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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-07

Tobacco is a weed which is raised at
great care and expense in the night
riding portions of the United States
and elsewhere, and it is totally consum-
ed by fire later on, there being no in
surance. In fact, three-quarters OF the
arson in the world is committed upon
tobacco. Every day million dollars
of tobacco goes up in smoke, and yet
no effort is made to protect it with as
bestos or to make it freproof in any
particular Tobacco was first used by
the Indians and was discovered by Sir
Walter Raleigh, who made seegars out
of it and used them to divert his mind
from his seasickness on his way back
to England. When Sir Walter lighted
up his first cigar in England and began
blowing double rings of dense smoke
through his mouth and nose and ears
his servant threw a pail of water over
him and called out the fire department.
This method of breaking the cigar
habit is not in vogue today. Tobacco
can be smoked, chewed, inhaled or
eaten with equally distressing effects
upon those who do not use it. Most
boys begin the use of tobacco at the
age of ten and continue it until their
fathers discover the fact after which
they discontinue the custom until they
are too large to thrash. Tobacco read
ily becomes a habit and fastens talons
of steel upon its victims, who will
sometimes sell their vote or their ever
lasting friendship for good cigar.
There are many kinds of tobacco. Some
kinds will remove the lining of the
throat neatly in a few minutes, and
smoke like rarified velvet. Some to-
bacco, when smoked, will attract the
attention of the health department four
blocks away, while other kinds when
made into cigars sell for 81 apiece and
make kings content with their jobs.
The United States could have million
dollars a day by refraining from to-
bacco. This would be glorious if we
could be convinced that the million
would not be spent for gasoline or cab
aret dinners. Essay by Geo. Fitch.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-07

If it were the intention of the big
operators to put the price of the pres
ent crop so high as to effectually shut
out the local packers, they have admir-
ably accomplished it. Fifteen cents
for raw Wisconsin tobacco as it comes
from the farms means 20 cents in the
cases without any provisions for dam
age that might occur in the cure later.
Then the carrying charges on high
priced tobacco in insurance, interest,
etc., count up mighty fast, so the little
fellows are practically pinched out of
the game as it is now being played.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-07
Business Directory.
Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics.

Tobacco growing began in Wisconsin
30 years ago.
Is counties now produce tobacco.
az. 200 acres We're grown in 1912.
Average yield in Wisconsin about
so. 600 600 pounds.
Brings Wisconsin farmers annual in
come of S6,000,000
81. 100000 spent annually Tor handIlng,
storage and insurance.
EdgertOn has:54 warehouses on 1nSur-
ance map.
The sixth important agricultural in
dustry in the state.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-07

When the price reaches 15 cents for
raw Wisconsin tobacco from the fields
no one but the manufacturers can stay
in the game. So when that price came
to be general several of the more con-
servative firms began to drop out and
the movement since has lost much of
it's force. 1t is only question OF
short time when the big operators will
have their orders filled and at least 40
per cent of the crop will be left to take
the best offer obtainable There seems
to be about the usual amount OF late
and small leaf that generally finds
stemming market, the price OF which
has not yet been fixed. The most of
the large crops contained more or less
Of this class of leaf and it will be pass
ing strange if the top price has not
been paid for some of it, for In the
hurry Of the buying close inspection
of all sheds could hardly be expected.
Delivery day will tell whether our sur
misses are correct or not.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-11-07
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

No buying movement ever developed
into such wild scramble as that which
followed when the big operators re-
leased their buyers and sent them
swarming over the state ten days ago.
It was a whirlwind campaign while it
lasted and probably never before was
so much tobacco contracted for in a
given time as in the rush week when
automobiles, telephones and other
means of quick connections were
brought into use. The rush came so
quickly that growers in many cases
were caught unprepared, and prices
jumped so quickly that many now be-
moan the fact that they might have
secured more money if they only had
the hardihood to ask it. The simple
fact is, very few growers expected
such figures and actually received sew
eral cents more per pound than they
ever intended to ask. A pure gift OF
million or so dollars to the Wisconsin
tobacco growers is certainly not to be
despised. 1t is mostly all outside money
and it falls where it will do heap OF
good. Already it is assured that the
wheels of business in the tobacco grow
ing sections will be nicely creased for
the next twelve months, bank accounts
will be fattened, interest promptly
paid and many luxuries indulged in that
were not thought of.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25

