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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
SkysCrapers Torn Down to Make
Room for Lottier Ones.
Notable Example Is Willingness of
Owners to Wreck Nineteen-Story
Gillender Building, Together
With Structure Adjoining.

New York.-Fifth avenue supplies a
notable example of the slowness with
which public work proceeds here, as
elsewhere. The new public library.
which fills the plot from Fortieth to
Forty secOnd street, and which has
been building during the last u
years at a cost of $8,OOO,0O0 or more.
is not finished, although huge struc-
lures for private owners are erected
in New York more rapidly than any
where else in the world Looking at
the public library pile, a beautiful
gray structure, one is reminded of the
leisurely manner in which the San
Francisco postofice was built Sew
eral months ago the completion of the
library was mistakenly set for May
L. 1t may be opened year hence.
An episode attending the transfer
nation of Fifth avenue from resi-
dence street into a lively business
thoroughfare is the tearing down of
two fourstory houses at the corner
of Thirty-seventh street, which had
been among the city's best mansions
half century ago, to avoid payment
OF further taxes on them. On account
of the change in the character of the
avenue the houses had become unde-
sirable as residences, and were I'M
occupied, and as they brought in no
revenue the tax saving in this heaV-
lily taxed city was deemend worth
while. The land is held for business
purposes, and an offer of S1,600,000 for
the IA feet frontage was refused some
time ago. The imposing mansions OF
the Vanderbilts and their relatives on
Fifth avenue, each worth a big for
tune, are now surrounded by marts of
the street from the lordly residences
of the head of the Vanderbilt family
has been reared an apartment house,
on which hangs the sign 'Housekeep-
ing Apartments to Let"
Often in New York large buildings
have been torn down to make way for
taller edifices The most notable ex-
ample of the willingness of New York
ers to destroy in order to rebuild is
afforded at present in the downtown
financial district, where the 19-story
Gillender building, at the corner Of
Nassau and Wall streets, which was
erected between u and 13 years ago
at cost of 100000, is being demol-
ished, together with an eight-story
building adjoining it, so that on the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
A BURNING ERUPTION FROM
HEAD TO FEET

-Four years ago l suffered severely
with a terrible eczema, being a mass
of sores from head to feet and for six
weeks confined to my bed During
that time l suffered continual torture
from itching and burning. After being
given up by my doctor l was advised
to try Cuticura Remedies. After the
first bath with Cuticura Soap and ap-
plication of Cuticura Ointment l en-
joyed the first good sleep during my
entire Illness. | also used Cuticura
Resolvent and the treatment was con-
tinued for about three weeks. At the
end of that time I was able to be
about the house, entirely cured, and
have felt no i'll effects since l would
advise any person suffering from any
form of skin trouble to try the Cuti-
cura Remedies, as I know what they
did for me. Mrs. Edward Nenning,
1112 Salina St, Watertown, N Y,
Apr. II, 1909"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
CbaracterISttc National Meal,

1t is not only in Scotland that
breakfast is the characteristic nation
al meal Travel where you may, the
first meal of the day is the one that
strikes the foreign note, luncheon and
dinner having gradually absorbed cos
mopolitan qualities that are not even
confined to hotels. But you never feel
so much of an Englishman, says
London paper, as when Switzerland
gives you rolls and butter and honey,
and nothing more, with your coffee;
or when France makes this into one
exquisite crumbling ''croissant," with
an inch or two from a yard-long loaf,
or when Denmark adds cream instead
of milk to the coffee and a dangerous
piece of pastry to the black bread and
round white roll. Yet the English
breakfast became an institution only
in the eighteenth century. Before
that only royalty breakfasted off meat,
bread and cheese and ale. The CON-
mouer, such as Pepys, took merely
morning draught Of buttered ale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
$500 FOR BUNCH OF ROSES
NantWich Shoemaker's Kindness IL
Years Ago Unexpectedly Re-
Warded by Legacy.

