The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-11-18
The MEN Who
never SPEAK
How The Trappist Monks
Live Under Vow.
Of Silent Working Ten Hours a
Day in the Fields and
Workshops.
A vow of silence.

Only one mead a day, consisting ot
vegetable soup, boiled bread and rice,
from fifteen to twenty ounces al
together.
During Lent only one meal of bread
and water.
Frequent fasts.
Frequent and prolonged devotions
with penancos for the slightest for
getfulness.
Prayer at 2 a. IN.
Rise at a. m. winter and summer.
Work ten hours a day in tho fields
OF workshops.
To bed on hard plank at sun
down.
Pray six hours a day.
AS the bells in ths town of Goth
semane abbey chimed II o'clock, the
great gate of the monastery swung
open, and Count Edward do Bourbon,
a descendant OF tho old royal house
Of France; Baron de Saumur, a Bel
gian nobleman, and Oscar Bachstetz,
"a FORMER private in thee United States
army, strobe out in single file, writes
Karl X. Kit0h On in the New York
World. They were dressed in monk
ish garb their h ads covered with
huge brOad-brimmed hats. Over
their Shoulders Were long-bladed
scathes that flashed as the sunlight
struck their steel. The three men
descendant of kings, a noble lord,
and former private soldter-doffed
their hats to M. smiled ard con-
unued Their course down the dong av-
odlne of elms that stretches from the
gate Of the monastery to the county
pike
Hardly had they disappeared down
the road when the great gate again
swung open and dozen more men,
similarly clad and with various farm
implements, emerged and strobe off
swiftly in the same direction. They
turn and smil ID. Not word did
they answer to my salutations. They
darod not. For they were manrbers
OF the Trappios order, pledged to ST.
lence for tho remainder of tn dir DAYS
| was before tho monastery of Goth
Ssanane-the Order of the Silent
Observation-Disclosures miles from
Bardstown. Ky.
The great gates of the monastery
closed. On it i, boldlettars MAS the
following inscription:
Women Are Forbid,.n Und,T Pain
Of decentralization to Emf n This
Gate.
bell rore was clcse by ard in
answer 10 its summons an old gray
headed mOnk-tha port r-opanad
the gate and admitted M was
thn in the ciJis.cr of the Trappists
-the strang1s and least Known of
of religious ord. in Am ,rica today.
The clOister was desert, I'd. All of
the ninoty-od1 monks who make up
this order were in The fields or work
shops except til; porter and the
gLestmast"r. IL would have make
l"tIe diffcrorce it they had been
thtTe for not Gns word would they
have uttered. or the ninoty-odd only
the porter. gudstmastar and abbo
are allowed 70 spak. The others are
nos only undr vows to rpgtlial and
eStrene poverty, chastity, industry,
separation, pcnitence and submits
sipn, out 10 everlasting silence. In
TART needless word entails sever,
pnance and rsmorsc They spen1
their days in the folds and work.
shops of the abbey. rising at 4 O'Clock
in the morning and retiring at sun
down.
The abbey OF Ceths1 mane is a self
sustaining institution. Everything
NJ monks require is raised or made
on the 1000 acres of beautiful Ken
lucky farm country that surrounds
the monastery. And not only ara
they forbiddea to speak TO anyone.
but they are not allowed to read
anything except the old book In tho
monastery library Even letters or
newspapers are not allowed 10 enter
the silent plaoo. 1t is doubtful if
three men in tho abbey know the
name Of the praSidant OF the United
States ca the governor of Kentucky.
All tender and sympathetic emotions
which in this life visit the human
heart are suppressed. The deaths of
nearest and dearest relatives are new
er announced TO them. Forgotten
by the world, they themselves forget
the world.
Among their number are many
man of distinguished careers, many
who have hnrna titlos A nnco cola