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Show Edtsoa's P?mcctlc iVajs. Edlsqn is a count, a millionaire and tbe most famous living inventor. inven-tor. His prtsenl wealth, which amounts to many millions, is as nothing compared to what it will be in the next few years; but ho still works away In bl laboratory and comes forward to greet you in just such a suit of clothes as hu wore twenty years'" ago. As compareu with iCdison's dingy little shop or twenty years ago out in Menlo park, in which he used to cat bis bread and cheese seated on an old picking box talking over the work In hand with his two or three workmen, work-men, the present surroundings are fabulously luxurious. Kverythlng shows unbounded means, which may be the case when we remember remem-ber that bis famous laboratory costs $200,000 a year to mala tain. But tho master mlcd is still the same When ho works It mean work for his men. In tbe old days at Menlo park it was no uncommon thing for him to remain at tbe bench for forty-eight hours at a stretch, sending one or the boys ror crackers and cheesa when he felt hungry and not giving up until his ashtants had actually fallen asleep standing up. Today he is Just as Interested. PiU&wrg VitpatcA, |