The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-06-02

B. Treat, should be on the list. His
brother is on the board of control.
A Statesman Not Ashamed of Church.
Senator Whitehead of GAINESVILLE made
perhaps the most b.i liant record in the
upper branch this year. He is almost
as big physically as Tom Reed and has
great moon-face, that smiles from an
oak heart and a clean-fibred brain He
graduated from Yale in 1877 and is
widower with one son of Is and
daughter. He is a careful honest law
yer rather than a brilliant one, but he
is developing very fast since his four
years in the senate and it is said Race
county had to be reminded from the
outside what good stuff there is in
Whitehead. Some Of the Madison
loungers even say he will some day go
to the federal senate. Next, year he
will have to decide what he will do
make a try for congress against Cooper
or come back to the senate.
Whitehead is a man of old-fash:oned
ideas. When the senatorial fight had
about tired the members out, some sort
of show at the Opera House attracted
nearly everybody one Wednesday even
ing.
About o'clock the GAINESVILLE mans
big body showed itself in the Park no
tel office.
Hello, Whitehead; you don't seem
to be at the theater tonight. Where
have you been anyway" The speaker
was 10 Quarles.
Been to church," replied Whitehead
bluntly, in voice that could be heard
anywhere in the big hotel office.
Some Of the tinid ones are afraid
that the saloon element" will knock
Whitehead down before he gets much
farther. But he is so free from can't
and so just, conscientious and reason
able, that some of his warmest admir-
ers are men who haven't been to
church since they used to go with their
mothers thirty, forty, any number of
years ago.
900 High Schools Get $500 Each.
The high school seems to be a popu-
lar institution throughout Wisconsin.
1t is an industry in which the bounty
system has been a success. In 1875
there were fifty free high schools in
the state: in 1855 there were 100 and in
1898 there were more than 200 such
schools. Just think, 200 high schools,
with boys and girls taking advanced
studies, graduating in flowers and
white dresses, and speaking thrilling
essays-"Per Aspera ad Astra," or "The
Essential Conditions for Success" It
is an inspiring contemplation.
This development Of high schools
dates back to 1875 for one feature. In
that year the Legislature appropriated
$4,000 to be apportiOned among free
schools in order to induce them to raise
the standard Each school obtained
$780, Ten years later the number OF
free high schools in the state had in
creased to nearly double the number,
and the legislature set aside $25, 900 ad-
ditional making the annual gift $780,
coo. For a time this was sufficient to
give each of the high schools the orig
inal sum Of $500 per annum, but there
were so many schools the allotment
dwindled to $240 each, last year.
And the last session doubled the ap-
preparation again. 1t is. now SEQ 600 for
the 200 schools-$50O each. 1t goes
long ways toward paying salaries and
small communities are thus able to
have a high school,
Catholics Rally by Thousands.
A feature of summer life in Madison
is the Catholic summer school. It's ses-
sions this season will continue from
July II to Aug. 3. Each year the pro-
gramme is elaborated. The late Bishop
Watterson of Columbus was favorite
here. In appearance he looked much
like President Mckinley, and both be-
ing Ohio men they were great friends.
Washington Gladden. the Congrega-
tionalist, preached a memorial sermon
for his fellow toWnsman, in which he
prayed for ''the great church" which
had been so bereft and for it's great
head, the pope, SO soon to follow" On
the Madison programme is listed Rev.
H. M. Calmar, the Jesuit orator, who
lays down the claims Of his church with
great emphasis. He has lectures under
the general heading of "Old but Com
mon Myths; Facts and Fables" ''The
Inquisition." "Galileo GaIi.ei" ''The-
DRY of Evolution; It's Scientific EXPOSE
ton revolution continued. "Consti-
tutional and Religious Liberty"
The subject Of christian Apologies"
will be treated by the Very Rev. D. J.
Kennedy, 0. P. S. T. NJ, Somerset, O.
His lectures are: Miracles of Christ
and the Apostles" Resurrection"
Prophecies "Messianic Prophecies"
'Prophecy Of Isaias.'
Rev. William Poland, S. J., st. Louis
university, will give a course Of four
lectures: Social Man" Domestic
Society,"" Civil Society," ''Paternal
State"
Austin O'Malley, professor Of litera
ture, University Of Notre Dame, has
lectures; and Miss Eliza Allen-Starr,
always a favorite, will give art lectures.
Among the laymen are Judge Willis Of
ST. Paul, a silver Democrat; Judge M.
J. I. Wade Of Iowa City, who will
speak on Woman Legally and other
topics; Mr.. Brennon Of Detroit; E. P.
Walsh of Kansas City, etc. A new
feature will be special excursions as
knights of Columbus, the c. T. A. U.
Of A. and the Catholic Order of For
esterS.
A Scholar Who Knows Beans.
Professor Sparkling is tall, gracefully
awkward young protege of Professor
Ely, and the author of a book on Chi
cago's municipal history which won him
a 'Ph. D." Sparkling came from Indi