The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-12-01
BURNETT'S TRAMP
Makes Notes on Southwest Wis.
consin.


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Hard Workers, but Well Fed and Free
from Worry-Delights of Walking-The
Mining Industry - Foot Ball in the
Towns -Infuence of Good Teachers -
Tramps Life as Seen by One Who In-
dulges Once Year.
Madison, Wis, Nov. 2S.-Once a year
l take a walking trip, in pair of 80
stout shoes, with an enameled KNAPP
sack of New Haven vintage. and a
strong oaken stick. Last year l walked
up the Kickapoo valley from Wauzeka,
Ghis side of Prairie du Chem to Sol
diers' Grove, VirOqua, and a ways up
the Mississippi river.
This year l started in by walking
to Stoughton, sixteen miles, stopping
at Mcfarland Second lake, for dinner.
At Mcfarland l had chat with the
railroad agent, Olson, and found a
newish hotel in the hands Of former
German harness maker of Madison. 1t
was clear and cold as | passed the
marshes below the triangle and South
Madison, and the crisp air felt good as
it opened up treas of lung tissue which
had too long been sealed. Such is the
effect of cooped up office life. This is
one of the charms of tramping for in
door men. Many of us never use the
lower part of the lungs. Go out and
walk twenty-five miles a day up hill
and down, and the fresh country air
will penetrate to every nook and cor
ner of your lungs. The blood is puri-
fed, as every school child knows by
the fresh air taken into the lungs.
Hence the benefit of a weeks or ten
days tramp. The blood is aerated-
freshened, sweetened, purified. This
purified blood goes to every part of the
body, with it's healing mission; to ev-
cry muscle and nerve and if given time
will rebuild the brain cells. The hearts
action is strengthened fOr the heart
may profit by gentle judicious eXer-
else no less than the strong right arm.)
All the organs are stimulated to do
the best work.
No Sleep So Sweet.
At night the weary plOdder yields to
slumber. Eight o'clock is the trampS
retiring hour. His appetite is quick
ened by the moderate effort of eight or
nine hours on the turnpike. During
the day the combustion of elements in
the body, kindled by this hard work,
causes a demand for new food sup
plies Many a dyspeptic, who though
his stomach could handle nothing with
ease, has learned after tramping $50
miles that his digestive apparatus was
put in the repair shop and returned in
good condition. So too with persons I'M
able to sleep by reason Of nervousness.
The night was spent in StOughtOn at
the Myers hotel. 1t was here the
GAINESVILLE club of gentlemen, which
corresponds to the newly organized
Madison club, meets. The business
men are strongly in evidence at the
GAINESVILLE club. The plan there is to
assign a night to a leader. He gets
up the programme, perhaps with some
suggestion as to the topic from the
preceding dinner He selects the prin-
cipal speakers; and himself presides
at the dinner. Moreover, it is permits
sible to ask questions of the speakers
and the object is to hear from a great
many persons and to make them feel
that they are not there merely as lis
teners.
In the Ancient Mining Country.
The immediate west of GAINESVILLE
being uneventful, train was taken to
Judge Orton the road to Mineral Point
was stormed by foot. Judge Orion
has an unusual library. He is inter-
ested in the mining revival in that Sec
ton He is also interested in public
affairs, being prominent in the field dis
putting the circuit judgeship with
Judge ClementsOn, and by no means a
known factor in the gubernatorial con-
+oc Il &c, oil no of
James G. MOnahan, most of whose
time is now spent in Madison, where
he is collector of internal revenue.
At Mineral Point live Indian Com
missioner W. A. Jones, Senator Spense-
ley, the Crawford Bros. who conduct
one paper; and the BENEFIT Bros, of the
Mineral Point Tribune, one of whom
also conducts the Madison estate" In
Mineral Point there is much talk of
money, lead and zinc, and the plant
there in which Messrs. Jones' Snow
and others are interested is being en-
Iarged Of a special interest is the
extension which proposes to convert
formerly waste smoke Tin the working
Of zinc ore), to sulphuric acid. In brief,
the smoke is condensed by q new Ger
man process and the liquid caught in
mercial uses and is as staple as salt.
[ looked down the we'll known mine
back of the high school in Mineral
Point. 1t was very modest hole; the
windlass being of the crudest descrip-
ton and in the little huts about it.
twenty-One men are working, hammer
ing and putting the ore into shape for
the mill farther away. The prices Of
this ore have materially advanced of
late. The effect has been to cause the
reworking Of once abandoned shafts,
and lower grade ores which are now
available.
Oil as Home Fuel.
One of the tramp's delights is in sit
ting about the tavern stove at night.
after a good supper. resting his weary
legs and listening to the conversation
of travelling men, or Of the natives.
One gathers much information. An H.