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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-29

since and always entertains Walsh il
regal style when he comes to Europe.
mutual friend In London told me the
other day that the King had done we'll
by Mr.. Walsh and had reciprocated by
letting him into some profitable enter
prlses on this side of the water and by
securing him n big block of stock in
the international Sleeping Car company.
Every American received by King Leo
pold is always asked II he is acquainted
with Mr.. Walsh, and. If he happens TO
have that honor he is treated with dis
tnction.
Leopold H. was not built for a saint;
he has his faults. like the rest OF US;
his entanglements with beautiful but I'M
prudent women including several Amer
leans. have caused him considerable
trouble with his family, and 1t Is certain
that no gentleman OF the present age has
ever paid so much blackmail and hush
money as he. He is not an exemplar of
morals and should not be held up for
imitation to young men, either kings or
commoners He has had his fling as
the English say to an extent unsurpassed
probably by any living man, young or
old white or black rich or poor, SOW
ereiEn or subject. But with all his vices,
immortality. reekessness and extrava-
gances. he has been a loyal and devoted
friend, n Just and liberal King Begun
owes much of Its great prosperity TO MS
wise and intelligent administration. lie
leaves the politics of the country to the
politicians and has devoted his attention
to the upbuilding of its commerce and In
dustries He is probably one of the richest
men In Europe. and has made the money
himself. Everybody will tell you that he
has extraordinary business ability and
judgment.
The gambling houses at Ostend are be-
lived to pay King Leopold and other mem
bers of the syndicate large prohts' bnt
YOU will be told II you care to inquire into
the subject. that the casino Is failure,
and scarely pays expenses because the
season is so short
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worn, but quite half the number are in
good state of preservation. The prints
that have been taken from the plates so
far are unsatisfactory, and, as was point
ed out to M. Barnard. are likely to be the
cause Of much discussion. So keeny do
etchers feel on this subject that one or
two have offered to print specimens, un-
der the supervision of the owner, on the
condition that they are sold to museums
only, and not to dealers. THE Alteration
of the Shepherds" 1.-The Resurrection of
Lazarus" and THE Prodigal Son" are
three of the most interesting plates, and
one unfinished, a study of a palm leaf. is
of peculiar interest to students.
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north within the irregular boundary A
c d, Fig. 3. The disc of the sun will
be only about one-third hidden by the
moon during this eclipse.
The Planets.
The beautiful evening star Venus,
which is now in the west, will, during
the month move along the path shown in
Fig. l. On August 30 it will pass within
less than one degree of the bright star
Spica. The two stars will then form a
beautiful object in a small telescope
The planet Saturn Is in the contella-
ton Aquadius In the position shown In
Fig. /. 1t is now excellently situated for
observation. Even In a small telescope
its rings and Its largest moon, Titan,
may be very clearly seen.
ERIC DOOIITTLE.
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planet Venus which far exceeds all of the
other stars of the Sky in brightness,
while low down in the east the planet
Saturn shines out with soft, steady
radiance, having now entered the early
evening sky for the first time this year.
The magnificent blue star Vega, toward
which the sun and earth are rushing
through space. is now almost exactly
overhead, with the beautiful Northern
Cross near by. while in the south that
strange and striking constellation of the
Scorpion seems with claws far out
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To one who will spend a few hours in
contemplation of the wonderful spectacle
which is every evening revealed to him,
the autumn heavens will present unusual
grandeur, and beauty. Overhead he will
see the beautiful Milky Way, a broad
pathway of innumerable stars which
rises from the ground in the south and
passes over the entire heavens until 1t
meets the ground again in the north.
Toward the west there is the magnificent
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stretched to be just emerging from be-
meath the ground.
The Great Dipper, which is a group
known TO nearly everyone, is in the
northwest, with its handle extending up
ward as if it were balancing on the
front edge of its bowl If a straight line
is imagined drawn through the two lower
stars of the bowl and extended toward
the east, as shown in Fig. l, it will pass
almost exactly through the rather faint
star shown at II. This is the Pole Star,
that celebrated star known to all people
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sushel of Soldiers Bones.
Gettysburg PENN Cor. Philadelphia Re

