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/ ► A v 1 opro uu u d i VI ■ IflO . n J — To make good sau sfigo the meat must be cut (tne. To force it through an improperly made grinder is to spoil the sausage. N o w is snusage naaking time — if you use an Enter prise Food Chopper y o u are sure of properly ground sausage. They cut the meat. We sell them. g --» ME. Bray Hard ware Co. New * I 1 ■■Cl i ’ Of STTERDAYT Edison Paid in Invention That Edison Was For in Experience. He Sold His Microphone Carbon Transmitter to Big Corporation at Its Own Price and Concern Made 800 Per Cent Profit. While chatting one evening in the winter of 1892 with Thomas A. Edison In the library of his beautiful home at Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, I asked him what, in the way of money returns, his Invention of the descent lamp and his apparatus so dividing the electric current that would be available for lighting had meant for him. He looked up at the light, which was glowing over his li¬ brary table, and for a few moments appeared to be making a mental cal¬ culation, and then he said: “That in¬ vention brought me my first real cap¬ ital. I should say, at a rough calcula¬ tion, that it has brought me about three million dollars already." After a pause Mr. Edison went on, with his characteristic smile: “That is, after all, a very small part of the real capital this thing has created. I should say that the electric light has created about three hundred mil¬ lions of new capital, and I don’t think I am far out of the way in saying that it furnishes support to a million persons, estimating the average family of an artisan at five persons." "But didn’t you get a large capita! out of your microphone carbon trans¬ mitter?" I asked. “That was the in¬ vention which made the modern per¬ fected telephone possible." Mr. Edison smiled broadly. “I suppose I got paid In large part for that in experience," he said. “I had a good many things to learn about business in those days.” “You may remember that the West¬ ern Union Telegraph company, after the telephone was demonstrated to be a practical invention—that was about 1876—planned adding a telephone sys¬ tem to its telegraph lines. To every one it seemed certain that there was to be severe competition between the Western Union and the original tele¬ phone company for the telephonic busl- Child Rebuked Famous Man Little Child Who Administered Rebuke to Famous Man. How Young Mary Van Buskirk Scold¬ ed Aaron Burr When He Dared to Revile George Washing¬ ton in Her Presence. In 1797, after having served six years in the United States senate, Aaron Burr again became a member of the New York legislature, and thereafter for two years he made fre¬ quent trips between Albany, the state capital, and his home in New York city. These journeys, for the most part, he made on horseback, and for months whenever he arrived in the town of Athens, situated on the west bank of the Hudson some twenty-eight or thirty miles below the capital, he made it an almost invariable rule to visit at the house of the Van Buskirks, which is still standing. This private house was a famous gathering place for prominent men who were on their way to and from Albany and New York, and the entertainment that the owner of the house afforded his dis¬ tinguished friends and acquaintances of the latter days of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nine¬ teenth century is still traditional in Athens, some of whose early citizens became of great influence in the pub¬ lic life of their times. Of the greater politicians who were guests of the Van Buskirks from time to time none received more cordiality than Aaron Burr, and none seemed to be more delighted with the hospitality shown him. In fact, he was a guest so welcome at all times that he need not herald his coming; there were al¬ ways a room and good cheer waiting for him, and Mary, the little daughter of the house, eagerly looked forward to his visits. Aaron Burr being a favor ite of hers and she of his. One afternoon in 1798, when Mary was about seven years old, Aaron Burr arrived at the Van Buskirk man sion with the expectation of spending the night there. In the parlor of the house stood a spinnet, which was spoken of the countryside around as one of the best musical instruments of the sort to he found anywhere in America. In the early evening, the final meal of the day over, Aaron Burr sat down at the spinnet and be gau to play upon it, and as he fingered the instrument with the deftness of an expert, filling the room with a popular melody of the day, little Mary Yan Buskirk stood beside her idol, listening intently and watching him admiringly. There had been hung upon the wall light over the spinnet, since Aaron Burr's previous visit, a picture of ness of the country. I don’t remem¬ ber much of the detail of this threat¬ ened competition, but I do know that at the time the transmitting apparatus of the telephone was by no means per¬ fect, so I set to work to make a per¬ fected telephone' In this respect, a vital matter for the future of the In¬ vention. Well, after a good deal of hard work, I got what I was after. There It Is,”—and Mr. Edison pointed at the receiving end of the telephone which stood on his desk. “With my carbon transmitter ready for a demonstration I went to the of¬ fices of the Western Union; I had pre¬ viously sold that company my stock ticker invention and my