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

after an acquaintance OF less than week;
Rnt Il is limited that he is insane Instead OF
willfully vicious, and the moment we Iaae
tbis view Of the case he appears actually ~
the light of victim To quote an9'nei
recent instance: A very wealthy ano l llil
genuous old farmer, appropriately a ma
Ganser, Of Alsace township near - az
Pa, is described by the heaulns ~"
bitterly bewailing his late cr9el rreo'T in
and desertion, by young Wlle WI. 20 sor.
~ ;,,,,ooont f,ith. he raised up out OF ser
vile poyerty few years ago ~ w ss .no
hammered sharer OF all his great poSse 80,
sions The young woman seems " H.
acted the termagant IN his mouse l u ~ ~
nost year, and has finally He'd therelIon :"
sheer ungrateful disgust at her ma'rllno,
nial beuefactor Not having borne w.
with her any spells, however, nor app9ar;llhnSS
10 have chosen any company ior ncI nise
she Is entitled to a hearing as 10 tie ap-
of her marriage in the hrst piaceSe1 D9t
nears that she was originally a. oil Read
comely match seller in the slfteu olu hir.
inc One day the simplsenty, years old.
{ Genser. then upwards gon, ana rendered
| ',as IN town with hi He had never seen
Eor ride mn 'Pis senlle innocence, he
her before vert from the handsome
D ,rn,ld NOT She was called, until she had
G GRectis to accept his hand and his for
, oonse quarter Of a million. 1t was
md, indicate, unwomanly in her, of
irse, TO thus palpably sell herself into
sure to result unblessedly; but
tattered match girls do not al
ways possess the virtue to resist the limo
cence offering $250,OO0 The match >
girls Of the best society are not always less
mercenary 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 guile and
the native innocence of the venerable Can
ser, which irresstibly tempted her into the
path towards il ? And here is another H.
Illustrative case from the EceHiRg Cal, of
Quincy, ILL.,; An innocent young country
girl Of Lima, in that vicinity, lately visited
matrimonial fates. While she was having
her horoscope cast. and the date and per
sonalities 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 com biuatiou of unsophistieated
custom, the shrewd astrologer set the same
day for the youths wedding as for the
maiden's, and introduced the twain to each
other Being 50 very innocent, they saw
''the hand of fate" in their meeting and
the coincidence of their appointed wed
ding days, and going forth together, were
married at the nearest sQuires. Here is
Innocence actually preying upon innoc ence;
bringing the whole argument to a climax
at once farrical and irresistible When
| the innocence that i 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 n miserable weak
ness to itself snare for every foot not
planted ON the loitiest and tirmest ground
; of moral excellence, an invitation to folly
aud wickedness and,in place Of being pit.
led and championed as injured, should Of.
ten be recognized Us injurious.