Tone die on November 10, 1898. II
was believed by thousands of Irish,nen
at the time and even since that he
had been killed to avoid the entansle-
ments that might otherwise arise. and
that the suicide story was trumped up
by some one in power. Considerable
was made of the fact that being a
British prisoner it seemed strange that
the government should have allowed
him to keep a knife in his cell.
Wolfe Tones son. who later became
an officer in the United States army,
thought his father might have COM
mitted suicide to avoid the disgrace of
hanging. 1t also has been said that
he did not use a knife. but. instead.
used a silver six-pence, which he was
able to sharpen to a razor edge on the
stone DOR of, his cell.
AS to how Wolfe Tone met his death
probably never will be known. Suf-
fering the agony of mind that he was
to be hanged as a traitor. and that they
would not let him die as a patriot
should die. he may have XII. ed himself
or h British government may have
found that the easiest way out of their
dilemma was not to hang him after all.
and to avoid publicity TO kill him i'll an
other way.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
Capitalization and Labor

The capitalization of fictitious wealth
represented mostly by water, Is a fruitful
means OF oppression. In the great still
plant there Is said to be 81, 900, 600, 600 of
water and upon this the world pays in
terest--so to a greater or less extent in
untold other corporations.
Ihere Is no such amount OF money in
the country as is represented by the stock
of the various combinations.
Keir Hardie lately said that capitaliza-
ton has reached it's fullest development
III the United States and that l per cent
OF the population owned 20 per cent of its
wealth.
A curious thing happened at a breakfast
table recently showing how a small
amount OF real money put into circulation
goes a long ways. At the table sat 10
men. MIR. Jones took out a $40 bill and
handing 1T to Mr.. Williams said, .'That
pays for the wood you sent me- Will
Jams passed 1t to Fitz saying, That will
settle my grocery bill" Fitx handed 1t to
Thomas with. THAT finishes paying for
my wagon" Thomas passed 1t to Taylor
saying, THAT on my suit of Clothes
Taylor passed it to Gibbons with, THAT
avs for your work. Gibbons hands it to
Anderson with. THAT pays for papering
my office" Anderson handed 1t over to
David with, $50 much for your clerk
hire David handed 1t back to Anderson
1or a bill of store goods: Anderson then
gives 1t to O'Brien for an express bill.
OBrien hands 1t to Palmer for ironing a
set of hobs. whereupon Palmer. hands It
to the landlord in settlement of his board
bili-so that in less than five minutes a SIC
bill paid 500 of debts.
The iniquity OF limiting production UNI
der the p%retense of an overstocked mar
ket Is detestable to thinking people, awak-
ening something of the honor which we
FELT some time ago at seeing the state
ment that a train load of bananas had
been dumped into the water rather than
they should feed the hungry fcw-or de-
press the price by being thrown on the
market. "Over-production." Nonsense
there never han beeA a time when there
has been too much food In the pantry. or
too much furniture in the house, or too
much clothing In the closet, or too much
coal In the cellar of the working mans
house.
h Shibboleth OF over-production means,
boldl that the working mans wages are
not sufficient to buy what he n%eeds-the
consequence OF this Over-production fetish
ID that we have thousands of unemployed.
A man is coming to such little jobs as can
DO found for him from time to time-a
straight. clean, well-favored. honest man,
yet one of scores tramping the streets all
winter trying for steady work to meet
their necessities.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25

