Show s TJJUM SUE TO SON GREAT GENIUS IN THE EOIBON FAMILY famwl MlMm I IVilher of the bent In t rein Wa a Haul In lll < Ihiy the OfHVtfullir tired In I be t 0 e rat one llHn4lnl mil lon 1I 1 IIK purple Cetera I were nodding In the i crlip September air down l under the 4 great oak and plnti which aloud ihoul k der I In shoulder on 7 the wide eapase of I t Ji unkimpt lawn aa t ti tI walked fr > m the I I y electric tramway up p lo the pilaw house among the pine where win Urn lying In R dim delirium th fuller of one of the Inlet r anil rfiil men of the century I i I had one out to this suburban part of i thus little city of Port Huron Michigan Michi-gan while nailing for my boat to tear to make a rail on Samuel Kdlaon Iho father ot Them A Edison lo lather what I might ot the earlier history of I the man who now stand au high among I the inventor < f the age I Ior twentytwo yean Toms father everybody calla him Tom here hud been living In this nine yellow cottage I knew of hll extreme age he wan to teat l Auguet and yet I had heard before I went to call on him how pry of tool he waa how keen of mind how quick at humble repartee Ito I hail hoped to hind this quit remarkable man both an In tretlng study and an encyclopedia of Information Rut Instead I ran n long Haunt frame lying upon what aeeineil to me inual be hlA toot of death the j light of raaaon faded from the Keen old r W I ftl > 1 l lt1 u 1 1 I I i I I RIUII 1J > SON I eyoa lie nut moaning now and then calling out for some one I mnyhnp hla onIho sun of whom lie l hid lien M proud You cannot ask n man on the itreeti If Port Huron If ho known who Mr 1 < lIon llvea without receiving nn nf llnnallve Cougar awl If you ream n stranger to the place there li I lure to follow n rerllal of the nl I miltltman many ulrlklnir eharacterlillo And you will nt once he corrected In your pro nunclatlon of Iho name It you follow ho ono In common use It li 1 K dlon here n very long r One man will tell you thut Iho old man hAl no care whatever about his IlIrlOnal appearance appear-ance no more than did Ids famous son when ho was XrnlnlnR every nerte to get money lo make lnteitliatlan coil was quite milling to part with hla beat shirt It thereby he could purchase a few chemical otherwise unobtainable another An-other recltea come of the nltllclima for which the old lientleman hm become locally fHmnui another loll of HIP Klfli of silk bala from sun to father the more battered and rusty the more nulled lo the lattera lade irotldlng I they had only been worn by Tom another dliciiwea nt length the ncume of the old gentleman another Coil many another sheiks of hit uniform coudne0l of heart nrllea W H liar wood In Harper a Weekly Samuel dl son waa born eo hla wife toll me In Amiterdam New York Auguit 18 1901 Hla father Ih eel to be lot ears of rage Idle grandfather to ba 107 With lush n longlit nnceitry to look hick upon what yearn what mirtcloui > ear may not be before Iho man who so Ihndhll hears Clio family name And liy tin way Mri Kdlion who la I the stop inother of Thomas 1 < lIon add several sev-eral years to the future for him for oho ape ap-e THOMABA IDIHON told me what her huihand had alwnyi contended that the publliheil Hate inenta as lo her sons age were all Incorrect In-correct that he woo but 4S yeas of age loll February Initead nf being ni hai been Hated 6t Hla birth lace uai Mlnan Krle county Ohio When he was 7 jean old he came to Tort Huron with hU father and from that day to this peorle hate aiioclatcJ him with fort Huron IturonIii Iii not at all hard to find the an central lnlluinc which here moulj the Inventor and made him n i 1 most persistent and IndomlU llli father hAl been a rev r gigantic phyiqu dple oil 4 I po erfutme ill fits 1 g ilk n stty tleae I whu IU kno lm nil the u war A uri o r nrei done re threeI 10 i t which 1101 white ability to uie I 11 tees reserve strength has on many an occasion been hewn to splendid advnn lace The father was the moat unprr lentloua of men and cared little > r nothing tor the elegancltl of life The room where I raw him atretched on his bed a fallen pant was comfortaile but plalnrwaa Itself The whole houses la i the ilmpleat of placea the > neat n-eat of ran carpeta on the floor walls with tittle adornment homely room yet cheery juat such lowly rooma aa dp llfhted l the owner a heart In the parlor of the little home from which I could hear the m > nnton one llchltiK of a self setlelei clock and Ih apaamodlc breathing of the old man lying u loon hla bed nf alcknen t could see plclurea of the ann neatly framed and hunt on the wall and there wen several fat albums containing picture of both branchpa nf the family On the slender table In the corner were Iw i nf Ih famous halahati which both the father and ann hate contribute to I i make famnu > battered affair of mf lied black never ton old for the precut Ire lo wear A cabinet organ In the corner added the lout touch of Ih country home of the days ron by They wanted me to hate a num said the sober d wife aa we al t c cd I at the aid of the old man who aeomc lo be ao near lo the entrance lo the lart voyage but he won lei anybody lob after him but me He had never been lick In his life until seven year ago when he hail a fever and Unce thai time he haii never been ao well When I left l the I mile yellow house among Ih Irwa the purple aster nod de1 me a goodbye something the nil man tying In the low boil with his parchment halide rroaaed over hit shrunken lirart could not vouchiaff Inc |