The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-04-06

have done with it ALL" SO would any
man that has any sense. IL the elements
of the brute are all that constitute life,
suicide is the only logical end Of sanity
In such world. In such world every
one that has ser Sc enough must kIii
ones self. Those who have not sense
enough to die continue to exist. Poor,
miserable fools, they are only battling
with death, to be conquered after the
long, weary, hopeless struggle.
1t is the old legend of the youth and
the strange knight over again. The
youth in armor encountered strange
enemy clad from head to foot in his
coat of mail They Joined battle. They
fought through days and weeks. The
weeks heightened into months, and still
they fought. Seasons came and went,
and still they fought. Years succeeded
years, and still the relentless battle con-
tinued. The youth grew restless at last
and wondered what sort of being was
concealed behind the visor of his enemy.
And still they fought, year after year,
year after year. At length the youth
stopped down at the brook one day to
uIluh DbbWtSH lll0 Ollbldut,llos 40 hC
did he lifted his visor and saw to his
amazement his face shadowed in the
mirror of the water. He started in ter
ror from the sight Of his own face. He
had grown to be an old, withered man.
Lifting himself from the stream he
turned to look at his enemy, who had
also lifted his visor, and he saw behind
the mail the grinning head of skeleton.
He had been fighting death. He who
lives in such d world is mad. The sane
end themselves, as Tennyson threatened.
Third-That philosophic dilletantism
is capital crime, and intellectual pros
titution is the objectionable sin. Dor
senne, as O character, is the incarnation
Of your modern French philosopher
The direct result of his life is murder.
He had obtained the habit of analysis
for its own sake. 1t is crime against
nature. The flower is beautiful. We
have the right to pluck it once and study
the mystery of its workmanship but to
pluck flower and tear it to pieces while
about to gloat over the death of its beauty
| this is to violate the inmost heart of
nature. Dorsenne knows the truth and
does it not If a man be unconscious of
the light, he may be excused. If man
be blind, we cannot hold him responsible.
But if man know the truth and in the
| face Of knowledge and in the face of
right drift and trihe his sin is beyond
pardon.
A young man was released from pris-
on in Georgia lately for whom the po-
lice are looking now eagerly. He went
| to Atlanta from Charleston, soon spent
all his money, sank into hopeless pow
erty, fell into evil ways of life. He was
arrested as tramp and sent to the
stockade. When liberated, he was told
to avoid Atlanta in the future. He wan
dered away, looking the picture Of de-
spair in his rags and misery. Shortly
after his departure tho newspapers con-
tanning an account of his arrest fell into
the hands of his father in South Caro-
lima. He Immediately wrote to the pris-
on authorities, asking to have his son re-
leased and sent home. The young man
was gone; he was informed Of the fact
The son had run away from home, but
the family were ready to forgive him
and welcome him back. Since he had
left he had become heir to large prop
erty worth over $50O,00O But he did
not know Of it. The father begged the
police to find him and tell him. A man
may not be responsible if in wretch
edness and rags he wanders over the face
of the earth heir to fortune and does
not know it. But the man would be
mad if the revelation of his wealth were
made to him and he preferred still to
wander in rags and poverty and hunger.
FRANCE LIABLE TO AN EXPL LOsIoN.
Such is the present status of the brain
of France France knows much. For
generation in the realm of action it
has done nothing. Dorsenne is the in
carnation of the modern French mind.
Its present attitude toward duty is an
anomaly-it is a crime. They play with
the truth. They play with the explo-
sives of the moral world. II is danger
GUS pastime. 1t is Il criminal pastine,
A man in the southwestern part of Eng.
land had dog which he had carefully
trained to bring him whatever he threw
in the water. Early one morning he
went to the pond near his place carry.
ing dynamite bomb, with which he in,
tended to make haul of trout in the
pond. He lighted the fuse and threw
the bomb in the water. He had failed
to notice or forgotten that the dog had
followed him.
In an instant the faithful brute sprang
into the water, swan to the bomb, seized
it and brought it ashore to place it at his
masters feet. The man tried in vain tc
command the dog to drop the terrible OBJ
ject. The dog showed the excellence oi
his training by clinging to it and rapidly
approaching the shore. The fisherman
took to his heels. The dog followed hin
more rapidly than he could run, tn,
bomb in his mouth, the fuse burning, /
was a wild race for life to the wall no
far away. The dog gained every in
slant The man was III despair. If tht
bomb should explode, he would be tori
to pieces. He reached the wall an(
scrambled over just in time, for at tht
instant the dog came to the foot of til,
wall the bomb exploded with terrific
force. The dog was blown to atoms
The man escaped with his life. 1t is |
dangerous thing, it is criminal thing
to handle infinite mental powers in mer,
trifing in the moral world The result
can only be the destruction of the triher
and, if not, surely the destruction O
those who are around him.
Fourth--That such society must di,
unless born again. And that Christian
ity, with all the narrowness of its fanat
ic adherents, looms up in solemn beauty
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