Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — HE SAVED WOULD-BE SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

HE SAVED WOULD-BE SUICIDE

Absentmindedness. which has done some very rash things In Its universal career, was the alchemy that nearly turned a wcAild-be suicide Into just a suicide here. Harry Such, after the usual fight with hts wife, decided to go to the place where wives and marriages are reputed pot to bo, which ought to be a fine place. He tied a few yards of Clothesline around his neck and

jumped off a chair. John Korem, who rooms on the floor above, felt the jar, and hustled downstairs. He to one of those absentminded men who put their clothes in bod and go to sleep In the wardrobe. Therefore, instead of cutting the rope with a knife, he searched leisurely around for a saw, and then—sawed down the beam. It fa hard to say what Such thought of the delay, but he must have been mad.

for he wu bine In the face when Koren finally released the rope. When resuscitated he was asked if he still wanted to die Ho turned a savage eye toward Koren and muttered: “Not yet; not until I got even with that absentminded duck!**—Sou th Norwalk (Coda.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Truth crushed to earth will rise again, but on the other hand a lie, under the same conditions, doesn't have Its anchor fast In the mud, either.