Show from the pally 29 THE HEART OK THE SLEEVE there ara two sorts of public sen aliment one is of the public and the other for the public one ia alic great progress a d liberty the othe ravan embodiment of the most puerile weakness of the human mind one is nith alie most exalted impulses and aspirations of mana pieer mathries manH ries alie other is the medium of his baoit unmanly it is with the latter beoit that ve wish to engage the aten tiou of tie reader we believe meet heartily in the ideal democratic doctrine of giving every man full liberty without the right of infringement upon his neighbor to work out hs problem of life according to his individual notions to advertise himself an 1 his affairs in any buhion or to any extent he pleases or to live and die in an attic with the drawn if that ba his pleasure yet in a vigorous and normal life there must be thoughts and to flinch the world Is morally entitled and other thoughts aad or sentiments if you please which are eo sacredly individual aliat it is a disloyalty to higher manhood 0 o astray them along with alie endowment of liberty therefore is that inestimable gilt discrimination which is the medium of all things good and great that are or may bo in this word alie dearest emoluments of feeling ara not those which are most manifest or that come through a trumpeting of ones abenti ments the pure true heart whose bodt st throbs are mentor of bady mind and soul of sincere inin hood is not and cannot bo worn apua alie sleeve and the insipid vanity that would prompt this exhibition of deep feeling in BO dong exhibits not alie thing it fur it not but another thing which it would vain conceal a most impotent spirit and unseemly lust for publicity the deeper currents of esteem affection and fidelity have no medium in they flow through the subtle and unostentatious impulses of mind and elint in whose infinite harmony sound finds no responses spon ses A medium eo tainted by alie vulgar alap trap of flattery and deceit bean no casport pa sport to alie temple of pure devotion or reverence in that sacred precinct humility abides and charity and sweet hold their silent counsels thera is the everlasting throne of aith and hope there aso are the pure of devotion courage and nobility absolute if any indeed there be what wants true honesty with the pra besof men its inspiration ia a consciousness of frailty and dependence the flatteries flat teries of honeyed speech could not make the heart that knows itself more bold or the bain more intrepid eliat haa measured well its feebleness what hath dumb charity in common with noisy admiration almi ration or honest sacrifice with the incitements of that they would wantonly flaunt their gracious deeds upon the housetops it is only the mercenary hypocrite w ho does bome poor service for his fellow and go s straight way and hawks his nothingness at the street corner the deed the sympathy the love eliat blesses and glorifies know not the emoluments emo laments of publicity city they flow with a spontaneous impulse of emotion whose only motive or reward is a beene of baving contributed a pleasure to the world it is a croel judgment that edys of tin s one thou bast no holing because of the absence of that r ver in the eye that more often tells of feebleness than graf or to that one thou hast not sympathy sym who scorns to unveil his ecart upon ha public thoroughfare we would not angly trust a deir possession with such a critic we should be afraid that he would destroy it or sell it toi a flain beai |