London.-A Nantwich shoemaker,
George Robinson, has had an unex-
pected windfall, which is a sequel to
an incident that occurred u years ago,
Robinson, then a journeyman shoe
maker, met just outside Nantwich an
invalid woman and nurse. He was
carrying a bunch of roses, and the
woman remarked as he passed, What
lovely roses"
He turned Immediately and asked,
Would you like some, madam" The
lady said she would be very CRATE
full, and added that she wanted some
roses to put on her mothers grave.
Robinson handed her the roses, and
at her request gave her his address.
During the weekend Llandudno
solicitor visited Nantwich and told
Robinson that Miss Parramour, of
Craig-y-Don, Llandudno, had died, and
by her will left him $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
FASHION WAS INDICATED.
Lame de Pougy's Large New Hat
Causes Lawsuit for Assault.

Lame de Pougy's Large New Hat
Causes Lawsuit for Assault.
st. German, one of the most peace
full places in Europe, entirely inhab-
tied by retired functionaries and the
trades people who cater for them, woke
up in ferment this morning, the Lon
don Telegraph's Paris correspondent
writes Nine. Lame de Pougy was due
to appear in the court Of the justice
of the peace with a prince from the
Balkan peninsula, and to bring with
her, either on her head or carried by
four stalwart porters, the corpus de-
!icti alleged, viz, hat which she wore
on Easter Sunday last.
On that day she walked on the ter
race in ST. German, with the prince
by her side and the hat on her head.
Two of the retired functionaries Of
the town, with their wives, passed by.
St. German is about a dozen miles
from Paris, but Paris fashions travel
thither much more slowly than they
do to New York The ladies looked at
Nine. de Pougy's hat, and looked
again. They had never seen anything
like it before, and they said so. They
even passed loud remarks about the
hat and the tone of their observations
seemed, to Nine de Pougy at least,
derisive.
Her escort, however, could not let
the matter pass unnotiCed and spoke
to the ladies' husbands. What followed
is a subject for controversy. The two
functionaries say that the prince re-
ferred slightingly to their wives ap-
pearance, to their wives hats in par
ticulaT and to the level Of taste and
breeding reached by the inhabitants.
The prince says that he merely expos
tulated and that the two functionaries
fell upon him. What is certain is that
there was a battle, the functionaries
apparently fighting with umbrellas as
weapons, and the prince with a num-
Der of parcels which he was carrying
for Nine de Pougy. Luckily, the three
ladies did not join in the fray armed
with hatpins.
The upshot was that the prince
lodged a complaint, which was down
for hearing to-day All the leading re-
tired functionaries and their wives, in
the newest bonnets, made by St Ger
main milliners, were in court awaiting
the arrivals. The lady had already
declared publicly that the fuss about
her hat was absurd and argued provin-
ciality in the ladies of st. German. 1t
could not by any stretch Of magma
ton be called a cartwheel; 1t was real
ly about the size of a small waste
paper basket and also, judging by the
pictures, of that shape. But st. Ger
main waited in vain The prince turn
ed up but no Nine. de Pougy. On her
behalf a doctors certificate was pro-
duced, proving her to be laid up,
whether or not owing to emotion was
not said, and ST. German will have to
wait at least a fortnight before seeing
the lady with her hat in court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Sink When Not Under Way
Electricity Controls.

London.-British naval authorities
the other day examined a new subma-
rine, invented by H Middleton, which
will sink or rise in the water at will
without forward or backward motion.
The new vessel is provided with
two fins on each side, as well as a
propeller. The propeller shaft can be
turned at an angle, directing the boat
to port or starboard, thus doing away
with the rudder. The fins" are curved
flexible metal plates, and, like the pro-
peller, are driven by electric motors
running from accumulators. These
fins" are able to propel the boat by
their motion, making the vessel look
like some large fish swimming grace
fully. BY bending the fins" into the
correct position the boat goes under
and travels at any depth below the
surface of the water. There La no
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
ISLAND OF FEL|NES
Dealers Make Rich Profit on Is
Acres of Cats.
Every Evening Tables and Toms Are
Treated to Big Fish Oinner-Sup-
ply Demand for inexpensive Fur
for Medium-Priced Muffs.

