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d li K '1' a! II k d a fTW THE RaLEIGH EVEN KMSON'S CiltRAT SERVICE get $5,000. I dreamed of what I could do with big money like that, of the tools and other things I could buy to work 'but inventions. But I knew Wall Street to be a pretty bad place, and had a general suspicion thrft a man was apt to get leat out .of his money there. So I tried to keep my hopes down; but the thought of.. 'f 5,000 kept rising in my mind. "Well, one day I was sent for by the president of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company to talk ahout a settlement for my improvements. He was Gen. Marshall Lefferts, colo nel of the Seventh Regiment. I tell you,.! was trembling all over with embarrassment, and when I got in Has Helped To Make This Nation's Prosperity. , Turning from the sweep and gut ter of American prosperity to the men who hav made it possible, one thinks of Thomas Alva Edison. Hi Is "the honest life, the useful life, the friendly life," that, deserves earnest attention in this astonishing year of moral incendarism. "We are groping on the verge of another great epoch in the world's history," he said to me not long ago. "It would not surprise me any " morning to wake up and learn that some dne, or some group, of the " 300,000 scientiiic men who are in vestigating all over the earth has his presence my vision of $5,000 be seized the secret of electricity by di rect process, and begun another practical revolution of human af fairs. It can be done.. It will be done. I expect to see it before I die. I expect to see airships flying before my death. Such a discovery will make it possible to drive ships across the sea by electricity at a rate of 40 or 50 miles an hour three days across the Atlantic from shore to hore. "I worked as a Western Union operator In ' Detroit, Memphis, Louis ville and Loston," said Mr. Edison, "and all the time 1 studied and ex perimented with electricity. The first serious thing I invented was an elec trical machine to count votes in con gress, i unit neon nanming press reports as an operator, and I no ticed it took a long time to count the votes after each roll call. My machine would show the total vote a few seconds after the roll call. I thought the device was a good one, and I think so now. But when 1 went to Washington and showed it to the chairman of the committee, he said, 'Voting man, that works all right, but it's the last thing on earth we want here. Filibustering and a delay in the count of the vote are often the only means we have for defeating bad legislation.' I was sorry; but I ought to have thought of that before. My next practical invention was the quadruplex tele graph. 1 started in to work It on the Atlantic and Pacific telegraph line between Rochester and New York. But, there was a chump at the other end of the wire and the demonstration ended in a fizzle. It was years before the quadruplex was adopted. . . . Then I joined hands with a man named Callahan, and we got up several improved types of stock-tickers. These improve ments were a success. When the day of settlement for my inventions approached I began to wonder how much money I would get. I was pretty raw and knew nothing about business, but I hoped that I might free press She cannot unite or har- monize her forces But when we want to do anything in America the newspapers take it up. Everybody reads the newspapers, everybody knows the situation, and we all act Jtogethqr." James Creelman in Pehrson's Magazine. gan to vanish. When he asked me how much I wanted I was afraid to speak. 1 feared that if I mentioned $5,000 I might get nothing at all. That was one of the most painful and exciting moments of my life. My, how t beat my brains to know what to ray! Finally, I said, "Sup pose you make me an offer!' "By that time I was scared. I was more than scared. 1 was para lyzed. , " Mow would $40,000 do' asked General Lefferts. "It was nil I could do to keep my face straight and my knees from giving way. i was nrrmu he would hear my heart beat. With a great effort 1 said as calmly as I could, '! guess that'll be all right.' "With that money I opened a new shop and worked out apparatus for the Western t'nion Telegraph Com pany. My automatic telegraph. Which handled 1.000 words a min ute between New York and Wash ington, was bought out by Jay Gould and the Wetsern I'nion Com pany, it is in litigation yet. "Then the quadruplex was in stalled. 1 sold that to Jay Gould and the Western Union Company for $30,000. The next invention was the mimeograph, a copying machine. "When Hell got out his telephone the transmitter and receiver were one. Professor Orton of the West ern I'nion Company asked me to do something to make the telephone a commercial success. 