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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02

Gently has been from 10 to Is cents per
pound in the bundle, and about 70 cents
assorted. A good deal of Broad leaf has
been bargained for at from 13 cents up.
1t is estimated that good leaf should
bring as high as 30 cents per pound, but
large proportion of the crop is dam
aged. 1t is thought that the Broad leaf
crop will be cleaned up within the next
two weeks. There is one good thing
about growing of Havana, it will sell, in
a bad year, at least, little more quickly
than the Broad leaf. for if the pole sweat
is prevalent the Broad leaf is apt to be
injured u little more than it's cousin. Ha-
vana. After about all che Havana had
been bought up the buyers turned round
and bought Broad leaf, They knew
that it would be waiting Tor them, and,
at their leisure, bought some of it, but
not all, and by the prices should judge
they only bought the best and left the
poorer
A from Mortified, Mass,
reports that the tobacco crops raised last
year by James Cowles, Leon Quinlan
and Warren Wright were sold lately, all
in the bundle. at prices averaging from
8 to 121ac.-Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
NEW YORK, Feb. 81. 1906

Although there is big demand for it,
there is very little or 40 Pennsylvania
Broad leaf to be mad. There IS some
thinner Spanish of the 1904 crop which
is being held at 1873 cents, marked
weight. There is still left some force
sweated Connecticut, which, with lib
eral supply of Wisconsin, constitutes the
entire stock of domestic tobaccos now on
the market One firm is reported to
have secured 2,1OO cases of this latter
type during the past week at pretty high
prices.
Sumatra.-The event of the week has
been the departure of the buyers of local
houses to attend the Holland inscrip-
tions. There is still some picking" GO
ing on in the market but those who are
in a condition to do SO prefer to wait
until the new crop is heard from.
Havana. Quite number of sales, in
volving from five to twenty five bales
each, are reported to have occurred last
week. Prices have about reached the
limit, and while they show no signs of
tagging, there is every reason to believe
they will not go higher. Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

prevails at the receiving points, and it is
month three fourths of the crop will
have been delivered A gratifying fea-
ture of the situation is the comparative
rarety Of docking" and of friction be-
tween seller and buyer. The damage in
clude sales at the original contract fig
ures. Growers and buyers, however,
have in almost all cases been able to
agree on mutually satisfactory reduc-
ton running from one cent per pound to
half the original figure. Excepting Broad
leaf very little tobacco remains in first
hands. The average range OF prices re-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, PENN, Feb. 20, 1906.

LANCASTER, PENN, Feb. ~, l9O6.
Our local leaf tobacco dealers have no
old tobacco for sale, but they have plen-
ty Of new, or will have in the not far
distant future. Probably rs per cent. of
the 1905 crop has been delivered to the
buyers, and it is in prime condition, free
of everything that could detract from it's
value. Along with the Lancaster county
crop are the goods from York county,
for Lancaster dealers were heavy buyers
the past season in that territory, and
that tobacco, too, is uncommonly good.
So far as we have learned there have as
yet been no sales of new goods of any of
our dealers, but the earliest goods de-
livered, and bulk -sweated, are ready for
the market. They have been sweated,
and as that is all that can be done with
them, these goods are in marketable
shape. 1t is believed that when selling
begins, our market will be particularly
lively. A good deal of speculation has
been INDUCED in as to the prices that
can be secured for the 1905 crop. AS the
growers were paid about as much for
them as was received for the 1905 tobac-
co ready for the manufacturer, consid
cradle advance over last years prices
must be paid in order that the dealers
may have any profit at all.
The scarcity of old tobacco makes it
pretty certain that good prices will be
obtained for the new crop by the deal
ers. Some Of our local buyers made
heavy purchases of New England and
Ohio tobacco, which they bought much
lower than the Lancaster county to-
bacco.
The cigar industry of the city and
county continues fourishing. If the
goods for manufacturing were as plenti-
full as ORDERS all would be WE'LL but some
of the manufacturers have to keep
scratching to get enough leaf to remain
on the go,-New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
A Washington dispatch to the Inter

