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Show TIME OF THE ISLE. Those who have but little to do or to care about, who have no great ends to accomplish nor hopes to fulfill beyond the search of pleasure for its own sake, find that, Avhile present time seems, to move slowly and the future looks drear, time which is past seems, on the other hand, short and unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. Looking fonvard, they are appalled by the length of time they knoAV not how o use ; looking look-ing backward, they can call up but few vivid memories mem-ories of good Avork accomplished or strong purposes pur-poses fulfilled, and but little therefore to mark the years that are gone. On the contrary, those Avhose life is a worthy and useful one. who labor energetically energet-ically and heartily, with good success, look backward back-ward upon a long and well-defined past. Avhile their future seems all to short for the aims they have in vieAV. A year full of activity and resolution, enterprise enter-prise will offer a long and pleasant page for memory mem-ory to dwell upon, Avhile a year of bodily inaction, mental vacuity and general supineness will melt from the remembrance like a tale that is told. |