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Show tragic death of a rejected re-jected SUITOR. Abjut the worst use, as a rule, that you can put a man to is to kill him, and a man, as a general tiling, is a great lool to kill himself; but it ii certainly cer-tainly tho acme of folly for a youug man lu shoot himself simply because a young woman rejects his tuit. Ia fact, ii is pretty good evidence that he does a wise action by so rejecting him. The latest victim for this cause lived in Missouri, as the reader will learn by roading the following from the Sedalia Bazoo: Sunday evening Chester Steele, a young man twenty-five years of age committed Buicide by shooting h'.m-self h'.m-self with a revolver through the head, eight milert trom Dover, in Lifayettu county. Tbe rash deed was the result , of an interview with a young lady U i whom he had been paying his ad . dresses, and who had thut evumnj Dually rejected his suit. Tne panic ulars as the reporter learned then from Conductor Jim Flemmintr, ar i in substance, as ToIIowb: Younj i Steele had visited the lady by appoint ; mont and urged his Buit with all tht impetuosity ot which he was capable For bo aid unexplained reason, how ever, his addresses did not meet witt success. Turning away, he walked doffn the path which led to the gate, and then turning around, so as to be in full sight of his too obdurate mis trees, deliberately placed the muzzle of the pistol to his temple, and fireJ the fatal shot. The ball penetrated the brain and death ensued almost instantly. The scene of terror and dismay which the rash deed excited, however, can be conjectured. Perhaps Per-haps the young lady contemplated no such fatal result to her unkindness, and perhaps she didn't care a great deal about it, anyway. These, however, how-ever, are possibilities which sentimental senti-mental young ladies and gentlemen will consider when reading the melancholy melan-choly account of the young lover's rash taking ofl. |