LITTLE saying, "Providence!" rolling their eyes upward, 

 JOURNEYS then walking out, leaving the wordy contestants hu- 

 miliated and undone. 



It will be seen that I am interested in this chapter of 

 Ancient History, and in truth I myself occasionally 

 ornament the nail kegs. I claim that it was neither 

 Providence nor astute planning that mapped this 

 man's course, but Providence, Planning and Luck; 

 and I silence the adversary, for the time, by citing 

 these facts: 



Very shortly after Providence and the sheriff of Erie 

 county whose name, by the way, was Grover Cleve- 

 land had disposed of the East Aurora grocery, our 

 friend met a man in Buffalo who had a wonderful 

 secret, a sweeping scar on his chin, and nothing else 

 worth mentioning. 



This man secured his assets in Germany; he got them 

 while attending the University of Jena. 

 The secret was gotten by an understanding with a 

 professor; the scar was received through a misunder- 

 standing with a student. 



The secret was a plan by which you could make glu- 

 cose from corn. 



In Germany it was only a laboratory experiment, be- 

 cause there was no corn in Europe to speak of. 

 Here we had corn to burn, since in that very year the 

 farmers of Iowa were using corn for fuel. 

 Glucose is the active saccharine principle in maize, 

 but it does not become active until the corn is treated 

 chemically in a certain way, just as honey is not 

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