men“. u m” qssfs with the story his genius. ,

glllle disco ‘ * -,calclum carbide ’l‘. L. Wilson was a native of 5, Th . lﬂ ....Wilson, a Pr nceton, Ont, and was a grand- gnmve c; " 1- Hﬂhss been do son of the l-lon. John Wilson who

. H“ U CARBIDE ‘ ental laboratory at the cor-

N°' ‘d- 32$: Bay and Market streets in 1s u m" 0! 181° 01' a Hamilton, and the passing throngs itribute to "the-Ionian of Csnldl’! do not know that there he tolled ‘m, than!» barrier to the com- by night with the mysteries of arcisl use of the two greet 5M8! science- But the sizzling flame oi zmudern times. shoulti be throw]! the oxy-acteylene blow pipe that "we by (Jgﬂsdiansl Acetylene 8115 smashes ‘ts way through hardened ‘alum, long known as curlbliltleﬂ. steel, and the flaming gas bouy that w", given to commerce in abund- points the way of safety to the once by Canadians. The last rnen- anxious maria r with the responsi- uoned “mug to another story in biiity of his load of human freight, m; serieb of Canadian Achieve are but a iew of the monuments to

y, y mun of science" was Speaker of the Upper Canada ‘m; [ﬂunpﬂ ' ffsketches of his Assembly for some time priorto ' mentary. He died Confederation. About 1876 he was m New York City in December, sent to the Hamilton Collegiate In- 1915. Thir briciaccount of his stitute and there, in a boy‘sh way. hehecame interested in electrical ' experiments. He left the school at ' ' _ the age of eighteen and went to work in Hamilton, where he hoard- ed his meagre savings until he could rent the workshop over the blacksmith premses at the corner oi Market and Bay streets. John Rogers, then the genial master of the iorge,'helped the lad with the great scheme that had formed in his brain, a scheme to give Hamil- ton electric light. His First Success One spring evening in the year 1880, crowds gathered to see the arc light that was throwing its powerful radiance from the door- way of the shop. it was the first electric light the citzens had seen, and the lamp and the dynamo with its engine had all been constructed by a lad twenty years of age. A prom'nent hotel-keeper and a cloth- ing manufacturer oi national repu- h tation, both citizens of Hamilton The Laboratory o! T. L. WILSON placed orders with the youthful in- The discoverer of Calcium Carbide ventor, and within iwo years a con- worksd in tho upper portion of U"! siderable sum oi money had been shop at the corner of Boy and Msr- advanced by these parties and some ket Streets, Hsnflton. installations made. But Just at ~ that ime, when success seemed to life and accomplishmetns oi his héﬁvithin the grasp, John J. Wright iron: the statements of his personﬂl of Toronto, brought out a much friends. who watched his career better type of dynamo and the with pride, and could not under- dream of Tom Wilson ‘was shat- stand why his name should not re- tored. He could not compete with sound around the world with that the new designs and features that oi Edison and Pasteur. No tablet were covered by patents, but the graces what was once his little ex- spirit oi the youth was not broken __i_ and he maniully determined to pay‘ his supporters the money they had ‘ ‘advanced him, and to start again. Where to get the money was the problem.

The Fortunate Accident

it occurred to his‘m'nd that ii would be possible to make dia- nonds with tho energy from his lynamos. With these diamonds, 1e assured himself, he could sosn any his debts, and before long he was spending his evenings before t little electric furnace that was heafng various comp-vunds of car-

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Don't risk blood poisoning by psrinls ‘ion. Failure after failure followed w“!

"In-A ll! milﬂ-ily- u" lliiﬂliiﬁ "if! ‘lis efforts, and one evening almost "id"- hilﬁiﬂwillvlllilh ihllllllli- woken-hearted he flung the con- nm‘ '1" “"55"”. “a “m” W" tents of his furnace into a damp

u“ “"5" “d” " ,7°“' ‘mam’ corneroi the room. The young man‘ had extinguished his lamps and was

B ‘O l ~ leaving for his boarding house. u‘ J Nhat was that powerful odor that WA“: -:¢ -‘- ¢¢=¢‘v ¢ r ‘ ° °' " ' '

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filled the room‘! Ho’ approached the rubbish pie ‘and lighted a mstoh- A burst of luminous flame

lt- was a secret to him alone. He left Hamilton for the United

one who would realise the import- ance oi the d acovary and aid him

in an industrial plant at. Spray, North Carolina, helped him to com-

immediately applied for- W.thin a few hours of this application a sec- ond application was received from

ance. Litigation followed, but the United States Supreme Curt up-

cium carbide was not nlanufactur ed commercially until. the year 1895. _, (Copyrighted British .& Colonial Press, Limited) Newt Article-Manda"! Time. -——-<o>i—-

Victory of Defeat

it is a great thing 'never to know when you are beaten, for thousands of times since the world began vic- tory has‘come to men simply be- cause they would not admit defeat. To see one bravely smiling when everything is against him and there is not left one single thing to smile about. is a sight to gladden the heart of God. That men and wo- men have done it, that they are able to do it, surely shows a triumph of spiritual forces in this life oi ours that is heartening past all computation. To bear one‘s burden without any hint of com- plaint, that is good, but to bear it, as if there,were really joy in it, that is better, that is triumphant. To keep on oue's way against leag- ued antagonlsms, without any thought of giving in or turning back, is a great achievement, many times, but to cheer, the way of our going with song, as if, indeed, it were some primrose path, that is the infinitely great achievement. When we see men and women do- ing that—and we do see them do- ing it-we feel like taking off our hat and walking softly as ii in the presence of some sacred holy thing. It somehow gives us a vision of the greatness, the divineness of human nature, and makes it easy for us to believe in man as the child of God. And ii does this too,

,it gives us some little glimpse at

the meanlng of the hard and test-

Iing and difficult things that face '

us so often in this life of ours. lt were worth while that such fruit

cost and sacrifice. —-—-—-—<-O-}i~—-—

Imagination

-. . . Those imaginative graces and delights, without which the

heart of infancy will wither up. the 5g

sfurdlest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plain-

show, will be the writing on the

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and a thick cloud of black smoke _ . followed. Ho stood in amusement; ' he had discovered calcium carbide.

States, evidently looking for some

to advance it. After wandering around for some time the chemist

plete the discovery. A patent was France for the very same subst-

held the cla ms_ of ’l‘. L. Wilson. Owing to this lengthy litigation cal-

should be produced even at great

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