OBIOOX
FRIDAY,
- MAKCH 27, 1881
tOCJLL AND PEBSONAI..
' J. A. Galliford was in the city Satur
day.
F. C. Sexton, of Dufur, was in the city
Friday. - .
Mrs. Benson of Five Mile is visiting
Mr. 8torra.
: '. Hon W. McD Lewis gave na a pleas
ant call Saturday.
James Fitzgeral of Kingsley was regis-
tered at the Umatilla, Saturday.
Frank Fulton, of Biggs, Sherman
eounty, gave us a pleasant call Friday
... , Eryin M. Shutt, foreman, and manager
of the Wasco Observer gave us a pleasant
call Friday.
The freight teams are being loaded for
Prineville the first of the season and
unusually early.
A. McDonald of Monkland,' Sherman
county, and James Baldwin of Portland,
were in the city Friday. -
The city assessor expects to commence
the assessment of city porperty for the
current year on Monday next.
' A number of farmers and sheep men
are in town looking for men to work on
their ranches and assist during the
lambing season.
The "beligerent ; bully from Belfast"
is not from Belfast. That's 'the fun of
the thlng.C "Ananias3' couldn't tell the
truth if he tried. -,.
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Hon. - Robt. Mays has returned from
his ranch at Tygh Valley, i He reports
the farmers all' along the road side as
being baef 'plowing and seeding.
The" household goods of Pr. J. G.
. Boyd are already packed and addressed
lor shipment to Bernalillo, N. M.', where
the doctor intends to make his future
home.
'"The marriage of John Nachter and Miss
Borstal, ' both of Bake .Oven was cele
irated Thursday afternoon by fiev. Mr.
Horn at the German .Lutheran church
in this city. '
The wife of County Assessor, John E.
Barnett, who is a sister .of Mrs Monroe
Grimes accompanied Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Shearer are on their way to Huntington,
Saturday night.
We would caB the attention of stock
men to the advertisement of merino
sheep for sale which appears in another
column The "sheep are' very fine and
will be sold at k bargain.-.
The delinquent taxes due Crook county
amount to something ' over $8000. A
lance at the list -shows that some of the
elinquents are dead, some in the pen
itentiary; and some others are non-residents
of the state. Newt. ,
Beports from all agricultural points!
tell us that the farmers are all busy
plowing. 4 Winter lingered so long in
the lap of spring, that the season for
plan ting - will be - necessarily' short and
every moment must count. .
The new goods for the Eastern Oregon
Co-operative store have arrived, and are
being opened np, and put in place. The
tore will be opened for business on the
25th. E. N. Chandler and S. R. Hus
bands will conduct the business for the
present. " '
The new flag has flung to the breeze
on top of the brick school house. Mr.
McOrunl who set the flag staff in posi
tion and raised the flag says it is the first
time he has hoisted . the American : flag
since he licked the Jonniea and sup
pressed the rebellion.
The Fairfield Dramatic Club gave an
opening entertainment at the new Opera
house Friday night -which was a brilliant
success. The play was "Above the
Clouds."' ahd Its- rendition was exceed
ingly creditable and gave great satisfac
tion to the audience. ...
A gentleman of this city whose position-
.gives ; him- -opportunity - to know
what is going on in certain quarters in
accessible to a newspaper man was heard
to say "Last fall I would have sold my
property in this city at almost anything
I could get for it, now I would not sell it
at any price.
The . Timet-Mountaineer says if Mr.
McCbyJwere to be a. candidate tomor
row he would" receive the full vote of the
party," " . What - party T - The railroads?
ers?Tlffever 1 ) But i then' he might be
elected, all the same. The railroads are
mighty jpowerful in these parts.
The Athland Tiding speaking of Mr.
T. T..Turner the gentlemanly and oblig
ing operator of the Western Union tele
graph' ofBct at t the Umatilla bouse in
this city says: "Mr. Turner is well
known to our citizens who will welcome
him back to his old position here." No
yru don't.- We'll keep him here as long
as he wants to stay.
The almost unanimous report from the
country assure us that the 1 ground has
an abundance of moisture and .was
never in finer condition at this season.
The shortness of the eeeding-time works
no hardship here. -Grain -may be sown
as long as the soil has sufficient moisture
to give the young grain a good start. .
Mr." Whealdon returned Saturday
from the Fossil coal mines. ' Mr. Head
atrom has gone back east. It is believed
he "was very' much" satisfied with the
indications and that mining experts will
be sent here without delay; with proper
tools' to teat 'the' quantity of coal not in
sight.... All ' present '' indications are
favorable for the early working of the
mines. ;
The executive board of the .Klickitat
County . Temperance Alliance offer a
standing reward of $25 for the arrest and
conviction of any doctor giving a permit
to any person to purchase intoxicants in
violation of the laws of the state ; and a
farther reward' of $25 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
any druggist or Other person selling in
toxicants in violation of the law of the
state.
