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Thomas A. Edison,
Mankind’s Benefactor
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impressions of the Great Inventor Who Proposes
to Cheapen Building of Houses
Fanout (bolus, Win Hat Enriched Nearly Every Field of tiunite Endeavor,
Tofla For Day* Without Sleep or Food — A Ptrtltteal
Worker With Quite a Veit of Dry Fua. N
Joke Played oo a Quaker
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ttiaim it la not ln>|x>MibU> that the per
apeotlve of time wilt make Thotna* A.
Ed Won *|>tx*nr the l»rge*t of the group.
Mta activities have been *n multlfart
oua and hi* Invention* have been *.<
utartilBg. so uumerou*. and have
covered every held of human activity
that it k imposts! I> 1 « for a* to take In
the real dimension* of the man or to
ameviire the widespread effect of his
work on the prtigre»*jnf the world.
Among hi* mvontloiw may t>® men
fioned the automatic repeater In teleg
impby, the <t«adropte* telegraph, the
printing tttwuMtter.' telegraph, the carbon tele
p^i the. megupboue, the
phonograph, the ktnetoucope, the mlnie
<j*raptigunt the lacaudesceut light sys¬
tem. MU patents run into the thou
uand*. there $« mmmUf a Held of hu¬
man endeavor that ha* not been e:>
- rk-hod by them. Now h* propose* to
ravel uttonla^ tins architecture of the
' world by the m-ctiou of eoootvte
bemwM made In a few hour* by the
pumping of the concrete Into molds.
By this mea«k the great Inventor lw
ttevoa that within a few years it will
- be ptHMdlde for practically every man
to own bis home, b» these eom-rete
•truetureH can he rearm! at a cost so
touch loss than 1 * now needed for
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THOMAS A. EDISON IX HIM WORKING CLOTH E 8 .
brh-k, trume or stone Iioumm as to b« a
trtde l-i OBtups risen. Already he baa
Iwought light, nuisie and entertainment
♦0 I be poor, and now If he can give to
c«Wi toiler that greatest of all Mess
Inga, a home, uo benefactor of th« fen
man race will have wrought more
powerfully for the happiness and proa
pertly of tha race thru this man, who,
•farting as a poor boy himself, has
done *0much to transform the face of
the world. 1
Works Days Without Food or Sleep.
1 'erhapa the greatest secret of Thom
** ... A. 1 mi, Edison . * power la , reueeutration.
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will ahnt himself |u his dark rooM
and without sleep or food will devote
lilmaelf to the workiug out of aouie
Intricate chemical or mechanical proli
tocn. Hta otrn mental world is so corn
plot* within Hstclf that he eau live In
It sod become unconscious of all the
world outside. This 1 * not only true
of him In his laboratory, but in ail the
other affair* of life, •'•en In his read¬
ly ing. It 1 * anldgof book him miles that it he aoavee
ever muta a 1 b called
to hi. attention by bis wife or some
friewd Mr*. bdU-mi tell* one .tory
that iliustrntea this peculiarity. No
ticiug 01m night that her husband waa
becoming abstracted over .out. prob
l«*m, ahe asked him if he had read
“Th* Count of Monte Ciisto." He
•aid he never had and asked if It waa
food. Ou being assured 011 this point
be said:
"Alt right. I guoos I II read It now."
The problem wag laid aside, ami the
world was forgotten til! that book was
finished. When the last word had
been devoured Edison glanced at his
watch and found It waa 5 In the morn¬
ing. He thought It too late to go to
bed, ao he went to his* workshop and
tolled on for twelve boor* without food
or sleep. A man, who has ns much
coutcntraUuu as that Is bound to win
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#N CENTRAL OF GA. HY.
fral of Georgia Railway IW v
le nt all eoupon lieket agcn-'
Bids of inteveliau-gcable mile
Ijr* ticket*. For further information
lion apply to an v agent of the Co.
The Co-operative Live Stock In
surantx- Cm, of Georgia, nnmliers iG
polin' holders by the thousands, seat
jeryd throughout tl»c slate.
In tome future n«e the
wortd look* back *t the real -
ij great figures of the nine
toeutb uiut twentieth eeo-
I’eralatenoe la another of the Edl
toulan trait*. In hi* InveuUou oc the
ltMttndMCent light l:e mode failure aft
er failure tu bis efforts to disc-over the
proper material. Nhvw daunted, lie at
last struck upon the thing seemingly
by acetdont. It la sold by Inventor*
that nlue-teuth* of tins great dfew-over
tea are made In licit that way. "Aod
dent*," wo o«U them, yet that much
abused word may tie only a cloak to
hide our ignore in**, so little do we know
of the secret spring* tlmt move the
universe. In the.divine nomenclatwe
they may have * itmr* Intelligible and
appreciative name. It Is hard to tllltik
of an “accident" in a ayatcui ao per¬
fectly wiJnNtffll as that of nature.
