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~ EORGE ADE is in gr

~ EORGE AIDE is in great demand an
w best man at weddings.
At recent wedding breakfast in Chi
cago Mr.. Ade said in the course of a
toast:
Il have often been asked why / never
married. l came very near marrying
once. The girl was beautiful, and I sat
down at my typewriter one night TO
propose to her in a passionate love
poem. The first line of this poem end
ed with cupid. j made thorough
search. but l found that the only word
that rhymes with cupid is stupid.
This made me hesitate Mr.. AIDE con-
cluded, ''and I've hesitated ever since.
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in Brazil, and our manufacturers are
meeting and vanduishing the European
traders in their own hitherto undis-
ties.
The future holds great promise for
the United States in Brazil. There is
better public regard for this nation
than has existed in Brazil for many
years We are the heaviest purchaser
of Brazil's two leading exports, coffee
and rubber, and this fact creates
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perience to buy mans hat with a
foreign brand and find under the sweat
band label of some Danbury hatters'
union. While the Italian hatters 'ast
winter were making strenuous efforts
to pick up the trade dropped by the
belliserent nations, large Sac Paulo
store put in a stock of American mats.
In three weeks the Brazilian merchant
sold every one of them, while his for
eign hat stock was still practically
complete.
So it is in steel. American steel tops
the Brazilian market in its reputation:
In the United States We are accustomed
to hear the assertion that the frequency
of certain types of railroad wrecks is
due to the inferiority of American steel
rails; yet in Brazil American rails.
bridge materials ana other heavy steer
used in railroad construction Is pre-
ferred to the steel from Europe, even
by British buyers.
In fact, the agent for the steel COM
pany told me that he owed many OF
his most successful sales to the arsu-
ment that the use of European steel DIV
public service corporations In Brazil
might some day result in charges OF
manslaughter, if accidents should oc-
cur on account of structural delecIs.
American steel is higher in price tnah
that supplied by Europe. but it comes
to the buyer guaranteed, having peeh
subjected to rigid tests before deliv-
cry, tests which no European corpora
tion is willing to meet.
With the single exception of struc-
tural steel for buildings, in all lines OF
American steel there has developed
greatly increased demand in Brazil
since the war started. The result is
that steel is the leading American ar
ticle in the Brazilian market from the
standpoint of the value of sales. The
steel company means to hold the new
business it has thus acquired at the
expense of Europe. and it is going
about it in the right way.
Other articles in which American
business men are gaining the lead in
Brazil are shoes. sewing machines, cash
registers, cheap automobiles. talking
machines, shirtings. collars, wind mills,
typewriters and similar products. prin-
cipalIy of the non-competitive type 1t
is estimated by our consuis and COM
mercia1 agents that there could be a
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community of commercial interest
which implies that our sellers may
hold most of the trade they are picking
up as a result of the war in Europe.
Since Italy has Joined the war an
other great field for American traders
has been opened up. The Italians have
been very strong in Brazirs most
popular state, Sac Paulo. In fact. there
has been more colonization in Brazil
by the Italians and Germans than by
any other European populations, ex-
cept the Portuguese, the Germans hav-
ing settled largely in the southern dis
tricts, particularly in Rio Grande do
Sui.
AS in the other countries of South
America. SO in Brazil the chief trade
struggle of the future will center about
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~ "a, present Americans are not going
aoout IT in the right way to hold the
tppahpe.ltive tp business in Brazil. Take
instance. The first American coal sbins
are now being seen in the two great
brazlllan ports of Rio de Janeiro and
santos. The coal is selling we'll, in
spite or one or two disappointing ex-
perlences Tor buyers; but that this coal
Is selling at all is due more to the
partial shutting off of the British sup
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= OBERT P. SKINNER, Consul Gen.
eral at London, Now in Washington,
Is the Embodiment Of a Typical American
Career-His Work at Various Posts Where
He Has Been Assigned by the Department
Of State-The Controversy With England
Over American Commerce.
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In the immediate future. for the next
generation at least. we may expect the
greatest agriculture development to oc-
cur in the Argentine. The impetus
which the agriculture of that nation
has already received may be expected
to carry it forward more rapidly than
the agriculture of neighboring repub-
lies will develop The prairies of the
cooler regions of Argentina are now
producing their abundance of cattle and
grain, while pioneers are being pushed
northward into the fertile but relative
