The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-01
THE SUN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1876.

Ing OF money In payment for their fruitless
carcsses Greenbacks are not plaster for
such wounds as their pride and love havo
received All they eau do is to bear up
under the modification and suffering, and
try to get over the affair
That there are women who Law their
plans TO entangle men in formal or inn
Piled promise of marriage with view to
making n livelihood out OF tho industry,
lawyers and referees familiar with such
cases will bear abundant witness. If they
can't do more, they will accept a coinpro-
mise, wrung out of tho victims dread of
publicity or fear OF extortionate legal fees,
and depart in search of new birds to pluck.
Experience warns young men to avoid
the society Of all women who are not
of assured respcctabity and known an.
teccdcnts. These sharks, be it heed
ed. are not apt to be encountered while
swimming in pure waters. Their home is
in the turbid pillows, and when men ven
ture there they must expect to pay for
their recklessness. Therefore, the public
sympathy cannot be expected to at once 20
out to social swimmer, who howls be-
cause his leg is in the sharks jaws, and can
only be released by his satisfying the ap-
petite OF the monster with n heavy meal
of greenbaclSs.
Sometimes, however, the cases OF the I'M
fortunates are hard. There lived, n quarter
of century ago, in Boston, venerable
clergyman, an eccentric widower and a
man Of property, who had retired from the
exercise of his sacred functions. One day,
walking In by street, he saw book fan
from window, ut which sat an attractive
woman. The polite minister picked up
the volume, and bowling 10 the fair owner.
took IL in the house, aud civlly and oblig-
ngly returned il to her. Whether or no
She lured him into too long ana friendly
converse with her, the reports do not say;
nor did he ever fully detail all the circum-
stances OF that perilous and, as it proved,
fatal interview. But, not many days after,
the minister was waited on ut his house by
MISUNDERSTANDING man, who threatened
him with exposure for his conduct to the
woman. OF course, the upshot OF II was
that he demanded money; and he got 1t
from the parson, who was half out OF his
wits with fearful anticipntions. There
after that memorable friend of the literary
woman blcd the poor old minister with
great regularity and assiduity. The strain
on the victims purse was great, yet that
might have been borne by him; but the
strain on his sensitive organization was
uubearnble, and the poor old man put
stop TO the b,ackma.l by one day putting
an end to himself.
This is one case out OF many which must
occur to everybody who has had much
commerce with the world. In most OF he
instances whore blackmail of this sort is
paid, the victim has not only to appear
ances hut has Also actually compromised
himself and he has not tho courage TO
face the music. In his folly aud terror
he tries TO buy of exposure, but it Is n
debt that grows by more than compound
interest. aud the creditor is perhaps never
satisfied.
We repeat the warning TO all young
men, and old, too, that when you NEEDLE
with nitro-glycerinc You are pretty sure
20 be blown up and when you consort with
the adventures you arc likely 10 have an
adventure yourself which you Will not
wish to have made public, though she may
have no scruplos whatever about nOto-
Iicty SO long rs 1t pays. Moreover. it is n
good rule never TO do anything you VIII
be ashamed TO have known.