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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
HOME OF THE OYSTER.
the r. Is Not Here the Season
Has Really Just Begun.

Now that we have come to the first
of the four month without an 'R" in
them, says the Little Chronicle, the
oyster as an article of diet goes out of
season, or, as we say, "the oyster
season is over" From a true COM
mercial point Of view, however, the
oyster season has just begun, for it is
now that the seed is being planted in
northern waters for next winters
crop. Most of this seed is obtained
from Virginia, at Hampton and Rap
pahannock, and the first sloops from
there have arrived in New Jersey and
Connecticut waters with cargoes Of
three and four-year- seed for which
higher price was paid than at any
time in the past fifteen years. Last
spring the prices Of seed oysters were
from forty to sixty cents per bushel;
this spring they are from sixty-five to
ninety cents. The reason given is
that times are more prosperous and
people can afford to pay more, but
the real reason is found in the in
creased use of oysters
There is a popular error that Ser
gius Orator, a wealthy citizen of
ancient Rome, invented oyster cul-
ture but the best evidence is that it
originated in the Tarantine gulf on
the southern coast Of Italy-that body
of water which separates the So
called "heer' of the peninsula from
70
for its fisheries as far back as there
are any records At the head of the
gulf is a bay called the Mare Piccolo
and there is the ancient home Of the
oyster 1t is filed with small oyster
parks which are made by driving four
corner posts into the bottom of the
bay and connecting them by net
work of wire grass ropes From these
ropes are suspended loose bundles of
hazel, or goose boughs, called fascines.
The fascines gather the spat from the
oysters suspended on the ropes. The
spawning season is greatest be-
tween April and October, but expert
ments show that spawning occurs
during the whole year. In the early
spring the fascines prepared during
the winter are taken out of the shall
low water and anchored in deep
water. In May they are placed In the
shallower water Of the park and get
their second coating of spats. The
next spring they are taken up and
taken ashore. the boughs are chopped
off into twigs about eight inches long
and the twigs are spliced into strands
of ropes. These ropes are then placed
in the parks attached to the corner
stakes, and swing and vibrate in the
currents so that the oyster escapes
the sediments, but gets his full
hare of the ever floating food. In
this second year the oyster often
grows four times its original size
from March to October, although it
generally takes two and a half years
to produce Tarantine oyster of the
first grade. 1t is estimated that a
rope fourteen feet long will rear
about 1000 oysters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31

closure embracing no less than ten
separate farms near the limits of the
town.
The object of the undertaking is to
breed cattle, horses, sheep and hogs
Buyers will scour the country for the
best domestic stock and agents will
be appointed to pick up in Europe the
best specimens of high class animals
Mr.. Morgan has had the project in
mind for the last three years. He had
enlisted the hearty cooperation of
Prof. W. A. Henry, dean of the Wis
consin Agricultural college. Up to
within three months ago he had found
neither land nor a man in whose
hands to trust the enterprise. About
that time Mr. Everett was induced to
take hold of the matter and the work
is now under way. All of the land
has been bought. The cost is about
$4,000. The work on the buildings
will soon commence. Architects have
already planned some of the most ex-
tensive and costly farm buildings
ever erected in the state. The main
barn will be $50 feet square, with an
open court 300 by 80 feet. Within this
building will be four large brick siIos.
The foundation and floor will be con-
crete. The plans call for great
abundance of ventilation and light.
Within the barn, which will be heated
by steam and Illuminated by electric
ity, will be a suite of living rooms
for the help, fitted up n modern style
with all conveniences, including bath
rooms and office. The feed will be
carried from the silos and feed bins to
feed racks by conveyers on an over
head track reaching every portion of
the barn and yards The buildings
will cost 100000.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made for water supply Turtle
creek, which runs through the tract,
will be damned and the water forced
by rams to tanks elevated in the big
barn. A supply of 100000 gallons a
day may be had from the dam.
In addition to this system of water
the bluffs. These will be kept full of
| water to be used for irrigation pur-
poses at different places on the farm.
| Landscape art is to be employed to
touch up the premises about the
dwellings and barns. This work in
part, together with the locating of the
buildings, will be done by Warren
Manning Of Boston, who was one OF
the supervising architects of the
worlds fair grounds.
All the new inventions which
genius has eontrived will be used by
this establishment.
An Austin crushing plant, with an
array Of graders and dump wagons,
has already been ordered and will
set to work in short time on the
roads about the farm. Private boule-
wards will be maintained along the
south side of Turtle creek. The land
scapes along this road will be given
much attention.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
PROF. HENRY INTERESTED.
In a Great Stock Farm Near the City
Of Beloit.

