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CORRUPT LITERATURE. .Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage Moralizes ■ on a Prolific Subject. The Pernicious Literature of the Day One of the Greatest Plagues to be Met In the Great Cities of the Land— A Crnaade Needed. The following discourse was delivered hy Rev. T. D^Vitt Talmage in llrooklyn and New York City, in continuation of his series on “The Ten Plagues of the Great Cities." Ilis text was: * Ami the frogs came up and covered tfie land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.—Exodus v lit., 6-;. There is almost a universal aversion tc frogs, and yet with the Egyptians they were honored, they were sacred, and they were objects of worship while alive, and after death they were embalmed, and to-day their remains may be found among the sepulchers of Thebes. These creatures, so attractive once to the Egyptians, at Divine behest became obnoxious and loathsome, and they went croaking and hopping and leaping into the palace of the king, and into the bread-tray and the couches of the people, and even the ovens, which now are uplifted above the earth and on the side of chimneys, but then were small holes in the earth with sunken pottery, w?re filled with frogs when the housekeepers cafne to look at them. If •n man sat down to cat, a frog alighted on his plate. If he attempted to put on a shoe, it was preoccupied by a frog. If he attempted to put his head upon a pillow, it had been taken possession of ■by a frog. Frogs high and low and everywhere; loathsome frogs, slimy frog's, besieging frogs, innumerable frogs, great plague of frogs. What made the matter worse, the magicians said there was no miracle in this, and they could, by sleight-of-hand, produce the same thing, and they spemed to succeed, for by sleight-of-hand wonders may be wrought. After Aioses had thrown down his staff, and by miracle it became a serpent, and then he took hold of it, and by miracle it again became a staff, the ser-pent-charmers imitated the same thing, and knowing that there were serpents in Egy pt which by a peculiar pressure on the neck would become as rigid as a stick of wood, they seemed to change the serpent into the staff, and then, throwing it down, the staff beeame the serpent. ,So likewise these magicians tried, to imitate the plague of frogs and perhaps* by smell of food attracting a great number of them to a certain point, or by shaking them out from a hidden place, the magicians sometimes seemed to accomplish the same miracle. While these magicians made the plague worse, none of them tried to make it better. “Frogs came np and- eovered the land of Egypt, and the magicians did so with their enchantment, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt” Now that plague of frogs has come baek upon the earth. It is abroad today. It is smiting this nation. It comes in the shape of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into the store, the shop, the office, the hanking house, the factory—into the home,into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawingroom table, on the shelf of the library. While the lad is reading the had hook the teacher's face is turned the other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. While the young woman is reading the forbidden novelette after retiring at night, reading by gaslight, one of these frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed, they have hopped upon the news stands of the country, and the mails, at the post office shake out in the

lettter trough hundreds ol - them, t he plague lias taken at different times possession of this country. It is one of the most loathsome, one of the most frightful, one of the most ghastly of the ten plagfies of our modern cities. There Is ii vast number of books and newspapers printed and published which ought never to see the light. They are filled with a pestilence that makes the land swelter with a moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that ever came to this nation is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has b?en that of unclean literature. This last has its*victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while^ their souls are being tossed over into'a lost. eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but' this modem pest -has already shoveled its millions into the charnal house of the morally dead. The, longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks was not long enough nor large enough to carry the beastliness and the pntefieation which have been gathered up in the bad books and newspapers of this land in the last twenty years. The literature of a nation decided the fate of a nation. Good books, good morals. Bad books, bad morals. * I begin with the lowest of all the literature, that which does not even pretend to be respectable—from cover to cover a blotch of leprosy. There are many whose entire business is to dispose of that kind of literature. They display it before the school-boy on his way h ome. They get the catalogues of schools and colleges, take the names and post office addresses, and send their advertisements and their circulars and their pamphlets and their books to everyone of them. In tfie possession of these dealers in bad literature were found nine hundred thousand names and post office addressts, to whom it was thought it might bet profitable to send these corrupt things. In the year 1875 there were one hundred and sixty-five establishments engaged in publishing cheap, corrupt literature. From one publishing house there went out twenty different styles of corrupt books. Although over thirty tons of the literature have been destroyed by the society for the suppression of vice, still there is enough of it left in this country to bring down upon us the thunderbolts of an incensed God. In the year 1868, the evil had become so great in this country that the congress of the L nijed States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad literature through the United States mails; but there were large loops in that law through which criminals might crawl out, and the law was a dead failure— that law of 1868. But in 1878 another law was passed by the congress of the United States against the transmission of corrupt literature through the mails —a grand law, a potent law, a Christian law—and under that law multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their property confiscated, and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries where they belonged. ’. Now, my friends, how are we to war agai nst this corrupt literature, and how are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be slain? First of all. by the prompt and inexorable execution of the law. Let all good postmasters and United States district-attorneys and detectives and reformers concert in their action to stop this plague. When Sir Rowland

