The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-09-04

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- fire Yet men and delicate women
Faca all these rather than suffer longer
t,on, unreauited love, clamorous, press
80 remorseless creditors, unsolvable
.a2,ostic discords, unquenchable hate
~ husband or wife, or chronic and in
o,,robla disease Such has been the
t;s+o,.v of the human race as at pres
ent constituted.
Tbo Hindoo widow performed the
suttee on the death OF her husband.
the servants of a Chinese mandarin
committed hari kari to accompany his
dood lord into the fiowery fields of the
future world, the Japanese the happy
dispatch" on sufficient provocatlon,the
old Roman pierced his body with his
broad two edged sword to satisfy his
offended honor, the people who lived in
the middle ages, and all the modern
nations of Europe, including the
French. German and English, resort to
self-destruction on what they consider
sufficient provocation. The french
man delights in the suffocating fumes
of charcoal. the outcast grisette and
the English Whitechapel courtesan the
dark and Shiny waters OF the seine OF
the Thames! The more civilized the
nation the greater vogue the custom.
Savage races, as the negro, the lhdlan.
endure in docile patience, or stolcaI
silence the pangs of hunger or the
pains of disease. Mental and imagin-
arv woes do not seem to afiict them.
The custom is an outgrowth OF some OF
the evil effects of a high civilization
and an overcrowded condition OF popu-
latfon. resulting in the fierce struggle
for life that always accompanies these
conditions.
No sufficient punishment to mt the
crime" has the legislative faculty ever
been able to devise for suicide. Inc
penalty of death, the highest punish
ment. is inapplicable to one who was
a criminal, but is now a corpse. me
English method of quartering the body,
burying the heart at cross roads with
stake driven through it and d1sin-
heriting the heirs of the felo de Sc had
no appreciable deterrent effect. The
New York method of furnishing with
Imprisonment the attempt" at suicide
is a move in the right direction. The
best preventive to my mind is to cul-
tivate strong healthy public opinion
against it, a universal disapDroDatlon
and horror of the act, to decline to
sanction a maudlin sympathy with the
suicidally inclined, and in persistent
cases to segregate them from the rest
of mankind in hospitals for obserVa-
ton and moral treatment. Life is
precious boon and should be lived
through to the end, no matter what the
environment. We cannot give it, and
we should not take it away. Each
soldier in the company should keep
step with his comrades and not skulk
behind or desert. This is cowardly in
every case without qualification.
The publication and wide dissemin-
alton of all the miserable details OF
each particular case in the public jour
nails and newspapers has a tendency to
multiply suicides on the principle OF
imitation Real Estate Agent Florida
swallowed hydrocyanide of potassium
and at intervals since that time several
world weary individuals of less prom
inence followed his unworthy example
And so it has been when other new
modes were invented Men develop in
this uncomfortable act a zeal, persist
enCe and ingenuity worthy of a better
cause. One individual retired to an
isolated frame building, swallowed
rough on rats, shot himself with re-
volver and his remains were consumed
in slow fire which he had first started
in the building, which then reached
stick of dynamite concealed in the cell
lar, resulting in an explosion which
scattered everything to the four winds
A certain we'll known resident of st.
Louis, prominent physician, married
an heiress with a happy family of chill
dren, in the prime of life, emigrated
from that city to Paris, France, set
tied there, lived among the American
colony, and one day drew the sharp
edge of a razor across his carotid ar
terry, he well knowing its exact loca-
ton, allowing his life to ebb away with
the vital fluid. This was DR., Charles
A. Pope, as many will remember. No
cause was known or assigned at the
time, and to this day it remains a mvs-
terry. JAMES NJ. LORTNC