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Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
SWAMP ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE

When your back aches, and your blad.
der and kidneys seem to be disordered, re-
member it is needless to suffer-go to your
nearest drug store and get bottle of DR..
kilmers Swamp-Root. 1t is a physicians .
prescription for diseases of the kidneys
and bladder.
1t has stood the test of years and has
. reputation for quickly and effectively
giving results in thousands of cases.
This prescription was used by DR.. Kill
mer in his private practice and was SO
very effective that it has been placed on
sale everywhere. Get a bottle, soc and
el.00, at your nearest druggist.
However, il you wish FIRST to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
HEALTH HAD
GOT rundown
But cardui Built Up Her Health
And Strength So She Could
Do Her Work.

Etowah, Tenn,-"About 3 years ago" /"
writes Mrs. Lille Garden, Of this place,
II first took Cardul. Dr. - said
| was suffering with liberation
and turned over TO one side.
suffered grcut pain In lower abdomen
and back. For or years the
had been Irregular and came about
every . weeks, and suffered great
pain. Would crnmp so couldn't sc,
up and do my work. Sometimes the
come too much. which seemed 90 cause
me TO suffer very much. ! would be
up and down In the bed Tor or :
days. When I'd take the Cardul
through the period. the would
be less and not last so long-only
something like 3 days, and the suffer
ing would be entirely relieved.
My health had got rundown and the
Cardui would build up my health ant
strength and keep me going and ou
of bed so l could do my work. II hur
me to even sweep my floor when
began II, but got so I could do thu
most of my work, and didn't sufrel
any more, had no more cramps"
Cardui, the woman's tonic hn'
proven Its efficacy In the treatment o
womaniy troubles. Try it.-Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
Kent His Promise.

A weaver, who had evidently got
tired of married life, was one day TAX
ing walk with his wife. Suddenly
he espicd dead dog lying In the mid
die of the rond. When they came close
to IL he said to his wife:
"Nah. Mary. thee stand on that side
and I'll stay on this"
Having taken up their respective po
sitions. the husband said:
"Nah. lass. when | got wed to thee
| promised tn parson nowt but dentl
nd part us, and I'm of"
Then Mary tainted.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
Why She Wanted Il.

"Algy, l want you to buy me II
book"
II am glad you are becoming ut.
erary, my dear"
Fudge! This article SAYS one way
to acquire good carriage Is to prac-
Louisville Courier-JOurnal
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
The Traditional Wager

"Tm glad my wife Is In politics"
remarked Mr. Growcher.
"Why?"
"Maybe she will get rid of some of
those freak hats she has been buying
by paying thea out I'm election bets"
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
A Complicated Reasoner.

How are you going 10 vote this
fall?"
"Gonin' to vote the prohibition tick
et," replied Uncle BIZ Hu..lctop.
"But the other parties are strong
Tor killing of the demon rum"
That's jes' the point. The prohlbi
tion party is about the only party that
isn't liable to get pull enough to put
our township on the dry list"
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
William and Mary College.

At the far end Of Duke of Glouces-
ter street Williamsburg, Vn.) stands
william and Mary college, the second
oldest institution Of learning In, Amer
icn. from which such able men have
been graduated that II is hard to be-
lieve they were ever boys like those
of today, going about the grounds with
or without white flannel trousers (yOu
understand me, of course). viewed
them respectfully. "frcsidentsT
asked myself. II they had understood
and returned, "No; good mechanics" /"
1t would have been quite as impressive
an answer.-Louise Closer Hale In
lIarper's Magazine.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
Roadc In wisconaln

The good roads movement in Wis
cOns'n Is organizing In way that
seems certain to produce early sub
stantial results.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
A Solemn Warning.

DO you think our republic is In dan.
ger?"
Certainly not" replied Senator Sor.
ghum. ut is reasonably safe now.
All ] say Is that | shudder to think
of what may befnll II If should hap,
pen rot to be reelected"
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
Autos Paw 0esx.

