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Show SICKLY SENTIMENTALITY. The maudlin sentimentality to which utterance is at times given, with regard re-gard to notorious criminals, is positively posi-tively sickening. A fellow named Reals is under sentence of death in New Y"ork for murder, and after ineffectual attempts on the part of his friends to have Governor Hoffman pardon him, now that his execution is certain his Bayings and doings, his wishes and de sires till columns of the New York papers and are trumpeted over the wires as if he were some great benefactor bene-factor of his race whose mortal career is about drawing to a close. No doubt :lergymen will wait on his footsteps foot-steps to the gallows, wring from him a confession of penitence, and then assure him of a free uckct by express to the mansions of bliss. Thes-i sickly sentimentalists do not -ecm to be aware that they are only fostering crime by giving such notoriety to hardened criminals. Lei murd. rcrs sink from the sight and kuoT.v.rdgr of that society they have outr.v-' 1. and suffer the penalty of the law ii. -ilcin.-f-, that others may not be jitimui .ted to obtain similar notoriety by emuiritinu their criminal deeds. |