Speaking of the street rumors anent
the coming backr.of the shops to this
city It is beyond all doubt that two em
plopes of the company -were here only a
short tune ago to- make a report on the
cost of repairing-the old shops and other
estimates. They reported that it would
cost more to repair the old shops than it
would to build new ones. This, taken
In connection with the purchase by the
company of 14 acres In the new West
Dalles addition may mean the building
of new shops there.
THI DALLIS,
Binder Hermann Says Settler Can Par
ehasa 820 Acres.
In response to inquiries the following
letter has been received by Hon. W. H.
Biggs :
Washington, D. C, March 10, 1891.
Eon. W. H. Biggi:
My dkab Sib : Your favor as to land
forfeiture is at hand and I have per
sonally consulted with the land depart
ment on the subject.
You say the local land officers decided
that you were not entitled to purchase
320 acres of land under the forfeiture act
unless the subdivisions lie contiguous.
There is nothing in the law to warrant
such construction. The legislative in
tent was to recognize the rights of claim
ants under R. R. company agreements
or license as near as possible as their
rights would nave been recognizee: Dy
the R. R. company itself except that the
lav fixed a maximum limit to their
holdings. It was to leave this class of
neoDle who acted in eood faith and sup
posed the R. R. company would at some
time earn the land, in as good condition
as if they eventually acquired title from
me corporation. iuw, uiiucr iuc
contract it was not reauired as I under
stand them, that the subdivisions of a
nnrchase should be contiguous. The
Question for the land officers to decide is,
"What was your contract, agreement or
license with K. K. company t wnai
specific lands were embraced within such
arrangement? Or what was your intent
as to making future purchase and what
did you take possession or pursuant to,
not exceeding 320 acres?" The language
of the law is : t'That in all cases where
persons are in possession of any of the
binds affected by any such grant, under
deed, written contract, or license, or
where persons may have settled $aid
lands, they shall be entitled to purchase
the tame in quantities not exceeding 320
acres." lours xruiy,
Bingisb Hermann.
A Pioneer Passing; Away.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shearer left this
city Friday on their way to Hunting
ton to visit their adopted daughter, Mrs.
Grimes, who is reported to be danger
ously ill from "nervous rheumatism."
During a short conversation with Mr.
and Mrs. Shearer yesterday afternoon we
learned that an old and respected citizen
of The Dalles and of this county, L. Tir
ril, also lies at the point of death at
Huntington. In fact so little hope is
entertained of his recovery that Mr.
Shearer expects to be accompanied by
his remains on his return. He is suffer
ing from a verulent form of typhoid
fever. This will be sad news to many an
old friend and acquaintance. The severe
and protracted winter of a year ago left
Mr. Tirril penniless, it having destroyed
$10,000 worth of his sheep all he had.
Poor Tirrel ! A bigger-hearted, more
generous, kinder or honester fellow never
lived. If indeed he should leave us, we
shall not soon see his like again. He
was one of nature's own noblemen. His
stricken and distressed wife will have
the warmest sympathy of all who ever
knew them both. -
Reciprocity.
The following dispatch is self-explanatory.
Washington, D. C, March 20, 1891.
To the Emperor of Germany:
Dkab William: I see from reading
The Dalles Chbonicls, (published "daily
and weekly at The Dalles, Oregon, and
containing the associated press dis
patches the weekly only a dollar and a
half a year) that you don't like our
American hogs and have refused to buy
any more American pork. All right,
William, every man to his taste, as the
philosopher said when he kissed the
cow. But I want you to understand
distinctly that if you won't eat any of
our American pork I won't eat any more
of your Lim burger cheese. There now.
Yours for reciprocity, - -
. Ben Habbison.
Real Kstate Transactions.
Joseph McEachern and Alex McLeod
have filed for record a new subdivision
of the town of Parkhurst ' adjoining
Hood River.
J. A. Erwin to George Kochman and
Otto Hartman, lots 29 and 30 in block 6,
in Erwin & Watson's first addition to
the town of Hood River, consideration,
$1.
H. C. Coe, et. ux., to Lizzie R.
Thomas, lot 12 in block 1 in town of
Waco ma, consideration, $100.
Ruthinda Wallace to M. J. Maguire
148 acres in township 3 north of range
10 east. Consideration $1000.
H. L. Powell to School District No. 26,
tract of land in section 14, township 1
south, of range 12 east. Consideration
one dollar. -
Dora A. Lyons to E. R. Wingate, lots
K and L in block 75, in Fort Dalles ad
dition to Dalles City. Consideration $20.
Advertised Letter.
Following is a list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the postoffice at The Dalles
Oregon, March 21, 1891. Persons calling
for same wiil please say "Advertised."
