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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
The First Aviator.

Was Harold, the last of the Saxon
kings, our first aviator? This is a
point seriously maintained by ancient
b1ographers of the Saxon king, who
persisted in the battle of Hastings.
In the course of an article In the
Windsor Magazine a writer recalls a
tradition which cannot, of course, be
either disputed or disproved today,
but was of sufficient interest to be
retold even by the poet Milton in his
History Of the Anglo-Saxons," where
the pOet-historian says: Harold was.
in his youth, strangely aspiring, had
made and fitted wings to his hands
and feet; with these on the top of a
tower, spread out to gather air, he
flew more than furlong; but the
wind being too high, came fiuttering
down, to the manning of all his limbs.
yet so cOnceited of his art, that he
attributed the cause of his fall to the
want of TAIL as birds have, which
he forgot to make to his hinder parts.
This story, though seeming otherwise
too light in the midst of a sad nara
ton, yet for the strangeness thereof.
| thought worthy enough the placing. ="
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
FIT CURES A DEAF MUTE

John DriscolI, an ex-sailor living
in ST. Helens, Eng, who had been be-
reft of speech and hearing for eight
years, has been suddenly restored to
both these faculties in a remarkable
manner. "A queer feeling came over
me Saturday night" he told a doctor
after the occurrence. 81 stood up but
became so dizzy that l fell, and re-
membered nothing for some time.
Il have been told since that l was
so violent that it took five men to
hold me down. They tell me that I
struggled and shouted, and they be-
came very much alarmed. After that
l Gained down again.
Il still felt queer, but 1 could hear
them telling me that I could speak.
1t all seemed like dream to me.
went hot and cold in turns, and I felt
as weak as child. But o, the joy
and wonder Of myself and friends aft
er the strange fit had passed, when I
found that my long lost faculties had
been so miraculousIy restored
While at Bermuda in 1901 DriscoIl
had an attack Of yellow fever, and
when he recovered twelve months aft
erwards he found that he could mel
Their speak nor hear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
TRAPPED BY HIS WHISPERS

An odd little adventure, more hui
morous than tragic, happened in hotel
at Seattle the other day. the victim
being a guest from Salt Lake City
named Morris Steigers, who rejOiced
in the possession of a twenty-eight
inch growth of flowing whiskers.
As Katie Merrill, who handles the
linen on the top floor of the hotel was
tripping down a hallway she saw ap-
parently hanging from a door knob
what looked like a woman's switch
It was gray and fully twenty inches
long.
Mercy" quoth Katie What a
peculiar place for a SWITCH"
Then Katie looked closer and dis
covered that the bunch was held fast
in the door jamb. With a pass key
she opened the door, when Steigers
toppled backward very much exhaust
ed, but once more a free man.
Steigers, while writing a letter, had
felt a draught and gone to the door
to close it. A guest of wind waited
his whiskers outward and they were
caught when the door slammed. 1t
was a catch lock and he was held a
prisoner for over an hour because he
could not unlock the door, and he did
not wish to lose his much-treasured
patriarchal beard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Stenographer's CIuck and Dust Die
peller Causes Shvering Chicks
to Chirp JoyfuIIy.

New York.-A batch of cold. moth
genius of Lawyer Edward B. Clark of
Jamaica and the ability of stenog-
rapher TO cluck like a hen.
Clark's Office is at No. 1856 Fulton
street, Jamaica, and he has an estate
on Grand street. But as his hens
broke all the eggs he got under them
he bought five chicks and took them
to the Office in a shoe box.
The office was cold and the chicks
peeped their discomfort, and as they
grew colder their peepings grew
weaker.
Clark called on Lawyer Robert &.
Pattie to consult about the best means
to save their lives, when his eye light
ed upon a feather buster, owned in
fee simple by Stephen H. Voris. a
third attorney
THE very thing" said he. A hole
was made in the top of the shoe box,
the handle was poked through it. and
the feather buster, inverted, was
closed down upon the chickens. But
they continued to peep.
"'Twon't work. quoth Patrie.
Some ones got to cluck to give local
color"
First Clark, then Patrie, then Voris
clucked in their most persuasive
style. The chickens, unlike the juries,
declined to be swayed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
A Queer Way to Cook,