Moreover, It Is a comforting thought
that after a man has tried to solve a
problem for months and even years
one of those "accident*" happens
along, clear* up hta difficulties and
makes hit pathway open and plain to
the goal of aurcee*.
tils Venture In Jenmglinn.
Thomas Alva Ikttaau was Itoru in
Ohio nearly sixty years ago. He re¬
ceived little schooling except the Su
strmtiou glriKi biin by his motiier. At
the age of twelve he was a newsboy ou
the brand Trunk railroad, It was here
that lie ventured into journalism. Until
wing together * handful of type and u
yery *mall and very eld job press, he
primeJ a diminutive p«per called the
(Jrand Trunk llsraht. The ralh-oacl
men gar# Mm an old smoking ear for
an office, and after a time h« had a elr
cdlatlou of »X). Edison not only edited
mtlc slieel, but set It up, pilutrd it.
rtn-utateJ it and solicited the “ad* "
s,ul subscriptions. in a word, ho was
the whole editorial, bush,** and me
chauical staff.
The careers of men often turn on
•vent* no trUUu;- that the world n$alu
calls them “accidents." With such a
start as the Grand Trunk Herald tt
would seem that fate . . . had , cut out
u . . r^i-. . h . , r,s , .
*0 keen for Investigation that he trtod
seme meehxulenl experiment* in his
amoklng ear otBi-e, ami a* a re- uit he
had a disastrous Are that burned up
Ida uew*pci|>er Outtlt. Ho then studied
tolegraiihy, bees 1110 an exiiert o)ierator
and worked on the key In various
place* In (lie T'nited 8 tato* and Can¬
ada. In these days lie was called
•Vnuy Tom." Almost *vei-y great man
I* calkvl cruay by pwgde wbj do not
uluUn . 3tau(1 Wni lM? lg so a , ffor .
fut troin thetuselw( . p; (llwH1 sln>t
B , K)U , gs mt „ xhm HS lv ^ llH . nt
time out of office hours workiug mi
la , „, ui oftPH ar| . lvet1 at t(K , of
Boe throoeh hl , ^-occupation
over »:>!!!♦ big problem. II* spent all
hi* money for tools and apparatus and
patronised the fro* lunch counters
when he wanted anything to eat. As
for clothes, lie eeetiisd unconscious of
what he had on and fes- the moot i<art
went rather stialiby in order that he
might Isa >« morv money for- experi¬
ments. Vet there is one reoord of hie
having spent fito for a new suit. The
next day he was exiwrluientlug hi the
workshop with a Iwttle of sulphuric
acid. Soddenl.v it expkxletl, and arid
covered him from head to foot. That
„*«• e U lt was ruined. "Whut 1 get for
puttlu* ao much moiwy in a suit.” was
Edls jii'a only comment.
Just received a car load of
«*«, aU kinds, beat and newest. <’»»
on tor a,1<1 Una*.—J. O.
W liitehead.
More Buggies
I have just received two ear loads
j,f Buggies and can fit you up__ with
any style you want. J. O, Whitkbkap, Come to see me.
At attotW time ho tried to tnakd
some gttn cattnrt, but muttered that It
was uo good and placed it on the back
jf an old store. (Several months later
when Are was started in the stove
there waa an explosion. “It was good,
wasn't It':" said Edison sententious!}'.
Cared Little For Hooey.
Thl« sort of thing went on til! Edison
made his first' leap Into fame by In¬
venting the stock ticker. This brought
him tn >40,000, and he was so unused
to handling money that he did not !
know how to get the check cashed.
Edison never did care very much for
money, though he has plenty of It now.
it is owe of the anomalies of life that a
penniless !«>y should invent the stock
ticker that is now the rich man’s office
pet throughout the land.
After that he Invented pretty much
everything. The few things he over
time looked he he said still tie Has Intended time to for. contrive At one j
a
cradle that would be rocked by lung
power—that Is, by the baby’s cry. The
harder the little sinner sijuaiied the
faster the cradle would rock.
The great loreul-ir ha* ijulte a vein
of dry ftm. He is also a proetiodl j ]
Joke*' upon occasion. A genius can da
thing* with Impunity for whftdl otUor
people would b# put in jail.