Abint Marke Aimer H
BurrCE(4) Brainpan J
Campbell John Covev Mrs Mary E
Davis Mrs Helen C El kins J -Huffman
Robert Johns J R
Jordan Wm Marts Jas
Orr David Powell C E
Robinson Mrs M J Roberts J A
Stevens J ' Tapp Vincent
Trevett Mrs Vietor Wing Samuel
Bnche & Gibbs Plow Co.
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
The Best Cough Medicine.
"One of my customers came in todav
and asked me for the best cough medi
cine I had," says Lew Young, a promi
nent druggist of Newman Grove, Neb.
'"Of course I showed him Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and he did not ask to
see any other. I have never yet sold a
medicine that would loosen and relieve
a severe cold so quickly as that does. I
have sold four- dozen of it within the
last sixty davs, and do not know of a
single case wliere it failed to give the
most perfect satisfaction." 50 cent bot
tles for sale by Snipes & Kinersly, drug
store. FUR BALE.
A choice lot of brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock
wood Jr.,"."Planter," "Oregon Wilkes,"
and "Idaho Chief," same standard bred.
Also three fine young stallions by
"Rock wood Jr." out of first class mares.
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. W. Condon, or J. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
Merino Sheep for Sale.
I have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting of 67 bucks,
about 340 ewes and about 200 young
lambs,' which I will sell at a low price
and upon easy terms. Address,
. ' D. M. Fbknch, 1 :
The Dalles, Or.
Stock Strayed.
. Three 3-year-old fillies (2 sorrels and
one bay,) two 2-year-olds V both bays) all
branded i on the left shoulder. I will
give $5 apiece for the recovery of the
same. . J. W. Rogjebs.
Boyd, Or.
i Thb Dalles, Or., March 21, 1891.
i Editor Chronicle :' In an editorial in
the Timet-Mountaineer of Thursday, that
paper commenting upon Representative
Jenning's House Bill, No. 204,1 believe
uses this language :
We are informed that on the last day
of the session the senator from Lane
asked for unanimous consent to call up
bills which were low on the calendar.
A senator from Wasco countv whose
name was not Hilton objected and this
biu was kilted.
As I was the only senator from Wasco
county, except Senator Hilton I presume
this charge relates to myself. The state
ments are false in every particular and
the records will so show. The truth
about the matter is just this. A dav or
two before the legislature adjourned,
Senator Eakin of Lane eounty intro
duced a written resolution which was
sent to the clerk's desk and read. The
resolution in brief piopoeed that the roll
of the senate be called ; that as the
name of each senator was called he
should have the right to select and call
up any . bill he saw fit and put it
upon its final passage. This resolu
tion was put to a vote of the
senate and voted down by the majority.
I voted against the resolution because
it was not probable that those senators
whose names were at the foot of the list
would ever be reached and because it
was unjust and unfair to them as I had
reasons to know from similar experience
two years ago. This resolution had no
referencejwhatever to any particular bill,
whether high or low on the calendar.
No reference at all of any kind was made
to House bill No. 204, or any other
particular bill.
As I am not a mind reader I had no
idea then and have not the slightest idea
now what bill the senator from Lane
Co., would have named on call of his
name if the resolution had prevailed.
Again, the senator could at any time he
wished have moved to suspend the rules
and take up House bill No. 104 and as
he did not do so, I think it is but fair to
presume that he did not introduce the
resolution for the purpose of setting up
that bill. I did not oppose House bill
No. 204 and would have supported the
bill had it ever come up.
I am ready and willing at all times to
stand by the record.
The charges of the Timet-Mountaineer
are false and I beleive maliciously and
knowingly so. Geo. Watkins.
A Vew Railroad.
A gentleman well posted in the inner
workings of the transcontinental rail
road companies said yesterday to an
Oregonxan reporter :
Another railroad nroiect that is of
direct interest to the Oregon people will
no doubt soon be started by the Lehigh
Valley Coal company, of Pennsylvania".
The company has possession of vast coal
properties in milium county, in tne
vicinity of the town of Fossil. For the
development of these beds thejr propose
very soon building a road into that
country from some available point. Just
where it will be has not yet been decided
but the line will doubtless run either
from Heppner or The Dalles, more
likely from the latter point, as the route
is more feasible, owing to the presence
of water along the line. ' At any rate,
whichever route is taken, the state at
large will be benefitted by this addi
tional development ot one or ner great
natural industries.
A short time ago the following notice
appeared in the columns of the Tiniet
Mouniaineer :
Politics in this portion of the country
will be badly mixed hereafter, as is ap
parent from the present trend of affairs.
Republicans are arrayed against each
other, and the bitter feeling existing will
do considerable towards insuring victory
for the Democratic party. Difference
should be healed, and- the Timet
Mountaineer will take the initiative in
holding out the olive branch toward
any Republican who differ from it on
local questions.
Just now this republican editor is
holding out the "olive branch" to Sena
tor Watkins. He is attempting to do,
in the case of Senator Watkins, what he
blames the Chronicle for doing in the
case of McCoy and Hilton.