An automobile load going through
the village spends more money there
than a dozen train loads passing the
depot. Good roads pny.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
One mistake many women make
In buying coffee

You know how hard It is to get coffee which really
satisfies you. You know how seldom you can find q
coffee which has the same fine taste and strength
every mornngl 1t can be done. You can do It If,
when you buy coffee. you are careful not to make
the mistakes so many women make. Read the
periences below-you yourself have undoubtedly had
one or both of them.
Beware Of loose coffee
Are you buying coffee which you get loose coffee which
hasn't been protected by sealed package'
Are you afraid that isn't cleara Has lost is aroma7
Are you often disappointed in ts strength?
grocers fault With coffee he can't be
that is the kind he got before. You always
the risk of getting different coffee every time you buy.
And If the coffee itself the same. can't be
kept loose without losing its strength and flavor
In packazes-proteetedl
You do away with every Of these dsappoinments
byorderng the million other families drink.
Arbuckles' Coffee Is such good coffee that way back
the sxties when all other coees the market loose
and Arbucts Bros protected theirs in sealed
packages This sealed package keeps the coees strength
and guards from moisture and store odors Most important
of all 1t makes for be that getting
the same good coffee every time you buy.
The second mistake women make
Old coffee with new names
Are you continually being the under
names? Under all sorts Of new blends2
Did you stop to think of the hundreds Of coHees
which and the market And that oil these have
tried to turn women away from Arbuckes' CoHees
Arbuckles Is the coffee which has gone right OUT always
under its disguised and held its simply
the wonderful value You know what good value
coffee be do this against the compeon Of 81 the
other cohees in AInerical
Used In q million homes
Settle. for all time. coffee problem. by giving
family the only coffee which million families have
proved to have the real coffee taste they want
When you get Arbuckles Coffee you get entirely DIFF
rent coffee No other coffee goes through the same process
in other coffee can you get the Sas good favor The
result of the Arbuckle Brothers taks h saectie IT, In
roasting and In packaspg It, gives an soasy different
coffee from any other on the market.
Order from your grocer today He hes H. b siter the
Whols Bean Of the new Ground. Try 4. See why 10 BY
hr the popular coffee IN Asrica Asbucks Brohsso.
7l.Ok Wster ST.. New York
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Forty-nine factories In the United
States make needles and pins, and all
report an increase In business.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
STOP THAT HACKING COUGH.

Mansfield formerly Hungarian)
Cough Balsam heals the inflamed and
lacerated membranes and quets the
tickling nerves that lie underneath the
infected portions. Invaluable for ba.
bies. Price 25c and 50c.-Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
New Brand,

Frcsh-Whnt brand is that cigar?
Soph--Brand new, child. Never beer
smoked before
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
A ANEGlECIEp COLD

is often followed by pneumonia. Be-
fore II Is too late take Laxative Quini.
dine Tablets. Gives prompt relief In
cases of Coughs, Colds, La Grippe and
Headache. Price 26c.-Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

After extensive experimenting an
Englshmnn has perfected stcam-driv-
On motorcycle.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Judge Steers of Brooklyn, n. Y,
rules that husband may legally spank
wife who refuses kisses.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
Cause and Effect.

II see shoes are going up"
THAT'S why the people are kicking.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Always proud TO show white clothes.
Red Cross Ball Blue does make them
white. All grocers. Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Every. womans pride, beautiful, clear
white clothes. Use Red Cross Ball Blue.
All grocers. Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

A pear tree on the farm of ]. S.
Engle in Shoemakersville, Pa, 1G3
years old, Is bearing fruit.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Card playing cant be very wicked,
MS not one heart In the deck Is black.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

WoMAN's GROWING oLoRv
10 her hair. II yours 10 streaked Win
ugly. grizzly, gray hairs. use Ia Cyo'
ole" Hair Dressing and change u -
the natural way. Price 11.00.-Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01
STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAIN

"Femenina" is the wonder worker for all
female disorders Price o. 90 and soc. Adv.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Heavy Pork Not Wanted.
Heavy pork II not wanted In the
.arket as In years gone hy.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Luck may be a good servant. but -
master his pay lays are uncertain.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

He Is richest that hath fewest wants
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-11-01

Motor cars fitted with X-ray apparat-
ms are used extensively by the French
Red Cross society.
Adruco Barbed Wire Liniment-
leaves no scar. For cuts and sores on
man or beast Saves stock. Buy II,
always good. At druggists.--Adv.
New York In May started 900 new
buildings, valued ut S36, ,237 .395.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
Pennsylvania.

