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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07
New York .
NEw YORK. Aug. l. 1908,

Midsummer is usually the deadest
season for the leaf market. But il there
was possibility of being deader than
dead it would be this season. The ex-
traordinary weather conditions are con-
tributing, no doubt, their share to this
effect. Such long spell of oppressive
and Oppressive heat and moisture even
the proverbial oldest habitue of the mar
ket can hardly remember. No wonder
that people avoid exertion in every di-
rection and even those who might be in
clined or might feel the need of visiting
the market are deferred from doing so
by atmospheric conditions which to
brave means risKing the utmost discom-
fort and health. Some routine business
is, of course, being done, as the cigar in
dustry, though merely dragging along, is
always in need to have some supply re-
plenished. But there is no vim or visor
in the market and there will hardly be
some before the complete decline of the
dog days.
The situation in the metropolitan
cigar manufacturing industry is about
what might be expected considering the
season and the general industrial situa-
ton. No marked depression prevails as
compared with previous months of the
year, and though, of course, business is
not up to the corresponding period of
last year, yet the midsummer dullness is
no more noticeable than usual. A few
factories report business lively and de-
mand up to their capacity, but these are
the exception, and the majority are
working with about two-thirds forces,
while some are closed down altogether
for part Of the time. Seed and seed and
Havana goods, as is usually the case at
this season. are selling relatively better
than clear Havana, and there seems to
be fair demand for little cigars and
cheroots. Cigarette manufacturers re-
port business keeping up well.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07

HERE'S a farmers mode of ridding
his premises of rats and mice: III you
sprinkle sulphur on your barn floor and
through your corn as ycu gather it there
will not be rat or mouse to n,rher. FL
has done this for years AM nd- M r
minating farmer has lot.t old corn in
his crib, but no rats cs.ln~ gnaw and
no mouse makes it's mes n the litter. Ia
stacking hay or oats, say this observing
genius, sprinkle on the gr .und and lay
ers little sulphur which rats and mice
abhor as the devil is suluosed in the
superstitious days to hate holy water. A
pound of sulphur will be sufficient to
preserve large barn of corn, is good for
stock and will hurt neither the grain nor
the bread made from it-Ex
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07

A fundamental of modern industry is
the elimination of waste products or
rather transformation into by-products.
Perhaps this principle is carried furthest
IN the great meat packing establishment,
where, as the saying is, every part of the
hog is utilized except the squeal. But
there is one great industry where the
most astonishing waste goes on, and no
remedy has yet been devised. There are
some 8,OO0000000 cigars manufactured
in the country yearly. The average ci-
gar box contains 30 cigars. This would
mean that it takes 160,000,O00 boxes TO
contain the cigar output of the country.
The average cost OF cigar box, exclu-
siye of the label, is cents, which would
make the average cost of all the boxes
used S9,60O,000. The law enjoins that a
cigar box cannot be used again for CT
gars. In fact it must be destroyed or so
damaged as to be practically useless. As
matter of fact it usually goes to the
dump heap. Think of it. Over S9GO0,-
600 to the dump. What an anacnron-
ism in these days of industrial economy!
*.*
The United States department OF agrl-
culture is this year continuing its exper-
mental work with tobacco in New Eng
land for the fifth season. The results
obtained show that shade-grown tobacco
can be made successful proposition
even in New England, and offers allnr-
ing inducements to those growers who
can afford the expense incurred.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07
RaIfIwiDsviIIe NY

Unusually favorable weather during
the past few days has rapidly advanced
the growing crop. Some of the earlier
crops are nearly ready for topping and
present conditions warrant the belief
that the crop will be the best one grown
in this section for years.-Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07

