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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

Clio O5O POST ST, NEAR TAYLOR: 2
D IL. ZOU. modern bay-window fats and a
2story house on the rear street; this is eff the
cheapest downtown offerings in the city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

GTCS0 STORE AND FLATS NEAR path
I'D ACO. and Howard; rents $500 u year: sub
stantial improvements.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31
CITY REAL ESTATE.

&17 000 EDDY-sT. CORNER INVEST
ap l. .OOO. ment; substantial Improvements:
renting for 1925; lot SO :6xS7:6. BALDWIN Il
HAMMOND. 10 Montgomery ST
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

G.1E 00O PACIFIC AVE. RESIDENCE
I'D 1C.OOO. site, 47:6x100, near Franklin st. !;
this is one OF the cheapest offered for sale on
Pacific ave-: it is the N side OF the street and
commands unobstrpcted marine view
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

Ce000 THE GREATEST BARGAIN EVER
,rOOuO. offered beautiful, modern eXcep-
tionay well laid out flats; on the side of the
street; in good locality 3 and rooms and bath
each; porcelain bath tubs; handsomely tiled sink
in kitchen; in fact every known modern appur-
tenance; large lot 81 :6xs7 :6: the first one who
looks at this house will surely buy it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

$1000-Reduced for immediate sale; lot on
ave-, near California ST.; 25x1l9.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
STRAWBERRY OMELETTE.

Wash and drain in coIander one
pint Of strawberries; put them in a
dish with One-half-cup of sugar and
set them aside until the omelette is
made. Ingredients for the omelette:
Six eggs, one tablespoonful of corn
starch mixed with one-haIf tea
spoonful of baking powder, one-half
of melted butter and one
cup of milk. Stir the yolks, salt,
powder and flour together: beat tne
whites to a stiff froth and add the
above mixture to them stirring con-
stantly; put a large frying pan or ONE
lette pan, with One-half tablespoonful
OF butter, over the fire: when hot pour
III half Of the Omelete mixture: do not
STIR; as the eggs set slip a broad
bladed knife under the omelette to
prevent burning on the bottom and
shake the pan to and fro: when the
under side is a light brown set the
pan of omelette for a few minutes in
the oven then scatter half the straw
berries over the surface; slip the broad
bladed knife under one side of the
omelette and double in two, inclosing
the fruit; dust over the top with pow
dered sugar and let it remain in the
oven until the next one is baked the
same way: then serve at once. Suf-
ticient for a family of six persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

is true Of New York is true, to a more
or less degree, in all of her sister
states with the possible exception of
New Jersey, where there are many
fine roads.
1t may be a new idea to a great
many lovers of the wheel to be told
that they and the farmers have a
strong bond Of sympathy, but when
the question is examined into this will
be found to be the case. Some years
ago the federal government examined
into the road question from an agri-
cultural standpoint, and it collected
some facts which form the basis of a
strong argument in a demand for good
roads, no matter whether the demand
comes from farmer or cyclist. Ac-
cOrding to the discoveries of the gov
eminent, the farmers of the country
had upon their farms draught animals
as follows. These statistics are from
official records:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
AFTERMATH.
Cuba.