Gettysburg (Penn) COT, PhlIadeIphIa Itet-
ord.
Workmen engaged in digging cellar
,o, tbe new annex TO the court house at
this place today unearthed about two
bushels of human bones.
The bones were all from arms ana legs
and a great number of them bore the
marks of saws.
The old court house was used as nos
pital during the famous battle ana IL is
supposed that the bones marx une spo.
where the amputated arms and legs were
buried
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ing clouds from which in the slow pro-
cess of time 1t is believed that suns and
worlds are formed. Two of these will
be found In Urza Major at N Fig. l, just
above the little group of stars at r..
These are both long and narrow nebulas.
A bright, round nebula, the central por-
ton of which has already condensed into
star at below the bright star p. At
V near the star will be found singu-
lar double nebula; at u directly above
the star J is tine Dumb Bell nebula.
which in the telescope resembles a dumb
bell but which photography shows to
be of a spiral form. The Lyra. half way
between the stars p and C, Is the Ring
Nebula. a drawing Of which is shown in
figure 2
Phenomena During August.
total eclipse of the moon will begin
at o'clock in the morning of August 3
eastern time), and the last one hour and
forty-two minutes. This eclipse will not
be visible in the eastern states because
the moon will set at this hour. It will
however. be visible throughout the west
ern portion of North America.
A partial eclipse of the sun will occur
In the evening of August 10. This can
only be seen by observers Ia the far
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and all countries as the star which
never changes its place in the heavens
That star on starry nights
The seamen singles from the sky
To steer his bark forever by
Indeed, before the invention of the
compass the navigator knew no north but
where the Pole Star shone
The slow circuling of the stars around
the Pole of the heavens is most i'm
pressive sight. the more with abso-
lutte regularity SINCE long before life on
our world began. And long after the
earth is dead and cold, the stars. neither
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THE HEAVENS In AUGUST
st0fs's. .5's's
BY PROF. DOOLlTTLE.


PROF DOOLlTTLE.
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

culcate new ideas and methods for rails
ing and curing tobacco to produce lne
largest yield, soundest leaf, and to get it
in better form to be used by the manu-
facturers of cigars. He has tried the use
of covering the plants with cloth, from
Connecticut to Florida, but with what
success time and experience must deter
mine. He has experts in about twelve
states, and if he has not met with early
success he does not get discouraged but
tries some other variety or in some other
district. But as for giving it up, never
(or hardly ever. Now, some will say,
how did the commissioner find out the
scarcity of the old tobacco? Why, he
reads the official figures of the imports
of tobacco and compares them with pre-
vious years, and by talk with the import
ers and manufacturers found out that
we were not raising enough tobacco for
the wants of the country. So he sets
men to work trying in some way to stop
the drain upon the people of this coun-
try, and now he proposes to raise enough
tobacco to supply the demands and keep
the many millions of dollars at home and
have them put into the pockets of our
own farmers, and incidentally to cheap
en- the cost to those who use tobacco
Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market

Many of the farmers have their tobac-
co beds made, and more were talking of
sowing last Monday, but the heavy rain
of Sunday somewhat disappointed them.
The beds that have been sown will be
moist enough for few days. The snow
of week ago put the sowing off for
some days, and this rainstorm will be
another setback. But with suitable
weather and constant care, in my opin-
ion. plants will be about as early as u.s.
ual, although more care will be .neces-
sary to bring the plants forward in time
for early setting.
] hope that the land will be better
ftied and better nourished and better
tended than ever before in the endeavor
to raise the best crop ever produced in
the valley. The high price of cottonseed
meal should not frighten any farmer, for
the prospect of high prices never looked
better; SO don't scrimp in your fertiliz-
ers nor allow the crop TO go by default.
The man who raises good, early crop
OF tobacco will run DO risk: there cal be
no loss in good thing this year. Keen
observers for nu nber of years have
seen the stocks of tobacco gradually de-
creasing, and the government casting
this way and that way trying to locate
more good tobacco land in the states
where tobacco has never been grown, or
nnIv in limited amounts. They have sent
out tobacco experts to examine the land
in this and that county of several states.
Neither has that satisfied the commits
sioner of agriculture; he has tried to IN
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
WISCONSIN, TOBACCO MARKET,
EDGERToN, WIS, April 27, 1906

EDGERToN, WIS, April 27, 1906.
There is yet little warehouse handl-
ing going on at the packing points, but
generally speaking the 1905 crop is near
ly in the cases. The work of stripping
low grades for the account of the scrap
manufacturers has been commenced in
the state and considerable of this class
of leaf will be prepared for the factories
during the summer. Transactions in
cured leaf are becoming rare occurrences
because of the scarcity of stocks in local
hands. A single sale from first hands is
reported-the 54cs crop of '04 by John
Lee to A. Wallach of Chicago at 16c.
Geo. Rumrill, the GAINESVILLE packer, re-
ports the sale of 146cs of 'O2 to an east
ern manufacturer.
The most of the seed beds for the
coming crop are now laid and in some
cases the young plants are already in
sight. A good liberal allowance has
been made in beds for considerable in
crease of acreage the present season.
The shipments out of storage reach
only about 300cs from this market to all
points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