cheap postage not only for England, but for all the world, and to open the blessing of the post office to all honest business and to all messages of charity and kindness and affection, for all healthful intercommunication, he did not mean to make vice easy car to fill the mail bags of the United States with the scabs of such a leprosy. It ought not to ba in the power of every bad man who can raise aonecent stamp for a circular, or a two-cent stamp for a letter, to blast a man or destroy a home. The postal service of this country must be clean, must be kept clean, and we must all understand that the swift retributions of the United States government -hover over every violation of the letter-box. There are thousands of men and women in this country—some for personal gain, some through innate depravity, some through a spirit of revenge—who wish to use this great avenue of convenience and intelligence for purposes revengeful, salacious and diabolic. Wake up the law. Wake up all its penalties. Let every court room on this subject be a Sinai thunderous and aflame. Let the convicted offenders be sect for the full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg. 1 am not talking about what can not be done. I am talking now about what is being done. A great many of the printing-presses that gave themselves to the publication of vile literature have been stopped or have gone into business less obnoxious. What has thrown off, what has kept bff the rail trains of this country for some time back nearly all the leprous periodicals? Those of ms who have been on the rail trains have noticed a great chanffie in the last few months and the last year or two. Why have nearly all those vile periodicals been kept off the rail trains for some time back? Who effected it? These societies for the purification of railroad literature gave warning -to the publishers, and warning to railroad companies, and warning to conductors, and warning to newsboys, to keep the infernal stuff off the trains. Many of the cities have successfully prohibited the most of that literature even from going on the news-stands. Terror has seized upon the publishers and the dealers in impure literature, from the fact that over one thousand arrests have been made, and the aggregate time for which the convicted have been sentenced to prison is over one hundred and ninety years, and from the fact that about two millions of their circulars have been destroyed, and the business is not as profitable as it used to be. How have so many of the newsstands of oar great cities been purified: How has so much ^pf this iniquity been balked? Oh, no. You might as well go into a jungle of .the East Indies and put a cobra on the neck, and with profound argument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and sting and to poison anything. The only answer to your argument would be an uplifted head and a hiss, and a sharp, reeking tooth struck into our arteries. The fijjnly argument for a cobra is a shot-gun, and the only argument for these dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and bean soup in a penitentiary. The law! The law! I invoke to consummate the work so grandly begun!