The salmon will have a hard time get
ting above the dalles of the Columbia
says the Oregonian. New wheels are
being placed in position at nearly every
available point on each side of the river
at the cascades and . the dalles, and
arrangements have been made to ship
two carloads of the royal fish to Eastern
markets as soon as tne close season is
over. Unless something is done soon in
the way erf establishing fish hatcheries
for the Columbia there will be an end to
the salmon industry in a few years.
Even a goose laying golden eggs could
not satisfy the cupidity of man. lor-
A Missouri Poet.
A Missouri poet uncorks in the fol
lowing style : "Twas out in the gloam
ing, way up in Wyoming, a naklen sat
combing her golden hair; when heated
with roaming, all panting and foaming,
there came up and hugged her, a grizzly
bear. It didn't affright her, the bear
didn't bite her ; she lay back and mur
mered, 'still tighter, dear!' This broke
up old Bruin, he left off his wooin'.
sneaked back to the mountains and hid
for a year."
Notice to tax Payers.
All state and county taxes,' become
delinquent April 1st. Taxpayers are here
by requested to pay the same before that
date in order to avoid going on the de
linquent Hat. The county court has
ordered the sale of all property in which
the taxes have not been paid. Please
call and settle before the time mentioned
and save costs. D. L. Cates, ;
Sheriff of Wasco County.
' Improve Your Poultry.
If you want chickens that will lay eggs
the year round without having to pen
them up to keep them from setting, get
thepure bred Brown Legiwrn. Mrs. D.
J. Cooper on the bluff, near the academy,
has the eggs for 75 cents per setting.
The Albany postmastership is settled
at last. A dispatch from Washington
gays : The Oregon delegation had a con
sultation and finally effected an agree
ment for Oregon on several important
appointments, and have recommended
to the president Hon. Peter Pacquet for
the receiver of the United States land
office at Oregon City, and Thomas Mon
teith for postmaster at Albany. The ap
pointment will doubtless be forthcoming
soon. Athland Tidingt.
- We have it on reliable authority that
two railroad contractors have already
expressed their readiness to take the
contract for building a portage railway
between The Dalles and Celilo or lett
than f '400,000. E. O. McCoy says it would
cost a "MILLION," with a big law suit
and innumerable other disadvantages
thrown in. Watco Observer.
The Dalles ' Chronicle and Wasco
Observer unite in . thanking E. O. Mc
Coy's satellites for assisting him in the
composition and fabrication of his reply.
Watco Observer.
A schoolteacher asked an Irish boy to
describe an island. "Sure, ma'am,"
said Pat, "it's a place you can't lave
without a boat."
"pmUE'OOlD'BOOKS:"
DR. TALMAGtrS THIRD SERMON ON
THE EVILS OF CITIES.
Be Makes a Stroma; Point Against Those
Parents Who Take No Thought as to
What Their Children Shall Read A a
Attentive Audience Present.
New Yobk, March 8. The plague of
pernicious literature formed the subject of
Dr. Talmage'a sermon today, which was
the third of t he series he is preaching on
the "Ten Plagues of the Cities." The
Brooklyn Academy of Mimic was filled in
the morning by a dense crowd eager to
hear it, and at night at the Christian Her
ald service in the New York Academy of
Magic the doors had to be dosed long be
fore the hoar of service, there being no
space available within the building for
more hearers. So large is the number of
those every week disappointed ot g"""g
admission that the project of hiring the
Madison Square Garden has again been re
vived. One citizen has offered to pay all
the expenses if the Garden can be secured
and Dr. Talmage can be induced to preach
in it. The text of the preacher's discourse
was taken from Ex. viii, 6, 7: "And
the frogs came up and covered the land of
Egypt. And the magicians did bo with
their enchantments, and brought up frogs
upon the land of Egypt."
THB ANCIENT PLAGUE OF FB0Q8.
There is almost a universal aversion to
frogs, and yet with the Egyptian they were
honored, they were sacred, and they were
objects of worship while alive, and after'
death they were embalmed, and today their
remains may be found among the sepul
chres cf Thebes. Tbese creatures, so at
tractive once to the Egyptians, at divine
behest became obnoxious and loathsome,
and they went croaking and hopping and
leaping iato the palace ot the king, and
into the bread trays and the coaches of the
people, and even the ovens, which now are
uplifted above the earth and on the side of
chimneys, but then were small holes in the
earth, with nan ken pottery, were filled
with frogs when the housekeepers came to
look at them. If a man sat down to eat a
frog alighted on his plate. If he attempted
to put on a shoe it was preoccupied by
frog. If he attempted to put his head upon
a pillow it had been taken possession of by
a frog.
frogs high and low and everywhere;
loathsome frogs, slimy frogs, besieging
frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague of
frogs. What made the matter worse the
magicians said there was no miracle in
this, and they con Id by sleight of hand
produce the same thing, and they seemed
to succeed, for by sleight of hand wonders
may be wrought. After Moses had thrown
down his staff and by mrracle it became a
serpent, and then he took bold of it and by
miracle it again became a btom, the serpent
charmers imitated the same thing, and
knowing that there were serpenbt in
Egypt which by a peculiar pressure on the
neck would become as rigid as a suck of
wood, they seemed to change the serpent
into the staff, and then, throwing it down.
the staff became the serpent.