In certain parts of New Zealand
both native and white women use the
natural hot springs to do their cook
ing. In the Rotorua region it mat
tiers not whether the cook wishes to
roast piece of meat, boil potatoes. or
steam pudding, all she has to do is to
step out Of doors and place the cook,
ing utensil in a steam hole. The
cover is then put on, and a piece of
coarse sacking over the whole com.
pletes the operation. In a short time
dinner is ready.
At Whakarewrewa the entire earth
just beneath the surface is a mass of
boiling springs. Millions of gallons
of hot water hiss and steam, sending
vapors skyward in great white clouds.
Strike the ground almost anywhere
with a stick, and the hole thus
formed fills with hot water. Hot wa
ter for baths, the weeks washing,
and for ordinary purposes of the
household is always on hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
II Is a Mistake

Many have the idea that any thing
Will sell If advertised strong enough.
This is great mistake. True. a
few sales might be made by advertis-
ing an absolutely worthless articia but
1t is only the article that is bought
again and again that pays An ex-
ample of the big success of a worthy
article is the enormous sale that has
grown up for Cascarets Candy Cathar-
tic. This wonderful record is the result
OF great merit successfully made known
through persistent advertising and the
mouth-to-mouth recommendation given
Cascarets by its friends and users.
Like all great successes, trade pi-
rates prey on the unsuspecting public,
by marketing fake tablets similar in
appearance to Carcarets. Care should
always be exercised in purchasing well
advertised goods, especially an article
that has national sale like Cascar-
cts. Do not allow a substitute to be
palmed off on you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
RISKS LIFE TO RESCUE BIRD
Traveller in British Guiana Plunees
Into Water to Save Specimen
for London Zoo.

London--An interesting addition to
the birds on exhibition at the London
geological gardens is about to be
made by Sir William Ingram from
Georgetown. British Guiana
His representative, Wilfrid Frost,
has returned from an expedition into
the interior of British Guiana with
living specimens Of the extremely rare
bird, cock of the rock.
The birds, with only stuffed speci-
mems of which the public is familiar.
are about the size of pigeons.
The plumage is a beautiful bright
red. though the tail and tips of the
wings are dark brown, while the
feathers on the head form a pretty
arch.
Mr.. Frost and his party had an ad-
venturous journey. They were almost
lost in bush swamp and on two oc-
casions disaster almost overlook them
by water.
At one time their canoe collided
with a submerged log and the man
at the bow was precipitated into the
river.
At another Mr.. Frost, in his en-
deavor to save the cages containing
the birds from topping over, had q
narrow escape from being drowned
himself.
Before starting on this expedition
Mr.. Frost took a number of birds of
paradise from New Guinea to Tobago
for Sir William Ingram, who is expert
menting with the breeding of these
birds in the West Indies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Child Prodigy Leaves Audience After
Ovation With Breaking Heart
Over Accident

st. Louis.-Although she scored a
triumph before the Orpheus club in
In East st. Louis at its concert at the
Broadway theater, Miss Mary McCaus-
land, the fifteen-year-oId st. Louis vio-
lin prodigy, left the theater with a
broken heart. Her beloved violin,
which she carried in It's case under
her arm, was broken and she Is fear
full that It's wonderful tones may never
be restored
Just as she was leaving the stage
after her final number, bowling and
smiling in response to the enthusiast
tic applause that greeted her, she
stumbled over a platform that had
been used by the leader of the chorus
and fell headlong.
She spTained her back and her left
arm in the fall, but she did not think
of that. She recovered composure
quickly and smiled to the audience to
assure them that she wasn't hurt, and
then looked down at her instrument.
Miss McCausland picked it up ten
derby and carried it off the stage, with
difficulty holding back her tears.
The audience had not understood
that the violin was broken, but a ges-
ture by the girl told them and silence
fell.
The instrument is Lupot and is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
The Lost Chords.

