Show NEW developments OF CRIME the south douth has always been the home of sentiment and romance where the atmosphere la is colder and the snows and groats come in seasons nearer to etther the people have more practical things to think of and do all the emotions aud and developments thereof are more strictly southern than other wise this meaning that southerners are abt to fight fiercer love harder and be mure more keenly jealous than those people who have to keep tuel fuel ahead and ana a certain quantity of clothing wraps and provisions on hand in order to be comfortable the southern states have lately been undergoing a wave of double kil killings kallingis lingis wherein lovers have leaped into the dark abyss clasped in each others arms jeorgia Jeor gla gave us the firstel first example followed closely by tennessee and the awful deed dead at pass ci ristian mississippi closes the record up to ti the present writing so 80 far as reported parental opposition was waa the cause assigned in each case it is argued that such crimes are due to psychological influences which move in waves or that some other equally occult and subtle agency is at work but in this connection a horary asks a plain question did crime move more in such circles before the telegraph and the printing printine press disseminated semina ted the news ot of it so rapidly and so BO broadly instances instance are known where a suicide lias has j jumped bumped to death from some tower and been so imitated by other per sons sick of life that access to 10 the place has been denied to all visitors was clearly imitation and the question may be asked did the principals in the tennessee and mississippi tragedies know the circumstances of the georgia horror this furnishes an interesting theme tor for investigation aud and there can be no douba that whatever other causes there may be imitation and the force of example play a conspicuous part in the matter another point raised by the kame authority aut horty we find ourselves compelled to agree with this is the assertion that bad literature has done much to coloon the minds of the people of america at no time are these minds more susceptible to its influences than ban when blinded by an I 1 infatuation often of teu wrongly termed love jove the most melodramatic meio dramatic and impo sible bible situations in fiction become parts parti of their fanciful lives sad and it an impossible bero bergand and heroine choose to die at the end and of a last chapter it must necessarily have been an admirable thing 9 do one curse of society to lay day to is the prevalence of an unnatural unna C unhealthy sentimentality which la Is vicious in its every tendency it to Is against this that all the moral and intellectual power of philanthropists in all nations today tod ay is turned one of that not too numerous class the russian Tol tolstoi etol has tried to fight it by works which in some instances have been repudiated ted and acid set aside I 1 iu u certain circles aiming at tha th correction of such evils to society as romantic infatuation his method and text were themselves considered prurient if not indecent that their effect was to stimulate instead of curtail the vices depleted depicted may be well believed without in the least denying that they were I 1 in a 1 tended as a case of like curing like v i and that they have undoubtedly accomplished complis hed some good but if such ouch books shall cime under the ban how muck much more necessary is it that against the flash publications which appear in many of our street windows the firmest opposition should he be reared and maintainer maintain eu eol publications that are not only immoral in themselves but have a tendency if they do not actually incite to crime by making sinful indulgences appear as harmless diversions diver sons and by stripping lawlessness of as ae many of its ob objectionable J actionable features as possible the he freedom of the press prees may not be too autocratically restricts is yet there is surely law enough to prevent true liberty taking the foam of license to poison V t e aumau mind but after all the surest safeguard lies i i the home iLi fluence anti and the early parental wat cheate the enforcement of the law against the publishing au an i ale sale f of loup suggestive anil and unmoral immoral tools and agasino their tra i mission emission through the malls mails ever fiven may tie inv dinv keil ked to the uttermost and yet the evil will only be half until parents begin to pay more attention tu to the reading matter supplied to or obtained by their boys and girla and until purity of thought act and association aaion i is inculcated as of equal importance to moral health with pure air food and drink to the physical |