New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-03
How Glenn Commiitt d Sui eide.


matter, my boy? Sit. down. Sit down
and quiet yourself and then tell me
what's the matter"
That's the way I talked to Glenn
abort for Clemence- Alburtis as !
took him by the arm one day when
be 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
I'm crazy. / can't collect my
thoughts, and the pain in my head
drives me mad"
~ know it," l said. GIVE told you
it would be SO many times. You have
. buzzing in the ears, black specks
floating before the eyes, and"
"Yes! Vest that's it. Nervous
twitches Of the muscles of theface and
numbness 0: the limbs, and"
Depression of mind and melan-
cholia," went on.
stA disposition to suicide" he al
most shouted. II feel it almost nee
essary to commit suicide. Doc, what
will I do? How'll I stop it? Eli?
How'll I keep from blowing out my
brains?"
"Nonsense!" I said angrily. "Don't
talk to me about brains. Ii you go
on the way you are going now you
won't have any brains to blow out in
a few days. You'll be in a lunatic asy-
dunn. as brainless as q born IDIOT"
II know it! l know it!' and Glenn
wrung his hands wildly, and endeav-
ored to spring from the lounge, but
forced him back into his seat.
'eAnd so I am determined 20 put an
END to my life at once. God bless
you! Good-by! I can't endure this
agony any longer" and once more he
made an effort to rise.
ttSit still!' I Numbered out, now al
most angry myself, cor I'll send for
apoliceman, and have you committed
to the Charities and Corrections, to
be examined as 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 don't read anything but
trash for two months, and above all,
don't think OF nything scientific until
szlext 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 half
doneyet."
@Confound your Megatheriums!' l
exclaimed, angrily. eff you want to
Barter your life, or what you have left
of your senses, for Megatherium,
why take your Megatherium and do
1t, 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
.@c CT a dead man in a month";
"And drop my book on THE Puerll-
sity of Prehistoric Power?" said Glenn.
smourDfuliy.
*'Drop every book, written and un-
written, and write not a line but an
occasional letter until I tell you that
you May"
The poor fellow buried his face in
his hands, and sat the picture of de-
@pair, but knew l was right. Glenn.
had graduated from college with high
honors, and gone to the bar with his
hopes, when suddenly his mind had,
somehow, become diverted to science,
ia which, unfortunately, he could al
ford 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
snanental part of his lite.
More than this, he was a remark
ably handsome fellow, and, outside OF
his scientific studies, possessed more
than ordinary common sense. The
fact was he had overdone the matter,
and he was suffering, accordingly,
drom insomnia and overbrain work.
Entire and complete cessation from
study was his only hope. Just
as 1 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-fve, 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
sand troubles daily. Her companion
exas her niece Lillian, and "airy, fairy
LILLIAN she was. A more beautiful
little creature never saw, and never
expect to see again, and as good as
she way pretty.
Their coming, just then, embar.
raised me exceedingly. could not
dismiss Miss Megrims, and I must
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