The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-09-14
OWNERSHIP or LAND
Seeming to Have Come Into Partnership
With the Original Proprietor Of
the Earth.

the Earth.
There is distinct Joy in owning land,
unlike that which You nave in money. in
houses, in books, pictures, or anything
else which men have devised. Personal
property: brings you into society with
men. But land is u part OF Gods estate
on the globe. And when parcel of
land is decided to you. it seems as if you
had come into partnership with the orig
inal proprietor of the earth. Nothing
removes your property from its firm
foundations. No winds can wreck it,
no rains dissolve it, nor decay take it
down. There it lies, firm, deep,a great
deal deeper than you will ever care to go
down; inexpungible to summer or win
ter with all their silent forces or their
hoisterous storms. And it is yours, you
stand upon a history without record !;
you own that which, il you could ,sace
back its changes. would carry you be-
You'd the flood, beyond the date of an
Sent history. What sacrifice can you
not afford to make that would enable
you to become landed proprietor, and
the indisputed possessoc of an heir
loom which time cannot remove.
PUBLIC SUICIDE OF A WIDOW IN CHINA.
The Overland China Mail gives an
account of a strange suicide which was
lately committed at Fuh-chow Foo. 1t
seems that young lady, an inhabitant
of that city, who had the misfortune to
be left q widow while yet in her teens,
was urged by some injudicious relatives
TO 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 a stork," or, in other
words to publicly commit suicide.
Having arrived at this determination,
"a day was fixed tor the ceremony.
Early on the fatal morning the lady,
dressed as the Queen of Heaven, and
surrounded by admiring relatives and
friends, started from her late husbands
house in an open sedan-chair for the
scene Of her self inflicted death. BY the
way she visited her parents, to bid them
fare we'll, and stopped occasionally on
the way to taste the viands which were
placed at intervals by the side of the
road. as at funeral. On arriving at an
open space at the back ofthe Hai-chaou
Temple she mounted on scafolding
which had been erected for the purpose,
and. having bowed to the vast crowd
assembled TO witness the proceed
ings, she cried out with a loud voice,
..Heaven and earth! and my triendsl
/ am quite satisfied to die in this
manner"
Having said this she stepped on to a
chair On the platform and thrust her head
into the Moose OF red cord. which hung
suspended from crossbeam above her.
At the same moment red cloth was
placed over her head and face and then.
without the least hesitation, she jumped
off the chair. Death was almost instan.
iaueous, and she expired without the
least apparent struggle.
Uniortun ately the effects Of this young
laNs self-devotion did not end with
her lite, tor SO deep AZ impression did
her conduct make on some boys who
had witnessed the spectacle that they
amused themselves on the follwing day
by making believe to follow her ex-
ample. BY misadventure while one
OF them was adjusting the rope round
his neck, his playmates ran of. and on
their return they found that he likewise
had "ascended TO heaven ON the back Of
u stork. Pail Mai Gazette.