The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-02-16


each county are conveniently put IL
form under the new law and they will,
no doubt, be of great use to the tax
commission.
A mother is slowly dying. She IS
still young. Her wavy black hair and
lustrous eyes are the remaining marks
Of beauty which the rayages or olS-
ease have failed to destroy. Her
great concern is for her four little girls,
ranging from to s years. what Will
become Of them when she is gone!
There is no relative or friend who can
properly care for them. How can L
die and leave them homeless and des-
titute!" This is the dying mothers
agonizing cry. =.
The Children's Home society is notl-
fed. An agent quickly calls lie slts
by the mothers bedside, looks upon
the wan and anxious face and catcheS
the broken, whispered sentences from
the trembling lips, Can you help-ny
little-girls? oh, sir--can you-hnd
good-homes-for them"
That is all. The appealing look
seeks what she is too weak TO utter
Then follows earnest and comforting
assurances that the girls will be cared
for: that good family homes with Ia
thor and mothers love will be found
for them; that s0licitous Watch-care
will be kept over them by tie agent
until they are Of age.
The anxious, worried look changes
to one Of restfulness, The eye Hds
close. In q few more hours life has
1onarto1 On Monday the funeral; on
Wednesday the agent calls ana as
s1mes the responsibility so sacrediy
promised. The girls are ta:en III
Charge and in less than month fout
good homes open their doors-heart
doors-and four motherless and nome
less children have shelter, care ana
love and o chance for noble woman
hood. 49,,
This is one type, real one, OF tae
work Of the Wisconsin Children's
Home society, which rescued ana
homed 1854 homeless children last year.
Rev. q. L. Robinson is the district SUI
nnrin+andent. located at Madison.
Of fine organization Professor A. .:
WRIGHT Of Madison is president ana
ErodoricE HASTEN. cashier Of the WIS
consin National bank, Milwaukee,
treasurer. mere are AOttA
nerintendents, working from AppleCoh'
BeIoit. Eau Claire and Madlson re-
spectively. It's Milwaukee ONCE IS III
the Lean and Trust building, room or.
More than 500 conservative coun'g
Supervisors Of this state nave auop!eu
in substance the following resolution
that In their opinion the Chllureh
Home society is not only the pest anu
most humane, but at the same Illle
the most economical means OF carlnS
for our dependent children.
By paying a Benefactors mehoeL-
shin fee of 500 in single pay
or $40 yearly for five years, you place.
two destitute children in good homes
By paying a patrons mem persnlp Iee
of $50 in a single payment, or alo year
lv for five years, you can save one
child. It is cehrtainly noble Worh'
have looked over the state papers
to learn if some local feeling, voiced
mostly by the anti-roster Madlson
democrat and some Of the faculty, nos
tile to the appointment OF Ex-Governor
George w. Peck as regent OF the uni
vnrsitv. is shared outside OF Madison.
T do not find that it is, although some
ne the discriminating alumni Zee! DIS
some Madison people do. Maulson
was the battlefield of the roster ull-
nlnasantness, and what critics eX-GoF
ernor Peck has are most in evidence at
fine state capital. But the local sentl-
ment that the dignity OF the once is
encroached upon does not seem 10 &C.
chr to editors generally. They wave
good cheer to the Bad Boys" frlend
and crack many joke. AS crafts CO.
editors are loyal. !.
The honor is to Governor Peck 5 u
tie rather than to himself, l take IT,
for as a private individual MI. Peck
would not inf1ame the imagination as
regency material, certainly as contrast
ed to the publist Villas, the scholarly
Holm Johnson or the elegant Breeze j.
Stevens. Not that our genial TREND Is
outside the walks of culture by rea-
sons of a deleterious personality; IN
deed. q kind heart and winning ways
are his distinguishing mark. And dig
nitv he has in spots. To one meeting
him officially with a red carnatlon IN
his button hole and the executive tap
estry in setting, Mr.. Peck's presence
might seem as dignity's chosen home.
No. it is not the roster memory that
impairs Mr. Peck's availability for re-
gent. but his jokes and skits.
Here you have a plea for unfenced
boyhood with no attempt to protect
the growing innocent from a knowl-
edge Of the great, big world, all on a
very playful background of the amber
fluid. inconvenient latch-keys and a
rollicking life generally. 1t is this that
chafes the Madison sensitiveness. The
kind heart, however, is a difficult for
tress to assail. Men have run the
| gamut OF human depravity and still
been beloved by reason of the smile on
the lips and the song in the heart.
read Peck's Sun every week and en-
Joy it as a diversion. Mr.. Peck's pres
tige as a guide for boys is not we'll
earned. But 1 find nothing vicious
there, though much that is coarse and
even vulgar | am certain it is not
reading for boys; and yet there are
many genuine appeals for straight
forward, manly conduct and not few
heart-touches that will do any reader
good and no harm.
Governor Peck has much good sense