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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
SToUGHToN, WIS, Nov. 19, 1910.

Only 369 cases of. tobacco are still
unsold in the hands of the Wisconsin
Growers association, whose headquar-
ters are in Stoughton This amount
consists of $50 cases of 1906 crop, $50
cases Of 1907 tobacco and about 69 cases
Of 1909 crop.
Three carloads of tobacco, 1909 crop,
were shipped this week to Milton and
GAINESVILLE. Haskins & Schwartz of
Milton and F. G.. Bordan of Janesville
received the shipment, which consisted
of about 200 cases.
Thus far the association has sold all
it carried on hand. This was 1900 cases
of 1908 crop and about 5000 cases of
1909 crop. Julius Marqusee of New
York has purchased 1900 cases of 1908
crop. This amount will be shipped in
three lots, $50 cases from Stoughton,
$50 from Westby and about 250 from
Chippewa Falls. 1t will also be sent
away to New York by Jan /.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
NEW YORK, Nov. 16. 1910.

Samples of new Zimmer Spanish have
been exhibited in the market for the
past week or so, and business of good
proportions has been done. Nearly
1000 cases have been disposed of at
prices said to be about eighteen cents.
Reports from Wisconsin are that
buyers for the American Cigar Co. in
the past few days have gone through
the state and swept it bare. 1t is said
that practically every single packing
that remained in first hands has been
taken. This makes the binder situa-
ton serious question for those who
have failed to fortify themselves earlier
in the year. AS has been pointed out
in these columns, the situation will not
be alleviated by the New England to-
baccos. The prices paid in that section
for the new crop make it certain that
no cheap binders are to be expected
this year. Packing operations, it is
said, disclose a quantity of pole rot in
the new crop as we'll as a distressing
proportion of white veins. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
New England.

During. the past week very few de-
velopments have made themselves .ap-
parent to the gaze of mortal man. At
the time of the stripping of SO much of
our crop, there were two or three pack
ers driving around and quite a good
many tons were quietly picked up but
at very moderate prices. | think that
twelve and thirteen cents was an aver
age, and these sales caused consider
BILE grumblipg among the holders gen.
orally. The usual complaint was made
that two cr three men were establish
ing the selling price of the balance of
the growers.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Wethersfeld, Ct: There was quite a
good deal of tobacco taken from the
poles in the damp spell of last week,
and the report from it is that it is very
good. No sales that | have heard of. =
East Whately, Mass. John Blunkard
will deliver to Mr.. Swift this week
about 20 tons of tobacco grown on his
own farm and that of Wells T. Smith
It is reported to be fine crop Brad
street, Mass. s'The tobacco has nearly
al been stripped in this locality, and it
is reported good. Only two crops have
been sold, the crop of E. w. Field and
Son, and the crop of Albert Marsh of
about acres to Mr.. Swift. '-Culti-
vator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 1910

NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 1910.
The business in our leaf market,
judging from the record of the past
week or ten days, has assumed old
time proportions, and we have definite
information that number of sales of
Wisconsin of 1000 cases or more have
been put through. In fact, it is an open
secret that the houses that packed the
bulk of this tobacco have but little of
it left, some of them being entirely
cleaned out The cleaning-out process
has also been applied locally in Wiscon-
sin, where it is said on pretty good au-
thority that the largest manufacturing
concern in the industry has swept the
country clean of all the local packings
of '09 tobacco. In filler tobaccos there
is some movement in the 1909 Ohio, one
house having disposed of 1000 cases of
the new Zimmer within the past week.
AS to the 1909 Pennsylvania there is no
such good news to report, this tobacco
being said by manufacturers to be a
crop that will mature late, and they
are waiting to see how it will come out.
There is an abundant supply of filler in
the 1910 crops, both of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and in the former State at
tempts are being made to buy the crop
from the growers at the present time.
Buying is proceeding slowly as the
growers seem to feel that they should
get prices like those which prevailed in
1906, and it is only the sensible ones
who recognize that the packers will not
so soon embark again in such Bacha-
nalian scramble for tobacco, regardless
of price or value. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25

