Kansas weekly herald., 1855-06-01
Love and snicide.

Suicide, prompted by the tender passion
seem to be on the increase. In Boston, last
week, a returned Californian shot himself
through the head on the steps of the house
occupied by a lady who had refused to marry
him; and scarce day passes that laudnum,
stry rychnine, prussic acid, gunpowder, water,
yitriol, steel, or hemp, is not put to the re-
QUESTION to end the woes of some despair
ing swain. Our private opinion that in
these cases of self-murder, the throes of dis
appointed love have generally been aggra-
waited by free use of liquor. A lover un-
der the free use of alcohol of course sees
double. Now, love is sufficient exagge-
rate, of woman's charms, without the cupli-
eating influence of muzzinets or mandlin
intoxication. If is not, therefore, surprising,
that poor, be-addled wretch, under the
combined oppression of toddy and tender
ness, ruin and rejection, should blow his
iugular.Y But that sane and sober man
should kill himself for love seems to us the
climax of absurdity. What object does
disappointed lover expect to achieve by
sneaking out of existence through the back
door of the suicide? Does he suppose the
lady who gave him the sack while living will
like him any better for hole through his
head, or gap in the windpipe2 Not bit
of it. On the contrary she will congratulate
herself on her good taste and discernment,
in discarding an admirer capable of making
| such an ass of himself. We say nothing
about the leap in the dark-although that
ought to be consideration. Playing at
bindman's buff with eternity, is not so plea
SAINT game that man should bind the
fillet over his own eyes, and rush into it be-
fore his time comes. But let that pass. The
supreme senselessness of the act, In world
ly point of view, is all that we propose to
discuss at present. A subdued or Tilted lover
cannot exalt himself to the position of hero
or martyr, by stepping out," before he is
sent for. He is laughed at-despised. His
posthumous reputation is bad. The law
does not, as formerly, sentence the body to
be pitted upon sharp stick at the oonfiu-
ence of four roads, but ridicule drives keen
stylus through his weakness and imbeeility;
and through pity drop tear over his grave.
| true manhood contemplate this cowardly
| exit with contempt.
| For all male bipeds who suffer under
what are POLITICALLY termed "the pangs of
disappointed affection" have a common
watchwhor1- again. Love is not like
| the small-pox-it may be taken dozen
times. We know the fact by experience. AT
one time-ere bread was well grown-ws
supposed that the primary incubation was
a 'finality;' and that he who loved once,
was exempt from all repetitions of The pleas
ing pain We have outliyed this popular
error of juvenile society; and our advice to
the victim of hopeless passion is to shake it
off, and endeavor to catch milder and
more suspicious type Of the disease from
more favorable Quarter. Similia similibus
eurandur. To cure love. that is ike,the ham
die of jug all on one side, get in love again.
Above all, eschew poisons and deadly wea-
pons, for, in the words Of the poet, slight
!y altered]- r.
He that loves and meets with snay,"
May live to love another day;
But he that by himself is slain,
VIII meier wake up to love again,