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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT I
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport, 1
on Upper Front Street. Ar kansas.
I Read the daily Independent
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.
▲ Visit to Thomas A. Edison—House
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 of
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
clusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
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 will an eye to artistic ef
fect, wrere 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
wTork-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.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like his
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
can 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
still 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
wrere Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
boy while they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention to
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A POTATO.
Tuber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
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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
the good fortune to secure some
of the first tubers distributed,
could 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. Zacli
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
stone weight for £20. This set the
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to further distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1004, the demand for the small
stock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
den salesmen, and Messrs. I. Toad
& Sons, of York, possessed sup
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchaser of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club 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 £1,00(1
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused
as he wanted £1,500, but eventu
ally the bargain was struck al
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his origina
transaction brought him a ver^
handsome return.
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do so if you will boy \
A VICTOR TALKING MA
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