Show THE TALE OF A SCRAP not long enca hy of horoscope and black art science familiar to newspaper men and inevitably sealed to all others a scrap ot poetical composition found its way to oar sanctum and being pronounced a eem we ose nothing second rate it went into the red letter column of THE STANDARD the poem vaa admired intensely and the author who ia one of those retiring individuals who are eternally doing something bright and not knowing if was prevailed upon by certain appreciative friends to do the deed made clear in alio following correspondence utah nov ar thomas A edison N J DAB gaii you no doubt have received poems and poetry alleged relating to the phonograph until life has become a burden and it the enclosure instead of you has the opposite effort you mill have to lay the blame at the baor of your own invention I 1 had thought of bending the verbee to the century magazine but after surveying the heavenly maid concluded her poetic feet would look smaller in a llewellyn park waste basket I 1 am yours very truly geo now cornel the following response which to moat people would to say the least be immensely flattering TUB or THOMAS A bratge GE N J dec oto dunifon esq ogden utaji dear sir mr edison has asked me to you for your letter of the ultimo and for the poem accompanying the sanae both of which he reu with a great deal of pleasure he fays that owr el fusion ia worthy a better fata than consignment to the llewellyn park ante basket and ButK eata that you carry out your original intention and send it to the century meanwhile he has placed the copy which you ecat him along wi tlitha thousands of other erbes which have been perpetrated in regard to the phonograph yours very truly 0 A GATE secy here is the poem as it originally appeared in aliese columns when 11 uric mam was young phe ming R man and laughed ft hut ollile dreamed aiho A listening and cooil right the alic the her love noil hlll ahe twined round lie maxell artt ihen A livery flolo a liquid boull slid hem in the grit alic laugh the ong clial when waa oung how TUB mississippi jurists came to find jake kilrain guilty of and battery baffled all inquiry there has been general impression that prof kilrain took no other part in the as battery mentioned oed than a fransif but fruitless endeavor to get out of prof sullivans reach ot the third Keni district enjoys alie distinction says a washington paper of looking very much like postmaster general wanamaker it is very doubtful whether mr goodnight en boya it or not |