The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-08-06

offending woman SCOurScS ana 0b1urga-
tion, and for Just one otfcnso she becomes
IN outCast, while for men whose lives have
h.ru Iudumr fear 20 years h" world swings
open lis doors Of brilliant NrIrunr, and
thrN may >ir in high places Unlike the
Christ Of my text tn" world write, q
man mistirmcannr in dust. but chiSrI~ =
woman y utlrusc with great capitals upon
inctlacoablc marble.
For foreign lords and princes. whose
names cannot even be mentioned in re-
spectacle circles abroad because they are
walking lazarttos Of abominaton, some
of our American princcSscs of fortune
wait and at the first beck sail ont With
them into the blacknoss of darkness Cor
ever And in what are called higher cir
Giles OF society there Is now not only the
imitation of foreign dress and foreign
manners, but an imitation of foreign dis
solutcness. like u foreigner, Pnd like
an American, but tho sickcst CREATURE on
earth is IN American playing the foreign
err Society needs to be reconstructed on
this subject. Treat them alike, masculine
crime and feminine crime. II you cut the
one In granite, cut them both in granite
II you write the ono IN dust, write tho
other In dust "No, no." says tho world;
"let woman go down and lot man go up"
What IS that hear FLASHING into the Hud-
son or Potomac at mtdnight2 And then
there Is u gurgle AS Of strangulation, and
all is still Never mind. 1t is only a
woman too discouraged to live. Let the
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But while speak of Christ Of the text,
his STOPPING down writing in the dust, do
not think | untsrrate the literature of the
dust. II Is Tie most tremendous Of all
literature. 1t il the greatest of all libraries
When Layard cxhulned Ninevch he was
only opening the door of its mighty dust.
The excavations Of Pompeii have only
been the unclaspa3g of the lids OF volume
OF nations dust. When Admiral Fnrra-
gut and his friends visited that resurrocted
city the house of Balbo, who had been
one of its chief citizens in it's prosperous
days, was opened, and a table was spread
In that house which /, $40 years had been
buried by volcanic Eruption, and Farragut
and his guests walked over the exquisite
mosaics and under tho beautiful fresCo,
and 1t almost seemed like being entertain
cd by those who Is centuries ago had
turned to dust.
Literature Of the Dust.
Oh, this mighty literature of the dust
Vnere are the remains OF Sennacherib and
Att"' and Epaminondas and Tamerlane
al -" and Philip of Macedon and
.Iu nuStl lhero ava tina No
roe, yht on both sides ut Char
onei tings, at Marathon, at Cressy,
of the III % men who fought at Agin-
court, of 100000 men who faced death
at jena Of Ne 400, 900 whose armor gilt
tered In the sun at Wagram, Of tho 1000.
600 men under Darius Mt Arbela, of the
2,64I, 900 men under Xerxes at Thermop-
ylay Dust! Where are the guests who
danced the floors of the Alhambra or the
Persian palace of Ahasueruse Dust.
Where are the musicians who played OR
the orators who spoke and the sculptors
who chiseled and the architects who built
IN all the centuries except our own Dustl
Where are tho most of the books that once
entranced the worldf Dust! Pliny wrote
20 books of history; all lost The most Of
Menander's writings lost. OF $40 come
dies OF Plautus all gone but 20. Euripdes
wrote 100 dramas; all gone but 49, Eschy-
lns wrote 100 dramas; all gone but seven
Varro wrote the laborious biographies OF
700 Romans; not n fragment left. Quin-
titan wrote his favorlte book OH the cor
ruption Of eloquence; all lost Thirty
books OF Taoitus lost Dion Cassius wrote
80 books; only 20 remain. Berosius' his
tory all lost Where there is ono living
book there arc thousand dead books
The greatest library in tho world, that
which has tho widest shelves and longest
aislos and the most multitudinous vol
umes and the yastest wealth, Is the under
ground library. 1t is the roynl library,