1 tackled it and got up the present transmitter. The Western I'nion Company event ually made millions of dollars out of ir. I got $100,000 for it. "Looking over the whole coun try." said Mr. Edison, "I have come to the conclusion that the greatest factor in our progress has been the newspaper press. Russia is much bigger than this country in every way. She has a tremendous popula tion and immense natural resources. Yet she is 50 times slower. Why? Because she lacks the pewer of a To PmeaC Railway Wrecks. The recent English railway wreck really emphasizes the fact that disas ters of that-sort are uncommon not only in Great liritain but on the Con tinent as well. What .can be done, asks a railway engineer, writing to the Iron Trail, to avert these horrors in this country and to make travel as safe here 'as it is in other countries where fast time is made? Some say we must have better men'. No better men ever handled engines or trains than we have in America. The trouble Is, the best men are often discharged for some trivial matter and newer, youhger, less experienced men taite the places of these elder ones, and the chain is weakened in just so many more places. Some say give us b. tter equipment. The American engines and ears lead the world: there are none belter. i it hers say the train order system Is wrong that It is very weak. Voder ifie present method of operat ing single tr ick roads it is hard to get a better system. It has its faults, to be sure, but the various railroad clubs aim nam run-, com mill res are ever endeavoring 1 ., make the system mote perfect. Some say, give the men shorter hours on the road. Those who speak thus strike close to th mrk for many, many times do these wrecks occur because the overworked brain of the man on the road or iii the office responds no lon r clearly and safely, There are those who stiy, give iis a safe and sure interlocking system of signals give us a Mock system. This Is another vital question. There are these facts, though, in connection with this question which might help one in studying, the needs of n Mock system: if the great railroad companies would stop for one year the great expendi tures on straightening tiacks and low ering grades, with a view toward greater earning capacity of freight trains, and for' a year pot the amount tiny would have expended on road ways Into Installing a safe block sys tem, a great gain toward safety would fits of Teutonic 1 nave neen made. The whole cry Is "greater dividends" not safety to the traveling public Each year millions go into "tills and cuts." into ivw bridges, into new stations, but never a cent into block systems. i il iw uiiu inouun runt some roads are doing things nloiiK this lino. They will In time be the popular routes of travel. . There are two other very important things needed in connection with safe traveling, ' hi ther the block system is installed or not. ami they are: First, cut down the monster tonnage trains so they will be safe to handle. Secondly, by all means cut down the hours of these who hue to handle gjfffi fa, SATURDAY; 'AUGUST 4, 1906. v ' these heavy trains, so they will have lesa time on the road and more In which to rest. It is one thing to tell a man he should rest enough, but If he refuses and Is laid off for a time with his wages suspended well, that is another thing. A second offense would mean dismissal. Then when he would apply for a position on some other roadVhe would be turned down for insubordination for having refused to go out wh(n he was positive in his own mind that he was In no condi tion to accept thf responsibilities of another trip 'vithbut more rest. REMOVING THE TAN FROM "DENATURED" ALCOHOT Alcohol upon which tax has been paid in this country may be purchas ed by one complying with certain restrictions, varying with the local ity, and used for any purpose the purchaser sees fit. It has been well shown by Chief Chemist Wiley, of the United States Department of Ag riculture, that much of the so-called Scotch and other whiskeys are made in our country from this ''rectified snirits of wlno " Onr tnnlp has not to do with the' mat let- of prohibition eye' and he cannot show it to you. Re- Even an expert cannot distinguish by its appearance roasted Java from Bra zilian Coffee. Then how can you know that yon get your money's worth when you Duy loose grocery-store coiiee on looks and the price mark ? You don't know, and the grocer does not know, for "cup" quality is not yisible to the and the moral or physiologic side of the alcohol question or the sophistf caticm of alcoholic beverages, but is concerned with what has been incor rectly termed "duty-free alcohol," and the recent legislation enacted by the United States congress, which was advocated by many temperance people. This law. Which does not become effective until January 1, 1907, essentially allow.; t he manu facture or withdrawal of alcohol free from tax after it has been "dona- fuse loose scoop coffee! You