The anti-monopolist., 1876-09-14
OWNERSHIP OF LAND.
Seeming to Rave Come lnta Partnership
Nita the Original Proprietor OF
the Earth,

There IS distinct JOY il owning Iand,
mike tna, which Won nave in money n
houses, IN books, pictures. Or anything
= SC which men nave devised. Personal
property. hrings gou into society with
men But lanG is . part ot Gods estate
IN fle globe And when y parcel of
! land IS decided to you it aeems as If you
had come into partnership with the orig
NAL proprietor Ol the earth. Nothing
removes y0rr property from its firm
foundations. No wlnis can wreck II,
10 rains dissolve {. nor decay take {
/! down. There it lies, firm, deep.a great
teal deeper tuan you will ever care to 90
4 loWn ianxpungIo.e to summer Or win
! ter with al Their silent forces or 1neir
I bJlsteroas storms And it is Yours, you
stand upan history without a record !;
wa own 1hat which II you couia .aace
| back It's changes. would carry You be-
( v0ud the flood, beyond the date Of an
Sent history What sacrifice can YOU
not afford to make that would enable
yoa co become a landed proprietor. and
. The indispatad possessOc Of al heir
! loom which time cannot remove.
PUBLIC SUICIDE OF a WiOoW IN CHINA.
Tie Overland China Mall gives an
aeoount Of a strange suicide which was
/ ately committed at Euh-chow Foo. 1t
seems that young lady, an inhabitant
or that city. who had the misfortune to
be left widow while get il her teens,
vas urged by some inludicious relatives
10 enter again into the bonds of wedlock.
The thought thus suggested OF supplying
the place of her late husband was SO
repugnant TO her feelings that to escape
from the persecution OF her advisers.
she determined to ascend to heaven
on the back OF stork," or, in other
words to publicly commit suicide.
Having arrived at this determination,
day was fixed ior the ceremony.
Early on the fatal morning the lady,
dressed as the Queen Of Heaven, and
surrounded by admirlug relatives and
friends, started rom her late husbands
house in al open sedan-chalr for the
scene OF her self inflicted death. By the
way she visited her parents, to bid them
iare well, and stopped occasionally on
the way TO taste the viands which were
placed at intervals by the side of the
road. az at funeral. On arriving at an
open space a5the back of the Hai>chaou
femp.c she mounted on q scaffolding
which had been erected for the purpose.
aud, having bowed to the vast crowd
assembled 10 witness the proceed
ings. she cried out with loud voice,
Heaven and earth. and nay iriends
! an quite satisfied 10 die Ia this
manner
Having said this She stepped on 10 a
chair III the platform and thrust her head
into she moose OF red cord, which hung
suspended from crossbeam above her.
At the same moment i red cloth was
placed over her head and face and then.
without the least hesitation, sac jumped
eiI The chair Death was almost instan-
taneous, and she expired without the
least apparent struggle.
Unfortunately the effects o. this young
laa< S self-deyotion did not end with
ler lite. tor SO deep AZ impression did
her conduct make on some boys who
had witnessed the spectacle that they
unused themselves on the tollwiag day
oy making believe to follow her ex-
ample. BY a misadveuture while one
OF them was adjusting the rope round
MS neck, his playmates ran OF. and on
their return they found that 30 likewise
had 'aseended 10 heaven on the back of
"a stork. Pail Mai Ia-ette.