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sonally to Mr. Edison l have heard it
stated that Mr.. Edison is an organizer
who uses the brains of other men.
Nothing could be further from the truth
than this. If this place was preserved
as a monument for him, his memory
would be placed UPON no false ped
estal. have seen him by night and BY
day. in all weathers. and under all con-
ditionS. and ] have found him always
the same, the personifcation of. con-
centration OF purpose, and with a long
distance Judgment at his beck and call.
which. however strained it may seem at
the time, we have all learned to re-
spect as being sure to prove right in the
end. And what has been said of his
personal magnetism has not been over
stated. doubt if there is another man
living for whom his men would do as
much l suppose it is the power Of
example, We have here many men who
have left well kept homes to come up
into the back woods and toll day and
night mainly out of loyalty to Mr. Ed
isen. The fact that the old man does
1t seems to be sufficient reason for them
TO do it; for what is good enough for
the old man is good enough for them
This, at least, is the spirit that pre-
walls"
That this is the spirit which pervades
the community can be easily seen by
anyone who visits the place. Up on
the hilltop, in the shantieS of Summer
vile, dwell laborerS of the poorer class
Far over on the other side of the mine
stands the White House" It is a
little dwelling in which Edison lives
with his chief men. At intermediate
spots stand the shanties in which live
the Worl6nen of intermediate class. But
from all of these dwellings comes a
reverence for the master which is quite
as strong and healthy in one place as
in the other. As he moves among them
all, none of them can have q true con-
eeption of the great things he is con-
stantly planning. but they all know it
is for their good and for the good of
the world at large
No mar has done more than Edison
to benefit his generation. He essen
TALLY is the man of his time Other men
may do great things in the time to
come, but whatever these things may
be, they can never create more radical
changes in the conduct of human life
than have Edison's inventions. His old
buster and his older straw hat can be
seen fitting hither and thither about
the works. their owner apparently in
tent upon nothing out of the ordinary:
but the constant suggestions which he
makes to the heads of the various de-
DartmentS show that the wonderful
brain is never inactive. The present
enterprise was planned years ago, and
row that it is finally completed. Mr.
Edisons mind will revert to even
greater schemes of conquest; and at
this moment it is safe to say that he is
planning out some great achievement
which Will take the world more by
storm than have the great things he
has already accomplished.
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EDISONS LATEST ACHIEVEMENT
Is Reducing Iron Mountains to Dust and Extracting the
Ore With Powerful Magnets

tasted it, but he could find no reason
for its inky hue. With the zeal of the
scientific investigator. he carried some
OF it home ia his laboratory for the
purpose of testing it He vas on the
point OF putting it aside when sud
denly he became possessed Of an idea.
He procured an electro magnet and
held it near the mass. Immediately
little dark grains separated themselves
from the heap and scurried across like
so many black ants to the spot over
which the magnet was held
The little ants were really grains of
iroA ore and strange as il may seem,
Edison had discovered Il bed of finely
divided iron ore cast up by the sea
This sand covered the shore in spots
for Is miles along the coast. It was due
TO the erosion Of Connecticut rocks by
Water-for ma gnetite is one Of the con-
stituents of the primal rocks found in
Connecticut. Edison calculated that the
deposits must contain millions of tons
Of iron which. if it could be smelted
would become valuable product. On
the basis Of his find he evolved his ia
nous magnetic ore separating machine.
which he exhibited at the last Paris
exposition. Then he let out the priv
ilege of using it to q contractor who
set up a plant on the beach and pro-
ceeded TO separate the iron ore from the
sand with every prospect of developing
an extensive industry. But the sea
proved TO be less generous than it had
at first promised to be, for one dark
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covery years ago and biologists ever
since have amused themselves with
proving how perfectly ineXhaustihle is
The supply. But the ore is scattered
about in such fine particles that it
could not be mined With the ordinary
methods and hence has been looked
upon as one of the few great wastes OF
nature. This state of affairs was very
aggravating in view of the peculiar
conditions which prevailed in the iron
trade in the extreme east, For some
years past the bulk of the Bessemer-
steel trade has been drifting westward
by reason of the discovery and opening
Up OF immense deposits of high-grade
ore in the upper peninsula of Michigan,
suitable for making Bessemer steel,
cheapIy produced. and carried at small
cost by water transportation to fur
naces contiguous to the lake ports. The
furnaces east OF the Alleghanies we're
compelled TO depend on a few small,
isolated deposits Of Bessemer ore in
the east and ores imported from foreign
countries. The ore deposits of the
southern states, as we'll as the nom
magnetic ores Of New Jersey, and New
York. are suitable for making Besse-
mer steel
For a time the cost of the ore at the
eastern furnaces was not greatly diff
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and like number are ready for use
and seized by a dozen natives at once.
