The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1902, Page 12

‘n * Munich. Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to @& VOLUME 48....... deccevcvsesseess NO. 15,086, IS SUICIDE WRONG? The attempted suicide of a well-to-do Hartford manu- facturer when informed that he had consumption re- opens anew the old discussion of a man’s right to make Only in England, which Montesquieu called “the classic land of suicide,” and in the United States, of all countries, is it against the law to make the attempt, but in England the coroner's jury usually finds the defendant Insane, and here the law is so much hon- ored in the breach that the contrary action of a Newark way with himself. jury last week was deemed sensational. The ancients commended self-destruction. plete a Christian gentleman as Addison. outlet from life's woes as cowards. clined he is to self-slaughter, of the precious fuel on his shoulder. gives up. of self-murder cases come. Phyiscal ailments, however, are not a large contrib- Of 2,800 cases of sul- cide in 1897, as analyzed by Robert Reeves, only 13 per cent. were caused by bodily disease—4 per cent. by cancer, 6 by other ailments and 1 from blindness and Forty-six per cent. were due to moral causes, murder, forgery, etc., and 17 to social troubles, uting cause of self-destruction. 2 from insomnia. Mke unhappy love affairs and domestic discord. A DREAM THAT KILLED. Probably the most singular dream of which there {8 record is that related in a World cable despatch from It was a dream resulting in death, and was 48 follows: A young married pair were sitting in a gamten in the light The wife withdrew and the husband, a man of @ highly nervous temperament. tired out with sight-seeing, He dreamed that he was taken before @ oourt Ho saw the whole process of execu- At that moment his wife returned and, placing her hand on his shoulder, awakened him, but he He died of hoart ‘of the moon. fell asleep. and sentenced to death tion In a most vivid way, only Hived long enough to tell his dream "paralysis. ' A dream almost exactly parallel to that except in the sfatal outcome {s related by Dr. Frederick Scholz, direc- He dreamed that he was living in Parls during the Reign of Terror and was He saw Robes- pierre there and Marat, made his plea, was condemned to death, carted to the place of execution, ascended the scaffold, felt the knife fall and was fully conscious thatj| He awoke in a cold Sweat to discover that a loosened rod from the bed had; Aor of the Bremon insano asylum. summoned before the awful tribunal. his head was off his shoulders! Idea of a guillotine. Scholz's nervous system was strong and came out of ‘the dream-ordeal unharmed, where the young married Usually the} Awakening comes just before the fatal moment, when the dreamer is on the edge of the precipice or about to, Tt has been con- -tended that if the dreamer rolled over the precipice the shock would kill him, and the Munich case lends proba- man’s was too weak to survive the shock. be shot by the highwayman’s revolver. bility to the view. Dreams are of two classes, those resulting from memo- ries and those arising from physical causes at the mo- Dr. Scholz's shows the lightning- like rapidity of the brain's action in this semi-conscious persistent He thinks that the most} ‘usual dream, the most nearly universal one is of ap- pearing in public places and in society with very little “spares neither | , Bge nor sex,” and he “has not the least doubt that Adam For years the writer of this Paragraph rarely had a dream that did not involve the ment of dreaming. condition. Mr. dream has been of burglars. Howells says that his most or nothing on. ‘This dream.” he say: and Eve had it in Eden," lose‘of his hat or his walking-stick: MENTAL CONTAGION. The insanity of Dr. Lucas C, Bassing interest because he wa lums for the ¢ of patients thus afflicted. Hospital for the Insane. the very similar c of Dr. the Illinois State Asylum for the Insane, also an alienist, and for many year: Kankakee asylum Dr. E tase and cffected what was supposed to be a cure. a relapse made his confinement necessar: It has been said that every man car aervous epidemic of the kind that Crusades, the fantastic religious frenzies of the y army of this. Plience,” an earlier generation and the Co ds the suggestible animal. par ex wrote his “One M Suicides in the Thames greatly increased. After fraphic stories of poisoned candy Gow there is an inference of br ma suspicious Brooklyn death, o-seltzer ptiy before him. He d vate adjustment of the mental mechanism d and insanity ensues. 