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Evening Star, Issue 8614, 7 September 1891, Page 1

NOBODY WANT 3 THAT GOLD RING. I7IOR nearly 100 years a certain family of J working people living In Paris have ended their lives by suicide. Frcm father to son, from mother to daughter, has descended a plain g' Id iiug, and on the finger of every one of these suicides, as they lay In death, this ling 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 oirclet. He wa? the last of his race. The ring was burled with the corpse, from whioh no one acquainted with its history will have the courage to lemove it. The mental taint iu this family came from st me remote ancestor, and was intensified by their recognition of it until it became a controlling force; and the ring wai accepted as imposing upon it t possessor the obligation to ocmmit suicide, after the example of the person who last wore it. This form of mania usually originate* in a disorder of the nervous system, which In its turn arises from at tenia or poverty of the blood, one of the results of imperfect nutrition. A reoent 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 one of those hours of if ep gloom and depression I ehou'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 tenor to him, so he say?. He tcs'edand tumbled on his bed, wondering if morning would ever dawn again. In this case it was not an aoousing conscience, as he had committed no offence; the cause was purely a physical one-yet, all too common in Kngland —indigestion and dyspepsia, with the long chain of consequences dragging after it, nervous collapse among tbem. He relates that his skin and eyes had been more or Icbs 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 net remove It, no other result was pisi-ible tfcan the one our friend ixperienoed. His head frequently ached as though fiends had turned it into a workshop; and pains chased one another through his 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 misonief—namely, the poison introduced into the blood from the decaying food in the stomach and intestines. The cold feet, the lots of appetite and ambl'ion, the mental despondency, the sense of weariness and fatigue, the bad taste in the mouth,, dry cough, giddiness, palpitation, chills, weaknesp, etc., are a brood of foul birds hatched in one ne»t, and the mother is always indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed somehow, as it always does, whether we laugh or ory, 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 says: " When I think of what I was, and what I am now, I can hardly realise the change. For the past six months I have been using a preparation known as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and it has actually revolutionised my whole eysttm. One of my tenants recommended it to me. and I tried it just to please him. Mow I praise it for myeelf, and thank the men wfeo make and advertise it. My troubles are over, and I feel (at fifty-seven) as light, elastic, and gay as a boy on his summer vacst'on. I tell my doctors th-y ere 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 iu living. My thanks are too de*p for words." The author of this letter oonsents to the publication of so much of it as is here printed, but declines to allow the uie 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 oandid mind. 'OLFE'S Sohnapps is the most popular » v liquor in Australia; hence the imita-

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