NOBODY WANTS THAT GOLD RING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9280, 5 January 1892, Page 4

NOBODY WANTS THAT GOLD RING.

Fob nearly 100 years a cortnin family of , working people living in Paris have ended tlieir lives by saicido. From father' to son, - fro,ni mother to danghter, hag desoended !Ll "" ; irpln : iti'' ; Kbld rinp, nnd on the finger of every one of. these eu'cidep,' nB they Jay in d.oatb, this ring has boen,f,ound. Only ■' 'Jnstyenr'thabotly of h young man whdhnd .... .11111613 himself was brought; to the Morgue, and on l bis finger was the fatal golden o : rclet. 'He was the last of his race. Tho. ring was buried with the corpse, , from ' which no one acquainted with its history will have tho courage to remove it, ' *The mental taint in this family carve from some remote -anoestor, and wasiu--.tenßified by their recognition of it until it ; became a controlling force ; and the rjng was accepted as imposing upon its possessor the obligati6n to. commit suicido, after the .example of the person wjio last wore it. - This form of mania usually originates in n disorder of tho norvous system, which n, its turn arises from anosmia, or poverty oftheblood, one of the results of imperfect mitrUjsn.. • ' A recent letter from a gentleman living JnNorfolk contains thofollowine assertion: * I .longed 1 * for death ; I was afraid of the wght-, I wa3 afraid to le alone, pet, I hated ■ society* I was afraid that in some of those ? hours of deep gloom vnd depression I should ■ lift rty hand against my own life, for 1 knew that many had done so- from the same cause" The dark hours becume a time of terror to . ,him, so he says. He tossed and tumbled on his bed, wondering if moraipg would over dawn again. In this case it" was not an accusing conscience, as he had committed no offeuoo ; the .cause was purely n phyeicial one — yet, nil too common in England — indigestion nnd dyspepsia, wilh the long chain of consequences dragging after it, nervous collapse among them. He relates that his skin and eyes had been moro or lees discolourod for years, often of a ghastly and repu'eiva yellow. This was duo to Iho presence of bile in the blood !\nd tisßties, where it bad no bns'noss ■ to be. But aa the weak and torpid liver could not rc-movo it, no other result whb possible than tho one our friend ex perienced. His head frequently nched na • . though fiends had turned itinto a workshop, and pains chased one another through bis body ns though ho had at least half tbo nnlftdies catalogued in the popular books ;«& disease. # < '* * Yot one thing, and ono only, was responsible for all the mischief, namely, the poison" introduced into the blood from the decaying food in tbo stomach and intestines. The cold feet, the loss of appetite and ambition, tho montal despondency, the eenee of weariness and fatigue, the bad „ tnsto in the mouth, dry cough, giddiness, , < palpitation, chills, weakness, &0., : are a brood of foal birds hatched in one nest, and tbo mother is alwayß indigestion and dyspepsia. Time passed somehow, as it always does, whether we laugh •or cry, and this man grew heartily tired ofja life tuns burdened and spoiled. He longed to see the end of it, nnd co wonder. But the last page of his letter is pitched in a higher key. lie says, " When 1 thiafc of what I was, and what I am now, I can hardly realise the change. ' For the past six months 1 have beenußing a preparation known as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, nnd ithss actually • revolutionised my whole system. One of - tenants rocomraended it to me, and 1 tried - ,it just to please him. Now I praise it for xnyFelf, and thank, tho men who make and ! advertise it. My troubles are over, and 1 feel (at 57) as light, elastic, and gay as a boy on his euminor vacation. I tell my doctors they are beaten at their own trade by an old German nurse, and so far ns I am concerned they can't ceny.it. I have no more horrible thoughts of self-des-truction, for 1 fiud too muoh enjoyment in living. My thanks are too deep for , words." . The author of this letter connents to tho publication of so muoh of it ns is here > printed, bat declfuea to allow the u'ao of ' his name, at least for the present, for reasons we are bound to respect. But tho evident sincerity of bis story will carry conviction to every candid mind. Certainly the best medicine known is ' Bandeb and Son's Eucalypti Extbaot. J?est its eminontly powerful effects in ' coughs, colds, influenza — tho relief is in stautaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, bo they wounda, burns, I scaldingi, bruisoo, spraina it is tho safest 1 remedy — no ewellinjr, no inflammation. Like surprising effect* produced in croup diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lunga, swellings, &c. ; diarrhcoa, dysontry, disoases of tho kidnoys, and urinary organs. In nco at hospitals and medical clinics all ovor the gloho ; patronised by His Majesty tho King of Italy : crownod with modal • and diploma at International Exhibition AiristcrdarH. Trust in thin appro w' article, arnl rojo?i all oUk»tb Uom/OWay's Oistmeht and Pii.ls nro beyond all doubt the rn< st vnluablo and mostconvonitut mtdicints lliit travellers oan tuko aorons tho scan to distant dim up, for change of climate and tho now conditions and sunoundin.o of life to which they will bo cxposod will nasnrodly fr,ivo riuo to carnal diaHiibanocs oC tho eyfltcm and to such gpuritl moibid etnfes of the bluod and constitution generally as will render Iho nso of these effectual romedios hi;hly Docesa;>ry, for thoy will find ia thorn v roady an 1 snfe mc-nnH of relief in moat oi' tho difleaflce which offlict tho humnn race, and wifb thorn at hand they may bo said to have a physician always at their cull.