Show I I- I Why Be Discouraged I IBY BY 0 WHIT VUlT Hawthorne says in his diary that he never let lel a cnance chance thought of value pass from h his mind He lie jotted It t d down Later a he used s hundreds tedo of such thoughts in his hili famous House of the Seven Gables Several of ot the greatest men in history history his his- tory won fame tame outside of their regular regu reu- lar occupations without trespassing them Herbert Spencer for example ex- ex ample startled profound thinkers by Relativity his ns T Ultimate sf Scientific Ideas and his of or All Knowledge Both books were written during Curing his time spare Edison had few chai chances c s as a boy But and at i 12 he had read read through Hume Humer tories Gibbon one or r two other histories his his- and a number ber ot of treatises scientific on n subjects lie started nd work a as a n newsboy and saved up enough to 1 a a. bookstore and a buy a newsstand ke ket t. t vegetable mar mar- While running all three he IA read the ton s a Penny Magazine Burton Bur Anatomy of Melancholy Ure Ures Dictionary or of the Sciences and Newtons Principle This experience he says prompted prompt ed Inc Ine at 15 to take my pennies buy some Bome old and type eel ent insides insides' from and platEs platE's for patent pat the Detroit Joree re Press Using a baggage he purchased for tor 40 car which as an office dl son producEd The aid ald which Grand Gran Trunk Her Her- was the first newspaper tr L fn ever PUblished unea u on nn and a only 11 tr L fn PUblished unea u on nn a 11 way train lIe He railWay rail rail- porter typesetter was owner owner editor raif-I raif rEI reporter rE re- I pressman and vender devil I lie He learned tele telegraphy ra hy tion from a station sta- sta master at a i Mount two months later tater st Clemons an and wire from the strung a telegraph warding messages station to he the the town town- tor for i The Western Western Union Union at i i 10 cents each wire discovered took it the their chief operator Over and made F Editon ton Constantly S at dP Port Huron Huro HUron Ing n 1878 1578 Edison and a experiment experiment- first raph at th the ParIs a Edison has exposition and has been out patEnts States called by the United commissioner dian stYle of patents In Indian Indian In- In the path oath to wi th 1 the patent Daniel Detoe Defoe believed on that It if he kept trying Various great So he became occupations occupation he would eller dIer and a trader sol sol- then a ager e 1 Still factory mana manager man man- unsuccessful ul he became Secretary commissioners commissioner's a accountant envoy and ald continued failure messenger A writing Defoe to and In this field he rind find his chance for he seemed l to Produced a a. book which has S been ben read by bv K Practically every boy In the civilized world world- world world- Robinson |