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was defeated, the judge ruling that the law has no 

 jurisdiction in matters of that sort. 



In another somewhat similar case that came to our 

 knowledge, a young wife was delivered from the lech- 

 erous assaults of her husband— for they were no bet- 

 ter—by the common sense of her neighbor friends, 

 who gathered in force, and insisted upon their dis- 

 continuance. It is only now and then that cases of 

 this sort come to the surface. The majority of them 

 are hidden deep down in the heart of the poor, heart- 

 broken wife, and too often they are hidden along with 

 the victim in an early grave. 



Prevention of Conception.— The evil considered 

 in the preceding pages is by far the greatest cause of 

 those which will be dwelt upon here. Excesses are 

 habitually practiced through ignorance or carelessness 

 of their direct results; and then, to prevent the legiti- 

 mate result of the reproductive act, innumerable de- 

 vices are employed to render it fruitless. To even 

 mention all of these would be too great a breach of 

 propriety, even in this plain-spoken work; but accu- 

 rate description is unnecessary, since those who need 

 this warning are perfectly familiar with at least some 

 of the foul accessories of evil thus employed. We 

 cannot do better than to quote from the writings of 

 several of the most eminent authors upon this subject. 

 The following paragraphs are from the distinguished 

 Mayer, who has been already frequently quoted: 



''The numerous stratagems invented by debauch to 

 annihilate the natural consequences of coition, have all 

 the same end in view." 



Conjugal Onanism.— "The soiling of the conjugal 

 bed by the shameful maneuvers to which we have made 

 allusion, is mentioned for the first time in Gen. 38 : 6, 



