Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-12-28
PovaRTY NOT so GREAT A Ours

IL tA0AV 40 oil y WILL s AZ su0 WOAAu tuot o
young man should be more thank full
for than another, it is the poverty
which necessitates his starting in life
under very great disadvantages. Pow
erty is one Of the best tests Of human
quality in existence. A triumph over it
is like graduating with honor from
West Point. It is a certificate of
worthy labor creditably performed. A
young man who cannot stand the test is
not worth anything. He can never rise
above the drudge or pauper. A young
man who cannot feel his will harden as
the yoke Of poverty presses upon him,
and his pluck rise with every difficulty
poverty throws in his way, may as well
retire into some corner and hide him
self. Poverty saves thousand times
more than it ruins for it only ruins
those who are not particularly worth
saving, while it saves multitudes Of
those whom wealth would have ruined.
If any young man who reads this is so
unfortuns to as to be rich, give him
my pity. / pity you, my rich young
friend, because you are in danger
You lack one stimulus to effort and ex-
cellsnce, which your companion pos.
sesses. You will be very apt, if you have
q soft spot in your head, to think your
self above him, and that sort Of thing
makes you mean, and Injuries you
With full pockets and full stomach,
and fine linen, and broadcloth on your
back, your heart and soul plethoric, in
the race Of life, you will find yourself
surpassed by all the poorer boys around
you before you know it.
No, my boy, if you are poor, thank
God and take courage; for He intends
to give you chance to make some.
thing Of yourself. If you had plenty
Of money, ten chances to one it would
spoil you for useful purposes. Do you
lack education ? Have you been cut
short in text book ? Remember that
education, like some other things, does
not consist in the multitude Of things
a man possesses What can you do
That is the question that settles the
business for you. Do you know your
business =? Do you know men and
how to deal with them ? Has you,
mind, by any means whatever, received
that discipline which gives to it its &C.
ton, power and facility If so, then
you are educated.
SYMPATHIEs OF SoUND.-It is owing
to the sympathetic communication Of
vibrations, that persons with clegr
and powerful voice, have been able to
break a large tumbler glass by singing
close to its proper fundamental note.
We have heard Of case where a per-
son broke no fewer than twelve large
glasses in succession.
The sympathy Of vibrations, or ten
dsncy Of one vibrating body to throw
another into the very best state of vi
bration, shows itself remarkably in the
case Of two clocks fixed to the same
shelf or wall. It was known, near a
century ago, that two clocks set agoing
on the same shelf, will effect each 9TH
er. The pendulum Of the one will stop
that Of the other; and the pendulum Of
the clock which is stopped, after a GER
tain time, will resume its vibrations,
and, in its turn, stop that Of the other
clock.
These effects are clearly produced by
the small vibrations communicated from
the one pendulum to the other, through
the shelf or rail, or plank on which
they both rest. 1t has also been found
that two conflicting sounds produce ST.
lence. as two converging rays of light
produce darkness.