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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28
A Portrait of a
Brunette Beauty.

THE cabin hot, ill-smelling. The men
gathered there were unhappy, evll-tempered
Months in the fearful solitude of the ice-pack
had worked the inevitable result. All were wretched
beyond words, hateful to themselves and one
another. They had become supersensitive from
nerve-strain. The lghtest word might cause
flare of wrath Every hunted for insults the
most insidious in ordinary speech. A dozen feuds
existed without rational cause
Nor could there be hope of improvement before
the weather changed, the ice broke, the
turned after the long deadly Antarctic night of
winter. The knew the folly of their emotions;
the less they the helpless victims of their
moods. Intelligence could not control feeling under
the racking torture of this imprisonment amid
cold and darkness Such suffering is the price the
explorer must pay for any triumph he may win.
A sulen silence hung over the group in the cabin.
Each man Stunned his fellows shrinking
from pestience. Some smoked and dreamed of
home, some sat broodng the iniquities of
enemy of the moment, some dozed None read:
the monotony of reading had become curse.
The Boy only not present. He had
received the nickname because he the youngest
scientist Of this expedition toward the South Pole.
Despite the tediurn of the long waiting in the ice,
he retained something of youthfulness, flashes of
CHEEKY hunor. Presently, now, the Boy" came
into the cabin with a shout, waving sheet of
newspaper.
Hurrahl he cried. I've found something"
A anguid interest showed in the faces.
Don't be so blamed noisy" spluttered Smthers
the meteorologist. But one needed him.
1t was in the bottom of my trunk" the Boy
explained Its page of a colored supplement
of Sunday paper. All pictures All girls! See"
The clustered around the sheet and studied
it, absorbed The softly tinted faces were all
pretty. The lonely hearts ravished by the
spectacle Something to look at was boon
indeed. And such galaxy of loveliness-ah!
Say I've got idea" the Boy" cried glee-
fully.
Your first, amt it," Srnithers queried brutally
The Boy" needed him not. "I'n cut 'em all
out, and we'll draw lots for EN- There's eight of
u.s. and ten of the girls Well leave out the two
poorest-lookers.
After ALL it Smithers who brought pair of
shears The Boy" began shipping away carefully.
1t page of grouped pictures of actresses. The
" Boy was long time cutting the irregular out
lines. He realized the gravity of his task.
IN get the lots ready" Smithers volunteered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28

He took a strip of
white paper and tore
it into eight rough
squares. In a cor
ner, with his back
to the others, lest
any opportunity for
cheating be afforded,
he penciled a num-
Der on each square,
from one to eight.
" You write a num-
Der on each picture, "
he called over his
shoulder to the
" Boy" 1t don't
matter if the others
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
ew York.
NEW YORK, June 9, 1906

The May returns as published in other
parts of this issue of the output of the
cigar industry in the three chief manu-
featuring centers of the country, namely
the Metropolitan, the Ninth and First
Pennsylvania, record an ever-increasing
advance in spite of the scarcity of the
raw leaf and it's steady rise in value. In
view of these undeniab BILE facts it is hard
ly imaginable that the leaf market will
experience any kind Of slump in the
near future. Demand is still exceeding
supply at least in certain types, mostly
of domestic leaf. In Sumatra trading
seems to prove satisfactory. A lowering
of price seems to be hardly probable now
even if the quality of goods should fall
off at the tail-end inscriptions. AS for
Havana leaf, some surprises will strike
the market few months hence.
Conditions in the metropolitan cigar
manufacturing industry remain un-
changed. No further falling off in the
demand for clear Havana cigars was
noticeable during the past week, but, on
the other hand, there were no signs of
improvement, and indeed none is to be
expected now that the summer season is
upon US. Manufacturers, however, do
not appear to be much cast down. Busi-
ness during the month of May was above
the average, and while the summer dull
season is beginning somewhat earlier
than usual, it is only matter of week
or so, and the difference is inconsider-
able. From few local houses that cater
to summer resort trade come reports
of excellent business, and it is expected
that this class of trade will be profita-
BILE one this year. Business on nickel
grades is brisk and growing brisker. but
it is mainly controlled by a few large
concerns, so that the industry in general
reaps comparatively small proportion
of the benefit Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, June Is, 1906.

