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The long line of English precedence
Is closed by burgesses, who rank next
below citizens. who follow officers of
he army and navy.
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aOryelE ct.
HARDWA ARE STORE

A large assortment of Hardware,
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agent for the
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A greater number Of men than of
women become stout late In life No
satisfactory explanation of this fact is
offered.
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DHIW0 run NEW nut &.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, week
days, 1872 9.02 n. M, 200. 4.22, COZ, 1047 p m
Sundays, 50 a. IN, L. 5, 90 p. M.
Leave Berks street for New Hope, week days, 60f
p m.
Close connection at Jenkintown with last ex-
press trains to and from New York, Baltimore,
Washington, the South and West.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street Wharf and
South Street Wharf for Atlantic City.
Week-days--Express 800. 900, l045 a. m tsatur
day only 1907 200 800, 40, 400, 4.30. co. SAC
p. m. Accommodation 500 a. M, 80, $50 m.
800 Excursion train, 100 a. M Sundays-EN-
press 7.3O $50, $50, 900, 1900 m, 45 p. IN.
Accom-, 500 a. M, 445 D. m. Sl.O0 Excursion
train, a. m.
LEAVE ATLANTIC CITY DEPOT
Week-days-Express (Nondays only, 6.45l 700,
745, St5 900. 1915 a. m, 30, 43O, $50, 730, 80
p. m. Accom-, 600, 7.55 a, M, 4S2 p m. Si.0O
Excursion train from foot Mississippi Avenue
only Goo D. m. Sunday-Express, 800, 90,
500, G 90, Gao 100. 7.30, 500 30 p m. Accom-,
7I5 a. M. sos p m. Si.00 Excursion train 1rOm
foot Mississippi Avenue only Clio p. m.
Parlor Cars ON all Express Trains.
C. q. HANCOCK,
l. A. SWEIGARD, Gen. Pass. Agt.
General Superintendent
April l, 1896.
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Leave Lambertvlle for Pennington AZ a m, 2 o.
and 500 p m, weekdays.
Arrive Pennington GIG m, 2.53 and $40 p m,
| weekdays.
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Trains from, Philadelphia and Ne,r York.

Leave New York, via Trenton, 500, 90 q
21O 300 400 and 600 m. Sunday, 600 m.
Leave Philadelphia (Kensington) 6.36, TAO m,
2.5O 43O and GA p m. weekdays.
Leave Philadelphia BROAD Street Station) 80
and 900 m. II 90 noon, 2.30. 1852, 500 and $50
p m. Sunday, $50 p m.
Leave Trenton 1852, $50 m, LOO, S40 Az, $50
and 7.53 p m. Sunday, 1853 p m.
Arrive Lambe rtville $685. 1920 m, 1877, 4.15, 507,
6.2S and 1875 M. Sunday, 1926 p m.
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Reading Railroad.
TINE TABLE, IN BFFECT MAY II. 1895
TRAINS LEAVE NEW HOPE
TRAINS FOR NEW HOPE.

For Glenside Jenkintown and Philadelphia, week
days, $40, 7.S0, a. M, 100, 4.30, 600 p. q LOS
goes to BeTk street, balance to Terminal) sun
DAYS G. 30 a. m 40. 6l5 H. m.
The herald., 1896-06-23
ISITW WRONG TO COMMIT SUICIDE?

