The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-12
ARP ON sUIOIDEs
Says Chopping Wood Is azure Cure
Discusses Other Mattara

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Discusses Other Mattera
Tho increasing proyalonce Of sui
cides indicates an unhealthy condition
Of mind and body and have thought
that if tho man would quit thinking
about his troubles and go to ohopping
wood or digging in the garden, or oven
60 hunting and got up good oiroula.
tion ho would fool botter and conclude
to live on while longor. Tho body
sffects tho mind and whom tho blood in
tho veins gots thick and sluggish and
tho secretion beoome stagnant, tho
mind gets diseased and morbid, tho
emotions arc out Of tuno and the man
actually believes ho would find rest and
poaoe in death. 1t is strango that any
man of education or refinement would
entertain suoh an unreasonable hopo.
What did tho sohoolteaoher of Dothan
accomplish by killing DR.. MoNoil and
himselt2 Whoro is the sohooltoaoher
now2 Whom two onomios fight duel
and both sre killed., how do thoir spir-
its moot in tho other world? DO they
shake hands or ronow the fight, for, Of
course, they arc not in heaven? What
docs tho young man accomplish by
killing his sweetheart and thon him
sell? Arc they not thon forever sopar-
atod? What docs anybody gain by sui.
dido? AS Hamlot says: s'Is It not botter
to boar tho ills We hayo than fly to
o.hors that wo know not Of? Why not
run away from yoursolf2 Run to the
woods-kcop on running jump tho
branches, swim sho rivors, get wet, got
tirod work in tho garden, dig, hoo,
chop wood, mount q horso and ride fu-
riously anything to divert tho dis.
oased mind from it's train Of thought,
Ny good old father was .flliotod with
rhcumatiam and whom no felt tho acute,
agonizing pains coming on ho would
rouse up and limp away md make
for tho farm, and would walk fastor
and faster as the pains increased, and
would actually msko them asha ned
and they would leavo him Tor day or
two. 10 keep tho mind in good, nor
nal condition tho body must be exer-
ciaed. Seaentsry eecnna.:oa arc not
healthy for mon, and oven woman
should fly around the house with q
broom or wash the windows oooasion,
ally, or dig among the aowors. twill
not do for them to sit and SOW all the
timo. l am sorry for these unmarried
girls who have to run tho machine ali
the day long and got no healthy exor
oiso oxcopt Tor tho ankle bonos. Whom
they got married and tho babies como
along they are pretty safe, for littlo
children give mother division
enough. A mother with babe in her
arms mover thinks Of suicide. Even il
her husband is cruel to hor or ID a
drunkard, she will live on and on for
the sake of tho child. We noto that
most Of tho suicides OCCUR an ong tho
young men and arc caused from intem-
poranoo or disappointed loyoior failure
to mako monoy fast, or boing caught in
EN- oczzlomcnt (,lias stoaling)I Oshollo
killed himself because no found out
that he had wropgfully killed his wife,
and Shakespeare says che was groat OF
heart. J" | reckon he was, considering
that he was q Moor and did dot believe
in hoareafter. Ii was tho .best thing
and the most heroic thing that ho
could do. 1t was tho very ;ntcnsily of
griof and Repentance and has no paral-
lel in modern suicides, for most all Of
them are selfish or royengefal. It was
like the Harikiri Of Saul, or ofSthe an.
oient generals when defeated in Nbattle.i
Tho most alarming feature about
these suicides Of our young moniis tho
Indication that they arc not believers
i'll tho Christian religon, No sane man.
will take his own life if he believes in
hoavsn and hell and futuye state Of
rewards and punihhnonts. lie will be
afraid to. Tho influence Of modern fio-
tion on tho youthful mind has much to
a. with it, for a great deal Of it is
tainted with atheism and linfdolity.
Evon somo Of the standard writer's,
suob aB Hume and Disraoli had lcfo
thoir bad impression. Tho latter throw
a dark shadow ovor life and says that
youth is o blunder, manhood q strug-
glo and old ago rogrot.
La it not for bcttor to take moro
hopeful view Of life ald say like the
poet, Horace Smith:
Tho World is very lovely Oh, my God
| thauk thee that | live"
Or, to say like Longfcllow
''Lifo is real-lifo is earnest,
And tho grave is not its goal"
1t is easy to diagnose poets tom
perament Of philosophor's by his
writings --some are gloomy aud some
are bright and cheerful. I was rumi-
mating about those young men who
have just graduated a. my alama mator
and tho other home colleges, and won
dering how many Of them would provo
o suocoss in lifo and twonty years
henoo oxolaim with the poet, "Oh, my
God, | thank Thco that i live" Fifty.
our years ago [ vas at Athens, in tho
GLASS Of AZ and Of tho forty-two thon
living there arc now but half dozen
left. Many Of thom lived and diod and
made no signs. Somo Of thom saw
trouble and como mado good oitizens.
good husbands and fathers; and Just
SO history repeats itsolf all along the
generations. 1t grioved mo that GOULD
not attend the oontonnial and commune
with tho alumni and rtjoioo with tho
young and fool loaoly with tho old.
Then thoro is old college and now col
ego, and tho chapel and tho oampua
and tho two halls that arc still un
changed. | wondor how many Buys
have occupied tho old room that Bris-
c,so and lived in for two long years
saw il in tho picture and felt like it
was still my room. The ailanthus
traCs (bV n rnianomer onllod tho troc