me to secrecy and with promises of many future pleasures, I consented to his desire or passion, which he seemed to satisfy by an attempt at fellatio.  Was this depravity?  I would say ‘No!’ after reading his subsequent confession, found in his room after his death by suicide.  This was brought about by his too intimate relations with the rector’s son who contracted St. Vitus’s dance and in the delirium of a fever that followed from nervous exhaustion told of him and his doings.  A thorough investigation took place and M. fled, a broken-hearted and disgraced man, who, as the result of remorse, relentless persecution, and exposure through several years, ended his life by drowning himself.  In his confession he spoke of having been raised under a very strong moral restraint and having lived an exemplary life, with the exception of this strange desire that his will-power could not control.

“The next case is that of C.H.  He came of an old family of brainy men who have, and do yet, occupy prominent places in the pulpit and the bar, and was himself a gifted young attorney.  I knew him intimately, as for six years he was a close neighbor and we were associated in lodge-work.  He was an effeminate little fellow:  height, 5 feet 2 inches; weight, 105 pounds; very near-sighted; and he had a light voice, not a treble or falsetto, but still a voice that detracted materially from the beautiful rhetoric that flowed from his lips.  He had served his country as its representative in the Legislature and had received the nomination for senator, over a hard-fought political battle.  The last canvass and speeches were made at a town which was, in consequence, crowded.  That night H. had to occupy a room with a stranger, named E., a travelling salesman.  There were two beds in this room.  Mr. E., on the following day told several people that during the night he was awakened by H., who had come over to his bed and had his mouth on his ‘person,’ and that he had threatened to kick him out of the room, but that H. pleaded with him and fell on his knees and swore that he had been overcome by a passion that he had heretofore controlled, and begged of him not to expose him.  These facts coming to the notice of his opponents, within twenty-four hours, they hastened to take advantage of it by placarding H. as a second Oscar Wilde, and stating the facts as far as decency and the law allowed.  H.’s friends came to him and gave him one of two alternatives:  if guilty, either to kill himself or leave that section forever; if not guilty, to slay his traducer, E.H. affirmed his innocence, and in company with two friends, C. and J., took the train for ——.  Learning there that E. was at a town twelve miles east, they hired a fast livery and drove overland.  They found E. at the station, awaiting the arrival of a train.  H., with a pistol, strode forward and in his excitement said:  ‘You exposed me, did you?’ Being near-sighted, his aim proved wide of the mark.  E. sprang forward and