degrees of heavenly life. Before your
turn comes every hour / will take u
being like yourself, become impatient
and left that, which was even better
than this perhaps. thinking they might
be happier by doing so and admitted by
chance to heaven and a more peaceful
life. There is one woman who has been
here for twenty years; she needed my
advice In the beginning, and she goes
out with me into a great and glorious
life which has been earned by her pa
thence in trying to help tighten the bur-
dens Of the thousands of disappointed
souls who come here. 1t takes millions
of years to attain the higher spheres
you all hoped to gain when you left the
earth.
please tell me how to earn that home,
teach me and will strive to reach that
sphere, for there l know shall see my
babies" 1 cried eagerly.
Il have just told you, my child, forget
yourself In your good offices for others
who are weak, and you will find the time
grow short.
while here you will have even more
to try you than while on earth, but you
can overcome all its vexations by doing
what have told you. 1t is best to for
get ones own grievances and help alle-
viate those Of others. 1t is best"
AS l saw her about to leave me. I
tried to touch her garments that /
iiiiBHl pIc5S lHeIIl u lily lips, Uul COulu
not reach her. and knew l had lost my
identity for ten long years to come.
| strove to draw her to me once more,
but she turned her eyes from mine.
When I saw the inmates of my new
and CHASTITY home crowd around I felt
as If in a mad-house, and they looked
at me and whispered together, "She is
mad STILL"
AS l surveyed my gloomy asylum my
eyes fell upon a crouching figure,
young and frail in corner of the
room not far distant, with her head
bowed in her thin white hands. l saw
her form was convulsed with sobs, and
as raised myself upon my elbow and
looked at her more closely I felt my
young girls grief, forgot my own suf-
ferings.
Poor thing" thought. I must
speak to her, she seems to be alone and
without friend. I must go and COM
fort her. Then felt new life throb in
my veins. for still retained my phys
ical body--how l knew not
Walking to where she sat, l put my
hand to my temple in an attitude of
thoughtfulness, one / acquired on
earth, and found to my amazement the
same ragged bullet hole with blood
oozing from it. as l had seen when l
last looked on my own earthly body.
l looked at my fingers and there was
blood upon them. Just then happened
to glance toward some of the other in
mates of the place, who were watching
what effect the discovery would have
upon me. / saw them shake their heads
dolefully, and for the first time l no
ticed that each one carried a wound;
deep gashes red and repusive, marked
the throats of many; some had parts Of
their faces gone; others were CHASTITY
The herald., 1896-06-23

examples. Joseph Hermann's motives
may have been unselfish, but if there
is any principle of law, human or divine,
or any existing system of civilized eth
les by which a man can be justified for
deliberately ending his own life and at
tempting to throw the burden of sup
porting his family on the shoulders of
fortunes, we would like to know what
1t is. Leaving divine or human law out
OF the question, the suicide is product
OF morbid condition; he is a menace
to the safety and happiness of Others
The weapon he turns on himself one day
may be used on another person the
next.
The best sensibilities of our nature
cry out against him. if he is young and
inexperienced he should be educated; if
he is insane he should be restrained: if
he is apparently in full possession of his
Faculties, by his attempt at self-murder
he brands himself as one apart from
the human race have no attraction for
that interest and suffice the majority of
the human race have no attraction for
him; If his body is enfeebled by sickness
or by want, care for him; treat him ten
derly, try to restore him to health and
happiness If pou will. but do not hold UP
his act as meritorious. The greatest
safeguard we have against suicide is the
love of life implanted in the heart of
man; where it is absent the man is in
an abnormal condition, and if not in
sane is on the road to insanity.
We are not concerning ourselves with
the question of punishment If we ac-
cept divine law, suicide is certainly
wrong. Our criminal law declarer it to
wrong. The hearts of ninety nine out
of one hundred of us decide it to be
wrong There is not one man in a thou
sand who would not use every endeavor
in his power to prevent commission of
the act. We will not listen to what a
few hypochondriaes say, or what a few
bad limitations of the stole philosophers
say, or what the morphine or cigar
cite f1ends says, or what the
played -out debauchee says. but
what the hundreds of happy
and fairly contented people we meet
about our streets and in our homes say
which is, MY life is precious to me in
spite of some drawbacks and discourage.
ments." I look upon self-murder with
horror and aversion, and by the laws
of my country anyone who aids. abets
or encourages another to commit if is
guilty of felony.
LEWIS JONES.
The herald., 1896-06-23
is SUICIDE WRONG
OR WHERA ARD WE?

