.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, PENN, Oct. II, 1905


The local tobacco market the past
week was very dull, for the reason that
there is little old goods in the market.
The only sales of any consequence re-
ported were, Jacob Mayer 465 cases, and
j. ". Brenne man, 115 cases, all 1904 to-
bacco. Large quantities of that years
goods have lately been shipped away
from the local warehouses to New York
and other places by the owners, but these
goods were, of course, the packings of
those who shipped them.
It is estimated that not over 20 per
cent of the 1905 crop remains unsold.
The crops disposed of last week went at
about the same prices as had been paid
the previous week, IL and II cents and
running as high as 13 cents for choice
lots. The growers who still hold their
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-27

AS the time for stripping is approach
ing so quickly be sure to study the sub
ject we'll and thoroughly, writes an ex-
perienced New England grower. If your
tobacco is light colored and thin, do not
try to put forty to fifty pounds in the
bundles, but make them proportionately
lighter in weight. 1t is easy to put forty
pounds of dark, thick tobacco into a
bundle, for the tobacco is of greater
length and fills the bundling box the
full length of the box, while with light
leaf, which is apt to be shorter, one has
to leave the bulk Of the leaves in from
the ends of the box. So it stands to rea-
son that the bundle should not be press
cd too hard, for in that way the colors
are injured and the asserting is slower
on account of the leaves being pressed
together so hard that they stick to each
other, and the two halves of the leaf are
apt to stick together, and many of them
are torn in opening. Listen to any ad
vice that is given and then do as you
please, but / really think that if the
buyers would express themselves, and
we should follow the points presented
our tobacco would show to better advan-
tage than some of it does now. Have
the stripping room as light as possible
without allowing the sun to shine in to
any great extent. Have good, new paper
to wrap with. Make the bundles as un
form in weight as possible, and when
completed stand each bundle on end in
dry, cool place, not allowing any two
bundles to touch. If the weather is
warm, let the bundles stand on end for a
few days, or until there is change in
the weather. Tobacco will not heat
where the tobacco is stood on end, SO |
have been informed by one of the prac-
tical progressive farmers. If the wealth
er holds warm for number of days,
change the bundle TO the other end for
a while.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
The HindOO Strong Vim.

The HindOOs tell wonderful stories of
the feats of Bhima, who was their
strong man. Among the wonders cred
tied to Bhima are the following: Pur-
sued by Il tiger, his mother when nurs-
ing Bhima let him drop. The force of
the impact shattered in Il thousand
pieces the rock on which he had fallen.
but the boy vas % the worse. When
he quarreled with other boys he gath
cred them UP, ten or fifteen at a time.
and pumped them into the nearest
pond. His cousins hid themselves il
a tall banyan to jeer at him, but he
tore it from the ground without effort.
He snapped his bonds like Samson,
and a hungry cobra's fangs could not
penetrate his skin. His triumph, how
ever, was the defeat of B~akaSura, who
consumed Il cart load OF food at q
sitting and used palmyra trees for
t~oothbrushes."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18

have won commentator by the efforts
they have made to restrain the spread
of the malady.
DR.. George NJ. Sternberg, al authority
on the subject, says: yellow fever
is an acute infectious disease which is
transmitted from the sick to SuScepti-
BILE individuals through the agency of
mosquitoes. The yellow fever o
quito (StegOmyia fasciata) is found in
tropical and semitropical regions, and
especially in lowlands near the sea or
III river valleys. This mosquito r
as an intermediate host for the yellow
fever parasite, which is present in the
blood Of those sick with the disease
during the first three days Of the at
tack. After filling itself with blood
from a yellow fever patient a period
Of twelve days is required for the de-
relopment of the parasite in the body
Of the mosquito before it can transmit
the disease by its sting to another in
dividual."
1t was in 1900, while DR.. Sternberg
vas surgeon general, that the board
DIS uDDOiuItu WHICH, gave SlSCIdl
study t. the subject Of yellow fever at
Havana and conducted the expert
ments which have reflected so much
light upon the question Of restraining
the disease. These experiments were
made upon individuals who vOlun-
<eered TO submit themselves to mos
quito NEGOTIATIONS with a full knowl-
edge of a possibility Of serious and
even fatal results. Some of these vol
unteerS died, among them DR.. Jesse w.
IaZear, q member of the board and a
conspicuous martyr in the cause of
medical science. Yellow fever is be-
Iieved by many to be OF African origin.
Slave ships carried it to American
shores and other sections of the globe,
and in former times the visit to a port
of a ship bearing slaves was often fol
lowed by an epidemic. 1t was in this
way that Philadelphia suffered repeat
eddy from the disease in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries.
DR.. Guiteras, whose experience with
yellow fever is now proving so valua-
BILE at New Orleans, was born in Ma
tanzas, Cuba, in 1852. At seventeen
years of age he removed to the United
States and began the study Of medi-
cine at the University of Pennsylvania,
from which he graduated in 1878. He
was professor in this institution for
some years, afterward taking the posi-,
ton of professor of pathology and trop-
zeal diseases in the University Of Ha-
vana. He helped General Shafter keep
yellow jack from killing American SOL
diers In the Santiago campaign Of 1895.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18