Bundles of bamboo cut into proper
lengths, have already been prepared,
three or four men straighten the snake
and lay him on bamboo. sometimes
placing three or four smaller spIints
around him. and then lash him securely
down with bamboo Withes every inch
of his length. Generally the flashing is
found to be sufficient. and only when
the serpent is very large and powerful
are the extra bamboOs tied around him
for fear he might break the stick to
which he is fastened. This operation
is not carried on without an immense
amount of protest from the snake,
which Misses in the most terrifying
manner and wriggIes wildly in an effort
10 escape. But Kissing and wrigglinS
are all in vain. the HindOOs lash him
down, finishing the operation by fore
ing his upper jaw upon the lower and
tying the two together to the stick in
such a way that he can not even hiss.
After all the best specimens have been
selected and tied, the remainder are
killed, beheaded and the heads sent TO
the nearest government station for the
bounty. and the captives are loaded
into carts for transportation to Bonn
bay, where they are disposed Of to the
European agents.
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THOMAS A. EDISON AND WILLIAM S. MALLORY.
CErem Photograph Taken in .Edig on, N. j.

night there came a storm such as had
not visited the place for many years.
and when the contractor come to visit
his plant the next morning, not a YES
tige Of the black sand remained. It
had all been swept into the sea from
whence it came.
When the above mentioned curious
condition of affairs in the iron trade
was brought to Mr.. Edisons attention,
eight years ago. he thought Of the i'll
fated Long Island enterprise, and of
his discarded magnetic separator, and
wondered if it might not in the end
present true solution of the difficulty
In order to assure himself OF the exact
condition of the iron mines in the east
he made a tour Of the mines in New
Jersey for the purpose of seeing how
much ore there WAS left in them, and
how long it would last 1t was on this
memorable trip that he made the dis
coYery that most Of the rocks of New
Jersey were underlaid with immense
deposits of iron lie invented a mag
netic needle which would dip towards
the earth whenever it was brought
over large deposit of iron ore
DISCOVERED HIS MINE.
He was driving along in a buggy one
day between two mines. The needle
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INJURIES oF TAoMAs a EDLsoN's 1IININa PLANT.

ferent from the cost in the Pittshurg
district; but in the last few years the
cost Of The foreign ores which are ap-
preaching exhaustion. has reached the
prohihitorv point Then the discovery
OF the great deposits in the MaSaba
range OF Minnesota in the 'ast three
years. and the tremendous cheapening
in the cost Of mining and transporta-
ton of these deposits. have apparently
raised insurmountahle obstacles in the
way Of the eastern iron mills meeting
the competition Of the great mills Of
the central west. even in the eastern
market. and MANY mills have ceased To
operate The condition is not q trivial
one, for many thousands OF persons
depend upon these mills and furnaces
for a living.
IRON ORE CAST Up BY THE SEA.
Edison's interest in the matter dated
from romantic episode which occurred
Is years ago. He was walking along
the seashore on Long Island one day
When he noticed q strange pile of black
sand piled high UP on the beach he
had never seen such remarkable sand.