may be sure that all coffee deteriorates when exposed to the air, and is easily contaminated by dust and impurities. You will find it to your advantage to buy from us direct if your grocer refuses to supply Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee. Yor your protection, to positively in sure you full weight, purity and the best coffee value for your money, Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee is sold in sealed one pound packages only. As the largest coffee dealers in the world, with a business ex ceeding any four other collec dealers, hired." or rondot. -il unfit for a hov- eraire. It Is of Importance, and ! we can and do give better coffee than real important; will be far-readi i eg in its effect. Mr. Mason, the United States consul-general at Berlin; has said that 'the enactment of laws covering all uses of alcohol in 1S.'7 (by Ger many) was an example of Intelligent and far-seeing fiscal legislation." The German farmers ai that time felt the effects, severely, of competi tion with the cheaper-grown cereals of the United Stale:. sr;tynflnn, and Australia. - The making "I" alcohol for technical purposes as cheaply as nossible saved to Germany the prn- handry. Particu larly was it beneficial, to those on the eastern border, where the land is poor but suitable for the growing 'commercial alcohol i made. From "Free Alcohol in the Arts and as of potatoes, frim which much of the Fuel. by Cha. s Rnskerville, Ph.D . F.C.8., in the American Monthly Re view of Reviews for August. can be bought elsewhere for anything HlP he same price in proof of which the sales of Ariosa for 37 years are greater than the combined sales of all other pack aged coffee in the United States. Wher ever you may be you get the full advan tage of our enormous facilities. By the original "mother's" process jpatented by this firm the pores of the coiiee bean are hermetically sealed, after roasting, with a coating of fresh eggs and sugar, which preserves intact the delicious flavor and aroma due to our skilled blending and roasting not to be compared with crude, primitive methods on a smaller scale. We drink Arbuckles Ariosa ourselves every day with the best coffee of the world to cnoose trom. If your grocer refdses to sell you Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee send us express or postal money-order for $1.80, and we will send 10 lbs. of Ariosa in a wood box, transportation paid to your freight sta tion. The price of coffee fluctuates we cannot guarantee the price for any period. We will ship in the original packages with signature of Arbuckle Bros. 10 lbs. 10 signatures which entitle you to presents. New book with ' colored pic tures of 97 presents free. You can write first for the book and see the pictures of the useful and beautiful presents before you order the coffee- , What is the use of paying 95 t 35 cents a poUnd for coffee that may not be as good as Arbuckles' Ariosa ! Address our nearest office, Box Dept. ARBUCKLE BROTHERS, 71 Wtter Street, New York City. 100 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, III. Liberty Avenue and Wood Street, PttUburgb, Ft, "! 411 South Seventh Street, St Louie, Mo. IF IEFUSES TO SELLS ARBUCKLES ARIOSA COFrEE VE LvWILL'SENDYOl Strange I.atcaido ileum. Tt will surprise t.aff'prtio Hearn at that a negpo womai claims reeognitieii seeks to obtain, as knew 1 hear one wh 111 well n Cincinnati now bis widow and ch, a share of the American royalties on his remarkable literary work. Hearn spent several years in the Ohio city, anil it is suffi ciently notorious that in his purely private and domestic relations he con sulted with colored persons only. NOt withstanding his extraordinary literary attainments, his profound and varied published, net the translation, but the scholarship and his brilliant, and poetic English equivalent of Theophtlc Qua intellectual equipment, Uifeadlo Hearn: tier's "Une N'uit de Cleopatra," the at a.lmiited no member of his own race j tltude of the French group was traiiij t. genuine intimacy. Among his fel- . formed from complacent indulgence to low-workers he was tin 11 engaged In 1 honest and enthusiastic w inder. The Journalism he was regarded with j whole literary and intellectual world good-will, though never with under-j realized the presence of a special and standing or affection, of his. real and 1 peculiar luminary. inner life none had the merest Inkling. Au this time. However, Hearn was In Cincinnati, as in New Orleans sub- j living in the downtown river front KPqUfntly he was' a mystery. He had j quarter of New Orleans with negroes c social life or Which any while per- not the ordinary "cornfield" type, but soa was even remotely aware. ,,0 Congo priestesses and prophet- !n New Orleans, a truly cosmopoli- j esses, as a matter of fact with no less tan city and always -TTT close touch a personage than