The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-11-05
How Glenn Committed Suicide.

and quiet yourself and then tell me
what's the matter"
That's the way l talked to Glenn
short for Gemence-AlbuItis as /
took him by the arm one day when
he rushed wild-eyed and thick speech
ed into my office, and seated him on
the lounge.
doc" he said in q helpless tone
my profession is that OF a physician
"Tm crazy. l can't collect my
thoughts, and the pain in my head
drives me mad"
~ know it," 1 said. "T've told you
it would bs so many times. You have
a buzzing in the ears, black specks
floating before the eyes, and"
"Yesl Yes! that's it. Nervous
twitches of the muscles of theface and
numbness OF the limbs, and"
Depression Of mind and melan-
cholia," l went on.
"a disposition to suicide" he al
most shouted. 81 feel it almost nee
essary to commit suicide. Doc, what
will l do? How'll l stop it? Eli?
How'll l keep from blowing out my
bxains?"
Nonsense" l said angrily. "Don't
talk to me about brains. If you go
on the way you are going now you
won't have any brains to blow out III
a few days. You'll be in a lunatic asy-
lum, a brainless as a born idiot"
II know it! ! know it," and Glenn
wrung his hands wildly, and endeav-
ored to spring from the lounge, but l
forced him back into his seat.
"And so | am determined to put an
end to my life at once. God bless
you! Good-by! l can't endure this
agony any longer" and once more he
made an effort t. Use.
est still!' l Numbered out, O al
most angry myself, cor III send for
a policeman, and have youcommitted
to the Charities and Corrections, to
be examined as a lunatic. Now, do
you really want to be cured of this
attack of teezeeweezees you've got?"
eyes" he said, a little more calmly,
finding he had a superior power to
contend with.
Every well, then, give up all book
work. Lay aside pens, ink and paper,
go into the country, fish, walk into
the woods, feed the chickens, do any
thing, but dent read anything but
trash for two months, and above all,
don't think OF anything scientific until
next winter without my permission"
But what's to become of my paper
on The Origin of the Megatherium?'
I'm to read it before the Fe Fl Fo
Fun society on the 18th of next
month, you know, and it isn't halt
d~oneyet."
"Confound your Megatheriums!'' /
exclaimed, angrily. "If you want to
barter your life, OF what you e left
of your senses, for a Megatherium,
why take your Megatherium and do
it, but don't come bothering me about
your symptoms. tell you that you
must have a complete mental and
physical diversion, or you'll be luna
tic or a dead man in a month"
"And drop my book on The Pueril-
ity of Prehistoric Power" said Glenn.
m%ourpluliy.
drop every book, written and I'M
written, and write not q line but an
occasional letter until / tell you that
YOU may"
The poor fellow buried his face in
his hands, and sat the picture OF de-
SPAR, but knew | MS right. Glenn.
had graduated from college with high
honors, and gone to the bar with high
hopes, when suddenly his mind had,
somehow, become diverted to science,
IN which, unfortunately, he could af-
lord to indulge, from the fact that he
possessed a small but comfortable in
come, left him by his grandmother, so
that law could be made only an or
namental part of his life.
More than this. he was a remark
ably handsome fellow, and, outside Of
his scientific stu1ies, possessed more
than ordinary common sense. The
fact was he had overdone the matter,
and be was suffering, accordingly,
from insomnia and overbrain work.
Entire and complete cessation from
study was his only hope. Just
as | had told him this there came a
gentle tap at my door, and to my
summons OF it Come" it opened,
and two ladies entered-one, Miss
Martha Megrims, an old maid OF
sixty-five, my patient, with nothing
the matter with her but the want Of
exercise and employment, and who
would not wait for me to call ON her,
but hunted me down with her means
and troubles daily. Her companion
was her niece Lillian, and fairy, fairy