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Show Forming Characters. No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing diminish-ing tho sum total of human happiness not only of the present but eyory subsequent subse-quent ago of humanity. No one can do tach himself from this connection. There is no sequestered spot in the uni-verao, uni-verao, no dark nicho along the. disk of nonexistence, to which ho can retreat from his relatiouo to others, where ho can withdraw the influence of his existence exist-ence upon the moral destiny of thp world. Everywhere his presence or ab 6enco will bo felt. Everywhere ho will have companions who will bo hotter or worse for his influence. It is an old saying, say-ing, and onG of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters Whose? Our own or others? Both, and in that momentous fact lie tho peril and responsibility of our existence. Who is sufficient for tho thought? Thousands of my follow beings will yearly enter eternity eter-nity with characters differing from those they would have carried thither had J Dover Jived. The sunlight of that worlo will reveal my finger marks in their primacy formations and in their sucoes sivo strata of thought; aud life.- Elihn Burritt .nannual was ruined by marriagft. After his first victorious campaigns in Italy ho went into winter quarters at Capua, where ho married, and the wod ding festivities lasted until his army was demoralized, and always afterward was worthless for fighting purposes. |