Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — Digs Own Grave; Kills Self. [ARTICLE]

Digs Own Grave; Kills Self.

Salem, Ind., June 29. —Joseph B. Hamilton, a farmer, committed suicide, seating himself on a stump and firing a shotgun with his toe. He had dug his own grave in the family burying grounds. It is a wise man who thoroughly understands that seeing is very often deceiving. Most people have a certain amount of Intelligence, but tbe skill some of them hare in keeping it concealed amounts almost to genius. The strong repugnance that some people have to money never seises them until money Is in their possession. Some men are lucky because they are married and some because they aren’t. It all depends, you see. Doing as one pleases is only fascinating and absorbing as long as somebody else objects to it