--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 8 published: 1900-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Determined Doer: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 8 (June 1900): 613.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera38unse start_page: 613 end_page: 613 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse publication_year: 1900 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Determined Doer: A Poem THE DETERMINED DOER. 613 grand sight to behold them then! Over the fire is a sheet-iron protector, suspended by chains, about six feet above each furnace. This prevents the strong flame from reaching too close to the hops, and seems to disseminate the heat more regularly. After the hops are thoroughly dried and cooled, a sack is attached to the pressing machine, and they are pressed into it so tightly that no impression of the hand can be made upon it; then, through the opening, it slides to the floor beneath, where, having been branded with the firm's name and the year, and sewed up, it is ready for the market. Each one of the these sacks or bales weigh one hundred and fifty pounds. THE DETERMINED DOER. 'I like the man who faces what he must ' With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battles without fear; Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust That God is God; that somehow true and just, His plans work out for mortals; not a tear Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, Falls from his grasp ; better, with love, a crust Than living in dishonor, envies not, Nor loses faith in man; but does his best, Nor even murmurs at his humbler lot; But with a smile and words of hope, gives zest To every toiler; he alone is great, Who by a life heroic conquers fate."