The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-28

saw the light in the little town Of Mi
Ian, o. 1t can be located on the man as
lying on the thin line which indicates
the Milan canal. The latter was the scene
of much traffic until the Lake Shore road
came and usurped the bulk of the COM
mercial transportation of the district. The
Lake Shore road did more than this.
however. 1t caused the elder Edison to
move to Port Huron, Mich, and here
the active career of the man of the CEN
ury" began.
The story Of his life, until he began to
startle the world with his discoveries has
been told again and again, and always
with added CLEANS to the romance which
is more typically American than any
other Certainly the newsboy of twelve,
who had, like Silas Wegg, declined and
fallen with Gibbon," who was passion
ately fond of chemistry, who could pub
nsh newspaper on a train, who devoured
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and at
the same time carried on a book store
ana vegetable market, employing eleven
boys as his notwithstanding such a
boy held out the promise of becoming
mighty in time to come And his subse-
quent featS as a railway journalist and his
wonderful performances with the tele-
graphic key, confirmed the promise. We
md him henceforth travelling from place
to place, thin countryied youth, care
less of dress, unconventional in speech"
restlessly seeking, without knowing il, the
great opportunities which were to make
him famous. He experimented with tele-
graph keys, read Victor Hugo and
dreamed. Once indeed he started for South
America, but missed the boat when he
reached New Orleans. He sauntered to
the four points of the compass and then
drifted back home to Port Huron. He had
been graduated" says one of his admirers
from the university of the world"
n series of inVenffons fOllCuyad
Gagement in New York which he obtained
some time afterward and finally in the
centennial year of the republic he estab-
hshed and withdrew to the world famous
laboratory at Menlo Park. His feats since
that time have been the worlds wonders.
Inc ineandescent lamp, the dynamo. the
phonograph, the photograph, the score OF
other inventions which make his name
a household word are rapidly growing into
eommonplaces. At the Paris exposition he
was welcomed, as the real ruler of the
people, the greatest benefactor of his race.
His crown was the absolute homage of
nation that was celebrating the hun
dreath anniversary of the downfall of its
monarchy. The establishment Of the Or
ange laboratory was another step in ad-
vance 1t is the greatest laboratory, par ex-
cellence, in the world a temple of al
enemy where the magician turns all to
gold-gold in its truer, wider, sense.
And now we ind him a prophet of the
hlils-a Mohomet gone to a mountain
grown gray with the lapse of years, but
honored as few men are. The greatest
compliment that was ever paid to him
was rendered by a simple train hand on
the little one-track railway that winds
up tho hill to where he is pitting science
against nature: And how about this
talkin' machine O. his'n? Wonderful. amt
~ Gosh, he's next TO the Maker, isn't
heY' and he said II with all due reverence.
The personality of Edison Is interest
ing You recognize that strange unex-
plainable ACKNOWLEDGMENT soon as YOU
meet him. Yet his attitude is retir-
ing He does not seek notorlety Fame
has come 70 him, but IL has not marred
him. lie is not grown out Of all proper
ton TO himself. That IS evident az once,
from his epigram on conceit. In dispose
ton he Is kindly; In form large. His
face is mobile. His features are clear
cut The nose-the standard OF character
lis large. The chin matches Il IN pro-
portion. Time has given him ample pro-
portions and Il Is gradually rounding up
the face. His eyes are wonderful gray,
dreamy at times. but with n capacity to
Hash IRE. His hair, once brown, has gone
gray and a great wisp that hangs down
over his forehead. AZ times his count
enance takes on tho hardness OF Napo-
Icons, Again Il 10 as tender as wo.