LANCASTER, Pa, July 26, 1916.
The weather Of the past week has
been nearly perfect growing weather
for the new tobacco crop. The general
expectation, based on weather condi-
tions for some time, is that that this
season will prove an ideal one for to-
bacco. This year the growers are re-
markably opmistic. They believe they
are going to have bumper crop, along
with a record breaking acreage, and
they are building high hopes on good
prices. And the packers are not con-
tradicting them, for they expect to pay
a higher price this year.
After careful investigation among
the growers, the writer can say for a
fact that not few growers have been
approached with view to selling the
crop now growing. | know from relia-
BILE sources that offers have been made
and refused.
Judging from the apparent anxiety
of some concerns to buy, it looks as
though lot of buying might be done
on the field about cutting time, when
the growers at large will probably be
more ready to sell than at present.
There are still few thousand cases
of the 1909 left in the hands of our
packers, held at high prices and drop
in the demand from Europe would leave
them in the dumps.
The cigar manufacturers having bus
mess big enough to have representa-
tives on the road. and good stock of
leaf present condition of trade. 1t could
be much better, but they have enough
orders to make them satisfied. 1t is
the small manufacturer who is unhap-
py. He is not only compelled to pay
unduly high prices for leaf, but it is
becoming so hard to get that he is
faced with the prospect of soon being
obliged to shut down his factory for
lack of tobacco for cigars.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
New York.
NEW YORK, July 28,

NEW Onh, q uly 20, AO1O.
Very little news in the leaf market.
Whatever activity there is confines it
self to the absorption of Sumatra and
domestic Shadegrown leaf. In both
types the larger investments have been
consummated and demands for them
are extending chiefly to the hand-to-
mouth supply. Of the new Seed crops
the Connecticut Havana Seed has been
disposed of already, while the Broad
leaf is not yet in a condition for sampl-
ing. The reports from Cuba on the
new Havana crops are steadily harping
on its shortage and it's advance in price.
In consequence the old stock in the
American market is moving freely.
The Porto Rico tobacco crop is also
slated for a higher price. The most
stirring incident in the market, how
ever, was the revocation by the British
government of its previous grant of
free tobacco exports to the neutral
European countries. The exceedingly
remunerative business in export tobac-
cos in which many Of our leaf houses
were engaged and which had become
almost phenomenally voluminous was
thus nipped by one stroke. The re-
sentiment of the market for losing such
golden opportunity became naturally
unbounded. j ournal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The expected has again happened.
No one familiar with the long chances
buyers often assume hardly expected
that the tobacco buyers would restrain
themselves until the new crop gave
promise of harvest before starting a
field buying campaign, so the news
that contracting has broken loose in
the northern growing sections contains
no surprising features. Viewed, how
ever, from a business standpoint the
movement has less to recommend it
than the early buying of other years,
for the reason that the general char
acter of the crop still hangs in bal
ance with everything depending on the
weather conditions of the coming week.
Never before was the speculative feat
ure in such a deal so prominent or the
chances of mistaken judgment greater.
Contracts for the sale of the crop
might just as we'll have been made be-
fore the seed beds were sown as at
critical stage of the seasons growth
like the present. 1t is not the most
forward crops that give the best prom
ise today, and yet these are the ones
selected for betting long chance on.
It is in no ways probable any great
amount of the crop will be optioned for
the present.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, Aug. 4, 1916.

