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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Throw Away Your
Eyeglasses!
A Free Prescription
fou Can Have Filled and Use at Home

Do you wear glasses? Are you a
victim of eye-strain or other eye-weak-
nesses? If so, you will be glad to know
that there is real hope for you. Many
whose eyes were failing, say they have
had their eyes restored through the
principle of this wonderful free pre-
scriptton. one man says, after trying
it: II was almost blind; could not see
to read at all. Now / nan read every
thing without any glasses and my eyes
do not water any more. At night they
would pain dreadtully; now they feel
fine all the time. 1t was like a miracle
to me- lady who used it says:
THE atmosphere seemed hazy with or
without glasses, but after using this
prescription for fifteen days everything
seems clear. | can even read fine print
without glasses. II is believed that
discard them in reasonable time
and multitudes more will be able to
strengthen their eyes so far as to be
spared the trouble and expense of ever
getting glasses. Eye troubles of many
descriptions may be wonderfully bene-
lited by following the simple rules
Here is the prescription: Go to II. C.
and get bottle of optona. Fiji a two
ounce bottle with warm water, drop in
one Optona tablet and allow to dis
solve. With this liquid, bathe the eyes
two to four times daily. You should
notice your eyes clear up perceptibly
right from the start and Inflammation
VIII quickly disappear. If your eyes
steps to save them now before il is too
late. Many hopelessly blind might have
been saved IL they had cared for their
eyes in characterization
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
TO Cure Catarrhal
Deafness and
Head Noises

Persons suffering from catarrhal
deafness and head noises will be glad
to know that this distressing affliction
can be successfully treated al home by
stances has effected complete cure
after all else has failed. Sufferers who
could scarcely hear a watch tick have
had their hearing restored TO such an
extent that the tick of a watch was
plainly audible seven or eight inches
away from either ear.
Therefore, II you know someone who
is troubled with head noises or catarrh,
or catarrhal deafness, cut out this
formula and hand to them, and you
will have been the means of saving
some poor sufferer perhaps from total
deafness. The prescription can be pre-
pared at home, and is made as follows:
Secure from your druggist l OF. Par
mint Double Strengt. about use
worth. Take this home and add to il
= pint of hot water and ( OF. OF granu-
lated sugar; stir until dissolved Take
one tablespoonful four times a day.
The first dose should begin to relieve
the distressing head noises, headache,
dullness,. cloudy thinking, etc, while
the hearing rapidly returns as the sys-
tenn is invigorated by the tonic action
of the treatment Loss of smell and
mucus dropping in the back of the
throat. are other symptoms that show
which are often entirely overcome by
this effcacious treatment. Nearly
ninety per cent. of all ear troubles are
said to be directly caused by catarrh
therefore. there must be many people
whose hearing can be restored by this
simple home treatment.
Every person who is troubled with
head noises, catarrhal deafness or ca
tarrh in any form, should give this pre-
scription trial.-Advertisemen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
RETAIL
Harrisburg
MD err w mn