has stiffened up the growers in their
determination not to accept as the
standard of prices what has lately been
paid for the tobacco already sold, some
seven or eight hundxed acres. The
packers say that tobacco, with few ex-
ceptions, was bought for 10 and 2,
and cents pound. The feeling on
the subject was voiced at Mondays
meeting of the Lancaster County To-
bacco Growers association, when res
olution was adopted calling on the
growers not to sell at the prices now
offered. It is question how far the
growers can be influenced by the call
made to them, and whether they can
be induced to act together to some ex-
tent. They have fine crop, one of
the best, and the biggest, grown in
years, and it is only to be expected
that they want all they can get for
their goods. Earlier in the season they
demanded all the way from IL to Is
cents pound, but they have lately
modified their demand, and now ask
what they consider only reasonable.
The packers offers are SO low as to
cause many of the growers to refuse to
even talk business with the dealers
when they call on them. AS matter
of fact, so little of the 1909 packing
has been sold that the dealers would
prefer, most of them, to wait until
later in the season to buy, until after
they had sold some, at least, Of their
packing, but they are afraid of each
other, each one fearing somebody else
may pick up the choice goods. Sonost of
them are looking around and will make
contracts if they can get bargains.
Under existing conditions it looks as
though buying would be late this sea-
son. New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, Wis, Nov. 25. 19

EDGERTON, WIS, Nov. 25, 1870
While the buying movement in the
new crop is not being prosecuted with
much vigor, buyers are riding the
growing districts all the time and con-
tracts made that are quietly lifting the
unsold portions. Prices continue to
vary according to quality, and some
thing off is frequently obtained for the
grasshoppered leaf.
Sales coming to notice showing the
range of prices are:
M. E. Nelson, Ia at 10c
Frank Brace, Ga at 10c,
Elmer Thronson, Ia aG 10&3c.
w. d. Hemphill, ga at 9&3c.
Antoine Olson Est, Ga at 103&3c.
r. Olson, Ia at &c.
Budd Hill, 5a at &c.
Wilmer Slagg, ga at &c.
G. E. Gunderson, 15a at 83c.
Mrs. Hegglestad, "a at &c.
Martin Jenson, 5a at &c.
John Willie, "a at &c.
9. Hammerquist, "a at &c.
Old leaf continues to move in quite
liberal quantities. three or four lots of
Stoughton packers having been sold,
including 5OOcs packing of '08 by 0.
C..Lee, 575cs of 'O9 by Holton & Os-
garen and about 5O0cs of '09 by Halver-
son & Bittefs. The latter to Spitzner and
others for the account of the American
Cigar Co. Numerous other small lots
including several years growth have
been marketed.
The work of stemming which has
been carried on quite extensively in the
state for several months is drawing to
close, 7. B. Earle having finished this
week at his Stoughton warehouse.
Growers would welcome casing
weather now and could devote some at
tention to stripping when it comes.
The shipments out of storage reach
500 cases from this market to all points
for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
PENNSYLVANIA.

LANCASTER, Pa, Nov. Is, 1910.
There is little room for doubling that
the agitation over the question of prices
for the new tobacco crop of our county
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08
Romance of Old Portugal

