The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-15

discussion has arisen since Mrs. Stuart
committed suicide, as to the nature of
four letters left by her and written lust
before she took poison. The most stren-
uous efforts have been made by the
friends OF the deceased to suppress these
eplstles, and Coroner Woltman has re-
fused to make them public. 1t has been
learned, however, that three of these
letters were to relatives, and merely
stated that she had determined to live
no longer, bade them farewell, and asked
their pardon for her determination. The
fourth letter was addressed to her hus-
band. 1t was couched in mild and af-
fectionate language, but was absolutely
terrible in its contents. 1t called the at
tention of Mr.. Stuart to their wedding
SIX months ago. 1t referred to the
homes they had left to 60 through the
world together. 1t reminded him of the
blessings, happiness, and prospects they
had startad out with, and recalled the
good reasons the bride had to look for.
ward to the future with the most san
guine expectations. 1t spoke of their
vows-hers to love, honor and obey him,
and his-to love, cherish and support
her. 1t is said that if ever woman
went honestly and lovingly to husband,
she went so to him, and if ever woman
had been q true and affectionate wife,
she had been one. 1t then, in painful
language, showed how the change had
come over her dreams, and how she had
seen the rich web Of her fancy gradually
drop from her full and glowing ideal un-
til 1t left the mere skeleton of her hopes,
an unbearable' gastly reminder of what
they had been and to what they were re-
duced, 1t pictured in the language of
youthful despair the gradual sinking of
her husband into the power of the vice
of drink, until he became absolutely lost
to himself and to her, and became cold,
selfish, repellant. cruel, and finally in
tolerable. And then, it said, all this
being SO, absolutely 80, unchangeably, So
she had no wish TO live any longer-her
every hope was gone, and she would fol-
low them. She said she could not help
it--she asked his pardon for her deter
mination-told him that she still loved
him, bade him farewell, and then took
her life New York Times.
The BENEFIT OF LAUGHTER. There is
not the remotest corner or little inlet of
the minute blood. vessels of the human
body that does not feel some wavelet
from the convulsion occasioned by good,
hearty laughter, The life principal. or
the central man, is shaken to the inner
most depths, sending new tides of life
and strength to the surface, thus materi-
ally tending to insure good health to the
persons Eho indulge therein. The blood
moves Lore rapidly and conveys dif-
ferent impression to all the organs of the
body as it visits them on that particular
mystic journey when the man is laugh
ing. from what it does at other times
For this reason every good, hearty laugh
in which person INDUCES tends to
lengthen his life, conveying, as it does,
new and distinct stimulus to the vital
forces. Doubtless the time will come
when physicians, conceding more i'm
portance than they now do to the infu-
ence OF the mind upon the vital forces
of the body, will make up their prescrip.
tions more with reference to the mind
and less to drugs for them; and will in
80 doing. find the best and most effective
method of producing the required effect
upon the patient.