OCTOBER 20, 1875.
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devouring ambition, pale faced avarice, and
the "green-eyed monste~."


Whether it depends mperlment,
or habit, or exertion, it is that cheer
fulness seldom agrees with iuleness. man
must be empoyed-his mind must be occu-
pied to a certain extent by some active pur-
suit, or he becomes dissatisfied, and he preys
upon himself.


"Give me, (said man the other day in a
fit of spleen) give me something to do, that
mayhave something to attend to besides
my sensations. They are painful and COR
roding, and want something to drown the
sense of them"


Thompson, in his Seasons, Ia very indo-
lent man himself] has advised employment
for the softening the passion of love. En-
lhioyment, Emhioyment, Emflloyment, Ike
the orators action, is a cure or a relief for
| most of the maladies of the mind. They are
many of them giants to appearance; but Hing
stone at them and the monsters die.