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Show Gave Lesser Man His Brief Hour of Triumph Great writers have had "urtlsllo con science" to a degree thnt sometimes caused them painful labors. In 17on, when Joseph Addison, the Englluh poet and essayist, was undersecretary of state he wns given as a matter of official business tba task of writing to Hanover that Queen Anno was dead. He fonnd It so difficult to cxpres.1 himself satisfactorily that the lords of the regency were obliged to employ Southwell, at that time one of tlm clerks. For hours Addison had struggled In attempts to druft a suitable suit-able message, but the last one seemed as Inadequate ns the first, and Iti despair de-spair be oust it after its predecessors Into the waste basket. Southwell stated tho simple fact, n he wns ordered, in the ordinary Inn-gunge Inn-gunge of business, and It Is said be then boasted of his superiority to Addison Ad-dison In bnvlng readily done that which Addison nttemptlng to do hod failed. Kansas f'lty Times. |