The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-20
iupplant the scholars seclusion and all
dreams of the stage.

value was held last week in the as
sembly chamber in the school for in
stitute conductors and superintend-
ents, conducted by State Superintend-
ent Harvey. Nearly 200 teachers, from
all sections of the state, were here,
many Of the most prominent educators
of Wisconsin, finding it profitable to
remain throughout. The institute
school is new idea Of Superintendent
Harvey, who started it last year and
found it quite a success Superln-
tendent Harvey is an ideal institute
conductor himself a speaker of great
force and directneSS, q man cOmbin-
ing the highest attainments of schOl-
arship with practical methods Of car
rying out his ideas, and being poll
tician Of much tact and capable Of in
spring the greatest enthusiasm in an
educational gathering. 1t is no Won
der that one of the SuDerintend-
ents remarked: 81 don't much care
who are nominated for the other
offices next fall, but want to see SUI
perintendent Harvey renominated and
reelected. He is the best suDerinten-
dent Wisconsin ever had"
The work taken up has embraced
all lines common to institute labor and
the bringing of so many minds with
all their ideas together on these sub
jects could not but prove of the great
est value. And throughout it all Su-
perintendent Harvey easily led. New
or at a loss for reply, suggestion or
Illustration, he led the teachers into
new strength and quickened their fac
ulties. AS illustrative Of his methods
and ready resource, one of the speak
ers used the word infer in too free
a sense when Superintendent Harvey
proceeded to ingeniously and elabor-
ately draw the distinction between
knowing a thing and making an infer
'ance, showing that in the great ma
jOrity Of cases our SO-called Infer
ences" are but things seen from anOth-
er view point and not differences at
all.
The memorial services held by Lu-
ciuS Fairchild post, G. A. r., in the
assembly chamber last week for Gen
eral Henry Harnden, late G.. A. r. de-
partment commander, reveals anew the
remarkable type of hero the dead
warrior was. and what an eXtra0rdi-
narily adventurous life he led. His
army service was replete with adven-
lures and dangers, of fighting over
many states, of wounds, night
marches, narrow escapes from drown
ing, of having horses shot from under
him, and finally of rising from a sick
bed with q rebel bullet in his shoulder
and plunging into the trackless pine
woods Of Georgia and capturing the
fleeing head of the Confederacy. But
his war record furnished but part Of
his adventures. Before the great con-
fict that brought him up from a pri-
vate to be brigadier general he had
rOamed the ocean wave in an Old-fash-
toned whaler, had visited the coast of
western Africa, had been several times
swamped while happening whales,
had doubled Cape Horn and cruised
up and down the South African coast
had been shipWrecked in the present
harbOr of San Francisco in 1889 and
by his captain selling his vessel was
left stranded at Lima, Peru After
five years of wandering, in which time
he visited Robinson Crusoe's isle, Juan
Fernandez, he finally returned to his
Massachusetts home only to find the
Mexican war on, and off he sets for a
new field OF adventure, but is stricken
with fever and unable to give his
country much service. Then came an
other experience overlooking with adj
venture in an overland trip to Cali
fornia in 1S49. Thoughts of a young
bride whom he had left behind in Mas
sachuetts recalled him home before he
could line his pockets with the aurif-
erOuS treasure. and he returned home
but little richer than he started out
save in romantic and thrilling adven-
lures. Then came the journey of the
NTyp
Harnden was just beginning a sue
cessful sawmill business at Ripon.
Wis, when the civil war broke out and
he was called to do still greater deeds
of daring. General Harnden was ex-
tremely Supplemented and modest.
and SO little given to speaking of him
self that few persons knew what a
Economically adventurous career had
been his. He was frequently urged
by his comrades to write up his war
career, but was too modest. However,
it was arranged between him and Gen
eral e. e. Bryant, dean of the univer-
sity law school, that the latter was to
write the memoirs from material fur
nished by General Harnden, but the
project was postponed until death in
tervened to prevent it.
Governor Scofie1d presided at the
memorial services and General Bry-
ant delivered a splendid eulogy on
! Harnden, saying in closing:
! His comrades called him the "Old
| Puritan" with a fitting aptness, for in
| the qualities of a soldier he blended
the Christian man with all the gallant
dash of the cavalier, and all the stern
and dauntlesS courage of the Round
head and as he left soldier-record
that honors his name and race, so his
life was without spot or blemish as
citizen, patriot, neighbor, friend and
comrade. Hearts like his, knowing
neither fear nor dishonor, are the bull
warks of a nation
But not alone from his comrades in
arms was Harnden eulogized. At the
same meeting Captain G. A. Curtis
read a letter from the editor of The
Lost Cause, the official organ Of the
Confederate soldiers, in which a fine
tribute was paid General Harnden. A
copy of General Harnden's account of
the capture Of jeff Davis, a story, by
the way, which General Harnden's