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Show L .j (r.'.::c ) r v'- t I'"': I' z-sr--v'. i c r. t: ' I C ! i t- r dij-s i I t ! r s t ' ' J c: 1 iracter V - it t - ' i i ' I re- r t!y c-jcc: :.l J i i : ' f-.l la fc:::::a-r.''-:r. l""t f-5 I'r-flitsnce. I'r-flitsnce. lie U l-.a j'.r -.'Jve, too. as es rract'cl; aci Irfl. srvve great things It is necejjary fr a rrac-t:- l man to r'Tjess In a h';a C ;.Tee th C'-'t cf Imagination. A ccrr.sr rrocer or a kutcher-may f.a Ma local r.!-va -with- ;t t.at quality; but to organize rreat f .- 1 projt?cta or to conduct a Pres-licr.tlal Pres-licr.tlal camrft'rn ovfr. In either of th"e two cr.ea the rnan must be able to f lcture in Lis mind the result before he tries to achieve It. That Is imagination. Mark Ilanna ia a born dijlomatlstor, if cot bora .:;,rr:s.t:?t, he acquired that quality very early la life in fact, while f otnr to a primary school. One Jay fcla achoolmaater passed a sentence of thrashing upon'Llm and a chum of his for playing a miachlevous prank. Young- Mark put h3s diplomatic j wits to work to ecare the punishment, ' and succeeded. lie managred to gain time by having- tha other boy take Lis mec5icine f rat, and while ths rod was be-Ingr be-Ingr applied Le hoped to ses some way of fretting- ol?. During the ehastJsement of his chum tha latters father unexpectedly unexpected-ly entered ths schoolroom and announced that If his boy merited a whipping- he would fulfill that duty himself, and warned ths pedaog-ua to keep his hands eft. Thl started a little discussion between be-tween parent and teacher, .at the end of which the punishment of Mark ouitt slipped the memory of the schoolmaster. THIS HAZJZCi C7 A GZlHUtALb Mark had for his schoolmate no less a person than Anson O. McOook. afterward after-ward known to fame. Then was a feud between two factions of the school boys one side called the Eheep lUllers and ths other the Frog Ponders, the names originating- from the localities where the members of the belligerent parties had their homes. Nearly every day the two sides conducted a ruerrilla warfare In a piece of woods is the neighborhood. Mc-Cook Mc-Cook commanding the Frog Ponders and a boy now unknown to fame heading the Sheep HlUera. Young McCook on day brought into service a small cannon which he loaded with paper wads. He masked his battery in the woods and when the Eheep Hill-ers Hill-ers charged his force he met the assault with a terrific discharge cf artillery. This astonished and demoralized the attacking at-tacking party. Mark, seeing that his commander was rattled, rallied the frightened Sheep Hillera. led them up to the mouth of the biasing cannon and captured it. That shows that Ilanna might have distinguished himself quite as well as a General as he. has done as a capitalist and as a politician. |