The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-23
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now, are you not p
ono; | think that sermon has preached
itself |, and other great orators, can al
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, aud made it impossible for Sally
Brown up at Cranberry Centre 10 dress
plainly"
'Sally Brown should have shown more
character"
Impossible when the fashions travel by
telegraph !"
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 circun-
stance; and in proportion as he gels tack
the spirit of manliness. which is tc!t sacrl-
flee, 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 |.
"That cannot be your own, Orestes?'
/ was busy with my embroidery, and had
not noticed that Orestes was reading from
book.
"No, that is not mine when you say
good thing, it is generally from Emerson
when read good thing, it is apt to be
from Charles Kingsley. There was a man
There was character Alas thai death
had set his seal upon it p
81 cannot contradict you on that subject,
Orestes, for loved him and revered him.
So Charles Kingsley said that, did heI |
don't see 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 men
shall be brave and honest and all women
Yirtuous 2"
''The Montmoreucy motto, or was it the
Condo? The prOudest motto ever borne on
escutcheon | shall go to my Gear Dickens
for that recipe. He says: "HaDg me all
the thieves IN Gbbet street. and the place
will be crammed with fresh tenants in
week but catch me up the young thieves
from the gutter and the door steps, take
Jonathan Wild from the breast, send Mrs.
Sheppard to Bridcwcll, bnt take hale young
Jack out of her arms, teach and wash me
this young, unkempt, vicious colt, and he
will run for the virtue stakes yet take the
young chill, the little lamb before the great
Jack Sheppard riddles him and holds him
for his own black fold in ILades give HIM
some soap instead of whipping him for
stealing q cake of brown Windsor teach
HIM the Gospel instead of sending him TO
the treadmill for haunting chapels and pur-
Joining prayer books out OF pews put him
in the way of filing shop-tlls instead of
transporting him when be crawls on handa
and knees to empty them let him know
that he has a body made FOR something bet
ter than to be kicked, bruised, cEained,
with hunger"
Eyes" said Orestes Gone of his worst
''yeses'-it sounded like a hiss y ''you are
describing the low order Of criminal mine
are men who had pious mothers, good
homes, happy surroundings they lived
good lives until, IS said before, the age of
temptation was passed and then they fell
How shall we educate our children 20 pre-
vent that final down fall, that late relapse,
that dying fall 2"
,'Orestes, you are preaching the logic of
despair How can tell you? How can
answer such a dreadful question | should
say the study of the truth, if that were not
vague answer"
Z" Men are apt to prefer prosperous er-
Tor to an afflicted truth, " said Orestcs,
quoting Jeremy Taylor.
''But all truth is not afflicted" ead (;
sit must exist somewhere. Everything is
not fraud and dsbOnor, else, like the wal
daubed with ill-tempered mortar, we should
tumble TO pieces"
(Which we have come very near doing"
said Oreses.
''England did not tumble because of
Warren Hastings" said |, ''nor has France
been killed by corruption Russin has sur
vived great deal and Germany l i'm
sgine, is not free from SLAIN"
''No; but republic ought to be
81 don't know. | think Il republic has
very severe strains upon its virtues. We
have but few antecedents, and they are al
ways strongholds of virtue. There must
be rough and tumble fight for Office here
such, for instance as England can never
know. Who would suspect Mr.. Gladstone
or Mr.. Disraeli There is sure to be any
thing but the survival of the tittest in our
way of doing things. No tyraat like "A
many headed one Aristotle says "A
king ruleth as he ought, as he lists king
to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please
himself"
''That ia pretty talk for the centennial
year." said Orestes.
JBy king simply mean abstract viz
the, what the governing power ought to be. "
"a decided abstraction, should say"
''Accordirg to your ideas, abstraction is
the fashion
Eyes; but not intellectual abstraction
20 back to my original statement-I have
lost NV pearl Of price, and where shall
find t?"
"By counting up the thousands and thou
sands of good men ana women whom you
know DO You remember Sydney Smiths
facetous recipe against melancholy to a
fashionable woman Sit down and remem-
Ger all the compliments ever paid to you,
said he ''no matter how foolish they were
it will console you SO, ii you will count
all the honest people you know, Orestes,