He examined it, sifted it and even
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was on his lap and his mind was drift
ing away from the subject in hand.
when suddenly he noticed the point of
the needle dip violently towards the
earth, and remain pointing downward.
lie wondered how this could be. for as
sa7' as he knew. there was no iron ore
anywhere near him He tested the
needle and found it al right. He was
driving over the gneiss rock at the
time, and he noticed that whenever he
WAS above this rock the needle contin-
ued TO point towards the earth. His
aHlazenlent became great. for If the
needle did not err. it simply meant that
the ground under him was underlaId
with immense deposits Of iron Deter
mining 70 find out ST this was so. ne set
a corps Of men at work making a mag
netic survey of the rocks OF New Jer-
sey- As result or this survey il was
found that the iron ore, in a finely di-
yided state. existed in nearly all of the
older rocks of New Jersey. He then
planned magnetic survey Of the whole
east, and il remains probably the most
comprehensive undertaking of it's kind
ever accomplished
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ROYALTY CARDS.
Emperor William of Germany De-
signs HIS Own Pastboards.

Berlin, Oct 30.-Emperor William of
Germany is unique in all things. even to
the little adiuncts that so to make up
material for his daily pleasures. A
peculiar demonstration of this was his
gift of a box of playing cards to his
uncle, the Duke of Cam bridge, and
those who have never had d glance at
these pd5tebodrdS'' hardly realize the
stTangeness of the donation. They are
royal cards in every respect, and made
at the famous German government
card factory at Aftenburg, near Berlin
from designs furnished by the emperor
himself. The kings are actual pictures
of royal personages, 50 are the queens.
and the jacks are the existing prime
ministers. The emperor loves the
German game of .-skat'' and can out
play almost any of his associates at
/ ''shaafskopf," and in these games he
seems to take a particular delight
when clubs happens to be trunps, fer
the king of clubs is none else than his
own imperial phiz, The king of hearts
pictures Leopold OF Belgium. while
his majesty of Italy is the king of
diamonds, and the car of Russia,
stands for the king of spades. Of
course the German names for the
colors and shapes of the spots are en-
tfrely different from those in
America and England, but the above
/ are the exact corresponding titles.
a visit to this German card factory
at Altenberg is of extreme interest
The Teutons are enthusiasts card
players and the consumption is said to
sum up from 1000, 900 to 5000. 600 packs
annually. Many of these, of course
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are sold in other countries, where the
German cards are esteemed as far
superior to those Of any other country.
Of course there are hundreds of diff
ferent designs and patterns The first
thing I noticed on the occasion of my
visit was the vast quantity of paper.
1t was there in thousands and thou
sands of reams. for there is literally
no end to the making of playing cards
I was then conducted into the paste
making departmen Every week the
astonishing quantity of 1000 gallons of
paste is made, in which countless sacks
of the finest flour are consumed. My
cicerone was courtesy personified, but
he gently refused to work out how
many packs of cards equalled a pound
loaf of bread in point of flour used In
the pastiEg department. the sheets of
paper are pasted together and subse-
quenu squeezed in a hydraulic press
to remove the superfluous paste These
sheets are then taken to the drying
room. which is heated according to
the state of the atmosphere: the dry
ing has to be most carefully looked
after, for if the temperature is too
high the board Begins to curl
When thoroughly dry the rough
boards are ready for the rolling ma
chimes, and after having been rolled
they are enaneled and printed on the
faces. Common cards require but two
printings, but the best require five
The backs are subsequently printed in
q spacious room crowded with intri-
cate machinery; and then the big
boards are stacked in piles, each sheet
being a complete pack of cards. In
this state they are left for some little
time in order that the ink may become
perfectly dry. At length they are
ready for glazing and finishing, and
when this is done the boards are cut
transverseiy by an ingenious bladed
machine, and swept aside by Il l-tle
girl who manipulates q lever.
The long sections are then passed TO
another girl, whose machine stamps
out the single cards of identical de-
nomination with marvellous rapidty
Yet another girl is intrusred with the
laying cut of the cards. She takes
the piles of newly cut cards and SORTS
them on a counter into their various
denominations, keeping a sharp look
out meanwhile for marked or DAM
aged cards. When all the piles con
tain 81 of the same card. they are
again laid out" but this time each
pile gradually becomes a complete
pack
The cards made for royalty are
made in a separate apartment and are
generally finished off with fine silk It
| is said that in the royal palace at
Pot4sGaln there are always at hand at
! least d hundred packs of these cards,
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BY THEODORE WATERS
Copyright, 1897. BY s. s. Mcclure com
pany.)