EDGERTON, WIS.,, Aug. 4, 1916.
A buying movement has been under
way to considerable extent in several
localities of the state during the week
and contracts written for the more
promising prospects of the new crop.
In the northern districts of Vernon and
Chippewa counties offers of from IL to
Is cents are freely made for the best
selections and in the southern counties
10 to IL cents. We also learn that con-
tracts for close to 100 acres were clos
ed at 7c straight, the buyer to take all
chances that might befall the crop
hereafter. Options so far have been
taken on few hundred acres only in
all sections.
The drouth of over a months dura-
tion still prevails in most of the tobacco
sections, which, coupled with the ex-
treme heat of July, has still further
impaired the prospects of the crop. If
general rains do not come soon there
is little hope of harvesting much more
than filler crop. So it hardly seems
probable the buying movement will be
pushed very hard at present.
In cured leaf we learn the Eisenlohr
Co. closed deals for 200 cases of IA
with the F. G. Borden Co., and 500
cases of Frank Baines during Mr. Elm
erbrink' visit to the state.
The shipments out of storage reach
$50 cases from this market since last
report.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
New YORK, July 25, 1916.

There have been no changes from the
conditions reported last week, so far as
domestic cigar leaf is concerned, ex-
cept that another week of hot humid
weather has passed, which has been
favorable for the growth of the tobac-
CO. The hot spell in Ohio and Wiscon-
sin has been broken by rains, and pros
poets have improved. In the market
there has been very little doing. The
item Of greatest interest lies in the
fact that in Connecticut packers have
been contracting for the growing crop
at prices ranging from 18 to 22 cents.
Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04

The largest life insurance policy ever
written in the United States, and prob
ably the largest ever written by any
one company, was signed in Kenosha
on Tuesday of last week, when the
Simmons company took out a policy in
an eastern insurance company totaling
more than $1,000, 900 and covering the
lives of every one Of the more than
5000 employees of the company.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
The
Money
Question

is as much how to keep it as
how to get it. What is the use
of striving to acquire it if it is
going to be a source of worry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04

Once more tobacco has proven itself
able to withstand more trying weather
conditions than any other crop pro-
duced from the soil. The whitening
effects Of four weeks Of hot July sun
which shortened the grain crops and
fired the corn on light soil and withered
the gardens, pastures and lawns, has
caused less damage to the tobacco
fields than anything else about the
farm. The tobacco plant sent it's root
still deeper into the soil and simply
held on waiting for the drouth to pass.
Only the more forward fields which
prematurely budded have suffered any
serious injury from the hot, dry spell,
and it is yet to be shown whether after
topping such fields do not reach fair
spread of top leaves. A wonderfully
recruperative plant is tobacco and the
fact is so we'll recognized that we
scarcely need call attention toit.
= =
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
The First
National Bank

answers the question of how to
keep money perfectly. An ac-
count there means absolute
safety for your cash and free
dom from worry for you. Open
an account and you can give
all instead of half your mind
to your business.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04

The British Admiralty seems to have
the faculty of reversing itself as often
and as inconsistently as does our own
President Wilson. Having but few
months ago graciously receded a few
inches from its despotic position as
ruler of the seas, permitting free ex-
ports of tobaccos from this country in
to Holland for indiscriminate distribu-
tion and sale, it has suddenly, without
rhyme or reason, reversed itself, by re-
pealing that permission and ordering
the consignment of American tobaccos
exclusively to the Dutch overseas
trust. This means that individual
American tobacco exporters must pay
war tribute to an Anglicized Dutch
trust. OF course, protests are raining
in on the State Department against
this brutal hold up of the American ex-
port trade, but whether we will get
relief or not will depend on whether
our administration can stiffen it's spine
sufficiently to uphold American rights.
N. Y. Tobacco Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04

