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Show mm oo BOYS WHO HAD NO CHANCE. "In the blackest soil," says Mol-land, Mol-land, "grow the lairest tlowerf. and the loftiest and strongest treep spring heavenward unions 'he rorks." Oulda Afjds "Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kllla the very soul within us, but It Is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it Id the toft, luscious lus-cious south wind which lulls tbom to lotus dreams." H Henry Clay, the "mill boy of tho clashes," was one of hnven children of a widow too poor to Band him to any but a common country school, where he was drilled only In the "three TVs." Kepler struggled with poverty and hardships; his books wore burned in the public square by order of tho state; his library' was locked up and he himself was exiled by public clamor. For seventeen years he worked calmly upon the demonstration of the great principle, that planets revolve In ellipses, with the sun at one focuB, that a line connecting the center of tpe earth with the center of tho sun passes over equal spaces in equal times, and that tho squares of the times of revolution of the planets ; about the sun are proportioned to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. This boy with no chance became ope of tho world's greatest and finally respected astronomers ;The boy Galileo had little chance to win renown In physics or astronomy when his parents compelled him to go to a medical school. Yet while Venice slept, ha stood In the tower of Sl. Mnrk's cathedral and discovered the satellites of .luplter and tho phases of Venus, through a telescope, an instru , jraent which lie first made- practical, if' ho did not invent It outright When compelled on bended lAiees to piihllclv renounce his heretical doc trine that the earth moves around the sun. all thp terrors of the Inquisition I could not keep this feeble man of three score years and ten, from mut 'terlng to himself, "Yet it does move" When thrown into prison, so great Iwaa bU eagerness for scientific re search that he proved hy a straw In his cell that r hollow tube Is relative-I ly much stronger than a solid rod of the same size. Kvcn when totally blind, he kept constantly at work. |