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Show i Why Be Discouraged? By WHIT-HADLEY . Among thy counties number of poor boy whose name became immortal im-mortal was the boy Dreon. In ad- anion to DcifiR poor, no wbi m urwn nliv. Hlw tnMitP took. - delight. torturing him. To his mister Dreon nid he cared for nothing oa earth but beauty and longed to be a culptor. When this remark waa repeated re-peated to the master he beat Dreon Into insensibility. A law waa in efiVet at the time that .under penalty of dpath no one fthould espouse art except free men. In ipite of this Dreon secretly bfegan work on a group with clay dug up from the cellar. For three years, working during the dead of night, he toiled on the group, aided by . hi sister, Cleone. Shortly after all Greece hurried to Athens to behold an art exhibit In the Agora, where Pericles presided and which was attended at-tended by Aspasia, Fhidia. Socrates, Sophocles and other renowned artists. Suddenly their gaase fell on one object, a group that apparently only Apollo could have chiseled. For we t'ks lh6 n ams of the sculptui wna sought, but In vain. A chance remark caused heralds to arrest Cleone, and, though threatened with death, she refused to speak. An she waa being hurried to a dungeon to await torture on the rack, a jouth with flowing hair, emaciated, and trembling from head to foot, suddenly appeared before the judges and, flinging fling-ing himself before Periclps, cried: - "Oh, Pericles1! forgive the maid. She is my sister. I am the culprit. The group Is the work of my hands, the hands of a slave." The indignant crowd Interrupted $o cry: "To the dungeon,, to the dungeon with the salvary slave!' But Periclen roue and silenced them, saying: 'As I live.- no! Behold thai group. Apollo decides by it that there ii ftomethlns; hiKhr in Greece-tTiari an I unjust law. The hlgheat purpose of I law should be the development of the beautiful. If Athens lives In the memory and affections of men. it i her devotion to art that will Immortalize Immor-talize her. Not to the dungeon, but to my side brine; the youth. In the prenence of the assembled multitude, Aftpatiia placed the crown of olives on the brow of Dreon. anI at the same time, amid universal plaudits, she tenderly kiHeed lreon's affectionate- and devoted sister. Cleone. |