The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-29

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u.s. We must take it as it comes-piece-
meal"
''Do you join in this universal cry that
dishonesty is more common now than for
mery 2" asked.
81 think" said Orestes, wandering off to
his beloved statistics, "that certain crimes
seem to flourish in certain ages Of the world,
and that stealing seems TO be the fashion
able crime lust now. Poisoning had its
day, aud very brilliant day it was. II
was the era of Lucretia Borgia, BrinvilieIs,
Catharine dc Medici. There was generally
beautiful woman in the matter, but it was
contagious, and men did not hesitate. Now
a man or woman who would not hesitate to
misappropriate a hundred thousand dollars
would very much object to mixing arsenic
in my whiskey punch. You sec fash
ions change in crimes as well as in bon
nets"
care not the lines of poverty less clear
| ly defined than they used to be?'
"The terms 'meum' and tuum' and many
others are becoming confused, l think.
| The expenditures Of great war, the plan
ming of vast enterprises, the unfolding of
great unexpected wealth-all these things
disturb the arithmetic of thrift and hon
esty which humber earnings, less sudden
| gains, and less exciting times, leave clear
| and plain"
"And yet Francis Bacon had none Of
these temptations. why says Pulgrave
-'wby suppress the lesson afforded by the
| depravity of the greatest, wisest, meancst
Of mankind'-him whose defilements teach
US that the most transoendent intollec-
tualty is consistent with the deepest tur-
pitude?"
Exactly what l have been saying" said
Orestcs "only you never listen. II is the
downfall Of such as he that spoils my be-
lief in human nature. | remember, few
years ago, soma one saying to me that he
had not found the 'profesaedly pious' poo
pie cheerful people, that the people who,
in their own language, had found hope
were the most gloomy ard grave people in
the community, and he argued i'll for that
| system of religious belief which, while
opening the most heavenly door of cheer
fulness, still left its believers sad and M
| happy. Now, l argue something in the
same vein of disparagement. If forty
years of good, honest life do not give you
right to trust man, what dOes?"
"Call no man happy uutil he is dead.
Death alone closes mans account, and
sets seal upon his actions"
''Yes, that is a good quotation; bat after
man is dead l have no use for him
want him to be alive, and to be of invari.
able rectitude. | want to trust him with
bags Of untold gold and then to receive
back mine own with usury."
"Therc are such characters, and many
of them" said /.
eyes" replied Orestes (who always says
eyes" in an acrid and horseradish manner,
as if he meant fifty thousand "noes'D-
''yea; but there used to be more of them"
eve must come back to DR.. johnson,
don't you think SO? Yet such is the state
of all moral virtue that it is always uneer-
tain and variable, sometimes extending to
the whole compass of duty, and sometimes
shrinking into narrow space and fortify
ing only few avenues of the heart, while
all the rest is left open to the incursions OF
appetite, or given up to the dominion of
wickedness.' | think we sometimes do our
friends great injustice by creating a char.
acter for them believing them stronger
than they are, we then blame them for be-
ing less noble than our ideal. No man is
so great as the ideal of him in the breast of
the woman who loves him. No father is
so good as his children believe him to he.
No frend-no Jonathan is what his David
thinks him. To get at the true perception
of character, one should take an average of
the opinions of ones friends and ones foes.
The delightful exaggeratiOn of affection is
apt to demand a superiority which does
not exist therefore, when the idol is found
out to be of wood, we smash il in our dis
gust and disappointment"
"We are all gong through that alternate
hot and cold atmosphere all our lives" said
Orestes. 1.-THE boy, leaves his doting
mamma to go to college tutors and profess
sore. who cannot be said to particularly
dote on their pupils. The man leaves his
wife, who thinks him Magnus Apollo, to
go down town where no such compliment
tary opinion holds good. The woman leaves
her husbands side to go from the home
where she is an empress in her own right
into womsn's meeting, where every one
meets her with looks which are, to say the
least, askance, or she goes to party to find
every other woman handsOmer or better
dressed than herself"
81 see the sneer, Ores,es, and | hear the
words better dressed / suppose you are
going to preach q sermon on that topic
now, are you not z"
emo; l think that sermon has preached
itself ], and other great orators, can af-
ford to be silent there"
"We are very thankful, Orestes, for your
temporary silence 1t is curious instance,
however, of the radiation of an idea from
high point-the effect the thrones have
upon dress. A beautiful empress, twenty
years presiding at the Tuileries, revolution
lied dress, and made it impossible for Sally
Brown up at Cranberry Centre to dress
plainly"
"Sally Brown should have shown more
character
Impossible when the fashions travel by
telegraph !"
1.-The mass are the tools of circumstance
thistle down on the breeze, straw on the
river their course is shaped for them by
the currents and eddies of the stream of life
but only in proportion as they are things
not men and women. Man was meant to
be, not the slave, but the master of circum-
stance; and in proportion as he gets back
the spirit of manlness. which is self sacri-
fee, affection, loyalty to an idea beyond
| himself-a god above himself-so far will
| he rise above circumstances and WELD them
| at his will"
"That is very fine, indeed" said 1.
"That cannot be your own, Orestes?'
l was busy with my embroidery, and had
not noticed that Orestes was reading from
| a book.
| "No, that is not mine when you say a
| good thing, it is generally from Emerson
when read good thing, it is apt to be
| from Cnarles Kingsley. lhere was man
There was a character ! Alas that death
had set his seal upon it ?"
| 81 cannot contradict you on that subject,
Orestes, for l loved him and revered him.
So Charles Kingsley said that, did he?
don't zee that we can say much more"
"We might fight little about the future,
couldn't we? Suppose we try to make the
character of the future statesman more
robust thing than it has been lately? Sup
pose you propose plan by which all mer
shall be brave and honest and all womer
virtuous ?"
"The Montmorency motto, or was it thu
Conde2 The proudest motto ever borne OF
escutcheon | shall go to my dear Dicken
for that recipe. He says; "Hang me al
the thieves IN Gibbet street, and the plac
will be crammed with fresh tenants in
week but catch me up the young thieve
from the gutter and the door steps, taxi
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