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Show the tragedy of "wrong, doing During the week the papers have been filled with detailed accounts of , I the trial of a young woman who was "a rich man's affinity and paramour The story of misdirected lives holds interest because the deepest emotions emo-tions are touched upon and a girl's j fatal mistake is responsible for the j fiensation. I ' There is good lo bo obtained from this recital of the improper, disgrace-I disgrace-I lul relations of a man and young girl. and It Is to be in the mandate issued long ago that: "The wages of sin is death." The man won the affections of the girl by kind attentions and the bestowing be-stowing of luxuries. But the man, be I cause of his dissipations, became at ; 1 4imes a brute, and did outrageous ThlngB. One u i .kness developed an-i an-i other until tho liner sensibilities dis I appeared. The man in his debauches, H tried to maim and kill. The scene I was closed with a tragedy. The man ,1 went to a premature grave; the girl Is jji b nervous wreck, with her good name H destroyed and her future blanked. The moral law not only proclaims J tgainst the conduct of this man and J girl, but nature gives its condemna H tion. Those who indulge excessively, I those who disregard the normal, must ' j pa the cost of their excesses, and I generally the first symptoms of the of ! fending is a nervous upset. The man In this case became a nervous wreck, j ind when his already disordered mind I Was Inflamed by drink, he became an H Inhuman monster, ill , No one will waste much sympathy on tho drunken fellow who fell a vie-"O vie-"O Um to him own passions. The girl j should have pity. The worid needs Vil the moral lesson of the fast and false '.! Uvea which the two led up to the :.4 hour of the calamity which over- helmed them. |