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Show Keep Trying. It is said that just before the battle of Phar-salin, Phar-salin, conversing with an Egyptian priest seeming seem-ing the fountain of the Nile, Caesar offered to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra if the priest would show him those mysterious sources. Whether that be true history or not does not matter. mat-ter. It would have been like the great Julius, looking look-ing out upon that mighty river and knowing it was the life of the wonderful valley on either bank, filled as his mind was with vague longings to comprehend com-prehend the power that ruled the universe and held planets and suns in their spheres, to want to trace the great river to its sources and try to fathom the energy that started it and maintained its solemn How. But, after all, that is but a common instinct In . the human mind, the same that caused man to lift his audacious eyes and try to photograph the faces of the planets and suns; to measure the heat in the visible and the solar rays of the sun; to study the composition of the heavenly bodies, and to try the source of the laws that .govern worlds. . It was what impelled Watt to try to bridle and bit and put under subjection the invisible force in steam; the same that made Morse toil to put a girdle round about the earth over which he might send a thought; the same that makes earnest men seek all their lives to satisfy themselves why they were born the twin mysteries of life and death. The same Instinct working in a different way causes Burbank to spend his days and nights in giving new life, vitality and colors to plants and flowers. No wonder it is a perpetual fascination to him, to give a new color to a rose as to cause a blush of pleasure on a loved one's cheek. The cause of this instinct we believe was planted in the souls of men for a purpose; that the intention was that eager men age after age should keep adding to their stores of knowledge until at last the whole scheme of the universe should be made clear. We believe that was included in the dominion do-minion that was given man over the earth. Nothing Noth-ing was promised him except what he could honestly hon-estly earn, but the reward for his work was as wide as the world. And man is asserting that control con-trol a little more and more every day. In the current Munsey is a fascinating story of the ironmaster who built his works in a little town in Kentucky to refine iron. He placed sheets of it with charcoal above and below, and then fired the charcoal to burn away the impurities of the Iron. But in a brief time the woods for seven miles around were denuded of wood, all burned into char- H coal. Further hauling of the coal was Impossible. IH He sat one morning watching his furnace, when H suddenly in one corner of it he noticed a white H light. Like a flash the thought come to him that H the oxygen In the air above his furnace was burn- H ihg and that a blast of air above his molten Iron H would do all or more than the burning charcoal H could do. H Wild with excitement, ho explained his discov- I ery, but to his astonishment his neighbors could II not comprehend what he meant, and thought him I crazy. He built a little plant and demonstrated I his idea. Those around him would not believe his I demonstration; his chief backer refused any mora I advances, and the dull souls who had bought his I refined iron sent him word that they wanted no I new-fangled devices for making Iron, to either pro- duce it in the old way or send no more iron to I them. He went off into a secret place in the woods and after repeated trials perfected his plant on a small scale, and even then it caused him years of I toil, disappointment and struggle before he could I gain recognition. But the product was steel made cheaply, just when the world 'vas about to come I to a standstill for the want of it. I Let the boys in school take courage. The deep- I est mysteries of earth and air and water and the I world's original elements are not yet discovered, I but they are promised if only the work be earnest I enough and long enough continued, they are being I revealed one by one. Each new one Is "more won- I werful than the last. The next one way be years, I for man at first was but a little lower than the II angels, and he is climbing higher and higher every II |