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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5235, 25 August 1891, Page 4

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NOBODY WANTS THAT GOLD KING. Fo* neatly 100 years a certain family of working people living in Paris have ended their lives by enicide. From father to son, fiom mother to daughter, has descended a plain gold ring, and on the finger of every one of theee euicides, as they lay in death, this ring has been found. Only last year the body of a young man who had killed himself was brought to the Morgue, and on his finger was the fatal golden circlet. He was the last of his race. The ring was buried with the corpse, from which no one acquainted with ita history will have the courage to remove it. The mental taint in this family came from some remote ancestor, and was intensified by their recognition ot it until it became a controlling force; and the ring was accepted as imposing upon its possessor the obligation to commit suicide, after the example of the person who last wore it. This form of mania usually originates in a disorder of the nervous Bjstem, which in its turn arises from anaemia, or poverty of the blood, one of the results of imperfect nutrition. A recent letter from a gentleman Hying in Norfolk contains the following assertion: "J longed for death; I was afraid of the night; I was afaaid to be alone, yet I hated society. I was a/raxd that in some one of those hours of deep gloom and depression, I should lift my hand against my own life, for I knew that many had done so from the same cause. ,. The dark hours became a time of terror to him, bo he says. He tossed and tumbled on his bed, wondering if morning would ever dawn again. In this case it was not an accusing conscience, as he had committed no offence; the cause purely a physical all too common in England—indigestion and dyspepsia, with the long ■ chain of circumstances dragging after it, nervous collapse among them. He relates that his skin and eyes had been more or less discolored for years, often of a ghastly and repulsive yellow. This was due to the presence of bile in the blood and tissues, where it had no business to be. But as the weak and torpid liver could not remove it, no other result was possible than the one our friend experienced. His heac. frequently ached as though fiends had turned it into a workshop, and pains chased one another through his body as though he had at leaat half the maladies catalogued in the popular bookn on disease. "Set one thins , , and one only, was responsible for ail thu mischief, namely the poison infrodui,rid into th« blood from the decaying food in the stomach and intestines. The cold feet, the loss of appetite and ambition, the mental despondency, the sense of wearinepg and fatigue, the bad taste in the mouth, dry cough, giddiness, palpitation, chills, weakness, &c,, are a brood of foul birds hatched in one nest, and the mother is always indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed somehow, as it always does, Trhethei: "Wβ laugh ok pry, a.nd. this man»