8 doctor's min: h tion of his patient The most celebrated instance, that of Cato falling on his sword to avoid capture by Caesar, was approved by as com- ‘The popular opinion now seems to hold those who seek a premature It is noticeable that the higher the man is in the social scale the more in- The news columns that contained the suicide of the rich real-estate dealer on Ninety-sixth street told of a blind old grandfather led home by a little girl from a coal-yard with his basketful This kind of suf- ferer hangs on where ihe one {n better circumstances While suicide, as pointed out by Skelton, has increased with civilization, it js from those who have had most of its advantages that the larger proportion | ever.""—Washington Star. i} SOMEBODIES, { fallen across his neck and given his sleeping brain the| Adamson is of move than by profession an in= ity specialist and had held posts of responsibility in He was » {Ap charge of the Bellevue insane pavilion in 1895, and } . Was for five years an assistant at the Manhattan State é His mental breakdown recalls Enos. who died last year at os was in charge of the He detected the first signs of mental derangement as they appeared in himself, diagnosed his} but 8 within him the germ of a nervous epidemic, the meaning being a brought about the Middle Ages, such as the Dancing Mania, and in more recent times the hysteria of the Tennessee camp-meetings of “Man | After Hood | Unfortunate” the number of women | the | first publicity of the Molineux case we had many tele-! ent by mail, and evea geestion BES ‘ THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1902. THE ~————_ BVE NEN G ae {JOKES OF THE DAY It seems her lovesick ewain was ‘‘shy," And that, beyond a doubt. Was the especial reason why Her father “raised him out.’ Minnle—Bvidently Sallte thinks herself | ; one of the 400. Kittie—Ona of them? She thinks she’ ciphers.Boston Transcript. | «what goes up must go down,’ they : 3 my “I suppose you're referring to the ad- vanced price of whiskey.’" “How can I become a man of high station?” “Well, you might apply for the job of ‘L’' tloket chopper at West One Hun- dred and Sixteenth street.” Young Husband (to wife)—Didn't I telegraph you not to bring your mother with you? Young Wite—T know; that's what she wants to see you about. She read the 29D2DD999O90000: telegram!—St. Louls Mirror. 4 ® ald tho girl: “There's no rhyme for] 4 ‘chrysanthemum. g But the Quaker said: ‘Find one, now) > can't thee, tum? ° If thee finds thee can do tt 2 Theo never shall rue ft. o For my hand as a prize I will grant thee, Mum." “What do you mean by ‘embers of the dying year?’ asked the post's wife. “Why, Nov-ember and Dec-ember, of course, my dear,” replied the long-haired one with a flendish erin. —Chicago News. These people of mercurial tempera- ment usually spend money very fast."’ “Yes, with them It's a case of quick- silver.” “He's one man in @ million.” “L know. But I'd prefer one man with a million." “De Scribe ts a very original and inge- nious writer.” “Yes, Indeed. He even Ynakes his own Alalect.""—Indlanapolla News. “Why won't you let me kiss you on the lips?" “Because mamma said I was to scream If you kissed me; and If you kiss me on the Ups IT can't. “Do you think that Josh has been helped by education?” “Well,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “T must say that his handwritin’ has m- Proved, but his hay cuttin’ ts wuss.than re CURZON, LORD—will, it is sald, alt on King Solomon's throne during the forthcoming ceremonies in India. The throne, according to report, has been recently unearthed. It may or may not bear a Birmingham label. DUKE OF SUTHERLAND-who recent- ly died, is sald to have made ninety-| $ two wills, This ts belleved to be the record for wilfulness, >< DOLBEAR, PROF. A. E.—who has been an instructor at Tufts College for thir-| 4 ty years, was born In the same house which w: the birthplace of Benedict Arnold, HULETT, N. P.