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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-02
LARCENY OF BACON.

At meeting Of the Los Angeles
luau committee touch of humor was
given by the troubles of |the Rev. s.
l.. Desha, who, it was stated, had been
accused by local publication of the
horrible crime of swiping luau supplies.
Mr.. Desha admitted the loss of half
side of bacon, and deeply regretted it.
1t appeared that he had secured
whole side Of bacon and had cut it in
half. He admitted having left one-half
out of his sight for few minutes, and
said that when he next looked for it
the place where it was knew it not.
This tragedy was the only thing that
attempted to mar the general pleasure
which the committee took in the ac-
knowledged fact that the luau was
success and had been excellently man
aged.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
over Sent Her a Razor.

A young woman Of Ardmore who
confesses to being belle has recently
been the recipient of the addresses OF
a young gentleman who stands well
in the National Guard and in financial
circles. Matters progressed so far
and SO well that on the eve of his de-
parture On an important business trip
the young man received permission to
buy her a ring. hather pressed for
time, he made hurried shopping tour
the next day, and among his purchase
included a handsome diamond soil
taire. For his own use he bought
safety razor, and, the two purchases
having been made in the same place,
he left his card with instructions as
to engraving and the delivery of the
ring, as we'll as the delivery of the
razor. A day or two afterward the
young woman was mystified and morti-
fed to receive a razor, with the card
of her gallant inclosed. Where the
ring was delivered is not known, but
it is known among the young lady's
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
Echoes of Southern Slavery.

The earliest years of my life were
spent on the eastern shore peninsula
in Virginia. There were large slave
owners in that section, and yet, under
the influence of General Washington's
example-for his memory was idolized
among those people-a great many
slaves had been manumitted by will,
many had remained in the community
as freemen. So | knew how the free
negroes were regarded. They were not
feared or disliked or Disseminated
against in such way that they had
not fair chance of living. Many OF
them had homes, and reared their fam
lilies on land owned by themselves.
Many of the white were opposed to
slavery, not slaveowners themselves,
and glad to employ them. The free
blacks found employment as mechanics
or as labOrers without the slightest
difficulty. and certainly had such op-
portunities to better themselves that
their condition as free negroes ought
not to have brought reproach upon
them in any comparison between them
and the slaves, if they had used their
opportunities to their best advantage.
Yet it was a notorious fact that the
average free negro in that section was
neither so we'll fed, nor so well dressed,
nor so well cared for in health and
sickness as the slaves. In fact, the
home of a free negro might be distin-
guised almost anywhere by the lack
of thrift about it. This arose from
the fact that the free negro was notori-
ously improY;dent; that his own ap-
pearance, and the appearance of his
stock, and even that of his dogs, be-
spoke happy -go-lucky disregard of
thrift that was unmistakable Our old
gardener. Uncle" George Douglas,
who had been inherited from my
fathers grandmother and named after
her father. Col. George Douglas, and
who, altho a slave, was wit, a
philosopher. gentleman. and a much
feared and much-respected member
of our establishment had an express
sion for those who showed lack of
family pride or attachment; of such
Se wauld say: He beant no better
than a free nigger's deg. He'll follow
anybody that feeds him-John s. Wise
in Circle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
The Poet Shelley.

He lived with ardor among ideas.
aspirations and passions in which
there was something at once irrespon-
sible and abstract. He followed every
impulse, without choice or restraint,
with the abandonment of a leaf in the
wind 20 lift me as a wave, a leaf, a
cloud" was his prayer to the west
wind and to every influence. Circum-
stances meant so little to him that he
was unconscious of the cruelty of
change TO sentiment, and thus of the
extent of his cruelty to women. He
aimed at moral perfection. but was
really OF a perfect asthetic selfshness.
He was full of pity and generosity.
and desired the liberation and uplift.
ing Of humanity; but humanity was
less real TO him than his own witch
Of Atlas. He only touched human &C.
ton and passion closely in a single
one Of his works: and ne said of The
Genet Il don't think much OF II. Nv
object was to see how I could succeed
In describing passions I have never
/ felt Arthur Symons in Atlantic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