A court injunction has been raised at
Lexington, KY, to prevent the sale OF
tobacco held in the Equity pool on the
the petition of the Fayette branch of the
society which alleges that one B. D. Din
cler was trying to sell his interest in a
crop pooled with the society. Dincler
was tenant and claims that the tobac
CO was pooled by his landlord without
his consent. Since the leaf tobacco on
the market has become practically linn
tied to that held in the pool by the Bur-
ley Tobacco society and the prices have
therefore become SO high, it is said that
buyers have been offering strong temp
tations to the individual owners of pool
ed tobacco in this section and that the
society is having a hard time holding
many of them in line. The temptation
to sell is especially strong among the
poorer class of tenants, who are having a
hard time making ends meet while their
tobacco is tied up, and may continue to
be so indefinitely. The case of Dincler
is of this kind, and, should the final de-
cision of the court be in his favor, it is
believed that there will be general
effort on the part of tenants to break
away from the pool and dispose of their
tobacco to buyers who are standing
ready to snap it UP. A law was passed
by the last legislature prohibiting any
person buying pooled tobacco and pro-
viding a penalty for the seller as we'll as
the buyer, but so far as is known it has
never been tested, and its constitution
alitv iG questioned
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-08-07
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES


For the first time since the new TO-
bacco was transplanted we hear COM
plants from growers of dry weather.
Ten days of extremely hot weather has
been very trying on all growing crops.
Much of the tobacco has attained such
size that it has been impossible to cult-i
vate the ground and thus conserve the
moisture. The dry, parching weather
has come just at the most critical stage
lnsthe making of the crop, either just
after topping when moisture is needed
to secure proper spread of the tobacco
leaves, or before topping on the later
fields when the plant is sent to an earlier
bud and not fully developed on it's lower
leaves. Up to this time. however, there
has been steady and satisfactory ad-
vancement of the crop. But rain is
badly needed now ia most localities and
surely must come soon or the crop that
showed up so magnifcently all the sea-
son will suffer very materially in quality.
***
The loss by fire of over 500 cases of
Equity pooled tobacco at GAINESVILLE on
Friday, covered with only slight insur-
ance, only illustrates the dangers which
the growers assume when they turn
their property over to other individuals
or organizations to market for them.
Iha
ance only up to five cents per pound on
the tobacco held by the pool, while the
charges against the same tobacco for as
sorting, casing, etc., exceeds 219 cents
pound, which will leave the grower who
entrusted his tobacco to the Equity or
ganization only about 2 cents pound
for the crop. That there will be much
complaint and dissatisfaction among the
growers who must pocket the loss, is
very evident. For such mistakes in fail
ing to observe the usual business Gus
toms are reprehensible. The Society of
Equity can never build up their organ
ization while they permit men of care
less or sIipshod methods to manage a
business that requires the strictest OBJ
servance of business customs. Mistakes
of this character may occur once, but be
caSeful and watch out that they do not
happen again. AS general proposition
the average farmer can run his own bus
mess with greater satisfaction to him
self than to entrust it to others, and es-
pecially to strangers concerning whose
qualifications he knows but little.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

led in with his lordships notion He quite readily
intrusted me with the stuff to take to London.
There I obtained considerably more for the gems
than the other man had offered. You see knew
just the right place to take them. When came
back, sight of the figures the bankers draft
brought tears to the old peers eyes.
at will all be yours one day, my boy" he SAID
"I have no son. When I die the castle will go
to Lima"
had known that. Maybe the KNOWLEDGE helped
in the shaping of the course took. Early in the
new year Lima became vertically mine Before
that year closed the castle, through my wife, be-
came mine. too The old lord had gone to JON
that long line whose canvas presentments de-
pended from the gallery walls.
Those days I spent so busily in London
careered about from pillar to post, as it were
Continued on Page Az
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