quadruple system of telegraphy and quite natur¬ ally, I suppose, I gravitated to It with the transmitter. I saw the manager and one or two other gentlemen, showed them the transmitter, and told them that I was pretty sure that with my apparatus in their possession they would have the bulge on the Bell in¬ strument. I tell you, they were an in¬ terested lot of men, and as soon as I gave them a chance they asked for some kind of an option on the in¬ vention and I gave it to them without further ado. Tale of Two Commanders Little Story Told of Two Great Commanders. How Gen. Hancock and Gen. Sheridan Watched Over Usher's Coat and Umbrella at Funeral of Edwin Dennison Morgan. Recently I told how Chester A. Arthur, shortly after becoming presi¬ dent of the United States in 1881, act¬ ed as night watchman in the treasury building for ten minutes. Today’s anecdote is supplemental to that, in a measure, in that the former incident has some part in this one. In February of 1883 there died Ed¬ win Dennison Morgan, at the age of seventy-two years. He had been a George Washington. At first, bo in¬ tent was Burr upon his music, that he did not notice the likeness of Wash¬ ington above him, but at last he glanced up and saw the engraving. Instantly the music ceased, a scowl flashed over Burr's features, and in an angry tone of voice be exclaimed: “That is the picture of a damned scoundrel!” He turned to the spinnet to resume his playing, but in that instant little Mary Van Buskirk, her face livid with childish passion, stood upon tiptoes, and drawing her little right arm and hand, slapped Aaron Burr as violently as she could in the face; and as she did so she cried: “You shan’t talk that way about General Washington. We all love him here, and he is a good man, and you are a bad man to call him names." Aaron Burr wheeled angrily upon the child; for an instant he held her in his gaze. Then he arose and went out of the house, and that house knew him no more. My authority for this hitherto un¬ published story? Mr. George J. Thomp son a great-grandson of the little girl who dared to defend the good name of the father of her country against the slurs of Aaron Burr. (Copyright, 1910. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) TALK ON THE TYPEWRITER Alwin West Says That a Pleasant and Speedy Road to Learning Lies by Its Use. It is gravely urged by Alwin West that a pleasant and speedy road to learning lies by use of the typevvrit ing machine. He contends that the practice of acquiring what a book has to give by a verbatim copying of it on the typewriter works especially well in the case of a book which should be read, and which yet has no light some attractiveness to carry the read er along. The view advanced is that the exercise on the machine keeps the attention running as from point to point, whereas, in quiet reading, one might vaguely survey the page. The suggestion seems novel, but is ready no t new. The principle of it is basic in primary education. A child is stabbed with the sentence it writes and writes often. That is universally known, and schools everywhere, in some form or other, utilize the facL But the broad er proposition of Mr. West is quite interesting. It is this: "A half-hour or an hour spent every day in copy j n g books on the typewriter will give one an acquaintance of wide range with the best English writings." Here, at last, we have the short road to learning—How to be mede by machine. “It was only a little while later they sent for me and made me proposition to buy my apparatus out¬ right. They said they were willing to pay me about a hundred thousand dol¬ lars in annual installments covering a rather lengthy period. I thought that was a lot of money, and how nice it would be to count with perfect cer¬ tainty upon an income of several thou¬ sand dollars a year for quite a number of years, and, do you know, I let them have that invention on their own terms ?" Mr. Edison permitted himself to in¬ dulge in a near-chuckle. “A few weeks later," he continued, “I heard that the Western Union had sold my improved transmitter to the Bell peo¬ ple for eight hundred thousand dol¬ lars, simply by proving to the latter that It had the bulge on them. “But I have never regretted the deal I mado with the Western Union peo¬ ple, or, rather, the deal they made with me. I gained a lot of experience In that transaction, and it was worth the experience. I have never let any¬ body get the better of me since, and I am certain that the experience I got then has made me far more money then I lost through inexperience when I didn't* dicker back and forth between the Western Union and the Beil peo¬ ple with my transmitter.