What, it is claimed will be the
most extensive stock lxrm in Wiscon-
sin Or Illinois is to be established near
Beloit by F. W. Morgan of the Nor
gan & Wright tire company
of Chicago, at cost of $780,
900. The farm will consist Of
972 acres and lies near the border line
separating the two states. From this
farm blooded stock will be bred and
disseminated throughout Wisconsin
and Illinois on a scale never before
attempted in either state
The big farm will be under the su-
perintendency Of Charles Everett,
president Of the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association, and a well-known farm
ers' institute conductor. Mr.. Everett
the land and will, next week,
close the deals by which nearly 1000
acres will be taken into the big in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
TWO U. w. MEN JURORS AT PARIS.

Paris, May 24.-Among the Amer
lean jurors appointed at the exposi-
ton are Profs. Storm Bull and E. D.
Jones of the University of Wisconsin
and of Sylvan Block of Iowa.
The Illinois republican ticket is Gov
ernor, Richard Yates; lieutenant gov
ernor, W. A. Northcote; secretary of
state, James A. Rose; auditor, James
s. Mccullough; treasurer, M. o. Will
hanson; attorney general, H. ]. Ham
lin; university trustees, S. A. Billiard,
Alex. MLean. Miss Corne, Thomas
Alexander. Yates is SO and son Of
the war governor.
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until they curry themselves clean.
These places are called buffalo wal
lows, but they are never wet or I'M
clean as the name would suggest.
The buffalo always lies with his
back up hill, so that he can get upon
his feet quickly and easily. At night
certain number of them stand guard
and do picket duty while the herd
sleeps. At the first sign of danger
the guards and pickets give an alarm.
They are courageous animals and
combined are able to fight off all
foes except man.
All of these things and more "Buf-
falo' Jones has told the committee of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
GOES TO COMMITTEE.
Question of Revision of Presbyterian
Creed.

st. Louis, May 24-Advancement waa
made in the work Of the work OF the
general assembly yesterday by the
adoption of the report Of the committee
on bills and overtures asking the Pres
byteries what action they desire to take
if any in the revision Of the creed, and
in the election of Dr. William 3. Noble
as permanent clerk. During the after
noon session the speakers for and
against revision occupied the floor and
friendly spirit prevailed. The adop
ton of the report of the committee on
bills and oyertures relating to the ap-
pointment of revision committee by
the assembly was received with great
satisfaction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31

Down in the panhandle of Texas
there are about 100 boys and girls
who are getting an education at
college supported by buffaloes. Four
teen years ago Charles Goodnight, a
Texas ranchman, at the request Of
his wife, caught three buffalo calves
from which they have raised the
largest herd of buffaloes now in this
country. AS the herd increased in
size Mrs Goodnight sold some Of the
animals to geological gardens, and
with the money she started a little
college for the children of other
ranch people who were without
schools or the means of education.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
CAN'T WITHSTAND TEARS.

l thought you said you never again
would elect her president of your
club he suggested, after she had told
him all about the result of the club
election.
Well, We didn't intend to-" she re-
piled, but when she broke down and
cried, we just couldn't help it,
Chicago Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
REDUCTION CAUGHT THEM.

along?
Jess-Oh, we're getting a big mem
bership now since we reduced the
initiation fee.
Tess-I told you S. was too much to
expect any woman to pay.
Jess-Yes, we realized that, so we
made it s49S.-Philadelp Press.
Louis Globe-Democrau.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31
FLOWERS.

They came, one wintry day,
And made the whole world May:
From unknown gardens far away
They came, one wintry day.
Since when l know that they,
Frightening a wintry day,
Whisper to lips. too sad to sing,
Love is eternal Spring."
Atlanta Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31

The English Queen in Ireland seems
to be about as popular as the Irish
soldier in England-Montreal Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-31

Strikers in St. Louis remain quiet
and cars are run on five lines.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23

Look at the army of statesmen and
saleSwomen in our stores. There is
not. | believe, as capable or honest a
corps of workers in the world. Yet
French or English shopgirl will sell
twice rs many goods in the same time,
and the customer will come again and
again to be served by the same woman.
Why? Because she is civil and courte-
Gus.
There is something pitiful as well as
ridiculous in the Indifference. the hau-
tcur the actual rudcness of many Of
the intelligent young men and women
behind our counters. Yet civility is
their capital. BY selling gloves or tin
ware they earn their living, and the
more civil they are the more they sell.
Most of my readers know few sales
women who have remained in some Of
the old business houses until an hon
ored old age and by their ability and
courtesy have made for themselves
hosts of friends. 1t is pity that these
foolish young people could not learn
their business from thcm.-An Ameri-
can Mother in Ladies' Home Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
Sherlock Holmes. Jr.