arrive at the end of her story quicker, and l
guessed that the finish would be in my arms. You
see, l nstinctvely felt that she would wind up
that way
I'll condense what she told me. In view of the
mortgages taking immediate possession, the We're
Mowbrays had started putting together their per-
sonal belongings 1t was heartbreaking job, but
wound up so goriousy, she said that it would be
the red-letter day of their lives
There were some old, priced family deeds
These had been kept i'll a table drawer. His
lordship-in the pride of possession-had shown
them to me once as a curiosity. The writing
some of the parchments dated back to the regns
of the Edwards.
Sorting out these papers, the earl lighted on a
sealed envelope which, it seemed, had escaped his
attention before. 1t frayed at the edges, dis
cOlOred by age and on it was, Endorsed, IN time
yellowed ink the words:
"TO be Opend only an ye event
of calamity falling on ye We're
MolcbrayS of so sore kind that
ye Castle hath to be disposed Of"
1t seemed to his lordship-with the brokers
knocking at the castle gate, to spealk-that the
trouble was sore enough to justify breaking the
seal, and he broke it. Whereupon, he became the
most amazed man in all the county OF Devon.
Certainly, when the contents deciphered, they
startling enough.
The inclosure In a similar grabbed, old,
yellow-coored writing to the Endorsement. There
was, too, plan of the castle and the grounds.
A spot was indicated-in the old ruined chapel
where the opener of the packet Sin time of we
calamity" was directed to dig.
Lord Vere-Mowbray, bubbling over with ex-
element, hurried there. His lady followed. So
did his daughter. They did not make up what
you might call a muscular trinity, but they got
through with the work there all the same.
At the indicated spot they levered up stone
in the floor. Beneath hole. In that hole
rested an old oaken box It's lock and hinges were
so rusty that the lid had to be forced open.
When they did that his Lordship cried out in
amazement. SO did his lady-so did his daughter
They stood entranced. The box was full OF
uncut gems of the most amazing value.
Christmas day as it was, telegram brought
down an expert from London He did not hest
tate a moment in declaring it rich find. Then
and there he offered for the stones sum OF money
which would have paid off the mortgages on the
castle twice over.
There was a short interval after Lima finished
her story probably you would not find descrp-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

ton OF what happened N IL inter-
esting. I did. Then we went up
to the castle. There | interviewed
the head of the family.
He was kindness personified. He
had heard, he said, that his daugh-
ter loved me. He knew. too, that
her foolish pride had stood in the
way Now the obstacle was re-
moved. In response, I said some
of those things | ought to have
said and thought the others.
1 was shown the treasure. 1t
was a pretty sight. How those
gems sparkledl They were enough
to make any woman's mouth wa
ter. They did not make Lina's. [
know, because when I But
there, this is not a love story.
When I heard the amount the
expert had offered I said he had
undervalued the stones. That fit
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

trll1e SulKy over II. lie sat III one COIueI anu
| sat in the other. Long as the journey was, L
kept wide awake, with eye on my neighbor
Nv task was not | worked hard THAI
Christmas eve. Snow starting to fall when,
at last, | stood up and Strengthened an aching
back. l was glad of the white mantle; it covered
tracks"
Even then [ did not 90 to rest. There was my
companion to see off the premises as it were, by
the first up-rain. He not one of those nice,
innocent kind of men you care to leave about
carelessy.
few hours Sleep and I was about again,
waiting. Noon came. Still [ waited. Dinner time
came q didn't want any, and found me waiting
still At last l had to go to bed with dis
satisfied, hungry, empty heart. Christmas day
had come and gone!
Next morning l waited till the post came in
not a line! On Boxing day there only
one delivery of letters. To pass the whole day
in suspense was out of the question. Picking
up my skates, l made for the moat Sound of
steel on it could be heard and the skater could be
seen from the castle windows.
Lima saw me. She came running across the
drawbridge and down the steps to the moat.
But | had never seen her beautiful before.
Her hands were outstretched, and she wore a
radiant expression, and had beaming eyes
"Jackw
She voiced my name a trife breathlessy. She
had been running you Moreover, it was the
first time she had dropped the handle from my
name. | had always been MI 0nltn DeIore'
And certainly she had taste Jack sounded much
nicer than John Indeed until that moment | had
not thought it possible that such commonplace
name could sound sweet
"Such good news" she blurted out. 81 am so
happy" , ;5;;o.,.,,,
k pit hold of her hands; you see, she standing
on ice, and might have slipped off," | added,
"you are happy. What has happened"
"Thank Heaven, the cloud which has been hang
ing over us so long has lifted at last y
I think I said "Go on" some asinine speech
of that sort You see | was still holding her
hands. Of course, 1 had held them before, but
never for so long. Then, too, although [ had
known what her eyes could express. she had
always kept them yelled Now she was so excited
that-well, she was just her bonnie, winsome,
lovable self.
Indeed, she looked so desirable, so kissabe, so
everything that sweet, that l didn't talk
much-I wanted her to do that. Then she would
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

AN Christmas eve I was back
W in Churdleigh. The journey
down had not been made alone.
Not that my companion was COM
panionable. We had made our
bargain in town, and now he was
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20
DECEMBER 20, 1908