A Washington dispatch to the Inter
Ocean Wednesday says: The Philippine
tariff bill is dead, and it is generally ac-
cepted that the bill was done to death
by the Tillman- Hepburn rate bill. Sen
ator Lodge, chairman of the committee
on the Philippines, has conceded pri-
vately to senators interested in the fate
Of the tariff bill that there is little
chance of getting it reported favorably
from his committee and absolutely no
hope of effecting its passage at this ses
sion of the senate. Under these circum-
stances, it is understood that no further
effort will be made to get the bill out of
committee. Senator Dick, who is a mem
Der of the committee, said that in his
opinion the bill is defeated, and ex-
pressed doubt that the friends of the
bill would attempt to get even formal
vote in committee.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR TOBACCO RAILS
ING.

Address of VIM. S. Brill Before the Annual
Convention of the Wisconsin Tobacco
Growers and Dealers Association at Mad
iSOn Feb. Sth.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
The tobacco market is apparently ri

The tobacco market is apparently run
ming away with itself, and no one knows
where it will get to- The recent offer of
the American Tobacco Co. to buy cigar
cuttings at 2l cents pound is fitting
commentary on the present condition.
Under ordinary circumstances 10 cents
is very good price for cuttings and it is
then easy to buy them for less. 1t is
difficult to see how the highest normal
price can be more than dou bled, and the
tobacco manufactured with any profit.
The American Tobacco Co can never be
accused of doing business with shut
eyes, however, and the reason for such
price must be clear to itself. But it is
grasping price all the same, yet there
are those who declare it will mount to
25 cents. IF it does there will probably
be lot of people frenziedly stripping
ont filler
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
The committee on WAYS and Means of

The committee on Ways and Means of
the house of representatives has agreed
upon favorable report on the compro-
mise bill removing all internal revenue
tax from leaf tobacco At present in
ternal revenue laws impose tax on
leaf tobacco in case the producer places
it in the hands of an agent for sale, but
permits the grower personally to sell his
own tobacco without tax Under the
measure agreed upon the sale of leaf to-
bacco will be as unrestricted as the sale
of any other product. Tobacco growers
endeavored to have the bill extend ex
emption from tax to twist tobacco, but
the committee would not include any
thing in the measure but the natural
leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. "a, 1906


Market conditions remain unchanged.
That is to say, prices are not receding,
while the demand for supply is increas-
ing. The market seems to be pretty
much depleted and force sweated files
and tops of the 1905 crop are already
called into requisition. Manufacturers
continue bowling about the advance in
price but they seem to forget that they
are partly, and no doubt, innocent cause
of the advance. AS they are turning
out more and more cigars, increasing
their output by 25, and in some in
stances by so per cent, they require so
much more raw material and their de-
mand for larger quantities of leaf logi-
cally and irresistably drives up the
price. Ii to this natural consequence is
taken into consideration the fact that
the acreage of our domestic tobacco cul-
ture has not kept pace oportionately
with the increased demand for it's pro-
duct, that the elements have destroyed
the larger portion of the Vuelta tobacco
crop in Cuba and injured irreparably the
quantity that was left, and that damage
has also afflicted the usefulness of our
New England tobacco crop the wonder
is not that prices of all types and grades
of cigar leaf are advancing but that they
have not advanced to such an extent as
to force the manufacturer to unload his
share of it on the consumer. Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
For sale.

A new Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Twentieth Century Werner edition, 30
volumes, revised with large additions to
Jan. l, 1903. The cost was $685. and will
be sold for S25. Inquire at the express
Office. 12tf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
BaldwinsviIle. N. Y.

The American Tobacco Co. received
Tuesday at their local warehouse. The
growers are beginning to plan on this
seasons crop and the indications are
that number who have not grown
crop for several seasons will raise crop
this year-Gazette
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-02
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERTON. Wis. March 2. 1906.