The village concert was to be
great affair. They had the singers,
they had the program sellers, they
had the doorkeepers and they would
doubtless have the audience. All they
needed was the piano, but that they
lacked. Nor could they procure one
anywhere.
AT last the village organist learned
that one was possessed by Farmer
Hayseed, who lived "at the top O. the
ILL" Forthwith he set out with two
men and van.
Take it, an welcome" said Hay
seed cordially I've no objections
slong as We put 'Pyenner by Hayseed'
on the program"
They carted it away.
AN I wish 'em joy of it." muir
INJURED Mrs. Hayseed, as the van disap-
peared from sight.
Wish 'em joy of it," repeated Hay
seed. What dye mean?"
well, 1 mean I only ope they'll
find all the notes they want" replied
the good woman. Zoos, We see, when
l wanted bit O. wire l allus went to
the old pianner for it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
cow SAVES FARMERS LIFE

A COW, which L. G. Stahl, a farmer
living near Dalton, was taking to an
sbattoir in Masillon, O., saved its own
err siifa and the life of valuable
horse. Stahl, riding in buggy, was
leading the COW down a steep hill, at
the foot of which is the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad crossing. The horse, un-
able to hold back the buggy, started
to run. Just then a passenger train
rapidly approaching the crossing, shot
into view. Stahl was tangled up in
the lines and the rope with which he
was leading the COW, and couldn't
jump.
Then 25 feet from the tracks the
cow reared and stuck its front legs
between the spokes of rear wheel
of the buggy. The wheel slid and
served as a brake. The horse was
able to stop a few feet from the tracks
just as the train swept past. StahI
will keep the COW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Marine Hospital Offers Market
for Large Number of Croakers.
Fish Commissioner Meehan Enthusi-
astic Over Industry Gives Explicit
Directions for Success in This
Venture-Requires Much
Care

LansdOWne, Pa.-Frog farming has
been carried on to some extent on
many Pennsylvania estates in a small
way for several years past. In some
instances the presence of an inherited
frog pond of gOodly dimensions, where
the croakers have heralded each
spring for numDerless years land in
creased in numbers in their congeni-
al quarters in marshy or swampy
farm ponds), it has not been difficult
to establish profitable industry by
simply catching quantities of the old
frogs each year and allowing the 9TH
ers to increase.
In other instances the industry is
followed as a fashionable fad, and
owners OF country seats have historic
ponds and streams devoted to frog
raising under the care Of an expert, or
new ponds are provided with this OBJ
ject in view. The principal hotels Of
our large cities have for some years
past demanded q sufficient quantity of
frogs to provide their guests with fire.
quent treats to the toothsome frog-leg
suppers and to keep up a sufficient de-
mand to make the industry profitable
Now there Is new incentive to
/ frog-raising. Old Brer Bullfrog, So
norous musician of our ponds, is found
to be of special use for government
experiments and he will now be in
/ greater demand than ever. The ma
rine hospital is planning to spend con-
siderable money this fiscal year for
frogs for use in testing medicinal
preparations at the hygienic labora-
tory Of the institution
There are many things to consider
In establishing profitable frog ponds
/ Fish Commissioner Meehan Is en-
| thusiasttc over the industry and he
has given explicit directions for sue
cess in this venture. He says those
who decide to undertake frog farm
/ ing may make up their minds before
hand that the days which will follow
will not be free from care or anxiety
1t will be speedily discovered that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
TROUT WITH A PITCHFORK

Think Of finding big speckled noun
tain trout in such clusters that you
could throw them out of a stream
with a pitchfork Many people have
tossed little candlefsh or some other
varieties which run in schools out of
the ocean when a whale drove them
on the beach, but the experience of
throwing out trout in that manner is
rare. You can do it for a day or two
almost every summer in a lake far
back in the Cascade mountains in
Oregon.
This lake was called Fish Lake by
the first white men who saw it be-
cause fish were so plentiful in its wa
tiers. Splendid mountain trout can be
caught there in large numbers on any
good fishing day.
The lake is wide and shallow and
goes dry almost every summer. The
waters gradually recede into a small
stream which runs through the cen
ter of the lakes bed. Into this stream
the fish crowd and for a day or two
after the waters have receded into
this channel men can walk along the
marshy ground beside the stream and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
BETTER THAN GUN
WHEN SNUFF PROVED VALUABLE
WEAPON OF DEFENSE.
British Army Officer Is Lucky In Be-
ing Able to Relate Story of Al
most Fatal Adventure in
India.

