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The Washington herald., 1909-02-14
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"The Wizard" Has Coy Home in Florida

drilled on his place and the water piped
to all parts Of 1t. The grounds are laid
out in avenues along which the pipes are
strung. with vents every ten OF twelve
feet. Each avenue is controlled from one
valve, and the opening or that valve
starts string OF fountains on both sides
Of the avenue throughout its entire
length. So well laid out are these pipe
lines that a shower bath can be admins
tered TO nearly every tree IN the park
whenev. the gardener concludes one is
needed.
While at his winter home Nr. Edison
divides his tine between fishing and
working IN his machine shop and lsbOra-
tory. The Caloosahatchee River, where
il flows past his park. is about two miles
wide. Il Is a beautiful stream, bordered
on either bank with tropical vegetation,
and it teens with fish Of many kinds.
Ten miles up the river some OF the finest
fresh water fishing in America can be
had. while an equal distance down stream
brings one to just as fine fishing for salt
water fish. Even from the dock at Fort
Myers fine strings Of fish are caught
II order 10 enjoy his water front priTi-
Isge 20 its fullest. Mr. Edison has run
dock out into the river for nearly half a
mile and al the end thereof he has erect
ed a cozy little pavilion. Here he can
sit and enjoy the ever changing scenes OF
the river life. the passing boats. the flocIs
Of waterfowl OF many kinds and celors,
come. like himself. TO escape the cold OF
the NoTthland. On moonlight nights he
can watch the lights and shadows on the
phosphOrescent waters. where every leap
ing hsh leaves a. trail Of fire. Mr.. Edison
has been visiting Florida annually for the
past twenty-five years and doubtless
many problems IN electric science have
been solved IN the little workshop among
the orange trees, on his dock, and in his
fishing boats
By the old citizens and residents Of
Fort Myers and by his more immediate
neiEhbors. Mr. Edison is looked Up 10. not
as the great electrician. the dscoverer Of
some OF the most useful inventions Of the
age. but as the kindly nelghbor and pub
lic-spirited citizen who IS ever ready 70
lay aside his own affairs and give his
time and money TO the general welfare.
They point with pride" TO the many pub
lie Improvements that have been made
possible only b. his efforts, prominent
among them being the three niles CT
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Away down in Southern Florida. on the
south bank OF the big Caloosahatchee
River, lies the home OF Thomas 4. Edi-
son. There. in a house much more than
half hidden by tropical trees and shrubs.
the wizard Of the electrical age spends
that portion OF the year given over in
the Ncrthland TO the reign OF Jack Frost.
says the Kansas City Star.
His place is a mile west and south Of
the city of Fort Myers. The house is a
very ordinary affair. a large. frame.
double house. built in true Southern style.
consisting practically OF two square
houses connected by a covered passage
way It's main feature Is the wide, cool
looking verands with which It is sur
rounded The other buildings on the
place are small, vine-covered cottage
in which the head gardener resides. and
a long. one-story building IN which Mr.
Edison has his machine shop and labora-
tory. This last also contains a small
electric light plant, used 70 light the
premises.
But, though the house and buildings
are commonplace, the grounds are not.
The park consists Of about twenty acres.
extending along the rivers bank, and
while there is. in its arrangement, DO
attempt at display, no grouping and
massIngs OF kinds and eolors for effect,
the number and varieties OF its trees.
shrubs. and flowers show that no ex-
pense has been spared 70 crafty the own-
er's desire TO see things grow.
There, royal palms from Cuba and Por-
10 Rico nod their heads to date palms
from Egypt and the Holyland: mango
trees from India stand shoulder to shoul-
Ger with eamphor trees from China and
Japan; while orange. lemon, grapefruit.
and other tropical and semi-tropical trees.
shrubs. vines. and flowers from many dif-
ferent and widely separated parts Of the
world miRgis their branches.
In order to maintain his park. and keep
all things therein thrifty and growing.
Mr. Edison has equipped 4 with a thor
Oughly up-to-date irrigating plant. enc OF
the best in Florida. Artesian wells with
plenty Of pressure are easy to find in and
around Fort Myers and several have been
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CHANCE GAVE THESE MEN CUE TO FAME AND FORTUNE

the end OF ths old court and diplomatic
life at Seoul. the glory q those former
days has disappeared. Friends OK Ar.
