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Show THEY RODE A WOMAN ON A RAIL. Five women in a little place In 1111 nols, met and passed resolutions declaring de-claring their own purity, while pronouncing pro-nouncing against that of the wife of I the village storekeeper. Then they 1 proceeded to banish their neighbor by riding her out of the hamlet on a rail. The woman returned to de-tend de-tend her good name and prosecute her detractors, with the result that yes terday the self-righteous were sen tnced by a judge to heavy fines, their sex alone saving them from the maximum maxi-mum penalty. The judge's action will receive the approval of every person who believes that a prying, gossiping, scandalizing group of women is a source of great misfortune to any community where the quidnuncs are free to Inflict their suspicions on any one. The woman who scandalizes has a heart of stone and her shortcomings are more un bearable than the faults of one whose missteps are In the direction of sell Injury. Those who are Inclined to be hypo critical are unreliable judges of the virtues of any woman. They too often conjure up serious lapses from rectitude where none exists. Worn en ever prying into the affairs of their neighbors need nothing more than their own evil thoughts to Jus tify the peddling of evil tales. When their suspicions tempt them to commit serious overt acts, t hey should receive no mercy, when called to a reckoning before the courts. oo |