Homer tells us that Tantalus was up u
his chin in wafer yet unable to Quench
his tormentfng thirst-that fruit being be-
You'd his head yet beyond his reach. True.
some wise men tell us that the passage in
the Homer is spurious, and others say
that Homer's book was not at all written
by Homer, but by some other man by the
name of Homer. Be that as 1t may the
figure OF Tantalus fittingly represents .
willing active man out of work and fam
ishing in the midst of plenty.
Carlyle says somewhere that the I'M
employed are like Midas-reduced to the
point OF starvation while surrounded by
wealth which their own touch (their labor)
has called into ~being-with abundance Of
food, fuel and ratment all about, and yet
they cannot reach what they sorely need.
We may have improved since Carlyle's
day, but there Is still plenty Of room for
betterment. 1t would seem that govern
ment could by taxation take a hand in
this-the power to levy an income tax en-
ables the removal Of the tariff from the
necessities of life.
1t Is difficult to tell what our socialists
desire. In fact restless though they are
and may we'll be. yet few of them seem to
agree upon any supposed remedy. h
single tax advocated by Henry George ap-
peared to have many points in its favor
the taxing OF unfmprOved land adopted by
the British government Is removing q
great burden from the people and placing
1t upon those great areas of land which,
under their system paid no taxes-and It
would seem that the extension OF the prin-
ctple both In England and in the United
S~tates-putting the tax on the land, taxing
It's unearned increment. would relieve In
dustry wonderfully Inc Oblige land hold
ers to either put their land to use or soil
at fair prices to those who want to use It.
instead OF sitting down and having their
land grow into millions through the indus
try of their neighbors.
1t may not be quite as simple as the
patent medicine that cures everything
but 1t is the bound duty of every gov
ernment-not Gespotic-to seek the well
being OF the whole community. r
The rapid increase OF natural wealth
side by side with more rapidly increas-
ing individual poverty, argues something
fearfully out OF point-all wage-earning
classes, whether laborers, skilled work
ers or professional ministers find 1t In
creasingly difficult to make their earning
afford a comfortable support.
a philosopher once enlarging to VIM.
Cohbett. expressed the hope tina the day
would come when the poor man could.
after the days work, sit down. refresh
himself by reading Bacon. Goblet e
once. replied that II would he more to the
purpose II he could refresh himself by
eating bacon.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
WHO WERE THE
MOUND BUILDERS?
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In the central part of North America.
along the valleys OF the Mississippi and
the Ohio Rivers, from the Gulf OF Mex
leo to the Great Lakes, there are re-
Mains Of the works of an extinct race
Of people now known as h Mound
whence they came. and what became
of them is a mystery. 1t is supposed
that they were people akin to those
who settled in Mexico and Central
America. and that they were q very
different race from the North Ameri-
can Indians.
Is the Mound Builders idea a myth ?
Recent researches has put q vastly
different aspect on the question as to
whom these people were. and scent
atst0riAns have treated the subject
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
NOW DESCRIBED
AS YOUR SIXTH SENSE

The question OF now far q sub-con-
scious mind controls us has always
been great food for thought. Eminent
brain specialists M psychologists have
discussed the subject for centuries.
Which Is the s~tronger-Our conscious
self. or our sub~-cOnSciOus self? In an
article published in Pictorial Review.
we find some astonishing facts that go
to show that we do possess a sixth
sense (sub-cOnsciOus mind) and in the
shape of a full fledged Guardian Angel.
Sometimes occurrences like these
have the decidedly practical value OF
leading to action that averts impending
disaster. know of one young lady
Wh0 walking along a quiet 0unt
lane. suddenly beheld in her minds eye.
a certain room in her house n saw
her mother lying on the fioor Of this
room. So impressed was she with the
belief that something had happened to
her mother that she ran to the house
OF the family doctor, took him to- her
home post-haste anf led him to- the
room I'm question. There. sure enough.
they found the mother unconscious
She had been stricken with an attack
OF heart failure that, according to the
physician, would have been fatal had
he NOT arrived when he did. The young
lady's father in confederation OF her
story. states:
Il distinctly remember being sur
prlSed by seeing my daughter in COM
pany with the family doctor, outside the
door of my residence and I asked Who
is i'll" She replied. Mamma She led
the way at once to my wife's room
where We found my wife lying in a
on the floor When asked
when she had bee taken i'll. l found 1t
must have been after my daughter had
left the house. None OF the servants
knew anything OF the sudden Illness
Another lady. the widow Of a Mon
tana mine owner. has told me that
once. sitting alona with her infant
child. who is now one of the Harvard
group OF promising young playwrights,
h heard a voice commands:
Take the child out OF the crib!'
Greatly frightened. she looked
around. but there was no one to be
seen. Indeed she had reason to be-
lieve that she and her son were for
the time quite alone in the house.
However the voice came again:
take the child out OF the crib!"
A third time the command was given
and she took the child up in her arms.
Scarcely had she done so when a heavy
bracket supporting a lighted lamp gave
way, letting the lamp fall into the crib
which was instantly in flames.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
Finds Gold Where Directed to pia.