She told me that the mortgages were taking pos
session that quarter and that the family had to
turn out by Christmas day.
Despite her efforts to control it, her lip quivered
as Sc said that. And [ then and there determined
that if 1 could help it-by fair means of foul
the old folk should not be forced to leave their old
homestead.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-20

already pointed out the eIoquence
of money.
| put in a busy time in London
for three days. They said I want
ed such curious things done. But
they did them. When l slapped
my pocket it wiped difficulties
away. 1t made me think of the
woodcutter's boy and his "Open,
Sesame" at the entrance to the
robbers cave. A golden roller
smooths most paths.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-29

and told Dr. Pilgrim the middle OF
April, after had been there ten weeks,
that he and Or, Lamb had watched me
carefully, and that they were positive
that | had not the slightest symptom
of pananoia. After what he had stated
to all these gentlemen we we're not pre-
pared for the way he testified
'There was general feeling that the
present question was connected with
my trials whereas II IL simply whether
| am not In my, right mind.
"All the doctors who have seen ana
examined me have no doubt OF my san
lty whatever, except Or, Baker.
My counsel wish TO present the case
carefully ana they have no doubt what
ever as to the result
"They do not wish me to return to
Matteawan. nor do |, After the confne,
ment to which have been subjected
the association with criminal lunatics
might ruin my health,
The fact that | am we'll mentally
and physically after two long trials and
nineteen months In the Tombs and
three months at Matteawan In Itself
practically proves that my condition Is
normal In every way
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-29
KOREAN DOOR AJAR
But the Jap Business Man Is
Beating the West at It's
Own Game.
GREAT ENTERPRISE SHOWN
In Both Manchurla and Korcn Amcrl.
can and Other Foreign Firms
Arc Losing Ground.

Toxic. Friday, May 22.-That there Is
no closed door In Korea is the positive
assertion made not only by officials. but
by American business men. who are
doing large business In Korea, and
this view Is borne out by the state
ment made recently at Chemulpo by
Thomas Summons, the American con-
the open door In Korea will find IT,"
II Is fact. however, that Japan by
reason of her geographical position.
has the advantage over other Compel
ing nations. and she has undoubtedly
gained rapidly on other countries not
Japan itself. The truth OF the situa-
ton Is that Japanese energy and enter
prise have so far exceeded the degree
Of these qualities displayed by the for
eign traders In the far east that the
Oriental has beaten the occidental at
his own game. This Is the view taken
Of the situation by an American who
Is doing the largest American business
In Korea and who to use his own words
Is splitting even with the japanese
monopoly"
Business methods different from
those of the old times are now neces-
sary in order to meet the active COM
petition OF the Japanese, but where
modern and up-to-date western ways
Of doing business are applied the
American trader comes out II any
thing, little ahead. Exactly the same
conditions apply to the situation In
Manchuria. An American In Yokohama
whose firm is now doing the largest
American business In Manchuria said
recently he did not find the doov there
closed or even closing. It should bc
remembered In this connection trat all
business IN Manchuria has fallen off
immensely since the Russo-Japanese
war and that the amount Of money In
that country to be expended on any
thing more than the sheer necessities
OF life Is comparatively small, But to
say that American trade has been ruin
ed Is a mistake.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-29
THAW LEAVES JAIL
Appears To day in White Plains
Court to Ask for Jury
Trial.
WITH A NEW ATTORNEY
Prisoner Gives Ont Statement Say
ing Mattcawan Doctors Believe
Him Sane.

Poughkeepsie, ~ Y. June 2S.-Harry
K Thaw will leave Poughkeepsie to-
morrow morning in the custody OF I'm
der Sheriff John Townsend, who will
produce him in the supreme court at
White Plains in obedience to q writ of
habeas corpus issued Friday
Thaw will be accompanied by his new
attorney, Charles Morschauser, of this
city, who will ask Judge Mills to
grant jury trial and to order him de-
tanned In any place other than the Mat
teawan asylum until the question of
his sanity has been adtudicated BY a
jury,
As the question Of Thaw's right to a
Jury trial was not raised in the first
habeas corpus proceedings before Jus
tce Morschauser who decided that
Thaw was insane and ordered him re-
committed to Matteawan, 1t leaves a
new issue to be presented to Judge
Mills and one on which the young man
and his counsel hope to be successful,
although they anticipate vigorous OPP
position from District Attorney jerome.
From his room in the Poughkeepsie
Jail Thaw gave out the following state.
ment today:
Before the last writ was served we
knew from our aiensts that my sani-
ty was perfect, and therefore made no
adequate preparation for the hearing
before Judge Morschauser. The doctor
at Matteawan told my lawyers and me,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-29
CONNECTICUT FAIR
One of Most Important Events
of It's Kind to Be Held
September 7-12.'