So likewise the.-w magicians tried to imi
tate the plague of frogs, and perhaps by
smell of food attracting a great number of
them to a certain point, or by baking
them out from a hidden place, the ma
gicians sometimes seemed to accomplish
the same minw-la , While these magicians
made the plague worse, none of them tried
to make it better. Frogs came up and
covered the land of Egypt, and the ma
gicians did so with their enchantment, and
brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt."
THE SfODEBN rXAOUX OF TBDG&.
Now that plague of frogs has come back
upon the earth. It is abroad today. It is
smiting this nation. It comes in the shape
of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into
the store, the shop, the office, the banking
house, the factory into the home, into the
cellar, into the garret, on the drawing room
table, on the shelf of the library. While
the lad is reading the bad book the teacher's
face is turned the other way. One of these
frogs hops upon the page. While the young
woman is reading the forbidden novelette
after retiring at night, reading by gaslight,
one of these frogs leaps upon the page.
Indeed they have hopped upon the news
stands of the country and the mails at the
postomce shake out in the letter trough
hundreds of them. The plague has taken
at different times possession of this coun
try. It is one of the most loathsome, one
of the most frightful, one of the most
ghastly of the ten plagues of our modern
cities.
There is a vast number of books and
newspapers printed and published which
ought never to see the light. ' They are
filled with a pestilence that makes the land
swelter with a moral epidemic. The great
est blessing that ever came to this nation
is that of an elevated literature, and the
greatest scourge has been that of unclean
literature. This last has its victims in all
occupations and departments. It has
helped to fill insane asylums and peni
tentiaries and almshouses and dens of
shame. The bodies of this infection lie in
the hospitals and in the graves, while their
souls are being tossed over into a lost
eternity, an avalanche of horror and des
pair. The London plague was nothing to it
That counted its victims by thousands, but
this modern pest has already shoveled its
millions into thecharnel house of the mor
ally dead. The longest rail train that ever
ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks was
not long enough nor large enough to carry
the beastliness and the putrefaction which
have been gathered up in bad books and
newspapers of this land in the last twenty
years. The literature of a nation decides
the fate of a nation. Good books, good
morals. Bad books, bad morals.
THE LOWEST OP BAD UTBBATUBX.
I begin with the lowest of all the Utuaa
ture. that which does not even pretend to
be respectable from cover to cover a blotch
of leprosy. There are many wnose mtirm
business it is to dispose of that kind of lit
eral u re. They display it before the school
boy on his way home They get the cata
toguert of schools and colleges, take the
names and postoffice addresses, and send
their advertisement, and their ctrmiars,
and their pampleta, and their books to
every one of them.
In the possession of these dealers in bad
literature were found nine hundred thou
sand names and postomce addresses, to
whom it was thought it might be profit
able to send these corrupt things. Intbe
year 1873 there ware one hundred and sixty
five establishments engaged in publishing
cheap, corrupt literature. From one pob
liKhing house there went out twenty differ
ent styles of corrupt books. ' Although
over thirty tons of vile literature
been destroyed by the Society for the
preasion of Vice, still there is enough of it
left in this country to bring down upon ua
the thunderbolts of an incensed God.
In the year 1868 the evil bad become so
great in this country that the congress of
the United States passed a law forbiddmg
the transmission of bad literature thmngh
the United States mails, but there were
large loops in that law through which
criminals might crawl out, and the law
was a dead failure that law of 18C8. But
in 1873 another law was passed by the con
gress of the United States against the
transmission of corrupt literature through
the mails a grund law, a potent law, a
Christian law and under that law multi
tudes of these scoundrels have been ar
rested, their property confiscated and they
themselves thrown into the penitentiaries
where they belonged.
HOW ABB WB TO WAB AGAINST IT?
Now, my friends, how are we to war
against this corrupt literature, and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be
slain? First of all by the prompt and in
exorable execution of the law. Let ail good
postmasters and United States district at
torneys, and detectives and reformers con
cert m their action to stop this plague
When Sir Bowland Hill spent his life in
trying to secure cheap postage not only
for England, but for all the world, and to
open the blessing of the postoffice to all
honest business, and to all messages of
charity and kindness and affection, for
all healthful intercommunication, he did
not mean to make vice easy or to fill the
mail bags of the United States with the
scabs of such a leprosy.
