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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11

reasonable rates. He had married
Sarah Bedell, who proved q helpmate.
rather than merely n help-eat. He was
now "a years old. when he bought IL lit
tie grocery store on a by-road far out
in the suburbs of New York. Cooper
Union, founded by him for the instruc-
ton OF the Industrial classes, has a corr
ner store laid where the old hitching
post used to be before the little store.
With one room back of the store. and
three little rooms upstairs, he took his
plain and honest bride, Who like her
husband never drew back from hard
work. She took care of the store when
he was out purchasing, and to her
economy and industry as we'll as to
Peter Cooper is the nation indebted for
Cooper Union
Among other things he sold In his
store was glue. His customers COM
planned and he had to take it back. He
questioned the manufactures, who said:
Il built the factory for my son. but i
don't think he or I can make 1t pay.
Besides we can't make it any better.
There isn't a cent in the glue business
anyhow. But you are the man to make
1t 60" Peter argued: FLU is an ar
ticle the people need, the a who
makes it the best and cheapest will be
sure of trade. The price demanded was
$4,000. He had just that amount. He
knew nothing of glue, hut he knew that
lne american article was worthless as
compared with that imported from
Russia. He made the business pay
100000 Il year-running for 20 years
without clerk, ~bookkeeper. salesman or
agent. All forenoon he attended to the
boiling of glue. at noon he made the
rounds of the city to Sell his glue, and
in the evening he posted his books and
read to his wife and children. Ever
on the alert for improvements he made
an automatic cradle for his first baby,
with a music box attachment. so that
the mother was saved rocking, saved
singing and saved time.
At 60 he had over $1,000 above the
capital in his various enterprises, and
III the site of his DC grocery he built
Cooper Union. at a COS OF 500, 900 and
later endowed it with $2,0 900 more,
all clean dollars, and since that day
upwards of 100, 900 young people have
fitted themselves therein for lives of
usefulness.
He is gone then! The good old man
is gone. We shall never see his snowy
locks again. nor the placid countenance,
nor his old horse and gig jogging by.
Peter Cooper is dead" These words
Of a neighbor expressed the feelings of
all the people OF New York city when
he passed on April 4. 1888. 80 years old.
n of the highest examples of legiti-
] mate SucceSH.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11

N"NA -
came necessary that he should go to
work. and that the family should move
from his birthplace to Detroit. He had
scarcely eight weeks of schooling alto
gether. but he had a great. thirst for
knowledge. He read books of chem
istry and before he was 10 years of age
he had read all the important volumes
in the Detroit library. At this age he
lost his mother. who had aiken great
interest in his self-culture, and about
this time he became Il newSbOy on the
Grand Trunk railroad. a business which
while. it enabled him to carr money
gave him a chance to see many books
and papers. He kept up his interest in
chemistry and fitted up a small timer
ant laboratory in an empty car. One
LAY performing some experiment. the
train. rounded a curve and the explod-
ing chemicals set fire to the ca and
put the train in danger. The conductor,
whose patience had so long been tried,
elected young Edison with a resounding
box upon the ear.
A little later he got a lot of small
Type, and a small sheet, 1.-The Grand
Trunk Herald" made it's appearance on
The train. Now that station master Of
Tered to teach the boy telegraphy, and
nights for months, when the long days
work was owe he returned to his
lends station and took his lesson.
Learning rapidly he soon found en-
Iloy,nent as an operator, working his
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Buildings Intended to Deceive.
From the Wide World Magazine