Receiving of the new crop is still the
order of the day throughout the tobacco
sections of the state. Close to three
fourths of the crop has now been deliv-
cred and dealers are arranging to take
in the balance at the earliest conven-
ience. The middle of March will doubt
less see the great bulk of the crop
housed and growers handling the pro-
ceeds.
T. B. Earle, G.. L. llton, Mcintosh
Bros, Meyer & Mendelshon, A. Cohn &
Co. and the United Cigar Manufacturers
are receiving largely in Vernon county
this week, some of whom will take the
last of their purchases there.
The amount of money required to han
die the crop is far in excess of sever al
years past. One firm alone has paid out
to growers upwards of 100000 to date.
There are no developments in the
cured leaf market worthy of note. Plen-
ty of goods could be sold if they were
now in stock of the dealers.
Warehouse handling is being crowded
along at the packing points as fast as
labor conditions will permit with pros
pect that the crop will be. handled be-
fore the advent of warm weather.
The shipments out of storage do not
exceed 400cs from this market to all
points for the week. II car loads we're
received from outlying points for ware
house handling during the week.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

population of Great Britain and Ire
land at 4 10000, 900, it proves that one
person in every four and a half has de-
pOsits, and that the average amount
per person is $77.70.
Every class is represented among
the depositors, and the fishermen often
elbows the clerk at the post Olive.
The advantages to the public are:
First, the absolute security from loss;
second, the convenience of making de-
posits; third, the ease of repayment,
which is not affected by change of res
idence; fourth, safety against personal
ton and fraud; fifth, the prevention
of poverty by the development of
thrift; sixth, the ready means where
no other banks exist, of a safe deposit;
seventh, the education Of the young
and unframed to the knowledge of the
use and management OF money; eighth,
the tendency to discourage reckless
and speculative expenditures.
The advantages to the country itself
group themselves under seven head
ings: First, the people receive the prof
its as interest on their savings when
these are used as a public investment;
second, the country's wealth is kept
growing within itself; third. by the
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

These towns, however. only illus
trate the attitude and actions of the
whole country.
The railroads leading out of San
Francisco, although themselves great
sufferers, practically placed their lines
at the disposal of the great throng of
homeless people to enable them to find
other homes, furnishing them With
free transportation, in many cases to
the Atlantic coast. The subsistence
of these homeless ones vas arranged
for by local relief committees all along
the lines of travel. San Jose, a town
south of San Francisco, which prob
ably suffered as much damage as the
fugitives from the latter place, recely-
ing them in concentration camps, feed
ing them through the efforts OF a re-
lief committee supported by contribu-
lions of citizens, and dispatching them
to other points as fast as individual
destinations could be decided upon.
Gilroy, Salinas, Santa Barbara, and a
score of other towns on the way to Los
Angeles, fed the pilgrims, Chinese and
Japanese, as well as Americans. Some,
is is suspected, Jared more sumptuous-
ly on their journey than they had
been accustomed to do at home. No
doubt there were some with plenty OF
funds who accepted the hospitality OF
their fellow countrymen, who were
ever anxious to feed all newcomers, but
the spirit of the relief committees was
that they had rather feed many i'm
posters than suffer one in need to go
hungry. All the length and breadth
of the state of California and across
many n~eighboring states, to Portland,
to the Canada line and beyond,
across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,
Kansas, Missouri, at ST. Louis, Chi
cago and all east and north and south
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
He WENT ON CLUTCHES
All Medicines Failed Until Or. VIII
Hams Pink Pills Cured His
rheumatism.

"Some years ago" says Mr.. w. III.
Clark, a printer, living at GIG Buchanan
street, Topeka, Kans., II had a bad at
tack of rheumatism and could not seem
to get over it. All sorts of medicines
failed to do me any good and my trouble
kept getting worse. My feet, were so
swollen that 1 could not wear shoes and
I had to 90 OIL crutches. The pain was
terrible.
"One day I was setting the type of an
article for the paper telling what DIR.
Williams Pink Pills had done for a man
afflicted as / was and / wa so impressed
with it that l determined to give the
medicine a trial. For a year my rheu-
matism had been growing worse, but
after taking DIR. Williams Pink Pills
began to improve. The pain and SWELL
ing all disappeared and l can truthfully
say that I felt better i'll the past
twenty years than l do right now. I
could name, off hand, a half-dozen peo-
pie who have used DR.. Williams Pink
Pills at my suggestion and who have re-
ceived good results from them"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are guaran-
teed to be safe and harmless to the most
delicate constitution. They contain no
morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor any
thing to cause a drug habit. They do not
act OH the bowels but they actually make
new blood and strengthen the nerves
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tism because they make rich, red blood
and no man or woman can have healthy
blood and rheumatism at the same time.
They have also cured many cases Of
anamia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial pa
ralysis, locomotor ataxia and other dis
eases that have not yielded to ordinary
treatment.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills or they will be sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for So. so. by the Dr.. Will
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