Anotner way in which we are to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by filling the minds of our young people with a healthful literature. 1 do not mean to say that all the books and newspapers in our families ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that every song ought to be sung to the tune of “Old Hundred.” I hare no sympathy with the attempt to make the young old. I would rather join a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood and girlhood must not be abbreviated. But there are good bodks, good histories, good works of fiction, good books of all styles, with which we are to fill the minds of the young, so that there will be no more room for the useless and the vicious than there is room for chaff in a bushel measure which is already filled with Michigan wheat. Why are fifty per cent of the criminals in the jails and penitentiaries of the United States to-day under twenty-one years of age? Many of them under seventeen, under sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen, under thirteen. Walk along one of the corridors of the Tombs prison in New York and look for yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers, bewitched them as soon as they got out of the cradle. Beware of all those stories which end wrong. Beware of all those books which make the road that ends in perdition seem to end in Paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call the desperado brave or thd libertine gallant. Teaeh our young people that if they go down into the swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o’-lanterns dance on the decay and rottenness they will catch the malaria and death. “Oh!” says some one, “I am a business man, and have no time to examine what my children read. I huve no time to inspect the books that come into my household.” If your children were threatened with typhoid fever, would you have time to go for the doctor? Would you have time to watch the progress of the disease? Would you have time for the funeral? In the presence of my God I warn you of the fact that your children are threatened with moral and spiritual typhoid, and that unless the thing be stopped it will be to them funeral of body, funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three funerals in one day. My word is to this vast multitude of young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do not buy, a corrupt book or a corrupt picture. A book will decide a man’s destiny for good or for evil. The hook you read yesterday may have decided you for time and for eternity, or it may be a book that may come into your possession to-morrow. A good book—who can exaggerate its power? Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cotton Mather’s “Essays to Do Good” in childhood gave him holy aspirations for all the rest of his life. George Law declared that a biography he read in childhood gave him all his subsequent prosperities. A clergyjnan, many years ago, passing to the far west, stopped at an hotel. He saw a woman copying something from Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress.” It seemed that she had borrowed the book, and there were some things she wanted especially to remember. The clergyman had in his satchel a copy of Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress,” and so he made her a present of it. Thirty years passed on. The clergyman came that way and he asked where _tbe woman was whom he had seen years ago. They said: “She lives yonder in that beautiful house.” He went there and said to her: “Do you remember me?” She said: “No, I do not.” He said: “Do you remember a man grave you Doddridge's ‘Rise and Progfress’ thirty years ago?” “Oh, yes; I remember. That book saved my soul. I loaned the book to all my neighbors, and they read it and they were converted to God, and we had a revival of religion which swept through the whole community. We built a church and called a pastor. You see that spire yonder, don’t you? That church was built as the result of that book you gave me thirty years agro.” Oh, the power of a good book! But, alas! for th# influence of a bad book. John Angel James, than whom

England never had a holier minister, stood in his pulpit in Birmingham and said: “Twenty-five years ago a lad lent me an infamous book. He would loan it only fifteen minutes and then I had to give it baek; but that, book has haunted me like a specter ever since. I have in agony of soul, on my knees before God, prayed that He would obliterate from my soul the memory of it; but I shall carry the damage of it until the day of my death.” The assassin of Sir William Russell declared that he got the inspiration for his crime by reading what was then « new and popular novel, “Jack Sheppard.” “Homer’s “Iliad" made Alexander the warrior. Alexander said so. The story of Alexander made Julius Ceesar and Charles XII. both men of blood. Have you in your"pocket, or in your trfink, or in your desk at business, a bad book, a bad picture, a bad •pamphlet? In God’s name I warn you to destroy it. Another way in which we shall figl^t back this corrupt literature and kill the frogs of Egypt is by rolling over them the Christian printing press, which shall give plenty of healthful reading to all adults. All these men and women are reading men and women. What are you reading? Abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things about them, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had two elements in them—the good and the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Once in awhile there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel and brass fillings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally just the opposite. If you attempt to plhnge through a fence of burrs to get one blackberry you will get more burrs than blackberries. You can not afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say: “The influence is insignificant.” I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced the lockjaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as manv do, von pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpower mill merely to see whether it would really blow up or not. tin a menagerie a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard’s cage. The animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautiful. He just stroked it. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a 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 bleeding under the clutch of the black leopard. “But,” you say, how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?” There is always something suspicious about a bad book. I never knew an exception—something suspicious in the index or style of illustration. This • venomous reptile almost always carries a warning rattle. The clock strikes midnight. A fanform bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek and then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up from the river of death. The clock strikes four, 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 mad house she will mistake her ringlets for curling

