Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-12
For the KESrUCKIAS.l N4IH
Innooense Without Defiance.

There is nothing in my mind or
imagination that receives warmer
place in my heart than innocence. 1t
matters not in what it may be repre-
scented there is something so trans
cendently beautiful in its compost
ton, that my mind inevitably reverts
to Gods words. 1t is good. A pratt
Ting babe is TO my mind a perfect
picture or representation of innocence
aud who can look upon the delicate
OUTLINES of its being, the Angelic
glow Of its eyes, and the divine-ex-
preston of its little face without be-
ing more or less DESTROYS of repeating
David's words; in which he says
Create in me a pure heart, oh, God
and renew right spirit within me.
But oh how our hearts do vibrate.
swell and burn when we are called
upon or look upon innocence suffer-
ing. 1t is picture the sight of
which reverts the course wheel of my
being, and carries me away from my
selfat such rate and to such dis
lance that would fain never never |!
neverl!! look upon it again One
month ago in certain City there
lived a young lady like the child-an
almost perfect picture of innocence,
and with youth, beauty and intelli-
gence combined, she contained in
gradients that could be prescribed
for the worst dyspeptic or insa;iatc
man.
AT her bar all courts were held and
the broken english of the country.
man weighed as much in her scale,
of Justice as the phraseology of the
better learned-she had in short all
the nobler attributes of a woman
She was as pure as the curdled icicles
as spotlcss as the drifted snow, and
as holy as the Virgin Mary.
Oh, humanity! how weak, how
susceptible and dependent.
10 continue description of thu
lovely traits of character represented
i'll this lady would be feast of til,
soul, but the words that must de
scribe her change CRATE upon every
fiber of my beng. say her change
she of herself could have neye
changed. But Satan not in his an
cient garb of deception but in Tn
nineteenth century method namely
an oily tongue pictured to her tn
glories beyond the borders of HON
Sweet Home. Dryden in form O
dedication to one of Absanders gener
al says: Fallen, Fallen, Fallen, Fal
len from his high estate, and wei
tering in his blood. Just so it i
with this angelic young lady she LA
eloped with gambler and take
Judgment in the narrow cells of
garnet in distant City. Such is tn
power that this fiendish scape goa
exercises over his victim that he pur
suades her to postpone the marriag
ceremony until he spends her none
in high and riotous living. He thel
prepares TO leave her in her povert
and disgrace, and had nearly finishe,
his plans when he is discovered b
authorities and under the cover @
arms is compelled TO marry her.
Under the burden of his vile nam
her soul is now engaged in DEATH
struggle with which is the best, {
cling to him and still pour out m
precious ointment upon him or G
home to Mamma, and with her ceas
to mourn when Rachel has been CON
forted. -
l was boarding with the Mothe
of this young lady at the time an
the picture that touched the Angel
heart, and brought water to Ilagar
dying boy, wasn't more pathetic tina
this woman when she realized tha
her idol had been stolen away Will
she slept. For week after (until
lefD she was the same picture of nj
ter dispair. My heart would b
touched when would watch her 9
TO answer the call of the mail deliver
er and note the darkness of the clou
that gathered on her brow,
j. III. G.,