The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-08-09

worth of stock is folly in the extreme
The Wisconsin marriage act of 1897,
compelling five days notice is working
well, the publicity of the legal notice
acting as a caution, though the judges
are tolerant enough in using their au-
thority to abrogate the rule in especial
cases. Up Marinette way and on 9th
er borders of the state there is some
excursion business done by hasty peo-
pie, but this is no reflection on the
law, unless preachers who lose their
fees think so. Wisconsin refused to
enact a law putting a prohibition on
the mentally or physically diseased, but
the discussion was profitab ole. Mime
sofa is operating new law, partial in
its aim. 1t provides that mo wom-
any age, except he marry a woman
over the age of 40 years, either of
whom is epileptic, imbecile, feeble
minded, or afflicted with insanity,
shall hereafter intermarry or marry
any other person within this state 1t
is also hereby made unlawful for any
such feeble-minded, inbecile, or ep-
ileptlc person or anyone afflicted with
insanity States officials are forbid
den to issue marriage licenses and
clergymen and others are forbidden to
solemniZe such marriages.
Unless there is a compulsory exam
inatiOn ON all, it is difficult to see how
any except the VIGOROUSLY incompe-
tent is to be denied marriage license
and ceremonies. A county clerk can't
be expected to sit in his office, in judg
ment on epileptics. Napoleon and
many others are reputed to have been
epileptics.
What Does College Do for a Man.
/ see that Columbia professor in a
recent address at Vassar endeavored
to sum up the advantages of college
training ON the individual. Here you
have it-apply the test to young men
and young women you know:
Correctness and precision in the use
of the mother tongue; those refined
and gentle manners which are the ex-
preston of fixed habits of thought and
of action; the power and habit of re-
Fiction; the power of growth, and eff
cheney, or the power to do"
This is profound, but as far as one
understands it, it is sound. Higher ed
ucation should and does give man
confidence in the presence even of
great learning. A college graduate,
however new, should be able to kindle
the wisest specialist with a sense of
brotherhood 1t is not too much to say
that colleges training frees a man from
aWkWardneSs even of manner-thOugh
an apprentice to the world will do this
for anybody; but when it comes to a
polished speech-the supreme mark of
the educated man-fOr this, one must
SCI We LIS dpJl w Au1tuI
either en- a campus OF in his room alone.
AS for the power of reflection
there are many philosophers who know
not college; yet even these invaria-
bly, regret it. 1t is when capacity is
cited that the Vassar essayist shows
his wisdom. Capacity is broadened by
higher education; ones equipment is
enlarged and assurance in the battle Of
life strengthened-this is the nOblest
inheritance of the university man.
Many "a giant in power moves through
life fearful to exert his strength, be-
cause he doubts it. A college train
inc would have matched his powers
inagainst the best and babe him be
bold in the strife. Until some college
graduate regrets 'the waste of time;"
until men of power who had no such
advantage cease to regret it that they
might be multiplied men in achiement
until the stage of thought and
achievement ceases to be thronged
with college graduates, l shall urge ON
the many Wisconsin young men and
women who read these weekly letters
to lay plans for a college training. If
it was desirable ten years ago, it is
more so in these days of intense COM
petition. The one who brings the
most assets of trained mind power, of
confidence, of acquaintance-he shall
win the laurels. as a rule.
Rest for Farm People in Cities.
The REST Room" project which
hangs fire in Madison, where of all
places one is needed, is a success at
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls and
Senator Stout and Editor Morgan of
Menomonie have been inspecting the
institution in those cities with refer
ence to initiating the idea. At Chip
pewa Falls the accommodations are
confined to one room. 1t is supplied
with contributed reading matter, is
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