The Osceola times., 1884-09-27
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.

A Young Girls Demsntia-How 10 wa.
Occasioned-some New aud startling
Truths.
The st. Louis express, on the New
York Central road, was crowded one
evening recently, when at one of the
way statieDs, an elderly gentleman, ac-
companied by young lady, entered the
car and finally secured seat. AS the
conductor approached the pair, the
young lady arose, and in pleading
said
"Please, sir, don't let him carry me to
the asylum. | am not crazy; am little
tired, but not mad. Won't you please
have papa take me back homer"
The conductor, accustomed though he
was to all phases of humanity, looked
with astonishment at the pair as did the
other passengers in their vicinity. A
few words from the father, however, suit
feed, and the conductor passed on while
the young lady turned her face to the
window. The writer CHANGED to be seat
ed Just behind the ola gentleman and
could not iorego the aesile to speak to
HIM. With sad face and a trembling
voice the father said:
| my daughter has been attending the
seminary in a distant town and was sue
ceeding remarkably. Her natural quail.
ties, together with great am bition, plac-
ed her in the front ranks of the school,
but she studied t. o closely, was not care
| ful of her health, and her poor brain
has been turned. am taking her to a
private asylum where we hope she will
soon be better"
At the next station the old man and
his daughter left the cars, but the Incl
dent, SO suggestive fShakspeare's Ophe-
liza, awakened strange thoughts in the
mind of the writer. 1t is an absolute
fact that while the population of Ameri-
ca increased thirty per cent. during the
decade between 1870 and 1880 the insan-
ity increase was over one hundred and
thirty-five per cent for the same period.
Travellers by rail, by boat, or in carriages
in any part of the land see large and
elaborate buildings, and inquire what
they are?
Insane asylums
Who builds them?
Each state; every county; hundreds of
private individuals, and in all cases their
capacity is taxed to the utmost.
Why?
Because men, in business and the pro-
fessions, women, at home or in society,
and children at school overtax their mem
tai and nervous forces by work, care and
worry. This brings about nervous dis
orders indigestion and eventually ma
| mia
II is not always trouble with the head
that causes insanity. 1t far oftener arises
from evils in other parts of the body.
The nervous system determines the sta
tus of the brain. ANY one who has peri
odic headaches; occasional dizziness; a
dimness of vision; ringing in the ears;
a feverish head; frequent nausea or a
sinking at the pit of the stomach, should
take warning at once. Tne stomach and
head are in direct sympathy and if one
be impaired the other can never be in
order. Acute dyspepsia causes more in
sane suicides than any other known
agency and the man, woman or child
whose stomach is deranged is not and
cannot be safe from the coming on at
any moment of mania in some one of its
many terrible forms.
The value of moderation and the i'm
perative necessity of care in keeping
the stomach right must therefore be
clear to alk The least appearance of in
digestion, or mal-assimilation of food
should be watched as carefully as the
first approach of an invading army.
Many means have been advocated for
meeting such attacks, but ali have here
tofore been more or less defective. There
can be little doubt, however, that for the
purpose of regulating the stomach, tom
ing it up to proper action, keeping its
nerves IN normal condition and purify
ing the blood, Warmers Tippecanoe The
Best, excels all ancient or recent discov-
cries 1t is absolutely pure and vegeta-
BILE; it is certain to add vigor 10 adults
while it cannot by any possibility injure
even child. The tact that it was used
in the days of the famous Harrison fam.
lily is proof positive of its merit as it has
so thoroughly withstood the test of time
As tonic and revivifer It is simply
wonderful. 1t has relieved the agony OF
the stomach in thousands of cases; sooth-
ed the tired nerves; produced peaceful
sleep and averted the coming on ofa ma
mia more to be dreaded than death itself