The Connecticut Fair association,
recently Incorporated, announces an
and live stock fair viii
be held at Charter oak park, Septem-
Der 4 s, g. 10, IL and IL, In connec-
tion with the Grand Circuit races,
Ordinarily the announcement of
new enterprise Is OF little Importance.
however, a fair Is such Importance to
the Interests Of n community that a
glance is not sufficient. when prop
erly conducted the amount Of good ac-
complished by fair toward improv-
ing the interests OF the state II rep
resents Is manifest, 1t attracts atten-
ton to the extraordinary resources OF
the farming, fruit, live stock and man
ufacturing industries and can raise
their standard to q high degree of per-
lection, providing the displays and cx-
hlbits are complete and attractive.
Managed along the broad lines out
lined by the Connecticut Fair associa-
ton the ultimate fruit Is evident by
the increased value of farming lands,
products, and the general prosperity
of the people will be important In
showing to the world the manifold
opportunities within the reach of a
resident, This end the newly organ
lied association promises to accom-
pllsh.
While money will be literally spent,
II Will nevertheless be done iudIcious-
ly. To superintend each department
the services of competent and efficient
men have been secured. The prem
ium list-S55. 000-offers large and at
tractlve prizes for cattle. poultry,
dogs. cats, horses, and other fair ex-
hibits.
The cattle premium list with $4,000
In prizes is now being sent all appli-
Cants and II the demand for this one
feature is the test by which the sue
cess II the fair Is TO be judged. Its sue
cess is assured.
The officers are: Hon. Morgan G.
Buckley, president; Walter L. Good
win. president; Charles Soby,
treasurer, and W. II. Gochcr, secrc-
tary Associated with these men are
Samuel Russell. jr, and II. L. Camp OF
Middlctown; George c. Emo of Sims
bury, George 7. Rowland OF Norwich,
and +. c. sumner II. c. Parsons, w.
O. Burr. Joseph L. Besse. Ferdinand
Richter, a, ]. Welch, and L. l.. Hop
kins of Hartford.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-29
HEBERGER STILL MISSING.
Peculiar Disappearance Of Young
Married Man.

New Haven is face to face with an
other disappearance case. Announce
ment was made Saturday of the mar
rIage Of Clarence 4. Hcberger to
Miss Josephine Lowcnstein OF ] Syl-
van avenue, celebrated on June 10,
and yesterday the announcement that
he had disappeared and no trace OF
him was to be had was announced TO
the police At the time Of his mar
riage Hebergcr was employed as a
clothing salesman In q Boston house
but few days after his marriage he
lost his job. He and his bride came
TO this city and were residing at the
home of her parents, The bride Is
working AT Muhlfelder's
His bride fears that he has been
drowned, either through suicide or ac-
cident.
This belief Is grounded on the fact
that llencrger was last seen Thurs
day morning at ! o'clock at James A,
Austin's boat house In Brewery street.
where he hired a rowboat and went
down the harbor. lie has not been
heard from since. He is the son of
Abraham Hcbcrger. well known In
this city, formerly in the clothing
business under the Tontine hotel, and
now in the insurance business. with
an office in the First National Bank
building.
No trace of the young man nor OF
the boat had been obtained last night.
Still there are many who do not think
that there Is suicide or drowning back
of the care and that the young man
will show ~ all right,
Mrs Heberger Is the daughter OF
Mrs. Rosu Lowenstein and is employ
ed at Murlf.lder's millinery store a,
s43 Chapel street. She is young and
very pretty and is pupil OF Professor
Batelii. she was the leading alto IN
the chorus in the opera. Cava!cria
Rustcana which was given by lcca
! talent last winter She is almost dis.
tracted over the disappearance of hcl
! husband