N'' WE ~
A curious variety of 'freak" strl C.
ings deliberately Intended to deceive
AylcsburN. is - typical specimen of
these %pinchbeck fabrics. Al IL distance.
and even from the road. il iooksi like II
l~lediaeval stronghold. but at close
quarters the ~largcness of its windows
and the thinncss of it's walls betray it's
youth. 1t is actually no castle, but Il
mere lodge erected by n former owner
of the estate on which it stands.
An lltorG freak, known locally as
the castle seems to be of the same
class; but in truth it has a much more
curious history. Its creator vas Sir
Charles Raymond. who, conceiving the
idea of erecting Il mausoleum for him
self and his family. raised this building
for use as uch Beneath it he pro-
Niued extensive catacOmbS, then above
them II chapel In which the burial serv-
ice was to be read ON occasion. and
above that again u room for the ac-
communication of ln%Ourners. But Sir
Charles. like man another builder.
reckoned without the other party; for
the bishop refused to- consecrata the
structure. which i'll could
not be used for the purpose for which
it was intended. 1t is now tenanted
3nu ICTInS one Oh lIc HlOSI CURIOUS
dwelling houses In the United King
dom, since, despite it's size, 1t contains
only four habitable rooms. Il we'll liked
spiral Staircase, which leds from the
cha pei to the roof. taking up much of
the space.
Akin to such manifestations of the
craze for building are structures which
are mate witnesses of the vanity OF
human wishes. The most remarkable.
perhaps, OF these melancholy memorials
is the chief lion of Carshalton. Bent
on building Il great mansion. Sir Will
lam Scawen, IL wealthy london mer-
chant. first concentrated his attention
on the entrance. and set up a fine gate
way OF wrought iron. thanked with
sculptures by Catalini. the whole 24O
feet in width. Before nc could proceed
any farther. however, he failed in bus
mess. With the result that the begin
ming of the proposed mansion was also
the end. The great gateway. notwith-
standing that it has stood for many
decades, was valued by experts some
time back at So. 900. and when offered
for sale by auction three or four years
ago. with the land attached (worth. it
was estimated. $3,65O), was bought in"
at $500. Splendid, indeed. would have
been "A mansion in keeping with IL gate
way worth SO large an amount, even
| now.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Wanted Sun Vat Sens Head.

Some of my friends were always anx-
ious about my safety. writes Sun Vat
Sen in the April Strand. but as to my
self-perhaps as a remnant of Chinese
~fatalism-these things give me little
trouble. When my time comes 1t
will come. At Marking a man once
ak into my cabin on board q junk
in the carly morning.
SUM-" he said. II am a poor man and
l have a wife and many children"
II understand. You mean that some
one has offered you 500 to betray me?"
More than that" he said.
"A thousand. then?'
Five thousand. Sun. You are only
n man, Sun, and Tszehi can have the
lives OF many. She hates you and will
have your head cut off. and then 1t will
be no good to anybody. If you give
and happy"
Very true" 1 said. MY head is
worth nothing to me, but it is worth
Il great deal to you? For IL you be-
trayec me the mandarins would not
only take all the money away from
you but your children would go ON be-
ing poor for thousands of years. and
millions of other children. Listen. jim.
l belong to you, and therefore my head
is your head. Would you take 5000
for our own head? But go and tell
our chief that ] am aboard this junk.
/ shall not STIR"
He fell at my feet and begged my
pardon. But I was sorry to near next
day that this man had drowned him-
self. because he said he could not en-
dure the disgrace Of having thought oc
~iving me up to my enemies.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Arnold Bennett On q Fashion Paper.

Arnold Bennett On . Fashion Paper.
In the Woman's Home Companion
there is an interesting article about
Arnold Bennett. who. at 45 ear OF age.
las written 20 books and q contract
ed for many others up to 1914. In the
course of the article the author, jean
nette l.. Glider, reproduces Mr.. Ben
Nett's. own account Of his experiences
as assistant editor of q fashion paper
In London:
There was no discipline and no need
OF discipline, since the indoor stan con-
sisted only Of the editor. myself, and
the editors lady secretary. The con-
trast between this and the exact ritual
Of a lawyers Office was marked and
delightful. From time to time well
dressed and alert women called to cor
rect proofs. to submit drawings to
scatter xcuses This was 'Evadne.'
who wrote about the toilet: that was
.Angelique.' who did the cookery; the
other was Enid the well known FASH
ion artist. In each case I was, Of course.
introduced as the assistant editor: they
we're adorable. without exception.
1.-THE doings of the afternoon. how
ever. bore closer resemblance to my mo-
ton Of journalism. That day hap
pened to be press day. and I perceived
that we gradually became very busy.
Messenger boys waited while I wrote
paragraphs to accompany portraits, or
while I r~egularized the syntax OF 9
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Success Under Difficulties
Thomas A. Edison-From Newsboy to the Worlds Great
est Inventor.
az MADISON c. PETERS.
az MADISON c. PETERS.

