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on an admiring world. Somebody has said that nothing is denied 

 to ■well directed labor. If this be true, the struggling youth should 

 take courage. One day he may stand in the high positions of earth, 

 among her most honored and noble sons, and then, the children of 

 luxury may wonder still more, why he did not keep his place. — N. 

 Y. Teacher. 



IMPORTANCE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



No pursuit renders greater service to the country than the veteri- 

 nary : agriculture, industry, commerce, as well as the army, receive 

 vast aids from it. The domestic animals contribute to our intelli- 

 gence, to our wants, their superior powers, their wonderful instincts, 

 their ever-ready servitude, their entire substance. They are at once 

 sources of revenue, machines, means of transport, laborers, com- 

 panions, at times friends even, prime movers, cloths, aliment, docile 

 subjects, with abundant experience What are they not to us ? — 

 They partake of our labors without profiting by them ; of our pleas- 

 ures without enjoyment in them ; of our glory even without hesita- 

 tion. They live and die to serve us, and we seek but too often the 

 secret of our own good at the very heart even of their sufferings. — 

 Veterinary science is still but recent. It dates its foundation but 

 from that of the school we are now in, from less than a hundred 

 years. The future envelopes many discoveries, among which, let 

 us hope, will be found efiicacious remedies for some of the terrific 

 diseases yet without means of cure. — Veterinarian. 



POLITENESS AND TRUTH. 



Many persons plead a love of truth as an apology for rough man^ 

 ncrs, as if truth were never gentle and kind, but- always harsh, 

 morose, and forbidding. Surely good manners and a good con- 

 science arc no more inconsistent with each other than beauty and in- 

 nocence, which are strikingly akin, and always look the better for 

 companionship. Roughness and honesty are indeed sometimes 



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