serpents ana tnrust ner wnite nana through the bars oi the prison, and smite her head, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking: “My brain! my brrfm!'’ Oh, stand oft from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs and warning buoys, when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sail set? Against every bad .pamphlet send a good pamphlet; against every unclean picture send an innocent picture; against every scurrilous song send a Christian song; against every bad book send a good book; and then it will be as it was in ancient Toledo, where the Toletum missals were kept by the saints in six churches, and the sacrilegious Romans demanded that those mis^ sals be destroyed, and that the Roman missals be substituted; and the war came on, and I am glad to say that the whole matter having been referred to champions, the champion of the Toletum missals with one blow brought down the champion cf Roman missals. So it will be in our day. The good literature, the Christian literature in its championship for God and the truth, will bring down the evil literature in its championship for the devil. I feel tingling to the tips Of my fingers and through all the nerves of my body, and all the depths of my soul, the certainty of our triumphs. Cheer up, O, men and women who are toiling for the purification of society! Toil with your faces in the sunlight “If God be for us, who can be against ns?” Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter of the third earl of Stanhope, and after her nearest friends had died she went to the far east took possession of a deserted convent, threw up fortresses amid the mountains of Lebanon, opened the castle to the poor and the wretched and the sick who would come in. She made her castle a home for the unfortunate. She was a devont Christian woman. She was waiting for the coming of the Lord. She expected that the Lord would descend in person, and she thought upon it until it was too much for her reason. In the magnificent stables of her palace she had two horses groomed and bridled and saddled and caparisoned, and all ready for the day in which her Lord should descend, and He on one of them and she on the other would start for Jerusalem, the city of the great King. It was a fanaticism and a delusion; but there was romance, and there was splendor; and there was thrilling expectation in the dream! Ah! friends, we need no earthly palfreys groomed and saddled and bridled and caparisoned for our Lord when He shall come. The horse is ready in the equerry of Heaven, and the Imperial Rider is ready to mount. “And I saw, and behold a white horse, and He that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto Him, and He went forth conquering and to conquer. And the armies which were in Heaven followed Him on white horses, and on His vesture and on His thigh were written; “King of kings, and Lord of lords.” Horsemen of Heaven, mount! Cavalrymen of God, ride on! Charge! Charge! until they shall be hurled back on their haunches—the black horse of famine, and the red horse of carnage, and the pale horse of death. Jesus forever! _ —Mother—“When the new minister calls, Tommy, you mustn’t make any remarks about his clothes.” Tommy (after the minister is seated)—“Ma told me not to say anything about yonr clothes. I don’t see anything the matter with them.”—N. Y. Sun. —Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ feelings, snd forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves i to be forjfivej).Vi’hackeiny«

DUKE AND MARQUIS. They Had Coaalderable Fan at the Expense or the Station-Master. An amusing incident lately occurred on a southern railroad in England in connection with the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Bute, says London Society. The Duke and Marquis were fellow-travelers, and when the train stopped at-station a companion joiped them in the person of the stationmaster himself, who was going for a jaunt some twenty miles further up the line. The Duke and* station-master, who were both diminutive men and therefore fond of talk, soon got into conversation, while the Marquis—a tall, robust man—was inclined to be reticent, until he found his friend the Duke up to his ears in conversation, when he himself joined, addressing most of his con-i versation to the stranger. Atlength the train arrived at B—- and the Marquis bade a hearty farewell to the Duke, and with a kindly- adieu and a shake of the hand from the stranger,1 the Marquis quitted the carriage, while his dispatch-box and wraps were secured, to the surprise of the stationmaster, by a tall, powdered footman, and the train soon glided again out of the station. Silence was not, however, long maintained, the station-master breaking out with the question: “1 wonder who that swell was?” “That,” replied his companion, “was the Marquis of Bute.”\ The answer seemed to.dumfound thttstati on-master for a time, but presently he exclaimed: “So that were a Marquis, was he? Well, now, I do think it kind of him to talk to two such snobby little chaps as us, don’t you?” The Duke noddod his assent and bad a good laugh. When the train drew up again his grace affably bade his com pan-' ion “Good-bye,” and, on alighting on the platform, was received with the greatest deference by a throng of Jesuit priests, this incident again setting the stationmaster tho task of inquiry, who inquisitively asked a brother official: “Who that little bloke was?” “That,” replied the guard, “is the Duke of Norfolk.” The station-master, after this, declared he would never travel first-class again as long as he lived. ■ A Bargain In Kisses. The new girl stood behind the counter in a South End bake shop, says the Springfield (Mass.) Union. A young man walked briskly up and laid down two cents with the words: “Two kisses.” Doubtless he would have been satisfied with two of thcT white sugar-and-egg structures in the show-case, but the new clerk, who was brought up in Thompsonville, climbed upon a stool and pursed her red lips so temptingly that the customer got an extraordinary bargain—four kisses for two cents. A Touch of Nature. -> In the familiar song “Pull for the Shore” there is a line “Cling to self no more,” which, as sung by the colored children in one of the schools, sounded - strangely, and on having it said slowly it was discovered that they were singing: “Clean yourself no more.” It la a Horrid Nuisance To be rAKous. Starting at tho slightest sound, unrosiness by day and fitful slumber by night, unreasonable apprehensions, odd sensations, constant restlessness—these are among its diabolical symptoms. Dyspepsia is tho fountain head. Remove this with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, and the food is assimilated, the body nourished, the sleep grows tranquil, nervousness vamoses. The Bitters subdues malaria, constipation, liver complaint and kidney affections. To succeed in his art, the skater must get off his foot frequently .—Texas Siftings. ' The gentler sex often suffer from peculiar weakness that give them great distress. Let them not suffer. A use of Dr ..John Bull’s Sarsaparilla strengthens the female organization, and they soon grow strong ana robust. It is woman’s best remedy for weakness and declining health.