IESl w AM
Friederile L. Heist. Residence Harris
burg. Penna. Place applied for. 625
Race street.
Harry w. Haas. Residence, Harrisburg
Pa. Place applied for, 529 Race street
Albert NJ. Keane. Residence, Harris
burg. Pa. Place applied for, 167 Pax
Anna Rakovsky. Residence and place
applied for. 527 Race street.
SECOND WARD
B. Leslie Potter. Residence. Harrisburg
Pa. Place applied for, n. W: corner
of Second and Washington streets
THIRD WARD
William II. Byerly, Lochiel cafe. Resi-
dence and place applied for, 227 Mar
George Rovai. Residence and place
applied for, No. 20 North Third street
]. Fl. Butterworth and NJ. S. Butter
worth: Doing business as J. II. and
NJ. S. Butterworth, Bolton Hotel. Res
idence and place applied for corner
of Second street and Strawberry ave-
Jane McCabe. Residence, Harrisburg,
Pa. Place applied for, 125 Chestnut
Ellis P. Gourley. Residence, Nos. and
I N. Market Square, Place applied
for, No. North Market Square.
Joseph ]. Armento. Residence and place
applied for; 215 Walnut street:
William H: Rife. Residence and place
David U. Hershey. Residence and place
applied for, 327 Market street.
Frank o. Horting and s. Bruce Mlngle.
Residence and place applied for. 300
Harry Miller and James B. Foose, The
Central. Residence. Harrisburg, Pa.
Louis w. Kay. known as Metropolitan
Hotel Residence. 1902 Green street,
Harrisburg. Pa; Place applied for. 1856
and 337 Market street.
John Russ. Residence. Harrisburg. Pa.
Place applied for, 212 Strawberry
ny e kr1- p,s
Pa. Place applied for, SOC Strawberry
Jay n. Hursh. Residence and place ap-
piled e6urt for pvea glS Cherry che street corner
applied for: 2O7 Chestnut street.
Ge99pgs 9pgsro L. Poei6nno Poehne and Charles 4.
Doehne, 1879 South Thirteenth street;
residence of Charles A. Doehne, 323
Gess5ggt 6e%beTrv street street. PaSe applied for
and Blackberry streets.
Pa. Place applied for. 2Si Strawberry;
John e. Smith and Andrew ]. Farrell.
Residence. Harrisburg, Pa. Place
applied ,oE,o2u for; IA Chestnut street;
burg, Pa. Place applied for, Savoy
Hotel, Nos, 143 and 145 South Third
street. n y. corner South Third and
Daniel r Hursh, Sif9e'Si Residence and place
applied for.<12S South Third street.
Maurice e. Russ. Residence. Harris
burg. Pa. Place applied for. Nos. 229,
23l, 233 Walnut street.
FIFTH WARD
Albert J. White. Residence, Harris
burg, Pa. Place applied for, S13 Yer
beke street.
Alexander Maurer Residence and place
applied for N E. corner Capital and
Forster streets.
John l. Morganthaler Fifth Ward
House. Residence. Harrisburg. Pa.
Place applied for, 937 North Third
street.
Jacob Simonetti. Residence and place
applied for, 401-403 Verbeke street.
George Kobler Residence and place
applied for. 1882 North Sixth street
Thomas J. Sullivan. Residence. Harris
burg Pa. Place applied for, Nos. 1926
and S27 Nerbeke street
SIXTH WARD
q. NJ. Crozier. Residence, Harrisburg,
Pa; Place applied for, 1903 North
Third street.
Frederick Lauster. Residence. 800 YER
beke street, Harrisburg, Pa. Place
applied for. N. E. corner Third and
Broad streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
WHOLESALE
Harrisburg

Harrisburg
THIRD WARD
Stanley G. Jean, trading and doing bus
mess as Hanlen Bros. Place applied
for, 331 Market street. Residence,
Harrisburg, Pa
William Il. Seel, trading as Waller &
Seel. Place applied for, 319 Market
street. Residence, Paxtang, Pa.
FIFTH WARD
John G. Wall. Place applied for. 1900
1902 North Sixth street Residence.
Harrisburg, Pa.
SIXTH WARD
Hugo SchutZenbach. Place applied for
416 Broad or Verbeke street; N. w
corner Fulton and Verbeke streets
Residence, 1922 North Third street,
Harrisburg, Pa.
SEVENTH WARD
Samuel Katzman. Place applied for
12O5-1207 North Seventh street Res
idence, 1881 Market street. Harris
burg, Pa.
Wilhelm j. Mehring. Jr.. trading and
doing ''Mehrings Liquor
store" Residence. 410 Boas street.
Place applied for, 1901 1903 1906 N.
Sixth street.
EIGHTH WARD
Frederick l.. Koenig. Place applied for.
Nos. S13, SIS and SIT North Seventh
street. Residence, 91S North Sixth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
TOSSED BY VICIOUS BULL
MISS WILMA WYNN
Special to the Telegraph

Wrightsville, Pa. Feb. SC. r.
Kline was badly injured here yesterday
when he was tossed over q stone wall
by vicious bull which had broken
out of a barnyard. Mr.. Kline had sew
eral ribs broken and is injured inter
nally George Haugh was attacked
last week by the same animal, but took
refuge in n street car standing close
by. The animal belongs to Mr.. Kline
and Mrs. Haugh. who conduct a dairy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
RHEUMATICS SHOULD
KEEP FEET DRY
Drink Plenty of Lemonade and Water
aud Avoid Alcoholic Drinks

