d your salary for it; while they, on
the contrary, pay you for the privilege of working for you.

There is an old adage that a slave makes the worst tyrant. Uncle John
exemplifies it. Because he suffered poverty and privation, he thinks
that every youth should endure the same. Because nature had given him
the constitution of a horse, he thinks that every one should have a
similar one.

Such men as Uncle John are striking examples of certain qualities; and
of those particular qualities which conduce to success in life. Their
highest praise (perhaps there is no higher praise in the world) is their
unflinching integrity. But we can not bring ourselves to think them--on
the whole--models for imitation. After all, there is selfishness at the
bottom of their first motives, and this quality grows with their growth,
and strengthens with their strength, till, in their old age, they are
impatient at all the enjoyments of youth. The hardships of their younger
days are not only to be pitied for the pain they must have inflicted at
the time, but because they have closed up all the avenues through which
the gentler, nobler, and more generous sympathies of our nature find
their way into the heart. Their want of education has not been of the
mind alone, but of the affections; and as it is ten thousand times more
difficult to learn a language or a science in old age than in youth, so
it is infinitely more difficult (if it be not impossible) to teach the
science of the affections, and the language of the heart, to the old man
whose youth has known nothing of either. Affliction and adversity teach
oft-times sympathy and benevolence; but to do so they must have followed
on happier times, and not have been a birth-portion. You may praise and
respect "Uncle Johns," but you can not love them--neither can they love
you.

DARLING DOREL.

Dorothea Sibylla, Duchess of Brieg, was born at Coeln, on the River
Spree, in Prussia, on the 19th of October, 1590. She was the daughter of
Elizabeth of Anhalt, and of John George, Margrave and Elector of
Brandenburg, of the old princely Ascanian race. At the death of her
husband in 1598, the widowed margravine retired to Crossen to
superintend her daughter's education. In due time, suitors were not
wanting for the hand of young Dorothea Sibylla: among others, the King
of Denmark; but he sued in vain. Dorothea, at length, fixed her
affection on John Christian, Duke of Liegnitz and Brieg, who enjoye