The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
bad picture, u bad pamphlet In Cos
name warn you to destroy it.

bad picture, bad pamphleta In Co.'s
name l warn you to destroy it.
ANOTHER WAY. |
Another way in which we shall figt |
back this corrupt literature and kill til
frogs of Egypt is by rolling over tneI
the Christian printing press, which shaI
give plenty of heafthful reading to al
adults. All these men and women arr
reading men and women. What ard
you reading9 Abstain from all those
books which, while they had some good
things about them have also an adj
mixture of evil You have read books
that had two elements in them-the
good and the bad Which stuck to
you2 The bad The heart of most
people is like a sieve, which lets the
small PARTICLES of gold fall through but
keeps the great cinders. Once. in a
while there is a mind like loadstone,
which, plunged amid steel and brass
filings, gathers up the steel and repels
the brass. But it is generally just the
opposite. If you attempt to plunge
through fence of burrs to get one
blackberry you will get more burrs
than blackberries. You cannot afford
to read bad book, however good you
are. You say, 'The influence is insig
nificant." l tell you that the scratch
of a pin has sometimes produced the
lock jaw.
Alas if through curiosity, as many
do, you pry into an evil book, YOU
curiosity is as dangerous as that of the
man who would take torch into 6
gunpowder mill merely to see whether il
would really blow up or not. In me
nagerie man put his arm through the
bars of black leopard's cage. The
animals hide looked SO sleek and
bright and beautiful. He just stroked
it once. The monster seized him, anG
he drew forth hand torn and man
gled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evi
even with the faintest stroke Though
it may be glossy and beautiful, toucI
it not, lest you pull forth your sou
torn and bleeding under the clutch o.
the black leopard. But" you say
chow can | find out whether book i.
good or bad without readingit2' Their,
is always something suspicious about {
bad book. | never knew an exception
something suspicious in the index d
style of illustration. This venomou
reptile almost always carries warning
rattle.
The clock strikes midnight. A fai
form bends over a romance. The eye
flash fire The breath is quick ant
irregular. Occasionally the color dashe
to the cheek, and then dies out. TIL,
hands tremble rs thous;h a guardia,
spirit were trying to shake the deadly
book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall
She laughs with shrill voice tina
drops dead at its own sound. Tn,
sweat on her brow is the spray dashed
up from the river of death. The clocl
strikes four, and the rosy dawn soor
after begins to look through the lattice
upon the pale form that looks like
detained specter of the night Soon il
a madhouse she will mistake her ring
lets for curling serpents, and thrust hei
white hand through the bars of til,
prison, and smite her head, rubbing i
back as though to push the scalp from
the skull, shrieking, My brainl IN,
brain!' Oh, stand off from that. VIII,
will you go sounding your way amic
the reefs and warning buoys. whel
there is such vast ocean in which yol
may voyage, all sail set2
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We see SO many books we do not TN
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