HDGERTON, WIS.,, June 10, 1SUO.
The planting of the tobacco crop is
progressing in all the growing sections
but under conditions that are not as fav-
orable as a. week ago this writing. The
week has been cold and dry with tenn
perature nights that barely escaped the
freezing point. While the cool weather
has served to hold back the growth of
the plant beds and under ordinary cir
cumstances would have been favorable
to the newly planted fields, but the
winds have dried out the soil so rapidly
that growers are not securing as good a
stand of plants as they would like. Rain
is now needed badly in the southern
growing section to put the planting on
satisfactory basis.
The monotony of dull cured ~leaf
market has been relieved by the sale of
a couple of 'O5 packings during the week.
Sanford Soverhill has sold 535cs of his
GAINESVILLE packing to j. Straus of Phila-
delphia, and the packing of John Soul
man of 5O4cs is reported sold to F. S.
Baines for the account of Sutter Bros of
Chicago. The prices on both transac-
tions are said to be very satisfactory.
The shipments out of storage reach
but about 400cs from this market to all
points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, PENN, June 5, 1906.

LANCASTER, IENN,, June D. IJUO.
The boom that recently occurred in
the local leaf market came as complete
surprise to the trade, but the market the
past week was like the lull that follows
a storm. The only sales were of small
lots and the aggregate was not large. A
very level-headed packer, whose judg-
ment can always be relied upon, declar-
ed a few days ago that the market would
not amount to much until the packers
and buyers got upon the ground, until
they compromised as to prices. The
packers would have 30 abate their ex-
cessive demands, while the buyers would
have to advance their offers. He thought
fair price about now would be 20 cents
pound. A good deal of the tobacco
lately sold was from York county pack
ings, large quantity of that crop being
held by Lancaster packers. This in a
measure accounts for the modest prices
paid for the goods sold.
The planting of this years crop is pro-
ceeding satisfactorily, the growers losing
no time getting out their plants, favored,
as they are, with ideal weather. The
large number of new tobacco sheds now
going up ali over the county indicates
large increase of acreage. One lumber
firm alone that of Hiestand & Son. Mar
ietta, has sold lumber for fifty sheds.
The cigar trade continues in fairly sat
isfactory condition. The report of the
Ninth Internal Revenue District shows
healthy increase of business during
May, when taxes were paid on 100000
more cigars than in April.-New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

The past week has been time of un-
usual commotion in the tobacco fields.
Because of the lateness of the season for
transplanting from beds to fields, the
farmers have pushed their work with
vigor. On some beds the plants had as
sumed quite large proportions on &C.
count of waiting for change in wealth
er, which was brought about by the rain
of the last Sunday of May and the
cloudy Monday following putting the
land in fine shape for transplanting
Some of our farmers have finished
their setting, but most of them have
averaged from one to one and half
acres day since the rain.
The increase in acreage in this vicin-
ity will not in my estimation exceed five
per cent over the output of last year.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Northfeld Mass: There will be three
crops of tobacco planted in town this
year. Plants are looking fine for the
time of year." Feeding Hills: Tobacco
setting is we'll begun, the plants having
grown rapidly L. A. Kent has set five
acres; Taylor Bros three; Smith farm,
ten, and several about one acre each, and
setting is we'll under way. Rain was very
dCCOpIdoi6 dS L1e SrOuuu was again OIy'
Conway, Mass: 1--WE have had fine
showers, and now there is no reason why
setting cannot continue. [ hope we
shall not have another frost. It has
been good weather the past week to set
tobacco, and everyone has improved it.
About one, half has been set, and most
of the growers will finish the first setting
this week. | do not know how much
stocking over will have to be done as the
worms have not begun to eat yet" East
Deerfield: Tobacco plants are very
backward here, but they are doing we'll
now, and there are plenty of them"
Bradstreet, Mass: Tobacco setting is
general. Quite number will finish be-
fore this report gees to press. There is
some complaint of wire worms working
in tobacco plants" North Hatfield,
Mass: among those who are through
or nearly so are E. G. Warner, II acres;
Louis Holden, 10 acres; G. Ell. and F. A.
Crafts, II acres; Louis M. Swift, s acres,
and several others who have from two to
five acres set. ."-Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Tobacco Growing in Cuba.

