The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-19
BILL ARP'S LET ER.
Arp on Suicides is q Rare Event Am ong
the Negroes.
! .atlantt1 Constitution.


stake thrust through it to mark the
accursed spot. Suicide was under the
ban Of The church, and no prayers were
said for his soul. In NO civilized
country has suicide been justified, ex-
cept in 'such cases as that of Saul, who
fell on his swctd because, 40 ihe said !,
Lest these uGcircumciaed Phiiistines
thrust me through and abuse me"
Or perhaps that other notable case the
scriptures record, that Of Judas, whose
remorse was so dreadful he' preferred
hell or anything that would be q
change. But generally is is "better
to endure the ills we have, than fy to
those we know not Of. - Almnet eva.y
day we read Of young men and young
women killing themselves because Of
disappointment or dissipation or love
or money. They must believe there is
No hereafter, or all punishment ends
with THE life. Surely no Christian
man or woman would think oe SELF
murder. Wait, wait, young man,
young woman; wait, | say-suffer and
be strong; only towards kill them
selves. The soul is looked up in this
casket and God only he's the key.
Wait and trust Him. Remorse for
great crime may atone somewhat for
self-murder. Miss Morrison might
have killed herself after she killed her
rival, and it would have seemed hero
10. When Othello discovered his
great mistake in killing Desdemona,
his peroration was grand as he said,
81 took the circumoised dog by the:
throat and smote him thus and then
stabbed himself and died, for, as
Shakespeare says, "He was great Of
heart. : In ancient Greece and Rome
their notable warriors sometimes Kill
ed themselves, rather than suffer the
stains Of defeat in battle. In Japan
military officers commit what is called
harakari Gripping open the abdomen)
to avoid personal disgrace. But in
our land the pistol or poison has
superseded all other means Of suicide.
It would save thousands Of lives il the
pistol was abolished by law. Not one
should be allowed in any household;
they are entirely too convenient for
murder OF suicide or robbery or re-.
veDge. And the sale Of poison should
be SO regulated that no one could buy
;itexoept upon the most careful inquiry
as to its intended use. Human life is
too sacred to be endangered by pistols
and poison, for, as St. Paul says,
.'We are made in the image Of God. q
Well, We see that Mr, Crumpiokel,
or Stumpsueker, or some such namc,
from Indiana, has opened the ball at
Washington with his usual screech
owl howl against the South. He was
in such malignant hurry that he got
in the first bill, and it is to reduce The
representation Of tbs South in Con-
gress,. He reminds me Of Haman,
whose stomach would NOT digest his
food as long as he saw Mordecai Sit
ting at the kings gate. he has be-
gun to build q gallows for ue. Let
him! beware, for it was Haman who
was hanged. Some Of these rabid
Republicans remind me- Of old Cato,
the Roman censor, who hated the.
Carthegenians SO bad that he never
voted on any question in Che Roman
senate without adding, And also
vote that Carthage be destroyed.'' z
But nobody cares; we will yet have q
schoolbook commissionin every South
ern State. The South Is moving right
along in spite Of Northern insults and
Northern literature. Isee that Bar
bara Frietchie' is to be played in At
ilanta. I wonder issthat dramatic lie
will be patronized by any self-respect.
ing Southern man or woman7 Many.
years ago Il Yankee troup came to
Rome with "U mole Toms Cabin and
.se egged them out Of town. That's
what we done. They may abuse us
from afar of, but they shan't como
sdoHn here ard rub it in.
BILL ARp.