The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-31

He would throw down his notebook and
refuse to work, and seemed TO dislike being
instructed.
"Afterward he used to send US threaten
Ing anonymous letters; we had plenty OF
his writing in the office and knew it well.
Yet he never asked TO be employed again.
His letters were merely vaguely threaten
Ing.
saw him in the street little time ago and
he looked so shabby l thought he must be
barely making living.
Yes. he was cranky, l suppose. \ ct there
was always something good, too. about
Driver" concluded Mr.. Towne musingiy.
At k0ehler d Froehling's wnestore the
employees knew Driver as having come in
and ordered two gallons OF port wine every
fortnight during the last two months. a
always paid in bright, new 50-cent pieces
At Montgomery's Hotel, on Second street,
where Driver took his meals for years, he
was not known by name.
The management rendered his being
rather different from the average guest. and
that he had been placed at the ladies'
table, where he 'Dicked over his food.
On occasion he would inyeigh against
religion, but latteriy had changed and daily
exchanged Scripture texts with one OF the
ladies in charge.
This was the extent of his lfe-course,
with the exception OF contributing TO the
Carrier Dove"
On looking over the files several long
articles were found in that publication,
though not later than 1882
One article was on The SANITY SOr-
ceress" or Joan of Arc, displaying much
historical research; another. called "'The
Death Blow" vin1icated the Fox sisters.
the Eastern mediums.
The last and the most remarkable was on
"Spritism and Suicide" in which the writer
ata RI nopdamnS suipiHa from a N historical
and spiritualistic standpoint.
He commences with long poetical quota
ton and then proceeds with the following
comprehensive Introduction:
Since the orang- outang and humanity babe
each other fearful and eternal adeu, as they
dtverged from The evolutionary root form at the
close OF the pOst.tertiary period, the former has
remained Scrupulously loyal to It's seli-preserva
tive, versatile and princey instincts, while the
latter has become an incorrigible felon against
Itself by leapiDg from heights crushing under
railway trains. burning. drowning. hanging,
strangllng, starving stabbing, cutting, poi on
Ing dynamite, intUxicanIs aud asphyxia-ncited
by love, haze, JOY, sorrow. envy, jealousy wearl.
ness OF life. wounded pride, disappointed hopes
and ambition. the Interchangeable blueness OF the
sky. the mOnotony OF dressing and undress-
Ing. peeunialy losses, domestic troubles.
spsir fear OF punishment physical dis
ease and suffering, mental alienation, = acute
mania, atomic melancholy, deIlrum,
insanity. patriotism, religious excitement, plOus
frenzy and sanity fanatlcism men, women,
youths and children, In every cline and nation
the monarch, the subject. the learned. the re-
fined, the vulgar, the brave, the cOwardly the af-
fluent, the beggar, the phlanthropist. the poet,
the physician. he Iurlst and the evangelical
Christian minister; Nero. Cato. Cornelius Rufus,
Ajax, Jocasa. Anlgone, HamOn her lover
Eurydice, King COdrus. Themisi oeles, Diogenes,
Zeno, Cleanthus, Lucretla, aud the Cymbran
women, Marcus Curlius, the Decii, Brutus, Cas-
sius PompOIluS Attlcus, Samson, AhlmeIech.
Saul and his arm0rbearer Ahitophel Judas,
Empedocles. Dido, Cleopatra, Sappho. Boadicea.
ArIemsia, Chatierton, Hugh Miller ad libitum ell
minimum. The great Napoleon Dumas and
felo de Sc. Goethe Alherf, C0wper ana Blanche
OF CASTLE, the plOus mother of ST. Louis, al
tempted 1t and failed.
He sums up: "Since 1t first organized
the Universal Christian Church has pro-
claimed that suicide is true homicide end
a mortal sim The new revelation from the
unseen Endorses the words of Shelley that he
dies twice who perlshes by his own hand
and sanctions the saying Of Pythagoras that
no man should abandon his post in life
without orders from the Great Com
mander.'"
He looked forward apparently to the
same friendless silence after death which
had characterized his life, for he concludes
with the quotation:
So live that when thy summons comes to Join
The innLmerable caravan that
10 that mysterious realm. where each shall take
His chamber in the silent balls Of death.
Thou 60 not. ike the quarry slave at night,
Seourged 10 his dungeon; but sustained and
sooihed
BY an unfalterlng trust approach tAy grave
Like one that draws the drapery OF his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.