The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-04


One Ernest Hazard, who kidnapped his
boy and eioped with Minnie Collins. Of
Ithaca. y. Y. is the latest knave to plead
The woman gave to me ard did eat"
for be recently confessed TO Mrs. Hazard
ard thanked her for breaking the spell
which Miss Collins, he says, had upon
him" He claims that Miss Collins COM
pleseiy hypno;ixed him. and had him
spe.lbound under her control. While the
spell lasted, he claims. he could do
nothing OF his own voli.ion regardless of
the will Of tbs woman. Miss Collins,
Hazard tells hi. wife, could do anything
with him: and now that Mrs. Hazard has
Kansas City TO marry q wealthy cooper
named Kelly. his escapade seems to him
like q dream, for which he can in nowise
account He has asked Mrs. Hazard to
remarry him at the end Of six months.
IL Mrs. Hazard marries this fellow on
I this baby act plea she viii live to deeply
regret IL A man mean enough. eowardly
| pretend when he sins that at was she.''
! that II she had not fascinated" him he
would never have been either fool or q
knave. is about rs contemplate man as
ever Hhined for forgiveness from a
wronged wife. DR.. Johnson used to say
that the pretense of patriotism was the
last refuge Of . scoundrel and we have
reached point where ''hypnotism" is be-
come the latest refuge OF gay Lothario
| and q faithless husband. Every homes. man
| of the world knows better; he knows that
so far from women Throwing their heads
a, men" or trying to break down mascu-
| line virtue by ''hypnotizing" good hus-
bands. As a rule it is all the other way. 1t
| is the man that pursues the woman and
seeks TO undermine her good resolutions
| by appeals TO her vanity. her cupidity. her
| creduiity. her affections and her passions
| Zenobia graces the triumph of Aureiian,
| not Aurelian that OF Zenobia: Cleopatra
does not "hypnotize" Antony, but
Antony tempts Cleopatra to risk her
throne for Kim. and when she has lost il,
because Antony lacked the skill. the
| prudence or the luck to defend it, II is
| Cleopatra that thinks life no longer worth
living and applies the poisonous asp to her
bosom. that had so long and so faithfully
| piliowed the head OF Antony.
| Ii there is any one thing that Is more
| contemplate than another in man who
has gone wrong" i. IS the propensity to
| plead anew old Father Adams mean
| spirited excuse. at was she; the woman
! gave to me and cid eat" There is some
thing admirable in sinner like Lucifer,
| or like Macbeth. or Richard, that never
pleads the baby act" for sin. Probably
/ Macbeth would hardly have murdered the
| gracious Duncan rs he slept had IL not
been for the promptings of his wife, but
/ while Macbeth was villain he was q
manly soldier and a true lover; he carried
the cross of his awful crime aud never
begged for mercy, pointing at his
| wife and saying, at was she; she
| hypnotixed me: If it hadn't been
FOR the spell she cast over me Dun
| can would be alive today and well and
doing we'll" Macbeth was villain, but
he was manly villain; he carried his
| cross" in one hand and his sword In the
| other, and he never tried 10 unload his
| policy OF infamy upon the shoulders Of
his wife. Ii man sins let him repent
| man fashion, and not plead the baby
act" for his wrong doing When a sin
! ming man pleads "the woman gave 10 me
and did eat, he is only fit TO be logged
| to death by a lot of old women armed with
| hroomstcks. A man might as we'll say
| that if God had never made any
bodies of water nobody would ever
have been drowned. Ii there was
no temptation there would he no fall; no
resistance, no repentance, no restoration,
no conquest of good over evil that stands
| for character. A man that knows good
from evil, is medically and legally sane,
must be held responsible for his own acts: :
no plea of hypnoti,ing or fascinst ion, or
whlmpering denunciation Of the woman
"gho gave TO me and | did eat" will serve
his turn. 1t ought not to serve his turn
this world would be made up of intellcc-
tual inehriates and immoral invertebrates
ii We allowed men TO plead the baby act"
Tor their crimes.
II "hypnot.sm" is good plea for de-
sertiug wife, stealing q child and COM
hitting adultery. then logically it is a
good plea fer murder or burglary; il is
the undue influence of the woman, the
"hypnoiizing, fascinating she" who
gave TO me and did eat" \ man is
bound TO carry his own cross, and not
try and load il on the woman's shoulders.
( LoF3 what world this would tie if there
were no sober men until sll forms of aico-
hoi we're extirpsted from the world if
there were no faithful husbands until all
the "hypnotizjng" CleopatFss were eiini-
mated from the world. Conjugal fidelity
that can't stand exposure 10 the agrnos-
phere OF the outer world vas dead before
il Was horn.
President Grant had . far Gner sense of
the dignity of his position and the aeces-
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