| Show Simon P Eggertscn I I willingly pi the fine rather than send you to school for I make I money at nTh I n-Th lout who made this remark = = docs not concern IH farther The I voung boy to whom it was addressed < is the su yect of th s sketch Ieft1I1 I orphan it live ears of age he was bound out to i stranger The remark re-mark while i i shows the utter selfishness self-ishness i of his mister proves eeinll two excellent traits in the boy one he was mxious to go to school and two w is unusuill industrious and l rchiblc in his work At his twenty first birthday when his apprenticeship cci ed he was still l unable to read r and write hi Dut let no one suppose he w is ignormt Hoys ol his mental alertness len out ol school ami l toda is he sits in his cisy chair the honored Uriireh I of a cultured family or lather I collection ol fmnlies md opens his I IINO r NIWS he can forgive the tyr1I1I who tried to rob him of m education Dut he will remember at the sime tune lion the wear tk t of learning to read 1 md write h id to be mastered l after fitiguing labors ot the dIY were over Simon P 1 Eggcrtsin n is born Feb 1 7 I86 at Odensc Denmark Attwent two he entered the arm to tight m the war of iS4S with Germany fought unscitlicd through six battles mil came out with the rank of lieutenant md a medal for special acts of brivcr w is biptizcil June 16 183 mt i IrlVcleJ trwcled as a missiomr in Fym for three ears set sil lion Cipcn hlen priliS iS6 md arrived it Silt I ike City Sept 13 1856 having pushed a handc rt icrovj the p tins February 17 it > 3s Ins thir secoid birthday he mar ned Johinm Ihompson and two months liter moved lo Provo where he giv a Euit ol ciothea in exchange ex-change for a home Herein unremitting industry and careful management he soon became well to elo mils i today one ol the i staunche business men of Provo Hiving given liisclnldicn 1 good ed ucation and lived 1 himself a life I tlut appealed ap-pealed to their rule he non tastes the exqiisite fruits of the c ommmd mcnt Honor I thy fuhcr md thy mother tint thy el 1 us miybe long I upon the land which I the Lord thy God giveth thee |