The moisture question in butter is be-
ing taken up in earnest by the depart
ment of agriculture. Agents have been
sent to the large storehouses in Chicago
and elsewhere to take samples of the
butter with view to finding ont how
much of it contains more than the allow
able percentage of water. The treasury
revenue regulations on adulterated but
ter apply to creamery butter as well as
to labels and factory goods, and 16 per
cent of water places any grade of butter
in the adulterated class. The butter is
SO skillfuly handled that purchasers
cannot tell by the experience how much
water there is ia butter. Some lines
containing as much as 20 per cent. of
water may appear to have less water IN
them than some holding only u per
cent. made in a skillful manner. It is
suggested that the only practical rem
edy may be to place the large factories
under state or government supervision.
The great offenders are the large central
lied factories in the middle west, to
which the increased profit of selling a
few points extra in every tub is most
important item of gain.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
New Tobacco Experimental Tracts

The department of agriculture ia con-
junction with the Connecticut expert
ment station proposes to continue active
experimental work in New England the
coming summer. A short time ago a
representative of this journal had talk
with Prof. A. d. Shamel on the subject.
1--WE are planning to have probably six
experimental tracts in New England
during 1906,' said he. 'These will be
small, ranging close to two acres each.
We will continue experimental culture
at CRANKY and at the Indian Head plan
tation, Tariffville; also a tract on the
Brewer farm IN the broadleaf district.
La addition We are planning to carry on
the work IN some new sections. An eX-
perimental tract will be esta blished
somewhere in the Housatonic valley and
we may have one at Sufield. Another
is in view but the location has not been
decided yet. All this work will be in co.
operation with the Connecticut expert
ment station. Director E. Ell. Jenkins Of
that institution is taking great interest
in cooperating with the department in
this work We will broaden out our line
of operation somewhat during the COM
ing season, and take up the question OF
curing, developing such points as proper
temperature, moisture, content of air,
etc. It is needless to say that too much
stress cannot be placed by New England
growers on the careful selection of seed
for the '06 crop. This season growers
will enjoy exceptional advantages in Sc
curing seed. The department proposes
to distribute small quantities of fine seed
to New England growers free OF co- :,
upon application. We will send enough
for 500 plants of either the Brewer hy-
brid (broadleaf and Cuban or the Cooley
hybrid (Havana seed and Sumatra); in
addition we will send upon application
enough seed for 500 plants of either
straight selected Havana or selected
broadleaf Letters can be addressed to
me at Washington, D. c., care depart
ment of agriculture"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
LANCASTER.
LANCASTER. Penn. April IA, 1866,

LANCASTER, PENN, April IA, 1866,
Some few sales of the new leaf tobac-
co crop were reported during the past
week, the prices for wrappers ranging
from Is to % cents pound. Packed
filters brought as much as 13 cents a
pound, and bundle filters 915 cents. But
there were no large sales of any kind of
goods, though inquiries were plentiful.
Prices have not yet been established, so
the dealers cling to their goods Most
of them say they expect the market to
settle down at about 25 cents a pound,
while few of the more sanguine expect
the price to raise to 30 cents.
The cigar trade continues about as it
has been for several weeks rather dull.
The farmers report the tobacco seed
as sprouting satisfactorily.-New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
ew York.

NEW YORK, April II, lSUb.
The California catastrophe, so shock
ing in it's appalling destruction of wealth,
is liable to exercise SOLDERING influence
| on those ardent spirits in the trade that
seemed to have become frenzied by the
exceptional condition of the leaf situa-
ton to indulge in gambling ventures in
futures Of cigar leaf crops. This sudden
catastrophe with it's sudden extirpation
of hundreds of millions of solid wealth,
should serve as warning that as Goethe
said, "Es ist dafner gesorgt dass die
Baueme NIGHT in den Himmel wachsen," !"
which means that Providence has looked
| out that trees should not grow into the
skies. True enough that fresh material
will be needed to rush in supply for
the inhabitants Of the fatally stricken
city, but it will take weeks and months
till these poor people will be in posi-
tion to do business that will come any
where near the proportion they had built
up before they were smitten down. In
the meantime trade will remain disar-
ranged and credit demoralized, not to
speak of the tremendous losses which
will hardly ever be adjusted to their full
extent. Manufacturers will have there
fore to go slow and this setback will un-
questionably react also for the present
at least on the leaf market Business
has indeed slackened down somewhat
during the week. Maybe old stocks
have given out, and they have to large
extent, but there were heavy offerings of
new force sweated leaf which was being
made of virtue in necessity. However,
the market should be prepared to face
for time lessened activity. The new
Sumatra is being received we'll and is
spoken of very favorably except as to it's
price. The lots that have arrived are
fully bearing out the previous descrip-
tion of the new Sumatra in these col
umns. It is finding it's purchasers slowly
though as yet, but it is sure of active
sales during the year. More than ever
before it will have to supply this year
the wrapper leaf for the bulk of our CT
gar industry. The Havana market re-
mains about the same. Reports from
the market in Cuba fail to be reassuring
for an adequate supply and least of all
as to a reduction IN price. The old
stocks in the market will no doubt find
a ready consumption before any of the
new will make its appearance.-Jou
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
NEW YoRK April 18 1905

