The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-06-22
WILLTOTE ON SPOONER
The Sixteen Senators Elected
This Fall and Their .. =
Districts.
AN ECCENTRIC POET-GEOLOGIsT
Treasured Grave OF PercivaI III Grant
COunty-Earnings OF Railroads
Buffalo Herd in Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, June 19.-There has
been much talk of the reelection Of
Senator SpOOncr. 1t occurs i'll 1903. Of
course, the election is effected by the
members Of the assembly and senate
The assemblymen who will vote i'll that
contest will be elected in the fall of
1902
The senate Of the state Of Wiscon-
sin consists of tWenty-three members
who hold their office four years. Six
teeen Of these thirty-three senator's,
namely, those from the even-number
districts from the Second to the Thirty
second districts, inclusive, are elected
this fall and their terms include the
legislative session Of 1903 when Sen
atOr John G. SpoOner's term expires
(March II and when he will be up for
reelection lin January preceding at
the opening of the SESSION.
The senators who are either to be
reelected this fall for four years or
to be succeeded by others, are all Re
publicans. They are:
Mailer-BrOWn and OcontO counties.
Green, DevOs and ROehr-All MilWau-
kee districts. WOOdWOrth-Pierce and
St CrOiX. LOmOreuX-Ashland, Bar
ron, Bayfield,, Iron, Sawyer and Wash
burn Whitman-Outagam and
ShaWanO. BaXter-Grant and Iowa.
ThayeI-Fond du Lac and Green
Lake. Dennett-Ozaukee and ShebOy-
gan. Whitehead-Parts of Rock and
Jefferson. Whelan-Buffalo, Eau
Claire and Pepin. WeltOn-Dane.
Munson-Crawford, Richland and Yer
non. RiOrdan-FIorence, Forrest,
Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Tay-
lOr and Villas. Withee-LaCrosse and
Trempealeau.
A Poetic Genius Buried in Grant County.
III the Hazel Green cemetery in
Grant county is this inscription on
stone;
Games Gates perciyal
Born III
Berlin, Connecticut,
September 10, 1175.
Graduated at Yale College
B. a. 1915 NJ d. 1920.
State Geologist
Of -,+
Wisconsin 1SJ4-1S56.
Died in Hazel Green
May ., 1856.
Eminent rs Poet. Rarely accom-
plished as Il Linguist. Learned and
acute in Science.
A man without guile"
1t is the grave of one whom some
conceive to be one Of the greatest OF
men. The preacher at Berlin, Conn,
-PercivaFs home) has made a study of
him. This preacher writes in The Con-
necticut Magazine:
Il may be alone in my opinion, but
l believe Sidney Lanier'S Sunrise on
the Marshes to be the best specimen
of American poetry, and Percivars
'ApOstrOphe to the Sun, in Promethe-
us, to rank very nearly equal to that
masterpiece And both were written
by men who hardly knew where the
next meal would come from, and both
were shOrn of part Of their strength
by the hardships of life"
The following description of the
warrior is taken from PercivaFs poem
entitled The Contrast:
''To his gallant horse the warrior
sprung
They called but he would not stay;
And the hOOf of his hurrying charger
rung,
AS to battle he rushed away.
She stood aIoft on the warder's tower
And she followed him over the plain,
And she watched through many a ST.
lent hour,
But she heard not his tramp again.
They came, when the morning was
cold and pale,
With 4 warrior on bis bier.
And his banner rent like a tattered
sail,
Showed he died not the death of fear.
They brought him in pride and sor-
row back,
To the home he had left so gay,
When he CALAMITY flew on glory's
track,
And to battle rushed away"
Percival, like many poets, was mis-
fit in life. He could do a great many
things. AS a linguist he has had few
equals. He could read and write cor
rectly French, Italian, Spanish and
German. He mastered the Gaelic and
the SlavOnic languages in their sew
eral divergences; he conquered San
scrit and wrote poems in thirteen diff
ferent tongues. lie was admitted to
the bar. He passed the examination
as a physician. He edited a newspa-
per, translated and revised geOg-
raphy, was a thorn in the side Of DR..
Walker through the prOfundity of his
genealogical knowledge when editing
and revising the dictionary; he gave
lectures on botany. knew as much of
minerOlOgy as any contemporary
American, and his service to the sci
ence of geology by his work in the
states of Connecticut and Wisconsin
would have been sufficient for the life
work of any ordinary man.
The people of Hazel Green. Wis.
are proud that Percival once lived in
their. midst, and proud of the modest
monument that eastern admirers have
paid for. The poets hair was white
when he came to Hazel Green. He
was sent by the American Mining
company of New York to make a ge-
illogical survey of their lands In 1853
the company failed. The next year
Governor Barstow made him state ge-
ologist. It suggests what sort of a
man he was that President Dwight
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