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Show I whieh they arc fust lulling; bill if lhi-ir rescue is i m po.i Kle, the sooner they are known, shunned and branded as low, immoral and despicable, the better. Until they are known and treated as bad, the good girls of the town suffer by their actions, and are in a measure held responsible for their misdeeds. The lines should be drawn; the distinction made, that the reputa tion of the virtuous shall not be tarnished by the ads of the profligate. A Letter from a Silly Uirl of this City. ! SHE'S STKK'K 0.1 A Sl.tSKKL MA.V. Uliu U Ibc lliil Hho fuiild So hr f'.irgul llerwir and the llepuUlioii of Her St-v iu Biik'liaiu fit)? The following letters were received re-ceived at Tiik IIluixr ollice this week. They explain themselves .with a vengeance. HER TdSTTEK. Mr. Marks, Ugden Citv, "Utah. My Unknown: ITaving seen you with your trooji while you were in our city, 1 was very much taken up by your looks especially in the parade. pa-rade. Allow me to say, you looked perfectly handsome. Your entertainment given here was "simple immense." I hope you will pay our city a visit again, j Pardon me for the liberty J. take ! in writing to you but this is leap year so girls are dared to do rash things perhaps. Bye-Bye. From a gild who is a goner. HIS REPLY. Aspen, Colo, July 28th, 1802. Editor Jlrigham liirtiLEii, Dear .Sir: Inclose you will find letter from one of your fair maidens mai-dens of Brigham. If you can find space in your valuable paper to publish, T would only be too glad for to correspond with the lady of the undersigned letter. Yours, Respectfully, Edgar Marks. Answer, Comedian Gorton's Minstrels August 20th Here is given the name of the town where he will be on that date but for obvious reasons we oinit it. We give space to the foregoing letters for various reasons. But the principal end in view is to teach the few foolish girls of this city, thank heaven there are few like her, a lesson and to try to show them the folly and evil of taking such rash steps as did the writer of the above. The Gorton's Minstrels played Brigham July ISth. The envelope enclosing the girl's letter bears the Brigham post mark of July 20th and was received at Ogden the same day. The writing appears to be that of a girl wdio knows considerable con-siderable about spelling and punctuation. punct-uation. But the greatest sense she shows is in withholding her name, although it was only through this omission that it fell into our hands. Thousands of good girls have been led astray and ruined, their downward course dating from just some such act of levity. Iu this way they strike up a ''romantic" llirtation through the mails; he plans a meeting; she is persuaded to abandon all that is near and dear to her at home and elopes with him; they spend a few mouths in supposed bliss; he then tires of her; deserts her, and what a sad ending is in store for this romance loving maiden. Ten chances to oneshewill he enticed intua brothel and end her life in shame and ignominy. With a very few exceptions, we believe the girls of Brigham City are living lives of purity and virtue; to condescend to such a bold j act as this would be farthest from ! their thoughts. They would shun j it as they would a viper. ! But there are a few girls who. ' we are sorry to sav, are taking a j downward course. One of them, . no doubt, is responsible for this , unw ise note. A few hours after the train bearing the minstrels came to town, ;two of these rather free and easy ; girls were seen walking arm in arm '. with two of theso List young men, down bv the fields near thcrnilway station. An attempt should be made to j daw n;eh characters from the j depths of vice auj dcraj-bitjn to |