Seattle, Wash-There is an island
IN Puget sound OF about 15 acres, the
center Of which is a dense forest of
tr, hemlock and cedar. Underbrush.
vines and ferns have intergrown amid
the trunks Of the trees until the whole
seems as impossible to human traffic
as a jungle. The shore line is
mixture of gigantic rocks and stretch
es of sandy beach. No man would
choose to live on the island, but never
theless it is the means of earning 8.
big income for six men who are prom
inept in the fur trade of the Pacific
coast
The island has been used as a cat
farm. 1t is so thick with cats that
the rocks appear from the decks of
passing steamers to DE literally COW
cred with the feline quadrupeds. They
are of all ages, colors and sizes. Pas
sengers like to have the captain pull
the boat close to shore that they may
see the cats rolling. leaping and play
ing on the rocks, beach or on the
trunks Of fallen trees.
There are thousands of cats on this
Cat island and they are the source Of
great profit to their owners, who sell
their fur that women may have muffs.
Every evening a boatload of men
land on the south shore of the island.
About dusk they unload sein quarter
of mile long They fasten one end
to the rocky shore and take the other
end in their boat, making a great
semicircle, the radius of which is the
extreme length of the sein. When the
boat reaches shore farther to the west
the net appears to be dragging
heavy load of fish. The men pull I'M
til the net empties its load of hun
dreds and hundreds of pounds of many
kinds of fish upon the beach. Then
they wash the sein, load it into their
boats and pull away for their homes.
The next morning the fish have dis
appeared. The cats have devoured
them.
There is a growing demand for in
expensive fur to supply the medium
priced muffs and furs and the f1sh-fed
cats have proven a source of extraor-
binary profit to their owners. Not
only on this island, but on other is
lands has the industry sprung up, and
on the extreme western coast of the
state the rocky islands are maintain
ing their cat farms. Some men also
breed foxes, offers and other fur-bear-
ing animals.
1t has been found that cats fed on
fish possess a very beautiful glossy fur
with longer hair than that of the do
mesticated cats.
Every year there is great roundup
and several thousands Of cats lose
their lives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
EoXX Hiram.

well, now, if that amt surprising!"
calculated Mrs. Ryetop, as she shaded
her eyes with her hand There goes
old Hiram Skinfint, and rather than
step on a poor black ant he picked 1t
up, and l bet he is going to drop it
somewhere out of the reach of dan
ger"
Her husband laughed knowingly.
Not Hiram Skinfiint, Mandy. He'll
go down to Jed Weatherby's general
store and order a pound of granulated
sugar. Then while Jed is looking an
other way he'll drop the ant among
the grains and tell Jed as long as his
sugar has ants in it he ought to sell it
at half price. Like as not he'll try to
get Jed to throw in two or three
raisins and a yeast cake. You don't
know Hiram Skinflint"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
and Only Saved by Kind-Hearted
Man at Lever.

Cincinnati, O.-The early car on the
Madison road line was bowling along
Madison road the other morning The
passengers, men and women, whose
work calls them out in the early
morning, were chatting or reading
their papers. Suddenly there was
grinding of wheels, sparks flew from
the steel tracks and the car was
checked with a chug that shook up
the passengers. 1t was west of Void
avenue and had been brought down to
a slow roll when the passengers
looked out to see what was wrong.
They could see nothing but clear
track. ST Davis, the motorman, known
to all the passengers, explained the
cause of the sudden slowing down,
when these words f1oated from the
vestibule: eff you don't keep out of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Squirrel Stops Street Car

my road, you pesky varmint, l will get
you sure. This is the third time you
did that, and if you try it again am
going to roll over you and flatten you
out like a pin"
What's the matter, Si?" asked sew
eral Of the passengers.
ooh, there IS a gray squirrel that
for the last three mornings has been
running across the track just as
come along. I almost got him this
morning, but ! slowed up in time.
He's a cute little fellow"
Perched in the grass on the Evans
lawn was the squirrel, and if there is
such thing as squirrel laughing,
then this one was doing a large laugh
ing stunt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
HEARS THROUGH HIS FINGERS
Telegraph Operator a Valuable Man
at His instrument, Though Com
pletely Deaf

