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Show f j Why Be Discouraged? Did You Know That BY WHIT HADLEY. t'utting told a friend: "Opportunlt- la everywhere but men seem to he blind ' A boy in lilngland bad I en run over i by the ears, und the bright blood .muiied! from a severed artery. A crowd stood! helpless watching him die Another boy pushed his way to the sufferer's side, ; took his handkerchief out nnd stopped the bleeding by tlng a hard knot Just above the wound. The applause and praise he received Induced him to change his mind from being a cabinet maker to the study of surges. Klght years later Astley Cooper I became the foremost Burgeon of 'Ire-at Britain i Hawthorne once 'lined w ith Longfellow! I bringing a friend of his from S.ilcm Afe ter dinner the flrend told Uoiigfellow he I had been trlng to get Hawthorne toi WTlte a story bused on :i legend current j In cadla which dealt with B. lrl who. in the dispersion of ihe Acadlaus. was j separated from her lover und passed her life In waiting nnd seeking for him. only finding him later dying m a hospital : wl " both were old. "Hawthorne replied to ine." snld the friend. "that the story was tame and unworthy of serious effort." Thinking! intently for moment. Longfellow turned to the friend and asked permission to weave the story Into a poem This was I granted Three months later Longfellow produc- ed Evangeline, or the Kxllc of the Aca- H . . . Tho story of Shylock and his pound of IB 'flesh remained unknown and unintsresl- H J Ing until Shakespeare, thrilled by the bH moral of r touched It with his magic H pen and transformed It Into a realistic H drama known the entire world over. H For thousands of years people h.id H known that any solid Immersed in a H Klass.of water filled to tho brim would iH 1 cause the water to overflow. But they H mode no use of this knowledge until Archimedes saw it and perceived an easy method of finding the cubical contents of H Objects however Irregular in shape He wrote an important t ook on ihe subject which is used to this day. H . . . Kor thou Band jeais people bad known there was such a thing as lightning It H had dazzled their eyes and the thunder H had Jarred their ears since the days of Adam In a vain attempt to call their iilteiitlon to (he tremendous power of electricity, yet no one paid practical herd H until (franklin, by a simple experiment H of the tlcbtnlng rod proved that thn H strange heavenly light Is but one mant- H festation of a resistless vet controllable H fOT( as easily handled as air or water 1 |