The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-23

are real things they do exist, and you love
them, Orestes2 /"
"Nonsense don't want to be Strapped
W so. You said, to begin with, that had
never had much belief in the better side of
human nature. ] acknowledged | was ear
ly disseminated. saw behind the hollow
meas of This thing we call respectable So
ciety. ! saw early that what was vice in
poor sally Brown al the poor end Of the
street was not vice in Miss Ida Mormon
cncy at the rich end Of the street. | saw
that if a rich mans son did fraudulent
thing il was condoned, CLOSED over, and
called youthful indiscretion | saw that if
poor mans son did the same thing he
went to isi for it. | saw Mrs. Chermoya
flirt, and deceive her husband, and lead
bad life, and be sustained in il and | saw
a poor clerks pretty wife utterly despised
and cast out because she yielded for mo-
ment to the batteries of well-bred man
of the world. saw in fact that vice ari
goodness and evil, are not positive terms
they do not mean the law of conscience,
or the mandates Of God they mean simply
what the reigning a s means TO call them,
and as long IS you are rich and powerful
and Influential, as long as you keep on q
mask Of responsibility, you can do any
thing evil, aud still be a parsonage OF i'm
portance, having all the value of char
vcter."
"Well, Orestes, is not that very mask of
responsibility the tribute which vice pays
to viltue?'
eyes, in a measure--the SOFT of worship
which the high priests Of Jupiter pay him
in "La Belle Helene when they look at the
offerings and say, 'Trop DIES neurs, pas
dagneaux.' So | got to despise social os-
tracisms, and to believe that person who
il under ban may be much the best of us
ALL"
"That has happened before now, be-
lieve," taid |.
eyes We have all lived to see the scales
| jump, and him who weighed heaviest be-
come lightest but, in spite of my scOrn OF
what | considered and consider still, the
snobbishness of human criticism, had a
very great belief in certain characters. |
| haze seen some of them 20 down. and |
have found that forty years Of virtue-nsy,
flfty--may be no safeguard, and confess
don't like it,"
"No, we don't like failure and dlsap-
pointment, and | confess We have to take
a great deal of them. | have always been
sorry that LongfellOw wrote "Evangeline
for there hope deferred and the failure OF
the strongest affection became a gospel.
|
| thing else and keeps from US our hearts
desire, how maddening it is ~
eyes. Who is it who says, 'Thc choir
of life has lost one note. Who has got it
what angel Of heaven, what demon OF
hell, has stolen ii? Is it better Cor us. or
worse, that the chord is always impertec
We go searching for it forever-happy for
us if the quc't leads us upward! One
thing is quite ccrain-wc could nCne of liz
live if we saw life cd out before
US. We must take il a3 it comes piece
meal
"Do you join in this universal cry that
dishonesty ia more common now than for
merry p | asked.
81 think, said Osestes, wandering Off to
his beloved statistics, 'rhit celt du crimes
seem to flourish in certain res of tie woi Ia,
and that stealing seems to nc the fashion,
able crime Just now. Poisoning had it,
day, aud Il very brilliant day it was 1t
was the era of Lucretia Boreia, Brinyi liels,
Calharlne de Medici Thee WAS generally
a beautiful woman in the matter, but II was
contagious, and men did mol hesitate. Nov
a man or woman who would not he,ilate 10
inappropriate Il hundred thousand dollar.
would very much object to mix NJ ar.enic
in my whskey punch Yon ste fash
ions change in crimes as well as in bon
nets"
"Are not the lines of poverty less clear
ly dcfucd than they used to beg
'Frhe terms 'meum' and tuum' and many
others are becoming confused, | think
The expenditures of great war. the plan
ming of vast enterprises, the unfolding of
great unexpected weelth-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 PulCrave
-'why suppress the lesson afforded 10y he
depravity of the greatest, wisest, meanest
of mankind'-him whose defilI ments teach
US that the most transcendent nteiec-
tuality is consistent with the deepest tur-
pitude y
Exactly what have been saying said
| DRESSES; "only you never listen. 1t is the
downfall Of such rs he tnat spells my be-
lief in human nature. | remember, a few
years ago, some one log TO me that he
had not found the 'protCssedly pious' peo-
pie cheerful people, that tie people who,
in their own language, had found hope
were the most gloomy and crave people in
the community, and he argued i'll for that
system of religious helot which, while
opening the most heavenly door Of cheer
lulness, still left its believers sad and I'M
happy. Now, l argue something in the
same vein of disperagement. II forty
years Of good, honest lite do not give you
q right TO trust "A man, what dOes?'
"Call no man happy uuil he is dead.
| Death alone closes mans account, and
sets seal upon his actions"
YES, that is a good quotation; but after
a man is dead | have no u.s. 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.'
"There are such characters, and many
of them, said |.
"Yss,' replied Orestes (who always say S
eyes" in an acid and horseradish manner
as if he meant ffty thousand 'noes y
"yea but there used to be more of them "
"We must come back to DR., johnson,
dOn'tyou think so? Yet such is the slate
of all moral virtue that il is always uncer-
tain and variable, sometimes extending TO
the whole compass of duty, and sometimes
shrinking into a narrow space and torlfy
| ing only a few avenues of the heir1, while
all the rest is left open to the iucurslons OF
appetite, or given up To the dominion OF
| wickedness ! think we sometimes do our
| illchus great liJustho ny ~. '''"5 " mn
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 ~ the ideal of him in the breast OF
the woman who loves him. M tstNer is
so good as his children believe him & lie.
No friend-no Jonathan is what his David
thinks him. To get al the true perception
of character, one should take an average of
the opinions of ones friends and ones foes.
The delightful exaggeration of sil lection is
apt to demand superiority WI ch does
not exist therefore, when the idol rs found
out to be of wood, we smash it in our dis
gust and disappointment
ave are all gong through that alternate
hot and cold atmosphere all cur lives, said
Orestes. "The hoy, leaves his dotug
mamma to go TO college tutors and profes-
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