Perhaps no mans life was ever
saved to him by a more curious cir
cumstance than that attending the ex-
perience of a captain of the Bengal
lancers. He had been on a visit to a
civilian friend in Rajputana and went
out for a walk in the country about
sunset
After going four or five miles he
found himself in a narrow path on
the side of a steep hill. The path
was a mere ledge in the rock, with a
deep chasm on one side and wall
of solid rock on the other. 1t was
not pleasant place in which to
come face to face with big tiger;
but that was just what happened to
the captain.
1t was too late to withdraw, so he
determined to brave it out. The ami
NAL had evidently been asleep; for
1t continued for a few moments to
lick itself into full wakefulness. The
captain stood still, with his eyes fixed
on the beast. Presently the tiger
took a few steps forward and made
dash at him. Luckily its teeth seized
him by the flap of the coat, just over
the breast, so that he was not hurt
by the blow.
Then the captain had chance to
appreciate the feelings of a mouse
when it is shaken by a cat. The tt
ger shook him till his senses left
him. Perhaps it was as we'll they did
leave him, for the beast held him over
the deep chasm and a fall would
have been as fatal as the animals
onslaught.
When the captain recovered con-
seriousness, a few minutes later, he
found himself lying fat on his back,
with his feet dangling over the preci-
pice. He opened his eyes, only to see
the sky above him. He dared not
move, for the tiger might be close at
his elbow. So he shut his eyes and
remained motionless.
Then he thought he heard strange
noise at a little distance, a sound as
of somebody sneezing. His first
thought was that some one had come
to the rescue and beaten the tiger off,
but this was proved to be wrong by
low, disagreeable, tigerish growls
mingled with the sneezing.
He turned slowly. He could hardly
believe his eyes. There was the tiger
Sinking off with his tail between his
legs and sneezing violently as he
went, his face distorted by most pite,
Gus grimaces.
The truth then dawned upon the sol
der. In shaking him the tiger had
caused his snuffbox to fly open out of
his waistcoat pocket and had received
the contents full in the face.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Catch Big Royal Sturgeon

There are not only royal fish, bul
royal fowl. 1t is laid down in the Ole
law books that a swan is a royal fowl
and that all swans which have no other
owner belong to- the king by virtue OF
his prerogative. The reason for the
ancient right of the crown to the pos
session of surgeons and whales and
swans seems to be that they are in
the nature of things found without
any apparent owner, and accordingly
vest in the crown by way of excep
ton from the general rule of law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14

literally toss out big mountain trout
with scoops
Fish Lake is fed by streams flow
ing direct from mountain snow. so
the fish in it are first class. A stream
runs from Fish Lake to Clear Lake, a
deep body of water three-quarters Of
a mile away, and as this lake is al
ways full of trout the connecting
stream insures a goOd supply of trout
in Fish Lake
This lake lies along the Willamette
valley and Cascade mountain wagon
road near the summit of the Cascade
mountains, seventy-seven miles east
of Albany. Because the lake dries up
almost every summer it is not a de-
sirable camping place and no resort
has ever been established there This
lack of accommodations as we'll as
the hardship of a drive of sixty-f1ve
miles from the nearest railroad point
keeps people away. Consequently the
supply of fish in this lake has never
failed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
REMARKABLE SURGICAL FEAT

A remarkable operation was per-
formed recently at Kings College hos
pital, London, a shawl pin being sue
cessfully removed from a patients
lungs. The patient, young married
woman, was holding shawl-pin, ~
inches long, in her mouth, when some
thing made her laugh, and the pin
vanished down her throat An exam
inatiou by X-rays showed that the pin
lay Just below the right breast.
The patient was placed under chic
reform, and cocaine was applied to
the internal parts of the throat
Rruning's telescope tube was then in
troduced, when the pin was found in
the main bronchus The pin was i'm
mediately seized with a pair of forceps
and withdrawn through the mouth
The patient returned home two days
later, and has remained perfectly well
since the operation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
What's the Answer?

