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Show fMETHING TO I mgVK ABOUT i 1 By F. A. WALKER iL iiiTTniTTinTiniiiiiliiiiii!""''""''''"""'111111"1111111 IMAGINATION I SAT the other day In tho studio of a great artist and watched him as he mado ready to begin a picture. As he placed the canvas upon the easel I asked him what ho wus to paint. The answer that he mado to me wus so vivid ond so strikingly told thnt I al-nost seemed to sec upon the blank canvas tho finished work. Hut I knew what I saw wns only a dim counterpart of tho thing thnt he saw, for In his Imagination tho whole plcturo wns as plain In Its form and as distinct In Its colors. In Its then mental existence, as It was later to bo to thousands of admiring eyes. This world would be n sad and desolate place without Imagination. Art would falter ond science would dry up nnd blow away. Imagination Is the real mother of accomplishment. If the boy did not vision tho man, did not Imnglno himself as he will bo when he grows up, all tho great Incentives of youth would vanish and all Its endeavor disappear. Nothing Is so exhilarating a spur to endeavor as the Imagination of Iwhat will result from effort. . . . It Is tho Imaginings of what money will buy for us In necessities, comforts com-forts nnd luxuries that keep us keeu-ly keeu-ly nt Its earning and conscientiously nt Its saving. It Is the Imagining of what may be the result that keeps the chemist In his loborntpry through night hours or tho student at his books when nature na-ture would send him to bed. Imagination helps us to live and It not Infrequently causes us to die. A felon In nn English prison, who had been sentenced to douth, was made the subject of an experiment which showed tho power of Imagined suffering. lie was blindfolded und It was explained ex-plained to him that In the plnce of the usual form of executlou ho was to be bled to death. ills arm was bared and ncross the large vein on the Inside of the elbow Joint was drawn, but without ranking rank-ing any wound, the edge of n knife, Immediately thcro was caused to flow down his arm a stream of blood-warm water. Attendants counted bis pulso and cnrrlcd on n whispered conversation nbout the evidences of fnlllng vitality. vital-ity. Slowly tho man grew weaker, his flesh lost Its color, and about the time thnt a man would havo bled to death from such n wound actually filleted, the prisoner died from pure Irmglnntlon. Half our Ills are no more substantial substan-tial thnu wns the cut In tho prisoner's prison-er's nrm. but we. llko him, Buffer through our Imaginations nil the pains of reality. "Imnglnntlon," t,ald Napoleon, "rules the world." Imagination ruled Napoleon. Ho lived on tho vision of himself ns conqueror of Europe. Ho Imagined his battles long before be-fore the first gun of conflict sounded, nnd though he dwelt on victory ho saw In his Imnglnntlon Waterloo as plainly ns Mnrengo or Austcrlltz. Swifter than light tho Imagination travels In nn Instant of Urao to the outermost star of our universe and returns as quickly as It went It dellcs tlmo nnd annihilates space. It disregards probability and overlooks over-looks all laws. It has pioneered every progress thnt man has made sfneo tho world began nnd multiplied his hnpplness nnd his Ills alike. It Is one function which man possesses pos-sesses which ho docs not sharo with forms of life lower than himself. Thcro are many nnlmnla who glvo proof of hnvlng tho power of thought, even of reason. Thero Is not ono thnt has ever shown tho slightest evidence of being be-ing able to imagine anything outsldo of something it has already experienced. experi-enced. Do you cultivate your Imnglnntlon? Do you guide It nlong right nnd useful use-ful lines and direct it into result-getting result-getting endenvors? If you do not you nro wasting n power thnt God bestowed on you when He snld, "Let them (man) huve dominion over nil tho earth." Imagination will help you to have thnt dominion If you use It rightly. It will help the weakest thing in nil the earth to have dominion over you If you use It wrongly. Ilasc your Imaginings on truth, give them n foundation of fact nnd they will prove useful nnd fruitful, profitable and worth while. (Copyright.) O Country's Oil Refineries. Today there are more than 400 oil refineries In the United States, with nn oggregato dally capacity of nearly 2,000,000 barrels. Texas lends nil the states with more than seventy plnnts completed. Oklahoma Is second and Pennsylvania third. |