Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — Page 3
YALE SUICIDE STUDY
PROF. BAILEY GIVES VIEW OF SELF-DESTRUCTION! > Car* felly Com pi I*4 Statistic* Show 00,844 Casa* la tha United State* la th* Period from 1097 to 1001-Mor* Malm than Female*. Boidds In the United State* ha* bee* studied by Prof. William B. Bailey of Tale for a period covering th* year* 1897 to 1901. He ha* taken 29.344 earn* and compiled th* firet eet of exhaustive statlatic* ever prepared from th* viewpoint •f the' authority on social aclence or political economy. In order to take a more convenient unit 10,000 ease* were taken by Prof. Bailey for computation In hi* statistic!. Of these 7.781 were found to bo males. 2,219 females, Indicating that la general about three and one-half male* to ion* female commit suicide. Taken by age the figure* show the followingi »■;*3 '“g S) o Si!!".’!! JlHi lm mo 40 • 60.... 1.674 Lost 281 8 Si:::::::: 1 *! I « % TO and 0ver...... 044 »« 4f Unknown Ml MS w Total* .... TIO.OOO fim *.210 The’table ehdbe that the moat popular suicide period la between 80 and 40 years, followed closely by the period between 20 and 80 yean. Nearly two-third* of th* suicide* are found between the period* of 20 to 60 year*. Number of Married Bulcldee. It 1* found that the number of th* married suicide* exceeds that of those who are single. This table Shows the relative proportions: Total Males. Females. Single 4,064 8,120 *29 Married 4.807 AWT MO Widowed 879 4PS 18* Divorced 1M U 7 62 Unknown 271 202 00 Total 710,000 L7Bl 2,21* Another table prepared by Prof. Bailey shows that more single, widowed, and divorced women commit suicide than men tn like conjugal conditions, but that married men are more prone than married women to take their lives. According to Prof. Bailey this Is probably due to the fact that the struggle for existence bears most heavily on the women who are trying to support themselves. Shooting is found to be the favorite method of suicide, followed closely by poison. Almost exactly 00 per cent of the cases of suicide are included under these two heads. More than 60 per cent of the cases of drowning occur in the three summer months. In Main* hanging still leads as the most popular method. The cases of suicide by jumping, poison, and gas are found to be confined principally to the cities. In the South shooting easily leads poison. The table summarising these cases follows: Method. Total. Males. Females. Shooting 3,247 2,980 287 Drowning 800 460 810 Poison 2,750 LBBI 91* Cutting 810 80S 118 Os* 668 468 200 jumping 478 860 123 Ranging 952 750 202 Miscellaneous ... 802 219 tt Totals .....10,000 7,781 2,21* Leading Votive la Despondency. Despondency Is the leading motive, claiming about 20 per cent es the victims. Businer* Joea, ill health, and insanlty follow in order with about 13 per cent each, disappointment in love coming next. Suicide on account of alcoholism is seventeen times as common among the males aa fefnales, while from business lorn th* number is 18 to L Between the ages of 20 and 30 is. reached th* maximum of suicides from grief, chagrin, and being crossed in love. Between 20 and 30 fall the maximum from alcoholism, insanity, domestic trouble and fear of disgrace. From 80 to 40 come the greatest numbers from business loss and ill health. -
LABOR NOTES
An electrical typesetting machine Is the latest. Typewriters with Arabic letters are sow being used in Egypt The Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and Baggagemen of America has been chattered. Detroit lighting commission laborers bad their pay increased from $1.60 to SL76 per day. The German Catholic societies of the State of New York hare declared in fa▼or of the anion label. At Bio beginning of the year there were 10,000 women members of labor unions in New York State. The Boxmakers* end Sawyers’ National Union has decided to hare a national headquarters and office* in Chicago. Miss Mabel McDonald, a waitress tend the candidate of organised labor in Duluth for queen of the carnival, was elected by s majority of 000 rotes. Mayor Hugo presented her whh