The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-07-27
Minnesota Moving for State-En-
lowed Retreats---Wiscon-
sin Will Follow.
HENRY BARNARD IN MADISON.
An Early University President VINO
Became "NestOr OF American
Education"

of dealing scientifically with the dis
ease is a large part Of the worlds
thought.
1t is not incurable. 1t is claimed
that pOSt-mortem examinations show
that 10 per cent. Of human beings
have been afflicted with tuberculosis at
some period of their existence, and
have recovered.
Segregation affords opportunity to
deal wisely with sufferers, and is a
protection to the community. hos
pital at Rutland Mass, established at
Il cost Of $15O,OO0, accommodates 200
patients, each of whom pays 30 cents
day for board, or it is paid by the
city or county in which he is resident
and the results, even i'll that bad Gil
mate, are so good that another hOsplt-
al is to be built for the western end OF
the state. Minnesota is preparing to
undertake similar work. The State
Medical society, at its recent meeting
in Duluth, asked the state to establish
an institution for the treatment Of
early cases Of consumption among the
poor, and, like enough the next session
of the Wisconsin legislature will be
asked to get this state i'll line.
At present there are at least fifty
charitable institutions in Germany for
the treatment Of consumption. The
car of Russian is expanding 100000
on one near ST. Petersburg, and there
are eight others for the poor in Rus
STA. In Sweden, King Oscar has do
mated 100000, and three sanitariums
will be soon in operation there. Nor
n \ IN11iIT linz
another. Switzerland has four for the
poor. Austria has one of 300 beds.
Many other countries treat cOnsump-
tives on this system. And England
has seventeen sanitariums practically
free.
A 'U. W." President Dead.
The late Henry Barnard, who died
recently in Hartford. Conn, at the age
of 80, was once president of the state
university, but it was so long ago
Q859-6D that scarcely any remember
him. He graduated at Yale in 1880,
and later went abroad, travelling
through England, Scotland and SWitZ-
erland on foot During his travels he
visited Carlyle, Wordsworth, De Quin
cey, Lockhart, PestalozZi, Chalmers,
Lord Brougham and other distin-
erature so widely and so carefully that
President Porter said: Few pro-
feSSed scholars among us were so thor
oughly familiar with the ancient and
modern English literature as Henry
Barnard" He then bent himself on
improving the schools and was called
the "Nestor CT American education.'
In 1913 he became state superintendent
of schools in Rhode Island, during
which term he addressed over 1900 ed
ucational meetings. While he was in
Wisconsin the state university was, Of
course, an elementary affair, and he
devoted his energies to the establish
ment of graded schools throughout the
state. Severe nervous prOStratiOn
compelled him to resign. The thirty
one volumes of his American Journal
of Education and his fiftytwo volumes
of the Library of Education form the
most complete cyclopedia of education
ever issued.
DR.. Barnard has been the most COM
prehenSive publisher that ever issued
educational literature in the English
language One biOgrapher writes
"Dr. Barnard was Americas great ed
ucatiOnaI organizer, legislator. mis-
sionary, diplomat, orator and publish
err
Although the earliest settlers of New
England placed the school house be-
side the church and paid high honor
to the teacher (whO was sometimes the
pastor. tOOD yet, as we receded from
those early days, teaching came to be
looked upon as makeshift, step to
something else. But a reaction fol-
lowed. The very word "schOolmaster"
has taken on new meaning and
achieved new honor within a recent
time.
For their fuller recognition the cred
it is largely due to careers like that of
DR.. Barnard. They emphasize what
the great possibilities of teaching are
to the man of devotion, training and
aptitude.
Brains Enough. but the Drink.
Some of us tried hard some time ago
to get a job for an unusually skilled
and competent newspaper man. He
could do anything in the making Of a
paper-country weekly or city daily.
There were years of experience behind
him. This is the reply received from
one managing editor of a big city. 1t
is temperance lesson in itself:
"INhe man has bright mind and a
good command of language, but life
is too short and the grind too hard to
warrant taking on such burden, even
if he is genius and his family deserv-
ing of charity. l am a man of family
myself, and my heart goes out to the
unfortunates whose love is wasted
upon a drunken husband and father
If l felt sure that l could lift him
would try, but my experience OF many
years in a printing office has made
me hopeless in such cases. Whisky
has cast many burdens upon my shout
ders in the past and L have stood by
its slaves until the very last. No more
eccentric geniuSes for me-
A Politicians Leisure Hours.
Il is a delightful thing to have g
hobby. Thomas M. Kearney, the Ra
cine attorney and Democratic politi
clan, runs to fine rugs, porcelain anG
brio In Racine there are me1
who have made fine collections OF ole
furniture, pipes and other things, bu
the most curious of all is collection
of blue plates made by Mr.. Kearney
He now has some 800 pieces of porce
lain. There are rare old French plate.
an blue and gold, portions of table