Show 9 9 I Daniel D Defoe foe j jo o By THOMAS B B. B GREGORY Daniel Defoe th the little headed nosed hook-nosed man who wrote Robinson Crusoe was as born in Lond London Lon Lon- d don dOh h i in 1661 His Ilis is father was a butcher named Foe The not liking the name changed it to Defoe it will remain until the end of time th The man man who vho was t to make so many people happy was was- himself the tho victim of as wry-faced wry a fate tate as ever hounded a fellow through this world Success was a dream that was always leading this man on but ut it never allowed him to to catch up Defoe's es e's original desire was to o b be be- bea a minister but after a careful study of divinity he ho declared If a a. aman man nan of t brains and honesty becomes a clergyman he heis hes heI is s liable i ble so sooner ner or 01 later tl to find himself one of at two a things a hypocrite or a martyr Not wishing to be become ome either Defoe turned from the Prince of Peace to the God Cod of War Val but the bubble reputation he would seek even in the cannons cannon's mouth soon petered out and the would-be would soldier went into the business IP of I buying and selling hosiery After seven years he found foun himself in the hands of at a receiver and to es escal escape escape es- es cal cape e the maddened creditors ran away Taking to the high seas seas th tho bankrupt became a merchant adventurer half trader and half pirate Later Lafer 01 or on Defoe returned to terra firma and went Into nto the brick and tile business hut but again the devil was sitting legged cross for him and he failed to the ext extent nt of his last shilling Then rhen ho lie tried his pen and soon found himself UP IP ip to his neck in trouble Pitching into the high church party which had the civil authorities on its side Defoe was arrested and convicted of blasphemy His cars were cut ut of off he he- was fined and pilloried and then then hen thrown into Newgate prison where ho he remained two wo years Before getting 1 out of prison Defoe took to o writing fiction If it was as not safe to write about those hose substantial gentlemen of the Church of England En- En gland ho might at least without danger danser tackle the inhabitants of dreamland For a long time however the thc indefatigable scribe failed ailed to strike pay dirt Of verse and prose pros he turned out volume after volume but there was nothing noth- noth ing ng in it for him either of fame or money and his best jest friends did cUd not hesitate to say that he was down and out And now for the tho first time Defoe turned his th thoughts within began to think of at his own life of the battles lie lio had had and how he had always been forced to fight his battle alone and alone and th the outcome of at the reflection tion was Robinson Crusoe the the solitary fisl Tighter e cut off from froni all ll help save such as he was able to find in his own strong arm and courageous soul In a a. avord vord word Robinson Crusoe is Daniel Defoe Defoe- the story of the lone hand that Defoe played against all the world world- Defoe was nearly 60 years old when he struck off the book bool that was to bring brins him one of ot the gr greatest I successes in the history of literature establish his Immortality and furnis for the youth of humanity In all lands and ages ages' the delight that is to b be found In to no other book hook eyer written |