Until few years ago, the tobacco
growers of Cuba grew their crops in the
open air. During the past four Or five
years, however, they have, to some ex
tent, adopted the plan of growing the
crop under cover. A recent report to
the Bureau of American Republics. by
the British Consul General, gives the re-
suit of this innovation. He says that &C
cording to the report of the Cuban Sec
retary of Agriculture, in 1908, 1861
acres planted in tobacco under cover
gave yield of ten bales of wrappers and
fifteen bales of filters to the acre, which,
as the bales weigh about 120 pounds to
the acre, would be an extraordinary
yield. Under the old open air method
the yield was generally only AZ bales to
the acre, of which only 10 per cent va
of the wrapper grade. This would meal
only about $50 pounds to the acre. which
seems very low average. The leaves of
the crop grown under cover last year
were from % to 80 inches long and from
IA to Is inches wide. The number of
leaves per pound varied between 154 OF
first-class and 364 OF the most inferior
Glass; the average being 273. The cost
per acre, according to an official report
based on information gathered from l8
estates in the Province of Pinar del Rio,
and representing total area cultivated
under cheese cloth of 525 acres, was
from S41957 to S2O929, the average be-
ing S298.03. The results are we'll worth
the extra cost, and the areas under this
system of cultivation are increasing.
Each plant produced from IA to Is
leaves, and the number of leaves per
pound was 333. Sixty per cent of the
output was wrapper and 40 per cent of
in forior ola &C IF tobacoo
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
MIAMIsBURG. O.. June 2. 1906.

Although a number of farmers have
set out few acres rather than allow the
plants to become overgrown, the work of
transplant1ng will not be undertaken in
earnest until next week. Dry weather
has retarded preparation of the soil, cut
worms have been trou blesome, and some
farmers are short of plants, but it is be-
lieved by taking good care of what they
have, and securing additional supplies
from those who have plants to spare, the
entire acreage intended may be trans
planted. The opinion prevails that a
greater acreage than usual will be de-
voted to the seed leaf or "Gebhart" va
riety this year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
NEW YORK. June 6. 1906.

The effect of the dog days is quite ap.
parent in the domestic leaf market. No
sales of Importance have occurred and
inquiry is slack, though any firms lucky
enough to have some good, old filler
stock left can always find buyers Local
houses that have investigated the re-
ported damage from blight in the New
England crop state that the reports we're
much exaggerated. Fully as large an
acreage as last years is looked for.
Sumatra.-Sales still continue, though
prices are very high. Competition was
very strong at the last inscription, and
the prices paid for desirable lots were
fully on a level with the fcrmer inscrip-
tions. Of the $1,000 bales offered 5000
were taken by American houses.
Havana.-Recent advices from Cuba
confirm the reports of the new crop that
have from time to time appeared in this
column. Enormous prices have been
paid for Remedies, and the packings of
Vuelta that have been inspected show a
great deal of fimsy tobacco that will
have to be worked soon, as it will not
stand long in the bales. The local mar
ket is bare of any interest. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
DEERFIELD. Wis. June 9. 1906.

Tobacco planting is we'll under way,
many having started early in the week
BY the end of the week K. r. Teisberg
will have over 10 acres planted Two of
T. G. Thompson's tenants started first of
the week and B. NJ. Larson has consid-
cradle planted. These have come to our
notice but many others no doubt have
begun planting. The plants as rule
are doing we'll
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Announcements,

[ hereby announce my candidacy for
the republican nomination to the office
of sheriff of Rock county at the primary
to be held on September 4, 1906
e. Ell. RANSOM,
Town of Bradford.
Dated May q, 1906.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
Farm for Sale.

800 acres, with good water power, fine
l0-bent tobacco shed, and otherwise we'll
equipped Will sell at bargain.
CoLFAx STORE Co,
14tf Colfax, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-06-15
BaIdwinsviIle, n. Y.

The growers are getting ready for
transplanting, a few having already set
out plants. The plants are somewhat
backward, but it is expected that trans
planting will become general by the
middle of next week. Gazette.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
American Incomes.

