Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-11

TbduiuB u1en anu women. hlaJ ar
you reading1 Abstain from all thos,
books which, while they had some gooC
things about them have also an ad
mixture of evil. You have read book
that had two elements in them-th,
good and the bad. Which stuck t
your The bad The heart of mos
people is like a sieve, which lets the
small particles of gold fall through but
keeps the great cinders. Once in &
while there is a mind like loadstone
which, plunged amid steel and brass
filings, gathers up the steel and repel.
the brass. But it is generally just the
opposite. If you attempt to plunge
through a fence of buris 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.
niacant." | tell you that the scratch
Of pin has sometimes produced the
lock jaw.
Alas if through curiosity, as many
do, you pry into an evil book, your
curiosity is as dangerous as that of the
man who would take torch into a
gunpowder mill merely to see whether it
would really blow up or not In me
nagerie man put his arm through the
bars Of a black leopard's cage. The
animals hide looked SO sleek and
bright and beautiful He just stroked
it once. The monster seized him, and
he drew forth a hand torn and man.
gled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil
even with the faintest stroke! Though
it may be glossy and beautiful, touch
it not, lest you pull forth your soul
torn and bleeding under the clutch of
the black leopard But" you say,
''how can | find out whether book is
good or bad without readingitF' There
is always something suspicious about a
bad book. never knew an exception
something suspicious in the index or
style of illustration. This venomous
reptile almost always carries warning
rattle.
The clock strikes midnight A fair
form bends over romance. The eyes
fash fire. The breath is quick and
irregular. Occasionally the color dashes
to the check, and then dies out. The
hands tremble as though a guardian
spirit were trying to shake the deadly
book out 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 clock
strikes four, and the rosy dawn soon
after begins to look through the lattice
upon the pale form that looks like a
detained spectcr of the night. Soon in
a madhouse she will mistake her ring
lets for curling scrpents and thrust her
white hand through the bars of the
prison, and smite her head, rubbing il
back as though to push the scalp from
the skull slrieking, My brain! my
BRAIN Oh, stand off from that! Why
will you so sounding your way amid
the reefs and warning buoys, when
there is such a vast ocean in which you
may voyage, all sail seti
A BOOK
We sec so many books we do not un-
derstand what n book Is. Stand it on
end. Measure 1.-THE height of il, |
the depth Of it, the length of it, the
breadth of it, You cannot do il. Ex. |
anime the paper and estimate the prog
ress made from the time of the impress
sions ON the clay, and then on to the
bark OF trees, and from the bark of
trees to papyrus, and from 2apyrus to
the hide of wild beasts, and from the
hide OF wild beasts ON down until the
of our modern paper manu-
factories, and then see the paper. white
and pure us an infants soul waiting for
Gods inscription.
A book! Examine the type of il.
Examine the printing of it, and see the
progress from the time when Solon's
avs were written on oak planks. and ,
IieSiods poems We're written on tables ,
II lead, and the Siniatic commands |
were written on tables OF stone, on
iowp 10 Hoes perfecting printing press.
n book Ii took all the universities
4 the past all the martyr fires, all the :
affiliations, all the batrlessal tho vic.
orieS, all the defeats, all the glooms, /
Ill the br,guIneSSes, all the centuries TO /
make il possible. :
\ book IL is the chorus Of the ages
is the drawing room in which kings
md queens and orators and poets and ,
historians and philosophers come out To
rect you. II worshiped anything ON !
arth l would worship that II 1
burned incense to any Idol would I
'uili an altar to that Thank God for {
ood books heslthful books, inspiring !
'ooks Christian books, books of men.
'ooAS of women, Book ot God IL is
gith these good books that We are Ia
Ycrcome coyrupt literature. Upon the
ross sNo0p With these eagles. | de a
end much for the overthrow ot in a
lu.tous literature upon the mortality
Z books Even good books have a y
ard struggle @ live Z
Poly blus wrote forty b0oks, onIy a,s a
{ tAon lalf Thirty books of Tacitus ,
ave poEishci Twenty books oi Pliny a
ave pesashed liyy wrote one hun
nd and forty books. only thirty live 9
{ them remain kschylus wrote one >
nnanei dFnmssi only seven nemain. a
'uripldcs wrOte over i bundFei oaly
incteen nemain. Narro wnoto the hlos. .
'ph.es of over seven hundred great q
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