The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-08-31

Mich COWS. IL ,So-,40o 30, I11,ooo
Other cattle. -. IL .693,S24 1921, G23
Sheep 1,49S,176 2,716,505
Total ...... $40 925 ,562 $7S,711,511
increase ...... 70, lSl ,UO3
Charles Francis Adams TO Maidstone
The Annals of the family of Adamses
are remarkable. President John Adj
ans, who succeeded Washington,
Q797-1SOD, came from a line of intel
lectual aristocrats. His son was John
Quincy Adams, president from 1928
to 1929, and later an anti-slavery fig
ure in congress. His son, Charles
Francis Adams, the first, (whO died in
1856, was our minister to England
d post held by both his father and
Notwithstanding the civil war. OF
course, it was very trying time, Eng
lands first bent being toward the cot
tOn-prOducing south. Adams was not
suave. crafty and intriguing like the
traditional diplomat, but he was deter
mined. There was no cOncealment, he
was determined and even defiant. New
ertheleSS, he was self-cOntrOlled. His
services to this country, the historians
say, was tremendous.
This Adams had four sons, all Of
els Adams, the second. who comes to
Madison to make the historical library
dedication address, is one Of these four
sons. 1t is noteworthy that the four
sons and all the ancestors referred to
| graduated from Harvard.
Our future guest is 50 years old and
| graduated from Harvard in 1856. He
| was admitted to the bar in 1858, but
| served all through the civil war and
came out brigadier general. In 1869
| he was on the Massachusetts railroad
| commission, which led the way in re-
| form supervision of that sort i'll all the
| states. In 1871 he published his
| "Chapters of Erie and Other Essays"
| and wrote an instructive book on rail
road accidents. Like all the Adamses,
| he has been an OverSeer Of Harvard.
| From 1884 to 1890 he was president OF
| the Union Pacific railroad. He has
| been identified with the Massachusetts
| park system. With all this he is a
| "literary fellow like most Bostonians,
| and has delivered the Phi Beta Kappa
| addresses at Harvard and written for
magazines. He has been president of
the Massachusetts Historical society
| since 1895, and it is this prestige main
! ly which brings him to Madison. His
| father compiled the works of the two
! Presidents Adams in twenty-five vol
| umes.
The Education of the Deaf.
| The subject of the instruction of the
| deaf and dumb of the state is being
| revived. Some of the friends of the
city day schools for mutes, not content
with their undoubted success, are I'M
! wisely taking occasional rapS at the
| Delavan state school, which makes a
| home for great numbers of mutes who
| have no good homes Of their own and
| who are able there to get some indus
! trial training.
| The patrons of day schools for the
deaf are learning that these schools are
| not all their advocates claim for them.
| After a while they will begin to realize
| that imperfect speech is not the most
| valuable acquisition which a deaf per-
| son can acquire, as long as a good
| general educatiOns Svith technical in
struction in useful arts, is within their
reach, and is offered to them without
price.
Briefly, the large city which can
maintain a graded school should have
| schools for the deaf; and some Of our
| cities of secondary Importance might
/
| deaf in pursuance of the day-SchOOl
plan. But if the day schools are to
| continue drawing state support they
| would make a much better return for
the money expended by the state if
their instruction laid foundations, in
the primary grades of their school
work, upon which the state school
might build carrying on and complet
| ing in more ample form through
( courses in literature, science and art;
by manual training and trade schools
! development of the whole being; and,
with it all affording that special train
ing which the deaf rarely get at home,
but which their peculiar defects make
| most essential.
Soldiers at the State Fair.
Wednesday. Sept II, will he military
| day at the state fair. The First in
fantry, Battery A and the light horse
| squadron, w. n. G., will be in encamp-
ment, giving prize drills, guard mount,
| dress parade and inspection, together
with camp life in all of it's interesting
features will be put before the people.
| The members of the battery and
squadron own their own horses and are
among the best-known Of the members
of the best circles of society in the
city.
Eight Kinds of Sheep.
The department of the live stock
exhibits is under the superntendency
of Mr.. III. A. Briggs of Elkhorn, Wis,
whose experience and knowledge of
sheep husbandry will be of great bene-
fit to exhibitors, and it is divided into
eight classes, including Shropshire, Ok
ford, Soutbdown, Cotswold Hamp-
shire, American marino, French or De-
laine marino. and the farmers class.
This last class is for Wisconsin exhib-
itors only.
Mr.. George McKerrow, president of
the Wisconsin state board of agricul-
ture, has recently received a shipment
of two carloads of imported sheep, all
of which will be exhibited, one of the
prize animals weighing nearly 400
pounds. The Messrs. McKerrow are
exhibitors. AT the Omaha exposition
seventy-eight of their sheep won
eighty-nine prizes; three of their horses
won three prizes at the last Chicago