homeless may easily consummate that
no5lest OF all desifes-to possess a
home. that great region where grass
is KIND and the COW Is queen. Read
these letters again. Two of them are
trcm former Dane county people.
And when your friends talk about go.
Ing away TO contend with billiards
and alkah in the far northwest or
trouths ana ''northers" on the Texas
ranhandle ask them II IL wouldn't be
better 10 so to these new counties.
with their cheap building material,
costless fuel, pure water. healthful
climate, their schools and churches
splendid transportation. their best-of
markets. and engage in those two
most profitable OF our farm industries
--dairying and tobacco eulture2
Let the southern badger join hands
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

perhaps one of the greatest, has
gained an established reputation.
The state has secured rank of
which tobacco growers may well be
proud and To which the farmerfolk
may well give heed Let me illus.
atrate:
The state OF Kentucky, the greatest
ttltcco growing state in acres and
pounds, received in 1906 6.S cents per
pound for her tobacco while Wiscon-
sin farmers received 1876 cents per
pound North Carolina. the second
greatest in acreage, received ~ cents
against our 1876 cents per pound,
Virginia, state whose literature
places tobacco to the front all the
time, received So cents. And of all
the states who practice the open
field method of production Ohio is
the only one approaching Wisconsin,
and received lis cents per pound;
Ger Is less than Wisconsin growers
received, or on an average of 1850
poundsp er acre, difference of 500
on each acre-~truly handsome IN
come of itself, If Wisconsin growers
got only this difference between her
income and that OF her nearest rival
they would be better on than raising
seven or eight dollars worth of
wheat. drinking alkali water and us.
ing their furniture for fuel c1 the dis
tant trackless prairie, But let us
see what they do get.
The statistical abstract of the fed
eral government, and that ought to
be about right, at least relatively
speaking between the states-gives
the following income per acre In
the several states for 1906
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
Wisconsin Tobacco a World Beaten;
Dane County Clear to the Fore
by A. d. Campbell, commissioner of immigration,

The march to fame has always had
its up and downs. 1t is so with per-
soDs, and communities, with states
and nations. Even the ages have
their lines of demarkation, their
periods of advance and decline. The
small boy who was denied an apple
by the larger ones and whose final
plea was answered with the announce
ment that there amt going to be no
core this time" finally reached that
point in development when he could
care for himself. 1t is so with to-
bacco culture in Wisconsin.
The time was when Wisconsin to-
bacco growers were at the mercy OF
an occasional buyer, bad condition
aggravated to some extent by a lack of
experience that prevented the produc.
ton of desirable article. The In
dustry was in its infancy and the
grower was lucky II he was as forum.
ate as the small boy who got the ap
pie core.
But times have changed. Wiscon
sin tobacco, through various iniu
ences, among which proper culture is
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

crops of tobacco here. commencing in
a small way as an experiment Last
year | raised nearly oue-half of an
acre on ground that vas not property
prepared and my crop Was not attend,
ed 10 rs il should have been, but I
received for the crop $500 This
year was late in transplantiug and
shall cut the first on the 10th Of this
July. and some as late ut the 18th I
shall cut the first on the l0tho fthiS
month (Sertemberl, and all Of Il IL
necessary. This crop will be OF a finer
grade aud quality ana is well tiniShe3
Il gro1s larger here and will grow
quicker here thsu in the southern par,
Of the state After two wears Of ex-
perlence, I can say that consider
this as good n tobacco rcgion as any
OF the counties in the southern part OF
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

HioSonsln $50. .......... u, 44U.
= Kentucky. :. .S1,340
or more than two and one-half as
much income in Wisconsin as in Ken
lucky. And fellow up north cooled
my ardor by telling me the place to
raise tobacco is in Old Virginia"
The poor fellow would be s12 worse
off per acre there than in Kentucky.
Now let us suppose that under pres
ent high labor conditions it costs $50
per acre to raise tobacco, and as the
Mississippi congressman who had
been holding social session with a
Kentucky colonel, said, where are
we att" On 20 acres:
Wis. s172 less $50 =$122. S2,44O
Ky. 67 less $50 ILL.,. $40
or over seven times as much net In.
come in Wisconsin as in Kentucky
Now where should man go who
who wants to raise tobacco? He Ger.
tainly wouldn't leave Wisconsin.
As to the Future.
| am not an expert on tobacco.
am merely endeavoring to interpret
the figures of experts and to place
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

