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THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF YOUTH. 519

propels him comes from his parents, not from his soul; but the feel- ing of want inspires the poor man's son to thrift and restless energy. It matters little when or where a child is born. The accident of birth plays little part in shaping one's career in the great mortal drama. Greatness born in a hovel, reared in poverty, finds recognition in the world of fame; while fortune, cradled in a palace, dies in obscurity. How true Karl G. Maeser, Togo and Robert Burns exemplify this paradox Poverty, with an environment to develop in, stimulates ambi- tion, as the north wind invigorates and tones the nerves. It is to youth what sunlight is to plant life, while the ease of opulence is comparable to the damp and uncertain light of the cave. Adver- sity creates thought; luxury stultifies. The one produces stability and thrift; the other leads to folly and degeneracy. Poverty tends to make man stand erect; wealth causes him to recline on the bed of ease. Proneness weakens; standing erect gives stiength and vigor. A Hercules lying prone for a year would become enerv- ated. An invalid, against gravity, may become struggling strong. Most Americans who amassed great fortunes of the last one hundred years, did so in their shirt sleeves; yet so destructive is wealth to development that it is said that there are just three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. But the third generation stepping out into the laboring classes again, are not the strong, self-reliant nor thinking characters their great grandsires were. Hence, wealth to those families has been a hindrance. Its virtue was shed upon others.

Beaver, Utah. [to be continued.]

THE ROSE.

The rose to all its fragrance gives, Yet for this gift itself is sold In crowded marts its perfume breathes, Its beauty bartered there for gold. Lydia D. Alder. Salt Lake City, Utah.