The recent deposition of King Manuel of
Portugal and the events in the young kings
life that led up to it will no doubt bring back
to the minds of Of the older residents
of the city the story of Elise Hensier, the
Springfield girl who married king and be-
came the Countess Edla.
The king she married was Don Ferdinand
II. of Portugal, great grandfather of King
Manuel. Elise lived in Springfield about 60
years ago, probably for about four years.
The Henslers were humble people and
lived simply The daughters, Elise and Louise,
were well received here and were given a
good musical education, especially Elise, who
had quite remarkable voice. Signor Guidi,
an Italian, at the time well known teacher
of the voice, took an interest in Elise and it
was when Signor Guidi went to Boston that
the Hensiers went there, largely through his
influence. He believed that Elise had fu-
ture as singer and wished her to be where
he could continue teaching her.
Elise Hensler after her removal with her
family to Boston continued her studies She
was perseverant in her work and progressed so
we'll that she not only appeared in concerts in
the large cities In this country but also in Eu-
rope, where she sang before royalty 1t was
while singing in Lisbon several years after the
death of Queen Maria that King Ferdinand
heard her voice and felt the attraction that
led him to marry her
Ferdinand was the titular king of Portugal,
having been the second husband of Queen
Maria II. of Portugal. Ferdinand married
Maria in 1886, when he was 20. The queen
died in 1853, and he was regent during the mi
nority of his son, Pedro ", who was the IA
Their of the assassinated King Carlos the
grandfather Of the deposed King Manuel. The
regency ended in 1855, and June 10, 1869,
he married Miss Hensler
When the European powers decided the
time had come to restore Spain to monarchy
following the overthrow Of the short republic
which existed from 1873 to 1875, considerable
pressure was brought to bear upon Ferdinand
to induce him to accept the vacant throne.
But his wife could never be queen of Spain.
and it is possible that this fact alone induced
him to refuse.
This absolute refusal on his part to accept
the throne of Spain, with all the pomp and
splendor of royalty in exchange for the roman
tic life that he was living with his morganatc
wife, had far-reaching consequences The COM
plicatfons and jealousies resultant on the at
tempt to find king acceptable to all the pow.
ers helped to bring the Franco-Prussian
war, and Alsace and Lorraine went back to
Germany, whence they had been wrested by
Napoleon Bonaparte.
In consequence of these peculiar historical
facts, which geographically practically changed
all western Europe, Elise Hensler, Countess
Edla became famous throughout the world as
1.-The woman who changed the map of Europe"
During the life of the king they lived in the
beautiful castle uf Cintra. 1t is certain that
their life was above reproach In 1885 the
king died, and alter that the countess lived In
retirement In cottage near the castle
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08
HEALTH AND INCOME
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one q LOT
to make money.
With the loss of health ones income
is liable to shrink, If not entirely
dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make her
own living, good health is her best
asset.
IT am alone in the world" writes
Chicago girl, dependent on my own
efforts for my living. / am a clerk,
and about two years ago through close
application to work and a boarding
house diet, I became IA nervous IN
valid, and got so bad off it was almost
impossible for me to stay in the Office
q half day at time.
"a friend suggested to me the 1dea.
Of trying Grape-Nuts food which dld
making it large part of at least tive
meals day.
To-day. am free from brain-tire.
dyspepsia, and all the ills OF an over
worked and improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts J
owe the recovery of my health, and
the ability to retain my position and
income.
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs. "There's Reason"
Ever read the above letters A new
pne appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and fUll Of human
AteTegt.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

In the British museum, in London, on exhi-
bition IS the Portland vase, the masterpiece
of ancient glasswork. chance discovery led
to the rescue of this magnificent urn from the
grave where it had lain for hundreds If years,
hidden and unknown. The vase w&s found
early In the seventeenth century by Jome Ia
borers who digging a hillock in tie neigh
borhood of Rome, broke into small oault
On further examination it revealed q suite
of three sepulchral chambers. In taa largest
room they found finely sculptured earcopha-
gus, which contained the beautiful vase It
was full of ashes, but 1t bore no Inscription as
to the remains it held. nor has the mystery
ever been solved which shrouds It's origin.
The vase was deposited in the Barbarini pal
ace. where it remained until ITO. when the rep
resentative of the Barberini family, Roman
princess, was forced to part with 1t to pay her
gambling debts. The vase changed hands
twice, then it was disposed of to the duchess of
Portland but with such secrecy that her own
family was not aware Of the transaction until
after her death.
At the sale of the duchess of PorEand's col
lection it was purchased by her son, the third
duke of Portland, for the sum of $5,$A5, and it
was deposited in the museum by his successor
The vase was wantonly smashed in Dieces by
drunken visitor, but the fragments were
however, Joined together, but the bottom, with
it's mysterious figure in Phrygian cap, was not
replaced.
The material of this vase was long almost
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08
''No Openings Nowheres"