—of Vermont, has just showed his friendship for Edward VII. by ahipping that monarch a four- pound potato raised on Hulett's own farm, IBSEN, HEBNRYK—has just had some of his plays translated into Japanese. SCHE ALARD-«n attache of the ¢ nan Embassy at Washington, is sald to owe his appointment to the fact that he bears an extraordinary resem- blance to Roosev HIBBARD, POSTMASTER—of Boston. says twice as much political literature went through his oMce last campaign than at any other, RE SENTATIVE—of Ken- y, Who was d pated for re- tlon, lost the bat it Is said, partly from his habit of snoring during Con- gressional sessions. Which shows that ressmen should learn to sleep ——- KAISER AS SPECULATOR, Not only we ordinary mortals® but even princes are glad to Invest thelr money Jn speculations of various kinds in the hope of collecting large returns Kaiser William has invested about $3,000,000 of his private Income In Amer! can stocks of various kinds. For this he recelves about $150,000 In dividends The Empress also has interests in Union and Southern Pacifics, Missouri Central. &e, to the extent of $500,000, Indeed, there are few of the imperial family y have not a larger or amaller eum HER STAND, HE Do maiden tell when she Is loved, she know by the Hght in his by the sound of his volce, Or his look when he wistfully ‘A eustodian of the insane is subject to a greater dan-| ger of mental contagion because the diseased subject is Ss and examines delu- ns and studjes thelr multifarious phases until the thin jons that divide wit from madnese begin to break. | rot, Newbold says that “the thought of any given | ly change tends to the actual production in the body @ change which that thought represents" And Dr.{ ma, in a hypnotic experiment in 1885 caused. five inches long by three inches wide jotic patient as the result of his sug- ‘it would come there, With suggestion ac- sighs? SHE. he tell? Ob, 1 think that she he lingers In doubt and tn But she can't tell her love to the 4 man, $ For tha: wo be proper, you] 2 know, HE Does a maiden love him who is bold, Or {fs she inclined to prefer ‘The lover who gazes in awe, Beholding an angel in her? SHE. she like to be swayed,. or stormed on the hold Does soothingly lover's is easy to fancy what. auto-sugges- id in a receptive plan? I think {t depends on the maid, POOSOHTDEGTODG BAMBOO’S GROWTH. The bamboo holds the record among plants for quick growth, known to grow two feet in twenty-four hours. '€VOOMEN WANT CARS OF GHEIROWN: Artist Powers Shows What Would Happen if They Had ’Em. Mrs, T. St. John Gaffney, who has been moting the movement for reformed street cars in which 5 at and perhaps the conductors will p: © blocks, has, with the assistance of her sister reformers, organized a Women’s Car Passengers’ Rights Asso- © the four, and all the rest are the two & clation, which is now under good headway. At the meeting of the association, held at Mrs, William Tibbits 2 Salter’s residence on Monday, Mrs. Richard Henry Savage, who has been elected the President of the or- ganization, declared herself In favor of cars for women only. take notice of this declaration and order forthwith a fresh stock of weichsel & Our artist shows what the dear sex will do with them, everybody will have a traffic magn wood parlor cars. can walk or hire a cab, will plea ADAMLESS Is Tws @ROAD WAY CAR SEAT TAKEN IF HOOP SKIRTS SoVLD COME vEN METRO PALITAN TRACTION CO, FASHION Aner Sones ATéee HE, Wwited sie ef _ GETS OFF at eTowe SHS 04000990008 $OOO9ES6-0O9O DOGOOE D around cake and ice cream every six Messrs. Vri land, Gre And man, poor man? Oh, he Le SS2 Se ——————__ UNDER THE ROSE. fee sore is the emblem of secrecy in reece and was formerly hung over the And Ikewlss eomewhat on the 9] table where guents were entertained, {n man, —~bicago Record-Hérald. }| token that nothing heard there wa» to. mA\| vo repeated. ‘ Cia Tt has dee NIGHT AND THE HEART. The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; With the dying sun, Yet the light of the bright world dies ‘ The mind has a thousand eyes, SWEET BRIAR. Because sweet briar became too abun- dant in Tasmania goats were Introduced to head