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a nobler  manhood,  or  the  hope  of  attaining  these, forever lost. Perhaps it  would  be  well  for  such  a one  to  ask  himself  if  it  were  not  possible  to  find  hap- piness in something  short  of  the  full  realization  of his  original  plans.

Success often  springs  from  failure ;  at  all  events,  it lies  ill  the  discipline  wrought  by  noble  efforts  rather than in  the  end  of  wealth  and  luxury. Many a  heart- sick wretch in  San  Francisco  has  wandered  over  these sand-hills, out  around  by  the  Presidio  hills  to  the Golden Gate  bluffs  and  the  ocean,  and  there  gazing fortli on  the  broad  waters,  or  watching  the  tumbling waves come  in  and  break  in  silvery  surf  at  his  feet, thought of  the  dead  past,  of  blasted  hopes,  and  a black  future;  thought  in  self-pitjdng  woe  of  home  and the loved  ones  there;  thought  of  the  great  gulf  of separation  here,  and  the  dismal  blank  of  the  hereafter. " Why,  O  God  !  why  is  it?" he would  ask. " Dost  thou delight  in  breeding  men  to  misery  ?"