Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-12-23

strive to procure costs, brir g
ing to the market that which is not
merchandise, while others, who pcs
sess riches, think to themselves that
they can obtain of others things not
permitted any one to sell or buy, we
must rise against that coarse and or m
inal superstition, shout loudly to the
imposture. May your money perish
with you!" That which man has the
most precious he has generally re-
ceived gratuitously, that he may learn
to give it gratuitously.
CHAPTER TX.
NOTORIETY AND THE GOOD UN-
KNOWN.
One of the principal puerilities of
the times is the love of publicity. To
make themselves known, and to come
forth from obscurity-some are so de-
voured by this desire that they may
Justly be said to be attacked by the
itch for notoriety. In their eyes OBJ
security is the greatest of ignominies:
and so they do everything to cause
themselves to be remarked. They
consider themselves in their I'M
known quality as lost beings, to be
compared to the wrecks that one
night of tempest has thrown on some
desert rock, and who resort to clam
ors. to detonations, to fire and all i'm
aginable signals to let people know
they are there. Not content with set
ting off torpedoes, and innocent fuses,
to make themselves known at any
baseness and quite to crime. The In
cendiary Erostrate, has made nu-
merous disciples. How many in these
times have become celebrated for
having destroyed something of ma X
ed value, demolished, or tried to de-
molish, an illustrious reputation, or
show their passage, in fact, by scan
dal wickedness, or some resound-
ing barbarity.
This craze for notoriety is nursed
not only among cracl ed heads, or in
the doubtful financial world-among
charlatans and rascals of all ranks,
but it is spread over all the domains
of the spiritual and material life. Pol
| itics, literature, science even, and,
most shocking of all, charity and re-
| ligion. have been infested by this de-
sire for notoriety. They blow trumpets
about their good works, and to en-
vert souls they have imagined noisy
practices. Following the savages, the
fever of noise has gained the ordi'
narily silent retreats, troubled the
generally well-poised minds, and viii
ated, in large measure, the activity
for good. The abuse of showing ev
erything, or more properly of spread
ing everything out; the growing in
capacity of approaching that which
remains hidden, and the habit OF
measuring the value of things by the
noise they make, has ended by alter
ing the most serious of judgments
and one asks oneself at times if so
ciety will not end by Transforming it
self into one vast fair where each one
beats his drum in front of his booth
One quits the intolerable cacophony
and dust of these exhibitions willing
ly. to go and breathe freely In some
lonely valley where one is surprised
to find how limpid the brook is, how
discreet the forest, and how agreea
BILE the solitude. Thank God, there
are still some asylums left inviolate
However formidable the noise may be
however deafening is the mixture o
mingled shrill voices. all that cal
reach no farther than a certain limit
and then it appeases itself and die
out. The domain of silence is waste
than that of noise, and in that lies GU
consolation.
Let us step on the threshold of tina
infinite world where dwells the I'M
known good, the silent labor We are
at the first view, under the charm tina
we feel when we first see the immacu
late snow where no foot has trod, tn
flowers of the solitary places, and los
paths which seem to go toward tn
d. limitless horizon.
, The world is made thus, that tn
: springs of work, the most activ
agents, are everywhere hidden. M
ture puts a sort of coquetry in thu
masking her works. One must TAX
. pains to watch them, and plan to SUI
=. prise her. if one desires to learn otf
-. err things than results, and penetrat
= the secrets of her laboratories. 1t
: the same in human society: the force
!, which are working for good renal
anu are llio III ONCl
: one of our lives, for what we have {
the best is not communicable, and
buried in our profoundest depths. TIL
more energetic these sentiments ar
entwined even with the very root
of our nature, the less they seek o
tentation; they believe they would /
profaning themselves in exposin
them to the clear light of day. Thel
is a secret and inexpressible joy
possessing in oneself a deep inwar
ness which God alone knows, an
from whose impulsion we live, an
draw the spontanety, and the dali
renewal of our courage and the mo-
powerful motives of outward actio
When this intimate life loses it's i
! tensity, when man neglects it to cal
= for the surface, he loses in Walt
all he gains in appearance. By So
fatality it also happens that often v
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