Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tures, and splendid attitudes were still admiredby the younger men in both House and Senate. The last great effort of his life was to secure the series of measures,known in history as the Compromise Act of 1850, and which postponedthe conflict between freedom and slavery for ten years more. Henry Clay was bom in The Slashes of Hanover County, Vir-ginia, April 12, 1777. He died in the city of Washington, June 29,1852. QUESTIONS. Where did Clay begin his education ? What name was
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tures, and splendid attitudes were still admiredby the younger men in both House and Senate. The last great effort of his life was to secure the series of measures,known in history as the Compromise Act of 1850, and which postponedthe conflict between freedom and slavery for ten years more. Henry Clay was bom in The Slashes of Hanover County, Vir-ginia, April 12, 1777. He died in the city of Washington, June 29,1852. QUESTIONS. Where did Clay begin his education ? What name was given him ?What did other lads think of him ? Where did he move in order topractice law ? What offices did he hold in Kentucky and at Washington ?What position did he fill in the House of Representatives ? On whaterrand was he sent to Belgium ? How long was he Speaker of the Housein Washington? What do you know about the Missouri Compromise?To what high office did Mr. Clays friends always wish to elect him ?Where and when was he bom ? What was the date of his death ? CHAELES GOODYEAK THE RE]SrOWISrED E^YEl^ HE morning was wet and the young people wlio hadbeen in the garden plucking flowers were compelledto put on rubbers. As they came in Uncle Frankreminded them that it cost one man many years ofpatient study and labor to make such a preparation ofIndia-rubber as would stand both heat and was he ? asked Mabel. Charles Goodyear, said Uncle Frank, and whenyou get your rubbers off and are ready to listen, I willtell you his story. His discovery cost him eleven years and a half of thebest of his life, and for it he suffered poverty, disgrace for debts, and ridi-cule—sacrifices which were never made up to him, although he lived tosee his invention used in five hundred different ways, and giving employ-ment in Europe and the United States to eighty thousand persons,and producing eight million dollars worth of goods every year. HIS YANKEE CURIOSITY. Mr. Goodyear at one
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