We're ready to quit! After sending
two perfectly rhymed, carefully scan
ned, pleasurably sentimental pieces of
poetic junk to seventeen magazines
and having them returned seventeen
times, we turn to the current issue of
a new monthly and find a "pome"
modelled after Kipling's Vampire"
and in which home is supposed to
rhyme with alone, run on page eleven
with all the swell curlycues ordinarily
surrounding a piece of real art. If
poetizing is a gift we are convinced
that this poets must have been. AS
for us, we are on our way to the wood
shed to study the psychology of the
ak or any other old thing that hasn't
to do with selling poetry to maya
zines
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Irish Fishermen Have Strange Bit o
Success in Fishing-Presented
to King.

Dublin-The capture of a royal
sturgeon at st. Tadwalls island, Car
digan bay, and its immediate presen-
tation to the king, by whom it was &C
cepted, recalls the right Of the sover-
eign to royal fish, wrecks, treasure
trove, waits and strays. The royal
fish are the whale and the sturgeon.
which when either thrown ashore or
caught near the coast, are the prop
erty of the sovereign on account, as
it is said in the books, of their supe-
rior excellence. similar right apper-
tanned to the dukes of Normandy,
from whom it probably came to the
English sovereign, and is still pre-
rogative of the kings of Denmark.
A distinction is made between the
whale and the sturgeon, the whale be-
ing divided between the king and the
queen, the head only being the kings
property and the tail the queens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
HUNT FOR MAMMOTH BONES

A search for mammoth bones is ex-
citing the folk of the Yorkshire sea
side town of Filey. 4 big tooth. with
the ivory in perfect preservation, was
found sticking out of the cliffs there
the other day and identified as having
once adorned the jaw OF one of these
prehistoric monsters The tooth
weighs nearly thirteen pounds, is a
foot long and nearly four inches thick.
1t indicates the presence near by of
mammoth remains bigger than any
hitherto found, although quite num-
Der of these antediIuvian relics have
been discovered in the neighborhood
from time to time. The finder, a local
surveyor, values the tooth at more
than SIS, and it will probably be
placed in the British Museum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
DiS0WNED TWO OF TRIPLETS

When she rallied from the anes-
thetic and saw triplets as the stork's
first gift to her, Mrs. Lokodia Rorosky
of 179 Glenmore avenue, East New
York, refused to believe they were
hers. Her husband, Joseph, had hard
work convincing her that the boy and
two girls were her own. At first she
gladly accepted the boy, but insisted
that the girls belonged to another
woman who was trying to foist them
on her. The children were born in St.
Johns hospital. 1t was only after long
pleading by Rorosky that his wife
grudgingly consented to accept the
two little girls as her own.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
ADDER IN GIRLS MILK PAIL
Six-Year-OId Tot Says, "see the Big
Worm | Caught"-BraceIet
Prevents Bite.

Waterbury, Conn.-George C. Dens-
more of Mount lobe sent the six-year-
old daughter of a New York butcher,
George Holden, to the barnyard for a
milk pail. The child got the pail and
running to Densmore said: See the
big worm l caught"
In the pail was a red adder, the
deadliest serpent of New England It
had struck the girl on the arm, but
a bracelet stopped the blow Dens-
more killed the reptile. Not 20 feet
away he came upon the mate, rushing
to the rescue, and killed it also. Dens-
more says: 1T will soon get to where
we lobe folks must choose between
adders and summer boarders We
shall certainly not be able to keep
both happily"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
a protection AGAINST fbe Hat

When you begin to think it's a per-
sonai matter between you and the sun
to see which is the hotter, buy your
self glass or a bottle of Coca-Cola.
1t is cooling-relieves fatigue and
quenches the thirst. Wholesome as
the purest water and lots nicer to
drink. At soda fountains and car
donated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Send &c stamp for booklet THE Truth
About Coca-Cola" and the Coca-Cola
Baseball Record Book for 1910. The
latter contains the famous poem
Casey At The Bat" records, schedules
for both leagues, and other valuable
baseball information compiled by au-
thorities. Address The Coca-Cola Co.
Atlanta Ga