way up until ne had one of the most
important positions in the country, in
Boston.
He always managed TO keep up his
experiments in chemistry. sometimes to
the dissatisfaction Of his employers.
but in Boston his experiments brought
him more money han his position.
Though he succeeded finally he failed
for a time with his double telegraph
and was down hearted.
Among his chief works are the per-
fccting of Il serviceable electric light,
the ~quadruplex telegraph. by mean of
which four messages can De sent ut
the same time owe the anne wire, in
opposite directions, his electric pen for
multiplying copies of letters or draw
ings and h monograph. Speaking OF
this latter invention. Edison n G said:
telephone, when the vibrations of my
voice caused a fine steel to pierce one
OF my fingers held just behind it. That
set me to thinking. If I would record
the motion Of the point and send it
over. the same surface. a~fterward, L
saw no reason why the thing would not
talk. l determined to make a machine
that would work accurately. The
photograph is the result of the prick
ing of a finger" Perhaps with no 9TH
er invention did Edison have as much
difficulty as with his repeated efforts
to make he photograph reproduce an
aspirated sound. For IA long time 1t re-
fused to say Special" it dropped tho
IS and said "pecia." To produce that
single sound he needed something deli
cate enough to receive impressions not
more han u millionth part of an inch
in depth and yet rigid enough to carry
the needle up and down exactly re-
producing the vibrations which had
made h impressions. The scientists
told him there was no such substance
in existence. Then we must produce
it, said Edison. They declared that
1t could not be lone because the quail
tiles which he demanded are incon-
sistent and exclusive of each other. He
said: prom IS to 90 hours Il day for
the last seven months l nave worked
on this single word Special but the
instrument responds "pecia. pecia.
pecia;" it was enough to drive one mad.
But I held firm and i have succeeded"
Edison's road to distinction is paved
With years OF self-denial, enthusiasm
hard work.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
CONFESSED MURDERER'S
"VICTIM~ FOUND ALIVE

appeared ard had his identity clearly
established by dozens o.; reliable wit
nesses. Both principals are preachers.
The Rev. Ernest Lyons confessed to
the murder OF the Rev. James Larry
Smith. the man who tonight apparently
who had sent the Rev. Mr.. Lyons to
prison. The reason for the confession
was disclosed by the county clerk,
George +. Bunting. who was a neigh
Dor OF Lyons at Reid's Ferry and knew
him we'll. Lyons did not confess until
after his conviction. He told Mr..
Bunting before being taken to prison
that his confession was a fabrication,
but that he made 1t in a spirit of re-
venge, acknowledging falsely that he
had killed Smith. but duplicating 9TH
ers whom he accused Of trying to
swear away his life.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Selection Of Focdstufs..

The daily diet Of the average family
could be greatly improved IL the house,
keeper had q working knowledge of the
foods high in protein. The use of the pro-
tein foods should be considered first be-
cause they are the most essential to the
building up Of the body and also because
they are the most expensive. The foods
high in protein are: Meats. cheese. eggs,
nuts. dried peas. beans and lentils. The
problem then is to use these foods from
day to day and from meal to meal in such
q way as to furnish the required amount
Of protein and at the same time serve In
e~xpenstxe mealA
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11

recipe of sole a la Normandie, or while
I ornamented two naked lines from the
Morning Post with four lines OF en-
broidery. The editor was enchanted
with my social paragraphs: he said I
was born to 1t: and perhaps 1 was. I
innocently asked in what part Of the
paper they were to shine.
"'Gwendolin's column he replied.
Who Is Gwendolin?' I demanded.
Weeks before I had admired Gwendo-
Inns breadth of view and worldly grasp
of things. qualities rare in women
"'You are he said. and I am. It's
only an Office signature
"Now that was what I call Journal
ism."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
PETER COOPER, FROM COACHMAKER TO FOUNDER OF
THE GREAT Free SCHOOL FOR Chill DREN.

