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Show - - -i-1jxj Jl3r "ESCAPED SUX" EPISODE. 3 ft A rcuMOEli of good, pious people $i if , 5 r PitteLuig are clothed In sorrow X ' r . t, jT a"d covered with a-ucs of Uttc-r dls- i r appointment over the doings of Miss J j - 'l J Frances Cufack, an "escaped nun." J52.i$v i JL Her labor of lovu in uncovering al- J? ?l S- r- ' ' Catholic corruption was sweet ji5i! " 1, Protectant fanaticp, who, being 5 , willing to believe anything, no mat- ? , j. lerLow bntlor how uuruo, In rt- - - -xjj l j ganl to the nlecita cf a chunh to I .$& f which they are oppoec-d, obtained j fj. Sr 4f money and credit for the fe-nialo !i C' ?.. "f ' exhibitor of the sins perpetrated urr . i der cover of Romanism. s ,., ! Some of Miss Cucack'a iclims , I obtained mWrii.tions laid iu ad- r ; 4 x,T-' t vauce, foi a book v.liich this al- ' Jg 4 ! hsjwl femalo heroine affcrtedsbe ' , ? - was about to publish. JCow the is ' " J&r : . ! ' -on at, bavins probably gono to a , l i-f - new field to work the min role under -i "4 ( another name. Doubtless the -(.' 1 will readily find pltnly of rt Jj, ,j 4t geillilile people to victimize. Indeed je J there are Jots of human Icings not , ji , . , only willing but anxious to be de. - - i iivd,solongasthedeceptionfecds -,-fi llieirpnjuj ci-". S 5 We never had any faith Iu the $ &. & escaped nun business any more than ' 1 we bao entertained a belief iu -3- 2 thimWe-riggersaudconCdencenjen. .The respective busiiK-SMrsaredifler- - r . - ent 5u some rict3 but tlmllar In ' T others they are deceitIons prac- '- i tloii to rocure money. ' It ia probable that JIi-s Cusacl. never Mag a nun at any time, and - T evt-xi if she had been, ii-fc a parody 4 on justice to accept the exports atatementa of the enemies of a rell- ' gieus commuuity as true without -' - tito consideration of evidence from , tJwe against w horn the charges are preferred. To do this is wrong in v " principle, ami none lwt narrow- - - imndetl, eJuh and bigoted people jmr-Kie such an unwarrantablo J , oour. s r ' ' It iuy be saHt that this one sided conduct is so common as to include the majority of the human family. ' If so. that does not make it right, , . and renders it all the more deplor able. E-capeJ nuns and apostate priests , are on the same list as renegade "Mormons," w ho travel about exhibiting ex-hibiting anti-"Mormon" blood, 'thunder and blue smoke. As a rule i they end in smoke, as did young - ! I Btoddard. They blaze up, attract ' IopuIar attention for a moment, so to gfoak, tlie flame sulfides and they dippear in the gloom of their ewa perfidy. Down at the bottom of the heart 1 f humanity there is a feeling of re- Itognance towanl men and women who Itavo been connected with a sytem erjKscfciily a religious one J-jRVe it and theu, ia a spirit of bit-tetHecsand bit-tetHecsand eniuity, geek to tear it down and uuligu its adherents. Kvtm lhoe who, ia the bigoted ' Bmalloese of their aouK gloat over ttw fjkehoods utterai by the recalcitrant, do not in reality re-ality plaos conHJcucj in thora wlio uUer them, their po-- po-- sirJon and conduct being intricsic- j ally inconsistent and uuautigatcdly " j - ungenerous. I Xo word of condolence should le , oxpresecd for the Pituburg dus made by Mis Cusa ck. It i only, aooorJiug to her own showing, another of her escapades, of which 5 there has doubtless been a srks. - The first the claims to have been 3. "t . from a uuunery. the lalance have r'f hi en from her creditors and clu.. If the Pennsylvania inadent shell ' .docreaso tho mm of coufidencu or- dlirarily reposed in her cla by thin brained Protestanip, the affair will ,, not be devoit of pro ti tabic result. |