Bismarck weekly tribune., 1884-09-12
q TOUCHING INCIDENT.

A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
y Young esirl's Dementia How 1t
Was Occasioned Some New and
Startling Truths.
The st. Louis express, on the New
York Central road, was crowded one
evening recently, when at one Of the way
stations, an elderly gentleman, accom-
panied by young lady, entered the cars
and finally secured seat AS the con-
ductor approached the pair, the young
lady arose, and in pleading voice said:
"Please, sir, don't let him carry me to
the asylum. am not crazy, I am little
tired, but not mad. Oh! no indeed. 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, suf-
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 old gentleman and
could not forego the desire to speak to
him. With sad face and a trembling
voice the father said:
my daughter has been attending the
seminary in distant town and was sue
ceeding remarkably. Her natural quail
ties, together with great ambition,
placed her in the front ranks of the
school, but she studied too closely, was
not careful of her health, and her poor
brain has been turned. I am taking her
to 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 of Shakspeares
Ophelia, awakened strange thoughts in
the mind of the writer. It is an abso-
lutte fact that while the population of
America increased 30 per cent. during
the decade between 1870 and 1880, the
insanity increase was over 1876 per cent.
for the same period. Travellers by rail,
by boat or in carriages in any part of
the land, see large and elaborate build
ings and iquire what they are.
Insane asylums.
Who builds them?
Each state, rvery 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
mental and nervous forces by work,
worry and care. This brings about ner-
vous disorders, indigestion and eventu-
ally mania.
It is not always trouble with the head
that causes insanity. It far oftener
arises from evils in other parts of the
body. The nervous system determines
the status of the brain. Any one who
has periodical headaches, occasional diz-
ziness, dimness of vision, ringing in
the ears, a feverish head, frequent nausea
or sinking at the pit of the stomach
should take warning at once. The stomach
and head are in direct sympathy and if
one be impaired the other can never be
in order. Acute dyspepsia causes more
insane suicides than any other known
agency and the man, woman and child
whose stomach is deranged is not and
cannot be safe from the coming on at
any moment of mania in some one of It's
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
all. The least appearance of indigestion,
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 all have heretofore been more or less
detective. There can be little doubt,
however, that for the purpose of regu-
lating the stomach, ,toning it up to proper
action, keeping it's nerves in normal
condition and purifying the blood, War
ner's Tippecanoe The Best, excels all
ancient or recent discoveries. It is alb
solutely pure and vegetable; it Is certain
to add vigor to adults, while it cannot by
any possibility injure even child. The
fact that it was used in the days of the
famous Harrison family is proof positive
of It's merit as it has so thoroughly with
stood the test of time. As tonic and
revivifier it is simply wonderful. It has
relieved the agony of the stomach in
thousands of cases; soothed the tired
nerves; produced peaceful sleep and
averted the coming on of a mania more
to be dreaded than death itself.
McHenry County. g-
souR1s O1rY, McHenry County, Sept. 6.
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