The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-04-06

they come across Innocence, thus mus
mar it. If they meet with Error turning
to repentance, they must take it round
the neck and drag it deeper into tn
mire. If Wickedness comes into contac
with them, they must do their worst L
mako il ten times more evil than before
Mrs. Perkins was OF this sort.
Rut for Mrs Perkins, Catharine era
ven would have found out Eleano
Whyte, and would, by her large-hearteC
and holy sympathy, have won the chile
back to a happy life. The lodging house
keeper, having once set eyes on her prey
was not to be easily circumvented
. When the news came that the Rev. Quin
tus Craven was dead, she hid it from the
unhappy girl She saw Mrs. Craven
who had been directed to the place, anC
told her the child had run away. Mean
time the woman had given Eleanor hopes
that her friend was getting better. She
dressed herself up and went out with
her. She feigned sympathy, talked pi
ously, took her on Sunday to church. and
on Monday to music-hall in the Wesi
/ End.
The unsuspecting girl there saw sight
\ that outwits and surpasses in successful
conception and execution all the other
| deviltry of the metropolis put together.
You may 60 and see that sight any night
Of the week except Sunday: once seen,
never forgotten. 1t is duly licensed by
Act of Parliament.
The powers that grant the license are
magistrates of Middlesex, who are faith
ers of families, attendants (at least) OF
churches, some OF them servants Of the
Crown, some of them members of the ar
istocracy e. {. Of the aristoi, the best and
noblest-that ought to be-of the State, }
all of them gentlemen and men of honor
by public profession. Some of these gen
tlemen have been known to frequent
this place Others upon the bench, in
the face of the whole metropolis looking
on and knowing the facts, and in dis
charge of their solemn duty as justices,
under a truer, higher, more sacred obli-
CATION even than if they had been put
into a witness-box and duly sworn on
the Testament of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, have declared that they
had visited this place, and there never
saw any thing wrong. Therefore can
not be wrong to describe it-only dimly
good lady, and with veil around 1t.
And so they have licensed ito snare
seduce, ruin, and damn the bodies and
souls of young men and women for six
nights a week-Sundays being oddly ex-
cepted.
The clergy, backed by all decent peo.
pie, have sought in vain to clean out this
foul nest of vice. 1t is too popular; it is
under too lofty patronage; it is managed
with devilish cunning; and the profits
are SO enormous that any sum can be
afforded which is necessary to establish
its irreproachable respectability
Outai1a wait lanU traipa of ho1lrpav.
coaches, carriages, broughams with SER
wants in livery, some of them boys un-
schooled except in horsemanship and
vice; inside, the seductive strains Of mu-
sic, the whirling dance, the brilliancy of
gold and shining mirror and blazing gas,
and the sensual entertainments of merce-
nary beauty tricked out in borrowed
plumes, or in the glittering spoil of wild
nobility and OF pdrreHu wealth. are sup
plemented by the winning presentment
of exciting drink.
PerSuasit noe, amor, ri,tuH ad0lesccHt.d
Most virtuously displayed vice. Men
and women wLo never saw each other
before are dancing promiscuously. See
those bright-eyed. pink-aeshed women,
clad in rich furs and velvet robes, and
sparkling with costly jewels, parading,
arm in arm-a long Circean chain; while
a mixed mob Of men and women, peers,
clerks, members of Parliament, lawyers
authors, doctors, tradesmen, touts, trav-
elers, blscklegs. and clergymen, ay, and
certain respectable persons. with their
wives, so sworn and declared before the
justices, stand by and scan and canvass
this bazar of human flesh. Each painted
face and voluptuous form caskets dead
virtue. and challenges the competition of
vice.
To this legitimate, because law
licensed, place the benevolent Perkins
took her pretty victim. The girl was
dazzled with the lights, enchanted with
the spectacle, forgot her sorrow in the
brilliant scene, revived her spirit with
Circean draughts; and there. fair, pure
women Of England, we leave her-to the
care of your fathers brothers, and sons.