Jewish Sabbath and the Romans.
The disdain of the Romans for the
Jewish Sabbath because it was not ac-
companied by any tumult or noisy and
joyful demonstrations perpetuated it
self throughout all ages. Rutelius, who
was the project of Rome under Homo
rum, says in speaking of the Jews:
They are very much attached to the
cold Sabbath, but their heart is colder
than their religion. The seventh day
Of every week is cOnSecrated to a
shameful idleneSs, i'll memory of the
rest to which their God gave himself
up after he was harassed by fatigue"
Juvenal does not love the Sabbath,
which, according to him, is also Il sad
feast, for he relates that the kings of
Palestine celebrate that day bare
footed. Juvenal meant perhaps to des-
ignate here by fiesta Sabbath" the
day of Atonement and the fast of the
ninth of Ab-anniversary of the de-
structiOn of the temple at Jerusalem.
During these two days the Jews re-
manned in fact barefOoted.
Juyenal has no great affection for the
Jews. He has an aversion for those
who observe the Sabbath, that live iso-
lated and who do not mingle with the
Romans. He dislikes them because
they have a peculiar religion and spe-
cial laws, and he ~reprOaches them for
despising the Roman laws.-MenOra.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
AN POET.

A~ISernon Charles Swinburne, His
Greatness and His Pe~culiaritics.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, who
has just republished under his real
name a story which he gave to the
public twenty-five years ago under the
signature of Mrs. Horace Manners"
Is a a Of many eccentricities. When
he wrote this story, entitled Loves
Cross Currents-A Years Letters" he
ceived and would not attach his own
signature. 1t did not make a big hit
at the time, bat now that his fame
is more secure Swinburne has decid-
ed to trust the public with the knowl-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
How the Condor Is Caught.

Many birds cannot fly straight up.
They must rise at a very gentle in
cline. They must get onward motion
before their wings can get full effect
of the air. 1t is said that the mode of
taking the condor is to build Il pen,
say, forty or fifty feet in diameter and
six feet high and put d carcass in the
middle of it. The condor alights, but
cannot again rise at an angle which
will take him Over the fence. Many
heavy bodied, short winged ducks rise
from the water at so small an angle
that they must use both feet and wings
for thirty or forty feet i'll order to get
onward motion enough to give effec-
tiveness TO their wings by coming i'll
contact with larger masses of still air.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
The Small MOuthed BASS.

The small mouthed bass fully de-
serves his reputation for being vigOr-
Gus and gamy from infancy. He is
extremely pugnaciOus by nature and
has fighting tactics peculiarly his own
which for strength, activity and craft
are ~unequaied. l once took a bass four
inches long or a spoon hook, the bowl
of which was more than two inches
long. This bass does not hesitate to
tackle that terror of all other fish
the fierce and voracious pickerel. With
his first dorsal fin rigidly set up, he
lays off some ten or twenty feet and
then makes a rapid dash right into and
under the long face forcing him to
clear out at once or ripping him 50
badly that he is hOrs de combat. The
fact has been established that bass in
troduced into a pond containing pick
erel will ultimately destroy the latter.
The same fate awaits other fish, in
Guiding trOut.-Outing.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
N. P


enty-three years young, "but to me life
is still worth living" His handsome
wife, who stood by his side, smiled Il
glance of approval. Mr.. Depew says
that he is ready to face any criticism
that may be made of his acts as a di-
rector Of the Equitable and declares
that the choice Of Paul Morton as pres
ident of the society is a wise one, even
though one of Mr.. Morton's first acts
in carrying out Il policy of retrench-
ment was to lop off a. annual fee Of
$4,000 that had been paid Senator De-
pew for his services as a legal adviser
Of the company. Mr.. Depew cut short
his vacation in order 10 meet any criti-
cism of his course in connection with
Equitable matters that might arise.
Senator Depew has said that he finds
it very hard to refuse any request
made of him. THAT is the reason" he
added, why l make speeches at so
many dinners and tell stories. That
reminds me that l haven't got a new
story since I've been abroad. Every
body says to me, Now, then, Depew,
tell us some of your good s~tories,' and
l have to tell EN- some of the old mes.
But they seem to go"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
Corkx For bottle Stoppers.

