Must Die At Thirty Years

Must Die At Thirty Years.

Victims of New Russian Suicide Cult Are Walled Up Alive.

The discovery of the existence of another suicide cult in Russia just made by the police of Kiev has revealed a shocking state of affairs. The police has suspected an anarchist meeting in a certain out of the way locality and determined to raid the old farmhouse where the supposed conspirators were assembled.

On breaking into the cellar they found no a band of furtive "reds" printing secret manifestoes or filling bombs, but a gathering of wild eyed men and women chanting a strange invocation to some weird deity of the nether world.

From one of the men who were arrested on suspicion it was learned that the sect had been formed during the last ten years and that it already claimed scores of devotees in that immediate neighborhood and had many more in various rural sections of the empire.

The cardinal tenet of their strange creed was that a person owed it as a duty to society to take his own life after reaching the age of thirty years. By a curious perversion of certain theories of political economy they have reached the conclusion that any human being living past that age does so at the expense of his fellow men.

It was accordingly agreed that every member of the organization should take a solemn pledge binding himself or herself to commit suicide in due form at the allotted time.

The method of suicide is the same as that adopted by the sect of fanatics in northern Russia. The victim is conducted to a cult and there, in the presence fo witnesses, consents to be walled up alive and left to die of hunger and suffocation.

Many cases of this shocking self immolation had occurred among the branch of the sect discovered the other day. Some of those who had assisted in laying up the stones and cementing the wall that shut in their fellows told of the proceedings without a trace of compunction or horror at the act.