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Show CHILLED HIS PURPOSE Trip on Ice . Floe Ended a Boy's Effort to Drown Himself. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8. Three hours' cruise on an ice floe in the frigid waters of the Mississippi river drove all thought of suicide from the despondent mind of Rudolph Decker. 17 years old, and tired of life because he was earning no more Uian $4 a week as a printer's devil. Rudolph had jumped into the river ! with the intention of ending all of hid j imaginary troubles, but utter he had j lit en caught by a drift f Ice. which car- ri-d him back to the shore, lie changed j his mind and concluded that life on $4 a j week was preferable to drowning in ; lreezir? water. j Rudolph's Bisters, who were informed ! of his attempted suicide, thought It was ; a good joke and laughed heartily. ' The silly little thins." said one; "I wondf-r if he knew how cold the water Wiis!'' |