the freedom of the city and a S6OO plane, 1 A colored man was elected as international vice-president at the conventkm of the longshoremen at Bay City. The longshoremen’s national, with more than 140.000 members, is the third largest trade union In this country. Nottingham (England) municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, baths and cemeteries has showed an average annual net profit of $168,000 for the last four years. Tbs money is applied to the redaction of taxes. In France workingmen have the full right to form associations haring in view the betterment of their condition. This right includes that of forming temporary coalitions for the purpose of enforcing their demands —in ether words, of engaging hi strikes. While a workman cannot ha punished in that country for the mere act of engaging In a strike, there are heavy punishments for abases of the privilege. The Amalgamated Sheet Metal Work-
THE WEEKLY HISTORIAM
ONB HUNDRED TEARS AOO. Th* first power loom for weaving cloth, operated by on* person, was sat np in France. Th* Washington, D. 0., City Council appropriated 8200 far the salary of th* Ant chief of the capital police. The United States frigate Constitution, Commodore Preble commanding, captured several African gunboats off the Mediterranean coast M. Lombard, privy councilor to the King of Prussia, offered to mefiiatejrith Russia in the war then waging between France and England. Thirty-eight thousand Irishman published « manifesto in London urging rebellion against British rule, and a provisional government for their Island, Lord Russell being immediately arrested for writing it SEVENTY-FIVE TEARS AOO. Csar Nicholas of Russia visited Ms army, which was then besieging Verna, in Bulgaria. Two-thirds of the students of Tale College threatened to “strike" because of the unpalatable food served to them. Henry Olay reached Lexington, Ky., from Washington, the trip having been made by easy stages because of his failing health. The brig Suffolk was started from New York with a cargo of clothes and provision* bought by public subscription for th* captive Greek*. FIFTY YEARS AGO. The corner atone of the pilgrim monument at Plymouth, Maw., was laid. Five hundred deaths from yellow fever were reported for the week at New Orleans.. Patrick O’Douohue, the Irish patriot, waa arretted In Boston for accepting a challenge to a duel. The anniversary of the liberation of ■laves in the British West Indies waa celebrated at Flushing, L. 1., William Lloyd Garrison and other noted men delivering addresses. Edward Everett, former Secretary of State, published statistic* showing that $120,000,000 bad been apent for alcoholic beverages in the United States within ten years, “for which” 800,000 lives were lost, 260,000 person* imprisoned, and 100,000 children sent to the poorhonae. FORTY YEARS AOO. The Kentucky Unionists elected Bramlette Governor by 2,380 votes. Two thousand men were drafted into the Union army at Philadelphia. Over 600 negroes were drafted into the Union army at Washington, D. O. The Chicago City Council voted to construct the first water work* tunnel under Lake Michigan. Mall service between New Orleans and Cairo, 111., was resumed after having been stopped two years by th* Civil War. An a irti-Southern association was formed at Manchester, England, to counteract the efforts of the Confederate commissioners. The Sheriff of Keokuk- County, lowa, appealed for troops to suppress 4,000 so-called “copperheads,” who had risen against the draft and had engaged in a fight with Ifeion sympathizers. THIRTY YEARS AOO. New York stock prices slumped because of a rumor that Commodore Vanderbilt was iIL Three deaths from cholera were reported at Carml, 111., and two at Lagrange, Ky. A movement in favor of Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, ws* started by Caban revolutionists. Wheat was advanced to |1.82 a bushel so the Chicago Board of Trad* by means of a corner attributed to J. B. Lyon. The French troops were welcomed back hy the residents of Nancy, the Germans having evacuated tbs city a few days previously.