The Wauwatosa fire was of incen-
diary origin.
By the state census Kenosha has
S,0S5 inhabitants.
A jury has been secured in the Lus-
combe murder case at Milwa ukee.
Illinois Farmers are pestered by a
new bug that spoils timothy hay.
A number of mail boxes in Marion,
Ind, were robbed of valuable letters.
Chicago claims a population of
1,695,0O based on the new direc-
tory.
Louis Oborn, aged 20 years, of Nee
nah, was drowned in Lake Winnie
bago.
Five cases of smallpox have devel-
oped in one family in Aetnaville,
Ohio.
The next session of the young peo-
pies christian union will be held at
/ Jersey City.
The fifth annual convention of the
Loyal Temperance legion is in session
at Berlin, Wis.
A. II. Revell, of Chicago, has been
, elected president of the national furn-
iture association.
Washburn saloonkeepers have given
up the fight against the city and paid
$500 license fees.
A spirited horse reared back too far
and fell over, nearly crushing Gov
Altgeld, of Illinois.
Harry Hayward, the murderer of
Miss Cling, at Minneapolis, has been
granted a stay pending an appeal.
The CloverdaIe Qnd.) bank has
closed its doors. 1t is regarded as sol
vent and that depositors are secured.
brated the anniversary OF the battle
of BOyne, parading under police es-
cOrt.
g. 0. Davis, a banker of East Peru,
Iowa, has disappeared with $4,000 of
the funds. The bank has gone into a
receivers hands.
Seven hundred Chinese attacked
Hisinchu, Formosa; 200 Chinese were
killed and many captured; the Japa-
nese lost IL men.
A fight occurred in Jackson Hole.
south OF Yellowstone park, between
settlers and BannOck Indinans. The
Indians were unlawfully killing game.
The arrangements demOnstrat ton in
Winnipeg was the largest ever held in
the west. Resolutions condemning the
governments course on separa tie
schools was adopted.
Harry Hayward, who was convicted
of the murder of Miss Cling at Mime
apolis, and sentenced to be hanged,
improves his time while in jail await
ing the end He has just closed
real estate deal, the sheriff acting as
go-between for Hayward and the
buyers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
F ARMER AND CYCLER
4 CASE WHEREIN THEIR INTER
ESTS ARE IDENTICAL.
PROFIT BY GOOD ROADS
Enormous Financial Advantages OBJ
tainable by Agriculturists Through
a System of Smooth Country Thor
Oughfares-European Nations far
Ahead Of Our Republic

When the bicyclists Of that ordinar-
ily quiet city Of Brooklyn arose in
their wra til and demanded section of
the great ocean boulevard running in
a straight line from Prospect park ito
Coney island seven miles away it was
great victory for the cycling world.
1t is seldom that the rest of the nation
hears anything at all from the one
million and more units of humanity
comprising the population Of Brooklyn,
but the city has now established "a
record for itself that other towns
stricken with the cycling fever may do
we'll to copy.
There are some fine bicycle roads in
this country, but they are few and far
between, when the magnitude of the
land is considered, and when they are
viewed in comparison with the roads
of European countries. The American
farmer has continuously and assidu-
OuSly cursed the fate that inflicted
the average country road upon him
Four months in the year the ordinary
dirt road is impossible, and at other
times after a heavy rainfall, it is next
to useless. His horses are idling away
their time in the stable, "eating thei1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

Judge Charles Morton Webb. of
Grand Rapids, mas been appointed by
the governor to ill the vacancy on
the sup enc bench caused by the
death Of Chief Justice Harlow S. Or
ton and the consequent promotion of
Justice John B. Cassoday. Thus a
very important matter IS settled.
Judge Webb is a republican, and a
war veteran. He will serve till next
spring when a special election to fill
the three-year vacancy will be held.
He was born in TOwanda, Bradford
county, Pa, December so, 1888. After
receiving good education he began
the study of law. For a considerable
time he studied in the office of
Ulysses Mercur, an able attorney, af-
terward chief Justice of the state OF
Pennsylvania. After being admitted
to the bar Judge Webb, in the fall Of
1857, removed to Wisconsin, and in the
following spring went to Grand Rap
ids, in Wood county, where he has
ever since resided. In the fall of 1858
he was elected district attorney of
Wood county, which office he held till
he resigned to enlist in the union army
in September, 1861. In 1853 and again
in 1882 he was elected to and served
in the state senate. In 1877 he was
appointed United States district at
torney for the western district of
Wisconsin, and that position he held
till he resigned it seven years later.
On the death of Judge Park in 1888
Mr.. Webb was appointed judge of the
seventh judicial circuit, now composed
of Wood, WauShara, Waupaca and
Portage counties, to serve the remain
der of Judge Parks term. In 1884
and again in 1890 he was reelected
without opposition. AS a justice of
the supreme court his salary will be
s., 900 a year.
For many years Judge Webb a1ld
family have been prominent in social
circles at Grand Rapids. His wife
three daughters. Two, Nina and Jen-
ME, are married and reside with their
husbands in Grand Rapids. The third,
a young lady, lives with her parents.
She is Tery popular and will make
pleasing addition to the society of
Madison. Judge Webb is comfortably
we'll off, though not possessed of any
considerable wealth. The family home
at Grand Rapids is one of the finest
residences there, surrounded by
spacious grounds and a we'll kent
lawn.
d. Lloyd Jones,o Stevens Point, will
undoubtedly be appointed to succeed
Judge Webb on the circuit bench. He
too will hold only till a special cleo
ton is held next spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
Queen Victoria signed the proclama-