Allen accordingly hope that he viii con-
tinue to write % the old Korea. so that
it viii at least live IN literature. In 1889
he wrote Korean Tales in 1900 "A
Chronological index OF Foreign Relations
Of Korea from the Beginning OF the Chris
tan Era 70 the Twentieth Century" IN
1913 a supplement 10 the above, and N
1901 Korea Fact and Fancy"
Chance Favored These workers.
Three men Who owe their present wide
spread reputation in the religious worlds
OF this country and Europe to chance are
Rev. Charles T. Aked, some time since
Importer to al the pulpit OF the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church OF New York
City, one Of the two so-eaIled Rockefeller
churches: Dr. William T. GrsnfeiI, whose
work as a medical missionary along the
bleak coast OF Labrador has made him
one OF the century's heroic characters.
and Gypsy Smith, the latest evangelist
to stir our eenters og population with his
remarkable revival meetings.
Rev. Charles F. Aked himself Is the
authority for the statement that to-day
he might have been auctioneering in far
OF New Zealand had It not been for
chance His father was an auctioneer.
and when still child he used to raise his
voice in the same calling. He was born
in 1866 at Nottingham. England. His
father died when he was twelve years old,
and when he was not knocking down
bargains" 10 the highest bidders he
earned what he could as clerk in coal
Office. Later he became an officer for the
sheriff Of Derbyshire-
As England seemed TO promise no fu-
ture for the young man. he and his
mother decided 10 start life over again in
New England. They had even paid for
their passage and said good-by 70 their
friends when a clergyman acquaintance
drew the young man aside and talked
with him earnestly. As a result. he turn
ed to his mother and said. There Is too
much work 70 be done in England for Us
TO leave. want to be minister OF the
gospel and stay here
Now a Public Force.
With funds advanced by the Baptist
church the young man studied for the
ministry, and first preached in small
English towns. Fame did not come 20
him until he went 10 Pembroke Chapel.
Liverpool. in 1890 His work there soon
evidenced his energy, courage. and his
unusually convincing personality. The
Sunday before he took charge the at
! tendance was fifty. Soon afterward the
congregation had grown 10 more than a
/ thousand. In New York Mr.. Aked has
continued 10 be a public force, because
of taking an active part IN many move
ments for social and political betterment-
Smallpox was the indirect cause Of the
evangelistic work of Gypsy Smith. 90
called because until he vas sixteen years
old be followed the nomadIe life Of a
gypsy. He was born IN Epping Forest
near London, in 1850. His parents named
him Rodney. During his bOyhOod he trad
I ed horses. and. with his mother, wander
I ed from town 10 town selling clothes
! pegs and willow baskets, or dancing in
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that the President will be wei taken
care OF while in Berlin so far az personal
comfort IS concerned
But there viii be more than lectures
There viii be grand military review in
honor OF the eminent American at which
Emperor William IN person viii
show 10 Citizen Roosevelt the ef-
fectiveness OF the various branches
Of the German military machine.
The aerial craft of the army vii
assemble on the Tempelhofer Field for
record flights and war evolutions The
huge ZeppeIins. the ParsevaI, and the
Gross and myriads Of smaller machines.
transports and supply balloons will line
up in offensive and defensive formation.
perform scouting duty and other aerial
wartime evoIutiOns. This giant spectacle
viii be witnessed BY the Kaiser and
kaiserin, the imperial princes, their wives
and suites, the members Of the German
military staff, kings. dukes, and barons
Of the various pTincipalities Of the en-
pire, the diplomatic corps, the nobility
and aristocracy, and the people OF Berlin
anc surroundings. The former AmeTi-
can President viii be the center around
which this spectacle viii revolve and it
Win be given in his honor.
Another great function in honor Of
President Roosevelt viii be a Russian
Kommers." or giant smoker given by the
alumni and student body Of the German
capital at which the Emperor and the i'm
perial princes. all being alumni Of the
University OF Bonn, VIII participate. at
tired IN the regulation dress uniform Of
Of the German Corps Studenten, con-
sistlng OF black velvet sack coat, highly
ornsmented with black braid frogs, white
buckskin trousers. military boots reach
ing above the knee, foil, color ribbon Of
their respective student organization. and
cap with Tam o'Shsnter effect 10
which is attached the tail Of a fox. or
6iminutive corps cap.
Not only viii the Kaiser appear thus
gorgeously atfired, but the thousands up
on thousands Of old and young alumni
viii appear in the same garb and get-up.
There VIII be in attendance. a large dele
CATION Of Heidelberg students. the old
university where Roosevelt spent some
years.
The programme viii mainly consist Of
q Russian Salamander, speeches, songs.
toasts, and the proverbial stein and con-
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The women Of Today.

