Worker in a saddler's shop, school-teacher, lawyer, merchant,
judge of the Supreme Court, United States senator, soldier,
leader, step by step the son of the poor Irish immigrant rose to
the highest office to which his countrymen could elect him--the
presidency of the United States.

Rash, headstrong, and narrow-minded, Andrew Jackson fell into many
errors during his life, but, notwithstanding his shortcomings, he
persistently tried to live up to his boyhood's motto, "Ask nothing
but what is right--submit to nothing wrong."





SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S GREATEST DISCOVERY, MICHAEL FARADAY


He was only a little, barefooted errand boy, the son of a poor
blacksmith. His school life ended in his thirteenth year. The
extent of his education then was limited to a knowledge of the
three "R's." As he trudged on his daily rounds, through the busy
streets of London, delivering newspapers and books to the
customers of his employer, there was little difference, outwardly,
between him and scores of other boys who jostled one another in
the narrow, crowded thoroughfares. But under the shabby jacket of
Michael Faraday beat a heart braver and tenderer than the average;
and, under the well-worn cap, a brain was throbbing that was
destined to illuminate the world of science with a light that