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A PREACHER
AND HIS VICTIM
What an Observant Critic Has to Say About
the Divine Who Takes Away The
Chastity of One of His Flock.
We publish the following, not
that we endoree all the writer has
to lay, hut limply to ahow the
people how suoh characters are
held by men who believe in the
right and condemning the wrong
whether it be by those who wear
the cloth, or the stain of scarlet:
How very fortunate it is that the
scarlet letter is no longer fash
ionable—not for yon and I dear,
of course; but for the many women
and more guilty men who pass and
repass on every street and with
whom we mingle in every walk of
life. Hawthorne's sad story is
based upon a woman who was
found out. What people dont
know dont hurt em. The woman
with a past has none, if there are
none to say so. Quilt is nothing
but exposure, anyway—without,
it becomes a mere matter of
conscience, which despite the
many beautiful things said and
written about it keeps mighty
few people awake onights, now
adays. A few weeks ago Rev.—
and God save the mark—J. F.
Cordova, pastor of the Conklin
Methodist church at South River,
New Jersey, eloped with Miss
Julia Bowne, daughter of promi
nent people of the little bailiwick
and easily its handsomest youug
woman. The cad and cur, after
a two months’ dalliance with she
who had always been pointed out
as a good girl in the community
in which she was born and lived,
deserted her and sent her home.
That Cordova’s wife forgave and
gathered him to her bosom again
is but an incident, and foreign to
my text. Many a good woman has
forgiven a worthless beast who had
been far better off had she shown
him the door; but it is of this
priestly wolf and his victim I
would say a word—likewise a long
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shot at that tendency of society
and church as well to puuish the
woman and idolize the man.
Never a girl lived who was born
a wanton; ne’er did she yield to
the embrace of illicit love without
a struggle. Julia Bowne was raised
right. She was a member of the
church and sang in the choir;
know right from wrong, and had
been taught by precept and exam
ple that virtue was woman’s
priceless possession. Promise of
marriage is the mainstay of pros
titution ; but in this case there was
already a wife and ohildren. Now
that this sanctimonious old rooster
is back in bit olerioal coop he
fathers an interview wherein he
insists that the flight of the pair
was not premeditated but due to
the “terriflo force of circumstan
ces," which at he then believed
presaged discovery of their hereto
fore friendly but pnrely platonic
relations. The girl had frequently
visited the parsonage, ho says, and
he had thought a great deal of her;
but "always with the purest
thought and intentiont.” Caught
in her company one night in an
alley he broke away and ran and
finally threw himself down in the
dust beside a trolloy-oar track in
"an agony of grief.” Singularly
enough he found the girl on the
ground near him a moment later,
preenmably in agony also, and
they rose, olaaped hands as in a
trance—withought thought other
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than to escape the Nemesis
which seemed about to overtake
them—rode away. Thats his sto
ry; and the members of his
church, and particularly the sis
ters—sweet, sympathetic souls
who are so sorry for John F. and
anxious to alleviate his agony if
it still hurts him—insist that the
dear, good man has been more
sinned against than sinning him*
self, and at this writing it ap
pears that the smug-faced scoun
drel will escape even the usual
farce of a church trial.
Ntfiriirar tf^case wherein, con-*
proposes to work the charity
racket overtime—which Im telling
them wont do the ’‘cause” any
good at our ho use.
The very reverend Cordova
seduced Julia Bowne—deliberate-
r, persistently, and with every
rtifice aud evil influence a strong
could bring to bear to
[dermine and break down that
young mind. A feigned
faction which she believed pure
td^ that animal magnetism
lich pertains to sex; lascivious
isions and familiarities and
lyhap a reference to Solonjefr
thought of the fair Julia ..other
than to possess, and then desert
her. That he had made her an
outcast—a Hester Prynne who on
her return home must ever after
treadjthe stony path of expiation-
shovelled no snow with this
reprobate and sneak. He is a
dastard and degenerate and a
dirty dog—and I hope these few
lines will find him and his friends
well enough to savvy my sagebrush
lingo without sequacious shufJle,
and quiet their nerves without
necessity for other non-sectarian I
s< dative.