Valued at 15c per ID. .S3,170,280
Virginias greatest tobacco( county,
according to a handbook of Virginia,
/ is Pittsylyania with 100000 at
SIC per pound. So by comparison we
have:
Dane county,. :. -. S3,170,000
Pfttsylvania. -. E. 1,394,000
1t is probably safe to say that of
the counties raising tobacco in the
usual manner, Dane Is the greatest in
America. And she is still growing. Her
past is secure" other counties, lead
by Vernon and Rock, are doing mag
nificently. Southern Wisconsin is the
greatest tobacco district in America
to the grower.
Moving Northward.
Or, rather, we NAV say that tobacco
culture is expanding" northward-
for it is not leaving southern Wiscon-
sin-not at all-at least so long as
the cow remains. The COW will keep
the tobacco here. Yet tobacco culture
has pushed northward. 1t reached
4
some time ago, Barron is doubling. st.
Croix is taking heed. Two hundred
and more dollars per acre looks good
/ to farmers accustomed to $40 or $12.
1t Is more work. said one. That Is
what | want said his neighbor, if /
am we'll paid for it"
Oconto has been raising tobacco In
| a moderate way for some time; the
Indians In Shawano have seen the
light not visible to their white neigh
bors; Rusk has some grand fields this
year and Washburn is doing nobly.
And, after all, the serious question is
| whether or not these new counties,
with their virgin soil, will not con-
| test for honors with Dane and Vernon
and Rock. Let us see what some are
doing up there:
Big Tobacco Results.
Il settled in Rusk county and cult.
waited tobacco successfully from the
start. This year (19OO l have FIVE
acres of as good tobacco as l ever
| raised in southern Wisconsin, where
had long experience in tobacco cnlt-
ture. My five-acre crop will average
LOCO pounds per acre, and at last
years price, 10 cents per pound, will
bring me $1,000 My f1ve-acre crop will
more than pay for so acres. This crop
is now harvested aud curing in my
sheds. 1 consider my land superior
even to southern Wisconsin for to-
bacco. "A. ~. Aspenes
Bruce, Wis, September 4, 1907.
Is Highly Pleased
Il have lived in Dane county, for
many years and have owned and oper-
ated a farm for twenty-six years, |
have raised crop of tobacco there
every year except the last two years
and believe that | thoroughly under
stand the business. Two years ago
moved onto a farm, which / pur-
chased, adjoining the city of Cumber-
land; | have successfully raised two
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
Three Glasses of Immigrants.

Roughly speaking, there are three
classes of immigrants who are coming
to America. % Those who come be-
cause the way is made easy and who
do not intend to work. They hope to
live off their friends or relations, or
marry. They are the drifters, and
contribute to the immortality among
foreign speaking peoples. (2) Those
who come on promises of high wages
and easy work. They mean to work,
but at something they like, and they
mean to be free. They are independ-
ent and demand good wages in do
nestle work from the start They
frequently leave for the shop. 81
Those who have been poor beasts of
burden. and are driven to this haven
by persecution, taxation, wretched-
ness, starvation, oppression, and the
great desire to better their condition.
They are willing to learn, will do any
thing that comes to hand, and in their
generation, barring marriage, rarely
leave domestic work or get beyond
the factory Or sweatshop door.-Fran-
ces A. Kellor In Atlantic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

the State. l find that 60 days is ample
time in which to mature it. l raised
one acre this year l shall go into it
more extensively hereafter.-Lars NJ.
Engesether.
Cumberland, Wis, Sept 9.
Another Big Success.
I'VE have grown tobacco for five
years with good success. In 1906 we
grew S1,112,.UU worth F. o. B..
Oconto, in paper wrappers), from
eight acres of land, and after paying
all the expenses on same we received
$S9.45 net per acre. All the labor was
hired and we paid good wages both
for men and teams. There is no doubt
but that Oconto county is as favorable
for tobacco growing as any county in
Wisconsin. During the five seasons we
have grown it, we have not been
damaged in the least by frost, hail OF
insects.-0conto Company, o. A
Ellis, Secretary.
Oconto, Sept. II, 1907.
l have said that the COW will keep
tobacco in the southern counties. 1t
is well known that fertilizer is an alb.
solute necessity. A Dane county
grower this year was short on fertil
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
Her LAST nnne Gone

i simply can't held telling you
again that L love you. said Percy
we're. Can you not hold out any
hope?"
did hold out one hope" replied
Miss Butte. YEARLY, "but that's gone
now"
what vas II! I'm sure -
/ mad hoped you wouldn't mention
thls subject again.
Press.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
To Prevent tuberculosis.

