The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-22

laton. its position is one OF comparative safety
1t carries in cold storage enough food to support
1t for weeks.
And yet Charles Teller died of starvation!
France was responsible for Teller. but every ma
tion his debtor He was born in Amiens
More than 40 years ago. after being released from
a debtors prison. he perfected system for the
preservation OF meats, vegetables and fruits.
Thirty-seven years ago a ship equipped with his
cold storage appliance was at sea for more than
100 days and brought it's cargo of meat into port
as fresh as the day 1t was put aboard.
Some inventors are careless Many OF them
lack business ability Telliers ideas were appro-
priated by clever men who thought only OF using
them to their own advantage without feeling any
sense of obligation to the inventor. Some of them
laughed or scoffed at him when he protested that
they were robbing him of his rights.
Sensitive and proud he tried to hide his bitter
ness and sought solace in working on other great
inventions for the good Of mankind. II takes
money to prosecute studies and experiments. and
Teller had little of it. One day some one re-
preached the French government for Its neglect
of Teller who was in dire want The government
acted promptly. Il gave the ribbon of the Legion
OF Honor to him. This fine thing to do for
an old man. nearly all OF whose clothes and furnf
ture in pawn.
The news of Telliers death last month stirred
all France. The people may have neglected Tel
lier alive but they honored him dead. His funeral
was a national event Great men delivered eulo-
monument to him as OF It's greatest sons. he
has monuments In the shape OF industrial plants
and ships the world over
About the same time that Teller dying
Rudolf Diesel. one Of the greatest inventors Ger
many has produced fell or cast himself from the
deck of a ship on which he was passenger. He
was a broken-hearted bankrupt genius without
business serse. His engine Ia In use in every
quarter Of the globe. Next to Watt he IL ranked
by some as the greatest figure in the development
1 all fha md hQ IA he ad
| ment of science and industry his reward was
small indeed HArassed by creditors by his ur-
gent needs, his life had been one of misery for
/ years
The tragedy of great inventors is not confined
4 10 France Germany. The United states has
l more cases perhaps than Europe. Il Is seldom
that genius is able to protect himself in world
" way Il is-only after he is dead that The world
/ begins to appreciate his full worth. Sometimes
/ even that Is lacking.
without the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin photogra
phy would not have been developed 70 the extent
/ Il is today without him IL is doubtful II there
would be motion pictures today, yet IL Is CUES
/ ton whether any OF the great producers Of the
l photo play who have made millions upon millions
OF dollars In the last ten years one person out
/ Of ten thousand of those who so to see the
| movies" know OF Hannibal Goodwin and his
/ work
/ The Rev Mr. Goodwin was pastor OF a little
/ church In Newark. His pay was small. barely
/ enough TO support his family. He was n great big
/ kindly man Nature Intended him for a scientist
/ Conditions made bin a clergyman. He looked
after his little flock. visited the sick and helped