Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-30
SUICIDE AS A REaEDY.

''The Worst Thing Man Can Do With
Hlmself."
- New York Herald Elitqrial;
Voltaire says the worst use to which
society can put man is to hang him.
The worst use 10 which man. can put
himself is to send bullet crashing
through his brain, to cut his throat, or to
take his own life by some other violent
means. When man is hanged it is
generally for some offence against the
lawyers of heinous character, and while
it is true society after the operation has
no further use for the carcass the punish
ment is usually deserved and the exam
pile is likely to be beneficial. When a
f'men kills himself 1t is for what he no
doubt regards as o good reason. His
health Is bad his business does not pros
per; his wife leads him an unhappy life:
he has been drinking too freely; be has
lost all his money; his sweetheart has ill.,
ted him, or, it Frenchman, the weather
has ben unpleasant and depressing for a
week or. ten days. A bank president
blows out his brains, and, wonderful to
relate, his accounts are all straight, but
he has feared that he might become par
alyzed, aud so, as permanent preventive,
takes to suicide. An inventor of q watch
case spring meets with bad success and is
without money, so he begs a drink aud
then puts pistol ball through his temple.
A young woman, after too free ihdul-
gence in-liquor, is found on the street DIV.
ing form the effect of Paris green, and
abuses the policeman who picks her up
ond saves hsr life. A man with a dlssi.
pated wife kills himself after numbering
his three children. A young lady with a
ldissiPated husband poisons herself. A
simpleton whose sweetheart has deserted
him, jumps into the river from ferry
boat and is drowned; and SO on through
the list.
Now, the world is world of ups and
downs; Of sickness and recovery; Of sue.
cess and failure; OF wealth and poverty of
backsliding and reform. The man who
is depressed by sickness, probably through
faulty digestion, may before long hit
upon remedy and be restored to health
The bankrupt of this year may, with good
courage and industry, be the thriving busi.
ness man of next year. Money has wings
{ nd fiys from full pockets to empty ones
IN mysterious mancr. Dissipation may
be overcome ana infdelity compensated
1t is better to wait tor these changes than
to make improvement impossible BY snap p.
ping off the thread oflife prematurcly. a
sick man can take no worse medicine
than cold lead, q man can never be ricl,
after he commits suicide. A Tilted lover
if he dies is certain never to find new
sweetheart more constant than the old
The poor husband who killed his babies
and himself had better have sent his wife
to an inebriate asylum. The old sayings
1T 10 q long lane tnat has no turning
and Daylight always comes after dark
ness" ought to bc fatal enemies to the
suicide mania. Brave men believe tha,
"while there's lite there's hope" Coward.
only seek torgetfulness in self destruction
There can be no real necessity tor suicide
except perhaps In the case Of the psrisiau
during spell Of bad weather, aud in .hi,
broad country, where there 10 elbow rcon
for everybody, and where no man OF cour
ago and energy ned dsspsir Of . living
crime ought 70 b uakaews.