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Show i. i. ; : 3 ....:, "I... . . ' m . ; ' insanity and suicide anions the privates, but it n said the oflicers never drink the stuff. On the otL -hand, til 3 oCcers are more ejected by their nev; environments than are the privates and suffer mcr a for the 'want of the comforts and companionship they have been accustomed to." Loneliness is sa'l to have contributed largely to the mental weakne: j that drove several of the yotirer cheers to suicide. To the list cf suicides niht be adled Capt. JIc-Quiston, JIc-Quiston, who, in 1031, opened fire ca the privates in barracks while demented. After he tad kilki ono man and injured several the soldiers shot hint dead in self-defense. The known record of suicides in the Philippines is a most startling one. It proves that the soldier's life is not spent 6n a bed of roses. Boon the army offlcer will view an order for Philippine Philip-pine service with the same horror with which he receives the pews of an assignment to Guam or any other pest hoi In the far "East: J . ' , Amy Sulcxds in Philippines. Lieut.-Col. Henry W. Sprole, who shot himself through the head at-Manila on Monday while temporarily tem-porarily insane, is the tenth army officer who has committed suicide in the Philippines. Six others beside these ten are entered on the records as having, hav-ing, met death by drowning. In several cases the drowning is believed to have been intentional, but the proof was not clear enough to put them in the suicide class. Fifty-eight privates in the regular reg-ular army and fifteen volunteers killed themselves up to July 4, 1902, when the last report was filed, making a total suicide list of eighty-three. In nearly every instance the suicide was directly due to temporary insanity, which .was generally the result re-sult of exposure, poor food, and water, and disease caused by. sleeping on the ground In a tropical country. The constant heat, day and night, has also proven very trying on the nerves. - The vile |