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Evening Star, Issue 8609, 1 September 1891, Page 1

FXfUhlO JK9XIGSB. NOBODY WANTS THAT GOLD RING. nearly 100 yearß a certain family of 7 working people living In Paris have ended their lives by snioide. From father to son, from mother to daughter, has descended a plain g"ld ring, and on the finger of every one of these suicides, as they lay in death, this ring haa been found, Only last year the body of a youcg man who hid killed himeelf was brought, to the Morgue, and on his finger was the fatal golden circlet. He was the last of his race. The ring waa 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 Bcmo remote anoestor, and was intensified by their recognition of it until it became a controlling force; and the ring was accepted as imposing upon it i 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 system, which in its turn arises from anterala or poveity of the blood, one of the results of imperfect nutrition, A recent letter from a gentleman living in Norfolk contains tho following assertion : " I longed for death; I was afraid of the night; I was afraid to be alone, yet I hated society. I was afraid that in some one of those hours of deep gloom and depression I 6hou'd lift my hand against my own life, for I know that many had done so from the same cause." Tho dark hour s became a time of terror to him, so ho say. He tested and tumbled on his bed, wondering if morning would ever dawn again. In this case it waß not an aoousing oonsoienoe, as bo had committed no offence; the cause was purely a physical one- yet, all too common in England —indigestion and dyspepsia, with the long chain of consequences dragging after it, nervous collapse among them. He relates that hi? skin and eyes had been more or less diaoolored for yeais, often of a ghastly and repulsive yollow. 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 I result wbb p'.sfiible than the one our friend fxperienced. His head frequently ached as though fiends had turned it into a woiksuop; and pains chased one another through his body as though he had at least half the maladies catalogued in the popular books on disease. Yet one thing, and one only, waß responsible for all the miscnief—namely, the poteon introduced into tho blood from the decaying food in tha Rtomich and intestines. The cold feet, the loss of appetite and ambition, the mental deßpoudency, the senee of weariness and fatigue, the bad taste in the mouth, dry oough, giddinees, palpitation, chllle, weakness, etc., are a brood of fonl birds hatched in one neat, and the mother is always indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed Bomehow, aa it always does, whether we laugh or cry, and this man grew heartily tired of a life thus burdened and spoiled. He longed to see the end of it, and no wonder. But the last page of his letter is pitched in a higher key, He saya: " When I think of what I was, and what I am now, I can haid'y realise the change. For the past six months I have been using a preparation known as Mother Selgel's Curative Syrup, and it has actually revolutionised my whole system. One of my tenants recommended it to me, and I tried it just to please him. 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