A Would-be Suicide

It is not always the peaeetful man who is the oue that is the easiet to rub up against. The most peaceful r.'.au in the worhl. the one wlio is uever seeklng physlcal eneounters, is the elergyman and yet among its numbl' there is often counted men who kr.ow well how to take care of theniselves when neeessity requires. Saturday night 'some iellow came down towa and got pretty iull of booze. When closing up time came for the saloons he was given a raiu check for ilonday morning's opening anl the game was called off. The fellow evidently staxted home. It was a hot night and the spirits fru-menti evapora tod rapidly. The more the liquor went down in this process the more remorse crept up until finally bis angulsh got as many degrees up above the "life-not-worth-living-point" as the mercury did this past week above the freezing water station. Whether he was a good Catholic and wanted to make a confession before he divorced himseK from his spirit, or whether he wüiited to excite sotne sympathy in his grand stand play is not known, 'but at any rate he aroused Pr. Kennedy, who was asleep at his home with the announcement that he was goiug to eommit suicide. The fellow seexned so desirous of ofotaining an ■appreeiative audience that His Reveranee eame down stairs as if making a grand rush for a reserved seat. Fr. Kennedy saw immedlately that the would-be suicide carried his own scenery, for he was armed with a revolver and a knife. The goodly priest tried to dissuade the man from his purpose by reasoning, fout he might just as well have tried to convince the printing comrnittee of the comrnon council that there were other papers besides the tëentinel and Ypsilantian. Then His Reverenance started in to make sure that if the fellow accomplished his object that night he Mould not do it with anything he had on his person at the time of the interview and proceeded to divest him of all impliments of war. The fellow resisted. He had evidently never seen the priest at the bat on the ball field and witnessed one of his famous drives over mto the Driving Club track or he never wotrld have put up a defense. After a short tussle the Catholic priest secured possession of the dangerous win pons and about all the man who was h.ors de conrbat (and who will hereafter have all sorts of horrors of eoip.bat with Fr. Kennedy) could say was 'Tather Kennedy, if I ever hit vru. you will never wake up." Evidently the fellow never hit him for Fr. Kennedy related the incident to The Times today in a manner that wculd preelude any idea of his being n a trance. Fr. Kennedy went Lo the telephone as soon as the man was Usarmefl and called for the pólice, ambulance wagon or hook and ladder come and get the fellow home. The asergemt heard the ominous words and taking a flying start pedaled iwiy unpaced to break1 the record for ge.üing home.