Queen Victoria signed the proclama
ton dissolving parliament.
Ezeta will try to regain the presi-
dency Of Salvador by force Of arms.
Nicolas PieroIa, head of the rey0lu-
tionary party in Peru, was elected
president Of the republic.
oxford and Cambridge athletes de-
cided not to come over and tackle Yale
and Harvard this year.
The Canadian ministry was saved
from defeat Oh motion Of want Of
confidence by a majority Of 80.
4 hitch occurred in the Henley
regatta and Cornell rowed over the
course alone. But Trinity defeated
Cornell the next day.
Hunts hotel, Tweed's hotel. Whites
drug store, Broderick's liquor store
and a dozen dwellings were burned
at EImvale, Ont Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000.
1t is alleged than an extensive con-
spiracy against the car has been IN
earthed near Moscow by the chief of
the secret police. The chief has been
rewarded
The Paris Figaro has published an
alleged interview with Ambassador
Eustis. He is made to discuss the Gu
ban and Canadian question and to
suggest his own aspirations in politics
4 dispatch from st. Petersburg
states authoritatiyely that no question
Of ceding Chinese territory to Russia
entered into the recent financial nego
tiations between the two powers.
Two trains Oh the Grand Trunk rail
way carrying pilgrims to st. Anne de
| Beaupre were in collision at Craig's
Road, Que. Fourteen persons were
killed and thirty injured.
A dispatch from Madrid contains al
interview with the Spanish war min
! lister, and states that the press is dis
| cussing the possibility of Marsha
.Campos resigning the goVernorship o
/ Cuba.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

continually displayed rare business
talent in the management other none
tary affairs, and the major part of her
great earnings is stored away Ill the
safest of conservative investments.
Patti is now on the wrong side of
fifty, and in the Natural course of
events will soon have to stop singing.
1t may be that she will never again
appear on an American stage, but her
recent appearances in London show
that she has lost nothing, and if her
voice continues to hold good there is
no saying what the future may bring
forth. At any rate, opera goers whose
memories run back for more than a
generation marvel at PATHS voice TO-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
PINK WILD ROSE.
An old log house in the pasture
stands,

An old log house in the pasture
stands,
Shattered, forsaken, and brown,
Its windows gone, it's broken door
And it's doorstep tumbled down;
But a spirit fingers near the spot
With a sweet old-time repose,
For in tangled masses round about
Blossoms the pink wild rose.
| gather bunch of the fragrant
towers,
And a picture seems to rise;
| stand in the past a hundred years
And see meath the sunset skies
The housewife stand by her spinning
wheel,
Toiling at twilight close;
An old brown jar on the window-sid
Is filled with the pink wild rose.
The husband sits on the doorstep
With the children playing near
And then time marches with silent
tread
Till it passes year by year,
An6. the old log house deserted is,
A prey to the rains and SHOWS,
While the only voice Of the days
gone by
Is the voice of the pink wild rose.
Florence Josephine Boyce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
AUTOMATIC BICYCLE BRAKE.
The Riders Entire Weight is Thrown
On the Rear Wheel.

