The Detroit times., 1908-08-24
Edison. WHAT'S gol into ye?'

what's going to gel into me as soon as
We eyer get started. Hurry up and
ST down before all this stuff gets
cold.
Outside IL was burning hot ana
Edison had expected almost To shud-
der when he should come 10 look upon
the food he had ordered But strange
TO say II was quite otherwise. He felt
as hungry as ever he had felt IN the
past when he had come In nom the
nay field to deyour Just such heat
producing mass, Dyspepsia or not, ne
would eat all be wanted OF il. Tn"
blood of the old days Was stirring IA
els Yeins-the days when he could
pitch hay of the wagon into The mow
OF onto the stack in forlfuls that
would bury the best man In the ;own-
ship
by George I'm gcing TO eat ~
comfort FOR once and ne tossed his
trock coat into corner and sat dowa
az the table in his shirt sleeves
Speeches. with delight Boston
LGrled his cutaway after the mock.
EDISON cutting ea- ts X Lee
ton OF rosy ham. when he Suddenly
put down Lis chop knife and touched
the bell The waiter appeared boz.
.ns. and dong his best TO seem OF
livious to the wonder before him.
John. 70 dovE TO the Kitchen sht
sst=t..tsf sisri a-I1:-tnrk=
Seycr mind II 1ncy oen't natch.
Hurry; please.
As the man went cut, Edison fed
NOV ed 10 Il silent ard immStaole vow
tha his recklessuess should not lead
him Ia carry food TO his mouth by
mean OF IN: most tempting steel
knifA- Thai fate might place before
him
They ate every egg and most OF the
ham, baked potatoes and mashed
were cleared away. beans PIE anG
cake Jared hard ~ eve: al the hands
of hungry mea, while Boston declared
that the Iniuu bread carried him back
ward % years over the coffee and
Perique reninisce2ces OF the past
came freely The accident ~ Ansai
Taylor's tarr-raiSing, the time that
Edison alone swbmped Sproul Curtis.
the fastest bundle-cutter among all the
tAreshers OF the district, Bost,n's SET
tina the hired man from The city at
WORK loading the needle-barbed barley
tho dances at the Center 70 which
the whole family used 10 go, the night
the sugar shanty was struck by light
ming. recolcctions OF all these AMI
many more than these were trans
versed to their utmost delicious limit.
Then with changing emotions they
talked OF the departure for the city
rGsr1son and daughter, and OF the dis
coyery OF oil. of the death OF tho
wife and mother these, the things
that had broKeT uiT- me Ufd- far:ft-itfs-
There amt hardly & day. and never
night passes. Ed, that | don't think
Of her, and wisht She was here, SAID
Boston, as he stroked his face between
his withered brown fingers and thumb.
And yit. can't be very sorry that
she's missin this city life She
couldn't have took 10 II any betterh
! ! do. Besides. I've got Carlottie. ana
she's her mothers piture right over
again. She's pudgicky and hard 10
manage sometimes. but | cal-late she e
more'n good to me. Her ridiculous no.
ton OF awus findin' out what crops
others is putin tn atore she se"s
hern. is hard to git long with oftener-
n most would s'pect But I've made
IL a rule never TO give up to any en-
sensible crotche:, feelin' that reDoo
she'll weed EN- out after while II
wa give her time But | admit II >
been middlin' hard standin' our nov
and then when there amt been nothin
in il but principle. And sometimes "
does seem as If her best friend would
have To admit that she's gittin' worse
Std of better. But III spite of all
then, catty notions she's li'bl9 10 cit
INTO her. shes IRE ueEt tfsp isftiureu,
kindest.hearted girl that ever stooG
up. | dunno what I'd do without her
She made home for you fore We SOL
one OF your own. and shes mace ono
for me sence | lost mine.
And We know at what cost 10 her
self" observed Edison.
"Why. no. Ed pad AL tho bills
been lib'ral, In sure"
u don't mean that: Decourcey
would marry her any minute she
would leave you
I Boston's pipe was shattored on the
lloor
John DeCourcey? Honest? Does
no like her? And she, him.
Yes" TO al four. You don't mean
20 say you didn't know"
Didn't know Il? Didn't know II
+. ,en We don't believe II. faint so.
Il know about It and | know II Is
30"
wall. / s.poso II ye know 70 know
I'll have to believe H. But IA never
s'pected ii lie don't come there so
awful much any more And she never
said A word uever had any idee
she'd been asst Amt she The girl
thouah Edsct or 20 been told OF
this"
-ap+ -Al.alal.l- AaNe-iold- YOU
Wha, | did Instead. was 20 tell her
that you would be- happy With Ellen
and me end tha, Ter duty was 20 her
SELF Bu; / rouai out tAft hen great
est happiness lay II Twins Tor you so
/ Far as ehe could She'll be bapps VIII
Won md with no ore disc so ltng a.
she thinks shs can be &C. any use
7 70 Trrtt-
/ rhe father SAT- without speaking,
bis elbows on the table. and his chm
res.irg H. his bends Edison had not
| zee. r9eIe'y pla; ing q part, he nan
I Been gno.ty strrcre- ~ his- anjnylens
/ Of the occasion Yet no had not for
I sot.e4,- thn-chiect Ee meant 90 gain.
J NHoi do q: now II ever he Thought,
ard he weaf fo-gerd confidently.
There 81 oSe vay. father IN when
think VIZ cou.d raEc Csrlotta's NE