The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-03-21

conspicuous as United States senator
| end governor respectively-each doing
great work in his respective sphere
| is enough for us. We should certainly
| be under reproach if any act of ours
contributed to the return of Senator
Spooner to private life. 1 am more
and more convinced that to join i'll
| throwing down Governor LaFollette
from his post of potential usefulness
IN achieving needed enactmentS and in
viting the uncertainties Of an approval
Of the Herman building programme
would be to lose a great opportunity
| and waste the momentum of a pOpu-
lar movement that has in it genuine
reform.
Trying to Shape Future.
The argument that to magnify La
| Toilette is to diminish Spooner, and
vice versa. does not count with u.s.
The argument is too suble, too comnli-
Gated.
These Burnett" letters do not de-
termine governors nor United States
senators. That is the province of the
people. 1t is our business to approve
the good and censure the bad. That
our continued support of two high of
| ticers-both Madison men of honest
life, of great abilities-that our alleg-
lance to both is the occasion of filings
at ''Striding a fence" etc, does not
seriously disturb us. We are contin-
ually assured Oy many diSinterested
Republicans that our view is the view
of the rank and file of Wisconsin men.
The consciousness that we had a part
in depriving the state of the services
of either Robert LaFollette OF John c.
Spooner would much more disturb us.
Health Park for Consumptives.
A board of directors has been chOS-
en- to control the work of the Health
Park association, designed to estab-
lish a place where incipient cases of
lung trouble and other diseases may
go to get well, and in the meantime
work a little toward the expense bills.
The Invalid Aid society of Rosto1l
owed not little to Dr. W. P Roberts.
who furnished the enthusiasm to start
the Madison movement. Dr. Roberts
IS full of ideas, and has, through his
theories, already got a lot of the med
ics'' by the horns; but it is hoped OF,
his foundation to do a good work. The
Boston society has no home" it
merely directs and transports cases to
Arizona or the best climatic points.
The Madison plan is to get tract of
land from Bradley of Tomahawk, or
some other philanthropist, set up some
: colleges and a farm and put the whole
. under some kindly, practical man who
will keep the patients friendly to each
other, busy at light work, and grad
ually evolve q health park out of his
forest domain.
, Can't Force the Pearl.
, Prairie du Chen takes the clam
very seriously. It thinks the indus
+ try is permanent-certainly the use of
e the pearl button is-and there is no
. immediate fear Of a shortage in supply.
An Iowa man is trying to persuade
congress to 'prOtect'' the clam-to
compel the throwing back of under
sized bivalves, etc. 1t is said, how
, ever, that only a matured CT IN will
clasp the grapplehoOk that arr dragged
temptingly over his head. The pro-
posal to get up a close season is also
ridiculed, the assertion being that dur
, ing the spawning season the clam
seeks the mud and is removed from
the peril of capture. Thus it appears
E that while a clam is no college grad
uate, he knows enough to 90 in when
, it rains graphing hooks.
: Buttons from the She'll Not ALL
The clam also asserts his sense by
refusing to go in partnership with any
body in the pearl business. The facts
are these: A pearl is like an onion,
IA succession of the thinnest, most del
icate layers of gorgeous film. Some
times the jeweler for some reason
, takes off a film layer, like unwinding
sheet OF veneer. Never mind, there
} is a fresh vergin layer of pearl. The
source Of the pearl is something of q
mystery. The old version is that thus
:, the clam hides it's wounds and con-
ceals it's injuries. Or perhaps a grain
of sand gets inside the biyalye: it be-
comes a source of irritation. Straight
way the clam begins to buiId around
! the annoyance q protecting surface
One Layer Enough.
But the curious thing is the clam
, insists on making it's own pearl in it's
, own way. One layer Of that beautiful
: pearl-fiim is enough; it is thick and
| strong and glorious enough to grace a
royal bosom. The heart of the pearl
hundreds of layers Of film-are nee