The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-21
SUICIDES.

Homer is said to have hanged himself
because he could not solve b fisher
mans riddle"
Philip Stroxxi killed himself lest the
rack should tear from him the secret of n
conspiracy. And such things are o
happening In Russia.
The Rev. Mr.. H, rector Of q parish
near Dublin, preached a sermon on the
shortness Of life and Immediately there
after hanged himself in his parlor.
jeremiah Clark, organist of 81. Paul's,
entered a field intending TO either hang
or drown himself. He tossed a penny to
Mr.. Clark G home and shot himself.
Zeno, the founder OF the Stoics, set his
followers a precious example. AT the
age of % he fell and put his thumb out OF
joint. This was a hint to him that he
had lived long enough, so he went home
and hanged himself.
Sir Richard Crofts failed TO save the
life of the Princess Charlotte. IL preyed
upon him SO that n night, while attend
ing the wife Of a brother physician, he
went into the next room and discharged
two pistol shots into his head.
Everyone has read of Yatcl, the cook
on one of the great French estates, who
killed himself with a sword because the
fish arrived too late for dinner. He was a
conscientious cook-an honor to a profess
sion that could i'll afford to lose him.
At the battle OF Ross i'm Ireland a young
subaltern desperately wounded was sur
rounded by his comrades. Fly, or you
will be captured" he urged them. They
shot himself. His motive wal not a selfish
one.
In 1850 a British officer tried to shoot
himself in Hyde park. A common Ia
borer wrcncled the pistol from him. The
officer drew his sword. The laborer
opened his arms and said: "Kill me il
you like; l wish to die as much as you do,
but l would be ashamed to kill myself"
An English subaltern described for the
sake of science his sensations in suffocat-
ing for hour and five minutes. A
Frenchman dug "A trench and starved
himself To death i'm the same cause. The
sixteenth day he ceased writing, the sew.
enteenth day he was found and the
eighteenth he died.
Col. Philip Mordaunt, a relative of the
Earl of Peterborough, deserves a place
among immortal idiots. He had every.
thing the world could give, yet he wrote
this and died: "Life has given me a head
ache, and wan a good church yard
sleep to make me right, as my soul il
tired of my body"
What a picture i'm the annals Of chivalry
is that of the old Bishop of Scissors
jacques du Chastel-who refused to re-
treat with Louis TX from Africa. The
warrior prelate put his lance i'm rest and
charged an army of his foes. They cut
him into mincemeat. Blu he was salts
fled, for he had a perfect banquet OF
glory.
1t was only in 1923 that the shocking old
Gross roads law" was abrogated in Eng
land. There is a story, and il is beautiful
il only a legend, hat nea Boston, in
Lancashire, a stake driven through O
suicides body grew into a hawthorn tree
which, through the long years, dropped
its plying blossoms over the dishonored
grave.
A German, trying to emulate an En-
glishman who lcaped into Vesuyius,d drove
into a furnace. But that was compare
lively commonplace. A Frenchman, no
to be outdone, tied himself to an enor
nous rocket and blew himself To bits in Q
blaze of glory. There is something char
acteristically French i'm this pyrotechni
al end.-Chicdgo Tribune.