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Show NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. m UQUld you keep a lire burning un-' der water? It has just been done, 50 1 leet under the surface of New York harbor. Near Staten Island, a 36 inch steel I watei pipe on the floor of ihe ocean i was smashed by a dredge H had to I be cut away. Divers came up out of the muddy i I depths' and reported that the water i immediately exiinguished their steel j .i i j n e acetylene torches But an 'underwater fire chisel " has ! .been developed by a company that1 salvages submarine wrecks. This ; chisel was brought Into play. As Hi I burns, it generates a gas w hich forces jback the water ou all sides, leaving an J jopen or hollow space for the flame. That is rclentlfle magic. If the inventor had lived 500 years ( ago, his exhibition would have mad; even kings kneel to him In superstl j itious terror. Suppose you were In the hands of j enemies, aboat to be 6hoL and they iuiu juu, n r II fyro )uui uie u ruu can light a tire under water and keep It burning" Your answer probably would be. "It I can't be done" even though your life I I depended on 1L I Yet It can be done, as in tho device used under water near Staten Island, an electric spark starting tho flame. Learn from this that nothing is im-i im-i possible. v Archimedes, who discovered the principle of tho fulcrum, said he could move the earth If some one gave him a fulcrum a long enough lexer and something away from the earth to j stand on. Nothing was impossible, to Archt modes. Yet. If he'd been asked to wi?a;h the earth, he probably would have said it couldn't be done unless he had a big enough pair of scales and a star to rest them on. Modern scientist, with a delicate mechanism which mcure the- attrsr tlve power of lead and other elements, have discovered that the earth la about six times as heavy as an equivalent bulk of water. Thus the earth has been accurateh weighed found to tip the scales at 6000 billions of tons. Such staggering achievements should inspire all troubled and discouraged people. All problems can bo solved. The solution is found by the one who never gives up the fight, who refuses i to recognize the phantom, defeat. |