It ought not to be in the power of every
bad man who can raise a one cent stamp
tor a circular or a two east stamp for a i
Utter to bias a man or Jsstiuy a home, !
clean, must be kept dean, and we must all
understand that the swift retributions of
the United States government hover over
very violation of the letter box.
There are thousands of men and women
in this country, some for personal gain,
some through innate depravity, some
through a spirit of revenge, who wish to
use this great avenue of convenience and
intelligence for purposes revengeful, aala
cinuH and diabolic. Wake un the law.
: Wake up all its penalties. Let every court
i room on this subject be a5nai thunderous
and aflame. Let the convicted offenders
be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or
Harrisburg.
I am not talking about what cannot be
done. I am talking now about what is be
ing done. A great many of the printing
presses that gave themselves entirely to
the publication of vile literature have been
stopped or have gone into business less ob
noxious. What has thrown off, what has
kept oft the rail trains of this country for
some time back nearly all the leprous pe
riodicals f Those of us who have beea on
the rail trains have noticed a great change
in the last few months and tha last year or
two. Why have nearly all those vile period
icals been kept off the rail trains for some
time back? Who effected it? These soci
eties for the purification of railroad liter
ature gave warning to the publishers and
warning to railroad companies, and warn
ing to conductors, and warning to news
boys, to keep the infernal stuff off the
trains.
Many of the cities have successfully pro
hibited the most of that literature even
from going on the news Bfundfi Terror
has seised upon the publishers and the
dealers in impure literature, from the fact
that over a thousand arrests have been
made, and the aggregate time for which
the convicted have been sentenced to the
prison is over one hundred and ninety
years, and. from the fact that about two
million of their circulars have been de
stroyed, and the business is not as profit
able as it used to be.
THB LAW THE LAWl
How have so many of the newsstands of
our great cities been punned? How has so
much of this iniquity been balked? By
moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as
well go into a jungle of the East Indies
and pat a cobra on the neck, and with pro
found argument try to persuade it that it
is morally wrong to bite and to sting and
to poison anything. The only simiii ui to
your argument would be an uplifted bead
and a hiss and a sharp, reekingtooth struck
into your arteries. The only argument
for a cobra is a shotgun, and the. only argu
ment fur these dealers in impure literature
is the dutch of the police and bean soup in
a penitentiary. The law! The law I I in
voke to consummate the work so grandly
begun!
Another way in which we are to drive
back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by
filling the minds of our young people with
a healthful literature. I do not mean to
siy that ail the books and newspapers in
our families ought to be religious books
and newspapers, or that every song ought
to be sung to the tune of "Old Hun
dred." I have no sympathy with the
attempt to make the young old. I would
rather join in a 'crusade to keep the
young young. Boyhood and girlhood
must not be abbreviated. But there are
good books, good histories, good biogra
phies, good works of fiction, good books of
all styles with which we are to nil the minds
of the young, so that there wiH be no more
room for the useless and the vidous than
there is room for chaff in a bushel measure
which is already filled with Michigan
wheat.
Why are 50 per cent, of the criminals in
the jails and penitentiaries of the United
States today under twenty-one years of
age? Many of them under seventeen, un
der sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen,
under thirteen? Walk along one of the
corridors of the Tombs prison in New York
and look for yourselves. Bad hooka, bad
newspapers bewitched them as soon as
they got oat of the cradle. Beware of all
those stories which end wrong. Beware
of all those books which make the road
that ends in perdition seem to end in Par
adise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pis
tol. Do not call , the desperado brave or
the libertine gallant. Teach our young
people that if they go down into the
swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o'-lanterns
dance on the decay and rotten
ness they will catch the malaria and death.
"Ob," says some one, "I am a business
man, and I have no time to eramine what
my children read. I have no time to in
spect the books that come into my house
hold.'' If your children were threatened
with typhoid fever, would you have time
to go for the doctor? Would you have thne
to watch the progress-of the disease? Would
you hare time for the fnneral? In the
presence of my God I warn you of the fact
that your children are threatened with
moral and spiritual typhoid, and that un
less the thing be stopped it will be to them
funeral of body, funeral of mind, funeral
of soul. Three funerals in one day.
My word is to this vast multitude of
young people: Do not touch, do not bor
row, do not buy a corrupt book or a cor
rupt picture. A book wiH decide a man's
destiny for good or for evfl. The book you
read yesterday may have decided you for
time and for eternity, or it may be a book
that may come into your possession to
morrow. THB POWBB OT A GOOD BOOK.
A good book who can exnirvvr.-ite its
power? Benjamin Franklin -:: 0s
reading of Cotton Mather's -
Good" in childhood gave In
ticms for all the rest of hi- .
Law declared that a biogriy. . . in
childhood gave him all hi .j...-.-:;utat
prosperities. A clergyman, many years
ago, pmwipg to the far west, stopped at a
hotel. He saw a woman copying some
thing from Doddridge's "Rise and Prog
ress." It seemed that she had borrowed
the book, and there were some things she
wanted especially to remember.
