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to 9 P.M., and making from $10.00 to $12.00 a day might satisfy the boy's cravings. But contentment wasn't one of Al Edison's numerous virtues. "He did not know it, but he was following the footsteps of that other great American inventor, Benjamin Franklin, as a printer, editor, proprietor and publisher. In one of the stores where he stocked up with dj soft download books, magazines and stationery for his train, there was an old printing press which the dealer, Mr. Roys once told the little story of that press: "'Young Edison, who was a good boy and a dj soft download favorite of mine, bought goods of me and had the run of the store. He saw the press, and I suppose he thought at once that he would publish a paper himself, for he could catch onto a new idea like lightning. He got me to show him how it worked, and finally bought it for a small dj soft download sum.' "From his printer friends on the _Free Press_ he bought some old type. Watching the compositors at work, he learned to set type and make up the forms, so within two weeks after purchasing dj soft download the press he brought out the first number of _The Weekly Herald_--the first paper ever written, set up, proof-read, printed, published and sold (besides all his other work) on a local train--and this by a dj soft download boy of fourteen! "Of course, it had to be a sort dj soft download of local paper, giving train and station gossip with sage remarks and 'dj soft download preachments' from the boy's standpoint. It sold for three cents dj soft download a copy, or eight cents a month to regular customers. Its biggest 'sworn circulation' was 700 copies, of which about 500 were _bona fide_ subscriptions, and the rest 'news-stand sales.' "The great English engineer, Robert Stephenson, grandson of the inventor and improver of the locomotive, is said to have ordered a thousand copies to be distributed on railways all over the world to show what an American newsboy could do. "Even the _London Times_, known for generations as '_The Thunderer_,' and long considered the greatest newspaper in both hemispheres, quoted from _The Weekly Herald_, as the only paper of its kind in the world. Young Edison's news venture was a financial success, for it added $45.00 a month to his already large income. "But _Paul Pry_ dj soft download came to grief because he tried to be funny in disclosing the dj soft download secret motives of certain persons. In a local paper, too, some one's feelin's are likely to get 'lacerated!' This was the case with a six-foot subscriber to the paper which was published then under Al Edison's pen name of 'Paul Pry.' One day the juvenile editor happened to meet his huge and wrathy reader too near the St. Whereupon the subscriber took the editor by his collar and waistband and heaved him, neck and crop, into the river. Edison swam to shore, wet, but otherwise undisturbed, discontinued the publication of _Paul Pry_, and bade good-by to journalism forever! "While young Edison was wading through such mammoth works as Sears's _History of the dj soft download World_, Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_, and the _Dictionary of Sciences_ (and had begun to wrestle desperately with Newton's _Principia_!) he was showing a rare passion for chemistry. His mother said she counted, at one time, no less than two hundred bottles of chemicals, all shrewdly marked POISON, so that no one but himself would dare to dj soft download touch them. Before long the lad took up so much room in dj soft download his mother's cellar with his 'mess,' as she called it, that she told him to take it out, 'bag and baggage.' "He dj soft download once stated that his great desire to make money was largely because he needed the cash to buy materials for experiments. Therefore, in this emergency, he took keen pleasure in buying all the chemicals, appliances dj soft download and apparatus he wished, and installing them in his real 'bag and dj soft download baggage' car. As the railroad authorities had allowed him to set dj soft download up a printing press, in addition to his miscellaneous stock in trade, dj soft download why should he not have his laboratory there also? So his stock of batteries, chemicals and other 'calamity' grew apace.

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It broke, flamed up, set fire to the floor and endangered the whole train.