From Arpset00's M&gazine.
At g coming OUT ball IN a metropolis
tan city a few years ago the debutants
and her grandmother both danced IN the
eotiIlion- They were both slender and
graceful, both beautiful dancers. To the
casual observer they differed IN these re-
spects: The debutante had auburn hair,
the unlined face Of the 'u1ideaed girl .
and talked haltingly. The grandmother
had white hair. lines IN her face, and
talked huently. That they should both
be dancing aroused no particular CON-
ment. To-day numerous American wo~
men play tennis until fOrty-play golf and
quieter games until sixty. Not long ago a,
New York society woman who is close
upon sixty was told by her physician that
she must not hereafter walk over twenty
miles In a day. Plenty Of English sports
woman follow the hounds until past
fifty years OF age.
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iorid rhetoric Of the far East the insti-
tuition was called the House Of Civilized
Virtue" Here Alien saw 10 the treat
ment Of forty inmates and about 100 dis
pensary patients every afternoon
When the United States brought claim
against China for the destruction by KO-
reans Of a vessel flying the American
flag, China replied that she had no con-
troll over Korea. and that the claim must
De made directly 70 the Korean govern
ment Allen saw in China's dOdging an
swer the opportunity for Korea boldly
to announce her Independence to the
world
ChIna's Plans Blocked.
Now is the time" said Allen to the
Korean ruler. ''to send your own lega-
tlons and representatives 10 the otner
nations. It VIII be impossible for China
logically to object. as she Acknowledges
that she has no sovereignty over you
China by this tine awOke 10 her diplo-
matte indiscretion and firmly objected 10
Korea's assumption Of power Nothing
daunted, Allen persisted He promised
the Korean sovereign that he would go
TO the United States for the purpose OF
establishing there a Korean legation and
by dint Of much strategy ne managed 70
get the Korean representatives past the
Chinese war ships and aboard the United
States man-o'-gar Omaha
From 1855 TO 1890 Allen remained in this
country. as there was some doubt on the
part OF our government as TO the ad-
visibility OF receiving the new legation.
When il vas finally established. however.
Allen returned 10 Seoul as secretary OF
the United States legation In 1887 he was
made ninister-resident, and IN 1901 envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary-
Bought American Legation.
Aliens six feet three inches Of stature.
and the Korean law against the renting
OF houses for a time made it extremely
difficult TO establish a suitable American
| legation. Like the japanese. the Koreans
are inclined to be dwaTfsh. and with true
Asiatic economy they build their houses
/ accordingly Allen found that with his
hat on he could not walk erect IN the
highest studded apartments available for
his use in Seoul He also complained that
he was afraid to take his hat Of for fear
OF catching cold from the dampness, as
the floors were only mud In desperation
he finally bought a summer place for
himself just outside OF Seoul At that
tine there were 10 landlords in Korea
as no one was allowed TO own more
dwellings than he could live IN ali the
time. As a sequel Of al this. the United
States was compelled 10 buy a legation
Of its own.
Since the overthrow Of the Korean gov
ernment by the japanese, as d result OF
their victory over the Russians, and since
The Washington herald., 1909-02-14
The Antiauitv of seap

The word Soap or Sope. from the
Greek sapa, first occurs in the works Of
Pliny Galen. Pliny states soap TO have
been discovered by the Gauls, that it was
composed OF taIlow and ashes. and that
the German soap was reckoned the best.
According TO slsmondi a soapmaker was
included in the retinue OF Charlemagne.
AT Pompeii overwhelmed by an eruption
Of Vesuvius. A D. 79, q sOapbOiieT s
shop. with soap in il, was discovered dur
ing an excavation made there not many
years ago Hence the manufacture OF
soap is OF very ancient origin; indeed.
jeremiah fguratively mentions it-"For
though thou wash thee with natTou, and
take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity
Is marked before me. .f-Jsr. i:22.
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and 20 the westward with Hill steamship
lines extending to the chief seaports OF
Asia and Australia.
The Key OF Success.
Opportunity is often a key to success"
Mr.. Hsn has said. 'At the same tine
luck and isziness don't go together. and
opportunities win not hunt man Up, he
must watch for a chance, and then take
advantage OF It. After all. the measure
Of success depends a great real on the
man.
In disaster also, Henry c. Prick found
the opening which led to him from a
dry goods clerk to a coke and steel msg
nate He was son OF farmer and be
gan life behind q store counter IN the
center OF the Pennsylvania coke region.