The clergyman had in his sachet a copy
of Doddridge's "Rise and Progress," and
so be made her a present of it. Thirty
years passed on. ' The clergyman came
that way, and he asked where the woman
was whom be had men so long ago. "She
lives yonder in that beautiful house."
He went there and said to her. 'Do
you remember me?" She said, "No, I
do not." He said, "Do you remember a
man gave you Doddridge's 'Rise and
Progress' thirty years ago?" "Oh, yes; 1
remember. That book saved my soul. I
loaned the book to all my neighbors, and
they read it and they were converted to
God, and we had a revival of religion
which swept through the whole communi
ty. We built a church and called a pastor.
You see that spire yonder, don't you?
That church was built as the result of that
book you gave me thirty years ago." Oh,
the power of a good book! . But, alas! for
the influence of a bad book.
John Angel James, than whom England
never had a holier minister, stood in his
pulpit at Birmingham and said: "Twenty
five yean ago a lad loaned to me an in
famous book. He would loan it only fif
teen minutes, and then I had to give it
back, but that hook has haunted me like a
specter ever since. I have in agony of soul,
on my knees before God, prayed that he
would obliterate from my soul the memory
of it, but I shall carry the damage of it un
til the day of my death." The assassin of
Sir William Russell declared that he gut
the inspiration for his crime by reading
what was then a new and popular novel,
"Jack Sheppard." Homer's "Iliad" made
Alexander the warrior. Alexander saiil
so. The story of Alexander made Julius
Cawar and Charles XII both men of blood.
Have you in your pocket, or in your trunk,
or in your dfsk at btittiness a bad book, a j
bad picture, a bud uimphletf 4a God's
name I warn you lo drstroy it.
THE CHRlfiTI AX PRESS. '
Another way in which we Khali tight
back this corrupt literature and kill the
frogs of Egypt 19 by miling over them the
Christian print iux pre.-w, which shall give
plenty of healthful n a iing to all adults.
All thfMe men anil wnnie.i are reading men
and women. What .'irr y.m reading? Ab
stain from nil those Ixx'ks which, while
they had some good thinirs about them,
have alsoan admixture of evil. You have
read boo lis that ba:l tu'u eiemeuiM in them
the kxk1 and the l:r!. Which stuck
to you? The had! The heart of most peo
pie is like a bieve, which lets the small par
ticles of gold fall through, but keeps the
great ctudem. Once In a while there is a
mind like a loads to ue, which, plunged
steel and repels the brass. But it is gener-
ally the opposite. If you attempt to plunge
through a fence of burrs to get one biaek
! berry you will get more burrs than black-
berries.
You cannot afford to read a bad book,
however good you are. You say, "The in
fluence is insignificant," I tell you that
the scratch of a pin has sometimes pro
duced lockjaw. Alias, if through curiosity,
as many do. yon pry into an evil book,
your curiosity is as dangerous as that of
the man who would take a torch into a
gunpowder mill merely to see whether it
would really blow np or not. In a menag
erie a man put his arm through the bars
of a black leopard's cage. The animal's
hide looked so sleek and bright and beauti
ful. He just stroked it once. The monster
seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn
and mangled and bleeding.
Oh, touch not evil even with the fnint-firT
stroke! Though it may be glossy and
beautiful, touch it not lest you pull forth
your soul torn and bleeding under the
dutch of the black leopard. "But," you
say, "how can I find out whether a book is
good or bad without reading it?" There is
always something suspicious about a bad
book. I never knew an exception some
thing suspicious in the index or style of
illustration. Thja venomous reptile almost
always carries a warning rattle.
The dock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire.
The breath is quick and irregular. Oc
casionally the color dnshm to the cheek,
and then dies out. The hands tremble as
though a guardian spirit were trying to
shake tne deadly book bat of the grasp.
Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill
voice that drops dead at its own sound.
The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed
up from the river of death. The dock
strikes four, and the rosy dawn soon after
begins to look through the lattice upon the
pale form that looks like a detained apecter
of the night. Soon in a mad house she will
mistake her ringlets for curling serpents,
and thrust her white band through the
bars of the prison, and smite her head,
rubbing it back as though to push the scalp
from the skull, shrieking- "My brain! my
brain!" Oh, stand off from that! Why
will you go sounding your way amid the
reefs and warning buoys, when there is
such a vast ocean in which you may voy
age, all sail set?
WHAT IS A BOOK?
We see so many books we do not un
derstand what a book is. Stand it on
end. Measure it the height of it, the
depth of it, the length of it, the breadth
of it. You cannot do it. Examine
the paper and estimate the progress
made from the time of the imprassious
on day, and then on to the bark of
trees, and from the bark of trees to papy
rus, and from papyrus to the hide of wild
beasts, and from the hide of wild beasts
on down until the miracles of our modern
paper manufactories, and then see the pa
per, white and pure as an infant's soul,
waiting for God's inscription.
