The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-20

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had prompted this mad attack on a man he
had not seen before. a man who could never
have wrought him any wrong, 10 still q mys-
t~ery.-Vanity Fair.
FAMOUS SUICIDES OF HISTORY.
Many well Knows Men Who Have Put IN
End to Their Lives.
Boulanger and Balmaceda, each OF whom
played for high stakes and committed sui
eide whom the game was lost, had many
noted predecessors, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. From tho days of the Roman
empire down to the present time men who
have staked their all and lost have capped
the climax OF their defeat by self-destruc-
ton. Rather than endure disgrace they
acted 10 their executioners. Balmaosda,
the would-bs dictator of Chill, shot him
victorious insurgents was impossible.
Boulnnger, after making q brilliant re-
cord ~ a soldier ia Algiers and in the
Franco russian war, and being idolized by
his people, aspired to ovsrturn the republic
and found an empire, Of which he would be
branded as a thief, he was outlawed. When
the woman who was his companion in OK
lie died, he ended his strange career by
shooting himself on her grave.
It ID only O fow months since Prince Ru-
dolph, of Austria, and Marie Vetssra ended
their liaison in = that shocked the
entire world. In the days when Romans be-
battle, suicides were common. Cato stab
bed himself rather than live under the des-
potio reign OF Cesar. and when Thermis-
tocles was ordered to lead the Persians
against his countrymen he took poison.
Hannibal and M~ithridates poisoned them
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Samson was the heroic suicide of the
Scriptures, for in order to be revenRed on
his enemies, he pulled down the temple in
which they were reveIing, and persisted
with them. Many of the most noted sui
cides Of history are due to the philosophy
Of heroism rather than insanity.
Zeno. the founder of the Stoics, lived un-
til he was SO. Then, when he fell one day
and put his thumb of out of joint, he de-
oided that he had lived long enough, 50 he
repaired to his dwelling and hanged him
self. Homer is said to have hanged himself
because he could not solve the "hsherman's
riddle" Terence stabbed himself because
tus threw himself on his sword. Licurgus
took poison and Nero cut his throat.
In China suicide has been a fine art for
several centuries. tt q mandarin is guilty
of misconduct he Is requested to put him
self out of the land of the living. There is
q distinction, too, in the manner in which
the Oriental may die. If he is of exalted
feather, he is privileged to choke himself to
death with gold leaf.
This is regarded as q distinguished man
ner of ending life. If the mandarin is
only of the a that is entitled to wear
tho red button he must be content with
Such are the distinctions of caste. One Of
the moBt remarkable cases OF suicide WAS
that of the king of Falaha. on the west
coast Of Africa. ".
The king was attacked by a Mohamme-
dan force, and, finding resistance impossi-
BILE, assembled his family and principal Of
fcers, and after addressing them and init
mating his determination never to accept
Mohammsdanism n inviting those who did
not agree with him to go away, he applied a
match to a large quantity of gunpowder
collected for the purpose and blew into
atoms the palace and all who we're in it.
Suicides among the aristoocracy. in England
duke OF Bedford in January last shocked
society orioles of both continents. He was
one Of the largest landed proprietors in
England, immensely wealthy. and was
u years of age. Lying on a sick bed. from
which he had no promise of immediate re-
covery, he succumbed to the agony OF the
moment and sought relief in death. ~
The fact that it was q suicide was care
fully. concealed from the newspapers, but
the secret leaked out after the body had
been cremated.
Lord Congleton. who was MIR. Parnell's
greRt-uncle, hanged himself in 1912. In
tho same year the earl of Munster, n OF
shot himself in the head. In 1869 Lord
Cloncarry. the last Of his house, jumped
from q window and broke his neck.
In 1873 the last earl of De la War;
drowned himself. and in 1876 Lord Lyttle-
ton, the insane brother-in-law of Glad
stone, escaped from his keepers, threw
himself off the staircase of his own house
and was killed.
A story of suicide In which sentiment is
mingled il that of Prince B%andouin, heir
to the throne of Belgium. The youthful
prince loved beneath his station, and find
ing that love could never be realized,
sought peace in the eternal silence of the
grave.
: Commercial disaster to any member of
the Rothachild family ia rs great a disgrace
as crime ia to any other family. This WAS
illustrated in the recent attempts of Baron
Gustav de Rothschild to end his existence.
His attempt at self -destruction followed
close upon his loss of 40, 00O,0 600 francs on
the London market. The attempt was a
speculation. His was not the first affair of
the kind in the RoChschild family. Baron
James de Rothschild, crazed by ill-luck,
some time ago blew out his brains in the
presence of his mother.
Only last May Lord James Edward Shelto
Douglass, brother of the marquis of Queens
bury, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor. He had been travelling
from Ireland during the night and behaved
in such a strange manner that the railroad
officials ordered one of their employees to
accompany him TO London.
Upon arrival in that CITY Lord Douglass
put up at a hotel, and when the attendant
was not looking he cut hiH throat. The
tragic death of Lady Brassey, who plunged
into the sea from her yacht while suffering
from fever, will be long remembered. She
was one Of the most ambitious Of women
and remarkably talented. When she
jumped overheard last year her husband
Owed after her, and it was with some diff
Guilty that he waa rescued from sharing her
fate.
preferable to facing the charge Of dishonor
and trying to 1.-Two down the record. Poll
smarting under the sense Of defeat,
have ended all with a bullet. Disappointed
lovers by the score take their lives when
Tilted by the object Of their choice, and 30
the category runs. Disappointment OF
every character has prompted all kinds of
to end this brief existence with a
bare bodkin.
Thousands OF Suffering Women.
Delicate women who complain of tired
feeling, pains in the back md loins, desire
to sleep, dizziness, painful or suppressed
menstruation, will and in Oregon kidney
4 ca q faithful friend. Itcan be relied upou
in every instance to give immediate relief