Thomas &. Edison has just completed
what may prove to be the greatest
achievement Of his life. After eight
years OF incessaut work night and day
in the face of discourag ements which
seemed almost insurmountable. in spite
os obstacles which only q genius could
overcome, he has given to the world
an industrial invention which in the
seriousness of its intention may come
to rival the kaleidoscope. the phono-
graph or even the electric light. Moth
ing he has done heretofore has required
SO much of his individual attention,
taxed his inventive ingenuity so fully,
or in the aggregate consumed his vital
powers more than this latest accom-
plishment- Thousands of poor work.
men viii bless the steadfagtness OF pur-
pose which made him carry his ideas
90 a successful issue. He has in short
at last pointed out a commercial way
OF utilizing the immense deposits of iron
ore which. lie under the New Jersey
hills,
Billions Of tons of iron ore lie scat
tered through the rocks of the eastern
spurs of the Allegheny mountains IIdt-
sen himself made this remarkable dis
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on the emperor's yacht. Hohenzollern.
and on his special car.
It is esteemed d great honor to re-
ceive an ebony card case. filed with
these royal decks from the hands OF
the emperor, and only few have them
in fheii. possession. The royal arms
adorned one sent last April as Il gift
to Prince Bismarck. who. now when he
feels particularly sour. can play the
deuce with the king of clubs, that is if
his card companion. Baron Rantzans
permits It,
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REMARKABLE THINGS.

Only l45 attendants are required to
operate the plant. and these men are.
after all, merely watchers, to see that
the machinery does not set out of or
der. The crushing capacity of the Ed
ison plant is more than 20 per cent
greater than the combined crushing ca
pacity of all the stamp mills of Cali
fornia. The long mile of magnet faces
have enough pulling power to tear a
modern cannon from its stanchions.
and the great steam shovel can clean
out more rock from the mountain side
in a given time than any other like
piece of machinery in the world. Yet
all these great affairs seem as moth
ing to the maSterful control of the man
who planned it all. Edison moves
about among his men with not the
slightest consciousness Of having done
anything great. 1t will be but a cues.
ton of time when the little plant on
the hill top VIII be the center of the
great iron industry Of the east The
pockets of ore from which the United
States has drawn its chief supply are
rapidly becoming exhausted. There is,
1t must be understood. plenty of iron
ore in the country, but it is not the
kind of ore from which steel can be
made. Steel can only be made from
ores in which the per cent of phosphorus
10 CCly OuudU GlQISOu- WIFI MS
ing process, has entirely eliminated the
phosphorus element from the ore. 1t.
therefore. remains inevitable that this
must ultimately become the only SER
ious method of producing ores from
which steel will be made. It would
seem from the prospect that Edison will
become the head of a vast industry, as
great as that brought into existence by
the invention of the Incandescent Hght.
and in a measure more imposing. as it
embraces the production of what. in
commercial circles, is, after all, The
most valuable metal on earth. In sDite
of this. however. the man who planned
it all does not. from his derneanor. an
pear to have been over impressed with
its Importance. His position in the
matter Is well summed up by Mr.. w. S.
Mallory. his second in command:
IEDISON'S ATTITUDE IN THE MAT
TER.
L want. to say" says Mr.. Mallory,
and know whereof speak. for /
have been with MIN night and day for
several years. that 50 per cent of the
credit of all the invention and new
work of this establishment is due per-
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form was not thought of at once.
The ore drops into a small orifice in
the cylinder. The cylinder then turns
SO that the hole comes forward and
eXerts thousands of pounds pressure on
the ore, the cylinder then turns down
ward and the newly made briquette
drops out from the hole and falls into
another endless conyeyor, and is car
RED forward into a large oven. to be
baked. There are so bricking machines
and 10 ovens in the plant and q con-
tinual stream of briquettes are circu-
lated through the hot air chambers Of
these ovens. The conveyors travel five
times around the interior of the oven
before the hriquettes reappear. When
they come out, they have undergone a
change which makes them a CONNER
cial product. For instance. they will
now absorb gases in the furnace VII Oh
they are required to do; but they viii
not absorb water, This condition is
necessary so that they may be shipped
to the furnaces in open cars Ii a
stream of water we're allowed to flow
on brick, the water would simply run
off; on the other hand, if alcohol were
dropped on it, it would instantly he
absorbed by the brick This was the
point for which Mr. Edison was strIv-
ing when he made his $500 expert
ments.
