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Show I,nck. Abraham Lincoln, after being a mem ber of congress, desired to secure a clerkship clerk-ship in Washington, but he was defeated defeat-ed by Justin Butterfield. He was disap pointed, but had he not been defeated he would have spent his life in obscurity obscur-ity instead of becoming president of the United States. Oliver Cromwell was once on board a dhip bound for America, but he was taken back by a constable, and the result re-sult was that he became one of the greatest men England ever knew. Ulysses Grunt; would not havo been a military man had it not been that his rival for a West Point cadetship had been found to have six toes on each foot Instead of five. The great silver' mine, the "Silver King," had been discovered by the lucky accident of a prospector throwing a piece of rock at a lazy mula- New Orleans Times-Democrat |