ly unoccupied areas of the northern,
tropical portions of that nation. Here
there is room to take care of the ex-
pansion for generation to come.
But eventually Argentina herself will
feel the press of hungry industrial
masses upon her farm production,
which will follow the lines of farming
evolution in the United States. As her
lands increase in value-and already
there are evidences of this in the more
populous sections of the republic-the
great ranges will be divided and sub
divided into smaller farms; the forage
for cattle will no longer be cheap. and
the Argentine, too, will be forced to
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now. more and more. be forced to look
for food to the less-develped areas
where growth of towns and cities has
not yet been manifested in greatly in
creased costs of food production.
1t is perhaps incongruous. in this
year of the largest crops with which
nature has ever blessed the United
States. to speak of our own dwindling
food production. as expressed in terms
of cost of production. OF all food prod
ucts. experience has shown that meat
is the first TO be affected by the en-
croaching of industry upon agricui
ture: and in this very year of plenty
our Department of Agriculture has con-
cluded an exhaustive investigation
which shows that it is not caprice on
the part of the American farmers which
i. causing the present high prices of
meats, but the working out of inexor-
able economic laws.
If these conclusions are sound. Ameri-
can meats will never again be cheap.
American farms can never again pro-
duce an oversupply of beef. For this
greatest staple of food the United
States itself must begin to look to the
newer, from the standpoint of develop
Inent, regions of the earth; and we shall
find the first most promising region in
South America.
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Made RcA Monopoly the Worlds
Trade Present Making Great Strides
Country Vnqushng Those
in Amenc Methods and Sdeighs on Trade Conditions
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ences were put in unofficial form in a
very interesting book
Consular officials are not usually eX-
pected to go outside their inmedia te
field. but they are expected to become
sympathetic to their environment
through the knowledge of the Ian
guage in their intercourse with the
community in which they are station
ed. When they go beyond this and
manifest a sympathetic knowledge of
something beyond commerce their in
fuence is enhanced.
The home of Mistral, the poet who
revivff1ed the language and literature
of Provence, was not far from Mar
seille. Some sympathetic and appre-
ciatve articles on NJ stral added to
the good opinion which the French
people had of Consul General Skinner.
While he was at MarSe lie the con-
sular system was in process of evolu-
ton. Under Secretary Roots direc-
ton. merit was supplanting spoils VIII
bur ]. Carr. director of the consular
service, whose career is itself based
on merit. was working out the details.
The State Department was trying to
impress on Congress the Importance
of insuring good men permanency in
the service by whatever means they
had entered 1t. and also of ending
many past evils by providing civil
service tests for entrance and by MAX
ing promotion depend on merit.
Under the new system the consul
general at Marseille naturally was pro-
NOTED to Hamburg when d vacancy
occurred at that post. He was there
during President Tafts administration,
when Secretary Knox adjusting
vexatious tariff questions with Ger
many under the maximum and mini
mum provision of the Aldrich Payne
law.
1t was matter of course that Skin
ner's reports" would be full o. pithy in
formation. They were, in fact, arse ais
of intelligence. on which the State De-
partment drew But since trade dip.o-
macy has become the settled policy OF
the United States, something more IS
required of consul than ability to
make illuri mating reports. He must
also be able to make representations to
officials at the post to which he is ac-
credited, and to discuss questions with
them much as the minister or ambas-
sador at the capital discusses diplomatic
questions.
Consul General Skinner proved fully
equal to this situation, and showed
himself typically American in the man.
ner in which he handled the questions
intrusted to him at Hamburg.
When change in national admins
tration occurred in the United States
there was brief period of uncertainty
as to the future Of the consular service.
in favor of the merit system as an aca-
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the sale of so-called competitive prod
ucts. With reasonable effort and con-
sideration for the market, Americans
may be expected to hold almost en-
tirely the trade they have picked up
since the war started. in the sale of
such specialties as shoes, drugs. ma
chinery and the like.
But Germany already has announced
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her intention of regaining the COM
petitive trade she has lost in South
America, and the other warning ma
tions will undoubtedly seek to regain
what they have had to abandon. There
fore the Americans will be forced to
strain their energy and utilize their
utmost resourcefulness if they are not
to be driven out of this field again.
