Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-03-19

GENUS OF ENERGY. There is no &C.
MUS in life, like the genius of energy
and industry. You will learn that all
the traditions SO current among very
Young men-that certain great charac-
ters have wrought their greatness by an
inspiration, as it we've, have grown out
Of sad mistake
And you viii further find, when you
come to measure Yourself with men, that
there are no rivals so formidable as those
earnest, determined minds, which reckon
the value of every hour, and which
achieve cminence by persistent applica-
ton.
Literary ambition may inhamo you at
certain periods; and a thought Of some
great name will dash like spark into
the mine Of your purposes; you dream
until midnight over books, you set up
shadows and chase them down-othcr
shadows, and they fly. Dreaming will
never catch them. Nothing makes the
'scent lie wclF' in the hunt after distinc-
ton, but labor.
And it is a glorious thing, when once
you are weary Of the dissipation and the
ennui Of your own aimless thoughts, to
take up some glowing page of an earnest
thinker, and read, deep and long, until
you feel the metal of his thought tinkling
on your brain and striking out from your
Hinty lethargy, flashes Of ideas that give
the mind light and heat And away you
90, in the chase of what the soul within
is creating on the instant, and you won
der at the fccundity Of what seemed SO
crude.
The glow of toll awakes you to the
consciousness Of your real capacities
you feel sure that you have taken new
step towards final development. In such
moods it is that one feels grateful to the
musty tones, which, at our hours, stand
like curiosity-making mummlos, with no
warmth and no vitality. Now they grow
into the affections like new found friends,
and gain hold upon the heart, and
light q fire in the brain, that years and
the mould cannot cover nor quench.
ADVICE TO FEMALES. Never marry a
man without the consent Of your parents.
No matter how much you fancy you love
him, you cannot expect blessing on
your union if you persist in going con-
trary to the better judgment Of those
who were appointed by Providence TO
watch over you and advise you for your
good. They, of course, have had more
experience, and arc better qualified to
judge than you can be, who are but just
setting forth in the pathway Of life,
young, inexperienced, and too ready to
form favorable opinions where your afIec-
tions are concentrated. Let them be
your confidents; open your heart to
them as coon as you are aware that any
thing Of the sort exists. ] would confide
the secrets to my parents as soon as ]
would acknowledge to my bosom -
Theirs is not the cold unsympathising
judgment Of the world, it springs from
a deep affection in your lasting welfare
for what comfort would it be to them TO
mar your happiness? You, whom they
have watched and guarded from help
less infancy with such undyng affection
as only parents can feel. Recompense
their love, then, as far as in your power,
by confding in them and acknowledging
their council be assured you will lose
nothing by it; and though you might
meet with disappointments now, it will
soon pass away, and in after years you
will be attended by the blessing Of Him
who said, -" Honor thy father and thy
mother"