She is fortunate in having girl chums who
draw roses from their friends now and then
The other afternoon one of her rosy friends
pinned bright red on her and she sal
lied forth into the street to make other wom-
en- envious. She had not gone far when she
felt tug at the shoulder and turned to see a
strange woman
"Where'd you sit that rose?" asked the
stranger .covetously.
"A friend of ruine gave it to me-" was
the answer produced with some chill
"a friend of yours? In a store?"
mo, not in a store"
We'll, hain't there no openings no.
wheres?"
mot that | know Of"
"Humph! Just my luck I'm just crazy
for rose, and when / saw you l just knowed
there was a fall opening somewhere"
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aO cARD PL,NcHLNo +a4C11N- =

$4,000. If that is all the expense, 1t is
cheap. The late Gen. Francis A. Walker
who was census authority greater than
any other, living or dead, once wrote that
"the people of the United States can well
afford to pay for the very best census
they can get" He penned this remark
In connection with frank confession of
his own shortsightedness in underesti
mating the cost of the tenth census.
It's the old story When you are Ill
get the best doctor you can afford
4 The comparative cneapness with which
the thirteenth census has been taken was
largely due to Director E. Dana Durand's eco
nomical methods, to the introduction of semi-au-
tomato electrical card-punching, tabuating
and sorting machines, and to the Inheritance
Of wisdom from the experience gained by the
permanent census bureau During the term Of
the latter the methods of inquiry, tabulation and
compilation have been greatly improved, both
In accuracy and in economy. Millions will be
saved.
Mr.. Durand is responsible for many Of the
new methods to increase statistical accuracy
at every step of the census taking and to de-
crease the per capita cost of the enumeration.
The card-punching tabulating, and sorting ma
chinery Is the invention of census mechani-
cal expert and the patent rights belong to Uncle
Sam. The machines novel in plan and de-
those they superseded, and can be built and
operated at large saving Of money as COM
pared with previous expenditures for this pur-
pose.
Other money-saving features are the elimi-
nation of the vitalstatistics inquiry from the
work Of the decennial census, as 1t belongs to
the permanent branch of the United States
census; the reduction in the number Of sched-
ules, the pieceprice method of paying for ma
chine work, the omission of the hand, house
hold and neighborhood industries from the
manufactures branch of the census, and the
reduction Of the size and number Of copies Of
the final report.
Congress limited the thirteenth census to
four general subjects population, agriculture,
manufactures, and mines and quarr1es. The d.
rector is authorized to determine the form and
subdivision of inquiries. The inquiry as to
population relates to the date April Is, 1910;
that as to agriculture concerns the farm opera
tions during 1909 and calls for an inventory OF
farm equipment April Is, 1910; that relative to
manufactures and quarries Is for 1909.
The enumeration carried only the popula-
ton and agriculture schedules April 15, 1910.
Special agents were sent out with the sched-
ules for the manufactures, mines and quarries
data There were fully $4,000 enumerators, OF
whom about 5000 carried both the population
and agriculture schedules, as it is estimated
that there are now fully 100000 separate
farms. In America, with farmers numbering
we'll up into a score of millions. In 1910 there
we're many more billions Of dollars of fixed
capital invested in agriculture than there were
in manufactures, strange as it may SEEM And
the farmer is getting better off all the time;
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his mortgage Indebtedness is decreas1ng fast;
his taxation is small compared .Kth the
urbanite's burden, and he has takeE to auto
mobile riding on large scale
Census taking every ten years IL F: tremen-
dous task. 1t is the greatest single operation
undertaken by Uncle Sam, with the exception
Of the Panama canal work and the assembling
of an army in time of war The Ame.ican CEN
sus is the largest, cosaliest and most accurate
of any taken by the civilized nations. Its
methods are the most modern and its equip
ment the most complete. The census bureau
force comprises first, Director E. Data Durand
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

into the BATH Some of the animals
are so reluctant to leave the water
that the stablemen have to drive them
out. One old mule that has drawn a
car for years, absolutely declines to
leave the pool inside of ten minutes.
Directly over the bath runs a per-
forated pipe. When the stablemen
think the mules have been in the wa
ter long enough, the water is run
through this pipe, and the four-legged
bathers get fine shower bath. One
of the foremen recently told me that
some OF the animals will actually point
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