do you see that man with the dark
mustache" said Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
Eyes. Do you know him."
81 never saw him before. He is mar
ried. He ought to live in 4 fat, but
doesn't. His wife is afraid of the
hired girl, and he is left handed"
''AIr. Holmes, you are an everlasting
marvel. How can you tell that about
man you don't know and whom you
never saw before:'
Look at the second lmuckle on his
left hand. You see. it is badly skinned.
Also there IS q black mark on his left
cuff. Now let Us see what we must
make of this. When q left handed man
pokes up the furnace fire, how does he
do it? BY putting his left hand for
ward, of course. Thus it happened
that it was his left hand which scraped
against the furnace door. The black
ened cuff shows that it was Il furnace
door. Having this foundation to work
upon. the rest is easy. If he lived in Il
fiat, he would have no furnace TO look
after, and if his wife were not afraid
of the hired girl they would make the
latter do the po5ing up. 1t is all very
simple if ones perceptiye faculties are
properly trained. He can't really af-
ford to live in a house, because if he
could he would have a man to look aft
err the furnace. Therefore he ought to
live in fiat"
"But hold on. How DO you know the
man is married? He can't be over 30
at the most. Why may it not be posi-
Bile that lie lives at home with his wild
owed mother"
''My dear sir" said Sherlock Holmes.
Jr., q am surprised at your lack of
perspicacity. If he lived at home with
his widowed mother, he would permit
her to tend to the furnace herself" n
Chicago Times-Hcrald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
JOhn'a Many NnmeS.

The majority Of the names that you
see on the signs of laundrics or tea
stores kept by Cinnamon are simply
fancy names adopted for their auspi-
cious significance. They are simply
notices, having no reference to the
proprietor or the members of a firm
whatsoever.
Every properly constituted Chinaman
has five names besides his surname or
cognomen. The last is fixed and hand
ed down from one generation to an
other.
Every male child born in China is
first called by his milk name" When
he grows old enough to attend school,
he takes a "book name" When he has
learned the mysteries of composition
he completes for literary honors under
an assumed name, which is finally
adopted. When he successfully passes
his examinations and obtains his de-
gree, his equals address him by anoth-
er, either coined by them or adopted by
him. At his marriage he adopts still
another, called "style. "-Chicago Chron-
icle
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
Correct the Children In Private.

"Do not reprimand your children in
the presence of company says Miriam
Z. Brennan in The Mothers Journal.
spare your guests the modification.
Do not imagine that it shows you are
a painstaking mother trying your best
to train and bring your children up
perfectly.
do all your teaching before the COM
pany arrives or after. If your child is
so very misbehaving, keep him out
while you are entertaining caller or
n friend at dinner. There is nothing
that will so mar the pleasure of a
crowd at table as to witness a child
get a scolding and sometimes even a
slap in the face or a jerk by the ear or
sent out of the room.
You will notice that it puts KIND
of damper on the good nature of the
company. All will wear guilty look
and feel that the performance took
place in their honor and the child, too,
in his own little mind, will conclude
that it was through the influence of the
company that he was thus treated"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
TobIeaux or story Pictures.

This game can be played by any
number of persons. 1t is played in the
following manner: Pencils and papers
are supplied the guests and the condi-
tions given below stated to them.
They are told to draw a quick sketch
of some we'll known scene from history
or fiction, such as the Babes In the
Wood" Romeo and Juliet" Bruce
and the Spider" etc An allotted time
is then given them to choose their sub
iect and finish their sketch. When
this time is up. the papers are collect
ed and placed. face downward, in hat
and we'll shufIed. Each of the play
ers must now draw a paper, and q
short time is given them to name the
subject. They must, of course, not be
named by the person who has sketched
them. Those who succeed in giving
the subjects of their pictures are now
obliged to repeat the process, While
those who do not succeed must drop
out. This must be repeated again and
again until there is only one person
left. He is the winner and receives
the prize. The "booby" prize is award
ed to the person who first drops out Of
the game The object is to keep in
the game" the longest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23

Two cases that have recently come
under the writer's notice would seem
to emphasize the statement that the
making of homemade bread, cake and
pastry offers a profitable occupation
outside that part of the field that is
covered by the women's exchanges. In
one of the cases referred to young
girl living in Il suburban town and
known to make excellent bread for her
own family's use was asked by
neighbor to include for her an extra
loaf or two in every baking. Other
neighbors heard of and duplicated this
arrangement From this modest be-
ginning the friendly service grew to a
business. The village is one much fire.
quented in summer by wealthy New
Workers, and from May 10 November
the youthful baker has difficulty in
filling her orders for bread and rolls
even by working from A. m often till
nearly midnight. Her custom has made
necessary the replacement of the fam
lily cook stove with a fine new range.
lin whose ovens 1G loaves of bread
may be baked at once. The second case
Is in certain neighborhoOd of this
city. Dwellers in the locality noticed.
a little over a year ago, a sign on the
basement door of a modest home in the
quarter announcing the sale every sat
urday of homemade cakes and pies.
One after another the housekeepers iii
the vicinity made a trial of the wares,
found them excsllent and the business
has grown from weekly to a daily in
dustry. The goods are delivered in
neat boxes. Certain Specialties. such
as soft gingerbread and raised biscuit,
are provided on certain days Of the
week. Undoubtedly there are other
suburban towns and more city neigh
borhoods where the service could be
introduced to the mutual profit Of sup
plier and consumer York Even
ing Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
Praise For CIubwomcn.

