The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-29
SPOONER IN GOOD FORM
Wisconsin's Man Ready for an
Eyentful Session.
WESTERN TARIFF SENTIMENT
Mr.. Babcock KindIes Much Response
Two and a Half Miles OF
80 Track q Day.

Washington. He seems in good health
and spirits-more buoyant, in fact
than last spring. When the senator
gets dragged cut with work or worry
be doesn't seem to enjoy life, and
while not irritable to the outbreak
point, for he is uniformly courteous,
his face and manner are barOmetric OF
his feelings. But at present he is III
superb physical and mental condition
and as friends mot all of them poll
ticians) drop into his office or home,
he is delightful in "reminiscences and
tells many funny things. He is frank
in discussing politics, national ana
state. He looks for busy and event
full session Of congress and L take 1t
President Roosevelt will have no more
loyal or useful adherent.
Western Tariff Thought.
The tariff issue interests all Badgers
keenly, though not all are with MI.
BabcOck. However, the western man
is not nearly so much afraid of innoy&
ton as the eastern man; is more &C.
Customed to change; is reader to take
chances; is not committed to the doc
tTine of let we'll enough alone. This
western sentiment is pushing and ag-
gressive. 1t will make converts and
upset the calculations of conservative
politicians. If the Pioneer Press real
Iy represents the dominating sentiment
Of the west on the tariff issue, the
east will in the end be forced to yield
perhaps not at the coming congress,
but at any rate at some future SEES
sion. This is one of the things that
politicians who are blocking the prog
ress of tariff reform should take into
account The Chicago Tribune has
always been a tariff reformer and is
pounding away on that line at present
Amount Of Track Laid Daily.
Track laying has been reduced to a
science. On the new line from Marsh
field to Princeton a force of 40 men
a day. And this is the way it is done:
A trainload of supplies is carried on
the construction train which moves
along over the track being laid in its
immediate front. 1t moves the length
of a rail at time-thirty feet-when
it halts during an interval of forty or
fyn 1S
laid loosely Oh the ties and fastened
by braces so the rails cannot spread
when it again moves forward. Follow
ing the train is large force of spik-
ers. who spike the rails to the ties and
easily keep pace with the moving
train. The force consists of 40 or 80
men.
Money in Cranberries.
When you pay 10 cents for a quart
Of cranberries and realize that the
things are gathered with rake, it &C.
ours to you there must be profit in the
business. The rake is not always
used; the difficulty of getting help
made it imperative this year. And
the crop was never so big in Wisconsin
as this season. The Cranmor and
Elm lake district Wood county, alone
produced $4,000 barrels. The largest
previous crop ever shipped was in
1890, when the output amounted to
13,400. This station was then known
as Bears marsh. But drought and
fires in the year 1893 to 1895 destroyed
90 per cent of the vines in the state
of Wisconsin and the output for the
whole state dwindled down from $4,000
barrels to 5000 barrels. 1t has gradu-
ally increased. There is a good deal of
interest in the industry. One marsh
gave employment to 100 pickers. The
marsh is divided into thirty-two Sec
tons, by bitches. and is situated as to
be easily and properly flooded and the
ravages of insects and dangers from
frost thus obviated. 1t yielded some
5000 bushels.
Notable Soldier Visits Madison.
Il
tle impression in Madison, where Gov
ernor LaFollette gave him a dinner
last week. Judge E. w. Reyes recalled
that about 1857 the general was one
of two small boys who, with their
mother, summered at the Delaplaine
F'water cure,' where Lakeside assem-,
bly, is now held. When he was II
young Macarthur got into the civil
war. There was much yelping in the
papers about his appointment as a
political favor, but 4 few months later
at Mission Ridge, the boy got the col
ors at critical moment and carried
them up under the enemies guns with
the Union troops hard behind and no
one heard more of favOritism. He
later went to West Point. His father
was made q federal judge Court Of
claims) at Washington and Senator
Carpenter had to put the business