Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-08

fell forty feet and Jared worse. He
| broke his neck.
| Every year brings a great number Of
| students who must work their way
| through college. AS rule, waiting on
| table in q boarding house, or taking
| care of furnaces and horses for timid
| old ladies is the rcaGiest source of in
| come. a banker told a pretty story
| the other night. young fellow had
been in the habit Of calling on his
| daughters some years ago. and the ia
| Their heard the boy speaking good
| by" in the hail.
The banker had liked the looks Of the
young man and took the liberty Of
| calling him into the library and asking
| him how he was getting along.
I'm going to leave Madison the
boy said.
whats the nratter?"
MY father has failed-lost all his
money-and | must not be an object OF
expense to him longer"
"How far along in your course are
you?' the banker asked.
The boy said he would graduate in
three months. The upshot of the mat
ter was that the banker insisted on
ltfIii IIiDIltN " w III
eh HE course The young man then
went to teaching and regularly sent in
$25 checks until he had wiped out the
entire amount. He has since made
success of lfc.
Wasn't that as good as giving the
money to foreign missions?
Report of Agricultural Department..
Professor Henry states that the pros
poets for large attendance in the
various agricultural courses are most
promising. Inquiries have been received
from college graduates asking for in
formation relative to post graduate
studies in the college of agriculture,
and a number of high school graduates
are arranging to enter the long course
in agriculture. This course promises
to have larger attendance the coming
year than ever before.
The various professors are busy pre-
pairing copy for the fifteenth annual
report OF the experiment station. This
report Is a volume of $50 pages printed
by the state. Fifteen thousand copies
will be printed. About two-thirds of
the copies are distributed by the eXper-
iment station and one-thrd by the
members Of the legislature, state Off
GERS etc. Just now the experiment sta
tion is revising it's mailing list, which
had grown to 1900 names Any resi-
dent of the state wishing to receive the
publications of the station free of
charge may have them sent to his adj
dress upon application. giving name,
postoftice and county.
Indians Gathering Wild Rice.
a sudden ending. He went off with his
16-year-old son to Forest county, plan
ming to see TIE Indians gather rice. 1t
Is harvest home ceremony, with
dancing, etc, every day. There were 100
Indians and the crop is 2,C00 bushels.
They push boats in the creeks as they
did two centuries ago, gathering in the
rice stalks over the boat and rubbing
the rice off into the bow. But while
tentng in an inaccessible place the lad
was taken with acute bowel trouble
and the professor had to go miles for
Indian helpers and carry the patient
to q doctor at Pelican. 1t was an eXcit-
ing experience, but fortunately with
no more tragic ending than a shattered
vacation.
Professor Henry has been a loyal
friend of the beet sugar interest, bur
he tells me the acquisition of new ter
ritory, notably Hawaii and close trade
relations with. If not annexation, of
Cuba, change the aspect of things
greatly. and he evidently believes
farmers and investors should go slow
in mapping out great things along the
line Of sugar beet culture
CritIcnI iarIau tnr Scholars
The period of youth just after COL
lege days is critical at best. The
young man is seeking to adjust himself
to new conditions. The campus ideals
are suddenly shattered and the grim
world of realities loom up ominously.
The novitiate finds what his professors
termed success is an unknown quantity
in the vocabulary of the hurrying,
grasping, selfish world The top-lofty
things of Greece and the refinements of
the classroom cut no figure now; and
men who left school at the age of I
and can't speak an English sentence
correctly, skoop off the honors, while
the timid scholar gathers back into his
she'll surprised. da2ed, discouraged,
and too often gives up the race before
1t Is begun. There is Well-defined
period of post graduate depression:
and the more sensitive. keen. able the
mentality of the victim, the greater the
suffering. 1t deserves the study of the
specialists. often excess of mind eff
fort In earlier years contributes to the
crash but the cause Is primarily the
shock of attempting to correlate col
lege dreams with things as they are in
the world outside, In educating our
children let us sandwich in as many
glmpses Of real life as possible. The
notion That n college senior Is con-
ceited is n fallacy. AS a rule he is
the most shy, uncertain, self-deprecct-
ing object in the world; and his lack
OF confidence and fear Of taking the
plunge is pathetic.
ORLANDO BURNETT