Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-02

ONE OF LOWS TRAGEDIES.
The shooting Of VICroR CRoFroN
ANDRE and the instantaneous killing
ofhsrself, by JENNIE Amy, In New
York City, forms . double tragedy, At
once horrifying In its suddenness ana
full Of warning to young men and wo-
men In the private circumstances that
led 70 1t. The girl was attractive and
graceful in person, refined and lsdyiike
in all her tastes aud ways, and enjoyed
the good opinion and friendship OF all
who associated with her. Fashionable
boarding houses have frequently one
such inmate, whose youth and selt-de-
pendence makes her an object Of inter-
est to the inmates, and also too often
the victim OF men in whom want OF
honor toward women is the character
lstic defect. The unfortunate young
lady claimed that ANDRE, who by the
way was liueal decendent OF the revo-
lutionary spy, had deceived her. The
young man said he found she was d.
vorced wife. Be chat as it may-the
story OF the one against the other, it Is
clear that there was an engagement to
marry, which the young man broke as
soon as met another girl with greater
advantages and more money. Such
cases, though they only startle the pub
lie by murder or suicide now and then,
are painfully frequent. A self dependent
girl is naturally anxious to marry aud
have a home OF her own, and this eager
ness makes her too often an easy victim
TO the elegant and heartless Steerforths
OF society whose 'little Emily" is not
always Of the humble class depicted in
David Copperfield." The fact that a
girl is self-dependent should be her pro-
lection instead Of Der weakness to a
man of any heart. To make such a
one his plsything aud then cast her oil
for another, while his word is pledged
to her to make her his wife, is das-
taIdly pisee of business, for which, II it
costs him his life, he has forfeited the
sympathy and pity of all who believe
that selt-respect involves respect for
others. 1t is another thing, of course,
where mere adventures, whose ante
G. dents are covered with tissue offalse
pretCuses and simulated misfOrtunes, is
caught in the trap which she set for her
sdnirer. Having no virtue to lose, she
canno! ask redress for the loss of it.
But it is fact that cannot be ignored
that large number of young men in all
great cities, well educated, ambitious,
and strictly honorable in their dealings
with men, will Palliate themselves the
selfishness and cruelty o: breaking faith
with II girl who has trusted them too
implicitly. We do not defend the girl.
We make no plea of 'led astray" for
her, since every girl who remembers her
own mother should have moralstrength
enough to r,sist the tempter and keep
away from him. Neither will the plea
of ignorance Of the world avail in the
case Of one who knows enough o the
world to earn her own living in large
city, and to study the hard facts Of life
"a they are recorded in the daily news
papers. Such girl when deceived has
herself to blame, for she has met her
betrayer half way, and been half will
ing to be deceived. The warning OF
.uch double tragedy as that we are
commenting upon is to the young OF
both sexes alike. The man who lies to
woman and wrongs her, takes his life
in his own hand ana has suspended the
sword of Nemesis over his own head.
The woman who allows her future life
20 he blighted ard ruined by dishOn-
orsble man should count the cost she
well knows there is. In these days
when there is so much talk about wO-
mans rights ami the throwing open OF
50 many avenues Of industry to both
sexes alike, there is one right which
young women would do well to exer-
else, and that is the right of taking care
Of their own integrity and maintaining
their own responsibility.