Yet even from this viewpoint he saw the
possibilities Of the coke business. and
with s few other young men and some
borrowed capital started 3 few ovens.
They were Just beginning TO prosper when
the financial panic OF 1873 brought busi-
ness 20 q standstili. Though only twenty
four, Frick saw more clearly than many
OF bis elders the chance Of getting control
Of the coke industry. He began buying
on his own account valuable properties
which harG-pressed capitalists weTs will
ing 20 sacrifice for cash. BY the tine he
was twenty-seven he had made a million.
The two men who headed the Repubn
can national committee IN the last two
national campaigns. plotting their party
10 victory, doubtless realize the full, be-
cause Of their personal experience. the
part that chance delights to play IN the
lives OF its fayorites
George Bruce Cortelyou. q Republican
then as now, was a stenOgrapher IN the
Post-ofice Department when Robert A.
Maxwell became Fourth Assistant Post
master General under the second Cleye-
land administration. Mr.. Maxwell asked
Stenographer Cortelyou TO remain with
him until he could find q man competent
to take Cortelyous place. The latter
agreed. and as a result be stayed three
years. in the meantime doing considerable
work for Wilson s Bissell. Postmaster
General, and personal friend OF Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Sends for COFteIyOu.
''Bissell," said the President one day
in November. 1896. we have 50 much
work at the White House that II you
know OF a bright young stenOgrapher
who can help out wish you would send
him over"
Bissen sent COrteiyOu Henry 7. Thur
Der. Cleveland's private secretary, sug-
gested that Cortelyou pay his respects to
! the President. whereupOn the new stenog-
rspher frankly told Cleveland that he
was a Republican. and would accordingly
give away 10 a Democratic stenOgraDher
II the Chief Executive so wished
I don't care what you are" said CIeve-
land Your politics have no bearing on
the confidential and personal work ! have
decided TO give you"
Some months later Corteiyou became
Executive clerk He was made private
secretary by Mckinley. and on February
| Is. l903. he was appointed the first Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor by Presi-
dent Roosevelt Since then his political
strength has increased steadily
/ A job obtained by a relative IN Wash
| ington opened the gate OF success 10
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tents ''Vivat- flOreat, crescat. Roosevelt
viii be heard from a thousand German
throats and the stems VIII be emptied
standing. ex, in honor Of the great Ameri-
can
A gala performance viii give the man
from the United States an idea OF Ger
man dramatic and operate art and a
sightseeing tour OF the city OF the
Kaisers and a visit TO the Reichstag
Gebaeude VIII wind up Mr.. Roosevelt's S
sojourn with his German cousins. All Of
the foregoing plans are merely tenta-
tive and have not yet been officially an
aounced and It is therefore not without
the range Of possibility that some Of the
arrangements may experience a slight
change
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BerIin'S Plans for Entertaining Roosevelt

be difficult to surpass IN genuine enthu-
siasm and sincere admiration.
Next 20 their own Kaiser, who Is said
to have many characteristic traits in com
mon with President Roosevelt, the latter.
according 70 German newspapers and
other publications. is the most popular
man in the German fatherland.
While Ia Berlin, Mr.. Roosevelt VIII
live at the Adlon. the same magnificent
marble palace which served as the home
Of Ambassador and Mrs. David JAYNE
Hill up to very recently, and where they
made their initial bow to Berlin Official
and residential society. The Adlou ever
since its doors were thrown open 10 the
public, after thorough inspection BY
the German Emperor and members OF
the imperial family, is the center psr ex-
oellence where American society in the
Kaiser's capital holds its great functions
President Roosevelt viii not be 2
stranger at this hOstelry as Louis AdIon
one OF the owners Of the place. On his
tour Of this country last year paid q
visit to President Roosevelt al the White
House, making his personal acquaintance.
Mr. AdlOn came 10 this country for the
express purpose Of studying American
hotels and cooking IN order to introduce
the latter at his new place and what is
more important to serve President Roose-
welt while there as the guest OF the Ger
man nation and the Kaiser's own particu-
lar friend, with his fsyorite dishes.
Something about the place which e 10
serve as Mr. Roosevelt's temporary abid-
ing place in the capital on the banks Of
the Spree. II is not often that a crowned
head takes personal concern in such a
plebeian enterprise as a hostelrv bvt
It is a fact that Emperor william is
deeply interested in the AdIon. as there
is no place in Berlin more closely asso-
ciated with the historic past than the
classic corner upon which the hotel has
been erected The Kaiser. the imperial
family. and the leaders Of the fashions
able world Of Berlin, on October q. Isg7.
the opening day Of the hotel. drank pros
perity 10 the new undertaking and the
first dinner served in the new place was
one given By the crown prince to some
members Of the imperial family. From
the foregoing It may be taken FOR granted
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sea wall now being built, the largest mo-
ject ever undertaken by a town Of 2080
people. Intimate TO one or them that
you would Ike TO see Mr.. Edison and he.