started toward the smoking pile thai
had once been San Francisco. On the
very first day car upon car Of provl-
sions, followed by a handsome RELIEF
fund, expressed in tangible and prac-
teal form the sympathy OF the Fresno
folk. In giving credit to any city Tor
being first at hand with relief 1t u
be remembered that SO far as Oakland
was concerned, there was no such
thing as first Oakland was at hand
with material aid, and the sympathy
that surpasses the power of words to
express, from the very instant that
the stroke fell, ven before the outer
cities knew that 1t had fallen. AL
though they themselves suffered in no
small measure from the earth tremor,
the Oaklanders threw open their
homes, albeit some OF them were sadly
damaged, to their neighbors from
across the bay. When the homes
were full the churches, all public build
ings and halls, were converted into
barracks, where every available inch
of space was occupied by improvised
beds. Long tables were laid, big
kitchens equipped and manned add
free meals served to the destitute.
Daughters of aristocratic families
worked long days and nights at their
churches carrying food to women who
had never known anything but toll
in their lives, and ministering to chill
dren from the tenements. Even in the
midst of their misfortunes many of
the refugees, more particularly the
women refused to be a burden, but
demanded to be allowed ito do some
thing to help" The only condition
imposed upon the recipients of this
hospitality-for it was not charity
was that those who had money must
get their meals at the restaurants.
The relief workers fed only the desti-
tute, and these included oftentimes
those who had lived in affluence up
to the morning of April IS. The res
taurants did not advance their prices,
despite the temptation offered by siege
conditions. Even had not martial law
frowned sternly upOn such tendencies,
the citizens Of Oakland would ave
done SO, and the ~restauranteur or
provision dealer who should have at
tempted to traffic on the misfortunes
of his neighbors would have been
shown his mistake in no e%Quivocal
manner So it came about that the
refugee who possessed a quarter of a
dollar could dine heartily, and he who
had but a dime could eat a substantial
luncheon.
Cities Prompt with Succor.
Berkeley was as prompt n thor
ough in it's administration as was Oak
land, and Alameda was not behind.
At the former place the University of
California, a large majority of its men
students having gone to "the front"
with the university cadet corps, sent
the remainder, including the women,
home, with the exception of those who
chose to remain TO help take care OF
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
o OF THE TITLED.

Lord Charles Beresford is said to
be contemplating reentering the field
Of politics.
Sir Walter Raleigh was responsible
for the Introduction of the potato into
Ireland. 1t was a native of Chile and
Peru.
King Alfonso and Princess Ena are
both descendants Of Mary Queen Of
Scots, as is every monarch in Europe
except the king of Sweden and the
sultan Of Turkey.
The sirdar, Sir Reginald Wingate, is
an excellent linguist, speaking, besides
several European languages. Arabic
and Hindustani. His hobby is the
collection of dervish weapons.
Lord Leconfeld, who has just cele-
brated his thirty-fourth birthday, is a
nephew of Lord Rosebery. He served
with distinction in the Boer war. owns
about loo, 900 acres Of land, and has
a rent roll of $45O,00 yearly.
Sir Edward Clarke. the brilliant
member of parliament who is making
his presence felt by denouncing the
idea of a tax on meat or corn, started
as a jewelers. assistant in his fathers
store. Now his income as a lawyer
Is $150,000 a year and he is one of
the few men who have refused a
i~udgeship.
Sir John Fisher has been promoted
to the rank of admiral of the English
feet. He practically created the pres
ent British navy, and has impregnat-
ed it with the scientific spirit, and it
Is due to him that the naval officers
of to-day must, in addition to being
seamen, be gunners, soldiers, engineers
AID men Of science.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25
NATIONS SYMPATHY AND AID CHEERED
HEARTS OF STRICKEN SAN FRANCISCANS
No Doubt That the City Will Be Rebuilt, Greater and More Beautiful
Than Before the Catastrophe Entire Country Is
Interested in Its ReestabHshment.

