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GREAT INVENTOR AT HOWE.
a Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Hmum
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Like the Man.
To one who knows anything at
all of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
comes with a shock of surprise,
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart sf
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
elusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by alodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, quite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar^
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly.
He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently of
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
up for himself in his home.
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shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like hi*
father's. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp*
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?*
Edison winked confidentially.
•You see, Mrs. Edison is away. I
•an do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
that I had once heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he Works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
•till finds him bending over his
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
bov while they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention to
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A POTATG.
Tuber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado."
No potato ever gained so much
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
Findlay, of Markinch. The very
name of the variety, says the Gar
dener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
inc kwu i vi l uuv. iv ci v ' ui c Dvmr
of the first tubers distributed,
rould have imagined that in so
short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy,, purchased a
■tone weight for £20. This set the
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to farther distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, the demand for the small
atock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
de n salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
& Sons, of York, possessed sup
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchase? of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield clnb show a mem
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
sey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a atone. Mr. Massey refuse'd,
as he wanted £1,500, bnt eventn
ally the bargain was struck at
£1.400, to the satiaf action of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that hia original
transaction brought him a vary
fcaadqtome raturm.
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Patrons Advised to Save Tkoir Owm
I ’ Brush and Comb—Carbolic Acid
for ths Baaor.
The transference to his cus
tomers, by means of his hands and
instruments, of many parasit
ic skin diseases has long been rec
ognized as one of the unnecessary
accomplishments of the necessary
barber. Among these affections,
says American Medicine, are
sycosis, impetigo, seborrheic alo
pecia and furunculosis that is
more or less chronic in type. Dr.
! Graham Chambers states thet
during the past five years impeti
go circinati has been very prev
alent in Toronto, scarcely a month
passing without an outbreak of
from two to thirty cases, gener
ally traceable to a common
source. The barber shop is so com
monly the source that he desig
nates the disease as “barbers’ im
petigo.” Quite recently Dr. W.
A. Hardaway has called attention
to a point which he believes, and
we think rightly, has been but lit
tle realized by the medical profes>
sion. That is the frequency with
which carbuncles are acquired in
barber shops. He has seen many
eases ef carbuncle in which the
| evidence of this means of trans
) mission was to him indisputable.
The relative importance of this se
rious affection as compared with
the other diseases mentioned
needs scarcely to be impressed.
For the prevention of contagion
in barber shops, Hardaway be
lieves that we will be forced to
rely upon an educated public
| opinion rather than upon compul
i sorv laws directed against the
; barber. He recommends that
each patron of a barber shop pro
vide himself with a box, contain
; ing his own brush and comb, a
; small package of absorbent cot
ton and a five per cent, carbolie
acid solution. The barber will
then wipe his shears or clippers
with the solution, and use the pa
tron’s comb and brush. For the
i man who shaves his own soap, cup
| and brash are necessities. These
suggestions are sensible. To car
ry them out properly means some
inconvenience, but it is worth
while, especially to the aged and
debilitated, or to those suffering
from diabetes or similar diathe
sis. Physicians atending such pa*
tients should extend them a warn
ing in this regard.
ANCIENT DOLL-LIKE IDOLS.
Were Found Imbedded in Walla of
Ancient Cliff Dwelling* Near
Santa Fe.
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While exploring the Puye and
Bhufinne cliff dwellings near San
ta Fe recently Dr. R. W. Scheuss
ler discovered some antiques of
a kind not previously cataloged
by students of that region. No
ticing upon the wall of an ancient
dwelling some spots of an unu
sual color, he dug into the soft
stone with his pocketknife and
discovered a hole 5 inches in diam
eter and 12 inches deep, partlj
filled with mud. Inside was im
bedded a stick on which was
mounted a doll’s head. In the
same hole was a small, highly pol
Ished turquoise.
Dr. Schuessler investigated fnr
ther. He found three more of the
sealed openings, each of them
containing a doll and a turquoise.
One of the holes contained a piece
of petrified resin, in which tooth
marks indicated that it had been
used as the chewing gum of the
day. The probability is that the
doll heads were idols, but the sig
nificance of burying them in the
mesa walls and the presence of
be turquoise are not explained.
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In Sonny Florida.
Never shall 1 forget, writes
Julia Daniels Moseley, in the
Four-Track News, the magic of a
certain garden in the south, in
sunny Florida. . . . The stars
down there have a way of seem
ing to hang out of the sky, like a
jewel placed high in the setting.
The moon was full and the magic
of her yellow beauty bewitched
everything, enhancing the very
shadows. There is an abandon
about that spot that takes away
the stiffness so often found in
large, formal grounds, and, as you
walk on and on, there seems to be
no end to it, but it is as though all
the world was a sumptuous gar
den ; and when you lift your eyes
to the matchless night blues, M
seems as if the very dome of Hear
en had opened to charas jew
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