Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE THE TUE SPIKE BOOKS THAT EDISON KEPT fly ny E K J Edwards This Thi duly dilly serifs series of anecdotes and I that throw new ne Interesting stud and frequently tr dramatic light on famous events and personalities of the vast past have been b n by Edwards Edward during dunn f nearly forty year yesra of ot more oc or D l lea si 1 Inti InU Intimate mate mete acquaintance with many of the leaders sine since the Civil War Each anecdote or It Is I fresh freon from Mr Edwards notebook end and either in n abel or In part U It constitutes New News Neu swa pf t garnered from the tho men who toads made the n ws the history or r from equally authoritative sources source As Ac A Im ho portent contribution of the Human In terest sort lort to American hilton lh lb thea articles have hav a distinctive Iu all aU their the it own Thomas Thom A EdIson E now knows know Om th value alue of at money mone the Independence and the a astute ns nR of or power which hLeb U It gives give Hut nut there time titan In itt his hits earl early experience when hn ho had no other lither conception of or money than that It was Walt a u good tiling thing to have havo In the pocket to co that hat It could be taken out and w any uny 1111 of ot It wo needed Boon after had perfected Ins his Incandescent lent lIght he found toun elt m in inthe I the of ot capital for lor the tint uirt time Ume In hl hIs hla life lite That light 1111 within Un ten years after It U was perfected brought Din a capital of ot coma When he told me mo this I asked him him If It ha ho b i handled his hi Accounts and end looked alter after his hI n moneys MI tie with the same came systematic method which his hils hi pursuit of ot science He Jle smiled for tor a moment aa u though some amusing recollection had come Ome to him Well Vell ho hu said ald 1 I know knOl now how to secure competent assistants who will look careful and accurately after afUr thu tho business end of ot my m undertakings Hut there was waa a time when I 1 wan WM as green gren about such uch things as a boy who hoes corn upon prairies would be That was WIl when whan I had bad received several leveral thousand dollars dolla In pert part payment for tor my micro microphone phone hone hono transmitter patent which as a ayou you know aided vitally the perfecting of ot the telephone This was the big money none so to In sp ak that I had ever possessed anti ami with It t I decided to 10 establish my own plant and laboratory and end begin work Mork ark upon the other things thing I had In mind So I secured a place In Jersey City equipped It and started to 10 work or i I J was uses pretty much mitch the is whole hole thing about the th plant I figured out that the best way nay for me to keep kep my accounts was wa the simplest so I I had two spikes pike made each el about abou the thickness ot or an ordinary telegraph wire sharp at ono one Ol e end and stuck at Itt the other end Into Inlo a R leaden support or base bailie Upon one ot of these lead bases I J pasted a strip of ot I paper upon which I had Inked these thesa word nords What hat is La owed me Upon the tha theother other I pasted another slip Up of r paper upon which I 1 had bad written the words word What I low owe ow One stood at one side Ido of ot my desk and the other at the op 01 opposite opposite corner What was owed mi me m was Walt at my toy right hand because that was wall of 01 more consequence So 1 when I had done and sold old a piece of ot work I 1 a memorandum upon un the Ille spike to tell what bat was coming to tome tome I me inc When I got any bills bill against ray my In myself self elf 1 I stuck those thu upon the other spike pike I thought bought that at the Ute end of ot n R month or certainly at the end Ind of ot a year these memoranda would match one on another I and what hat was wan raf left would nit nil my InY pock pockets pockets ets eta Sometimes mel while I wo was filling Oiling these thes spikes II t l I got short hort of actual money and ami the bank would cash auh my note nolo I learned aa as 3 much as os that Then Thou I J never paid any more attention to It till one day I would receive rt fIe a notice saying that my Iny note nole had gone to 10 protest I J thought that wa was was the way WA the bank had bed of ot tolling mo me that It was 11 duo due so I would shin around and get the money to pay the note lItO The ThI hank bank never hewer any objection I guess they understood me meAt meAt meAt At the end ond of ot the th first year my methods of or keeping accounts showed ni inn 1116 that I 1 had Nul made quite a good bit of or money mony There Thre wasn t any mistaking the accounts account There was the r record cord I Ih bad h outdo made m Il the thA money no doubt I of ot that And then thell it occurred occulTed to me Where In is that money I J got It tho the bank got It and yet T J have hwe surely had It I over tha th problem for a time then I J became satIsfied aith Ith the thought that I r had halt had bad the money and end let It go fO at nt that nut lInt when I J had hu moved to Menlo Purk Park I saw aw that that way a of ot keeping accounts account do So 60 tb I 1 hire I a 1 bookkeeper and cashier and since then have never bothered myself abott that end of ot my affairs affair |