Show SLAVES or OP AMBITION it is astonishing what men wll will sacrifice tor for the gratification of ambition this may tie be true of t every ather passion that becomes the ruling principle but it Is especially true ot of the slaves of ambition we wonder at tho the poor heathens heathers he athens who used aeed to torture themselves or their levesi their offspring and all to please their but some of the poor devotees ot of ambition make no smaller sacrifices when they embitter their lives betray their friends sell their souls and finally plunge into eternal all to gratify their person parson ill at ambitions which very ottea often la is unjust having neither intellectual nor moral qualities s as a foundation how vain Is this sacrifice of everything tor for a base passion it brings no happiness no real satisfaction perhaps this 18 truth Is beat illustrated felho in the life at 0 the great napoleon in soll roll at one time stood by the tomb of that man and his big reflections at that moment were to the point he ha tali said 1 I saw him take an empire by the torce force ot of his genius I 1 saw him upon the frightful field ot of waterloo when thancy and fate combined to wreck the fortunes tor tunes of that former king kin and I 1 saw him at st helena with ilia hta hands bands crossed behind him gazing faut at the sad bad and solemn sea 1 I 1 thought ol of the orphans and wl wi v dows too he had made tears that had b been 11 6 shed had f tor 0 r hi a hla ga elory y and ot of afi abo anel eniy 1 1 aim 21 1 ii ever loved mai him iett heart by them cruel bana ot of ambition tind I 1 said ald I 1 would rather have been a french peasant and worn wooden shoes I 1 would rath er have been that poor peasant with my loving wife alte by my side eldo knit knittle knitt tints la as the day died out in the skies with my lay children upon my knees and their arms about me I 1 would rather have been that man and gone down dowa to the silence of 0 the dreamless personal dust than to have bega been that impersonation of 0 force and murder known as napoleon the great what a lesson presented in the life at 0 such a man mant his dying thoughts were still on the army as if he be could never cease plotting for or the gratification 0 of his ambition contrast the life ot of such men with the life ot of those who have unselfishly served the caust cause ot of humanity it Is a great consolation to me in my last hour were the wolds ot of frederick V ot of denmark that there to 1 not a drop of blood on my hands handa and the Blut empress iress josephine said I 1 can say with truth to all of you now present at my last moments that the first wife ot of napoleon eort never caused a single tear to flow what a happy reflection as a the day expires and and the shadows deepen deseret news |