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Show WHAT EVILSIUSU FUOJI QOS- Oossir, public, private, 8ocial.-.to fight against it either by word or pen, seems nrtcr all, liko fighting with shadows. Kverylwdy laughat Jt, protests against It, or at least eucdorages others in it; quite innocently, uncoiiscidnsly, in such a; small, harmless faihion--yct, wc do it.i Wo must talk about lometbing, ami It Is! not nil of us who can find a rational'topid of convfrsation, or discuss it wberi found. Many, too, who iii tlipir hearts hate thai very thought or tattle nnd tulc-bcnring 1 are shy of -lifting m their voice ngnfnst It',' Jest tbcy sbould'Bo ridiculed for Ouliot-! Ism; or thought to jet themselves up as mdre virtuous- tban their nelghlwrs. Others, liko our lamented Mends, Maria and Hob, from mere idleness mid indifference, indiffer-ence, long kept boverihg-ToVcr tho unclean stream, at last drop lu'.o it, and are drifted away by it. Where docs it land tbemr-ay, wberel If I, or ahy one, were to unfold on this subject Only onr Own cxpericueo nnd observation, not a little more than a volume it would make! Families set by the ears parents against children, brothers against brothers, not to mention brothers and sisters-in-law, who seem generally to assume With the legal title tlm legal right to interminable squabbling. squab-bling. Friendships sundered, betrothals broken, marriages annulled in the spirit, at least, while tu the letter kept utterly! to be a dally torment, temptation and despair. Acquaintances that would other-wiso other-wiso have maintained a s.ife and not unkindly un-kindly indifference, forced Into absolute dislike originating bow they know not. but there it is. Old companions, that; 'would have borne each other's little fot-f bles, havo forgiven and forgotten littlo annoyances, ami kept up un honest nffec-,: tion till death, driven at lustinlu nu open rupture, or frou-u into n coldness more' bopclcM wtill, which uo after-growth ever have ponef to ibw Truly, from the- smallest Little rcdjingtoit that enr-rlca enr-rlca on year by year it4 bloodjess wars, i liarmless scandals, its daily chronicles o futermiuablc uotbmg, to the gnat metro- politan worjd, , rashtottabIe,..lnteUcctn'nlf W"1' vh'WWil 4nd' cursciai K esV;A WcmhiiU tbougkl about, Wemen. ". |