/ will read you little clipping OF
American Incomes. /" "Waldron cal
culates in his book, Currency and
Wealth, that in the United States
more than four million families, com.
prising nearly third of the nation,
must get along on annual incomes OF
less than $500 per family; more than
one-half of all the families in the
United States get less than 5000; two.
thirds of the families get less than
5000, while only one in twenty of the
nations families is able to obtain an
income of over $4,000 year Mr..
Moffett cites the conclusions ofexperts
in financial statistics to the effect
that whatever may befall individual
multi-miliionaires, or individual sons
or grandsons of multi-millionaires
the rich are destined to grow so much
richer that in thirty or forty years
under existing conditions the five
thousand richest Americans, instead
of having fifteen billion between them,
may have fifty or hundred billions.
Some we'll Informed persons go so far
as to assert that John d. Rockefeller
alone, should he live to 1926, when he
would still be a younger man than
Russell Sage is to-day, would himself
be able to dispose of eight billions of
dollars, Il sam absolutely inconceiv-
able to the human mind. Farm,
Stock and Home.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
Howard Center.

Seeding and housekeeping seem to
be the order of the day.
Charlie Millard, of Cresco, was seen
on our streets. Tuesday.
Fred Fish and family spent Sunday
with relatives in Cresco.
Mrs. A. Schneider spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. Whitiofer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Ferrie are the
proud parents of baby girl which
was born to them on April 18th.
f. P. Hewlett, of Cresco, was driving
through our burg, Monday.
We are pleased to note at. this
writing that Mrs. Whitlofer is able 10
be about and out of doors.
Chas. Willard and children, and
Will Miller and family, Of Gresco,
spent Sunday at the home of John
Briefly. g = s; q
Arlie Mcmillan was Cresco visitor,
Saturday. :"
f. P. Hewlett and wife spens
Wednesday at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. John Judd
Johnnie Wentworth spent Sunday
with his parents at Vernon Springs.
Mrs. Tom Walsh, of Cresco, is visit
Ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Dave Ferrie, this week
The many friends of Mis-. Frank
Miller are sorry to hear she is poorly,
but hope she will soon be better.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
SAYS PEACE is ARRANGED
DoWIE AND ZION REACH Salts
FACTORY SETTLEMENT.
''First Apostle" to Receive Low In
terest on $1,ooo,ooo-C Charges
to Be Dropped.

Chicago, April 1.-THE woes of Zion
are at an end. John Alexander Dowie
Monday declared all terms of settle
ment had been agreed upol.
By the terms of the settlement
Dowie will have the title o Zion again
fox a period of two minute He then
INST sign away his rights to a board
of church repre- He will re-
ceive low rate of interes. upon the
$l,OOo,Oe0 interest he possess IS in Zion
until such time as the property can be
converted into clsh. He will be al
lowed to go ami come in Zion as he
wishes so long as he does not intec-
fere with the present administration.
This, the attorneys said, was practic-
ally the terms of the Sc tlemen
Il cannot say what the terms were"
said Attorney Emil c. Wetten, for d :.
Dowie, but they were formulated and
put in shape at the meeting Saturday"
Dowie in the first place reuse to
treat at all unless the property of Zion
was retransferred to him, he to aga n
, transfer it to board of control te /
members. Voliva's representatives OBJ
jected and said they would not permit
Dowie to get his hands on the proper-
ty. They feared he might deed it to
some other person.
A compromise, however, was agreed
upon. Dowie was to act as the mi l.
dleman" in transfer, which would
again give the first apostle" title for
a few seconds. In lieu Of p coed 5
from five per cent. OF the valu, of
zion's property, which was conceded
/ to Dowie from the start, fixed in
! come, it was said, woul1 be allow d
1 him. When lions property is con-
verified into cash or negotiable proper
ty, the amount of lDwies share will
be paid him. Until that time the fixed
| income for him is believed to be a
small allowance. Dowie, it was said,
would be permitted to come and go in
Zion, and occupy Shiloh hous>. No
further charges would be filed against
the first apostle"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
D. A. r. CONGRESS MEETS.
Convention Is Opened at Washington
by Mrs Donald Mclean; Presi-
dent-General.

