Litchfield enquirer., 1831-11-03


 from thence to dissipation; lIc began with perseverance, as if to run his course rapid- tly; 'tis evident what produced the down fall of his prospects--his all.
 inquired within myself if Newton could not be reformed. 'Tis spossibls, I thought I, and my resolution was foFmed. I Tn two days was sitting by his scanty fire. I He was sober then; but then that eye told his late frolic. After telling him the con- sequences of his conduct--Of the misery he brought upon his lovely wife-his sur yiying child, he wept. Oh, Albert, says he, how gladly would l reform--come back again, could F What flinders, I asked is there any cause why you cannot become q steadymanl MyrepUtation is gone, he replied, my confidence is lost, and what can I do? and the drunkard was choked for utterance. But if you could obtain respectable employment, would you be in- dustrious and sober2 An, Sir, try me. We'll says I. your talents are above medi- ocrity--your health is very good, and if | could be assured you would fulfil your promise, I would--Assist me, sir, he said. Yes, Philip, I would dolsill in my power to bring you back on the ground I left yon three years ago. The man moved not, his head bent down. His wife, his injured, 'lovely wife--oli, shall never forget the 1 look she fixed on nae at that moment. In four weeks from that time, was csc lablished in the mercantile business in tho village of c. with Philip Newton for partner. He was reformed, and continues as such to this day. Eliza is changed as much as were the dwellings where met them some time before. Newton is chan- ged. .s ..
 By the aid of little cash, have been the means of restoring an amiable family to society, an old friend from ruin, and denr aud much loved sister to health and happi- ness. ea ,a ALBERT.
 Death produced by the fear of dying.
 The importance of removing every cause of fear from the minds of those who are la- boring under disease, and of inspiring them with hopes of recovery, is we'll understood Toy every experienced practitioner. A fearful and desponding state of mind, will often render unmanagoable or even fatal, slight affection: while serene and buoy-I ant disposition hasfrequen,ly carried a pa- tient through serious attack, during which his life was placed in the most imminent peril. In all dangerous diseases, tho per- son in whom thcro is the least fear of dying, has invariably, other circumstances being the same, the fairest chance of surviving. Men of desponding temperament are apt. | in critical situations, to bo overwhelmed by their very terrors they are drowned by tlIeir too eager struggles to emerge-they would keep aAoat, if they but remained quiescent.
 One circumstance which may tend to protract, year after year, the life of con- sumptive patients is, that they in general either do not expect fatal event, or wait for it with an exemplary and enviable rec signation. This interesting, and for the most part, amiable class of patients. excite the sympathy of others, in proportion as they appear to be divested of anxiety about themselves. They often seem to leave us most willingly, with whom we are least will ling to part. 4 | Predictions of dc eath, whether supposed to be supefnatural or originating from hu- man authority, have often, in consequence of the depressing operation of fear, been punctually fulfilled. Tho anecdOte is well attested of the licentious Lord Littleton, that he expired at the very stroke of tho clock, which, in dream or supposed vis- ion, he had been forewarned would be the signal of his departure.
 It is recorded of a person who had beer [ sentenced to be bled to death, that, instead , of the punishment being actually inflicted he was made to believe that his veins had been opened, by causing water, when his eyes were blindfolded, to trickle down hi. arm. This mimicry of an operation, how ever, stopped us completely the movements of fife, as if an entire exhaustion of the vivifying fluid had been effected. The in- dividual lost his life, although not his blood, by this imaginary vencsection. We read of another unfortunate being, who had been Icondemned to lose his head, that tho mo- mcnt after it had been laid upon the block, , a reprieve arrived; butsthe victim was al- ready sacrificed. His ear was now deaf to the dilatory mercy the living principle having been as effectually extinguished by the fear of the axe, as it would have been by its fall. Many of the deaths which take place upon 6eld of battle, without the in- diyiduals being wounded in the slightest de- gree,alI of which were formerly attributed to the wind of flying ball, are no doubt to be accounted for from the sedatiye effects of intense fear. Tn Lesinky 's voyages a. lrOund the world, there Is an account, the II i hE IA