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Show WHO SAID I i "Our huslncxs In this world Is not K l to succeed, but to continue to fail. I In itochI spirit. ' o'ir.iK " hi' h Lob- ert Louis Stevenson, whose right 1 n un. . I.v il..- Kob.-t A LM Balfour waged against tuberculosa ijI which had threatened him since his youth, won for him the appellation of the "Apostle of Sunshine." Stevenson', as we will call him, W48 X-MM 'horn in Scotland, the son of a distln- BH gulsbed engineer He intended to bi come an engineer himself and later his attention was turned toward la v Bl until ill health provonted the con- summation of either intention. Most LLfl of his life was spent In travel In an attempt to regain his health and from this travel he acquired the marvel- aaH lous fund of material and color which Brtfl resulted In his masterly literary work, wMw nvniftuci iniea no HHOIJ part in the life of this prent author, who-- tlon with the Adlrondai ! 'Wr mountain health resorts has n.-t him seem as much an American r a Scotchman In 1876 he met. While t v Vlsltins in an irtisii,- colony near Paris, a lady named Mrs. Osbuilrn-- Their friendship became lntlrruito and a when, some years later, Stevenson learned that she was 111 In California. a he Journeyed there to see her. Re spent more than a year on the Pa- .JH Clflc and 1880 he mirri I . H i mm Literary fame came rapidly to H Stevenson and he spent his time writ- lng as ho travelled extensively In Lal quest of health. In 188S he sailed Z from San Francisco for a voyage in flHrl the South Seas He was sreatlv U pleased with the island of Samoa that BH he made his home there until his HaB death In 1894 Wayne D. MeMurrav. !3jfl oo lival |