Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Why They Do It. [ARTICLE]

Why They Do It.

People have been led to commit suicide by various causes. Many a young man has killed himself in despair because a girl has jilted him. Not long ago a Texas man put a bullet through his brain because he thought he had killed his mother-in-law; he did not propose tobehungi for that offense. In the same state a grown-up girl shot herself because her mother whipped her; and a boy of thirteen killed himself because "his cruel parents refused to allow him to <narry the girl he loved. A North Carolina young lady drowned herself because her father failed of an election to the legislature; a twenty-year-old youth of "the same state shot "hintself because his fattier would not al-| low him-to lie abed in the morning; and a woman took a fatal dose of Paris green because her neighbors gossiped about her.