The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-21
Board of Control, Not Governor,
Making Changes in In
situations.
rs HEART DISEASE RECOGNIZABLE?
Senator StebbinB Death-Too Much
Silver Plate-Grand Army in Ses-
sion-No Spanish War
1 Pensioners.

over the failure of the board Of con-
troll to reappoint superintendent at
the GAINESVILLE blind and the Delavan
deaf schools is abating. My infOrma-
ton is that Governor IaFOllette Is
keeping his hands off these matters,
acts of course are DESTROYS of pleas
ing him, to whom they must look for
reappointment. Some say the board
is trying too hard to please him and
as d consequence is embarrassing the
executive Some changes which should
have been made some years ago, the
board has recently gotten around to,
thus giving the malicious grounds to
suspect the governor himself.
While the factionalists are charging
the governor with reWarding Editor
Bowron, of Oshkosh, by his appoint
ment as superintendent of the Green
Bay refOrmatOry, there is a pathetic
side to it: if the governor had disap-
proved the choice of the board, he
OaFolIette) would have been in the
position of migrate, for the Northwest
ern has done him splendid service. On
position (as he did q hard fighter was
taken from the contemporary press,
and the NOrthWeSte left to Colonel
Hicks, it's owner, who is not so strenu-
Gus for the governor as was Bowron,
although a fair man. No one need envy
the governor Of the state; it is trying
enough to be abused for what one
does but it must be rasping to be
abused for what one did not do and
perhaps did not wish done.
Do Men Know Heart Disease?
1t is believed that the late Senator
Stebbins, of Algoma, suffered injury
to his heart while travelling through
the high attitudes on the way to San
Francisco in 1898, where he had an Of
fetal part in the launching of the bat
tleship Wisconsin. He had complained
some of late of pains in the chest. but
the final attack was of not over an
hours duration.
Physicians often enough say to peo-
pie in a reassuring way, ooh, if you
have heart disease, you'll know it"
This may not always be so. People
always encourage them by calling it
indigestion, which almost always it
is. And the heart pains are not al
ways directly on the left side, but may
he more central, where it is said the
nerve centers lie. 1t is said that a
perfectly healthy person does not know
of the existence of heart-that is,
even it's quickened pulsation is not
noted unless one feels for it. But
there are probably very few who could
meet this definition. The doctors I'M
derstand pretty well how to treat this
local trouble. The heart is built up
now like any other organ, and it does
not follow because one has weakness
there that it is permanent.
He Was Rough but Kindly.
But to revert to the gruff and kind
ly old senator, who with Fearne Of
Adams county, leads the Legislative
dead list; he was with Farragut in the
Iatter's expedition in the Gulf of Next
co. He was a close friend of Isaac
Stephenson, and a conservative in all
his voting and habits of mind, and so
all homogeneous, but influential sup
porter of Governor LaFOllette. Julius
Bleyer, who took the Pacific trip with
him, said:
Senator Stebbins gave utterance to
many patriotic sentiments, particular
ly in conversati ton with English travel
ers on the return journey, homeward-
bound from the Orient, but in no in
stance were these utterances distinctly
anti-English or offensive to those to
whom they were addressed; on the
contrary, they were nodded by the feel
ing of brotherhood which is binding
the two great English-speaking ma
tons with closer ties"
Was This Money Well Spent?
And by the way the silver service
for the battleship Wisconsin was sent
recently 1t consisted of thirty five
pieces which cost $500 The pig
punch bowl cost $3.50; the cups, of
which there were twenty-fOur, cost
about $34 each. Even in prosperous
times there are enough people who
need bread to raise a question as tc
whether this is the best way to spend
so considerable d sum. Five hundred
dollars for silverware perhaps, but not
ffty-five hundred
Scofeld's Name Used.
The Grand Army of the state is
in session at Sheboygan this week,
and by this time it may be known how
serious is the movement to elect ex-
Governor Scofeld as department COM
mander. One thing is certain, he is