Phonoyrapli Joke m a Quaker,
At one time Edison hid some phono¬
graphs about the guest chamber of
hi* house. One night a Qua km- was
visiting him and was awakened from
bis slumber by bearing a metallic voice
swearing horribly. He turned on the
lights and lpbke<l earefully, but could
And no one. Every time be dropped
•sleep the tiding was repeated, Final¬
ly, wlien be eoukl stand It no longer,
be called Kir. Edison and said the
bpoee must be haunted by a tribe of
the tno*t blasphotnous giiosts that had
ever broken loose froai the notbtw re
giou*. Edison was the picture of in¬
nocence and helped III* gued search
for the source of ttie profanity, but
without suedes*, Finally ba explained
tliat it must lie the phonograph* that
broke forth at rather^, unexpected
time*. That nitty lie * joke, but homi¬
cide bus been committed on lees prov¬
ocation.
To a youthful friend who once ap¬
plied to him for advice Edison tersely
su id:
•■young man, the best advice I can
give you 1* never look at the clock.”
To a persistent lightning rod agent
who'once asked him If h« approved of
lightning rods the groat iuvMitor re¬
plied:
"It depends upon the buikllng."
"Hut Is It any good lu any
Would you advise their use on churcti
e», for instanco':" ventured the rod
man. i"
"Wall," refilled Edison, with a twjj)
kto. "they might be of use op eburrigrt i
ft doe* look as though Frovldeuoe frpr*
u bit ubseutbiinded at times."
When lu New York one day Mr. Edi¬
son remarked to s friend on leaving:
"I want to go back to the quietude
of my own wos-ksliop. I (xui't stand
New York. You are too glaring and
noisy over here, one of the chief rea¬
son* being that yea are using m many
of my eoutrignuces."
Every body his cnilod Edison a wi*
ard, aud for that reason 1 refrain,
Most wizards are fakirs, and Thomas
A. Edison is genuine.
f.oves ho«ifautlv« Aatbort.
(Strange as it may seeui, this most
practical of the world'* tuvout ws loves
such iuwiglnutive autlui's a* Edgar
luu Foe and Jules Verne. It Is also
said that be is a spiritualist aud that
he aocribcs many of hts discoveries.to
*i 1iri111.il agencies. Certalu it is that be
was for many years a metnbor of the
Tbeooofihical society 0/ New York.
Edison is an inveterate smoker ami
is s») ahiMHitmlndeil Uo never seems to
know bow many cigar* ho doea hum.
Onee he complained to his tobacconist
of the rapidity with which his cigars
disappeared aud canid not tielleve tie
smoked Itu-ui all hluiswif. The dealer
agreed to make some “faked etgars.”
"I'll Ax ’em with hero* hair and hard
rubber," said he. "Then sou'll find
(here will not be »•> ttianj- mtsstng."
Several weeks later Mr. Edison now
tbo tobacconist again amt said:
“Look H<ra! I thought you were go
ill;? to AX me some faked cigars!"
"Why, I did!" exclaimed the ottior in
hurt surprise. "Dou't you remember
the box with a green label—cigars tied
with yellow ribbon':''
Edison smiled reflectively. "I smok¬
ed those cigars myself," he said.
A guest onee noticed that Mr. Edison
lighted a great many matches to beep
his cigars going and placed the burned
matches back in the box with the uu
llghted ones, lie explained the habit
by waving Use stub of his cigar at
Mrs, Edison and saying:
“Site won't let me drop 'em 'round."
Trainer of Electricians.
Thomas A, Edison has not ouly
brought great material results to the
world, but ha* done the more Impor¬
tant work of training men. Among the
list ef ttaise who have graduated from
hi* college of hard work arc such
noted srieutlsta as Nikola Tesla aud A.
E. Kennedy, president of the Institute
of Electrical Engineers. Other listed
electricians that were trained by Edi
sou are liru.iil (Aaries Batchelor, the late
John and S, It. Bergman, who
has lx>*une ^Ih- largest mauufaeturer
of oleetrteal apparatus I11 the I'sltvd
Stats*. Frank J. Sprague, editor of th*
Sprague electric svst«n, aud the lots
Frank MaoOoweu, the cxiHorer, were
atoo Kflisou pupil*.
It Is thus seen that Mr. Edison has
not oul.v luvouted or Improved jiractl
oatty all the thins* that have to di
with ntea, *1-011 to the houses they live
In, Uut-that he baa eoutrived ta Invent
or Improve quite a umu',on- of very
brlsh! men themselves,
J. A. F.DCKRTON.
Two oars of Buggies just reocivcd.
If vou-wont a gtxai Buggv sec me ts>
fore buving.-J. O. Whitehead,
Th* Weekly Columbus Isslger aud
a aiilti n Journal one year, (1.50.
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