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house which handles many American
porducts gives as its first specific ltion
with its American orders that goods
should be properly packed, and, as its
second, that the orders be accurately
filed. Since this firm has had much
experience in handling American goods.
1t is unnecessary to comment on the
significance of these specifications.
Another thing to remember is that
the Brazilians speak the Portugue sc
language and have an antipathy for
Spanish. Consequently when the Bra
lillian merchant receives catalogue in
Spanish he usually tosses it contemp-
tuously into the waste basket, although
he is usually able to understand every
word of 1t.
An annoying habit that many Amer
leans seem to have is that of sending
out foreign mail with insufficient post
age. Brazilians and South Americans
generally are continually receiving
mail with short postage. Since by law
most of the South American countries
collect penalties in such cases in addi-
tfon to the postage due, it can be read
lily seen how an American firm. care
less in this respect, might estrauge it's
friends by its laxness.
One of the principal needs of Amer
lean trade in Brazil is the establish
ment of agencies such as exist on the
west coast of South America. Now is
the time for Americans to test the truth
of the assertion that the personal and
sentimental side of business in Span
ish America is equally as important as
the price and quality of goods.
Business in Brazil is now poor. so
poor that it would not seem to justify
American firms in establishing branches
there at this time. But Americans on
the ground testify that this is really
the golden opportunity for Americans,
because in many lines the European
agencies are practically out of the mar
ket.
1t is the opportunity for our sa'@s-
men to learn the methods and the per-
sonnel of the trade and thus be pre-
pared to meet the competition on equal
terms when the struggle for supremacy
begins.
Copyright, 1915. by Robt E. wilson,
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structural steel. but also the lighter
steel products. such as barb wire, nail
wire, sheet steel. and so forth. The
steel corporation has had a broad foreign
experience and has learned the lesson of
keeping stocks of its commod ties in the
principal markets abroad: therefore one
is not surprised to find great ware
house IN Rio de Janeiro maintained by
the United States Steel Corporation and
filed with its products.
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1t takes a visit to foreign markets.
where American products are selling
in competition with those Of Europe. to
make US appreciate the merit of our
own wares. When one sees the wealth.
lest and most appreciative sections of
South America advertising conspicu-
ously the American origin of goods as
a testimonial of their merit. while not
paying a like compliment to similar
goods from European factories. it
makes one wonder why the Made in
L. S. A." hallmark is not universally
used in our own country.
o. In Brazil. for instance. American hats
are cutting into the British. Italian,
Austrian and French trade, and yet in
the United States 1t is a common eX-
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demic proposition. but how he would
stand on it as proposition of practi-
cal politics was not known. Secretary
Bryan was more receptive than he
commonly is credited with, althoue ii
he thought that merit as u permanent
system should not be accepted until
his own party had about one-half the
consuls.
When the situation squarely con
fronted them. neither President Wilson
nor Secretary Bryan was ready to en-
danger the service by overturning pro-
motions based on merit. In conse-
quence. Consul General Skinner, after
several years of valuable experience at
Hamburg. with its commercial inter-
course with all the world, was pro-
NOTED to Berlin.
The capital OF Germany offers excellent
opportunities for surveying the whole in
dustrial and commercial structure of the
German empire. The State Department
knew that with Mr. Skinner there it al
ways would have complete and well di-
gested Information
The sudden death of John L. Griffith,
the American consul general in London.
offered another opportunity. Under the
system of promotion. based on merit, there
was little question who would be pro
moted to fill the vacancy. The consul
general at Hamburg was the natural
selection, and Mr.. Skinner was trans
ferred from Berlin to London He us-
suned the responsibilities of the new post
a most coincident with the breaAing out
of the world war
How busy the London consulate has
been during the last fifteen months is
known only to those who have had bust
ness there. They know how effe lively
their matters have been handled The
making of vigorous report on the
British as well as the American COM
merce with the neut-a al gatewayS 10 Ger
nany was merely an incident in the gem
eral work of the consul gener His
presence in Washir gton to cen Ter with the
state Department is also an in ilent 1t
Illustrates Low typical American areer
n'ay !. @rvnone1 u d voring IN.
stances by typical American. CMP,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
FEWER DIVORCES IN MERRILL
Lincoln County Has But One For
Eight Marriages.

