West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-11-02
LETTERS or SUICIDES.
Pathoe and Fiippancy Shown by
Their Contonta
The rrlaes which Have Caused Som.
People to Take Their Own Lives
Sad Results OF Mental I'M
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Nothing In the newspapers Is more
pitiful than the constantly recurring
paragraphs which contain the last let
tiers OF u suicide The pathos of them
Is not obscured by the absurd made
qnacy OF the reasons which they only
too often advance for self-dcstruction.
In fact says the Boston Globe. the
intensity of tho minds emotions IN
often creator when the troubles arc
small, 50 curious Is the mental state of
those bordering on alteration.
Not very long ago a baron shot HIM
sell In Livonian watering-place, and
his reason was that life was too mo-
notonous;" and young man killed him
self last year In n Liverpool hotel, hav-
ing written on the back of n map: ..This
Is all through love. God forgive me.
Good-by.-
Infinitely more touching was the last
letter of girl at Highfeid. She spoke
OF her premature and self-willed
DEATH" and said:
II feel as though wanted to be far
away from everybody, and know very
well they can see by my face. how mis-
cradle am"
She "felt as though she were going
mad" but she did not forget others.
TEL - my last prayer was that he
would forget me and try to forgive me.
! love him still with all my heart. but
can never marry him in this state OF
mind. Let him read this, and tell him
] hope he will get some brighter and
happier girl TO be his wife" Strango
morbid fears seemed to beset her. and
to escape them she died.
An octogenarian general left n letter
lately defending the propriety of bia
suicide. Said he:
when an individual life has run its
cycle and beaome waste of nature In
the body, overwhelming its mental and
physical qualities with weakness and
PAIN TO an intolerable degree, IL may.
with all propriety, be removed.
such being the case with the life Of
the writer, his apology to the world Is
by these terms made through his most
beloved and most intimate friends. who
ne trusts viii appreciate the relief To
MN from ceaseless distress, which. In
ms opinion, ought to be brought nv the
physician who Is summoned with his
urugs' surely for that purpose, but not
for cure"
caretaber hanged himself, and his
iast letter said; II have got to leave
mere, but have no money to paw for n
room and nowhere to lay my head
a bcrmondsey grocer had not 80 def
mite reason rs hopelessness.
Break 1t gently TO my poor wife, he
wrote. Il cannot fight the battle of life
any longer. My poor head is BURSTING
hope the Lord viii provide for her and
| my poor boy"
| a Warwickshire tradesnarr was sun
able TO bear 1t any longer but his let
ter requested an accountant 70 ..go
| through his books" %
But, for almost flippant indifference
low suicides letters equal that of an
English accountant, who took sulnhata
OF morphia in q Chicago hotel three
| years ago. He wrote:
DEAn CHAnLIE-Goodwin promised
20 leave three dollars that he borrowed
from me ct the hotel, but did not do 60
WIZ you tell him to pay Hallowell. be-
tween State and Wabash, forty cents
and Newfelt twenty-five cents. That
think, covers my whisky bills
II will my carcass to some medical
institute for them to try and find ont
why the mental and physical rnachin-
] cry OF my system did not pull torethor
win kind regards to the bows. who
tried so hard to make bad egg good
am yours in death. as well as in life
! Dick -"
IL Ia a sorrowful yet altogether prof
itiess branch of investigation, this; and
- = a sad fact that the opportunities