In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! 
From rank to rank, your volleyed thunder flew! 
Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of time,
Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime;
Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe,
Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! 
Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear,
Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career;
Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! 
                                         —­Thomas Campbell.

Notes.—­Kosciusko (b. 1746, d. 1817), a celebrated Polish patriot, who had served in the American Revolution, was besieged at Warsaw, in 1794, by a large force of Russians, Prussians, and Austrians.  After the siege was raised, he marched against a force of Russians much larger than his own, and was defeated.  He was himself severely wounded and captured.

Sarmatia is the ancient name for a region of Europe which embraced Poland, but was of greater extent.

CXIV.  LABOR. (398)

Horace Greeley,1811-1872, perhaps the most famous editor of America, was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, of poor parents.  His boyhood was passed in farm labor, in attending the common school, and in reading every book on which he could lay his hands.  His reading was mostly done by the light of pine knots.  At fifteen he entered a printing office in Vermont, became the best workman in the office, and continued to improve every opportunity for study.  At the age of twenty he appeared in New York City, poorly clothed, and almost destitute of money.  He worked at his trade for a year or two, and then set up printing for himself.  For several years he was not successful, but struggled on, performing an immense amount of work as an editor.  In 1841 he established the “New York Tribune,” which soon became one of the most successful and influential papers in the country.  In 1848 he was elected to Congress, but remained but a short time.  In 1872 he was a candidate for the Presidency, was defeated, and died a few days afterward.  Mr. Greeley is a rare example of what may be accomplished by honesty and unflinching industry.  Besides the vast amount which he wrote for the newspapers, he published several books; the best known of which is “The American Conflict.” ###

Every child should be trained to dexterity in some useful branch of productive industry, not in order that he shall certainly follow that pursuit, but that he may at all events be able to do so in case he shall fail in the more intellectual or artificial calling which he may prefer to it.  Let him seek to be a doctor, lawyer, preacher, poet, if he will; but let him not stake his all on success in that pursuit, but have a second line to fall back upon if driven from his first.  Let him be so reared and trained that he may enter, if he will, upon some intellectual calling in the sustaining consciousness that he need not debase himself, nor do violence to his convictions, in order to achieve success therein, since he can live and thrive in another (if you choose, humbler) vocation, if driven from that of his choice.  This buttress to integrity, this assurance of self-respect, is to be found in a universal training to efficiency in Productive Labor.