MERRILL, WIS. - Cupid works
with deadlier effect and better aim in
Lincoln county than through the ma
tior generally, apparently. Only che
out of each eight marriages performed
ia the county breaks up in the divorce
court, while the average of the nation
is one of each six weddings ending in
tears and alimOny.
During the last year and four
months, twenty-five couples aired their
domestic tribulations in circuit court
and obtained he judges signature to
papers which would permit them to
seek other mates. In this same time
169 other couples used marriage IL
censes. hardly believing in the law of
averages Seven to eleven years is
the average length of wedde life Of
tEOs applying to the courts for separa
tions, and incompatibility of tempera-
ment is the paramount cause for the
applications.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
JUSTICE TIMLIN HAS
A new MOUTH MADE
Badger JuriSt Calmly Watches
Unique Operation.

CHICAGO. ILL. - Justice William
Fl. Timlin of the Wisconsin Supreme
court is at the Presbyterian hospital
recovering from an operation said to
be unique in the history of surgery.
The operation was performed last
week by Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan.
While Justice Timlin, who is sixty-twO
years old, watched the proceedings
calmly DR.. Bevan removed large can
cerOus growth from the jurist's face.
Then, bit by bit, the PHYSICIAN re-
moved strips of flesh from other parts
of the face which were uncOntam-
mated by the growth and fashioned
new mouth.
Because of Justice Timlin's age and
general condition DR.. Bevan decided
that it would be dangerous to admin
lister a more than local anesthetic.
The patient therefore was fully con-
scicus and during the operation he
evinced the greatest interest in what
was going on.
AT the hospital it was reported that
the justice is we'll on the way to re-
covery. Justice Timlin has been Op-
Grated on twice within six weeks The
first operation removed a growth from
the lower jaw.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
"SILVER JOE" FEARS PLANT
Photograph Is Discovered Hidden in
Office of Sheriff.

SUPERIOR, WIS. Enter the
photograph in Superior politics which
have been warmed up practically the
whole life of the commission form of
city gOvernment-more than two
years--due to a perpetual warfare on
Mayor "Silver Joe" Konkel Sheriff
George COmminsky, who was the
candidate of the anti-recall forces at
the fall election for the office he won,
has discovered a photograph in his
office, hidden behind molding near
the ceiling, and the wire followed
telephone wire to another room
Whether use has been made of the
instrument or the plant" was made
for the future, is uncertain, but it is
believed the latter theory is the
more plausible.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN
Farmer Discovers Steel Rail Across
Track and Warns Engineer.

NEW RICHMOND, WIS. - An
unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck the southbound Twilight Linn
tied, the fast train on the Omaha be-
tween Minneapolis and Superior, by
placing a steel rail across the track a
mile and a half north of Clayton, WIS.
A farmer walking home on the track
discovered the obstruction, which he
was unable to move, so he secured a
lantern and ran north to flag the train.
The train was six minutes late out of
long grade at high rate of speed,
when the farmer with the lantern was
sighted. The engineer managed to
bring the train to a halt few rods
from the barrier.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05

