Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-14

book you read yesterday may have Do
cided you for time and Tor oteRmty, ON
Il may be hook that may come into
your posscssiOn to-morr0w.
The assassin Of Sir William Russell
declared that he, got Tho inspiration for
his crime by reading what was shen d,
new and popular novel, "Jack Shop
pare." Homer's 'Tliad" made Alexaa-
der the warrior. Alexander said 20.
The story Of Alexander made julius
Caesar and Charles XII both men of
blood. Have you In your pocket or In
your trunk, or In your desk ut business.
Q bad book, bad picture. Q bad PAM
phletp In Gods name warn you TO-
destroy Il.
But" you say, ''how can I find out
whether book IL good or bad without
reading it?" There II always some
thing suspicious about . bad book. T.
never knew IN Notwithstanding
suspicious In the index or style Of
illustration. This venomous reptile al
most always carries Q warning rattle.
The clock strikes midnight. A fair
form bends over romance. The eyes
fash fire. The breath IL quick and ir-
regular. Occasionally the color dashes =
to the cheek, and then dies out. The
hands trembles rs though o guardian,
spirit were trying to shake the deadly :
book out Of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with q shrlll voice that
drops dead ct its own sound. The
sweat on her brow IL the spray dashed J.
up from the river Of death. The clock
strikes and the rosy dawn soon after =
begins to look through the lattice upon,
the pale form that looks like detained,
specter Of the night. Soon in mad
house she will mistake her ringlets for
curling serpents, and thrust her white
hand through the bars Of the prison,
and smite her head, rubbing 1t back as
though to push the scalp from the =
skull, shrieking: my brain! my
brain!" o, stand of from that! Why
will you 20 sounding your way amid the
reefs and warning bu0ys, when there Is :
voyage, all sail set?
We see 80 many books we do not un- e
derstand what book Is. Stand 1t on.
end. Measure it, the breadth OF 1t.
You cannot do It. Examine the paper
aud estimate the progress made from =
the time of the impressions on clay, and
then on to the bark Of the trees, and :
from the bark Of trees TO papyrus, 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 manufactures, and then see the
paper, white and pure as an infants
soul waiting for Gods inscription. A
book! Examine the type OF 1t. Exam
inc the printing Of It and see the proS-
gress from the time when S0lonsi hwe
were written on oak planks, and Hes
iod's poems were written on tables Of
lead. and the Sinantic commands were q.
written on tables Of stone, on down to q
Hoes perfect ng printing press
Against every bad pamphlet send a.
good pamphlet; against every unclean
picture send an innocent picture, against.
every scurrilous song send o. Christian a
song; against every bad book saHd.as
good book; and then it viii be al it Nats
In ancient Toledo, where TIE TQtetam
missals were kept by the sai..' in six
churches, and the sacrilegius
Romans demanded that those
missals be destroyed, and
that the Roman missals be substi-
tuted; and the war came on, and Ram .
glad to say that the whole matter.hav-
ing been referred to champions the
champion of the Toletum missals,with
one blow brought down the champion oil
the Roman missals.
So it will be in our day. The, good
literature, the Christian literature, in
its championship for the truth, will
down the evil literature in its cham
pionship for the devil. I feel tingling
to the tips Of my fingers and through all
the nerves OF my body, and all the
depths Of my soul, the certainty Of our
triumph. Cheer up, o, men and wo-
men who are toiling for the publication
of society! Toll with your faces in the
sunlight. "God be for us, who, who can
be against us?"
Lady 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 posses
sion OF deserted convent, threw up for
tresses amid the mountains of Lebanon,
opened the castle to the poor and the
wretched and the sick who would come
in. She made her castle home for the
unfortunate. She was devout Chris
tian woman. She expected that the
Lord would descend in person, and she
thought upon it until It was too much
for her reason. In the magnificent sta
bles of her palace she had two horses
and bridled and saddled and,
caparis0ned, 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 city OF the
Great King. It was fanaticism and q
1elusion; but there was romance and
there WIS splendOr, and there was thrill
ing expectation in the dreaml Ali my
friends, we need no earthly palfreys
and saddled and bridled and
,n..n..inn..od an. n,,,. I ord ,nhon Ha nhall