Peter A. Foley of Portland, Me-, is
a telegraph operator. though totally
deaf
Since he became deaf, however, he
has developed so wonderfully the
senses of touch and sight that he can
detect the finest movements of the
instrument and correctly interpret
them.
His nervous system is a part and
parcel of telegraphy and by the sense
of touch in his finger tips he takes
messages transmitted from the ends
Of the continent
He can also read a message by
watching the sounder. With his left
foreflnger placed lightly on the sound
er he can by his wonderful sense of
touch take a message as accurately
as any man in the Office.
He insists that he needs no more
consideration than any other operator,
for he can read the fastest trans
hitting without the slightest difficulty.
and his record of mistakes in a year
Is said to be smaller than that of any
OtdCi OptIdlOI III Tie OluCS.
Mr.. Foley's hearing began to fail
rapidly eight years ago. He was then
considered the best operator in the
Portland office and every effort was
made to help him. The manager of
the office arranged the receiver so it
would make a louder tick, but in a
short time he was unable to hear
even this.
Ihere appeared no alternative but
failure. No operator in the world had
been able to work after he had lost
his hearing. The manager didn't
wish to send a good man away, so he
was set to doing common work at
the same salary he had received as
an operator.
One day he announced that he
would soon be able to go back to his
old position. The manager was sur
prised. That a deaf man could be a
telegraph operator was too much to
credit, but Mr.. Foley was able to
prove that he could do it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
NoUeL Submarine With Fins

"porpoise'' motion, as in so many sub
marines when running under water.
The most interesting feature of the
boat is it's ability to sink or swim
The model was loaded with weights
and sank to the bottom of the shallow
pools where it was shown off; Their
the fins" were set in correct posi-
ton for rising, and in a few seconds
the submarine had come direct to the
surface of the water. By working the
fins" Al a different angle the vesse.
sank like a stone. The whole of the
tricity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14

CHAPTER MILO ontinued)
He was little fellow and he was an
CRY; but he was a gentleman, too, and.
seeing that Rodney Merriam was real
ly surprised, he reIented toward the
old soldier, who had thrust his hands
into the side pockets of his coat, look
ing as foolish as it is possible for a
line old gentleman to look.
Captain Pollock" he blurted out,
suddenly, I haven't doubt that you
are telling the truth don't care whose
son you are, like you anyhow" And
then snatching his hands from his
pockets he held them out to Pollock,
demanding with a gruf kindness. VIII
you shake hands with me?"
Certainly, Mr. Merriam"
a few hours later the usual crowd
iounged in the smoking room Of the
Tippecanoe Club. Pollock had just fin
ished telling a story when Rodney Mer-
Ram appeared In the doorway The
old gentleman advanced upon the little
group, returning their greetings and
thanking them all for the proffer Of
their seats
Gentlemen" he said. standing by
his chair. 7 wish to make you an ex-
PLANTATION. Owing to an unfortunate
misunderstanding, due wholly to my
own stupidity, I recently showed Cap
tain Pollock a slight in this club.
wish to make the amplest possible eX-
piation-"
This is wholly unnecessary" ex-
claimed Pollock, rising. This IS who'll
ly uncalled for, Mr. Merriam"
7 wish to say before all of you"
Maria m continued 7 wa who'll
in the wrong, and that Captain Pollock
is a gentleman. who is an honor to his
friends and to his profession"
And the next day, in the same spirit
OF scrupuIous honor Rodney Merriam
sought his nieces at The Beeches and
made his peace with them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
States of Australia

The states comprising the common
wealth of Australia are: New South
Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South
Australia, Victoria, West Australia,
and the territory of Papua, formerly
known as British New Guinea. The
capital of the commonwealth of Aus
tralia is as yet without being, although
site for the future capital has been
chosen in the Yass-Canberra district
in New South Wales. At the present
time the parliament sits at Melbourne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
ne started forward again shd she fol-