lature to be composed of three assem-
blymen and two senators. One object,
according to the wording Of the resO-
luton, is to inquire into the truth OF
charges that many students succeeded
iii evading payment of nonresident
dues.
Consideration OF Appropriations.
Various phases of university admin,
istration will be inspected by commit
tees of the legislature All apprCpri-
alton bills, including those for the
state university. will be given detailed
consideration by the joint committee
on finance. The investigation of the
university made by the state board Of
public affairs will soon be made pub
lie, and the findings of the board will
be used as a guide for the legislature
in it's consideration Of university ap-
preparation bills.
Despite the fact that much attention
is being given to the affairs of the
states greatest educational institution.
the attitude of the legislature toward
tile university is not considered I'M
friendly, i'll fact, it seems generally
appreciated here that the general
public would rise up against anything
resembling an unfriendly movement
having as it's object anything which
might be considered dangerous to the
university.
The high license question has again
bobbed up in the legislature A
movement is we'll developed here in
the interest of law fixing the mini
mum saloon license fee in Wisconsin
as $500. Assemblyman Prescott has
such a bill for Milwaukee, and this
measure will form the basis of the
general discussion of the license sub
ject A bill is being prepared which
provides a schedule of license fees,
providing different fee for sale of
liquor and the sale of beer. In this
measure the amount fixed for saloons
that sell only beer will be $500 Pc
titions are already coming in from
Milwaukee opposing high license.
here that the breweries are against
the proposed increased upon the
ground that it will put out of bust
ness the so-called "neighborhood sa-
Loom which is said to be the most
h2rInless of all saloons.
States Policy on Forestry.
A new bill outlining the states pol
icy in regard to forestration and the
general question of forestry is be-
ing drawn and will soon be intro
duced. The new bill will retain the
present forestry reserve. 1t is under
stood that the measure will provide
that all land in the reserve suitable
for agricultural purposes shall be
thrown open by the state for sale and
settlement. The recent decision of
the supreme court checking the
activities of the forestry department
and the introduction of new bill
means that the whole question of for
estry will be discussed and that big
delegations will come here to take
it will require three or four weeks
for The drafting of the bills, which
means that the hearings may not he
set for more than month from now.
To add color to the general up
heayai in this matter, State Forester
Griffith has announced that he will
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
JOY Brings on Madness.

GREEN BAY, WIS. = Insanity
resulted when S. Olsen returned after
an absence of seven years and looked
Joy at being at home again, after
wandering entirely around the world,
drove him stark mad.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
Affairs of Institution VIII Be
Gone Over by SOIOnS.
THEIR ATTITUDE is FRIENDLY
High License Subject Again Before
gislature-Prescott Bill Will Form
Basis For General Discussion-MeaS
ure Outlining States Policy on For
estry to Be Presented Soon.

Madison, Wis, (SpeciaD .-Consid-
cradle Importance has been attached
to the fee to be charged by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin of nonresident
students. In his inaugural message,
Governor E. L. Philip touched upon
this question and said that it was a
matter which should be taken up by
the Legislature. Senator Barwig holds
the same view as shown by the fact
that he has offered a joint resolution
providing for an investigation of this
subject by committee of the legis-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-03-05
CHURCH DESTROYED BY FIRE
Stevens Point EpiscopaIians Lose Edi-
fic; Damage Exceeds Insurance.

STEVENS POINT, WIS. = The
Episcopal Church of the Intercession
was extensively damaged by fire.
Smoke was discovered coming from
the basement by women cleaning the
building. The exact location could
OF be ascertained for some time and
finally blaze began running up inside
of the walls in many places.
The building was insured for $500
and indications are that the loss will
exceed that amount considerably.
The daily progressive-miner., 1915-10-07
BRITISH HOPE TO BREAK
 THROUGH GERMAN LINES

LONDON. Oet.6-A correspondent of the London Times in his report received today says in part:
 "'Some people talk as if there existed an endless series of German positions. Of course, we are ignor- ant of their number, but it may be said that it Is strictly limited, since fortified positions are not the work of moment. but of arduous labor.
 .fThe enemy is suffering heavily in guns and men and even if he gets plenty of re-enforcements, he suf- fering a strani of the most harrassing kind, and his resistance weakens with the loss of each position.
 eff men and munitions are forth coming to the Allies, the fall may still see the maneuver battle on a grand scale for which the world has been waiting.'