Literary.
INery young man is now a g)Wef . f
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HeU of life. The brig,T
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I’pon the w hite sea-sand
There sat a pilgrim band,
the losses th at th e ir lives had know n,
fell! ill.'
While evening passed aw ay,
From breezy cliff an d bay.
jthe strong tide went out w ith weary m oan,
one spoke w ith q u iv erin g lip
Of a fair freighted ship,
«■ihall his household to th e deep gone down;
Bui one had w ilder woe
For a fair face long ago
Bst in i the
I darker depths of some g reat tow n.
There were th a t m ourned th e ir youth
With a most loving tru th ,
far its brave hop >s and m em ories ever green;
And one upon th e West
Turned an eye th a t could not test
Cl,riar-otf hills whereon its joys h a d been.
Some talked of vanished gold,
Some of proud honors told,
.jBiespake of friends th a t were th e ir tru st no
more;
'•ays Ot youth are the seed tim e. Every'!
tl.'<,nght of your intellect, every motion !
ot your l.eart, every word of your tongue, 1
t \ t i } piineipie you adopt, every act you
p e r lo r m , is a 8eed whose good or evil
trm t will prove bliss or bane of your af- i
ter-life.—-1 »rain
Pond lilies are all the sweeter for hav-1
mg come up from the tilth. The mud
and mire are life to them , and through
them are transformed into the most ex­
quisite loveliness. So a pure, brave,
hopeful heart may gather from unw el­
come and even repulsive surroundings,
sustenance for a higher life.
There is no wealth but life. Life, in­
cluding all its power of love, of joy ami
adm iration. That country is the richest
which nourishes the greatest num ber of
noble . and happy human beings;
that
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n ,a n
’'¡chest who having perfected tile
1 unctions of his own life to the utm ost,
has also the widest helpful influence,
both personal and by means of his pus-
sessions, over the lives of others.
And one of a green grave '
Beside a foreign wave,
[ That made him sit so lonely on th e shore.
But when th e ir tales w ere done,
There spake am ong them one,
He who overlooks a small occasion
.¡stranger. teeming from all sorrow free;
will have lost his eyesight when a great
“Slid l o w s have ye m et,
.one comes. Never wait for a great
But mine Is h eavier yet,
chance to do good—never seek for Some
For »believing heart is gone from m e.”
great
thing, hut improve each sm all op­
“Alas!” these pilgrim s said,
“For the liv in g and th e dead,
portunity as it comes to you, and some
For Fortune’s cruelty, for Love's sore cross,
¡day you will he surprised to find that
For the wrecks of land an d sea,
the truly great occasion of vour life had
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But how e'er it cam e to thee,
Thine,Stranger, is life's last a n d heaviest loss!” been overlooked had you not been keep-
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ing track of the small things.
A feast is more fatal to love th a n a fast. I No m atter what we sav or how we sav
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The only way to have a friend is to be
our presence, our conduct, our un-
’ j studied demeanor, showing us as we are,
one.
w
hat
8Peak 80 ,,l”eh louder than our
We are at b *st but stew ards of
¡words
th at the latter will hardly be H A R D W A R E ,
TINW AKE,
litK n s & SHOES,
we falsely call our own.
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, heard. Do as I say, hut not as I do, is a
Death is only a bend in th e river ol futile piece of advice; for it is w hat we
hie,setting tlie c u rre n t heavenw ard.
Jd0| think,'feel, wish for,' that w ill'con-
J,A T S &
M E D IC IN E S ,
N E T S \ CA N D IE S ,
i" Those who do not succeed in building stitu te our influence, and if what we sav
is different from this, it will fall useless
avenge themselves in dem olishing.
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equality of wealth there can never be;
Prices W ill bo Found R easonable.
thin»' well to ‘;q ,,a*Ry of intellect there can never be; G oojs as Represented.
irliich he did not apply th e whole b e n t , eq ,,ality of influence there can never be.
pNo
man ever did ' an y
c u m is the
m e ordinance
u iiiiim n c e of
oi God's
uuu a pro
!,,f liiu mind.
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I Such
urovi-
piliis
dence. In the will of a man, as in the
The moment a m an is satisfied with
1 world of nature, there must always be
himself, everybody else is dissatisfied
the molehills as well as the mountains,
with him.
and the thistles as well as the forest
Repentance w ithout a m en d m en t is trees. But equality of hopes, equality
C. E. S M IT H .
G EO. T . H A LL .
like continually pum ping w ith o u t stop­ j of aims, equality of essential happiness,
ping the leak.
equality of pure and true thoughts,
Our evil genius, like th e ju n io r mem- there may he; and equality of common
‘¡er of a deliberative body, alw ays gives destiny there is;
¡to views first.
We ought not to fear to speak of our
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That virtue th a t needs anchoring, jove at home. We should get all the
makes its professor like t ship moored tenderness possible in the daily bouse-j
miiong breakers.
' hold life. We should make the morn-
Jonr it does not im ply p en etratio n of
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We nre so constituted that obedient t
"'¡deii by them , or of th y m an th a t de-
f ’ends it.
to the law of veracity is absolutely nec­
essary
to our happiness. Were »e to
'I"i'e than ta le n t, m ore th a n beauty,
lose
either
our feeling of obligation t0 i
■“oe than w ealth, som etim es more than
' ''I'ltn, good m anners are th e best let- tell th e tru th , or our disposition to r e ­
| ,,r* introduction an d th e firm est ce- ceive ns tru th whatever is told to us,
there would nt once I k * an end to all «'*
111 nt of friendship,
ence and ull knowledge, beyond
' '“an sh<^%A have before him e ith e r which every man hnd obtained by “ D
' ‘t men o ^ B | n t o b je c ts ; o th e rw is e be
own personal observation and »»J k
' his p o w e ^ n ik e th e m agnet w hen ■ ricncc. No man could profit by tbe <“ »-,
1 as been turned for a long period to- Icoverics of his contemporaries, nioch
a N the right point of th e compass.
less by tbe discoveries of those men who
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growing good of th e world is part- have gone before him. latnguag'' wouk
lx? useless, and we should a- »'■
removed from the brutes.
m ast I k ; aware, upon the shghte« ♦ .
flection, th at a community of " ' ’
liars could not exist in a state of society. I
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hiegood things which belong to pros-i ing good-byes as we part a t the break-
I perky are to he w ished, b u t th e good fast table, kindly enough for final fare-
bai belongs to ad versity are to be ad-1 wells. Many go out in the morning a ho
niired.
never come home a t night; therefore,
" hatever upholds a m a n ’s self-respect we should part, even for a lew hours,
'"dines him to self-im provem ent, and with kind words, with a lingering press-
'appreciate fu lly h is good points goes a i ure of the hand, lest we may never
"ag way in h e lp in g him to cure Ids I again look into each other’e eyes. ‘Ten­
derness at home is not a childish w eak­
| Units.
ness ; it is one th at should be indulged
1 ass innate expression and vehem ent
j in and cultivated, for it will bring the
‘‘•ertion are no a rg u m e n ts, unless it be
■the weakness of th e cause th a t is de- sweetest returns.
v ‘«pendent on h isto ric a c ts ; and that
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so iil with us as they
-'lit hav,, been, is half ow ing to the
«Giber win, lived faithfullv a hidden
i and st in unvisited tom bs.
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