Show THOSE AWFUL WOMEN As long as mon are men it is fair to presume pre-sume that they will be misled turned aside overcome and ruined one or the other o all by conniving designing captivating cap-tivating women The instances in which such mishaps have occurred arc to frequent fre-quent and well known r require so much as an attempt at repetition even having reference only to those which are more or less celebrated While the case of ROBERT RAT HAMILTON man of the world at large Republican politician in specific terms and fool in general was the latest of the kind that his ben given to the general public it was nof theouly one by a long way It is by this time no longer denied that women arc ether better or worse than mrn and the instances coming to light show that the latter class are in a mighty majority over the former Every day something new in the way of a snare concocted con-cocted by them or one or more of them for som weak creature of the other sex is successful and the worst part of it all is that the designs always show as much ingenuity in-genuity and variety of detail as they do malignity and utter lack of principle DA few days ago the assistant United Suites attorney for the district of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania comprising Pittsburg prepared an indictment in the district court there against one SETJOUII HITCHCOCK and his wife SARAH for using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes I seems that in May lust B H UAUMOUK a middle J r w aged bachelor of Chicago was very neatly and decidedly taken in and done for by said woman in the manner following He noticed an advertisement in thS papers calling for correspondence with a young lady in Meadville Pa with a view to matrimony mat-rimony UunioisE innocent child vfroto to the address given in tha nlortisemcnt and received in reply a letter as follows atCADVILLC Pa Slij IICOT DEAR RmI am twentythree years oW 5 feet G Inches high weigh 140 1 pounds km aanablc sympathetic lively and handsome Have no fear of being outdone by any I ai possessed of talent lam a almjkoepcr < ii ° Oa yesr Yes we need to Impnnv all oart > ipi > rtunitiess > the first thing i to > cuJ ye > phut for one of mine I dcjire tt ffiirry boon as i Jiavo not a good home and no protector You are not too old t love certainly and for love I will give my hand in marriage andfornohingclse Give mea me-a long letter PUa j wriu some T have no encumbrance en-cumbrance SAIIAU A HITCHCOCK The middleaged man or man of any ac for that matter who was not encumbered otherwise engaged nor altogether wanting whose hopes would not be raised and who would not in his minds eye begin to see visions of real angels after receiving such adocument as the above would be more than man or less Nor would it be altogether alto-gether wise to trust all of those who are encumbered Anyway Brother BAUMOUE bit like a bass This letter as we lear from the Pittsburg Leader was followed by an exchange photographs BAKMOIII receiving that of p beautiful young lady Many endearing epistles passed to and fro FinallyBvUMoitrsent his beloved I gold ring and S2 to pay her faro to Chicago where they were to be married He heard from her no more nor did he hear from his 525 and ring Meanwhile the postoffico inspector in-spector at Meadville became suspicious He wrote to BAKMOISI and the BAmlm later sent allthc letters bad rcceived from his dear SAKAH to the inspector The latter lodged MI information and both SAUAII and her husband SETMonl HITCHIOCK who is accused ac-cused of being a party to theaffair han been arrested The parties are alleged t have conducted bogus matrimonial agencies agen-cies at Olean Jamestown and other towns in New York and to have made considerable consider-able money by duping victims who were anxious to secure wives Tin HEKLI would be pleased to know that BARMOIES are scarce but if it did it would know something against its Ijolief and while not at all concurring in th3 of quote assertion that this is a bal world we are compelled to admit that the ba 1 and foolish people in jt dont seem to clmmish very rapidly |