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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