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Show Boyi Who "Had No ; Chance" "In the blackest soil." aya Hoi la nil. "crow the fairest flower, and the luftleat ami strong st tree spring heavenward among: the rocks.' Guicia. addx: "Poverty in very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within us, but It in the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; It Is the soft, libelous lib-elous south wind which lu)!a them to lotua dreams." Henry Clay, the "mill-hoy of the slashes," was one of seven children of a widow too poor to send him to any but a common country ychool, hcre be was drilled only In the "three H'n." i Kepler strumflei with poverty ami - hardships; hi books were burned In the public square by order of the state: his library was locked up and he himself uai exiled by public clamor. Kor seventeen yars he worked calmly calm-ly upon the demonstration of the great principle, that planets revolve in ellipses, with the sun at one focus; that a limt connecting the center of the earth with the center of the sun passes over equal spaces In equal times, and that the squares of the tunes of revolution rev-olution of the planets about the sun are proportioned to the cubes of their mearr distances from the sun. This boy with no chance became one of the world's greatest and finally respected re-spected astronomers. The boy Galileo had little chnnce to win renown In physics or astronomy when Ms parents compelled h!m to go to a medical school. Yet while Venice Ven-ice slept, he stood in the tower of St. Mark's cathedral and discovered the satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, through a telescope, an in-strumnt in-strumnt which he first made practical, practi-cal, if he did not invent It outright. When compelled nrr bended knee to publicly renounce his heretical doctrine doc-trine that the earth moves around the sun. all the terrors of the inquisition could not keep this feeble man of threescore years and t-n from muttering mut-tering to himself, "Vet it does move." Whenlhrowu luu riimriw gret was his eager ne)M for scientific re-; re-; search that he proved by a straw in his 1 cell that a hollow tube Is relaUvel, much stronger than a solid rod of th aume sixe. Kven when totally blind, he kept constantly at work. |