The recent ruling of the Treasury
Department, to the effect that import
ers of tobacco shall, in the consular in
voice, state under oath whether the
bales contain filler or wrapper tobacco,
or both, giving place of origin, ETC., is
causing importers of Havana tobacco,
whether manufacturers or leaf dealers,
considerable trouble. The trouble comes
from the fact that the ruling requires
the importer to swear to statement
that he manifestly cannot know to be
true. The authorities apparently find
it impossible to learn that no man, not
even the man who raised the tobacco
or the man who packed it, can testify
with any certainty that given bale
contains so many pounds of wrapper
tobacco or SO many pounds of filler. If
the authorities after examination de-
eide that the statement in the invoice
is not correct, under this ruling they
are permitted to seize the tobacco, and
the importer may be prosecuted. Where
there is difference of opinion between
the appraisers and the importers, it is
still difference of opinion, in which
the tobacco mans judgment is more
apt to be correct than the appriser's is.
And because his opinion upon the char
acter of the tobacco in bale differs
from that of the appraiser, the tobacco
man may be prosecuted. The nub of
the difficulty lies in the fact that if a
bale contains more than Is per cent
wrapper, the wrapper duty must be
paid upon the entire contents of the
bale. Thus a bale weighing ninety
pounds, which contains or is assessed
at sixteen pounds of wrapper, the re-
mainder being filler, must pay the
wrapper duty upon the entire ninety
pounds. The entire Havana trade is
perfectly content to pay the wrapper
rate (S1.48) upon the sixteen pounds of
wrapper the bale contains, but they do
object to paying that rate upon the
seventy four pounds of filler the bale
contains, the filler rate upon Cuban to-
bacco being e cents per pound. In this
particular instance the importer would
pay SS8.8 more in duty than the gov
ernment would have right to collect
upon a pro rata basis. 1t is not very
wild guess that, if the government pro-
ceeds to carry out this recent regula-
tion according to its strict letter, the
ranks OF the manufacturers OF Shade
grown cigars will be considerably IN
creased within another year. = Leaf.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-20
To Aid oetroi, Soldiers

Relatives OF Detroiters with the
Canadian forces are to be ~ well
provided for as families Of the Cana
dians as the result OF the formation
of the Detroit Auxiliary OF the Cana
dian Patriotic fund. Walter 8. Gurd,
now president of the auxiliary. had
appealed 10 Sir Herbert Ames. NJ. p,
honorary secretary OF the Canadian
patriotic fund. asking that a provi-
sion for American dependents be
made. but It was stated that the by.
laws would not permit this, unless a
local society was formed and the
funds solicited in America. This
having now been provided for, wives
and families will share In the bene.
fits. The auxiliary is already caring
for 80 families.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-20
BY JOHN n. HEARlEY,

(Stof Correspondent United Press)
ROME. May formulating the
example OF the German heir appar-
ent. the Austrian crown prince has
arrived at Trent and is directing the
campaign against Vicenza. the Yer.
dun of the northern Italian front.
Field Marshal Conrad Won Holt
zendorff. chief of TIE Austrian gen
eral stan. has Joined the array OF
generals on the Tyroiese front. II
Is reported here that Gen. Cadorna.
Italian commanderin-chief viii
move his headquarters TO the Tren-
tino front.
Though last nights official state
ment from the Italian war Office ad-
mitted further retirements. there Is
every confidence here that the Aus
trian offensive l. about 20 come 10
a halt. Despite heavy sacrifices in
men and arms, the Ausiriars thus
far have crossed the Italian from
tier at but one point in ire Astico
NdItA. AA Uo pidNf w thfit az htH
approach nearer than 90 miles the
important strategic position OF
vicenza. reported 10 be the goal Of
the present offensive.
Between 200.00U and 100000 Aus
trian troops are engaged on the
front leading eastward from the
Adige valley. II is admitted that
the losses on both sides have been
very heavy, though no figures are
available at the present time.
There is reason 10 believe the Aus
TRANS hoped TO catch the Italians
of their guard, while important Ital-
ian troop movements were under
way Under the heaviest artillery
bombardment the Alpine region has
known since the war began, the Ital.
fans we're forced TO relinquish ad-
vanced positions in the first two
days OF the fighting. On the third
day. counter-attacks recovered part
OF the lost ground. The Austrians
returned 10 the attack In great force
on the following day and rather than
sacrifice men uselessly on exposed