But it was of the double standard
of virtue we were talking, wasut
it—that damnable and nnjuat
discrimination between the actual
guilt of the man and the woman?
Julia Bowne wears the scarlet
letter on her bosom; for her there
is neither sympathy nor respect;
though repentant she must rot in
her sin and walk and be buried
with her shame; her former
associates insult and shun her—
while already the brute who is
alone aud all to blaame for her
undoing has a home and is in a
fair way to preside over a harem.
Never again can she enter the lit
tle church in which she early pro
fessed her faith, else she be
shunned as a leper—while Cordova
gets gay and insinuates that she
lone was to blame, and buys a
ew can-opener. And society—
and the church—permits and even
Remembered it All.
A perspiring man, laden with
bundles, bustled onto the Hudson
river boat, upset a small bey in a
sailor suit, carried away a half
yard of flounce from the skirt of
a lady with a purple silk waist,
and finally brought up, panting
and exhausted, beside a small
woman sitting tranquilly on the
after deck, says a contemporary.
‘’John 1”
“There, now, I know just what
you are going to aay, Jane—that
same old question. My dear, I
forgot nothing.”
“Bat, John—”
“No, I did not forget to buy the
fruit!” He thrust a basket of
peaches into her lap. “Nor the
toweling I” An-other package
followed “Nor the seven and three-
quarters yards of cambric 1”
Another package. “Nor the spool
of silk! Nor——”
“But ”
“The rattle, nor ”
“But, John, dear, will you ”
“No, madam. I will not. There
is no use in asking. I tell you I
have forgotten nothing—nothing!
Here's the prescription, and here's
the—-er—thingumbob that your
mother wanted, and here’s a book
for Agnes. There yon are. The
whole list, not a thing missing.”
His wife rescued the “thing
umbob” from the deck, smiled np
into the triumphant face and said:
Yes, dear, but in which store
did you leave your hat?”
And then the boat started.
science ought To burn brain, lOld Sox and W3Sy 6Y&r*bslahced
brawn, belly and bunions to
blister—instead of which III wager
that Cordova cops ought eight
hours of sweet clumber every
night- Heres a case wherein he
biblical boys who preached and
practiced that variety was the
-pice of life—these were the things
through which, month and week
and day after day, this white-
ought to be branded with the scar- frocked and vested villain finally
let letter a foot long and scourged
at the cart’s tail of eternity —in
stead of which the ieecherous old
cuss gets fatted calf. Heres a
case where most any old rusty
case knife would serve—aye, even
an ax—instead of which the beast
is turned loose with power to
reproduce his kind and repeat his
crime. Heres a case where we
sinners who know how would give
the Rev. J. F. all thats coming to
him, while his congregation
accomplished his purpose aud rob
bed a good girl of her good name.
I can understand the poor devil
who though married discovers that
he loves some woman other than
his wife. Wrong—all wrong and
woefully wicked; but Cupid some
times uses a shotgun, and the
blamed thing scatters. But when
the real man loves he also cherishes
and protects for aye and aye, while
this coward and cur Cordova got
cold feet aud flew. He had no
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justice.
I am well aware that no preach
ment of Pure Stuph will change
this condition. Christ himself
protested agaiust it, and ehal
lenged humanity to throw the first
stone; but no sooner had he got
hustle on his mule than someone
raised the old cry of “unclean!”
Twas ever thus, and will he—poor
and to be pitied Julia Bowne is
oulv one of that mighty multitude
of whom someone says: “At the
end of the world is a garden fair,
where the wicked women go-
sweet women wuo lived in the
heart and glare of the devil’s
beauty show—dear women, whose
love was their fierce undoing, maIV *
bloom fair in that garden past
pursuing. And only the sun shall
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shall discover that garden sweet
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;te for Justice of the Peace. 216th Pis-
ict G. M. t subject to the democratic
imary. C. T. YOUNG.
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j condidate
the 216th
ion of the
ocratio primary.
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