/ he started forward again sud she fol-
lowed
! 1T is more than dream. I am
+ building upon it as though it were
veritable rock"
"a dream-to build the real upon?
The architects Of fate don't like that
plan. do they?"
But we must hold to our dreams"
/ he said. soberly.
Il suppose we must. even though
| they are things Of air that only lead US
| astray. 1 didn't think you were senti-
mental I'm afraid 1 can't sympathize
exactly, for sentiment was left out of
me utterly" and she hated herself for
| the bravado with which she spoke.
Il can't believe that! Every one
has it. I'm thoroughly practical per-
son, and yet I have my dreams-rny
dream!"
! Olive and Pollock were singing
| again. They were far in advance and
| their voices stole softly upon the night.
Zelda stopped to listen. Her heart was
in tumuIt of happiness and wonder.
The splendor Of the moonlight upon
| the fields about them, the gloomy shad-
ow of the woodland beyond, the man
| beside her hesitating, yet ready to tell
nGr OF MS lONS- mere SlOte across uST
spirit the tremulous awe of a girl to
whom love has come for the first time
as it can never come again. Leighton
drew close to her.
Zelda" he said, "Zelda!"
No. Oh, no! You must not!" she
cried.
Il love you, ZeIda!" he sale.
sNo; you must not say it," And
| there was a sob that caught her throat.
You are the dream 1t is too sweet;
I can not lose i'll must not"
You have talked of dreams AMI
love-" she said, hurriedly, but with
lingering note of contempt on the last
word that stung him as though she
/ had struck him in the face. I wonder
what love is" and fastened away to-
ward her cousin and Pollock, who
waited. idly and trying their voices,
and chatting each other over their fall
ure to carry a tune.
ITO be continued.l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Well. Wasn't He Riuht?

The minister was addressing the
Sunday school. Children, l want to
talk to you for a few moments about
one of the most wonderful, one of the
most important organs in the whole
world" he said. What is that that
throbs away, beats away, never stop
ping, never ceasing, whether you
wake or sleep, night or day, week in
and week out, month in and month
out, year in and year out, without any
yolition on your part, hidden away in
the depths, as it were, unseen by you.
throbbing, throbbing rhythmically all
your life long," During this pause
for oratOrical effect a small voice was
heard: 81 know. It's the gas meter"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
He Had Been OBSERVING.

why don't you call your invention
the Bachelors Button?" | asked my
friend, who was about to put on the
market button that man could at
tach without needle or thread
Il fear that the appellation would
imply too much restrictiYeness," he
answered. "You see" he went on, Civ
ing me one of his knowing smiles, 81
expect to dc Just as much business
with the married men as with the
bachelors"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Teaches EiftY-One Years.

Norfolk, Va.-After ffty-one years
as a teacher in the Charlotte street
public school, Mrs. Mary E. Hodges
has rendered her resignation. During
her long service Mrs. Hodges was alb
sent only six times, and on one occa-
sion taught school with one of her
arms broken and in a sling.
She was eighteen when she began
teaching in 1858, and when her resig-
nstion was read before the city school
board Superintendent Dobile stated
that she was one CT the best teachers
in the entire system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Lotteries.

Lotteries are almost as old as his
tory itself. 1t is certain that they
were known to the Greeks and Ro-
mans, and the custom descended,
through Italy, TO modern times. In
the Italian republics Of the sixteenth
century the lottery principle was ap-
piled to encourage the sale of mer-
chandise, the lotto of Florence and
that of Venice Geing well known. In
England the earliest lotteries sane
toned by the government were for
such purpose as the repair of harbors
and docks, about 1869. By the Vir-
ginfa So. Of 1912 the lottery was
brought to America-Chtcag Exam
liner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
Sander Attacks Girl.

Gardiner, Me.-Attacked by an en-
ragged gander, Laura, the three-year-
old daughter of Clarence Wakefield,
was terribly injured while at play in
the front yard of her home. The gan
der knocked the child down with its
wings and then began pecking at the
infants eyes and gouging her face
with its bill One eye was nearly
torn from its socket, probably running
the sight.
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Holds Its Own,

big demand, l s'pose, for ragtime
music?"
There is"
Ever sell any classical music these
days?"
"Oh, yes! Everybody wants a little
to stand on the piano.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-14
His Sacrifice

The bankrupt rolled up in his mo-
tor to a meeting of his creditors. Gen
tlemen," he began. giving them a con-
descending nod all around, these
debts of mine shall be paid though 1
suffer for It." They murmured their
thanks. Il have arranged" he went
on, ito give you my entire income pro
rata (cheers). with the exception
(cheers, fainter) of 10000 year Ono
cheers). which is the least a gentle
man could live on."-English Elk