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Evening Star, Issue 8611, 3 September 1891, Page 1

PXFBLSO HOfiOSS. NOB3DY WANTS THAT GOLD BING. BIOR nearly 100 years a certain fatally of working people Jiving in Pari* have ended tLeir lives by suicide. From father to son, from mother to daughter, has descended a plain I g dd ling, and on the finger of every of these suicides, as they lay In death, thw nng has been found. Only last year the body of a young man who hid 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 burled with the corpse, from which no one acquainted with its history will have the courage to remove it. The mental taint in this family came from S' me remote ancestor, and was intensified by their recognition of it until it became a controlling force; and the ring was accepted as imposing upon its possessor the obligation to o .mmit suicide, after the example of the parson who last wore it. This form of mania usually originate! in a disorder of the nervous system, which in Us turn arises from an tenia or poverty of the bleed, one of the results of imperfect nutrition. A recent letter from a gentleman living in Norfolk contains the 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 oneof those hours of deep gloom and depression I shon’d 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, so be Ho tested and tumbled on his bed, wondering if morning would ever dawn again. In this case it was not an accusing conscience, as ho 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 bis skin and (yes had been more or leas 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 coaid not remove it, no other result was possible than the one our friend »x----perienoed. His head frequently ached as though fiends had turned it into a workshop; and pains chased one another through bis body as though he had at least half the maladies catalogued, in the popular books on disease. let one thing, and one only, was responsible for all the mlsonief—namely, the poison introduced into the blood from the decaying food in the stomach and intestines. The cold feet, the loss of appetite and ambi'ion, the mental despondency, the sense of weariness and fatigue, the bad taste in the mouth, dry cough, giddiness, palpitation, chill?, weakness, etc., are a brood of foul birds batched in one nest, and the mother is always indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed somehow, as it always does, whether we laugh or cry, and this man glow ha.« tily tired of a life thus burdened and spoiled. Hj longed to see the end of It, and no wonder, Bit the last page of his letter is pitched in a higher key. He says: “ When I think of what I was, and what I am now, I can hatd'y realise th.i change. For the past, six months I have bejn using a preparation known as Motive Se gel's Curative fcyrup, and it has actually reTolutionfocd my -whole fcydtem, One o£ my tetania recommended it to me, and I tiled it just to please him. Now I praieo it for myee’f, and thank the men wko' m;.ke and advertise it. My troubles are over, and I feel (at fifty-seven) as light, elastii, and gay as a bey on his summer vacation. 1 ted my doctors they ore beaten at their own trade by an old German nurse, and so far as I am concerned they can’t deny it. I have no more horrible thoughts of self-destruction, for I find too much enjoyment ia living. My thanks aie too deep for words.” The author of this letter consents to tho publication of so much of it as is here printed, but declines to allow the use of his name, at least for the present, for reasons we are bound to respect. But the evident sincerity of his story will carry conviction to every candid mind. 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