The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-23

iO-uay, We he2F iHEcn bafk OF tnt
wonders Of our manufactures; ant
certain it is, when we see barrelsful b
that -four which is as white s'as fhs
famed snow that's bottled by ths
northern blasts thrice Ger" we realize
il has passed through process mosl
exhaustive; indeed, a process so ex.
haustive, that it has caused the some
time golden wheat to lose not only its
husk and roughness, but also its nutri-
merit.
Why, our machines crush the very
strength Of the grain into atoms, and
simply retain the parts that will please
the eye.
Now if We compare this bread
making process of the present. with
that in force at the time Of Christ. we
will find out how far we have advanced
in the wrong direction
Well then, we read, 1.-The women of
Gallilee ground little wheat between
two stones in a hand mill and baked a
little cake upon hot stone-this was
their bread" We fancy it did not
.'l1sen like our sham flour. that it
was not half SO porous, that the little
cake was anything but dazzlingiy
white; nevertheless, we are sure it was
nutritious.
The grain had been well tend
ed, the soil enriched; the laborers
were honest and Industrious. AS a
result the bread was 1.-THE staff of
life;" it was sustenance To-day, it
is hardly more than luxury.
II. then, we acknowledge that our
machines are not altogeth-
er worthy of the estimate in which
they are held, that they are valuable
chiefly because they save work and
lime and money. and not because they
produce fine articles, we will also ac-
<nowledge that our educational ma
chimes possess about the same defects
Ind excellencies.
Thus, they are ingenious and CON-
cheated ; the brains that pass through
hem gain IN refinement, but lose IN
and vigor.
The truth is, the literature of the
nineteenth century is too distinctly
'randed with the impress of manu-
acturies. For instance, we find a
sriter that advocates the Ideal
site school, His novels, and poems. T
nd essays, whenever they are
pened, always create thick vapor,
hat nearly stiles the reader, and
lakes every thing around him appear
i'm, as though seen through a mist.
!, however, he takes handful of the
ook into his mind and sprinkles it
18th q little common sense. it will
cry soon settle into thin layer of
aste. utterly useless, save to bind to-
ether the history of letters. On the
her hand, let him order some pro-
acts from the firm of stDaudet Rea,-
m & Company At first sight. the
aterIal of this firm is SO ugly in APP
'arance that he straightway imagines
is beneficial, and SO, prepares him-
If to taste a deal of it. +
Bah! the first mouthful. proves, it to
J nothing but idealism mixed with ,
udl Therefore, in disgust, he stops !
ing both kinds of food, and returns
the old time literature that has,
ckily, escaped those processes which /,
fine away life.
The Bible, written by the jewish !
ton. and the Shakespearean dramas, :
at sprung from English soil, are not I
NIPPLES from any patent mannfact-
y.
They are not great storehouses
well bolted flour, where men
~ come and eat and be satisfied, and a
half an hour feel again the pangs of !,
niger. But they are magnificent gram :
les of thought, filled with golden n
caves of wisdom that have been o
aped from the ground-heart of Y
mainly and nutured by the =
mmon joys and sorrows which 4
rye through all the race; aye, fl
d that have been watered by the G
t-tears of the writer's. They o.
}, indeed, the npened sheaves
it bear within them the germ-seed, f.
OF life. so that when itAfaIIs upon n
: minds, lit abldeth not alone, but :,
ngeth forth much fruit. h,