The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
THE FREE LANCE.

THE FREE LANCE.
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Jy HIS was eminent
W nm cides in Salt Lake;
VI Of suicides and di-
N IA vorce suits. May
&4E be there is some
k&A y relation between
fsEy the two. We know
N&A Tolstoi invokes
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~ Mn ~ against matri-
n fM.JE mony; but Tolstoi
IA N EHTJ<<~ is crazy. Take
E8H EsNTy away from man
W. EEaYZ. this one solace in
WnZ NY life, the one hope
in this world, and
where he does not strive wholly for sordid
things, where he has some ambition holier
than pelf or patronage, despair would soon
engulf him. After me the deluge."
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Is suicide contagiousl 1t certainly is.
which defines the word as "the act or pro-
cess of transmitting disease from one per-
son to another, by direct or indirect con-
TACT" but rather in the meaning of Fisher
Ames:
The spirit of imitation is contagious.
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There probably never lived the man who,
at one time or another in his career, did not
consider, If not contemplate, suicide as an
escape from the ills he knew of to those he
knew not of. Whether as sutton for the
hand OF some sweet amoritta he sighed for
death (for the course of true love never yet
ran smooth), or whether he stopped weary
and heartsick from care and disappoint-
ment in the ascent to the goal of his ambi-
zion, sometime and somewhere he felt that
life was not worth the living.
And when in that mood he sees round
about him men take their own lives with
out wiucing, the lives that God las
breathed into them and should alone blow
OUT he forgets his obligations TO mankind,
TO himself and to his Maker, and joins the
caravan of suicides; for
The spirit of imitation is contagious.
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But come what may, the mau who has
commits suicide. And God help him who
hasn't.
1t is CHASTITY business, this fight be
tween the undertakers and the coroner,
over the right TO take charge of the bodies
OF the unfortunates. Now II the suicides
Will stop until this dispute is settled, we
won't care how long the war may rage.
People who have known DIR. Eldredge,
who will to day fill a suicides grave, say
that he had heart as big as the Pacific
ocean; that he could not bear the suffer
1ngs OF others any more than he could his
own; that his acts of kindness and mercy
were innumerable and without eclat; aud
that his treatment of his foster mother,
who is at times helpless from 1nhamma-
tory rheumatism, was tender and touching
to an extreme. DR.. Utter ought not to be
at loss for few words of consolation to
the friends who will surround the bier of
the dead dentist.
One has 10 GO away from home to learn
the news. In the Washington Star of the
Gath appears the following item, credited
to the Denver Neus.
curious story comes from Salt Lake City
which is attracting much comment from friends
r..
WanieSS, Shot and killed by Joseph +. Barnes
september 49, 1890 and may furnish medical
men another subject for discussion. Barnes, il
Will be remembered, was having quarrel with
MS Vile. which the officer attempted 10 stop.
Barnes fired and the bullet passed through
Wanless heart, leaving jagged bullet hole in
the breast. y married sister OF the dead
officer was telegraphed and came for the
funeral from her home in Salt Lake. She was
much affected by the tragedy ami took the loss
OF her brother 10 Heart In q snort time she
returned home. About three months ago. as
the report Is heard here by friends of The dead
officer, his sister gave birth to a boy perfectly
formed. but with red birth-m8rK over the
heart of the exact shape and appearance OF the
wound made in Wanless' breast by the bullet
from Barnes pistol.
The Chileans are an impetuous people,
big hearted and forgiving, yet quick to re-
sent oppression. They have lust de.
throned Balmaceda. The Salt Lake PEG
pleare an impetuous people, big hearted and
forgiving, yet quick to resent oppression
The guillotine will drop in February on the
necks OF Mr.. Bamaceda Cute and his reyo
lut1onary associates.
Mr.. Clute's salary is based upon the
amount Of taxation he can place upon city
taxpayers, very few of whom marched in
the mud, beat drum or hurrahed for
ton so far has recognized Mr.. B. Clute as
its prosecuting attorney, aud the indignant
people who complain before the board are
always crcss-exam1ned by this sweet
scented son Of Justice. For relief-vote
the Liberal ticket in February.
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Speaking OF Prosecuting Attorney
Balmaceda Clnte, the ex-drayman of Lib
eral votes and of high tax fame, would it
not be well for him TO wear q mask before
the tax professors while the equalization
board is IN session and also have his voice
shaved. great many people complain of
his bulldozlng manner and say how much
nicer II would be TO communicate with the
board without his sneering, cross grained
presence.
The State road people clamor for paved
streets as well as the Main street property
holders. The names of Hiram johnson and
Spencer ClawSon are being talked of as
proper persons to succeed Geo. A. Lowe
upon the board of public works. Let poll
tics keep its hands off 10 this appointment,
Mr.. Mayor, as every body is interested in
public improvements.
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Just at the time when the city should be
kept the cleanest, when the number OF
garbage wagons should be increased, Mr.
Showell's forces have been cut down one
third and August decayage is to have full
sway at the back door of the city. Is it to
invite typhoid aud diphtheria in the
autumn.
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The police committee will report posi-
lively next Tuesday night, the Tribune
says. Can it be that the Tribune possesses
the spirit of prophecys