The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-07
Pupils from All Over the State
Also at Wisconsin's
Capital.
BANQUET GIVEN TO TEACHERS.
Professors of the University of Wis
consin Do Themselves Proud
in Entertaining.


last week. The young people COM
peted in sports and declarations and
the teachers held study conferences
with the university professors, who
gave them banquet attended by some
200.
The competition in defamation is
well worth hearing, as each one who
speaks fhere were ID Friday earns
the right not only by vanquishing the
good speakers in his or her own high
school, but in all the schools in his dis
trict-perhapS a dozen schools. The
judging at such a contest is not easy,
there being so many contestants. Rev.
DR.. Updize Of Madison is a favorite
judge and has Officiated at ten such
contests this spring. Not only must
the three best speakers be determined,
but it was necessary to grade the
whole thirteen comparatively. On this
occasion there were five judges. These
are placed in chairs about the hall and
not allowed to compare markings.
Naturally there are always wide diff
ferences of opinion. One judge is
moved by OratOrical power; another
lays stress on enunciatiOn; another on
noble bearing. One young man recited
the scene from Quo Vadis, where Ly-
gia is bound to the back of bull and
Ursus, the giant, her protector in the
arena before Nero, grapples the brute
and twists his neck until the creature
dies. Now to one who has never heard
this fearful scene narrated it is ire
sistible. It is exciting, it kindles the
hearers to terror, expectation and en-
thuSiasm; but while the young man
from River Falls recited it powerfully,
the cOld-bloOded judges gave him
fourth place, and this he tied with
Milwaukee girl who had a similar piece
the Eruption of VeSuvius. The first
honor was given to q German girl
from West Bend, whose selection was
a Quiet story of a young Scotch ply
sician who goes to London and makes
a great hit When his old, shabby
mother comes to visit him he is
ashamed of her and she in her lonely
desDairS leaves the house during the
night, not however, without stopping
to tuck her Laddie in once more as
she used to do when he was a child. 1t
is heart tale: but the girl did 1t with
out affectatiOn, simply and we'll. 1t is
gratifying to see such selections hon
Ored with prizes as it is a temptation
in such prize contests to put forward
dramatic selections for which often
the immaturity of youth is not equal.
It was q pleasant dinner that the
professors gave the visiting teachers.
One of the cleverisms that crept out
in conversations will bear repetition.
1t was in the nature of a cOnundrum:
eve have germs from Germany; para
sites from Paris, and what do we have
from IrelandY The answer is Mi
crobes"
A Kind Word for Rockefeller.
And a college woman gave us q
happy turn from Wellesley College, to
which the ROckefellers have given a
good deal of money. The last gift, it
will be remembered, met with OppOsi-
ton on the ground that the money was
the fruit of monopoly. One Of the pro-
feSSOrS went so far as to write a mag
aZine article on the subject of whether
it is right to take money from such
sources One of her principles was
that money from dead men, however
earned, is legtimately received for
educational or other good uses. But
to revert to the Quatraln perpetrated
by a Wellesley college girl. 1t is a
parody on the dOXOlOgy:
Praise John, from whom oil blessings
flow:
Praise him oil creatures here below;
He gives to us both quail and toast;
Praise John and Bill-but John the
most
Fear Carnival Excuses.
There is talk of another carnival
next fall in Madison, but the OppOsi-
ton is vigorous, especially among the
women. Many of the merchants about
the square who disapprOve heartily Of
the unSpeakably bad shows that did
business at the last carnival admit q
crowd helps business; and the "FOrty
Thousand Club" which has moved
for the second carnival, pledges that
the obiectOnal features shall be left
out but many of the citizens are
afraid to try it. Last time the use Of
the streets was granted by the COM
mon council. but there will be warm
opposition to this again; and as to
granting a vacation to the school
children 1t might even follow that in
junction suits would be started. 1t is
not pleasant to block merchants who
seek to promote business, for what
prosperS them, prospers all; but Mad
ison cot such a dose of filth and Chi
cago'S degraded overflow last time
that it is unlikely any repetition will
be tolerated.
Great" the Thoughtful Define 1t.
The late Rev. Franklin B. Doe, of
Ashland, was not a great man, as the
world has it, but if order, morality,
the school, the church and the home
are the foundations of our liberty.
prosperity and what we call advanced
civilization as Fourth of July orators
tell us, then Doe and his fellOW-WOrk-
ers are among the great Of earth. He
graduated from a down-eaSt college
and one can imagine his dreams Of
greatness. as cOllegianS dream it; and
he studied theology in Bangor, Maine,
where is a seminary that still gradu-
ates men of the earnest orthodox type.
Mr. Doe was an Appleton preacher in
1858, but most of his life has been
given to starting Sunday schools,
which often grew into churches. He
has aided in organizing 80 churches in
Wisconsin. Visit small place in a
northern city and note what power
the little church is in the life of the
community! Then think of sweeping