Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-21
Suicides.


er the great disasters by fire and flood,
which have been sweeping across the
country, and indeed the entire world, this
year. have been the immediate cause OF
the smaller and more individual disasters
which have broken out In almost every
village in the land. We refer particularly
to suicides France has long enjoyed the
rather unenviable distinction of setting
suicide fashions for the world, but during
the past year, the United States, in proper
tion to population, will certainly far surpass
that country. We have not yet arrived at
the esthetic nicely of the Partisan. With
his fastidious instincts, he must go ode
Gently and in order" and with certain
degree of ecLat and clan attending his
taking off. With our more practical mo-
tions and characteristic hurry, we g stand
not upon the order of our going, but go
at once" helter-skelter, and in all manner
of bizarre and coarse exits.
Hitherto, these unnatural methods of
closing up accounts with the world have
been confined to a certain few of the most
miserable of mankind, who had been re-
duced by liquor to insanity, or who had
been driven to the verge of madness by
an incurable disease, escape from which
could only be found in the outlet of death.
But at present the most trivial cause
Is llduG TIC DItlGAI lOl
1t is almost impossible to take
up the most remote village paper without
finding in it an account of local suicide.
Country towns supply more of these vio-
lent deaths, proportionately, than the
cities, whereas, previous to this year, the
reverse was the case. \ short time since
a man hanged himself because Darwin
had proved mans descent from the mon
KEY, and thereby unwittingly furnished
striking exemplifcation of the truth of the
distinguished naturalist's theory of the
origin of species. Several cases have oc-
Cured, recently, where children of tender
age have killed themselves because they
were corrected by their parents. A silly
Indiana schoolgirl, the other day, took
poison because she failed in one OF her
tasks Two young misses in Maine,
week or two ago, without any apparent
reason whatever, embraced each other on
the brink of Lewiston Falls and jumped
over A woman in the interior of this
State. the other day, took poison because
her husband forbade her going to ball
Another one hanged herself because
her husband didn't want her to
sing at a concert Poor men kill them
selves because they are poor, and rich
men because they are afraid they may be
moor. Women are killing themselves from
reasons of desertion, deception, iove-sick-
ness. dry goods, millinery, dancing
schools. and absurd whims of every de-
scription, while children, scarcely out OF
their pantaletts and pinafores, ape the
fashions of their elders, and, on such
small Juvenile reasons as they can muster,
cut off the scant threads of their lives
Undoubtedly, our fast and reckless man.
ner of living furnishes the clue to ma
= @r Mt what shall he
said of those numerous other cases, where
no remedy exists? The epidemic grows
alarming Life is cheapening at rate
which will soon make it drug. In the
existing condition of things, no one can
rise in the morning with the certainty
that his next door neighbor is not hanging
ungracefuIly to beam, because his beef
steak was burned. We have been visited
during the past few months by several su-
pernatural personages; among them the
Ice Fiend, and the Fire Fiend, and the
Flood Demon, and the Wind Fury, and
the Plague Spectre. Has that mythical
parsonage, the Fool-Killer, also come?
We can imagine no other theory
which will account for this insane tenden-
cy to hurry to THAT bourne, etc.
But is there not remedy for this moral
disease? The mania is spreading, and the
worst feature of it is that it attacks, ap-
parently, good, sensible, steady men, who
have never been supposed before to have
suicidal tendencies. There is always a
certain class in the community who may
be expected to go off in this violent man.
ner: but cannot something be done to
stay sensible people from such an alb
surdity? Is there not panacea In our
ruinss If a man is tired of his life let him
come here an begin it over again. Ii a
man finds suggestions OF nooSes and cold
poison floating in his imagination there Is
nothing so effectual as sinking the lmag-
/ nation and getting down to hard facts
/ There are plenty of hard facts IN our
ruins 10 be resolved into realities by hard
work. We offer, therefore, an inviting
! field for erratic individuals contemplating
/ suicide. Let them take to the trowel, and
/ saw. and plane, and see how quickly all
their troubles will disappear. Work Is
\ the antidote of misery as well as nonsense
I In the case of children, we do not see
how these youthful idiots can be pre-
vented from escaping from this wicked
world. In the case of women, it would
be useless. for when woman VIII, she
/ will. land there's an end ont" But any
man who can work, is inexcusable, In the
! light of our ruins.-Chtcdgo 1TsbHne.
II.
not be generally known, says California
paper, that acorns command good price
/ twenty dollars per ton-in Stockton,
/ and uuite a profitable business has been
! done by several parties gathering acorns
/ and disposing of them at that price. Our
/ attention has been drawn particularly to
one instance wherein an industrious and
I energetic farmer, who resides in the fam
inc district on the west side of the San
Joaouin River, who, during the season,
Gathered acorns sufficient in amount to
realize money enough to pay his taxes
and leave in his hands surplus OF TWEEN
ty-five dollars, or. as he eNpresseu IL,
sitwentv-five dollars ahead of the hounds.
From these acorns, gathered from the
large trees bordering on the river, and
which are said to be of excellent quality,
twenty dollars per ton is price readily
obtained from parties in this city, who
use this product for fattening hogs.
In the early days of the London Times
IL was the custom, in announcing mar
riages. to state the amount OF the dowry-
go. coo or $500, whatever it might be
and in looking through the ladies' column
one morning at breakfast, Mr waiter
threw out the suggestion that IL man
made all that money he might certainly
pay trifiug percentage upon II 10 .ne
printer for acquainting the world WITH
he fact "These marriage fees would
form a nice little pocket money for me
nv dear" added Mrs. Walter, and hel
husband agreed to try the experiment
The charge at first was but trifie, and
the annual amount not probably mucn
but Mrs. Walter, at her death, passed th'
prescriptive right of hers to her daughter
and when, a few years ago, the right wa
repurchased by the present proprietor,
was assessed at $4,000 year.
-" Sarah, have any of those mlschev
ious children been playing Win the plan'
1rbile I have been out of town? Some o.
. the KEYS won't sound at all" Sarah
- Please mum, / don't know nothinl
about it-leastwise, Master Tom said ther
/ was something wrong with it, which b
/, was sr1re there was mouse in 1t. so Ia