Mayfteld, Calico to the bald peak
and wait until the setting sun casts
the shadow Of the dead redwood; then
dig where the shadow ends.
Such We're the directions received by
Steve Perkins, a Woo chopper of the
Alpine district. He is now richer by
$500. for the money was there in gold.
Twenty years ago Perkins saved the
life Ut Nathan COmstoGk. an eccentric
resident of WOodside. and the letter
just received was written by Comstoc..
who died Is years ago.
While the letter bore no identifica-
ton other than a San Francisco date
stamp recently affixed in the pvex
office Of that city. Perkins believes
that it w:x pasted by the executor IL
comstock's estate.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
How DID WOLFE O N
DIE?

among the Irish heroes. who have
sacriiiced everything even their lives
Ior o!ieir distressed country, no one has
q warmer place in the hearts OF all
true son; of Erin than Wolfe Tone no
en.s q tnere Is a great mystery sur
his death. He was captured
Dy the English. was tried, condemned
ana sentenced to death within "a hours,
Dut apparently the English were afraid
70 carry out their sentence. and Wolfe
zone died either by his own hand a
suicide. or the English truinDed nm :.
story to avoid getting themselves into
serious trouble.
rome was compelled to flee from his
country in 1875. He had founded the
Society Of the United Irishmen and had
combined Irish Protestants and Catho-
Hes IN opposition to the British govern
ment. and was implicated in a plan. TO
Irish coast. n
When circumstances compelled him
to leave Dublin he came to America
where he remained a year and then
went to France. There he was able
to persuade the French TO
equip an expedition for Ireland's aid.
He himself received the rank OF chief
Of brigade in the French army. Shortly
after the French fleet had sailed a
storm scattered 1t, n Zone and his
little. ship. the Hoche, was the only
m that reached England and was able
to engage h English fleet Of four mem
Of-war.
Tone fought like a demon against
impossible odds and his ship was SUM
and the crew surrendered. When the
Irish patriot was arrested, he said:
For the cause I feel prouder in my
chains than If I was decorated with
the Star and Garter of England. Be
court -martialed as a soldier he de-
manded a soldiers death. but instead
the English announced that they would
hang him. This brought on complica-
tfons. for one was a brigadier general
of h French army at the time. and
1t is said that they threatened, II Tone
was hung. that they would hang two
British prisoners of equal rank.
Moreover. as Wolfe Tone had not
been a British soldier. nor acknOwl-
edged by England to be a French Of
ficer. his trial by military u martial
was declared irregular. The British
government was in a Quandary Az to
Whist it should do. but the question
solved itself when the government an
nounced that the prisoner had cut his
throat with a penknife while confined
In his cell.
This story went well with the ene-
mics OF Ireland. and was hailed as a
happy solution of the difficulty. Wolfe
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
THE MERMAID INN.