The application Of cork as a bottle
stopper for liquid vessels is said to be
of great antiquity. The earliest record
eXtant of its use in Europe is that men,
toned by Horace, who asserts that the
Romans had cork as shoppers for their
wine amphorae. Certain of the uses
of cork were known to the ancient
Greeks and Egyptians, but whether
they used cork for stopping the mouths
Of their liquid vessels history does not
say. 1t was not, however, until the
year 17GG that the Spaniards first com
menced to work their cork woods with
some degree of regularity for the max
ing of corks. Although perhaps corkS
were more or less in use from the time
glass bottles were first invented, which
Beckmann asserts to have been in the
fifteenth century, yet it was not until
two and a half centuries later that the
Spaniards began to prepare cork for
bottle shoppers, which they did in a
forest situated at the northeast of the
Tigueras, on the Muge. The cork in
duStry has since gradually risen to be
n of the first magnitude, it's chief
center in Spain being in Catalonia.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
Wind SuDerstitiOns.

The Firms of Norway long enter
tanned a traditional belief in the power
of controlling the winds by a small
rope with three knots tied in it. This
popular superstition gave rise to the
curious industry of making and selling
these wind controlling ropes with mag
ical knots to mariners and fishermen.
1t was believed that by unloosing the
first knot a favorable breeze was Sc
cured, the second raised a strong gale
and if the third knot was united it
would prove the prelude to a tempest.
According to Ranulph Higden, the
witches of the Isle of Man had a sim
liar ancient practice of selling winds
to sailors.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
Oxford Examinations.

When John Scott. the future Lord
Chancellor EldOn, took his 3. y. at Ok
ford in ITO he was examined il He
brew and in history. His W pen has
recorded this noteworthy exam" 1t
consisted of two questions, Il in each
subject. The Hebrew question ran,
whats the Hebrew for place of a
skull?'"-the history, WHO founded
the University of Oxford?' The candI-
date, of course, replied, "Golgotha' and
alfred the Great though he had his
misgivings touching the truth of the
second answer, Il fiction which has
since been scattered to the winds by
those two highly distinguished OXo-
mans, Professor Freeman and j. r.
Green.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18

edge that he wrote it. In the opinion
of critics it will not make him as ia
nous as a novelist as he already is as
a poet.
Though SO great q man i'll the world
of literature, Swinburne is very small
physically, being but five feet two
inches in height and of slight and deli
cate build. He was born at London
In 1897, and his father was the late
Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne.
His first work was published when he
was about eighteen years old. Being
somewhat deaf, the poet avoids gen.
eral society. His chief diversion is
taking long cross country walks, and
on such tours he wears a broad brim-
med felt hat, seldom lifts his eyes
from the ground and distributes cakes
and candy among the youngsters he
passes on his way. He wears an
overcoat and never carries an um-
tbrella, even when it rains the hardest.
Many persons thought Swinburne
would be chosen Tennyson's successor
as poet laureate, but Alfred Austin
got the prize.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-08-18
OPTIMISTIC DEPEW.
He Does Not Allow Equitable Affairs
to Spoil His HuInOr

1t was cabled to this country from
Europe that Senator Chauncey Mitch
ell Depew, the eve genial and ever
mirthful statesman, campaign orator
and postprandial speaker, was becom-
ing old and bent, careworn and sor-
rowful as the result of worry over the
dragging of his name into the investi-
CATION of Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety affairs. But when the Junior SEN
ator from New York recently landed
on American soil after his annual va
cation in Europe his friends noted that
no anxiety had bent him down, that
his step was as elastic as of yore, that
his characteristic smile had not come
off and that he was rosy Of counte-
nance and apparently care free.
II can't speak for Others" remarked
the optimistic statesman, who is ev-