Before entering into discussion as to
whether suicide is wrong" it would be
well to determine as closely as possible
what we mean by suicide and what we
mean by wrong.
The word suicide is noun formed
from the Latin sui-one's self and cae-
dere--to kill, it's meaning is defined in
Websters dictionary as self destruc-
tion, self murderer" but in common
law as the deliberate, intentional act of
self destruction by a person of sound
mind and having arrived at years of dis
cretion."
The great body of civilized mankind
has agreed that persons of tender years
or unsound mind are not entirely re-
sponsible for their actions; the one class
we care for in our reform schools and
the other in our asylums. therefore we
must adopt the legal definition of the
term or be guilty of a contradiction and
absurdity in discussing the amount Of
moral responsibility incurred by cer-
tain act of those whom we have pre-
viously declared to be irresponsible.
Now, by saying that a certain act is
wrong we mean to imply that it is a
violation or an attempt to violate some
law that mankind claims to have re-
ceived from God by revelation, or to
have framed for mutual advantage. pro-
lection and so forth. These two sets Of
laws mankind agrees are just and we
consent to obey them, partly because we
agree that they are just and partly be-
cause we are compelled to do so by popu-
lar opinion and the superior strength of
majorities.
The first proposition on which divine
law rests Is that man was created by
God, that he received his being from
Him, that he is responsible to Him for
the use of his life and faculties and will
some day be called to account of the use
to which he has put them. Certainly, if
man owes nothing to the Deity, if he is
only present in the universe as the result
of long concatenation of circumstances
subject to conditions irremedabe and
irrevocable, torn by a thousand ills and
dissensions that have existed and been
accommodating for ages, and from the
eternal consequences of which there is no
escape, he owes no obedience to a Being
that has allowed him to evolve himself
out of chaos only to be forever tor
mented by an Unsuitable craving for the
unknowable and with only his own
finite and imperfect understanding for
his guide to happiness and content Now
if we resolve to reject the laws our fore
fathers have handed down to us as the
revealed word of God, we must fall back
on the hope that in every human heart
is implanted or has been developed an
innate sense of right and wrong, a
The herald., 1896-06-23
THE LATEST NOVELTY
IN SMALL FUNERALS

UNITED States patent No. 557,335,"
says the New York World registers
an invention designed to promote econ
omy in funerals without sacrifice either
/ of taste or elegance. Justly may the
combination funeral carriage be called
the latest thing in mortuary novelties.
1t is expected to revolutionize the
transportation phases of burial and save
millions annually for the widow and the
orphan. Stated In untechnical language,
under this patent one vehicle viii con-
vey to the cemetery thirty people and
the casket. The mourners go inside,
the body on the roof.
The Sunday World learned of this in
teresting invention from a cordial note
from Mr.. Eugene Cook, manager of the
National Burial company, inviting one
of its correspondents to participate in
the trial trip on June 8, Exactly what
this means he did not say. Mr.. Cook
also inclosed prospectus, from which
comprehensive idea, of the structure
and arrangements of the funeral car
rage may be gained, as well as informa-
tion about its immense economic possi-
bilities
A LONG-FELT NEED.
Like many other inventions, it ap-
pears that this was the outcome of pas
sionate philanthropy. AS the prospec
tus itself admits:
"The long-felt necessity to bring about
a reduction in the enormous cost of
funerals which has been recommended
by the press all over the country, has
been preached from the pulpits and has
been demanded by the public for many
years past, has prompted the above
company to bring in existence and es-
tablish the means, by which ALL that is
desired in this direction, can be accom-
plished by the use of the combination
carriage and hearse, on which this
COrnpanV owns the patpnt'
From the Sunday Worlds picture it
would appear that the vehicle was a
kind of bus with q coffin on top. The
reader will notice, too that at the for
ward end there is separate entrance.
The main entrance Is from the rear as
in an ordinary omnibus. The door in
the rear is the family entrance for the
friends of the family. There are two
distinct apartments, which the refined
instincts of the designers told them
would be indispensable in humane So
ciety.
BRUSSELS VS.. GUM MATING.
On page one of the prospectus the fol-
lowing appears, which fully explains
the construction and arrangement of
these two compartments:
"The trimmings and upholstering in
the private family compartment are of
the best black broad cloth, heavy drap-
cry and floor covered with Brussels
carpet.
1.-The rear compartment is fitted out
in best quality russian leather, and floor
covered with gum mating; the solid
wood partition, dividing the family from
the friends towards the rear, is adorned
with fine ornamentation and French
plate-glass mirror, which makes this
part of the carriage slightly more cheer
full than the front part. Silver platings
and other ornamental work has been
The herald., 1896-06-23

