Miscellaneous.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 167, 24 June 1909, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

THE BLESSING OF POVERTY.

Poverty, instead of pinching, dwarfing, and shutting a man up, enlarges and enobles him and sets him free. The best dowry for a boy is a childhood spent outdoors. The country and the common people have always given to the world its seers and sages. Call the roll of the great and glorious in life and death- -they were born in mangers of poverty and cradled in . obscurity. ' One of the winning forces in life consists in brdng handicapped. Col- I ambus, discoverer of peerless, unrivalled, unapproachable America, was the son of a weaver and a weaver him- j self. Homer was the son of a small j farmer, and j "Seven cities claim him—dead — j Through whose streets he begged for I bread." j Mohammed, founder of the new re- ; ligion, who changed the face of cm- ; pires, was an orphan at eight, and j afterwards a camel driver. Coperni- j cus, who introduced the modern sys- ' tern of astronomy, was a baker's son. Stevenson, inventor of the locomotive, and Watt, perfecter of the engine, were both poor ami o: humme origin. Shakespeare, to v.-nose :;::••--• aching, all embracing gi-nu:.- a., urn worid does honour, was ".he .son el a w<.",;;carver. ,-'n nhe.n Girard, the second richest man in hi.- day, went to America as a cabin boy on a vessel, ar.d commenced ;ii\: in the New World with sixpence, but made the world his best school and j his industry his best capital. Corne- j

lius Vanderbilt laid the foundation of his great fortune -with £lO his mother gave him of her savings to buy a small sailboat, with which he transported j garden, truck: from Staton Island to ( b> cause you have r.o one to help ycu. Everv giant oak in the forest was once an ar'orn kicked about by the feet of limn. ; AK rich men's sons are not foois. no , but the hcavieit curse on a child, a; a | rule, is inherited wealth. Beethoven j said of Kossini that he had the stuff in j him to make a good musician. n ne had only been well flogged when a boy: | he was spoiled by the ease with winch : he composed. j Many a man has been spoiled by I the ease with which he began life. |