To immunize cattle against tuber-
culosis by vaccination is the object
Of research experiments by the bacter-
iology department. Fifty calves under
3 months old have been inoculated
with bovo vaccine, a non-virule cult
ure of the germ. The very mild arti-
hcial disease thus produced appar-
emily immunizes cattle against tuber.
eulosis ravages.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

some facts before the readers of many
paper in southern Wisconsin. Now
there are many who tremble for the
future. | do not | am an optimist ON
this subject believe that tobacco
culture in Wisconsin is ON firm and
permanent basis. Why?
The above figures are based upon
normal production and relative prices.
They indicate the pulse of normal
market. Relatively these comparisons
are Indicative of the future. Overpro.
duction? I nat is always-at least usu-
ally-possible, But, look again at the
first table, and remember that the
prices are normal. Wisconsin has
won her laurels for quality, Now, If
prices so down land il they do they
will drop relatively what becomes of
the industry In Kentucky. Look at the
table. What becomes of Virginia,
where my informant says lis the
place to raise tobacco?" What would
become of North Carolina in rela.
tive drop when she would be at zero
with Wisconsin at STA per acre +!
Let income per acre drop $40, and
where is Maryland? Take another
glance at the table value per acre. "
The Glover club of Philadelphia
adopted the motto, The Past Is
Secure" Wisconsin's tobacco troubles
are in the past-they are also secure,
The future is all right.
Dane County.
| have been asked to state where
Dane county stands on the tobacco Is
sue. With meagre statistics, that is a
problem The statistical abstract gives
the total for 1904 at S9lS,s56, with
one township exceeding 100000 and
several more well toward that point,
But that was when Wisconsin was In
her struggle-before she adopted the
motto. The Past Is Secure" More
recent figures would be stupendous IL
we had them with eNactness. The
secretary Of agriculture has endeavor'
ed 20 give the acreage aud average
per acre for the state, He has no
doubt got them as close 10 the facts
MS POSSIBLE His figures for Dane
county are. Acreage, l+576, average
per acre. i.450 pounds; price Is cents
per pound. 4 subsequent rise in price
warrants figure of Is ceuts So We
have the following display when pu'
I IN tahulated form;
Acres ...... -e...s..'.'.- At'9to
Production. pounds. ,.sli2l,s00
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
RICHARD MANSFIELD.
An EIegy Written at Mentone, CAL. Sep
TEMPER 8, 1907, by William Winter.

TENDER 8, 1907, By William WINTER
For me terrestrial mountains rise;
For thee celestial rivers run;
Ny steps are meath familiar skies,
But thine in realms beyond the sun.
This peaceful scene, that does mo-
change,
This smiling vale. so fair to see,
Those lonely plains, that mountain
range
60 glorious,-all were known to
thee.
For many year, in shade or shine.
When life was gay. when life was
drear,
Thy friendly hand was clasped In
mine,
Thy form was oft beside me here,
Now, though I sought through ev'ry
land,
l should not feel, in any place,
The pressure of thy loving hand,
Nor hear thy voice. nor see thy
face.
So friendship fades, so love Departs,
So living joy becomes a name
Shrin'd in the depth Of breaking
hearts,
And yet the world remains the
same.
The roses blooms, the fields are
green,
The branches wave. the streamlets
flow
For Nature, ruffled or serene,
Is deaf and blind to human woe.
Thy mind to Beauty was subdued,
In Beauty's service thou vert
blest,-
Stern warrior in the bitter feud
That would not let thy spirit lest:
The feud that wakes angelic rage,
The war in which so many tire,
The deadly strife that Art must wage
With mean intent and low desire.
Sleep sweetly, noble heart and true!
The tempest of thy life is DER;
Nor baffled hope, nor pang of rue,
Nor any grief can wound thee
more!
Sleep sweetly, in that hallow'd dell,
Far off, beside the solemn sea,
Where tears and prayers will, con-
slant, tell,
The love that lives to mourn for
thee.
There wild flowers. emblems Of thy
Around thy tombb will bud and
blow,
While Oceans melancholy roll
Will chant thy requiem, sole and
There oft the prilgrim's musing gaze
Will linger on the votive stone
That mutely tells to future days
Thy power and charm, forever
flown.
And, there in ggolden time to come.
When all the clamor of our day
Has sunk to silence, and the hum
Of vain detraction died away,
Fame's Angel, hov'ring DER thy rest,
His amaranthine bough will wave,
Proclaiming-Here lies Glory's guest,
Here Genius sleeps in Mansfield's
grave!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

