Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-19

tried to help his rivals instead OF to de-
stroy them. No man ever successfully
built q temple Of fame upon the ruined
foundations Of a good mans life. The
.avelin of jealous hate has a poisoned
handle which is more deadly than its
venomous tip. 1t will more surely de-
stroy the life of man who attempts
to hurl 1t than the life of the rival
against whom 1t Is thrown.
Maddening jealousy will make its
sinful victim turn upon his best friends.
Many pathetic scenes are daily wit
messed in the insane asylums of the
| land; but, to me, the patients who are
| to be pitied the most are not the drivel- /
| ing epileptics or the men and women |
! whose minds have crumbled into such .
ruin that they can sit hour after hour |
making doll dresses or with CLASSY !
eyes vacantly staring for days at
| time at sonS crack in the wall. l be- F!
lieve the insane patients who should be
| pitied the most are those whose dis
eased minds make them think that
their wives or husbands or parents or
children or brothers and sisters have
been untrue to them. | pity the young
girl who has gone mad becausG she
was lifted the night before her we'd
ding and who sits by the window con-
tinually denouncing the recreant lover
and the woman for whom he broke his
vows. 1 pity that old gray haired
mother who for twenty years has been
denouncing her only son because she
thinks he wants to poison her for her
money. l pity that insane wife who
will never allow her husband to enter
her room because she thinks he has
been false to her. All, these are the in
sane patients who are to be pitied!
Never did John Fox in his famous
Book of Martyrs" depict more excru-
ciating agonies than some of these poor
insane wretches daily suffer, who brood
over the idea that their friends have
been turned into enemies.
Maddening jealousy, often baseless,
is the cause of innumerabe domestic
, and social infelicities, causing misery
alike to it's victim and it's object 1t
makes the wife suspect the husband
! of wrongdoing. 1t makes the husband
, impugn the motives and actions of his
wife. 1t is the cause of most Of the
, uuarrels of lovers, which have wrecked
the happiness of many lives for time
and eternity. 1t lashes Othello into
!, frenzy until the murderous fingers are
/ clutching at the throat of his innocent
g wife and the suicidal knife has made
an end of the swarthy Moor. 1t was
>, the cause of the horrors in the last
earthly days of Ivan the Terrible, who
| xx-ith irnT IF
T. crushed in the skull of his eldest born
N and favorite child. 1t is the heaving
n destructive earthquake which has rock
- ed to ruins thousands of family affairs
20 1t has shattered many a domestic wall
. under the ceaseless bombardment OF
II tempestuous denunciation and the ire
,s sistible food of remorseful tears.
IN A CauseIess Frenzy
OF The saddest part of these Insane af
d, fictions, where men and women VII
is sometimes turn upon their best friends
i'll and brood over the idea that they ar
Id untrue is that often their frenzied sur
V misses are without any legitimate cause
of They may only be the strange halluci
OF nations of a diseased intellect. Thei
in loved ones may be doing everything II
al. their power for their sick minds; the,
ne may take them to the most expenslv
of asylums and have for them the bes
en- of physicians and nurses; they ma
NJ continually visit them and have thel
al rooms filled with flowers and have cal
of riages always at their disposal. Thes
lr. friends may stint themselves and lay
re- ish their money in every possible wa
~, of,- l. Y,oiYa 70
es! relations, yet these insane patients ca
)n- never be persuaded that their friend
lso are faithful to them. Though husband
his and wives and children may be doin
lis | everything that can be done for the
we happiness, yet they will keep on
the | their upbraidings and fault finding
q and denunciations until at last the
eff will drive those who are nearest an
lay dearest to them from their sides. \
Eve | impression will cause husband to
as spise q wife quicker than the beli'
big that she distrusts him and will n
all credit what he says; no knowledge {
,dy earth will send young woman to d
ere struction sooner than the thought tn
,eir the man she married has dropped Il
ms role of a lover for that Of sneaking
tut, tecdye. Contlnuai iaui' Hhoius III
led false accusations and frenzied distru
one and yenomous sneers and multitu(
not nous reproaches and sulky broodin
eve always defeat their own ends with o
rtt. loved ones as jealousy also defeats
end own aim in our treacherous dealin
of with our hated rivals. The rattlesnak'
he fang is a poor receptacle in which
her store the honey of an orange blossom
big The most virulent forms Of madde
FOO ing jealousy can often be found amo
i'm. the old as well as among the your
nry The superintendent Of the great
F. sane asylums will tell you that some
and their patients have been living