them off, as it were, by eating them, but the driar came out ahead by killing the goat \ 08946636068 singer and other $ THE CRANBERRY FLOWER. } June ts the blossom of thet time-hon- ored concomita: cranberry, Whi knows the berry, few are acquainted with the flower, for the peat bogs where it blows in the choice fellowship of the stately pitcher plant and the golden club and of many a rare orohid, are quite remote from the be: er, somewhat trailing shrub, with the neatest of evergreen leaves, from amid which a few threadlike stalks lift their nodding flowers. When fully expanded the pink lobes of each corolla are curled back Mke a tily’s, and from t! In ‘the shape of a spearpoimt or ‘The imaginative may aes in this long- a Uny crane's head, whence some her- Dressed etymologist has thought to de- rive the word cranberry—that Is. orane- fn the University of Michigan, has a vast fund of good stories and tells them to perfection, One is of the time when United States Senator Quarles, of Wis- consin, Quarles went to his class in chemistry without haying studied ais lesson, ‘The chemistry professor asked the students to recite In the order in which weated, and Quarles hid behind a youth of massive frame, Chronicle, But the professor knew he was there, and when it came to his turn| », tone: 66M ieee is getting better every dey,” remarked the cigar store man “Who gave you the hunch?” asked The Man Higher Up. “Has somebody stepped in nd paid you a mouldy bill?” ertainly not,” protested the cigar store man. “I was just thinking of those twelve young fellows down in Washington who are dosing themselves with poisoned food under the anpervision of the Agricultural Depart- ment to find out how poisoned victuals af- fect people who eat them. They must be brave, self-sacrificing boys.” “Oh, I don’t know,” sald The Man Higher Up. ‘You-ve got another draw, The Agri- cultural Department didn't have to make any experiments. Prof. Wiley didn’t have to call for volunteers to absorb poison, I'll make good to show Prof. Wiley that about 2,496,327 ot the 3,000,000 more or less inhabitants of New York stow away more poison in their food every day than would ‘be necessary to blow all the safes in the Wall street district. And a whole lot of them are getting fat on it. “Down there in Washington these young fellows are going to be fed according to the rules of science, Their poison will be meas- ured out to them from instruments so deli- cate that if a wine agent were to blow his breath on them they would shrivel up and go out of business. Up here in New York we get our poison with shovels. “If you could get one of the chefs of a cheap restaurant to unbelt and steer you right about what they do with the food before they pass it out to the alleged human beings who pay for it, and then ff you could get one of the chemists that gets the food ready to tell you what they do with it before the chefs exercise’ their drugs, you'd never again eat anything but hay grown by yourself In a sterilized pasture. “Talk about the mysteries of the occult art! The mysteries of the restaurant and hotel kitchens and the wholesale and retail food emporlums make them look like {Illuminated billboards. Sometimes I think that polson is the arms and legs to the body with the help of Crook the matches as much as possible and place the figures on thelr backs in a The figures will come to life immediately and move dish containing a little water, arms and legs. One of the dalntiest of wild flowers of re nish all of roast turkey, the however, everybody nerthern Ing. Thi art of them the compressed stamens protrude beak. rnufting beaked little blossom @ resemblance to was not berry THE PROFESSOR’S JOKE. Jerome C. Knowlton, professor of law IX., also Catherin Reine.” England was a etudent. One morning the Chicago accorded ntleman called out in a shrill ‘Quarles, your ears are too long to hide there." 