Show THOMAS A EDISON THE WIZARD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY F to h an n excuse be needed for tor or repeating repe the tho oft ott written biography of ot Thomas A Edison the wizard of ot Ity It ft may bo ho found in ht the tho fact tact that thai It ft Is III one of ot the most moot Instructive and in the tho annals of ot hu human human I man endeavor While In a Q general way w y oil off ar art are familiar with that biography yet the tho man IB Is lost lo l t tight Bight of ot in tho the halo of ot romance which has hn Teen been cast about him and his hla wonderful achievements by the tho multiplicity of ot hIs Ills Inventions Such Buch another scientific genius never raver existed since tho the beginning of ot the world yet yon ho lives and Ind moves mom among u ue an nn Individual of at the tho I nail and most moat kind particularly human In Ills his thies and decidedly human In his hla appetites Find acquisitiveness Had ho ha been born burn In tho t century ins aad of at tho nineteenth one writer line lifts observed ob orv ho he would probably have havo had his hili activities terminated In order at tho the Instead Ins tend of ot being bang honored with and receiving re the of lit tale his fellow tellow men Had lIall he m d In hi Inmost Inmost most moat ancient times ho would have havu been lJ halted hailed as oli a 11 demigod lint Hut Hullt It Is la to tho rho benefit of vt the tho world hi lit general K ral ralan ami an and of ot thiN life country In particular that Thomas Alva Edison J was wan born in tho worlds most moat progressive No century und that hll hh birthplace was In hi America It may mD come coma as ne o n a o to many minds minda that J dl on Is le not an nn original Investigator not an nn Inventor In the mary mart but that hat he U lit and lias boon beon nil oil along merely an on Improver of ut other mena mens Wean J i an nn diary dint link between tho speculative philosopher and tho the practical consumer There probably never nevor wan another oom aam like 1 of ot the earnest Inquirer Into natures partially revealed tov pled endowed with a n 1 well logical k mind which carefully coordinates co fools facts and Mitt pursues ur an on experiment to Its Be conclusion Not only la Is ho a I wonder but Jut n a 1 marvel of ot physical well capable of ot for tor the solution of ot a l knotty knolty problem v for tor days and nights in hi succession without rest and ond of ot quickly recuperating by a IL few tew hours houm sleep and the rapid mph a ull aa of ot un lin enormous amount of ot food swallowed In haste without regard for tor laws A temperate p a t a man t n I m yet he ho h o uses tobacco taint co in ax excess ce BI s a n world famous ran t yot he be Is IN l s perfectly I y Indifferent In to t n clothes t le and eatery and cares CartH nothing for tor fame famo or the applause of at Without being belli a mathematician math e m atta l an h he hll 0 P In j kin own way WilY the mo most moH t abstruse calculations without school or college training 1 ho to I outstripped 1 tho the most care rao fully tully educated men mon of ot our times Ho lie Is ls a perfect human machine created at nt just JUHt the tho rIght dine to perform P thu tho work for which width the Hlo century was ripe Though totally devoid dovold of lit or self In hla hili achievements nu till a n just appreciation of ot the relative of ot things thinK and aId stands forth conspicuous as nil almost almot the only Inventor who hO lm lute d a n vast fortune from hi his Isla labors He lIo has thrift old Mid In to perfection and has boa detected great principles and prospective millions In Its Inventions discarded by others as Impracticable 1 It has haa been boon fluid that I lias hae never made an on original on cc the tie regard relfOrd discoveries but ho has hae Improved and ond math made numerous dl of et others which nil Is fa just lust no AM Important In the thu end ena Hut jut for I tillMon perhaps many an Invention that In Is now working Incalculable b benefit m to 10 humanity might still bo be I lying dormant All those of ot which lie hI Is la tho putative father would corn to light of or course coure ns nil beneficent I nature Intended but probably In a II later century or period Thus rhul the tho pre present mt generation Is III I debtor oven iron i though It II be bo conceded that It tt cannot laud hn d him ns ne more moro than an nn In to carrying on the great scheme of ot world i by anticipating cosmic discoveries an nn icon ton or no 00 Always thrifty and with un on eye eyo to the main chance chalice no snub mat claimed c I e that a io has made madd n a long g step forward In this direction by M his hili M on the motor which hUH has reduced the weight of at the average battery nearly one and also Its Ita power so eo it may maye soon oon become universally applicable ai as 1 ft n means menn of off propulsion Another to iton to which V he lute hns devoted It IS eald ealda a capital of ot Is hie his magnetic separator for Cot extracting Iron from fro low gratin grade rOllo ores area I 18 In operation und and It If hop hopes arc are realized to revolution o the Iron and J sleet t jl Mus os ot of IB the tho world Thon III on as lIa an nn Incident nt of ut his hie hI granter work on has hili developed a n method of n of at S cement after aCtor tho the old Mexican by b using a i or poured In Into t mold n olds making such ouch a 0 Bavi n In m that building may mn be bt at al a 1 great rent reduction from tram present prices n ln flow w oma GOO W pa en s to his UH credit I derives train from them thom a n princely Income but hilt although nit hough always keep keeping ne hili hie s eye o on 1 1 the tho m main co for tor f he has hae ban of ot incalculable benent benefit to the world and incidentally lidded added bill Ions to 10 o Ite 1111 i total wealth j to In Isle hili storage battery motor alone are grout I po as liS yet untested by hy hse his and Iona has hIlS been advanced the tho world may yet et be en beyond sill all al I calculation J n by J his hili magnolia separator and kindred works Now with Isle his brand climacteric of ot mental montal a old and development years yearl away with all ull the Iho accumulated knowledge derived from ruin years yearn of ot love inv n carefully y conducted cd step hy by step ono anI na cannot but Jut believe bellevo that Thomas Alva dleon I has bite yet yot residing re within that cunning brain of ot his v vest vast t J which tho the incredible already to his hie credit may yet the tho world t 1 A nm omm |