Stocks have never been so small in the
domestic line as they are now. A stray
packing changes hands occasionally
among the spectators, but in general
there is no activity. One firm, whose
holdings Of Wisconsin are prominent
are credited with several sales involving
comparatively large amounts.
Sumatra.-The new Sumatra is not
selling fast, the buyers, especially for
Western houses, fighting shy in the hope
OF a more favorable level of prices. The
tobacco, however, is undoubtedly as good
as, if not better, than for many years
past.
Havana.-Some sales, inconsequential
in amount, are reported for this week,
but they were to manufacturers in inn
mediate need of stocks. Speaking broad
ly, there is no local market in this type
though prices remain high. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
M1AM1sBuRG. O.. April 18. 1906.

tobacco left in first hands. Delivering
still goes on, but it is somewhat hinder
ed by the bad condition of the roads.
Contrary to expectations, there has been
scarcely any friction between sellers and
buyers, the latter taking IN exception
ally accommodating attitude. Consider
able inquiry for tobacco prevails and it
is reported that packers are contracting
for this years crop of seed leaf at from
8 to 10 cents pound.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Baldwinsville, N. Y.

The prospects of largely increased
acreage this year are very good, many
old growers who have not raised crop
for several years are planning on a crop
this year because of the good prices that
prevailed for last seasons crop and on
account of the scarcity of all grades in
the market.-Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

The so-called free leaf tobacco bill
passed by the House as substitute for
half a dozen measures introduced by
Representatives of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia districts, removing existing
restrictions on the sale of leaf tobacco
by growers, will probably remain undis-
turbed on the docket of the Senate FL
nance committee for the remainder Of
the present session. Considerations of
federal revenues are believed to be sole
" responsible for the committees failure
to act but these considerations are now
regarded as paramount. The House
passed this measure under the impress
sion that it would cause no diminutioh
in the revenues from tobacco, and it was
under this impression that the Ways
and Means committee reported the sub
stitute prepared by the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue. The Finance COM
mittee, however, is in the habit OF max
ing very exhaustive researches wherever
revenue questions are concerned, and it
is understood that the leading members
of the committee have decided that the
unrestricted sale of leaf tobacco by all
parties into whose hands it might come
would result in the displacing of enor-
nous quantities of manufactured goods
which now pay into the federal treasury
a tax of six cents PER pound. The prop
osition to remove the restriction from
the sale of leaf tobacco is not altogether
new. In times past there have been
periods when the sale of leaf was with
out let or hindrance, and facts and fig
ures are in existence in support of the
proposition that free leaf means smaller
revenue from the manufactured article.
At present the use of leaf in the natural
condition by the consumer is limited al
most exclusively to growers and their
employees, but this is due to the fact
that parties purchasing from the grower
can sell only under the regulations OF
the Internal Revenue Bureau, and can
not dispose of their purchases to the
consumer The farmer can sell to any
one, but naturally does not find it profit
able to peddle his leaf to consumers.
The country storekeeper, who would dis
pose of considerable quantities OF leaf to
smokers, is prohibited from doing SO
under the present law, and thus the con-
sumner is obliged to buy the taxed pro
duct.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-07
The Eagle Market.

We offer you choice meats fresh ~
cold storage as You please, lard. bacon
to cult you, eggs and butter, strictly
fresh Our goods are all good. put
ND in good Shape Our service IS
good, our prices are good. for yoI
Gives us your order for chickens u
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-07

COOL YOUKSEL! OFF AT LEXIS
Whenever you war; real, good,
mixed drink, you must go to Dick
3riahts to get it. Others are good,
but these are better. Private card
and wine rooms help to enjoy them.
Good smokes. cooi seats and Geld MKT
ures from high grade materials make
for perfection of comfort