son can be felon but one who either
commits a felony or aids and abets an
other to commit one, therefore, the GRIM
inal law of the United States by impli-
cation brands suicide as a wrong act,
and anyone who is guilty of it as felon
That it does not do so explicitly or inflict
any punishment for the act must be
either from design of policy, incompe-
tence of decision or inadvertance. We
have shown that suicide is wrong ac-
cording to our criminal law. If we ad-
nit that 1t is wrong we must in common
justice proceed to take steps to prevent
its occurrence as far as is practicable.
If our criminal law is wrong and suicide
Is right, we should repeal a law which
deals out the punishment of felony to
those who support and countenance a
good action. But suppose we meet with
the objection that suicide may some
times be juStifiable and sometimes I'M
justifable. Homicide is sometimes
justifiable and sometimes unjustifable.
The man who, in the wlds of central Af-
RIGA or New Guinea, finds death by his
own hand his only deliverance from a
protracted and lingering one at the
hands of savages, or the woman who
CONCLUDES that self destruction is her
only means of saving her honor, will
hardly be deferred from leaving this
world by a dread of the Tilted States
criminal law, but perhaps the wretched
bungler who hacks himself with a dull
razor or takes an insufficient quantity
of Rough on Rats because some woman
will not smile upon him or he is unable
to refrain from the use of the hypoder-
mic syringe, or is without the money
necessary to crafty his craving for al
cohol can be restrained from rushing
rashly into the unknown by legisla-
tion that will assure him of lengthy
punishment should attempt to end his
own life be unsuccessful. What secur-
ity has society that the man who is anx-
ious to take his own life one day may
not be seized by an impulse to take an
others the next?
Why search for exceptional cases in
which suicide would appear justifiable? :?
Laws are not made for individual cases.
The law against murder when it ends in
hanging the assassin works hardship
on his unoffending widow and children
If your correspondent, young man, val
ued his body at $500 and thought his poor
mother would be consoled by that sum
for seeing her son fill suicides grave,
we can only deplore the fact that such
cases exist. If his generous German
friend resolved that he would rather die
than work and generously left his fam
lily to be supported by an insurance COM
pany, we deplore the fact that such a
man can be. and that such an example
can be held up for imitation. If two
unfortunate children living in Germany
drown themselves in the Seine (about
200 miles from the German frontier) we
can only deplore their youthful mex
perience, while admiring their love for
their mother and thank our stars we do
not live in a country where it is neces-
sary to walk 200 miles to drown
Do not let us try to prove the general
rule of conduct by isolated and extreme
The herald., 1896-06-23

placed wherever they may produce the
best effect.
THE carriage in general is not only
practicable and convenient, but has also
a rich and stylish appearance, and is a
vehicle which is acknowledged by an
intelligent public as q most respectable
and solemn conveyance for funeral pur..
poses"
The writer goes on to explain that if
more than thirty persons are attending
the funeral a second combination" NAV
be employed. From this they remove
the coffin box and sable plumes, and put
regular coach top in it's place.
THE CASKET MECHANISM.
1t is now in order to glance at the in
SehlouS mechanical construction of the
casket appliance, which, of course Is
the patentable part of the vehicle. A
system of cords running over pulIeys
enables the undertaken on the box he
slde the driver to turn small crank and
lower or raise the coffin receptacle at
Will AS the prospectus on page two:
me part of the ceiling or top of the
carriage lying directly under the hearse
Is detachable, and forms at the same
time the bottom of the casket recepta
Gle, and is provided with two-inch
| hanging" which latter is there as q
precautionary measure. This mechani-
cal part of the device is also applica BILE
TO cars.
ECONOMY OF THE COMBINATION
TO the general public the convincing
argument with which the economic side
OF the combination funeral carriage is
given to the world will prove as alb
sorblng as the invention in its more
specific aspects
There is just one business which is
affected neither by tariff nor free silver.
III city has population of 1926, 900 and
death rate of 23 per 1000, there will
De $40 funerals per year-no more no
less. a business man can bank on thai
just as certainly as on taxes
,, These, in the nature of things at fixed
aVeraee per annual, are going to cost
exactly so much. But. if you reduce the
cost of funerals 60 per cent on invested
capital and nearly so per cent on run
ming expenses, it is evident that great
saving must result
The National Burial company is anx-
ious to give this to somebody Whether
to the undertakers or to the widows
or to the orphans, it is not their busi-
| ness to determine, only it is evident tba
IL the cost of proper funeral vehiclei,
Is greatly reduced the people must bene-
fit by 1t in the long run.
1t is also plainly good investment for
any hearse owner. because, as was per-
haps suggested by mention of the plain
coach top. if mortuary matters look
down, select picnic trade may be ac-
commodated, or even the taking of par
ties to balls. On picnics the private
family compartment would be found
convenient for storing the lunch.-New
York World.