The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-02

smell Of birthstone as any other. So
gentlemen we fight it out on this line.
We give you the strai ght Republican
county ticket and the Vermontcr the
Bolters' Ticket. You can take your
choice.
Pleasure.
O'Breu's show attracted a large num
Der to town. Whether enough to make
it remuneratiye or not, we did not learn.
That don't concern US. What we thought
of as we saw the crowds on our streets,
was that they were pursuit of pleasure.
There might have been many with some
higher object in attending "the show" so
that if pleasure was a result to them, it
was indirect and subsidiary. Wei, doubt.
less many were there, who don't expert
epce an over amount of happiness, and so
endeavor to extract from it a cheap and
poor sort of pleasurable qualification.
But while the occasion referred to
may have our thoughts in this direction,
we design to speak more especially of
exclusive devotedness to pleasure as such
There is an old maxim, and quite sound
one too, that "IIe that loveth pleasure
shall be q poor man." And does not ex.
perience fully sanction this maxim? We
think so. Who that gives himself up to
this ideal is not on the direct road tc
penury and the poor-house ? And is il
not surprising that so many do it Ii
must arise 10 all cases, from false or in-
adequate view of life. And certainly il
is such q view, as must make even the
political economist look thoughtful and
anxious. So long as such masses of our
population, are more attracted with lit
tie brazen music from more brazen faced
men, and by the gaudy posters Of timer.
ating matters and things, of one sort and
another, and by much of mere sight and
sham, and find their Gil of delight in and
amid such scenes, what high hopes can
any entertain fer any rational progress
Who does not see that such a life, thus
empty, must inevitably be the depository
of much that is vain aud vicious. A mere
pleasure seeking life will be downward
life. For pleasure is sort of stimulant
Like him who INDUCES in drink of whis
key, to buoy him up and carry him
through some arduous duty while it may
answer such purpose, if INDUCED il
again and again will necessarily require al
added amount or additional strength tc
produce like effect And so the pleas
ure seekers course is downward one
This philosophy declares. This our daily
observation corroborates. The incident!
of our village, from day to day show
this. Every place has It's saddening II
Illustrations. When we see a young mar
Or young woman give themselves up t.
pleasure, without any effort at self den
al, we give up all hopes of :heir improve
ment. We expect to see them moths up
on society, the devourers of its virtuou
textures and of its richest adornments
We have great mary such in all thi
region. The world over we find them
They have never learned the art of sci
denial. They have never been laugh
that this art is one of the essential branch
es of a good education. They are very
tar from ever realizing, that such an ed
ucation may be the truest source Of thu
truest pleasure.
The most superficial glance at thu
crowds, as they surge through the street.
of our larger places, show that they ar
in pursuit Of new sensation. For ole
ones are cloying. All such surfeit. ant
not satisfy. An old maxim has it, tha
"He buys honey too dear, who ticks i
from thorns," another, that "Sweet mea
must have sour sauce" In the middle
ages, it is said to have been a practise t.
send poisoned flowers to princes aut
great persons,when plot was laid agains
their life. The fact may be otherwise
but the moral it suggests is valuable auC
true. Pleasures poisoned flowers hav,
killed their thousands, and that of al
classes. Goethe in his Faust" intro
duces for his hero student longing TO
the pleasures of knowledge. The devi
appears, to seduce him from his pursuit
Faust is to have all possible sensual en-
joyment in life, but is 10 pay for it, b,
yielding his soul to the devil at last. A
the end, Mephistopheles, jealous of hi
claim, appears and carries off his victim
he students lost soul.
Take care Of your pleasures. Cleopa
tra's asp was introduced in a basket o
flowers.
"Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care
First wish to be imposed on, and then are"