PAPER CONTAINING ARAM'S REASONS FOR ATTEMPTING SUICIDE, FOUND ON THE TABLE IN HIS CELL. "What am I better than my fathers? To die is natural and necessary. Perfectly sensible of this, I fear no more to die than I did to be born. But the manner of it is something which should, in my opinion, be decent and manly. I think I have regarded both these points. Certainly nobody has a better right to dispose of a man's life than himself; and he, not others, should determine how. As for any indignities offered to my body, or silly reflections on my faith and morals, they are (as they always were) things indifferent to me. I think, though contrary to the common way of thinking, I wrong no man by this, and hope it is not offensive to that Eternal Being that formed me and the world; and as by this I injure no man, no man can be reasonably offended. I solicitously recommend myself to the Eternal and Almighty Being, the God of Nature, if I have done amiss. But perhaps I have not; and I hope this thing will never be imputed to me. Though I am now stained by malevolence, and suffer by prejudice, I hope to rise fair and unblemished. My life was not polluted, my morals irreproachable, and my opinions orthodox. "I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then writ these lines: "Come pleasing rest, eternal slumber fall, Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all; Calm and compos'd my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches: Adieu! thou sun, all bright like her arise; Adieu! fair friends, and all that's good and wise." ARCHIBALD (eighth Earl of Argyle), 1598-1661. "_I die not only a Protestant, but with a heart-hatred of popery, prelacy, and all superstition whatsoever._" Spoken upon the scaffold. ARIOSTO (Lodovico, Italian poet), 1479-1533. "_This is not my home._" ARMISTEAD (Lewis Addison, brigadier-general in the Confederate army), 1817-1863. "_Give them the cold steel, boys._" Armistead put his hand on the cannon, waved his sword and called out, "Give them the cold steel, boys," then, pierced by bullets, he fell dead along side Cushing. Both lay near the clumps of trees about thirty yards inside the wall, their corpses marking the farthest point to which Picketts' advance penetrated, where the "High Water Mark Monument" at Gettysburg, now marks the top of the flood tide of the rebellion, for afterwards there was a steady ebb. _Baedeker's Handbook of the United States._ ARNOLD (Thomas, of Rugby, English historian and teacher. In August, 1841, he was appointed regius professor of modern history at Oxford. He is the author of five volumes of sermons, "Introductory Lectures on Modern History," and "The History of Rome"), 1795-1842. "_Ah! Very well_," to his physician who told him of the serious nature of his complaint, and described to him the remedies to be used.