ds for your daily bread. It is far more noble to gird up your loins,
and meet the difficulties and troubles of human life with a dauntless
courage. The wheel of fortune turns as swiftly as that of a mill, and the
rich friend who has the power, you think, to help you to-day, may become
poor tomorrow--many such instances of the mutability of fortune must occur
to every reader. If he be rich, let him take the inference to himself. If
he has plenty, let him save a little, lest the wheel should turn against
him; and if he be poor and penniless, let him draw from such cases
consolation and hope.

You are desirous of promotion in your worldly position--you are ambitious
of rising from indigence to affluence?--resist, then, every temptation that
may allure you to indolence or every fascination that may lead to
prodigality. Think not that the path to wealth or knowledge is all
sunshine and honey; look for it only by long years of vigorous and
well-directed activity; let no opportunity pass for self-improvement. Keep
your mind a total stranger to the _ennui_ of the slothful. The dove,
recollect, did not return to Noah with the olive-branch till the second
time of her going forth; why, then, should you despond at the failure of a
first attempt? Persevere, and above all, despise not little things; for,
you see, they sometimes lead to great matters in the end.

THE SUBLIME PORTE.

In offering a few remarks upon the government of Turkey, which, by common
accord, is known in Europe and the United States as "The Sublime Porte,"
it is not intended to quote history, but rather to speak of it only in
reference to the present period. It is nevertheless necessary to state
that the Turks themselves call the Turkish Empire _Memaliki-Othmanieh_, or
the "Ottoman States" (kingdoms), in consequence of their having been
founded by Othman, the great ancestor of the present reigning sovereign,
Abd-ul-Mejid. They are no better pleased with the name of _Turk_ than the
people of the United States are, generally, with that of _Yankee_: it
bears with it a meaning signifying a gross and rude man--something indeed
very much like our own definition of it, when we say any one is "no better
than a Turk;" and they greatly prefer being known as Ottomans. They call
their language the "Ottoman tongue"--_Othmanli dilee_--though some do speak
of it as the _Turkish_.

As regards the title, "The Sublime Porte," this has a different origin. In
the earlier