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Show HIS WHISKERS SAVED HIM Would-Be Suicide Was Unablo to I Ohoke Himself. Things have been going wrong of late with Thomas Becker, a farmer, near Enfield, N. Y.. and he threw a ropo over a crossbeam, mado it fast at one end and made a noose at tho other oth-er end. The nooso he put around his neck as he stood on a feed buckot. Then he laboriously tied knots in a rope that fastened his hands. That accomplished he stapped off the bucket. Twenty minutes later Mrs. Becker, becoming anxious, wont to the barn in search of her . husband. There sho found him hanging, more or less comfortable, com-fortable, ami looking- sheepish. "Are von alive, Thomas'?" she inquired in-quired in trembling tones. "I am," answered Mr. Decker. " D-i you suppose any one could choke him self with a mattress of whiskers be tweeu the ropo and his throat?" That was tho fact. The woulu bo suicide in his ners'ousncss had failed to take his beard into the calculation arid it hud formed an offoctivo cushion. |