Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-07-30

! The monster seized him, and he drew
| forth hand torn and mangled and
bleeding. oh, touch not evil even with
the faintest stroke! Though it may be
glossy and beautiful touch it not lest
you pull forth your soul torn and bleed
ing under the clutch of the leopard.
But" you say, chow can l find out
whether book is good or bad without
reading it?'' There is always some
thing suspicious about a bad book. [
never knew an xception-something
suspicious in the index Or style of il
lustration. This venOmous reptile al
ways carries q warning rattle.
Again, charge you to stand off from
all those books which corrupt the i'm
agination and inf1ame the passions. I
do not refer now to that kind of book
which the villain has under his coat
waiting for the school to get out and
then, looking both ways to see that
there is no policeman around the
block, offers the book to your son on
his way home. I do not speak of that
kind of literature, but that which
evades the law and comes out in pol
the tocsin that rouses up all the baser
passions of the soul. Today under the
nostrils of the people there is a fetid,
reeking, unwashed literature enough
to poison all the fountains of public
virtue and smite your sons and daugh-
ters as with the wing Of a destroying
angel, and it is time that the ministers
of the gospel blew the trumpet and
rallied the forces of righteousness, all
armed to this great battle against a
depraved literature.
Accused Books.
Again, abstain from those books
which are apologize Of crime. It is a
sad thing that some of the best and
most beautiful bookbindery and some
of the finest rhetoric have been brought
to make sin attractive. Vice is horri-
BILE thing anyhow. It is born in
shame, and it dies bowling in the
darkness. In this world it is scourged
with whip of scorpions, but after
ward the thunders of Gods wrath pur-
sue it across q boundless desert, beat
ing it with ruin and woe. When you
come to paint carnality, do not paint
it as looking from behind embroidered
curtains or through lattice Of royal
seragliO, but as writing in the agonies
Of city hospital Cursed be the books
that try to make impurity decent and
crime attractive and hypocrisy noble!
Cursed be the books that swarm with
libertines and desperadoes, who make
the brain Of the young people whirl
with villainy! Ye authors who write
HOY icI, I,O
booksellers who distribute them, shall
be cut to pieces, if not by an aroused
community, then at last by the hail of
divine vengeance, which shall sweep
to the lowest pit Of perdition all We
murdererS Of souls. l tell you, though
you may escape in this world, you will
be ground at last under the hOof of
eternal calamities, and you will be
chained to the rock, and you will have
the vultures Of despair clawing at your
soul, and those whom you have de
StrOyed will come around to torment
you and to pour hotter Goals of fury
upon your head and rejoice eternally
in the outcry of your pain and the howl
of your damnation. God shall wound
the hairy scalp of him that goeth on in
his trespasses."
The clock strikes midnight A fair
form bends over a romance. The eyes
flash fire. The breath is quick and ir-
regular. Occasionally the color dashes
to the cheek and then dies out. The
hands tremble as though a guardian
spirit was toying to shake the deadly
book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with a shrill voice that
drops dead at it's own sound. The
sweat on her brow is the spray dash
ed up from the river of death. The
clock strikes 4, and the rosy
dawn soon after begins to look through
the lattice upon the pale form that
looks like a detained specter of the
night. Soon in a madhouse she will
mistake her ringlets for curling ser
penis, and thrust her white hand
through the bars of the prison, and
smite her head, rubbing it back as
though to push the scalp from the
skull, shrieking, "My brain! Ny
brainv' Oh, stand off from that Why
will you go sounding your way amid
the reefs when there is such a vast
ocean in which you may voyage, all
sail set?
Purity In Art.
Much Of the impure pictorial liter
AZURE is most tremendous for ruin.
There is no one who can like good pic
lures better than I do. The quickest
and most condensed way of impress
ing the public mind is by picture.
What the painter does by his brush
for a few favorites the engraver does
by his knife for the million. What the
author accomplishes by so pages the
artist does by flash. The best part Of
q painting that costs $4,000 you may