Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-09

/ ltiu ol Eel pl. Auu th' mag Nidho uih
So with their renchautments, aud brought
up frogs upon the land of Egypt
There is almost a universal aversion
To frogs, aud yet with the Egyptian
they were honOred, they were sacred,
and they were objects Of worship while
they were alive, and after, death they
were embalmed, and to-day their re-
mains may be found among the Sepul-
chreS OF ThebeS. These creatures, 50
attractive once TO the Egyptians, at di-
vine beheSt became obnoxious aud
loathSome, and they went crOaking and
hopping and leaping into the palace OF
the king, and into the bread-trayS and
coucheS OF the people, and even the
ovens, which now are uplifted above
the earth and on the sides of the CHM
neyS, but then We're small holes in the
earth with Sunken pottery. were filled
with frogs when the hOuSekeeperS came
10 look III them. Ii i man sat down TO
eat, frog alighted on his plate. II he
attempted 10 put on shoe, IL was pre-
occupied by frog If he attempted to
put his head upon pillow, it had been
taken possession of by frog. Frogs
high and low and everywhere: loath-
some frogs, Shiny frogs, beSieging frogs,
innumerable. frogs, great plague Of
frogs. What made the matter worse.
the magicianS said there was no mira
Gle in this, and they could by Sleight-of-
hand introduce the same thing, aud
they seemed 10 succeed, for by Sleight-
Of-hand wonders may be wrought.
After Moses had thrown down his stan
and by miracle il became a serpent. and
then he took hold of it and by miracle
il again became staff, the serpent
charmerS Initiated the same thing, and
knowing that there were SerpentS in
Egypt which by peculiar twist on the
neck would become rs rigid aSa stick OF
wood. they seemed 10 change the ser
pent into the staff. and then, throwing
il down. the staff became the serpent.
So likewise these magicianS tried TO i'm
itate the plague OF frogs, aud perhaps
by smell Of food attracting great num-
Der Of them 70 certain point, or by
shaking them out from hidden place.
The magicianS sometimes seemed to ac-
compliSh the same miracle. While
these magicianS made the plague worse,
HUut OA LMtM u lfA w mani - N'NNN+e
Frogs came up aud covered the land
Of Egypt, aud the magicianS did so with
their enchantment aud brought up
frogs upon the land of Egypt
rHE PLAGUE OF FROGS.
Now that plague of frogs has come
back upon the earth. IL is abroad to-
/ day. Ii is shifting this nation. 1t
comes ia the shape of corrupt litera-
ture. 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
rcom table. on the shelf OF the library
While the lad Is reading the bad book
the teachers face is turned the other
way. One of these frogs hops upon the
page. While the young woman Is read
ing the forbidden novelette, after retlr-
ing at night, reading by gaSlight. one
of these frogs leaps upon the page. In
deed, they have hoped on the news
stands Of the country, and the mails at
the postoillce shake out in the letter
trough hundreds of them. The plague
has taken at different times, possession
of this country. II is one Of the most
loathsome, one of the most CHASTITY OF
the ten plaques 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 greatest
blessing that ever came To
this nation is that of an elevated litera-
ture. and the greatest ScOurge has been
that of uncleau literature. This last
has its victims in all occupations ana
departments. IL has helped To hill IN
sane aSyums aud penitentlaries and
almshuuses and deus of shame. The
bodies of this Infection lie IN the hoSpl-
tails and Ia the graves, while their souls
are being tossed over into lost eler-
nifty. An avalanche OF horror and deS-
pair. The London plague was nothing
In A. That counted its victims 10y
thousands. but this modern pest has
already shoyeled It's millions into the
charnel-houSe of the morally dead. The
Longest rail-train that ever ran over the
Erie or Hudson tracks was not long
enough to carry the beaSllineSS ana the
putrefactiOn which have been gathered
Inn i'm bad books and newspapers Of tins
land i'm the last twenty years. The 1T
Iarature of a nation decides the fate oil a
nation. Good books, good morals. Bad
books, bad morals.
LEPRoUs LITERATURE.
begin with the lowest of all the lit
lerature. that which does not even pre-
tend 10 be specialization cover u
cover blotch Of leproSy. There are
many whose entire business IL Is 10 dis
nose of that kind OF literature. They
disnlay il before the Schoolboy on his
way home. They get the catalogues oi
schools and colleges, take the name'
and uostofiice addresses, and send thell
advertisements aud their circulars and
their pamphlets aud their books to every
one of them. ,... g..
Ia lhe possession Of these dealers "
had literature were found nine nun
ldrrd thousand names and postohlce al
dresses. To whom il was thoAght u
might be profitable to send these cor
rupt things. In the year 1873, there
yver. one hundred and siNty-hVe estaO
Hshm.ntS engaged in publishing cheap
rorrupt literature. From one publish
ing house there went cut twenty diner
emf STYLES Of corrupt books. Although
over thirty tons Of vile lNarature haV'
. been destroyed hy the Society Tor I'M
. SuppreSsiou OF Vice, still there ]
enough OF it left in this country L
hiring down upon Us the thunderooltS o
an incenSed God. .,s,,,.
e In the year lS6S- the evil had oecom
d 90 Great i'm this country that the con
T. cress of the United States passed d ia' a'
forbidding the transmission OF bad III
. erature through the United state
t mails: but there were large loops y
Y hat law through which criminals migh
crawl ont, and the law was dead ial Ia.
nre-that law Of 1865, But IN IS, lo,s
another law was passed by the pongres
: of the United states against the ttan'
e mission Of corrupt literature throug
a the mails grand law, potent la~'
l. Christian law-and under that la'
= multitudes of these ScoundrelS uae