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Mast people think that the word “Bitters" can be used only In connection with an intoxicating beverage. This is a mistake, as the best remedy for all diseases of the blood, liver, kidneys,etc., isFrickly Ash Bitters. It is purely a medicine and every article used in its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative qualities. Accepting the philosopher’s theory that money represents trouble it is surprising to see how many peoplo are willing ana anxious to borrow trouble.—Washington Post Ir not about being taught by a man, take this good advice. Try Dobbins' Electric Soap next Monday. It won’t cost much, and you will then know for yourself just how good it te. Be sure to get no imitation. There ore lots of them. Woman can’t throw a stone straight to save her soul, but she can sit in an easy chair and enchant a man so that ho will go and throw it for her.—Somervillo Journal. The young man who wishes to go to the front in his vocation, and stay there, should secure a position as street-car driver.— Norristown Herald. Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia and too* hearty eating is relieved at once by taking one of Carter’s Little Liver Pills immediately after dinner. Don’tforget this. The man who drills wells may be a very pleasant person, but still he’s an awful bore. —Binghamton Republican. Many mothers would willingly pay a dollar a box for Bull’s Worm Destroyers if they could not get t hem for jJ5 cents. They are always safe and always sure. It is said that a Chinaman nover goes crazy. There is no reason why ho should. Millinery bills are unknown in the Flowery Kingdom. Tub punster is cruel when he makes some poor, weak word carry double.—Texas Siftings. TnETHROAT.—“Brown’s Bronchial Trochts’’ act directly on the organs of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. It is not advisable for a bank cashier to read nautical tales; the practice might in spire him to become a “skipper.”—Boston Courier. It is easy running a paper in Wyoming— the mobs furnish nooso items.—Texas Siftings. Check Colds and Bronchitis with Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Many people, who believe in “business before pleasure,” still seem to take pleasure In other folks’ business.—Utica Herald. Those who wish to practice economy should buyCarter’s Little Liver Pills. Forty pills in a vial; one pill a-dose. An emptjalarder ought to bo enough to keepjhe wolf from the door.—Texas Sift ings^s No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. One snow-storm does not make a winter, but it makes a cold day for the bootblack.— N. Y. Journal. The Soap that. Cleans Most is Lenox. You Say — I! I After your Lawn has been ruined by dogs or cows. How foolish you were not to have protected and beautified your Lawn by erecting a “Hartman’'’ Steel Picket Fence. 1. i ...

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How many people there are who regard the coming of winter as a constant state of siege. It seem£ as if the elements sat down outside the walls of health and now and again, led by the north wind and his attendant blasts, broke over the ^ ramparts, spreading colds, pneumonia and death. Who knows when the next storm may come and what its effects upon your constitution may be ? The fortifications of health must be made strong. SCOTT’S EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda will aid you to hold out against Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, and all Ancemic and Wasting Diseases, until the siege is raised. It prevents wasting in children. Palatable as Milk. . •_dig SPECIAL.—Scott’s Emulsion is non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Pro- ^ fession all over the world, because its ingredients are scientifically combined in sach a rnacuer as to greatly increase their remedial value. CAUTION.—Scott’s Emulsion is put up in salmon-colored wrappers. Be snre and get the genuine. Prepared only by Scott & Bowne, Manufacturing Cheijiists, Now York* Scid by all Druggists.

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