WONDERFUL AUTOMATIC ACTION.
From the oven the bricks are con-
veyed to the railroad, where long trains
Of freight cars await them. The con-
veyor at this point extends out over
the track. and the engineer of q train
has simply to back his cars under
meath the mouth of the eonyeyor. The
bricks drop out and the cars load them
selves. In fact. this automatic action
is the great feature of the plant From
the time the ore is blasted with its
native rock out Of the mountain-side
until it is loaded in the form of COM
mercially pure iron briquettes on the
cars, it is not touched by human hands.
The never ending and never resting
stream of material cons antIy circu es
through the various buildings, crushed
by the stored momentum of gigantic
rolls; hoisted gykward by steam; null
ed earthYard by gravity: DETECTED ty
magnetism; dried, sifted, weighed.
guaged, conveyed; changed from rock
into dust, and from dust into compre-
hensiVe Jumps; mixed with a due pro-
portion Of adhesive material: churned.
baked, counted. and sent flying to the
furnaces by fast freight; and not once
in its course is it arrested or logged
onward by human agency.
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Il want. to say" says Mr.. Mallory.
and I know whereof I speak. for /
have been with MIN night and day for
several years. that SO per cent of the
credit of all the invention and new
work of this establishment is due per
Smyrna times., 1897-03-17
CROWDS SEEKING OFFICES.

1t is apparent that many men have
failed to read the Presidents inaugural
address; or, having read it, they fail to
recognize that the President was in
earnest. Reports come from Wash
ingtOn daily that the White House IS
oVerrun with applicants for Offices
from post office up to anything in
sight or down to anything not in
sight.
The scenes at the Executive Mansion
are not unusual. Whenever there is a
change of administration the national
capital is crowded with men, loaded
with letters and petitions setting forth
how much better qualified the possess
sors are to work for the government
than they are to work for themselves.
There are hundreds and thousands of
men who imagine that because they can
not succeed in managing their own af-
fairs they are peculiarly equipped to
transact business for the government.
Fortunately for the Presidest con-
siderable proportion of the public Off
ces are now filled by men who have
gained their places under the opera
tiOns of the civil service law or are
held in place because of the extension
OF the law so as to apply to them.
The present rush of ace hunters to
the White House will not last long.
They will soon discover that the Presi-
dent does not intend to throw every
Democrat in office out of Office simply
to make room for Republicans. He
does not intend to appoint every man
who comes upon the scene simply be-
cause he wants something to do. He
intens to bide his time and to make his
selections with care and discrimination
In the meantime the place hunters now
at the capital will be forced to return
home to go to work or to sit down and
starve while railing at the administra-
tion.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-17
The Sussex County Frauds.

The Democrats treat the evidence
OF fraud at the late election as A myth
In view of the acts of certain members
OF their party i'll New Castle and Kent
counties, it is very singular if few
rogues should not live in Susse4
county. 1t really looks as if the man
ayers Of the election in ten districts
were not saints by any means. They
were selected for the purpose of de-
feating the Union Republican candi.
dates, and, as far as the Legislature
was concerned, they did their duty
mantully. They seem to have found
earnest allies in the Regular Republi-
cans, and the tickets were arranged to
accomplish their purposes. To insure
the success Of the conspiracy. the
voters assistants were taken from the
Democrat and Republican parties. and
the Union Republicans were forced TO
submit to the arrangement or no elec-
ton could be held. We do not know
what the result may be, but it really
looks to us as if the Democrotic In
spectors IN Sussex were tarred with
the same stick, as those who officiated
IN New Castle and Kent. -Rcpu6licqn.