The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-11

Former President Grover Cleveland has
ntributed to the Saturday Evening Post
an article on 1.-The Uses of Adversely"
In II he narrates briefly and I'm the third
person his own struggles for success.
lie concludes with "few words sugges-
tive of the kind OF success most worthy
OF struggle and effort" He says:
lit can hardly be admitted as a general
proposition that adversely is a desirable
companion. Inasmuch. however, as 1t can
not be shaken OF. but constantly claims
joint world-occupancy with us a philo-
sophical effort has been made TO find
some factor of compensation in its un-
pleasing familiarity.
POVERTY NO OBSTACLE.
mo young man should wistfully look
ahead at the bright awards of a grand ca
reer and allow himself TO be prevented
from entering the race for their posses
sion by adverse surroundings. OF course
there may be conditions of his own mind
or character that absolutely and unre-
lentingly close the door upon him.
III he Is infirm i'm resolution, deficient
I'm self-reIiant perseverance, lacking in
courageous ambition, or generally weak
In disposition, he should cease the con-
temptation OF high career and fix his
eye on something lower and less difficult.
Fase may bring to such man content
ment; but neither ease nor adversely will
make him great.
"Of the many elements that enter into
the composition of adversely. poverty
may well be regarded as the most promi-
Dent and pronounced Is IL mere coin
cidence that the life story OF many sue
cessful and useful man-in business and
in every noble calling and profession-be-
gins with the statement that his parents
were poor, or that he was a poor boy?
rlt may not be that such conditions and
success always stand I'm the relationship
OF cause and effect: but they certainly app
pear To be quite Intimate associates. There
is surely no development of mental
traits. and no stimula ton OF the forces of
true manhood, so thorough and so Inn
periously effective as those produced by
the combination of well-regulated ambi-
tion with the healthful rigors of poverty.
"Of the traits thus developed. the most
important is a persistency that will not
be denied-in a large measure the result
OF well-fought battles and successful
struggles. This persistency may reach
point where those needless OF their words
will call IL stubbonrnness.
II knew a young man who when quite
young determined TO acquire a college cd
ucation and enter the legai profession. The
door 10 q college education was, however.
inexorably closed against him; but. i'm
stead OF abandoning his plan entirely, he
at once set his heart on studying law
without collegiate training. When IL soon
appeared that even this must he post
poned he quite cheerfully set about find-
ing any kind of honest work that would
enable him I'm the meantime TO gain
living
after an unsuccessful quest for en-
ployment near home he started for the
West. BY the merest chance his journey
10 the West was interrupted by the offer
OF temporary job, coupled with the
promise that when II was finished he
should be aided I'm securing an opportu-
nifty to work and study I'm n law office.
When on the first day of his study all
the partners and clerks forgot he was I'm
a corner OF the library and locked him i'm
during the dinner hour. he merely said.
To himself Some day Ill be better re-
me entRred'