Marie I-avaux. the with Paris, it soon became known "Voodoo Quinn." He was studying there that Hearn. whatever motives the t'onco superstitions. folk-lore, may have actuated him in 1 'inclmiati, ! songs, music and incantations. It was had a perfectly definite and more or ibis passion, the same passion which less Intelligible purpose so far as con- later took Mm to the West Indies, to corned his t hosen associations there. ! Martiniyue, to Haiti, Harhadoes, al He had attracted the attention of the j ways in a fruitless quest For he French writers of his day by trans-1 found that the ' so-called "Arlean lations of "l.oti." Maupassant, Gnuticr , music" previously elaborated by Qott and others. His facilitlous reproduce schalk, as In the "liamboula" and tiou of the essence and the. aroma of other compositions, was a mere bar the original persuaded the litterateurs baric adaptation of Spanish melodies, if Paris that a miracle had been translated by the slaves from Santo vouchsafed to mail When finally be Domingo, while the nursery eroonlngs f the old bandanna'd blacks In New I Orleans "L,e Crocodile," "Deux Can ' ai ds," etc. were mutilated French 'songs brought from Haiti to Louisiana by the refugees. That Hearn lived with the Cincinnati negress in an Intimate domestic rela . tton is easily imaginable. That he j actually w ent through the form Of a lejjal marriage his acquaintances will believe with difficulty. If throughout his career in the United States he ever paid tribute toV any convention what Soover, 1 he men who came nearest to knowing him have never heard of It. New York Sun. Whin Miss Angela Ilurdett-Coults was created a baroness by Queen Vic toria. 35 years ago, thero was not a single peeress in her own right in the llritish kingdom. tarn ALFRED HENRY LEWIS RECENTLY SAID: "I like age. Things grow better in my eyes as time claps years to their existence. I am for what is old as much as any moss or any ivy. Like that King of Aragon, give me old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine to drink, OLD FRIENDS TO TRUST." YOU CN TRUST THE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE as you would an old friend. It has served three generations of men. A long series of letters which we have published, and which is yours for the asking, attests the satisfaction of Grandfather, Father and Son with the treatment accorded them by the company. 1 AGE AN ASSET to consider when weighing the character of a financial institution; force of charac ter being cumulative. This is particularly true of corporations which deal in con tracts which are to mature in the years to come. Albion W. Smalt, Professor of So ciology in the University of Chicago, recently made this point clear. He said: "I am happy to say that my chief reason for taking a policy in jihe Mutual Benefit Life was that my father had been a policyholder in that company for thirty years, and has been thoroughly satisfied with the investment. I am not an expert in the matter, of course, but from the amount of attention that I have given to' the subject, which is not a little, I am strongly inclined to prefer a company with the traditions of the Mutual Benefit." THE COMPANIES IN LEADING STRINGS are, of necessity, capital stock companies. Under stress of competition they write participating policies, but largely of the discredited "tontine" or deferred dividend variety. In the effort to establish themselves they resort to the "Preliminary Term" device, which is proscribed in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia; to the "Advisory Board" scheme now outlawed in many states; to the dating back, of policies, for seven years, which practice is now in the courts of Indiania; include in their policies, catchy but speculative insurance features which well established and competently managed companies frown upon, and do other things which are not to their Future good. They are not, in other words, following the blazed trail through the insurance wods of the old Mutual Benefit. YOU CAN AVOID ALL TROUBLE, including that su re to arise in young CAPITAL STOCK companies whe n the holders of their PARTICIPATING policies de mand as a natural right that they be made partners (as t he policyholders of the Equitable have done), and inclu ding the great hazard of inexperience, by insuring in THE MUTUAL BENEFIT which has been finely mold ed in the crucible of experience. ii$&MMW&WSki It is a thrifty company for thrifty people. IT COUPLES THE LOWEST OF RATES with Annual Dividends and the Highest Surrender Values. Its pol icies fully meet the varying needs of the people differ ently circumstanced and promote careful economical management. WiHliSin ! THE VERDICT Of REFLECTION IS ALWAYS IN FAVOR OF ,- The Old Mutual benef it Life I ' 1 JOHN C. DREWRY, STATE AGENT, raleign, nTc. mm
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