A book! Examine the type of h. Ex
amine the printing of it, and see the prog
ress from the time when Solon's laws were
written on oak planks, and Hesiod's poems
were written on tables of lead, and the
Siniatic commands were written on tables
of stone, on down to Hoe's perfecting
printing press.
A bookl It took all the universities of
the past, all the martyr fires, all the civil
izations, all the battles, all the victories,
all the defeats, all the glooms, all the
brightnesses, all the centuries to make it
possible.
A book! It i the chorus of the ages; it
is the drawing room In which kings and
queens and orators and poets and historians
come out to ;;reet you. If I worshiped
anything on earth I would worship that.
If I burned incense to any idol I would
build an altar to that. Thank God for
good books, healthful books, inspiring
books. Christian books, books of men,
books of women, Book of God. It is with
these good books that we are to overcome
corrupt literature. Upon the frogs swoop
with these eagles. I depend much for the
overthrow of iniquitous literature upon
the mortality or books. Even good books
have a hard struggle to live. "
Polybius wrote forty books; only five of
them left. Thirty books of Tacitua have
perished. Twenty books of Pliny have
perished. Livy wrote one hundred and
forty books; -only thirty-five of them re
main. Bschylus wrote one hundred
dramas; only seven remain. Euripides
wrote over a hundred; only nineteen re
main. "Varro wrote the biographies of
over seven hundred great Romans.' All
that wealth of biography has perished.
If good and valuable books have such a
struggle to live, what must- be the fate of
those that are diseased and corrupt and
blasted at the very start. They will die as
the frogs when the Lord turned back the
plague. Tbe work of Ubristaanuataou will
go on until there will be nothing left but
good books, and they will take the su
premacy of tbe world. May you and I live
to see tbe illustrious day!
FIGHT THE BAD WITH THE GOOD. '
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; against every unclean picture
send an innocent picture; against every
scurrilous song send a Christian song;
agafbst every bad book send a good book;
and then it will be as it was In ancient
Toledo, where the Totetum niiinsln were
kept by the saints in six churches, and the
sacrilegious Romans demanded that those
missals be destroyed, and tna tbe Homan
tti taenia he substituted; and the war came
on, and I am glad to say that the whole
matter having been referred to champions,
the champion of tbe Totetum mifspita with
one blow brought down tbe champion of
tbe Roman missals.
So it will be in our day. The good liter
ature, the Christian literature, m itseham
pionship for God and the truth, will bring
down the evil literature in its champion
ship for the devil. I feel tingling to the
tips of my fingers and through all the
nerves of my body, and all tbe depths of
my soul, the certainty of our triumph-
Cheer up, oh. men and women who are
toiling for tbe purification of societyl Toil
with your faces m tbe sunlight. if God
be for us, who, who can be against us?"
Idy Hester Stanhope was the daughter
of the third Earl of Stanhope, and after
her nearest friends had died she went to
the far east, took possession of a deserted
convent, threw up fortresses amid the
mountains of Lebanon, opened the castle
to the poor, and the wretched, and tbe sick
who would come in. She made her castle
a home for the unfortnnate. She was a
devout Christian woman. She was wait
ing for the coming of the Lord. She ex
pected that the Lord would descend in per
son, and she thought upon it until it was
too much for her reason. In the magnifi
cent stables of her palace she had two
horses groomed and bridled and saddled
and caparisoned and all ready for the day
in which her Lord should descend, and he
on one of them and she on the other should
start for Jerusalem, the dty of the Great
King. It was a fanaticism and a delusion;
but there was romance, and there was
splendor, and there was thrilling expecta
tion in tbe dream!
Ah, my friends, we need no earthly pal
freys groomed and saddled and bridled and
caparisoned for our Lord when he shall
come. The horse is ready in the equerry
of heaven, and the imperial rider is ready
to mount. "And I saw, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat on him had a bow;
and a crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering and to conquer.
And tbe armies which were in heaven fol
lowed him on white horses, and on his
vesture and on his thigh were written.
King of kings, and Lord of lords." Horse
men of heaven, mount! Cavalry of God,
ride on! Charge! charge! until they shall
be burled back on their haunches the
black horse of famine, and the red horse of
carnage, and the pale horse of death.
Jesus forever!
A Dry Osiuiuu.
fDilng your umbrella,' called Mrs.
Brmkley to her husband, the other Sun
day, as she waited at the door for him
to go to church.
"Who's going to preach?" he called
back from upstairs.
"Our regular preacher."
' "Is that so? Well.-1 guess we won't
need an umbrella. Texas Siftingw. .
. Klisabeth Sargent, M. D., daughter of
our former minister to Berlin, is an oculist
f sxcepUooalsUU. She lives in California,
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