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Show FATE. f '$M There is a latent force, lying dormant in the jf fl soul of every individual, which, under extraordi- I' 'Wu nary influences, springs into life and becomes a Mj i 9fl powerful factor for good or evil. ' lit f The plow boy plods his weary way through r. M upturned furrows in the benumbing routine of i iH farm labor. A gun is fired on his beloved coun- !'M try's flag, and the slumbering forces of patriotism jjji awaken, the reins are dropped, the ploughshare ll'I'lH abandoned and the soldier-patriot leaps to the if "III front and carves his way to the heights of immor- If fH tal fame on the field of glory. fi 'B The Indolent student drones over mazes of xy's 1& jflB plus ab's, when there bursts through the narrow 8Mb vista of his maunderings the call to duty from the HH fever-stricken land of the magnolia blossoms, and B?lfiH a martyr's name is emblazoned on the deathless Sffiiiifli tablet of those who loved their fellow-men. KpjQI The footsore tramp, despondent and shunned, UfmwM !H 1 ,4 1 sits by the roadside, lazily watching a group of jn IIS J I merry school children trooping by. Wild-eyed and Blfli 1 fith froth streaming from bloody jaws, a mad wfjiflj I dog comes snapping in frenzied rage down the iJ, dusty path, straight toward the group of helpless "Jk t ! little ones. A hero in rags is born into stalwart , 4 1 1 life and closes in a life and death 'struggle with 11 h j, the rabid brute. BJ;J! This wonderful, intangible power which may 1 -if ' exist unsuspected in men's lives, from the cradle Hp,; 1 1 1 , to the grave, is an element which the wisest teach- flfeisi ings, the most careful planning, the most guarded HnpfHll training cannot annihilate, and is perhaps the UHi 111! most effective argument which can be advanced in Hi I tj j proof of the infallibility of Kismet. |