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Show FAILURES WHO CAME BACK I Py Albert Payton Terhane ' ALBOAt The "Failure" Whe Discovered Dis-covered the Pseifie. He waa rich In ancestry and poor In cash. He waa a down-at-heel Ppeniah nobleman Vaeco Nunez de Balbua by namewho could not make a living In hia pwn country and who tried to better bet-ter his lurk. In 1601. by going to the new diacoverrd Weat Indies. But In the new world he fared as badly aa In the olL Other Spanish adventurers ad-venturers were winning fortune and fame In tire Americas. Neither fame nor fortune came to Ifcilboa The . fabled wealth of the Went Indies was not for him. Hia friends grea- nth. but he remained poor. Falling at aucrraafiil adventure, he srttlrd down to work a big plantation near etalvatterro. 1-al.or ridiculously ridicu-lously cneap- The soil wus fertile. There was ccnetant demand for tobacco to-bacco and foodstuffs. Vet li;r prt.nipily aent broke. Kverytnintf he touched wtnt to pieces All his vtnturee .collapsed. All he roiiM Mmii". w.i a p'l of ddils tlint threatened to land him In the debtor's prison for the rest of his life. And thus nine yeara dragged on. At the end of that lima Balboa waa not only bankrupt but waa the laughing stock of luckier men. At IS he waa one of the most notorloua failures in America. THE MAN IN THE CASK. In 1510 a iuw-er named Enclsco i fitted up an ex'dilon to carry relief !to a recently formed colony of San Sebastian. The vessel put to eea. Next (dav- Kncisco ordered certain provision cases hoisted on deck from tha hold for im.eciion. The head of one of the big casks f waa knocked in. Out leaped a mau f in fu,l armor a drawn sword in hia hund. j The atowaway waa Balloa, who had rhosen thia ntthd of dcdeing the ilebtur'a prieon. The failure had decided de-cided upon a new atari in life i When the ship reached Kan Helvetian Helve-tian .no trace of the colony there could be -found. The settlement aaa In rtilna. Kncisco did not know what to I do. He hud a whlpfnl of tirovWon a and of roloniata and nowhere to de-poeit de-poeit them. Hal hoe suggested that he sail on lo tierten and form a colony there. He hunself had once touched at the plaea. ha aald. And hia glowing description I of It atlrred the Imaginations of his fellow voyagers. Ho to Lauien they I went and there founded a settlement. Kncisco did not like the prominent : part Balboa was beginning to take In i the colony's aXfalra. The two quar-i quar-i reled. Balboa deposed FCnclaco from power and parked him off to Ppaln, while he himself took over the governorship gover-norship of the settlement. lialho. Md found his life work at ;aat. Hy conquest aSid by tact he won the mastery cf neighboring Indian I trtiiee - The colony nourished under I bis rulershtp.' ( Hut run., waa not satisfied. From sn Indian chief he lesrned that a mighty ocean lay far lo the weatstard I of the mountains hehiiul the settle-) settle-) ment sn ocean no white man had aeea : or heard of. And he was fired by seal to see it. ; The Hour of Triumph. ' It wns tnehlv needful that be do I some great deed Just then, for letters ; had rorae from tha king Inspired by , Kiiciacot ordering him to return at I once, in diegtaoe. to Spain. With j nearly 2oo r-putiiarda and a throng of 'natives biillMKt begsn bis perilous! westaard Journey across the moun-1 J to true Hostile tribe, airkneaa and, eltffe and . precipices impeded his I march. For more than three weeks he I I and his t starving followers stumbled j i onward. ' ! Then one morning Balboa enood on the summit of the range and looked down upon the Pacific ocean. Four days later (September J. lilli he reached tha shore. 1'lanting Spain s banner in the sand he solemnly took possession of the Pacific la the name of his king. j The failure had opened a new gate into an unknown world. And Kg do- f log so ha had made hia own name -tro-' mortal. j i' i. aut. as aa rasa uni a cat ' |