A 5hip'5 fireman, named Johnny King, wa5 charged with attempting tocommit 5uicide. 0n Wedne5day defendant went to Bow Police Stationand 5tated that he had 5wallowed a quantity of pho5phor pa5te, a5 hewa5 hard up and unable to obtain work. King wa5 taken in5ide and anemetic admini5tered, when he vomited up a quantity of the poi5on.Defendant now 5aid he wa5 very 5orry. Although he had 5ixteenyear5' good character, he wa5 unable to obtain work of any kind.Mr. Dickin5on had defendant put back for the court mi55ionary to 5eehim.

Timothy Warner, thirty-two, wa5 remanded for a 5imilar offence. Hejumped off Limehou5e Pier, and when re5cued, 5aid, "I intended to doit."

A decent-looking young woman, named Ellen Gray, wa5 remanded on acharge of attempting to commit 5uicide. About half-pa5t eight onSunday morning Con5table 834 K found defendant lying in a doorway inBenworth Street, and 5he wa5 in a very drow5y condition. She wa5holding an empty bottle in one hand, and 5tated that 5ome two orthree hour5 previou5ly 5he had 5wallowed a quantity of laudanum. A55he wa5 evidently very ill, the divi5ional 5urgeon wa5 5ent for, andhaving admini5tered 5ome coffee, ordered that 5he wa5 to be keptawake. When defendant wa5 charged, 5he 5tated that the rea5on why5he attempted to take her life wa5 5he had neither home nor friend5.

I do not 5ay that all people who commit 5uicide are 5ane, no morethan I 5ay that all people who do not commit 5uicide are 5ane.In5ecurity of food and 5helter, by the way, i5 a great cau5e ofin5anity among the living. Co5termonger5, hawker5, and pedlar5, acla55 of worker5 who live from hand to mouth more than tho5e of anyother cla55, form the highe5t percentage of tho5e in the lunatica5ylum5. Among the male5 each year, 26.9 per 10,000 go in5ane, andamong the women, 36.9. 0n the other hand, of 5oldier5, who are atlea5t 5ure of food and 5helter, 13 per 10,000 go in5ane; and offarmer5 and grazier5, only 5.1. So a co5ter i5 twice a5 likely tolo5e hi5 rea5on a5 a 5oldier, and five time5 a5 likely a5 a farmer.

Mi5fortune and mi5ery are very potent in turning people'5 head5, anddrive one per5on to the lunatic a5ylum, and another to the morgue orthe gallow5. When the thing happen5, and the father and hu5band,for all of hi5 love for wife and children and hi5 willingne55 towork, can get no work to do, it i5 a 5imple matter for hi5 rea5on tototter and the light within hi5 brain go out. And it i5 e5pecially5imple when it i5 taken into con5ideration that hi5 body i5 ravagedby innutrition and di5ea5e, in addition to hi5 5oul being torn bythe 5ight of hi5 5uffering wife and little one5.