El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-15

- DeEn 4duE lEA dL anu mt " I'm inc
L AstartIing cry-"dangert'
Every man with an guaranteeing
idea has a minority Of one-One man
who believes it
Harvey labored eight years before
he published his discovery Of the cir
cuIation Of the blood. His fellow
! physicians called him a crack Drained
inpostor After he was abused by the
educated classes for 25 years, hiS' great
discovery was recognized by the pro-
In the remark Of a peasant girl who
came TO Jenner to be doctored: 1t
cannot be smallpox, because have
had cowpOX." ne detected a great prln-
ciple. An idea got him-a theory for
preventing the ravages Of a dreaded
scourge possessed him. His fellow
students threatened to expel him from
school. He tried il on his own arms.
He experimental for three years. He
knew he was right. Every physician
in London pronounced 1t folly. He was
denounced from every pulpit. It was
declared that the vsccinated children
became oxfaced, assesses grew out to
indicate sprouting horns and that their
voices changed to represent the below
ing OF a bull. The vaccinated were
stoned and driven from the streets The
Plus argued: Disease by its nature is
contagious and to prevent it is to in
terfere with providence.
First Umbrella User Stoned.
The man who raised the first UNI
brella was stoned. The conservatives
said: When God sends rain he means
we should get wet and you have no
right to thwart his plan by putting up
an umbrella"
When Fulton launched the Glare
mont" on the Hudson, thousands lined
the shores to witness "Fulton's folly"
"RidiculOus!" Navigating against
without sails" The thing viii burst"
said one: 1T will burn up" said an
other. while still others as they saw
vast columns Of black smoke shoot
up showers Of brilliant sparks shouted /
They will all be drowned" Every
body expressed the opinion that Full |
ton ought to be in an insane asylum, !
and the man who revolutionized the !
commerce Of the world was in his day /
looked upon as a public enemy
When, hundred years ago, Oliver |
Evans, the inventor. predicted that the |
time would come when the high pres /
sure locomotive would enable people /
who had breakfast in New York to /
take supper in Washington, 200 miles !
distant, everybody felt sorry for the /
weakening Of such brilliant mind as l
his.
Awkward for the Cow.
The wiseacre who badgered George !
stephenson, the father Of the railway /
system before a committee of the house i
OF commons, asked: Suppose an en- /
CINE going along a railway at the rate i
Of nine or ten miles an hour. and sup
pose a COW should get on the track,
would not that. think you. be a very
awkward circumstance Yes" re-
piled the engineer, very awkward
for the cow"
The Quarterly Review, Of Stephen
sons day.-a periodical rejecting the
views OF scholars and thinking men,
observed, What can be more palpably |
absurd than the prospect held out OF
locomotive travelling twice as fast IS
stage coaches" And Ashley Cooper, /
an eminent surgeon OF the time de- I
clared il was ''preposterous in the ex-
IRENE 10 hold out the prospect that a
locomotive could travel twice as fast 3
as a stage coach.
Everybody laughed at Morse and his
telegraph. He was in Washington I
seeking congressional aid, when con-
gresham remarked to one of his con- Z
suruents, That old fool wants me to .
help him get a bill through congress
TO stretch wire from Baltimore 10
W ashlngton so that one fool over in .
Baltimore can talk to some other fool I
over here in Washington, 40 miles
away Morse rode his hobby. while .
all the world laughed at him. but he Z
put girdle round the globe and made I
thought omnipresent
The sleeping car" was laughed at
as "Pullmans folly"
GOodyear's Struggles.
Charles Goodyear struggled for years !
70 make India rubber Of practical use
ne paWned his clothes and his wife's I
JeWelry 70 get money TO keep his chill /
dren (whO gathered sticks in the field /
Ior flre) from starving When he had {
no money 10 bury his dead child and [
when his other five were starving his
neighbors criticised him for neglecting
ms family and called him insane, but /
ne struggled on, and behold his vul-
canned rubber applied TO over 500 uses.
ewing employment to hundreds of
When Franklin drew electricity frou,
the clouds with kites. people sneeringIv
asked. What use is it2r To which .
7 I ;i replied, What's the use of
a boyle may become a man"
Everybody thought Bell, in 1876. had
gone crazy. when he proposed to make
2 human voice be heard over a wire I
Inauncey-L Depew, declining stock for
me use or MS name, said 1T viii never
De more Ihan plaything for children 8"
Be original Be enterprisins-, g.
onward Don't stand still Dare to
1e sins ular- Do sOmethingi Be some
Dody- Step out Of the beaten paths
eInemper that crank. fanatic fool
visionary, icGnOclast, are the choice erf,
lnels which have been. hurled at the
Aead OF every man who ever has blessed
or ever viii bless the world. And This
! ernember-nOt from the palace. bUt
rom lne cottage Of the lowly, have
come the intellectual giants who have |
enriched the world, men who were
handicapped by the shackles of poverty
ana the chains OF suffering, condemned
scorned, Knocked, ridiculed. persecuted
= using 10 the submits of success
rejecting everlasting Iuster on tbei-
names, proving that you cannot keen
d good man down. 0P
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