the mine entrance to the bath tub.
You would think they had been out on
pasture for six months, from the speed
they show as they gallop down to the
stable entrance. They Chamber over
each other in their efforts to get into
the water.
"I'l venture to say that a horse
would make a break for the stable
I'D the stall to get the second meal OF
me day, If worked as hard as one OF
those mules, and would pass Try the
bath. But not so with those mules.
Hungry as they must be. they rush
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

to the shower pipe with their noses
IN order to call the attention of the
stablemen to their desire for a show
er bath. One evening the stablemen
were in somewhat of hurry and tried
to get the mules out of the water with
out the shower. One animal, more de-
termined than the rest, refused to be
driven out, and the water was turned
on to obllge that particular mule. This
saved time, as the mule is q pretty
difficult object even for dozen men
to handle, especially In the water
Washington Post.
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is the appointment Clerk; George Johhnes 10
the disbursing officer and c. w. Spicer Is the
mechanical expert. In addition to these are
the chiefs of the divisions under the chief sta
tistician.
There are about $50 permanent clerks and
5000 temporary clerks, etc. The supervisors
numbered $50 and they employed and directed
the $4,000 enumerators. About 1000 chief
special agents and assistant special agents.
The supervisors also employed 1000 clerks, 500
special agents and 1000 interpreters to assist
them in the direction of the enumerators.
The data relating to population is trans
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LuiLt Bath for Mine Mules

veterinarians were convinced that a
daily bath would prolong the life anc
the yigor of the mules which they
used in the mines. AT any rate, they
built big bath about 40 feet long
and something like four feet deep, near
the entrance to the stables. The
mules are pretty tired as you can I'M
agine,. at. the end of a days work.
But you should see them race froNa
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08
Masterpiece of Glass Work

as great puzzle as the story it illustrates.
Breval refers to 1t as 'the famous vase of
chaedony;" Nilsson calls it an agate; Bartoll
a sardonyx: while Caylus and others correctly
decided that 1t was made of glass. The blue
body was first formed and while still red hot,
coated over as far as the bas reliefs were in
tended to reach with semiopaque white glass
the delicate figure being afterwards cut down
to the blue ground in the same manner as with
real canoes.
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ferred to manila cards, by the punching Of
holes in them to correspond with the different
items in the schedules. An electrical machine
controlled by clerk punch holes in 5000
cards day. Three hundred of these were
used and 90.000,O00 cards were ordered.
After the punching the cards are handled
into an electric tabulating machine with
pin-box" attachment which permits the re-
quired pins to pass through the variously
placed holes In the cards, in this establishing
an electric circuit resulting in the tabulation
Of the items on counters which register their
results in printing on spoiled paper somewhat
like a stock ticker" There are 100 of these
machines. After certain comparisons to prove
accuracy, the schedules are permanently pre-
served in a. great iron safe in the census bu-
reau. AS the card does not contain the name
of the persons for whom it stands, all personal
identity is eliminated from the cards. All dam
ger Of misuse of such information disappears.
Severe penalties are provided in case any en-
ployee discoses census information to outsid-
ers The next step Is the making of the maps
and tables to accompany the analyses, and
then, finally the issue Of the printed bulletins
and reports Before July /, 1912, the work
must be over and the thirteenth census gone
to join its scientific ancestors
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

The life of the city boy is indeed
hard. No more Fourth of July, no
more halloween and an increase in
the number Of vacation schools is only
matched by condemnation of moving
ofcture shows.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08

Aviation is becoming extremely
Drofitable-if not for the country, GER
kainly for the aviators. But the cash
Inducements to risk life and limb
cause the science of airship building
TO get a move on.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-12-08
Reason for Strange Names.

A little colored girl appeared on
one of the city Fairgrounds the other
day, accompanied by two pickanin-
MES, who, she explained. were cousins
Of hers, visitors in Newark. What
are their Names" asked the young
woman in charge of the playground.
aida Overture Johnson and Lucia
Eextette Johnson" the girl answered.
"You see their papa used to work for
opera Newark News.