The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-26

Money to support the academy, for in
these days of splendid free public
schools, private Institutions are apt to
drag on the financial side. But one
Of the features OF this Academy is the
hard work done by the pupils. Three
hundred and eighty acres Of land We're
given to the school and for some years
the boys were kept busy clearing it..
Then farm of 100 acres was added.
The boys, aided by a mason and a
carpenter, laid out and put up a dormi-
| tory. The pupils number only from
40 to 60.
Boys To Be Afraid Of.
1t seems a small thing, and yet
earnest factors of this sort count. In
! the competition of life-in the stress
| to get on the bench, to go to the
senate, to move men, l should be most
! afraid Of young men from a school
where q quote the prospectus), "the
Bible shall be studied and recited every
day by every pupil Pupils are led
through graded course, the Bible the
only text book for it, and are grad
uated with a knowledge, minute and
comprehensive, Of the words of the
! Holy Book. Then it adds, 1.-The results
are exactly what believers in the divine
, origin and power of the Book would ex-
! pect: the Mighty Word regenerates, re-
fines, energies, consecrates mind and
heart" This may be claiming too
much for every case, but the Bible
trained boy, the boy who works on a
farm for his education, (while he may
! lose his ideals later) has a bodily in
! tellect and heart outfit that made him
dangerous antagonist for the honors
Of life.
j 1t is just the kind of institution that
ID. X. Pearson admires, but that liberal
given has only full-fedged colleges on
his list.
! Growth of st. Paul Railroad System.
The st. Paul railroad has issued a
handbook of sixteen pages which gives
all the facts of the growth of that
great system, beginning with the Mil
Waukee- Waukesha line of twenty
miles in 1851 and including now
1896 miles. The fare on the first
train on what was known as the Mil
Waukee and Mississippi line was $3.50,
with a dinner thrown in. Milwaukee
then had 10000 people. 1t was gala
day, with a band. of music and
speeches.
! The chief promoter of the enter
prise was Byron Kilbourn, president
and chief engineer. In less than two
weeks after opening to Waukesha he
announced that the railroad lis now
being carried forward to Whitewater"
! fifty miles. He says he is laying down
heavy iron rail Cat $50 per tom. By
! 1854 the road reached Madison and in
1857 Prairie du Chen. By 1867 st.
Paul was connected for the first time
with the east. In 1873 the Milwaukee
and st. Paul entered Chicago over it's
own rails from Milwaukee, though the
latter city had a connection in 1855.
: The road branched out into the
west. During the Worlds fair in Chi
cago in 1893 the railway company in
vited the foreign government commits
sioners and foreign press representa-
tives to take a trip over the line fhe
special train carried the representa-
tives of twenty-seven nations and fif-
teen languages were spoken on it, to
note how their former countrymen
were a component part of the prog
ressive upbuilders of the United
States.
Selling Lands Up North.
Railway companies own great areas
of land and the problem in this west
ern country is to get it into private
hands, not so much for the revenue
from sale, but to develop passenger
and freight traffic. The latter follows
the former. 1t has been said that
every home on a suburban street car
! y
pany-that is, the estimate is made
that the family will spend at least 10
cents day for car fare. What pat
ronage of steam railway is worth in
a new country l do not know; but in
| two years the Wisconsin Central has
planted $500 new farms along it's lines
and one can readily figure that it must
be worth while. The Omaha's policy
has been to sell it's lands in small
blocks to men who promise to become
valuable in a traffic way
Private lumber companies are dis
posing of farm lands an the time, and
it all means people to ride on the rail-
roads and to ship freight. A big COM
pany operating in Clark and Jackson
counties report from 100 to 1000 acres
sold per day. Talking to real estate
man, he said that the $40 and $12 an
acre land in Dakota is pretty we'll