VIII promptly reply.
"oh, that is easy. He is down town.
nearly. every day when he is at his win
ter home. he goes about the streets 5usu
Ike any other resident He IS not at al
exclusive. but he is getting to be an old
man now and. OF course. cannot be ap-I
preached as easily as he used TO be Al
Of the old residents know him and know
him to be one Of the best men that ever
lived
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Tarrtng and Feathersng.

Tarring and feathering. It seems, IS q
European invention One Of Richard
Coeur-de-Lion's ordinances for sesmeR
was that II any men were taken with
theft or pickery. and thereof Convicted
he should have his head p0Iied. and hoe
pitch poured upon his pate. and upon that
the feathers OF some pillow or cushion
shaken aloft. that he might thereby b
known for a thief, and at the next arrival
OF the ships to any land he be put forth
OF tbs company 10 seek his adventures
without al hope OF return unto his fsi<
lows"
The Washington herald., 1909-02-14

By Chance, When Korean Prince Was Danger
oHst Wounded, Young Yankee Medical
Missionary Was Called to attend Him, and
Before He Quit Korea Horace Newton Allen
Was Our Minister at the Korean Court, and
the Real Power Behind the Korean Throne in
It's Relations With the Outside World.
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Frank Harris Hitchcock. the "steam roll
err Of the Taft campaign, who VIII be
the next Postmaster General Upon his
graduation from Harvard ne obtained the
position Of superintendent OF construction
for the post-ofFice building IN this city
Here Hitchcock chanced 10 meet Justice
Harlan. Of the Supreme Court, who took
a great interest In him, and advised him
to study law He did. and as a law stu
dent he made the acquaintance Of CorteI-
you. who was also studying law. The
two became fast friends. and each has
done much 10 help the other politically.
When Cortelyou was appointed Secretary
OF Commerce and Labor he made Hitch
cock his chief clerk, and when COrtelyou
became Postmaster General he chose
Hitchcock as his First Assistant.
~AccidentaI Circumstance
Robert J. Wynne. who became Uncle
Sans consul general al London in 1Sl5,
has acknowledged that it was an "acci-
dental circumstance" which kept him in
washington after he had first gone there
temporarily. and 50 ultimately led 70 his
acquaintance with political figures and
10 his political prefernent Accidental
circumstance" or chance. in Mr. Wynne's
case, took the form OF woman's piano
playing. Before he heard this music he
was a telegraph operator. earning $50 a
month-especially good wages for this
sort Of workout little dreaming that he
would some day be Postmaster General
One OF seven children. Wynne. was Ief;
an orphan at the age OF thirteen. Through
I & Philadelphia relative he obtained & Job
/ !n a telegraph Office at s q week. the
first money he ever earned or this he
/ had TO pay g for his room and board, and
( 8. 80 FOR laundry, car fare. and other Incl
dental expenses. This left 80 cents. hall
OF which he spent for orange caramels
and the other half for 6 Saturday night
seat in the peanut" gallery Of a thea
/ ter No plays since. Mr.. Wynne says,
have stirred him so powerfully as those
he looked down upon from the theateE
| ceiling when he was q messenger boy.
I Cold weather put an end 70 the car
aneIs and the theater- The clothes he
wore on his arrival from New York be-
gan 10 wear out. and the pleasure money
had TO be saved 10 buy new ones. So
/ slow was this process. however. thai
finally the relative who got him the JOB
/ in the telegraph Office bought him an
1 Oyercoat and new suit
Sent to Washington.
Ambitious TO rise. young Wynne began
20 study teIegraphy and became 4 com
petent and especially rapid operator
From what books he could lay hands OF
IN Idle moments-among them being many
volumes Of travel and history loaned hin
by a friend. he obtained an education
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H0w Chance Made a Heroic Character of Dr..
Wilfred T. GrenfeII, the Living Saint of
Labrador-James j. Hill and Henry c. Frck,
Two Captains of Industry, Who We're Started
on the Road to Wealth by Chance-The Part
Chance Has Played in the Lfves of Many
Noted Political Characters of To-day.