The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-21
WILD WIZARD OF WOLF ROCK
The Edison of the Mountains an His
Marvellous LaborSaving De-
vices


The Wild WIZARD OF Wolf Rock is
the name by which a queer inventive
genius. who lives on top Of mount
EN- peak of the Blue Ridge range,
is known to those few human beings
wlo come into contact with him.
There is nothing uncanny enough
about this huge, gaunt mountaineer
to earn for him the title of wizard,
either in appearance or action, for
he does not affect strange dress
nor does he practice any mysterious
rites. He makes no pretention, in
deed, to a knowledge of anything per-
tanning to the so-called black art,
nor does he claim to be able to cure
any of the many ills to which the
human flesh is heir.
He gained his sobriquet of Wild
Wizard of Wolf Rock because he has
{ his home on the summit of a small
mountain known as Wolf Rock, and
because, like the famous Thomas A.
Edison, he employs his genius in
| inventing and devising labor-saving
machines and contrivances, which to
| the ordinary and less ingenious
/ mountaineer of the surrounding
country seem nothing less than mar
velous.
Just now the Wild Wizard of Wolf
Rock is engaged in the perfection
of an airship for his personal use.
He will employ it to come down from
the top of Wolf Rock when he wants
to come It town, but more especial
I ly save him the labor of climbing up
the rough mountain when he wants
To rot hn, f,,Ii
cations the machine gives every
promise of fulfilling all the require
ments for coming down. Just what it
do as regards going back will be
determined if the wizard survives
the first official trip.
Wiz or why" as he is more
Familiarity spoken of by his most in
innate circle of four or nine persons,
rose to special notice during the past
summer, when. after visit to an
old water mill at Frederick, his mas
sive and inventive mind grasped the
immense possibilities of water power.
I"Wizzy' returned to his mountain
home full of the subject While his
| exterior was apparently calm, his
gray matter was revolving violently.
But he did not send for the cores
pondent of the Catoctin Clarion nor
try TO interest innocent capital in
the project he had in mind, for Wiz
zy' seeks not glory nor wealth. He
loves only ease, and he employs his
inventive genius merely in an effort
to tighten his physical labors
In the present case he argued to
his own conviction that if water run
ming or falling on wheel would
set machinery to work to grind corn
chop feed and perform similar labor
in small mill. it must also be able
to turn his grindstone at home.
When Why gets started or
anything that he figures will make
life easier for him he never hesitate.
in his activity. Once his plans wer,
formulated in his colossal brain
he began Immediately the construct
ion of huge water wheel on the TOT
of Wolf Rock. When this was finish
ed Why ran leather belt to hi
grindstone, and when, just to ties
it, he gave the water wheel spil
with his hands he fairly leaped will
Joy to behold the old grindstone e
around, too.
At the same time things were go
| lHS dlouIu, III WHY lSIlllt
brain at even higher rate of speed
than that of the water wheel. So from
the grindstone Why extended his
operations to levers and pulleys sc
that a belt from the water whee
would blow the bellows in his forge
And still the things in "Wizzy's
massive brain were whirling and his
operations extended from the black
smith shop to his house
First, to please his wife and as a
mere matter Of playfulness, what was
easier than to make her sewing ma
chine run by water power? From the
sewing machine it was only a stel
to the washing machine, and while
he was working his improvements in
the home" Why" did not forget that
1t was no heavenly delight to get up
in the middle Of the night or any
other time to rock the baby's cradle
and SO he soon invented device by
which the pushing of lever con-