a device by which the weight of the
cally act as brake is described below.
1t is called the saddle brake. 1t Is
light in weight and strong. 1t is
clamped securely to the saddle springs
underneath the saddle, and fits equally
well, it is explained, two round
springs, one fiat spring, or, in fact any
kind Of a spring. 1t is also clamped
to the two rear forks, and the spoon
is attached to a spring steel, so that
when the pressure is released it imme-
position, disengaging from the tire.
The upright rod is in two parts, so
that it may be heightened Or short
ened to correspond with the height Of
the saddle when raised or lowered.
The spoon and spring are enameled In
black, and the upper part of the
brake is nickeled. The point is made
that the brake works directly on the
rear or power wheel; also that with
both hands on the handles and both
feet ON the pedals the rider can regu-
late the brake at pleasure by moving a
little further back on the saddle than
usual. 1t is explained that in case Of
a collision being inevitable the rider
can throw the entire weight of the
body on the brake and stop instantly,
but that a header is avoided by the
weight being so far back.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

the supervision Of the state authorities,
gard for the requirements of the
farmer and inland travel Under the
law relating to roads in Baden, the
duty of maintaining the road falls as
follows: One quarter each upon the
town and county in which the road is
situated. The remaining One-half upon
the state treasury.
In Hesse-Darmstadt the roads are
divided into two classes, called state
roads and district roads, of which the
former are a direct care and charge
upon the general government, and
when the district roads become so i'm
portant as to require the attention of
state officers, they can, under direction
of the district assembly be declared
state roads Every district is bound
to appoint the necessary officials con-
nected with the district roads. These
officials consist of a skilled person who
must be capable of filling the office of
district overseer and a proper force of
labOrers requisite for the work in
hand.
In Italy, Austria and England, par
ticularly the latter, the roads are mag
nifcent. Of course these countries are
much smaller in area than the United
States, but each Individual state could
at least partially accomplish what the
foreign nations, as a whole, do so well.
In all of the countries named cycling
is a pleasure second to n2thing Here
it often favors too strongly of hard
work, particularly when some I'M
known country district is yentured
into.
But coming back to the original ad-
vice, let the cyclers and the farmers
put their joint shoulders t) the wheels
and keep turning it until good roads
are extracted from the lottery of
legislation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

a large sum. Invested at 3 per cent.
interest, it would produce nearly
100000 per week. Then there are
more than sixteen millions of horses
and mules alone, and to feed and care
for these it costs the modest sum of
S4O00,000 per day. \ little while agoI
very clever and intelligent citizen of
Indiana estimated that bad roads cost
the farmer S15 per year for each horse
and mule in his service. This means a
loss in the aggregate of nearly $780,
100000 per year. Add wear and tear
Of wagons and harnesses, 100000. 900:
deprecated value of farm lands 81
100000, 900; total, $3.50, 100000.
Making the utmost allowance I'M
favor of the farmer and granting the
necessity for the liberal use of horse
power in the maintenance of agri-
cultural traffic, it is easily certain that
the farmers of this country are keep
ing at least two millions of horses
more than would be necessary to do all
the hauling between farm and market,
if only the principal roads were
brought to a good condition. Assume
that each of these horses is fed the
ordinary army ration of hay and oats,
it requires 14,COO tons Of hay or fodder
| and 100000 bushels of oats per day to
! feed these unnecessary animals, which
| themselves have a money value of
! $140,000,00G. The value Of hay and
| oats fed to these horses PEI day is
about 100000, or something like $114,-
100000 per year.
If the road question of this country
were placed in the hands of govern.
! mental officials and they were sent tt
! the European countries to study VI
| the matter, good deal could be
! learned. France is a nation of fine
! roads. These roads are not built by
farmers, who work OUT their high
| way taxes in the manner followed
! largely in this country, nor by the in
fantile implements employed here
! The government manages tie Whole
affair by a system as careful as the
rules which regulate our mint. There
is 4 chief official who is responsible
for the main roads of the French re
! public, and through his subordinate;
is kept constantly informed of the con
ditions Of all the roads. The work i;
| subdivided among hundreds OF super
intendentS end assistants and their as
sistants before the actual Workmen are
! reached.
In Belgium also the principal roads
are built and maintained by the gen
eral government, and in 1885, in tht
nine provinces of Belgium over I!
per cent. of the high roads were of this
class, the entire length of high-class
roads being Alb English miles, out OF
a total of 5,2S6 Of roads of all classes
The best roads of Belgium are in the
} provinces of Namur, Eiege and Lux
embourg, and permanent employees are
kept on the roads under the direction
Of the chief engineer Of the province
for the purpose of insuIing the obServ
y, ance of the regulations and looking
after the constant repair of the high.
ways.
In Baden the main roads are under
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