All this talk that rheumatism can't
be cured, that people must suffer ter
rible agony, gnawing pain and swollen
joints until the disease has run its
course, is all humbug.
Modern physicians know this, and
many of them are prescribing a doc
tors prescription known as Rheuma,
which all good druggists keep I'm stock,
To end rheumatism or Sciatica and
Danish 1t forever, you must fight IL and
conquer II with something more power
full than the poisonous secretions that
cause it.
Rheuma is a powerful yet harmless
remedy, and the very first half-tea-
spoonful dose you take will indicate ia
YOU that the poisons are leaving your
system. RI. c. Kennedy or any drug
Est from whom you purchase RheuTna
will gladly hand you back your money
if two 50-cent bottles do not stop the
snawtng pain, the sharp twinges. and
reduce the swollen. twisted joints.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
PETITIONS FOR LIQUOR
LICENSES

PETITIONS for Retail, Wholesale,
Bottlers'. Brewers, Distillers and
Agents liquor licenses, with names of
applicants their respective residences
made, in Dauphin County, Pennsylva-
mia. To be presented to the Court of
Quarter Sessions of Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania, February 18th, 1915:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
NURSE BECOMES PATIENT
Special to thc Tclegrdfj

WayneSboro. Pa, Feb. s. - Miss
Maude Kirkpatrick, a graduate nurse
of the Chambersburg Hospital, became
"A patient at that hospital yesterday.
She suffers from typhoid fever and is
very ill. Miss Kirkpatrick had been
nursing typhoid fever cases at Ship
pensburg and in the country for sew
eral months
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
BREWERS, DISTILLERS
AND AGENTS


ceorre L. Doehne and Charles A.
Doehne. Place applied for, Third
ward. Dewberry. street between
Chestnut and Blackberry streets. Res
idence Of George l.. Doehne 129 South
Thirteenth street. Harrisburg, Pa,
and Charles A. Doehne, 322 Chestnut
street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Fink Brewing Company. Fifth ward,
312 to $50 Forster streets.
Marie L. Graupner. Residence, No. ?
South Tenth street; and place applied
for s. w corner Tenth and Market
streets. Ninth ward.
SteeltOn .
National Brewing Company. Residence
and place applied for, corner Freder-
ick and Conestoga streets, Fifth ward.
Lykens
Louis Wentzler. trading as "The Jy-
kens Brewing Company. Residence.
Lykens, Pa. and place applied for,
Lykens Brewery. on south street, East
ward.
HENRY r, HoLDER,
Clerk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
BOTTLERS
NIlddleiOMn

Elmer G.. Irwin. Place applied for. 50
South Front street. Third ward. Res
idence, 326 North Front street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

l. ID. ltngle. Residence and place ap-
piled for, Granville Hotel, Grant
Chester S. Boyer. Residence and place
applied for. Shells Tavern.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

NJ. A. SCHNEIDER. Place applied for, Ly-
kens Bottling Works. Pine street,
West ward. Residence, Lykens Bor-
ough, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Eugene c. Steiner. Place applied for
31O South Union street, First ward
Residence. 81 South Catherine street
Middletown, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
WiIliauRtown

cyrus Donley. Place applied Tor, WIZ
Jamestown Bottling Works. south side
Market street, West ward. Residence,
Williamstown Borough, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
South Hnnover ToNnsIlin


Harry kaylor. residence ana place ap-
Deposit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
East ward.


j. Fl. Pontius Residence and place ap-
piled for. Pottsville street, south side,
Hotel Pontius.
Benjamin Welker. Residence and place
applied for, Jones House, on south
side of Pottsville street.
Andrew Hoffman. Residence and place
applied for. West End Hotel, south
side of Pottsville street.
John ]. Murphy. Residence and place
applied for, Center street. Central
House.
Edmund Umholtz. Residence and place
applied for, south side of Pottsville
street, st. Elmo restaurant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Reuben ". Lerch. Place applied for, at
Lerch's Store, the north west corner
near Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.
Residence, Highspire. Pa.
Upper Paxton Township
Harry C. Lenker. Place applied for;
I,enkerVille, n. w. corner Market and
Centre streets. Residence, Lenker-
vile, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Edward II Maher. Place applied Tor.
south side Market street, near East
street, West ward Residence, Will
Jamestown, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
EIizahethyiIIe

Charles Eeaffer Residence and place
applied for, Washington House
Charles r. Snyder Residence and place
applied for, Hotel Snyder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Are You Weak, Nervous
Exhausted?
Don't feel like working, everything GO
ing wrong? Digestion poor, blood Inn
poverished. cannot sleep?
Dr.. Emerick's Body Builder
a Kee9nstructiCe Rec 2ntcns TSTte asP is prescribed res
conditions. Valuable after a severe
sickness. Price S1.00, prepared by the
DR.. NJ. L. limerick Co., Ridgway, Pa.
Sold in Harrisburg at Gorgas' Drug
Store.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Derry Township

