Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — The Suicidal Mania. [ARTICLE]

The Suicidal Mania.

Murder and suicide are not so paired as to prevent either from acting. It is a pity that, if killing must be done, the culprit does not begin with suicide.— Toledo Commercial. The suicide of a child after reproof or correction is a by no m ans wholly unknown occurrence. The act of a young Philadelphia monkey in cutting . its throat with a piece of glass aftef its mother had chastis d it is perhaps a piece of the “missing link.”—Detroit Journal. The young man in Illinois who took two ounces of laudanum because his girl went back on.him, was a great improvement on the fool fellows Who wont to shojt the girl before making way with themselves. Only brutes try to wreak a vengeance on the innocent and inoffensive girl.—St. Paul Globe. It is not easy to realize the melancholy mental condition of a man who will go and try to ki.l himself because his best girl does not love .him in a State where there a 'e 60,000 more women than men, and where the old adage holds good that “the fish in the water are just a- good as any that ever were caught.— Boston Globe. >. The Canton young man who cut his throat because a fair young widow would not marry h m, is a vast improvement over the other species of crazy lover, who would have killed the widow instead of nimself under similar provocation. As between the two we are everlastingly in L-.vor of the suicide.— Columbus Post. Suicides are not as considerate as the world expects people to be who are about to face judgment for deeds done in the body. They terrorize a car full of fellow beings, plunge to death in the midst of a startled crowd, stop railroad trains, mar the pleasure of hotel giiests, break up weddings and check the course o’ business-in public places. These self-destroyers should at least seek privacy for the final tragedy in their mistaken existence. —Detroit Free Press