NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



meet in the factory on his scant pay, he dis- 

 covered a way to construct a machine which 

 would do away with the work of at least half a 

 dozen men. He made the invention, and his 

 delighted employers followed with a substan- 

 tial increase in his pay. They predicted for 

 him, as did his friends, a brilliant future as an 

 inventor, and all urged him to set about such 

 a life. He has disregarded the advice of his 

 friends in later years, as he did then; and he 

 has never found reason for regret, even though 

 the way he has traveled has led through pain 

 and sacrifice. 



Day by day in the midst of the toil of the 

 factory, unswerved from his ideals by the 

 promise of greater pecuniary reward, the dom- 

 inant chord in his life was always sounding, 

 struck as it was by the supreme purpose of his 

 soul — to make new things better than the old, 

 to make the old ones better than they were. 

 All through a life no less scarred with sacrifice 

 than adorned with triumph this same chord has 

 sounded, deeper and broader in its harmony as 

 the years have come, but not more true in the 

 creation of marvelous forms of plant life than 

 in the making of a machine to quicken and 



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