The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-01

after an acquaintance Of less than week.
But it is limited that ne is insane Instead oil
willfully vicious, and the moment we take
this view OF the case he appears actually 10
the light OF a victim! To quote another
recent instance A very wealthy and IN,
genuous old farmer, appropriately named
/ Ganser, of Alsace township, near neauihg
Pa, is described by the Reading Eagle al
bitterly bewailing his late cruel treatmen
and desertion, by young wife whom. II
his innocent faith, he raised up out OF ser
vile noyerty a few years ago to be tn
hammered sharer Of all his great posses
sions The Young woman seems to hav
acted the termagant in his house for tn
mast wear, and has finally fed therefrom !
sheer ungrateful disgust at her matrlmo
NAL benefactor. Not having borne ava
with her any spells, however, nor appesairiu
10 have chosen any company Tor her h'se
she is entitled to hearing as to the 'ap-
: of her marriage in the first place. ed but
pears that she was originally a. OF Read
|, comelv mateh-seller in the stfted old MIR.
ing. One DAY the simplsent years old:
{ Genser then UPWARDS gon, and rendered
/ wes in town with hi He had never seen
her a ride up a mis- senile innocence, he
: her before vert from the handsome
n wnpld not She was called, until she had
c 'sRacLis to accept his hand and his for
Y eonss a quarter of million. 1t was
. md, indicate, unwomanly in her, of
lrse, to thus palpably sell herself into Il
marriage sure to result unblessedly; but
friendless, tattered match girls do not al
ways possess the virtue TO resist the inno-
cence offering $250,000. The match
girls of the best society are not always less
merceuary. This part of her story being
told, the question is, How shall we justly
distribute the blame of her final miscon-
duct between her own natural grille and
the native innocence of the venerable Gan
ser, which irresistibly tempted her into the
path towards it And here is another H.
Illustrative case from the EDeRiRg Cali, of
Quincy, Ill.,: An innocent young country
girl of Lima, in that vicinity lately visited
fortune-teller who assumed TO predict
matrimonial fates. While she was having
her horoscope east, and the date aud per-
soRalitieS Of her future marriage specified,
there entered, also for similar astrological
information, an equally innocent coun-
try lad. Prompt to avail himself of
this happy combination of unsophisticated
custom, the shrewd astrOl0ger set the same
day for the youths wedding as for the
maiden's, and introduced the twain to each
other Being so very innocent, they saw
the hand of fate" in their meeting and
the coincidence of their appointed we'd
ding days, and going forth together, were
married at the nearest squires Here is
innocence actually preying upon innocence;
bringing the whole argument to climax
at once farcical and irresistible. When
the innocence that is so much poetized and
admired as being helpless cannot find guile
TO work it injury, it takes as kindly to the
imposition of its own kind. Without the
intelligence and principle Of studied virtue
for its safeguard, it is miserable weak
ness to itself a snare for every foot not
planted ON the loftiest aud tirmest ground
OF moral excellence, an invitation to folly
and wickedness andin place of being pit
led and ehampioned as injured, should of
ten be recognized as injurious.