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Show Abraliam Lincoln, after being a inem ber of congicss, desired to secure a clerk ihip in Washington, but ho was defeat jd by JustLr Buttorfiold. Ho was disap pointed, but had he not been defeated ho would havo spent his life in obscurity obscur-ity instead of becoming president of the United States. Oliver Cromwell was onco on board 6 ihip bund for America, but bo wa taken back by a constable, and tho ro $ult was tiiat ho became one of the greatest men England ever knew. Ulysses Grant would not havo been a military man had it not been that his rival for a "West Point cadetship had beat found to havo six toes on each fooJ Instead of five. Tha great silver mine, the "Silver King," had been discovered by the iucky accident of a prospector throwiup Dieco of rock at a lazy snnle. Z- |