Year: 1860

WILL POWER.


The power of the will over merely pbysi-
cal obstacles, causes US succession of sur
prises as we pass through life There is
scarcely a difficulty it cannot surmount, short
of those barriers placed between man and
the infinite, and every day, as science and
human knowledge progress, these seem to re-
cede, and man dives further into the recess
of mysteries once supposed to be hidden
forever from his gaze. Desires to know,
aspirations for knowledge are useless, with
out this propelling power. As we'll seat
yourself in car to which no locomotive is
attatched, and desire to find yourself at the
end of your journey. As well curl costly
into the recesses of your easy-chir, and wish
to look upon the shrines of the old world


One who has just gone from the world,
one of Americas greatest sons, has we'll ex-
empli6ed in his life the idea we wish to con.
vey. Few indeed, like Prescott. have tri-
umphed over obstacles thatseem insurmoun-
table. Few from whom the gift of vision
has been wrested, or to whom it has been de-
MED, have lived to bless and instruct the
world. Out of his darkness he has made
light to illuminate other minds and though
his vision could not rest upon it, has writ
ten his name high upon the scroll of Fame
among earth's noblest sons.


And while we were thinking of him,
with sorrow that his career was so sudden
! ly cut short, we looked upon another, who
though scarcely known to fame, has earned
its laurels by his achievement; man,
blind from his birth, who is a profound
scholar, lucid and powerful thinker, cheer
full, buoyant, hopeful under his great mis-
fortune, and looking forward with the un.
dimmed eye of his soul to future of toll
and worthy deed. His eloquence holds
large audience enchained, as with mastery
skill he clucidatcs philosophical or scieu-
tifc propositions, or more sngularly still,
speak of the descriptive history of nations
and of countries he can never hope to see.
And shut out thus from many of the keenest
pleasures of life, dead to the worlds beau
ty, to the loveliness of the human face, the
glory ofsunsets, and the grandeur of storms,
unable to draw for his own use from the
fountain Of knowledge, clogged by the sla-
very of constant and utter dependence, the
mind, the giant will of this man, all unfal-
tering, has not ceased to aid him onward to
achievement which many another, untram-
melled and unopposed, would long time
have shrunk from.


I There is scarce a physical or moral OBJ
stacle which may not be surmounted by per-
severance, which is the fruit of powerful and
well.directed will


! WOMAN'S EENERATloN.- If woman have
one weakness more marked than man, it is
toward veneration. They are born wor-
shipperS-makers of silver shrines in some
divinity or other, which of course they al
ways think fell strait down from heaven.
The first step toward their falling in love
with an ordinary mortal is generally to dress
bm out with all manner of real or fancied
superiority and having made him up, they
worship him. Now. truly great man, q
man really grand and noble in art and in
tellect, has this advantage with women,
that he is an idol ready made to hand ; and
SO that very painstakiDg and ingenius sex
have less labor in getting him up, and can
be ready to worship him on shorter notice.
I [n particular is this the case where sacred
profession and moral supremacy are added
to the intellectual. Just think of the career
of celebrated preachers and divines in all
ages. Have they not stood like the image
that observation-disclosures the King set up"
and all womaukind, coquettes and Airts not
excepted, been ready to fall down and wor-
ship, even before the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut and so forth !. Is not
the faithful Paula, with her beautiful face,
PROSTATE in reverence before poor, old lean,
haggard, dying 81. Jerome, in the most
splendid painting Of the world, an emblem
and sign of woman's eternal power of
self-sacrfce to what she deems noblest in
man? Does not old Richard Baxter tells
US with delightful single heartedness, how
his wife fell in love with him first, spite of
his long pale face, and how she confessed,
dear soul, after many years of married life,
that she had found him less sour and bitter
than she had expected The fact is, wo-
men are burthcned with feGlty, faith, rever-
cncc, more than they know what to do with.
They stand like hedge of sweet peas,
throwing out futtering tendrils every where
for something high and dry to climb up by,
and when they find it, be it ever so rough
in the bark, they catch upon it. And in
stances are not wanting of those who have
turned away from the Aattery of admirers
to PROSTATE themselves at the feet ola gen.
uine hero who never WOO them except by
heroic deeds and the rhetoric of noble
life.-Wc Mn'St"r'S lIooiny.


H@ There is one redeeming trait about
lazy people, and that is, they are always
rood naturcd. Show US man who sleeps
eight hours of twelve, and We will show you
an individual who will not swear, though
an omnibus should stand for an hour on
.that sore foot of his" The only folks