SSjgutar evidence was given at ColeheSter at an inquest on a man of indephdent means, named Banham.. He was so ranch excited over the General Election that; after voting for the Conservative candidate, he tried to n'ote for the Liberal candidate also. He-went home, threatened his wife, who left him, wrote a farewell letter to • his brother, pulled down blinds, shut up the house, and was found dead in bed, with an empty whisky bottlej an open raaor, a bottle of poison, and a looking glass near him, ; "What I ontinne to assert," writes Mrs Flora Attue Steel, tie novelist, in the ' Daily Graphic,'." is, that -taMng each genus as a unit, the genus hotoo is ; more , cruel to its kind than are tile others. Tats:' the! decalogue in detail. .; Marip&b&lup& manunon, .swears,' commits. im-, ; moralities, steals, cheats, envies, ahdgette- ; rally-lives in more unne%hborly>fsMk>n with his neighbors than do Other anmials. This is, perhaps,' hardly'a pkas&nfc-'initb, but; the recognition...of it i* not jnttJOut banefit to the souL."
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Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 4
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167Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 4
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