The Ohio state Federation met on
Oct. u, - and % in the old and histor-
ical city. Marietta. The meeting was
admirably planned. and a fine and in
structive programme was carried out.
marietta men attended the opening
meetings and enjoyed them writes
correspondent of the Toledo Blade.
Judge Follctt, who is known all over
the state. was one of these. lie said:
1T is wonderful what you clubwom-
en- are doing in the way of child educa-
tion and Development As Il member
of the board of charities and correction
l am in a position to see this. While
abroad this summer | went with Miss
Hall of the state board to visit Il prison
in Brussels She was denied admit
tance. The women of Europe are not
allowed To do reform work in such
places But let our clubwomen so on
with their kindcrgartens and play
grounds. ana after awhile there will be
no need to visit prisons"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23

The German law of libel is Il curiosi-
ty. An editor recently said in his pa
per that Il certain gentleman was an
unmannerly boor," in consequence of
which Il libel action was brought
against the paper. The evidence given
seemed to show that the only fault
with the expression was that it was not
strong enough. The case was taken
from court to court in the usual way
until it reached the highest tribunal.
The final decision was that the editor
would have been perfectly justified if
he had said that the plaintiff had act
ed like an unmannerly boor," but since
he had said that the plaintiff actually
twas an unmannerly boor" he had
committed libel. In Germany it is Ii
belous to call a man a pig or an ass,
but if you combine the two and call a
man pig ass then there is no libel, be-
cause such an animal does not exist.
The favorite combination among Ger
mans is, we believe, pig dog-schweine-
hund.-Chambers Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23

4 very strange theory is pronounced
in Mr.. ]. NJ. Rarrie's new play. II is
one of which those who hold the rights
of women to be sacred will rightly dis
approve and assurcdlv the balance If
Justice does not seem to Ice very evenly
held between men and women in this
new dramatic problem. hut the author
would have us believe that the story
he has set forth is not merely made
for the stage. hut is one of everyday
life ana as such we are asked to ac-
ccpt his solution of the problem pro-
pounded as the best in the circum-
stances. Woman. it needs not to be
said. is always forciyine and generous
10 the opposite sex. but why should
play be written to show that to save
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23

When q doctor of 80 years practice
encounters a new experience, 1t must
be worth relating. This is from ply
stefan on Lafayette avenue who has
fought disease for the period named.
81 saw him get gingcrly out Of wag-
on in front of the office. He then left
the team with his daughter, ignored
the bell and pounded Justify on the
door, l answered in person because
thought he and my office girl might
get into an argument, for he looked
just like man who would insist upon
seeing the doc at once.
"Doc,' he began without other pre-
liminary, I've been a-takin truck fur
six months. and blamed if l hain't
worsen was at the beginnin,'
What's the matter with your
'Stomach's all out o whack. Regu-
lar riot down there all the time and
me a-dosin in the remerdy after each
meal and at early bedtime
"'What are you takingY
"'Here it is, doc, and got lot left
yet. My first wife ulster buy it in the
bulk cause it came cheaper
"'But this is for the lungs
"'S'pose | don't know that? Course
it's fur the lungs That's what was
the matter with her. | don't care if it
was fur the liver It's got ter 90 to the
stomach first, hain't it? And the stom-
ach and the lungs hain't so burned far
apart but what helps one helps the
other and what gifts to one gifts to the
other. "-Detroit Free Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-23
She Secured HIS Pardon.

There is rich young farmer, once
convict, in the state of Kentucky, who
owes his liberty and happiness to a
woman novelist. This woman novelist
is Halle Erminie Rives, author of ~
Furnace of Earth" He was sentenced
to long term in the penitentiary at
Frankfort for killing drunken man in
self defense. Miss Riyes became in
terested in the case, quietly searched
the evidence and bided her time. Her
chance came when she was a guest at
the house of the secretary of state at
the capital One day while Governor
Brown and her host were chatting on
the piazza she appeared with a hamper
of good things and asked the gentle
men to accompany her to the prison.
She delivered her hamper to the pris-
oner asked him few tactful ques-
tons, and the trio returned. In the
evening Governor Brown. struck with
the episode, inquired of her the reason
of this particular sympathy. With this
opening Miss Rives proved an able
lawyer, and presented her facts in the
young mans favor so cogently that
through the secretary of state his case
was taken up by the board of pardons
and he was soon after set free.