Peter Cooper was born in New York,
February II. 1891. His father was a
halter n the boy learned to make
good beaver hats of skins bought from
John Jacob Astor. His father gave
him $40 when he set out to look for
work. He invested the whole sun in a
lottery ticket and drew Il blank. He
was penniless, homeless and hungry.
He never bet CT syambled after that
day. His loss was his gain. He always
thereafter kepr aloof from hazardous
investments. He offered to work for
his board and was often refused For
!unately he entered Woodward's car
rjage shop and was accepted as an APP
s:eiving $25 a year and board. During
this time he made Il machine for NOR
Using hubs, which proved very profit
able to his employer.
Denied the opportunity for an educa-
ton, he sought I'm vain for a night
school where he might study. He said
then: If 1 ever prosper In business so
as to acquire more property h I
need, l will try to found an institution
in New York where apprentice boys
and u mechanics shall have q
chance to get knowledge in the we
ming"
The war Of 1912 killed the carriage
business, just as he finished his APP
premiership, Duu there was a sharp
demand for cloth and machinery for its
hssAs " AlA0
chine for cutting the nap on cloth. The
ma was greater than the supply.
When peace followed the war, foreign
goods poured In, IN the demand for
Peters machines ceased. ct is not
generally known. that he built after his
own designs. the first locomotive en-
CINE constructed on this continent.
1900
He next tried cabinet making and
failed. He worked in a wooden mill at
Hampstead. building and repairing the
rude machinery. He was always
studying the needs of the people M
the wants Of the laborers who worked
in the mill and as a result of his study
he invented an improved shearing ma
chine, on which he received a royalty
of $3.50 a year, above his wages.
When he had $500 laid up he deter
mined to see the old folks. Peter was
on h way to riches. but his father
was in debt. as usual. In his goodness
nf his heart he turned over the whole
$500, to clear off some troublesome ac-
counts. He returned to his work
poor but happy-if a man can be poor
when he Is happy. He kept On Inn
proving machinery n saved his
money. Nj demands for woolens de-
Ginning he quit the mill.
People must eat, there is always q
good demand for nutritious food at
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
in Prison Three Years
for Crime, When His Sup
posed Enemy Appears.
HAD ACTED FOR REVENGE

Suffolk. Va. Special: The %fallibility
Of courts. the u~nreliability Of circum-
stantial evidence and the d%epravity Of
perjured witnesses all figure with ne
Suliar force In a our drama which had
its denOuement here.
A man for whose murder another
man already has served three years in
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Thomas A. Edison

Thomas A. Edison
the most remark
able inventor who
ever lived and who
more than any 9TH
er man is respon-
b for the indus
trial regeneration
of this country,
was born in Milan,
Erie county, Ohio,
February IL, 1S47.
He comes of Dutch
~parentage, the FAM
lily having come to
America in 1880.
HIS g~reatgrand-
father was a bank
er of nigh standing
in New York.
When Edison was
seven years old the
family fortune suf-
fered reverses so
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
PROGRESS.

From the Chicago Reco1d-Hcrald.
Mabel, you're wasting your time
with that young Mr.. Poonkley. l don't
think he has my idea of becoming Sc
rious."
"Oh. mother, you're mistaken. He
told me last night that his hat was
in the ring. All I've got to do now
is show him that somebody else wants
me-"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11

structlon of all kinds. free amusement
centers, free transportation. ;lnd us. il
To eliminate the last chance OF WORRY.
assures every worker that if he be
comes i'll. there will he the best :,c-
communication provided for him nj the
government hospitals, with wage con-
llhueu. no matter how long the illness.
II :ll care attendance absolutely
free. This removes THAI %uorrodiny fear
tilal centerS. tn which Many scientists
NOW attribute a large percentage of
disease with its consequent poverty and
distress.
The above is II partial enumeration
only of the advantage of working for
Uncle Sam i'm this new tropical outpost.
And last but not least. the destruction
and elimination OF pests. i'm which lat
ter task the medical corps have UNI
doubtcdly rendered efficient service.
Here we have the situation in it's
shows II death rate lower than that of
most of II American cities. and the
doctors claim the credit ignoring the
fact that the population is made up OF
the finest physical types. mostly young
men of athletic habits or men i'm the
prime of life-ncver old men or invalids
and that these are placed in an en-
%vironincnt as clean and inviting as UNI
limited resources and the most modern
appliances can make it, to medicine for
sooth belongs the glory.
The preposterousncss of such Il claim
stands almost without ~ parallel.
Health in the canal o is both logical
and inevitable. but il pills or v~accines
are tn be included in the problem, they
u be looked for elsewhere than
among the assets.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
Was Yard Long and Foot Wide
Patient Now Suing Her
Former Physician.
REMAINED FIVE WEEKS

