Show patreal BOY WONDER i athe phenomenal EARLY CAREER OP I 1 WB LIAM PITT and th enghu ld one ha of he mot world H ear known one of tho most boys the saw was cullam patt ne astonished folk with ate learning at the age of seven lie became edme aln ister 0 england when be was twenty ilour but be took all lie was a sickly boy the out of door exercise bis delicate frame could bear and was as eager to eludy as most boys arc to play lie would not let bis weak body stop hla work and be was reading mcdent history at an ape when most children are reading stories written in words of one syllable ills father was abo great earl 0 chatham and the boy was brought into contact with all abo great men 0 the time in england when he was thirteen years old be wrote a tragedy which ha called king of Clarini um at this age too he was able to read greek and latin almost as well as he could english lie also was well informed on the politics of the day and on a variety of subjects about which only men of learning are supposed to amow anything at fourteen he was able to take tho works of written in greek and read page after page turning it into excellent english AS he read and this off liand translation of bis la said to have been almost without a flaw ills father spoke of him a eager mr william the counselor abo at the age of fourteen be entered the great university of cambridge in england and at once in spite of his youth too a high place among the students at that celebrated place of learning when he went to cambridge the boy was in such feeble health that he had to be accompanied by a nurse and all through his course there he was in so poor a condition physically that it was doubted it iio ever would be able to the course hut hard study seemed to agree with him and when he was graduated at the age of seventeen he was much stronger than when he entered the university ver sity at an age when most boys are preparing to enter college or it they are very clever have just become freshmen young patt won the degree of master of arts from one 0 the greatest universities in the world and began the study of law at twenty one he was admitted to the bar and the same year was elected a parliament to become prime minister three years later while ho was yet a law student and only eighteen yeara old ha attracted the attention of prominent men by hla clear views on the questions of government which then were perplexing the e rulers ot england the boy was invited everywhere and men holding the most important offices listened to his advice and asked his opinions hla friends wanted him to go into parliament when be was twenty and all predicted for him a brilliant career it was curious to see this delicate stripling a boy in looks and years meeting he erea tand wise men of the country as an equal and conversing on even terms with the most learned scholars ot the day young patt used to like to listen to the debates in the british parliament and mr fox the great statesman meeting him once after a debate was astonished at the manner in which the boy criticized criticised the eminent men who ahad spoken and pointed out where they have made their argument stronger one 0 the hardest works to understand that ever were written la a book called cassandra written by a man named it Is written in greeta A learned man placed the boob in the hands of young patt when the boy wib yeara old and be read it at sight translating into eng ugh as he read and explaining it in a manner chica madat be learned man declare that had he sot it bo would have it to be beyond the power 0 human intellect when patt was asa father declared ahat bo would ba a great man and was iho hope of ne country other folks soon became ci hi fathers way of thinking and that la why they put him into when he was so young and made him prime minister eo soon after lie fulfilled all that waa expected of him and ruled england during thirteen att the most eventful years of her history detroit free press |