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Ipahkli.a. 15S Some natures are as sensitive to n touch in this direction as the Sensliive Plant scenes unpleasant to behold. "We then should see the bus' world with all its varied scenes; its inhabitants nibbing to and fro in pursuit of the ideal of their af fections, gold and silver. I repeat that this would be a scene unpleasant to be hold. Every man seems to be grasping aftor a little more of this world's goods, each exulting at the downfall of his neighbor, (if by this downfall his own selfish desires shall be in any way grati fied,) and all running the race for wealth, honor and fame, with rapid but uncertain step. Although there are thousands up on thousands of human beings entering upon the race, yet very few ever rcaili the goal toward which their great hopes and aspirations urge them. Why is it then that so man' positively and absolutely fail? The young man starts out with the glow of health upon his cheek; and for tunc seems to smile upon him as one among the more favored of humanity. He chooses a vocation and enters upon his work, hoping to make some grand achievement in the near future. The re turns not meeting his expectations, he be comes discouraged, and takes up some thing new. This also fails to satiate his greedy appetite, und it in turn is cast aside for something else. So, going from one thing to another, tossed about by the surg ing waves upon life's ocean, he is found to be but a specimen of wrecked huinuni ty. Hopes defeated, ambition lost, ho be comes a burden to himself and also to his fellow men. How true it is that a "rolling stone gathers no moss." Had this young man been willing to await the development of time the might "have lived an honorable and successful life in his first occupation, for industry, persever ance and determination never fail to bring success. Then the first thing needed is this: Learn to labor and to wait." Don't be discouraged ut the first disaster. Face the enemy with daring bolducas. Labor on cheerfully and persevcringly, leaving out the question of immediate returns, and there will be nothing to fear. If we, as students, adhere to the principles here in set forth, we shall sooner or later be waited by the genial breezes of light, lib erty and knowledge into fields of useful ness and harbors of success. Otis. ISABELLA. Eulogies arc cheap. For a small sum almost any person can have his biography published and distributed, in which his good traits und deeds are advantageously set forth, while his faults and blunders are left in the background. In conse quence of this, as time rolls on, after-generations, forgetting the misdeeds, nnd hav ing before them a record simply of the brilliant exploits of such persons, come to regard them as beings something more than human. Now, though we by no means consider that Queen Isabella played the part of a goddess, yet we do believe that anyone, having carefully studied her reign, her character, and the motives which intluenced her in every act, and who does not regard her as a being of more than ordinaiy ability, must be lacking some what in his finer sensibilities, as well as intluenced by that coarse and barbarous idea that she amounted to nothing because she was a woman. For such persons we cannot express our contempt, and will pass them by as relics of an age of bar barism which is fast passing away. We believe ia recognizing talent wher ever it is found ; but when the laws regard woman as a mere cipher, and man as the only being of any importance, then, if a woman struggling through all the vicissi tudes should gain even moderate distinc tion, and, more especially, if she should outstrip all in her age, wc consider it proper to give her more than the ordinury amount of praise. Napoleon was distin guishedfor what ? Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, has received many and great en comiums for her wise and beneficent UJMAIf .IW5 iHBUH BHF5J'