ermined to marry, he should
have his constitution tested thoroughly and see that every seed of the
malady in the system has been destroyed. He should bathe daily in natural
sulphur waters, as, for instance, the hot springs in Arkansas, or the
sulphur springs in Florida, or those springs known as specific remedies for
syphilic diseases. As long as the eruptions on the skin appear by bathing
in sulphur water there is danger, and if the eruptions cease and do not
appear, it is very fair evidence that the disease has left the system, yet
it is not an infallible test.

7. How many bright and intelligent young men have met their doom and
blighted the innocent lives of others, all on account of the secret follies
and vices of men.

8. PROTECTION.--Girls, you, who are too poor and too honest to disguise
aught in your character, with your sweet soul shining through every act of
your lives, beware of the men who smile upon you. Study human nature, and
try and select a virtuous companion.

_Transcriber's note: there is no 9. in the original._

10. SYPHILITIC POISON INERADICABLE.--Many of our best and ablest physicians
assert that syphilitic poison, once infected, there can be no total
disinfection during life; some of the virus remains in the system, though
it may seem latent. Boards of State Charities in discussing the causes of
the existence of whole classes of defectives hold to the opinion given
above. The Massachusetts board in its report has these strong words on the
subject:

"The worst is that, though years may have passed since its active stage, it
permeates the very seed of life and {466} causes strange affections or
abnormalities in the offspring, or it tends to lessen their vital force, to
disturb or to repress their growth, to lower their standard of mental and
bodily vigor, and to render life puny and short.

11. A SERPENT'S TOOTH.--"_The direct blood-poisoning, caused by the
absorption into the system of the virus (syphilis) is more hideous and
terrible in its effect than that of a serpent's tooth._ This may kill
outright, and there's an end; but that, stingless and painless, slowly and
surely permeates and vitiates the whole system of which it becomes part and
parcel, like myriads of trichinae, and can never be utterly cast out, even
by salivation.

"Woe to the family and to the people in whose veins the poison courses!

"It would seem that nothing could end the curse except utter extermination.
That, howe