heads off," while salable produce is
stacked up in the barns with no way
of getting it to market.
Cyclists may ask, What have we to
do with the woes of the farmer: Only
this, that the cornerstone of enjoy
ment on the wheel is a fine smooth
hard road out in the country districts
where the air is pure and the scenery
beautiful. If the road be rough and
muddy with deep ruts and an abun-
dance of mud holes, pure air and fine
scenery count for but little.
The Brooklyn cyclists got together
and as a result they secured what is
justly claimed to be the finest bicycle
road in the country. What is more,
it is just as good to ride upon in cold
weather as in the summer. The land
is as fiat as a billiard table from the
park to the ocean, and furthermore, it
is shaded by trees on either side for
it's entire length. 1t is we'll cared for
and in every way is an ideal cycling
path. The pity of it is that there are
not scores of the same kind in every
state Of the union.
There are good roads committees of
league of American wheelmen in ali
sections of the land, but there seems
to be little accomplished Of a practical
kind. The only way out of the diff
Guilty appears to rest in a strong cOali-
ton Of the agricultural and cycling in
terests, and the maintenance of a con-
tinual warfare upon the law makers in
each state, until money is appropri-
ated for the improvement Of roads.
New York, the empire state of the
western world, as it is sometimes
proudly called, has perhaps the worst
roads of any place of its size and pOpu-
lation on earth. In it's northern por-
tiOnS the roads are in such a frightful
condition during one third of the year
that the farmers are unable to make
use of their draught stock for weeks
at time. When horses are unable to
draw lightly laden wagon along a
road in the meanest seasons of the
year, there is mighty little pleasure for
the cycler in pedalling his wheel along
that road in the best of times What
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18

day, and it becomes a matter of inter-
est to regard the diva as she appeared
in London thirty-fve years ago, and
astounded the people Of the English
metropolis, and almost at one bound
acquiring an array of admirers that
have worshipped her singing for nearly
four decades.
Away back in 1861 Patti made her
famous stroke in London. She was
only a girl then, scarcely more than
seventeen, yet she swept down the
contemporary stars of the opera and
builded for herself a fame that seems
to be perpetual. Nobody knew her,
where she came from, who she was.
where she had been trained: in fact.
all they did know was that she was a
remarkably beautiful young woman.
With the power to sing like one III
spired. 1t was as Amina in La Son.
nambula, an opera almost now out of
date, that Patti made her first appear
ance in the Royal Italian opera. If
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-18
HELP WANTED To SAVE BIG
CROPS.

Devils Lake. North Dakota. July
S.-Ihe most favorable reports are
heard concerning the growing crops.
The harvest is close at hand. and un-
less the unforeseen occurs. the yield
Of wheat and other small grains. rs
well as root crops. will equal the best
years since the settlement of North
Dakota. The Red River valley will
break the record in wonderful yields
if everything goes right. Farmers are
beginning to consider the question of
harvest hands. as when the time
comes grain will ripen pretty uni
fOrmly over the whole region, and
large number of extra men will be
needed at good wages to properly take
care of it.