Show NO REDRESS girls who are in any way inclined to yield to the improper solicitation li of boin young men under proc proff nife liFe of marriage should recall the fate of the tha sa withfield girl recorded in our last issue she accused aused a young man of being the author of her ruin and claimed that lie he had bad promised to marry her ile iio denied having had illicit relations with her and because there was no corroboratory evidence the case 1 as dismissed dismiss cd and the girl will have to beacher bear her shame as bet best she may in nearl nearly v every instance there is but the girls word as proof and this instance shows that in caio of denial by her betrayer beti ayer she has absolutely no redress higher considerations than this should krould prompt every se self if respecting young woman to value her virtue more than life itself but this instance should serve as a warning to those who might otherwise other wisa yield to the wiles of the seducer theo the officers of tile the law are powerless as aa under the law an offender cannot bs be convicted upon upon the evidence of an accomplice unless corroboratory rob oratory ry evidence can be Fe feci ired cured this law larv in the class of instances referred to seems hard bard but is perfectly just as otherwise every man would be at the mercy of any all abandoned woman who chose to bring a charge against him the case it we e have instanced is simply taken as one of a number of similar baeb which have come to light of late in this thia county no I 1 arrests have been made in the other cases on account of lack of corroboratory evidence girls are the custodians of their own virtue bud and if they throw away their most priceless treasure they do so at I 1 their own peril as the chances of redress are few those of them who are fortunate enough to legitimatize bait their offs offspring prin 1 by marriage with their betrayer st still I 1 1 have a life time of vain vain regrets before them and in addition to the betings of conscience often receive reminders from other sources their subsequent lives may be ba models of propriety but abife alife a lifetime life time of repent I ance cannot obliterate the memory of the one false step from the minds of either themselves or their acqua acquaintances nin no girl would ever be led astray could she but b it reallie realie the consequences |