Angelo Buchgnani. Residence and
place applied for. Swatara House, sit
uate on n. e. corner of Union De-
posit Road and The Harrisburg and
Reading Turnpike Road. Swatara Sta
ton.
Jacob Page. Residence and place ap-
piled for Derry Church, the Haefner
House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
SMntnrn TOxxnnhIn

Thomas Dunn. Residence and place
applied for, Oberlin Hotel, oberlin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Mnshinston Township

Jonathan Zerbe. Residence and Place
applied for, Loyalton Hotel.
Perry Shade. Residence and place ap-
piled for, Big Run Hotel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

place applied for, Hotel Koppenhaver,
S. w. corner Market street and Mar
ket Square.
Joseph A. Gernert. Residence and place
applied for, Hotel Charles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
DauDhin
Halifax BOrOugII

Charles w. Sellers. Residence and place
applied for, Dauphin House, corner
Erie and Race streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
HumnelstoWn

Fred B. Graupner. Residence and place
applied for, Keystone Hotel.
Milton G. Mensch and Howard Herbein.
Residence and place applied for, N
w. corner Railroad and Second SITS.
J. r. Shenll. Residence and place ap-
piled for, Central Hotel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Lower Paxton Township

Carl Keith. Residence and place ap-
piled for, Linglestown, Eagle Hotel.
David Lazzarine. Residence and place
applied for, The Homestead Hotel,
Linglestown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
SusaueI,annn Township

Anthony B. Harlacher Residence and
place applied for, Hotel Progress,
Progress.
]. GarfieId Fackler trustee of Walter
G. Basllins. a bankrupt Residence,
Harrisburg. Pa. Place applied for,
The Fort Hunter Hotel. Rockville.
c. Z. Hoover Residence. Fort Hunter,
Dauphin county, Pa. Place applied
For. Fort Hunter Hotel.
Frederick Bossinger. Residence and
place applied for. Coxestown Hotel,
CoXestown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Orville p. Green Residence and place
applied for, Second street.
Edward Bodmer. Residence and place
applied for. Second and Lumber SITS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

H. H. Weaver, trading as Weaver
Son, Residence Elizabethville, Pa
Place applied for. Elizabethville.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
street, Harrisburg, Pa.

street. Harrisburg. Pa.
Andrew Schutzenbach. PLACE applied
Residence, Harrisburg, Pa.
Lewis Baturin. Place applied for, SOC
State street. Residence, Harrisburg
NINTH WARD
John p. Finn. Place applied for. 424
Market street. Residence, 424 Market
street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harry keister.. Place applied for, 500
Second street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Charles S. BuX. Place applied for, SIS
and $40 Market street, Residence.
Frank F. seiiss. Place applied for. 900
and 902 MarS' street. Residence.
Harrisburg. Pa.
Grace avenue. Residence. Pa%tonia,
Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Kendig r.. McCord. Place applied for,
A. Ann street. First ward. Residence.
Mddletown, Pa:
2S2 South Union street Second ward
Residence, Middletown, Pa.
SteeIton
Morris Yoffe and Tobias Yoffe, trading
as Yoffe Brothers. Place applied for,
Residence Steelton, Pa. -
2S7 North Front street, Third ward.
Residence. 237 North Front street,
Steelton, Pa.
Jacob $. Koda. Place applied for, Me
chanicS' Hall, south side of Main
street West ward. Residence, Ly-
kens, Pa.
EIizabethvIIIe
II. II. Weaver, trading as Weaver e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Township

Abraham James. Residence and place
applied for, Mountain House, on pub
lie road leading from Fisherville to
Elizabethville. Pa.
Curtis A. Marsh Residence and place
applied for Fisherviiie, Victor House
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

". o. Rogers. Residence and place ap-
piled for. Union House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
Berrysburg
(iratz

william II. Bowman. Residence and
place applied for, st. Lawrence Hotel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

c. NJ. Richeter. Residence and plac
applied for, keystone Hotel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

Jacob s. Koda. Place applied for, Me
chanics' Hall, south side of Mail
street, West ward. Residence, Ly
kens, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08

o. C. Paul. Residence and place applied
for National Hotel, corner Market
and Union streets.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-03
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. %, l!

LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. %, 1916.
At last weeks meeting OF the Ian.
caster County Tobacco Growers asso.
citation an effort was made to show
that the tobacco growers of Lancaster
county would not increase the acreage
this season, for fear of too large crop
Keeping down prices. The reports pre-
sented were meant to prove that the
acreage would be normal. Which would
mean that the acreage would be any
where from 16, 900 to 10000 acres,
whatever the actual acreage is from
year to year, which has never been sat
isfactorily determined The reports,
anyhow, showed one thing, that the
1915 crop brought higher prices than
had been paid in recent years, in spite
of much pole burn and a wide difference
in weight.
The only reason given for the large
amount of pole burn was the unfavor-
able weather that prevailed during the
period of curing, and it appears that
the early crops suffered most.
The tobacco grown in southern Lam
caster county was every bit as good as
that of northern Lancaster county,
where the idea seems to prevail that
the soil there is better adapted to the
culture of tobacco.
Several growers raised crops yielding
as much as 1000 pounds to the acre,
through the liberal use of stable ma
nure, undoubtedly the best fertilizer
for tobacco, and deep blowing and fire.
quent cultivation.
The 1915 tobacco is rapidly going into
the warehouses, and probably not above
Is per cent remains in possession of
the growers, though contracted for.
The weather right along has been fav-
orable for stripping and that all has
not been delivered is not the fault of
the growers, but is due to the scarcity
of labor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-03
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, March 8,

EDGERToN, Wis, March 3, 1916.
While buyers are still busy in the
growing districts, the volume OF trans
actions is all the time declining because
only fraction of the 1915 crop remains
unsold that is all the time being re-
duced to only scattering lots. The work
of receiving, however, is progressing
rapidly with a prospect that April 1st
will see most of the crop out OF grow
ers' hands and farmers in possession of
the proceeds, even though it does not
size up with other years.
Warehouse handling Of the better
portion of the crop is proceeding with
well organized help that can be had in
abundance at the packing points.
No transactions of any great moment
in cured leaf have come to notice of
The Reporter, though there seems to
be considerable trading of small or
der nature.
The shipments out of storage since
last report reach $50 cases and cars
of bundles to all points.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-03
New York.
NEW YORK. Feb. 26, 1916


Our Sumatra importers and manu-
facturers who use the Sumatra as
wrapper leaf were cheered this week
by the announcement from Washing
ton that arrangements have been per-
fected under which the English cores
pondents of leading New York Trust
company will provide the American inn
porters of Sumatra with sterling ex-
change on basis that will probably
obviate the payment of any extraor-
binary premium in settling for pur-
chases made at the coming inscriptions.
This was indeed cheerful news for the
trade concerns interested, as it likely
means to them the saving of a very
large amount on the differential high
rate of exchange. The value Of our
Sumatra imports for the calendar year
Of 1914-for the calendar year 1915
they are late as usual in being reported
amounted to close to $40, 900, 900. The
difference on the exchange of such an
amount would be about $800,000 and
not 81, 900, 900, as enormously calculated
by other publications. But a saving of
$500, 600 would be large enough to be
received thankfully, particularly in
view of the higher insurance and freight
rates which are imposed upon the i'm
portation of Sumatra during these war
times. Our Sumatra importers have
indeed this year no easy sailing. Their
departure has been unavoidably delayed
and the first inscription in consequence
postponed. Besides, it is anything but
pleasure to be on the dangerous Eng
lish Channel nowadays with the menace
fronting them, not only submarines,
but also the arbitrary detention and in
quisitorial search of the English gov
ernment. Only the conviction that
Sumatra is an absolute necessity for
the existence of a large part of our
cigar industry can induce men to brave
the discomfort and inconvenience and
probably danger also on the voyage to
attend this years inscriptions. A par
tial compensation for these unexpected
troubles may be found this year in the
offer of better crop at somewhat
lower prices. The latter, on account
Of the likely absence of some of the
most prominent European competitors.
The regies which sometimes bid for the
best lots at prices which our American
buyers could not meet are certain to be
absent as the governments OF these
regies need their money for something
else than buying the best Sumatra.
And German competitors are likely to
be few inasmuch as raise in the to-
bacco duties for war purposes has be-
come almost prohibitive for using such
expensive raw material. The result of
the first inscription will therefore be
awaited in this market with greater
expectation than ever before. AS for
the current business Of the market it
was by no means up to date. The ex-
ceeding dampness had an inhibitive
effect on both the cigar output and ci-
gar leaf investment. journal