expression in man. Some men are much more highly LITTLE 

 charged with it than others ; your genius is a man who JOURNEYS 

 does things. Do not think to dam up the red current 

 of his life he may die. 



Copernicus set to work practicing medicine, and gave 

 his services gratis to the poor, who came from many 

 miles to consult him. He went from house to house 

 and ordered his people to clean up their back yards, 

 to ventilate their houses to bathe and be decent and 

 orderly. He devised a system of sewerage, and utilized 

 the belfry of his church as a water-tower, to get a 

 water pressure from the little stream that ran near the 

 town. The remains of this invention are to be seen 

 there in the church steeple even unto this day. 

 King Sigismund of Poland had heard of the attacks 

 made by Copernicus upon the alchemists, and sent for 

 him that he might profit by his advice, for it seems 

 that the King, too, had been having experience with 

 alchemists. In their seeking after a way to make gold 

 out of the baser metals they had actually succeeded 

 yes ! At least they said so, and had made the King be- 

 lieve it. 



They had shown the King how he could cheapen his 

 coinage one-half, and "it was just as good!" The King 

 could not tell the difference when the coins were new, 

 but alas ! when they went beyond the borders of Po- 

 land they could only be passed at half their face value ; 

 travelers refused to accept them ; and even the mer- 

 chants at home were getting afraid. 

 Copernicus analyzed some of this money made for the 



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