Those who have read Elixabethan lit
c era .a ana who not, will appre-
IN Big Ben" the tale of which Bon jon
son is hero. All the romance OF the Eng
, AM Or Nash, Green. Kit Marlowe. Sir
these lines. set down wildly and surely.
Here Is that combination OF realism and
imagination which Ia seen only In the
SION and Jonson have been released
from prison and the fear of mutilation by
me good efforts OF Camden and selden.
They come down the street to the tavern
accompanted by a great crowd singing
this song:
Inc prentice whistles at break Of day
All under fair roofs and towers.
when the old Cheape Openeth every WAY
Her little sweet inns like flowers:
And he sings like a lark, both early and
TO think, Il his house take f,re.
At the good Green Dragon In Bishops
He may drink to his hearts desire.
CHORUS.
Or sit at his ease In the old Cross KEW
And drink to his hearts desire.
But I as ! walk by Red Rose Lane.
The swan. the Golden Hind. and the
Crane.
nv, WITH the door set wide for me:
Where the thirsty bees begin,
OF all the good taverns IN nglan
My choice is--The Mermaid Inn.
CHORUS
There is much to be said for The sarae
Gems Head.
There was a ~Prince-scng since. long
.since?-
To East-Cheape did resort,
For that he loved The Nue Bears Head
Far better than Crown or Court:
But old King Harry in Westminster
Hung up. for all to 800.
Three bells Of power in st. Stephens
Yea. bells Of a thousand and three.
CHORUS.
Three bells Of power In = timber owes
Thirty thousand and three.
For Harry the Fourth was q godly king
And loved great godly bells.
He bade them ring and he bade them
Till a nan might hear nought elise.
In every tavern 1t soureI the sack
With discord and with din;
Sut they drowned 1t all In a madrigal
Like this. at the Mermaid Inn.
CHORUS,
They 1t all In q madrigal
Like this, at the Mermaid Inn.
The Cardinals Hat is a very good inn.
And so IL the Puritan's Head;
But l knew a sign Of Wine. q Wine
is better when all IL said.
1t Is whittier than Venus. redder than Marc
II was old when the world begun;
For all good inns are moons or stars.
But the Mermaid IL their Sun.
CHORUS.
They are all slight like moons in the
But the Mermaid is their Sun.
Therefore. when priest or parson cries
That inns like flowers Increase.
I say that mine inn 10 q church Nkevfoa.
And I say to them BE at Peace!"
An host may gather in dark st. Paul'D
To salve their souls from sin:
three
Drink Wine N the Mermaid Inn.
CHORUS.
The Light may be where two or three
Drink Wine In the Mermaid Inn.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25

on the subject at the Forthcoming Free
.hurch council. and there Is every inten-
ton OF keeping the question alive in the
country.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-04-25
Others Ju.t q Qsed.
From the New York Sun.

Maple shortage feared.-Hsad-i
line.
Fortunately the supply Of sinaple,
syrup IL not dependent upon the sec-
centrfctties Of sap. Brown the buck.
wheats and pour on POLITICALLY nance
stun. In h best times maple ouauHi
can usually prove an altbk.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-08-22
1oma 9tatsuoitiHtno.

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tie &iraooQ oabncoc$ / 9c5 WfoiueS
for at oc0bIipe til ToraooQ Niten no.
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lloitluiuNcr, iom Stotcn bar iors
oritultct. &c uoitiue0e Ncite, &rco.
tllrcr ~ andre Su4opr bar en- iam.
LET %Ur0i Al 70 Mfiuiorer Gollor5,
"a ! &rUYnicr nil ser 0cunc Sang
blipe uN0cIt $4,000. SoiIte iTrenl.
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flor. 9}UUneS fan set oRiua, at
Observation-Disclosures omiotter 1000
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gen Tor Tormmaifiueri, ser iour life
orffcr minOre emo 90 Acre3, % en-
iUritiIt Dag $780, nGite Wanoog, Den
25oe - er uoeIutfeuoe piet 6arm.
moitincr % &eoifaber. iomt sc
@}Gub, iom bonOler meb oiSie go.
rer.
&f iprIiq SntereSie for 6ormernc
pil Sc 6oreorog % 0cmonitrotioner
bPre, iom 2Grcre pco Staten8 2aub.
britgSitoIe har ioranItaltet for at be.
fipmpe Sotnefolero, % &ofcinutiolr
meb Serum oil Der ioretogCS / 8lt.
bIifums Gaaipn. Ser oil oaiaa Dol.
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boLoning, gliaIiooprfnins og mango
ANDRE Siug ~pe0reren0e Sor0brug %
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SITE minore ~iuteresiant oil Sel,
lloitiaing pare, iom StoteuS 2auoc.
oeisfommi$iiou bar iorauitoItet, %
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UGret beifiGftiget meb Spsrgsmoa.
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Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1913-08-22
J~noiamlin9en til
Winoeeapen.

Eli at pGre bebiplpelise / grbei-
bet meo Snbiamlingen til Den notio.
naIe Minoeeope til Rorge bar hi an.
lat islaenoe Snoiamlere:
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napute Giitrifter oe b%empnoi5et til
at mootaec gibrag til @sinbegaOer.
Suffering pil bIipe aipet ! gpiierre.
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