Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-01

excoriation and capital punishment?
No, no. They overlook that in man
which they damnate in woman And
so the world has had for offending wom-
an scourges snd objurgation, and for
just one offense she becomes an outcast,
while for men whose lives have been
sodomic for 20 years the world swings
open it's doors of brilliant welcome, and
they may sit in high places. Unlike the
Christ Of my text, the world writes
mans misdemeanor in dust, but chisels
a woman's Ofense with great capitals
upon ineffaceable marble.
For foreign lords and princes whose
names cannot even be mentioned in re-
spectacle circles abroad because they
are walking lazarettos Of abomination
some of our American princesses of for
tune wait and at the first beck sail out
with them into the blackness of dark
ness forever, and in what are called
higher circles Of society there is now
not only the imitation of foreign dress
and foreign manners, but an imitation
of foreign dissoluteness. I like for
eigner, and [ like an American, but the
sickest creature on earth is an American
playing the foreigner. Society needs to
be reconstructed ON this subject Treat
them alike, masculine crime and femi-
nine crime. If you cut the one in gran
ite, cut them both in granite; if you
write the one in dust, write the other
in dust. "No, no, :" says the world; "Iet
woman go down and let man go up
What is that I hear FLASHING into the
Hudson or Potomac at midnight? And
then there is gurgle as of strangula-
oil -4;
only woman too discouraged to live.
Let the mills of the cruel world grind
right On.
Literature of the Dust.
But while I speak of Christ of the
text, his stopping down writing in the
dust, do not think underrate the liter
allure Of the dust. 1t is the most tire.
mendous of all literature. 1t is the
greatest of all libraries. When Layard
exhumed Nineveh, he was only opening
the door of it's mighty dust. The exca-
vations of Pompeii have only been the
unclasping Of the lids of volume of
nations dust. When Admiral Farragut
and his friends visited that resurrected
city, the house of Balbo, who had been
one of its chief citizens in its prosperous
days, was opened, and table was
spread in that house which 1910 years
had been buried by volcanic eruption,
and Farragut and his guests walked
over the exquisite mosaics and under
the beautiful fresco, and it almost SEEM
ed like being entertained by those who
IS centuries ago had turned to dust
Oh, this mighty literature of the
dust! Where are the remains of Sen
nacherib and Attila and Epaminondas
and Tamerlane and Trajan and Philip
of Macedon and Julius Caesar? Dust
Where are the heroes who fought on
both sides at Ch9ronea, at Hastings, at
Marathon, at Greasy, of the no, 600
men who fought at Agincourt, of the
$50, 900 men who faced death at jena,
of the 400, 900 whose armor glittered in
the sun at Wagram, of the 1000, 600
men under Darius at Arbela, of the
2,641, 900 men under XerXes at Their
mopyl8? Dust! Where are the guests
who danced the floors of the Alhambra
or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus?
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? Dust Where are the
most of the books that once entranced
the world? Dust Pliny wrote 20 books
of history. All lost. The most of Me-
nander' writings lost. Of $50 comedies
of Plautus, all gone but 20. Euripides
wrote 100 dramas, all gone but 10.
Eschylus wrote 100, Dramas all gene
but seven. Varro wrote the laborious
biographies of 700 Romans not frag
ment left Quintilian wrote his favorite
book ON the corruption of eloquence, all
lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost. Dion
Cassius wrote so books, only 20 remain.
Berosius' history all lost. Where there
is one living book there are a thousand
dead books The greatest library in the
world, that which has the widest
shelves and longest aisles and the most
multitudinous volumes and the vastest
wealth is the underground library. 1t
is the royal library, the continental
library the hemisphere library, the
planetary library, the library Of the
dust, and all these library cases will be
opened, and all these scrolls unrolled,
and all these volumes unclasped, and as
easily as in your library or mine we
take up book, blow the dust off of it
and turn over it's pages, SO easily will
Tile LOIu VI tL6 l0ouIi 0CcioA PACh OuU VI
this library Of dust every volume Of hui
man life and open it and read it and
display it, and the volume will be re-
bound to be set in the royal library of
the King palace or in the prison library
of the self destroyed.
The Candle In the Window.
Oh, this mighty literature Of the
dust. It is not so wonderful, after all,
that Christ chose instead of an ink
stand, the impressionable sand on the
floor of an ancient temple, and. instead