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Evening Star, Issue 8615, 8 September 1891, Page 1

wTtfxa'c arcmosa NOBJDV WANTS THAT GOLD RING. FOR nearly 100 years a certain family of working people living in Paris have ended their lives by suicide. From father to son, from mother to daughter, has descended a plain g Jd tieg, and on the finger of every one of these fcuicircs, as they lay In death, this ring has been found. Only last year the body of a young man who lud killed himself was brought ro the Morgue, and on h!s finger was'tlie fatal golden circlet. He was the last of his race. The ring was buried with the crpse, from which no one acquainted with its history will bavo the courage to j emove it. The mental taint in this family c,im from acme remote ancestor, and was intensified by their recognition of is until It became a c ntrolling 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 originate i in a disorder of the nervous system, which in Its turn arises from at asmia or poverty of the blood, one of the results of imperfect nutrition. A recent letter from a gentleman living lu Norfolk contains the following assertion: — “I longed for death; I was afraid of the night; I was afraid to bo alone, yet I hated society. I was afraid that in seme one of those hours of deep gloom and depression I ehou'd lift my hand against my own life, for I knew that many hsd done so from tho same cause.” The dark hours became a time of tenor to him, so he say. He tcs.-ed and tumbled oa his bed, wondering if morning would ever dawn again. In this case it was not an accusing conscience, as be had committed no offence; the cause was purely a physical one-yet, all too common in Kngland indigestion and dyspepsia, with tho long chain of consequences dragging after it, nervouj collapse among them. He relates that bis skin and (yes 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 net,remove It, no other remit was p-snble than tho one our friend txperienced. His head frequently ached as though fiends hid turned it into a workshop; and pains chasid one another through hie body as though be had at least h>lf the maladies catalogued in the papular books on disease. ftt one thing, and one only, was responsible for all the miscnlef—namely, tho poison introduced into tho blood from the decaying food in the htomich and intestines. The cold foef, the lots of appetite and ambi'ion, tho mcntaldespondency, tho sense of weariness and fatigue, tho bad taste in tho mouth, diy cough, giddiness, palpitation, chills, weakness, etc., ore a brood of foul birds hatched in one nc>t, and the mother is always indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed somehow, as it always does, whether wo 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. Hes&ys : “ When I think of what I was, and what I am now, I can haid'y realise the change. For tho past, six months I have been using a preparation known as Mother Seigel’s Curvive i-yrup, and it has actually revolutionised my whole systtm. One of my tenants recommended it to me. and I_ tried it just to please him. Now I praue it for rayse I, and thank the men wko make and adverti-e it. My troubles are over, and I feel {at fifty-seven) as light, elastic, and gay as a boy on his summer vacit’on. 1 tell ray doctors th y are beaten at their own trade by an old German nurse, and to far as I am concerned they can’t deny it. I have no more horrible thoughts cf self-destruction, for I find too much enjoyment ia living. My thanks ate too de< p for words.” The author of this letter consents to the publication of so much of it as ia hero printed, but declines ta 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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