The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-09-08

$4,000 barrels of oil; $4,000 tons of steel
! rail. The commerce of this lake port
| is greater than that of the Suez canal,
| and reports from the government de-
partment at Washington places the
port of Lake Superior fifth in the
! ocean and lake ports of the United
States.
How to Make Madison Great.
/ Great schemes are expanding the pro-
/ gressive merits and speculative in
! stincts of many Madison citizens. Some
want an electric line about Lake Men
dota. Others think a line about None
ria would be BETTER patronized and in
cidentally develop South Madison and
Lake Side Assembly. The plan to
connect Madison with Columbus
twenty-eight miles---is also lurking in
sagacious minds. One real estate ex-
pert said the other day: eff l had the
| millions I'd show them whether
| was visionary or not. I'd build an
electric line round Fourth lake; have
it girt Third lake: then make the cir
cult of First and Second. On each of
these lakes I'd put Up 100000 hotel,
and throw boulevard the whole dis
lance. In addition I'd buy up every
available foot of land and after I had
stocked the lakes with craft and docks
of all descriptions, I'd advertise the
Madison lake region in every city and
hamlet in the land. In ten years the
fame of Madison would be that of New
port and Saratoga rolled in one"
Too Much Game Law.
When one considers the machinery
necessary to equip 100000 people to
hunt game in this state, it is fair
question whether it is worth while.
Such an army of sportsmen cannot
kill much less game than would fall
before an unlicensed population. With
a few simple laws designed to prevent
wholesale killing, it would seem fully
as effective to return to the paths of
simplicity. The system, as cast by
the last legislature, taxes lot of hunt
ers to pay fees to lot Of game ward
ems.
In Watersmeet the school board Of
education employed a comedy teacher
but the women of the town refuse to
let her teach and insist on male
teacher. The unquiet set is difficult
one to please and just as the world is
getting down to being ruled by women
it appears that woman won't have it.
AS the saying goes, God made the
world in six days and then rested. Soon
after He made Eve, since which time
no one has rested.
Country People Not So Shrewd.
A woman in Barron county has is
sued in a Rice Lake paper a warning
to the public against purchasing a note
given by her to one of the steel range
concerns. She says that the note was
obtained by deception and misrepre-
sentation. The rOgues go through the
country selling range that cost $14.15
at wholesale, for $685. allowing the vic
tim to pay for it in notes. The sue
cess of the enterprise shows that coun-
try people, while proverbially "close"
and shrewd in small transactions, are
gullible when confronted with good |
talker from the city with "big thing"
to lay before them.
Judges and the Railroad Pass.
People in this state at least are get
ting sensitive as to travel on passes"
by officials who still have the right to
do it, despite the new law federal Off
cials). Two Milwaukee judges took a
trip to the Pacific coast recently with |
high railroad official. They presum-
ably Travelled free. At all events when
a "people's'' newspaper sounded one of |
the judges his answer in substance
was that it was none of the newspa-
per's business.
I see that Judge Beeman of the forty
fourth judicial circuit of the state of |
Indiana has returned his passes to the |
railroads with a letter saying that he |
cannot be true to his oath and duty
if under the slightest obligations to a
corporation.
To Empty Cars in a Hurry.
Eastern papers are advocating with
considerable earnestness the establish
ment and enforcement of a rule to
make passengers on railroad cars get
on the car at one end and get off at
the other. It will readily be seen that
if people learn to enter cars at the rear
and leave them at the front, those get
ting on and those getting off will not
get in each others way, the operation
can be much fastened and good deal
of discomfort avoided. Much time also
will be saved. Most railroad men ad-
nit that the idea is a good one. A
notice in the cars to leave by the front
exit would settle that part of it before
long, and the brakeman standing at
the car steps could regulate the en-
trance.
The Matter with Louisiana.
The New Orleans Picayune has been
wondering why Massachusetts with
only twice the population of Louisiana
Il, 100000 and only one-fifth the area,
has yet twenty times more money to
lend than has Louisiana, and why have
the people of Massachusetts more than
200 times as much money in savings
banks? The Picayune's conclusion is
that Massachusetts has been made rich
by manufacturing.
Massachusetts has 475,O00 persons
in manufacturing while Louis
lana has but 41,000. The Picayune
concludes that Louisiana people occupy
in producing raw material
at a low price for their yankee fellow
to convert into articles of
greatly multiplied value. The Plea