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Show The Sad Side of Life. Becanse he was too poor to buy luxuries for his old, sick wife, Jacob Ja-cob Wissman of Philadelphia, killed himself. Prank B. Walker of Wichita, J Kansas, despondent over business failures, shot himself to death, leav--' """ " ing a wife and two children to bat tle with poverty alone. Mrs. Barbara Ketchem, a widow 70 years old, was discovered by the police dead in her room on Bolton street, South Boston. There was no furniture in the room, no fuel and no food of any kind. The Brown family of New York mother and two little boys is happier to-day. The mother is dead. No longer racked with pain; no longer forced to work like a slave to get enough bread to keep the '-' ' children from waking her at night and crying with hunger. The children chil-dren are happy in an orphan asylum. |