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) delegate from New York to the first national convention of the Republican party. He had been the chairman of the Republican national committee in the first three national campaigns participated in by that party, and again, in 1872, he was made chairman of its national committee. He it was who, following his re-election as gov¬ ernor of New York in 1860, sent moro than 223,000 volunteers from New York to the front before he left office in 1863, and for six years after va¬ cating the governor’s chair he prep¬ resented his state in the United States senate. So, when his funeral was held in the old brick Presbyterian church on Fifth avenue, in New York, many distinguished men, both in pub¬ lic and business life, were present, though the day was one of the worst of the winter, with the rain falling furiously and the wind blowing vio lenltly. President Arthur, who in the early part of the Civil war had served on Governor Morgan's staff, was one of his pallbearers, and Capt. Frederick C. Wagner, who, as provost marshal of New York, helped greatly to quell the draft riots in 1863, was one of the ushers. “Along the aisle in which I served," said Captain Wagner, "there came a period when every pew was filled ex¬ cept one. Into it I showed two late arrivals, and as it was the pew I in¬ tended to sit in myself 1 asked them if they would be kind enough to look after my overcoat and umbrella until my official duties were over. As the larger of the two politely responded that they would be pleased to do so, It flashed across my mind that I had seen him somewhere before, and next there came a faint recollection of hav¬ ing met the smaller men, also, on some previous occasion. But not un¬ til it was almost time for me to take my seat did it occur to me who they were. The larger one was Gen. Win¬ field Scott Hancock, whom I had really never seen before, but with whose much-published likeness I had become thoroughly familiar when Hancock had run for president; and his companion was none other than Gen. Phil Sheridan. Neither was in uniform. “To say that I was humiliated at the thought that I had asked those two distinguished generals to keep watch over my overcoat and umbrella is putting it lightly. I determined to apoligize at the first opportunity, and after the funeral services were over I turned to them and said: ’Gentlemen, you must excuse me for having asked you to perform this service for me. I did not at first recognize you.’ “Instantly there sprang into Gen oral Sheridan’s eye his characteristic twinkle, and a little smile played about his mouth. ‘Well,’ he said hearti ly, ’if the president of the United States can serve as night watchman in treasury department building, it CRn - t be beneath our dignity to serve as watchmen over the overcoat and umb rella of any one who has anv part in this funeral.’ "Axjd the man who was destined sci(m j 0 become the head of our army |_h us ee t me at ease. General Hancock 6mlled ln cordial approval.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Borrowed Realism. “It seems to me I hear the sousd of muffied cheers. Is a public meet - E @ E°' n § OD In this hotel?” “No. Senator Pounder is practising an extempore address. The cheers ^ JU bear 8X6 furnished by phono¬ graphs ranged round the senator's private apartment.” Pardonable Ignorance. "Good land!” exclaimed the aston UUed passenger on the west-bound ex¬ press train, looking out of the car window "No, sir,” said the conductor; “rhese are the Bod Lands.” f J© - -/ k. A f W& ^ \ , - * r .''j ■ & ./tv*?' “Bound to m Cur.” A GENEROUS OFFER If know beyond doubt that . you a “Digestit,” the new relief for stom achs, would relieve Indigestion and cure dyspepsia, you would not hesi tate to buy a 50c package today. Just to Pr «„ to w ,o. — r « t o, this new remedy we will send you a full size 50c package on receipt of 10c to pay mailing cost—or if your Druggist has “Digestit" in stock we will send you an order on him for a fkiil size 60c package free Get a package and take two or three tab Jets after meals—repeat the dose in half an hour in obstinate cases. Then you will know its merits. Address W. L. Brown Company, Box J, Jackson, Miss. Hardly a Compliment. In the excitement of the moment public speakers often say the opposite of what they mean to convey, and “when Henry Irving gave a reading in the Ulster hall, in 1878," says Bram Stoker, in “Personal Reminscences of Henry Irving," "one speaker made as pretty an Irish bull as could be found, though the bull is generally sup¬ posed to belong to other provinces than the hard-headed Ulster. In des¬ canting on the many virtues of the guest of the evening he mentioned the excellence of his moral nature and rectitude of his private life in these terms: “Mr. Irving, sir, is a gentle¬ man what leads a life of unbroken blemish.' ” BABY’S SCALP CRUSTED “Our little daughter, when three months old, began to break out on the head and we had the best doctors to treat her, but they did not do her any good. They said she had eczema. Her scalp was a solid scale all over. The burning and itching was so severe that she could not rest, day or night. We had about given up all hopes when we read of the Cuticura Remedies. We at once got a cake of Cuticura Soap, a box of Cuticura Ointment and one bot¬ tle of Cuticura Resolvent, and fol¬ lowed directions carefully. After the first dose of the Cuticura Resolvent, we used the Cuticura Soap freely and applied the Cuticura Ointment. Then she began to improve rapidly and in two weeks the scale came off her head and new hair began to grow. In a very short time she was well. She is now sixteen years of age and a pic¬ ture of health. We used the Cuti¬ cura Remedies about five weeks, reg¬ ularly, and then we could not tell she had been affected by the disease. We used no other treatment after we found out what the Cuticura Remedies would do for her. J. Fish and Ella M. Fish, ML Vernon, Ky„ Oct. 12. 1909.” Different. "That man wouldn't touch a cent that didn’t belong to him.” “I know,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. 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