4 —————_—- DON'T WAIT FOR US. A German mechanical genius ha the old of sentri the long the grout The Man Higher Up. HE DISCOURSES ON PROF. WILEY’S FOOD TEST. Cut the bodies and the parts that should move out of stiff cardboard. Fasten FOOD ELEMENTS. Cereals with eggs or vegetable ofl fur- sustain a man in health, no matter how laborious his occupation. THE STORY OF TOBACCO, Tebacco was first used in Burope as a kind of rude ante septic and preventer of infection, and both In the West Indies, Francisoan friar named Ramon Pane, who accompanied Cos lumnbus on his second voyage to the West Indies in Li Hae Was sent aghore at Cuba in charge of an exploring expedia tlon, and reported on his return that he had found the nativa~ hollow cane. He introduced the practice into Burope, but if Jean Nicot, who had been British Ambassador at began tobacco growing in France in that year, and this circumstance the herb got its name nicotine, Snuff want | first used as a relief from catarrh and stoppages of the passages, and the first personage to make the use of tt Tar was the famous Catherine de Medici, and her son, Chat Many and strange are the ways by which prisoners have attempted to eacape from prison, says the Detroit Tribusiay A convict inthe Bench City prison, in California, had a) fifteen-year term to serve, but behaved so well that he waa to work in the garden. But even there the watchful curred to him t might succeed. in escaping. : With this ddea he prooured @ piece of sacking, spread it om good for the human system if taken tal d’hote or a la carte, “Did you ever sit down to a steak, put away where you think it belongs and get from the table with your mouth feoling i! the entrance to the eye of a needle? I hav and I don’t make a practice of feeding im Joints where they serve remnants. Did you! know that they have invented an embalming, fluld for chickens? That they have got stufth they inject into eggs that is guaranteed make them appear youthful to the sighty the lifetime of the average man? Th pack stuff away with the dope on It prices are low and dig it out when pric high, and we have got so used to eatin, that we couldn't recognize the real thing got into our systems by mistake. “When people first come to New York f, the country where they have food that is kiln-dried and varnished they find that thi can taste alumn, or borax, or formaldeby: or similar health-giving products on eve! thing they eat. This impression sticks unti® they get so they boast that they have never, been in Central Park—which is the sign of @ real New Yorker. Then they begin to feel that Mr, Dooley was right when he sald it is better to live in the city, where all the good things come to, than in the country, where all the good things come from. “That's the reason they live so long on the fodder they get. They begin to think that the stuff they used to eat at home was good food for the people who would stand to be skinned, but that the real stuff is here, As for the natives—well/ they tell me that it you start a kid with carbolic acid in his milk you can Increase the dose until he can drink it like whiskey when he gets to be a man. 3 pass that up myself, but I’ve heard funniag- things from doctors.” “Don't you think there's any pure foog’ served in New York?” asked the cigar s man. - “Of course there is," replied The Mamq Higher Up. “But most of the people S| get it send it back to the cook. It's spicy enough for their educated taste.” \ Can you take @ penny from undeg a candlestick with, out lifting the candlestiok? Knock three timeg on the table ang then declare the coin has disap. peared. ‘The othea party will lift the candlestick land you take up the penny. Dent matches and sealing-wax, the food elements necessary to 3 Amerios and Africa, the Inhaling uf the dricd an@ pondered tobacco teat was prarised long before the hee was known in Burope. The same ts probably true of smole © use of tobacco was introduced into Hurope by a this powdered herb, which they did through @ shord until 1660 that the plant was cultivated in used it as # relief from chronic headache. The grea@ o's patronage caused snuff to be called ‘Herbe @ It became enormously popular as a preventive after the great plague of 1660, AN ORIGINAL ESCAPE, more Uberty than some of the prisoners, and les seemed to preclude all chance of escape. It re t If he could only color himself to grass of a hay field which bordered the grounds te nd, covered it with a suspicion of earth and oats on it, Well watered daily, it was soon covered thick green Ayesha ‘Then Flaherty ting.