The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-01-23

with view of doing as much good
 to others as possible, and, as far as
 possible, to strip ourselves of what
 the French call egoism. l
 would rather be defeated than make
 capital out of my religion. It
 is not right or manly to lie, even
 about Satan. It is cheaper to
 reduce crime than to build jails.
 Nothing is more uncertain than one
 throw; few things more certain than
 the result of many throws.
 If the power to do hard work is not
 talent, it is the best possible substI-
 ute for it. There is fellow
 ship among the virtues by which one
 great generous passion stimulates
 another. The laborer has but
 one commodity to sell--his days
 work. It is his sole reliance. He
 must sell it to-day or it is lost for
 ever. l take it for granted tha, every thoughtful, intelligent man would be glad, if he could, to be on the right side, believing that in
 the long run the right side will be
 the strong side. For the
 noblest man that lives there still re-
 mains a conflict. Victory is
 worth nothing except for the fruits
 thaG are under it, in it and above it..
 Light itself is great corrective. A
 thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear like owls and bats before the light of day.
 beg you, when you pitch
 your tent, pitch it among the living
 and not among the dead. No
 power of analysis can exhibit all the
 late mt forces enfolded in the spirit of a newborn child, which derive thelr origin from the thoughts and deeds of remote ancestors, and enveloped
 in the awful mystery of life, have
 been transmitted from generation to generation across forgotten cen turies. Each new life is thus the heir of all the ages.
 The great Carlyle has sad that the best gift God ever gave to man was an eye that could really see; and that only few men were recipients of that gift. 1 venture to add that an equally rare and not less important gift is the courage to tell what one sees. Let not poverty stand as an obstacle in your way. His power as commander was develop. ed slowly and silently; not like volcanic land lift d from the sea by sudden and violent upheaval, but rather like coral island, where each increment is growth-an act of life and work. A monopoly of popular honors is as much of tyr any as monopoly of wealth. It has been fortunate that most of our greatest men have left no de- scendants to shine in the borrowed luster of great name. The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of stand ing by their own convictions. .. Luck IS an 'ignis fatuus.' You may follow it to ruin, but never to suc- cess. It is no honor or profit merely to appear in the arena. The wreath is for those who contend. .. If you are not too large for the place you are too small for 1t. Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. That trust is vain. Occasions cannot make spurs. If you expect to wear spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them on to your own heels before going into the fight. Ideas ostlive men. | Great ideas travel slowly. and for a time noiselessly, as the god whose feet were shod with wool. What the arts are to the world of matter, literature is to the world of mind. | All along the dim centuries are gleam- ng lamps which mind has lighted, md these are revealing 10 the histo- ian the path which humanity has rod. If independent journal sm means freedom the domination 'f patronage, wealth, or corruption, freedom from party dictation, all good men will applaud it. The possession of great powers no doubt 'arries with it contempt for mere show. Liberty can be afe only when suffrage is illuminated ,y education.