Before reading farther 50 oNtF tuV
column acre value" once more and
appreciate what the figures mean,
You might do a little figuring on
this table. Suppose YOU We're to raise
% acres In Wisconsin and in Ken
tncky. the state that talks about her
tobacco Your income would be
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

Little Millie-Grandad. what makes
man always give a woman a dia.
mond engagement ring.
Grandfather-The woman
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

acquaintance that when the man in
question returns to Ardmore there will
be something required in the way of
an explanation-Phil Record.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

with the northern badger, and In
score of years Wisconsin viii have
trebled her present greatness.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10

izer Part of his tobacco field had
none. His estimate of the difference
of the value of the crop on the fertil-
lied and unfertilized was more than
$l00 per acre Here is where the Wis
consin COW comes into play. You can't
raise tobacco without the COW. Let us
get the figures again:
Wisconsin value per acre S172
Kentucky value per acre ....... 81
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-10
S105

The COW s105
That is what the Dane county
grower said: 'over 800 per acre. 4"
Commercial fertilizer is a dream
a fairly potential one, it may be, but
at best a dream. Wisconsin is the
greatest dairy state in the union
ditto tobacco.
Read again what our friends In
the new counties say-those areas of
virgin soils of finest quality-those
areas of low priced homemaking op-
portunities, where you can be a pion-
eer without pioneering, where the
Evening journal., 1907-12-21

NINE IODINE ON
NEW YEARS EVE

The fourth annual dinner OF the fln-
tentional Nine Club" one of the citys
unique organizations. will be held in
the Clayton House ou the nisht of
December 81 The dinner will, continue
until the early morning of the FIRST Gay
of the New Year The club is COM
posed of nine young men who have
pledged themselves 10 meet at the din
ner every New Year eve and TO draw
lots TO find which member will haN e
to seek a wife during the coming year.
The one drawing a lot. falling TO
marry. is obliged to give a dinner 10
the other eight, while If he marries,
however, ihe other mcmners are
obliged TO give him a dinner OF the
nine members there will be only 'wo
who are eligible TO draw this ear. The
others having been married out of their
turn. or having drawn the fatal mum
Der once before. Jonn j. Mal l-Omb, Jr..
is the one, it is said, who drew the
ticket last year, but as ne has not
succeeded in meeting his affinity he
win have TO dine the other membefs
this year The only two left for the
drawing this year are William j.
Bolden and Thomas McGranary.
Evening journal., 1907-12-21
TO APPOINT AN
ASSESSMENT BOARD
Levy Court Must Select Men,
berS From Two DOmi-
nant Parties

The Levy Court viii slt on Monday to
appoint a Board of Assessment and Re
vision in accordance with an act Of che
last Legislature. The Board will be COM
posed of thirty members. two from each
OF the fifteen assessment districts of
the county. and viii sit with the assessors
Of the districts TO revise the assessment.
The object of the law Is TO improve the
present assessment methods. The law
provides pay Tor only three days work
on the part Of each member Of the Board.
This provision of the law, members OF
the Levy Court say. is unfair 60 the cit.
Of Wilmington. ii being impossible 10 SO
over the books OF the i've assessment dis.
tricts of the city ia three days. The ncx
Legislature will Doe asked TO extend the
time Of tile members OF the board Th,
present assessor In each district win p,
the chairman of the district board Th,
law further provides that the Lev,
Courts appointees shall be chosen equally
from the Democratic and Republican par.
ties. thus creating an bipartisan board.