the good people of the nation gathered
to help their neighbors who fed from
the scene of the worlds greatest mod
ern catastrophe.
Undaunted by Disaster.
No cry of "Delenda est Carthago!"
went up from the stricken city. In
stead, the words I'VE will rebuild San
Francisco and make it better than be-
FORE" were on the lips of all.
This will prove a fortunate thing
for the city," exclaimed a merchant
whose sole assets were a pile of black
ened bricks and an account in a bank
that had gone up IN smoke. THE Chi
ago architect, Durham, has drawn
up a plan for the identifying of San
Francisco, which some said could not
be carried out in centuries because CT
the changes entaliing the demolition
of buildings that it would be necessary
to make. Now the city is wiped out
clean and we can build it up any way
that we please. Moreover, the earth
quake did only minor damage. What
wiped out San Francisco was a fire
such as might occur in any city"
Thus, combating the idea that San
Francisco is a dangerous place be-
cause of earthquakes, the sturdy Cid
n on the second morning after the
blow fell, began to make plans to re-
build their city. The fires along Mar
ket street had not ceased to shoulder
when there was a turn in the tide OF
traffic that threaded among the ruins
that lay between the ferry house and
the western addition. By Saturday
morning people were coming back. BY
Monday they were coming back in
crowds, bringing back the household
goods that they had been fortunate
enough to save. Most of those Who
returned were ~able-bodied men. All
realized that so far Is circumstances
permitted, ONE and children would
do we'll to leave San Francisco for
awhile, although there were many
women who declared that what was
good enough for their fathers, broth
ers, sweethearts Or husbands would
do nicely for them. The brave wom-
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

the refugees who came pouring in,
filling the dormitories and recitation
halls to overlooking and camping in
the classic shade of the campus trees.
Los Angeles, on the moment that the
news of the earthquake arrived, began
raising funds and gathering supplies
for relief. On the day following the
disaster eight cars of provisions left
for San Francisco, going by way of
the San Joaquin valley. Five thou
sand dollars was telegraphed next
day, and the good women of Los An
geles are still packing huge boxes with
clothing for the suffering in San Jose
and Santa Rosa. The daily papers
of San Francisco, which, with one ex-
ception, arose phoenix-like from their
ashes, paid a particularly hearty trib-
ute to the spirit shown by Puritan
Boston, where a large sum was raised
in "a hours.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-05-25

en- of California! How they are
tightening the labors of those who
seek to rear up another city by the
Golden Gate! Some who had reached
places of safety refused to stay out,
but went back to rejoin their loved
ones, despite fearful protests. Is 1t
worth while to ask if a people pos
sessed of such spirit will rebuild a
grander city than they have lost?
Whole Country Interested.
There is a material problem which
bears upon the rebuilding. 1t is a
question of enlightened self-interest
that affects the entire country. II
San Francisco had persisted from the
earth, never to be rebuilt, scores of
business houses and banks throughout
the United States would be dragged
down in the general wreck. They can
not afford to 60, or the communities
in which they are situated to have
them go. Therefore, if for no other
reason, the business community of the
country will see that a great business
center is reestablished where San
Francisco stood. The railroads that
focus there cannot afford to have the
greatest city of the Pacific coast re-
moved to another point. The business
life of the great trans-mountain west
converges upon San Francisco. and if
the currents were to DE diverted the
upheaval would be terrific. MOI cover,
shrewd men have grasped the fact
that equal chances await all in the
new city, and are fastening thither,
il they have not already gone, ready
to invest their capital, much or little,
with the large faith that has charac-
terized the west throughout its entire
history.
ALDICE GOULD EAMES.