Washington, April 1.-THE fifteenth
| continental congress of the National
Society Of the Daughters Of the Amer.
lean Revolution assembled here Mon
day. For the second time the proceed
ings were conducted In Continental
hall, building erected by the society.
An unusually large representation of
delegates was in attendance when Mrs.
Donald Mclean, of New York, the
president-general, called the congress
to order. Mrs. Mclean received an
ovation.
Mrs. Tunis S. Hamlin, the chaplain
general, opened the congress with
prayer, which was followed by an ad-
dress OF welcome by the president
general. Brief responses were made
by Mrs. A. A. Kendall, Of Maine; Mrs.
Charles B. Bryan, Of Tennessee; Mrs.
William ]. Chittenden, of Michigan;
Mrs. John A. Murphy, Of Ohio; Mrs.
L. Bradford Prince, of New Mexico;
Mrs. John L. Stevens, Of Iowa; Mrs.
John n. Walker, of Missouri, and Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, of California. The
congress then took recess until after
noon, when reports of various COM
mittees will be received and referred.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
GOVERNOR IS
PREPARING CALL
Conference on Election Of
Senators Will Be Held in
August or September.
SENATOR DURHAM RESIGNS
Too Busy to Accept Place on the
Insurance Commission. = Prof.
Calvin Succeeds Prof. Wilder as
State Geologist. Notes From
the Capital.

Des Moines, April 16.-It is said
that Governor Cummins is already at
work on his call for conference OF
states at Des Moines on the question
of the direct election of United States
senators, The legislature which just
adjourned passed resolution, origi-
nally introduced by Senator l.. W..
Lewis of Page county, authorizing
the governor to call a conference Of
five delegates from each state, to be
appointed by the governors thereof,
to meet in Des Moines and adopt a
uniform, concerted, aggressive plan of
obtaining an amendment to the con-
stitution to place the election OF
United States senators in the hands OF
the people, instead of in the province
of the legislatures.
The plan contemplated by Senator
Lewis, who conferred with Governor
Cummins on the resolution before Of
fering it, is that the conference de-
eide on some method whereby two
thirds of the states will demand a
constitutional convention. Already
twenty-three states have made such
demand, leaving but seven more to
be gotten into line. Whenever two
thirds (thirty) make such demand,
through their legislatures, congress
has no alternative but to call the con-
vention to amend the constitution.
Governor Cummins will devote con-
siderable time to the call for the con-
ference. He is much interested in
the subject and desires every state in
the union to accept. 1t is now prob
able that the conference will be set
for the last of August or early Sep
TENDER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
Indictment Upheld.

St. Paul. Man,. April 17.-Judge
Bum. in the district court of Ramsey
county, Monday hled an order 4p-
holding the indictments brought by
the grand jury against the ST. Paul
Dispatch, the Pioneer Press and the
Daily News, for publishing detailed
stories of the hanging Of William Will
liams, murderer, who was executed
in the county jail here March 10, Fhe
newspapers were indicted under what
is known as the John Day-Smith law,
which f0Fbids the publication In news
papers of the dstaiis of any public
execution. The newspapers dsmurred
to the indictment and attacked the
oonstitutionality Of the law.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
IND,cT COLLECTOR OF PORT
Buffalo Official Is Charged with Lar.
osny of $3s, $40 from
County.

Buffalo, N. 2. April 17.-Fred O.
Murray. recently appointed collector OF
the port of Buffalo and former treas
nrer Of Erie county. was Monday in
dicted by the grand jury on charge
OF stealing from the county of Erie
sums aggregating $3s,870 and receiv-
ing stolen property in like amount
In all II indictments were handed in
by the grand jury which has been in
vestigating alleged grating in con
nection with the purchase by the coun,
ty of the North Street cemetery as a
site for the Sixty-fifth regiment
Rrmory.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-20
Dies Of His Injuries.

ctneilnati. O., April 17.-Engineer
Thomas B. Fleming died at the Good
Samaritan hospital, in this city, from
wounds inflicted by an unknown negl O
who tried to ride free Oh the Queen &
Crescent locomotive OF wilton Flemi g
was in charge. The negro SAID he b I'd
to reach Knoxville, Tenn, and whe4
he was ordered from the engine drew
revolver and shot the engineer twice
through the head. The murderer ss
cared.