The Portland daily press., 1879-06-27

''Man is the architect of his own fortunes
In all the sweeping currents of human events,
in all the aspirations and ambitions of other
ages, how nobly-'
"Niglt brings out the stars" ct also brings
out the bugs, but the essay neglected to say so.
-ED) ''It is only when sorrow and misfor-
tune have darkened our lives, that the brighter
traits of character, the God-like instincts of
mans nature, shine forth amid the surround
ing gloom, like"
'The press and the ballot-box, the great pal
ladium of human liberty, what power is
theirs in moulding national characteristics,
what has been their influence as agents of
civilization what do we see
Gas we glance back across the wide unfold
ing centuries that stretch between us and the
buried ages of the past how the ruins and
wrecks of the grandeur of man in his proudest
estate, in his"
Life, like mighty river, sprnging in un-
seen fountains deep in some mountain glen,
then meandering, a ceaseless sparkling rivulet,
through verdant meadows and adown many
sleeps, and at length"
To-day we stand upon the threshold of life,
ready to cross it with impatient feet, and as we
strain eyes to pierce the curtain of the frl-
turc, our hearts tell us that"
"What m an has DONE man can do All that
the past mas taught us, all tnat the lives OF the
| great and good i'll other ages have done for us,
all that the pages of history, in the stormy
| times of old"
"Thucydides, towering high above ordinary
men i'll an age that counted among its leaders
and teachers such poets and artists and states
men as Sophocles and Kschylus, Phdias,
| Zeuxis and Parrhasius Herodotus and Memo
| phon, Thucydides, himself great among the
| great, is said to have remarked"
"But what, let us ask ourselves, were the
motives of Alexander in these brilliant achieve
| mentS? When we consider that no other con-
queror ever effected so much in so short a time.
| and when we reflect that the only motive that
| led him to carry war and bloodshed and terror
| into almost every part of the then known
| world was cold, selfish, inhuman ambition we
| are led to eXclaim, with the immortal WASH
| ington-"
| "'Hedcen from all creatures hides the book of
| fate And although often we would fain
| penetrate the ceU of the future, yet at length
in the wisdom of riper years, taught in tho
| rugged school of experience, we yieId to-
''Man, helpless in himself, untaught by the
instinct OF the lower animals, incapable, in his
natural condition of protecting himself, prey
! to the elements and at the mercy of the beasts
of the field, yet, aided, developed and elevated
| by the creating art of his own brain and the
skill of his own hands, he is sound"
| Among the ancient Greeks, where wisdom
| craftsmanship and art has been handed down
to us through the centuries, it was considered
one OF the highest and tTSt duties OF the citizen
to provide for"
"Woman, heavens last, best gift to man,
| what is her mission? What is the life work wait
| ing for her earnest, patient hands? The hand
| that rocks the cradle truly may shake the
world; her strength is gentleness, her courage
is confidence, and she walks
"On the broad ocean of life we launch ou1
barks fearlessy; we face the storms as We
welcome the sunlight, and serene and conf
dent amid the changing currents and the
battling Winds we spread our sails and boldly
| hold our"
''Knows he, who knoweth himself the first
principles of human knowledge? The mar
| who"
Blows the wind never so ill that it blows NJ
| good to some one. Across the broad ocear o
| life, into our very faces the tempests NAV howl
but the fearless sailor meets the storm anC
| calmly trims his
Corn is king. To-day, more than ever be
fore, the agricultural interests Of the countr,
are overshadowing all other until as we con
template them in their immensity-"
I'VE say farewell. To you whose patienc,
and wisdom has led us with gentle hands alone
the dizzy sleeps of learnings hill, and to you
dear classmates, whose cheerful"
"A-h'mm! B'LMl Young gentlemen
h m m! B'tn' and young-hm m-a-ladies. Il
| is-whoot-toot!"
(rhat settles it. That ruptured the machine
Ihere never was phonograph yet built strong
| enough to stand the resonant strain Of a schoo
| committee man winding his small but mellow
| horn with a red bandama handkerchief while
| he thought of Il word. That winds up the re
portvBurlington Hawkeyc.