The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

cieties for the publication of railroad
literature gave warning to the publish
ers and warning to railroad companies
and warning to conductors and warn
ing to newsboys to keep the Internal
stuff off the trains.
PURIFYING THE NEWS STANDS.
Many of the cities have successfully
prohibited the most of that literature
even from going on the news stands.
Terror has seized upon the publishers
and 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 hun
bred and ninety years, and from the
fact that about two million of their Cir
culars have been destroyed, and the
business is not as profitable as it used
| to be.
How have SO many of the news stands
of our great cities been purified? How
has so much of this iniquity been
balked2 By moral suasion? Oh, no.
| You might as well go into jungle of
the East Indies and pat cobra on
the neck, and with profound argument
try to persuade it that it is morally
wrong to bite and to sting and to poi
son anything. The only answer to
your argument would be an uplifted
head and Il Hiss, and sharp, reeking
tooth stuck into your arteries. The
only argument for cobra is a shotgun,
and the only argument for these deal
ers in impure literature is the clutch of
the police and bean soup in the peni-
Tertiary. The law! The law! 1 in
woke to consummate the work so grand
ly 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 healthful literature. | do not
mean to say that all 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 sold Hundred | have no sympa-
4 thy with the attempt to make the
young old. ] would rather join in a
crusade to keep the young young. Boy
hood and girlhood .Slst not be alb
breviated. But there are good books,
good histories, good biographies, good
works of fiction, good booAs of all styles
with which we are TO fill the minds of
the young, so that there will be no more
room for the useless and vicious than
there is room for the chaff in bushel
measure which is already filed with
Michigan wheat
RUINED BY PERNICIoUs READING.
Why are so par cent. of the criminals
in the jails and penitentiaries of the
United States today under twenty-one
years of agel Many of them under
seventeen, under sixteen, under fifteen,
under fourteen, under thirteen. Walk
along one of the corridors of the Tombs
prison in New York and look for your
selves. Bad books, bad newspapers
bewitched them as soon as they got out
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
Paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and
the pistol. do not call the desperate
brave or the libertine gallant Teach
our young people that if they go down
into the swamps and marshes to watch
the jack Lanterns dance on the decay
and rottenness, they will catch the ma
laria and death.
"Ohw says some one, Il am bust
ness man, and Lave no time to exam
inc what my children read. have nc