Tendency To Self Destruction

The slight valué that liiimun bcing place upon their Uves of late, is truly as tmMiing. k one daily paper rcceivei during the weck, sereral suicides and at tempted suicides were chroniclcd. One ynung man at Caro, witliin our own state killed himself, it is stated, because he hai been wooing two young ladies, and th one he loved the lc8t rafnsed to release hlm from liis engagement so tliat lic mlgh tnarrv the other. Another case referred to was that of a youiig wife in New Jersey, who destroyei her lifc by shooting heiself through the head, sirnply hBfMffl her husbund ordereti the covered canïage instead of the phaeton made ready for a drive, liis renson therefor being tkftt a storm was tliroutening. A young lady declined to go boat ruling at RocWaway Hcnch, with a ymmp mmi, giving as a reason, the illness of her notber, who could not be left alone. The young man iipon being refuscd the requem innmiii ij oi. roion ml died. It was but a few days sinoe that two young girls. living at Hattle Creek, btini; deceived in the professions of their lovers, each took a large dosc of morphine. One of the girls dicd. The other, whose life was saved, pleaded piteously to be allowe: to die, said she had no desire to live, and expressed a determination soon to tocompllsh her terrible purpose of self-destruction. "J'here have been other cases told about in the public prints within the past Ca days. Those referred to above are selected more especially bMUW of the light und trivial reasons given for solf-dostruction. l ntil quite reoentl; it was thought that the agonies which a human beiiif; must endure to bring the mind to ¦ state whcre death seemed preferable U life, wen1 terrible in the extreme-so exemciating and keen that tongue could not teil, or jien describe them. It was considered a fearful crime to take one's own life, and only resorted to in the most distressing slruils and pcrils of lifc, and Uien only by the old, or ut leeast middle aged. But DOW, a child even. lias been kuown to hang himself for no otlter reason than beiug reproved by liis parents. Why this deplorable chnnge in the feelings and son timen ts of the peoplc? Is it a disease, catised phvsicnl practrmtton or dlsabllity; u mania which willragefora time, and then decline; a sort of malaria bred in the air as is ¦ certain class of disease; oris it the resultof the socalled "liberality" in our religious beliet, which does away with the terrors of the grave to a greatextent? Or, is it merely the natural resultof our rapidly increashi'i population ? After all, it doesn't take u bnive person to commit suicide. It is a en ardly deed. The brave man is the one who stands op in the bnttle of life and tiglits to the end. The one who allows his fears to overbalitnce hi reason and end all by severing the vital cord, is in reality destitute ol courage. The lovers who think life unen durable, would do well to romemner trntu i rsum Man h said to John Halifax: 'A tme man should live nobly for the woimin he loves; it is only a coward wlio dies for her." The man oppressed with ill luck, who meets reverses on every side, should be roused to grwUr exertkui thereby, remembeiinp that in the heated furnace is the gold relined. The future may be brilliant yet, after the dark cloudsshall have pa'ssed. Bat our questions and speculations as to the causes of the light valué placed upon this existence, remain iinanswered and unsolved. We hope t is but a mania, and that in a short time it will decline, as does the raging of a storm, wlien it hasspentits fury.