New York. Special: a towel. "a yard
long and q foot wide, With Il red Dor
der. was accidentally ssNed up inside
Mrs. Mollie Myers when she WAS oper-
ated on in st. Nincent's hospital in
November. 1906. according 10 an afi-
ttaVlt filed With the supreme court by
DIR. Benjamin Friedman. formerly Of
this city. now living in Hungary. Mrs.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11
TOWEL LEFT IN WOMAN
DURING AN

Myers old DIR. Herman j. Boldt, of
30 East SiXtN-first street. rcslon-
sible n has sued him for damages.
Or. Friedman asserts that when he
recovered the towel. after 1t had re-
manned five weeks inside Mrs. MYERS,
it bore the label. Isl. Nincent's hos
pital."
"A few days later" alleges DIR. Fried
man, II mel DIR. iSoldt. who old me
that he had sent the towel to the New
York County Medical association SIS q
curiosity. Indicating the great vitality
of the patient. Mrs. Myers told me
she was going tn sue DIR. Eoldt. and j
told him of this. He said he was in
sured against sue accidents and that
he did not care. as such am accident
could not hurt his reputation. He add
at the time that he might have
left the towel in Mrs. Myers body"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-11

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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
Extensive Tree,

We do not think much of trees in
the United States, and let several nil nil
hon acres of them burn yittnout get
tiGg excited, but in England small for
ests, ant even individual trees, are
maintained at great expense. If there
is not actually an outlay of money,
the trees occupy land that could other
wise be profitably employed.
Probably the most noteworthy tree
in the world, so far as expensiveness
is concerned, is plane tree which
grows in Wood street, in the city of
London. This tree occupies a lot
which would bring in ground-rent to
the amount of $1,000 per annum. 1t
says much for the nature-loving quail
ties, and, incidentally, for the fortune,
of the owner of that lot that the
ancient tree fourishes safely year
after year.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
MADE SOME GRAVE BLUNDERs
Embedding Banker Admits He Over
looked Missionary Fund and Prop
erty Of Orphan Child.

The embezzling bankers friends
were congratulating him.
How in the world did you keep it up
so long without being discoyered?"
they asked, breathlessly.
"My friends" came an anguished
voice from the other side Of the bars,
~ am unworthy of this laudation. |
have been guilty of grave tactical
blunders. l failed to have myself
elected Sunday school superintendent,
and | did not show myself at prayer
meeting more than once a month.
could have landed $500 missionary
fund, but heedlessly allowed 1t to
slip through my fingers and go to an
other.
Besides, might have become the
guardian of SOME poor, dead million
aires child. l am ill-deserving of your
well-meant, but misdirected, praise,
My work has been coarse and anna.
flourish, indeed, or / could be free this
evening to join you in our tri-weekly
poker,fest Woe, woe is mel"
And they left him weeping bitterly
H. M. Silvers, in The Sunday Maya
zine.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-01-26
WARM REBUKE FOR SARCASM
Western Senator Who Made Many En-
emies Was Given Good Advice by
Friend.

For many years there served in the
United States senate, from the west,
a man of brilliant mind and fine quail
ties, but who was forever estranging
many with whom he desired to be
friendly by reason of his incurably sar-
castle manner both of speech and &C.
ton.
Once an intimate friend wrote the
senator urging the appointment of an
other friend to a minor position in the
government. The senator returned a
most sarcastic reply, declining to rec
olnmend the appointment. 1t is said
that he never forgot the merited re-
buke he received from the friend who
had suggested the appointment.
my Dear Senator: think 1t would
be well for you to reserve your sar-
casm for the rapidly increasing num-
Der of your enemies, instead Of offer
ing it to the decreasing number of
your friends, of whom l am one"