TWENTY TEAKS AGO. Mount Vssuriu* was In eruption end tit# town of Torre del Greco threatened with destruction. Scores of negroes were whipped or shot to death near Maysrill*, Ga., by memben of th* kuklux. Th* Southern Cotton Exposition wae opened at Louisville, Ky., by President Chester A. Arthur. Thom a* A. Edison announced that he bed given up inventing and had toned business man to make his inventions pay. James Carey, .the Irish Informer, was shot to death by a member of th* Invincible* while on shipboard near Cap* Town. TEN YEARS AGO. The Chicago World’* Fair finiebed Its first half with a- total Indebtedness us $6,881,000. Seven hundred thousand spindles were stoppW at Fall River, Mas*., because Jr., .f OU. - elected-chatanan of She great fine silver a^htafttamogh
IRADE IN OLD CLOTHES.
pm> i ■» i m+m '• vy „. New York Stock Is SMtete* to All Fart* of the Country. Ob* might imagine that th* eld llothes trade would be about the last to be affected by a period of commercial prosperity, but It la. to a very remarkable degree. Ton ten looking for pen with old clothes to fell are abundant In all parts of the city, but they are particularly persistent In Broadway, anywhere from Forty-second street t 6 Trinity Church, says the New York Times. A man who made an appointment at hi* hotel with one of these touters produced a suit with a sack coat, a cutaway and. a Prince Albert coat, as It still continues to be called. The man handed the latter two garments back. "Don’t want them,” he Bald. "Why, they won’t even take them at the pawnshops. Two years ago w* gathered In all the cutaways and frock coats we could lay hands on. Now Wo won’t touch thorn.” Now York leads In the shipment es old clothes to all parti of th* country, just aa she leads in .the manufacture of new clothes. In Seventh and Eighth avenues, just below Thirty-eighth street, the center of the eid clothes industry, truck loads of them are sent away every day. In crowded little rooms In the side streets in that neighborhood hundreds es men are employed making 4hese discarded garments "look like new.’’ A suit es clothes hag to be very good Indeed this year to pass muster with the secondband dealer. In hard times be will take almost anything that hangs together, for the old clothes demand never ceases, and must be filled with something or other. But when times are good and clothes are cheap the old clothes man Is very much In the game. He Is keen as a hunter In scenting his prey. It la a very sharp man who can get the better of hlaf. He Is polite, even obsequious, If there Is a Chance of a trade; If not, ha Is likely to say unpleasant things. The men who solicit old clothes In the streets are usually paid on commission. The more they bring in the more they make—and they are very much on the make.
New Cook Every Day.
Nodd—lt’s so lonesome out In the country. I should think you would like to have some one spend the night with you. Todd—l do. I bring out a new cook almost every day.—Town Topics. Ask Yonr Dealer for Allen’s Foot Ease, A powder to shake into your shoes. It reata th* feet Gores Corns, Bunion*, Swollen, Sore, Hot Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allan’* Foot-Ease make* new or tight shoe* easy. Sold by all druggists and ■hoe store*, 26c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
Cheap Fireworks.
Church—What to the .effect of using kerosene on the mosquitoes 7 Fiatbnsh —Oh, I guess it makes lightning bugs of them. —Yonkers Statesman. Tbs name “negro-head” to applied to large roll* of tobacco, weighing 6 to 10 pound* each.
COMPELLED TO USE A CKUTCH FOE EIGHT MONTHS. DOAN’S KIDNEY FILLS CUBED MSS. F. CONLIN. CARBONDALE. FA
Mr*. P. Oonlln, 81 Greenfield Avenue, Garbondala, Pa 7 ■*7* • “ I suffered with backache, and, despite the Me of medicines, I could not r lid of It. Item compelled «N a crutch for eight msntts, end s part of the Um* was unable to walk at all. I fairly aeraamsd If I attempted to lift my feet through weakness, as I could neither bend nor straighten up to my full height, end If *v«r s woman waste a serious condition, I was. My husband went to Kelly's drug store and brought boms a box of Doan's rills. I felt ■osier tn * few days, and, eon tinning th* treatment, 1.
Every physician of large practice has had the experience of being called on to atten d women who imagined that they were in the last stages of some dire fl female malady, when upon examination the fact was revealed that obstructed ■ HfrJfcU physiology of the stomach or bowels was the whole cause of the trouble. The physician, however, who has not had experience may fall into the B aHH; tßßMßtierror of diagnosing grave diseases of the female system when they do not |V4|exist, because disorders of the bowels may be neglected until they give many n&/fn mvV of the appearances of female disease. The bowels have been known to become I wBHHI \\m so clogged with hardened contents as to produce a condition closely resembling I mttf II I \\\\ M uterine displacement, uterine prolapse (falling of the womb), and the sick UB fl I 111 headache which is often attributed to female diseases is most often actually Mgr X ” ill ■ due to some trouble in the digestive machinery involving the liver, stomach, F/ull \\ \\l JH bowels or the great “Solar Plexus,” which is the central telegraph station f/Ti HI from which nervous messages are transmitted to and from all the organs IU I I in the abdominal cavity. jjJl H Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin I WHM\U 1 Ua\oKl (A LAXATIVE) MaAdapl ittShH quickly corrects the congested conditions referred to above; headache, constipaRl tion, sallow complexions disappear and the glow of health is upon you. Dr. Caldwcll ’ s Syrup Pepsin has done more tq relieve suffering women than ■ any preparation ever sold in the same length of time it has been sold —about tcn y ears> Thousands of letters from all parts of the country testify to this. a I 9 B
Wild and Idving Merchandise.
It la an Immense business, this buying and selling of animals caught fresh from the jungle. In New York atone there are ten firms dealing In wild animals, to say nothing of the foreign dealers, th* Hagenbecks for instance, who send wild beasts hare. The demand exceeds the supply by a wide margin. Nearly all th* great cities In the jeountry possess public menageries *vvhlch constantly buy Wild animals; quixotic tndlvlduaMfefrcquently want cubs of one kind or another, ranging from tigers to H»ears; many wealthy Americans maintain private zoological parks of greater or less extent and the scores of large circus companies must bo constantly supplied because of the high death rate among their animals. The record of Imports of on* 4an!mal dealer for the past year la twenty elephant*, thirty-five camels, twenty tigers, five lion*, forty-five leopards, twenty pumas, eighteen panthers and any number of small animals and birds Cuba —tiger, lion, leopard and bear cubs —are In special demand by families. They are reared and petted like kittens, but they Invariably come back to the denies at a quarter of What they sold for, or even aa gifts. One eloquent letter which a dealer recently received from a woman who had purchased a lion cub a year ago read as fellows: “Please come and take Kitty away. She has eaten our Newfoundland dog.”—Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly.
A German authority has recently announced the discovery of a tree in the forests of Central India which has most curious characteristics. The leaves of the tree are of a highly sensitive nature, and so full of electricity that whoever touches one of them receives an electric shock. It has a very singular effect upon a magnetic needle, and will Influence It at a distance of even seventy feet The electrical strength of the tree varies according to the time of day. It being strongest at midday and weakest at midnight In wet weather its powers disappear altogether. Birds never approach the tree, nor have insects ever beat seen upon It
Beginning vdHg. 2, M., K. & T. train No. 8 will leaveKsneas City Union depot at 12:26 p. m., instead of 10:35 a. m. aa heretofore. This makes an elegant afterdinner train for Texas, giving passenger* from the North and West an opportunity to lay over in Kansas City for several hours, and then resume their Surney to points reached by th« “Katy” Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas.
He—Women are seldom capable of reasoning. She—Don’t you believe anything like that He —Why not? She —Well, er—because. Shooting to the moat popular method of suicide. Hr*. Wlnslow-s Soorams Sim far Children tasthlas; softens th# (usu, redness lslsaßUUs, siUjs psis. cans wind soils. MsaausbeMla.
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Birds Shun This Tree.
An After Dinner Train.
Her Reason.
was so— sbls to walk. At the sod of two wsake toe pabi* in my loins left, Whan X had completed th* treatment, I bed not aa sch* nor s pain, end I hare been la that condition erer since. Aching backs' Are eased. Hip, back, and loin pains OTSrcoms. Swelling of the ltnfbe sad dropsy signs They correct urine with brick duet sediment, high colored, pain tn passing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills remove oalcull and gravel. Relieve heart palpitation, aleeplessn see, headache, nervousness, disstneee.
U. S. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA' Recommends Pe-ru-na For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble
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