The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-20

do not know if there be any drug
Ia the Pharmacopoeta, or any clearly
defined medical treatment, which may
ever hope TO grapplc effectively win
the strange disease of jewel hunger. but
If there he not, ] have much pleasure
in recommending this most singular III
To the notice OF rising generation OF
physicians. That it is branch OF that
Dnystey OF mysteries. la nevrosc. l have
no manner OF doubt. for / have seen It
in all its forms-a malignant growth
which makes night OF the lives II plays
upon: and nourishes To exceeding profit
down in the very heart OF Tragedies, For
tho matter OF that, the fiunkieS, who
study in the kitchcn-as the great mas
ter has told us-the characters OF their
governing acquaintances In the boudoir
above over a quart pot and the Police
News get no little insight into the dc
yelopment of tho social disaster which
kcads ofton upon the heels of jewel
hunger. as they read those cXtravasantly
ornate reports OF robbery and OF mystery
IN which a highly moral people revels.
These are but cleaners in the neld-to
them the inner life must remain hidden
SO physician hoping To cope with the at
lection should turn either TO gossips or
10 sianderers for his diagnosis. Let him
give his ear 10 the truer narrative which
the jewel dealer alone can write for him,
end he may hope for material and for
success. And ii he be wise. he will study
10th the comedy and the tragedy which
such an investigation will bring before
bim, and will by this means alone set
IlInSslt ID as a. SpGtld!ISN
It is 10 such one that j would rec
ommend pcrusel OF the following case
which l record here as one OF the mean
ness, cupidity and stupid cunning;
dSubt If there be any philosophy Of medi-
cine which could make pretense Of solv-
ing il, There were but two principal
actors mentioned in the argument. and.
indeed ii might fairly be- called n one
part play The chief person concerned.
lord Harningham. | had known for
many years. Hc was a man OF whom
ficrrIa t,bn; chat his long aud
flemshed career was a credit 10 his coun-
Try" and 10 whom 4 book on the Deca
lngue was inscribed as TO one sans penr
the smoking rooms that he had starved
his first wifc, and left his only son as
Inc partner of n horse-co in Mel
lrourne. on the prjncely allowance of Nl3o
per annum. His wealth. said common
report, was anything from c50,000 to
= 100000 per annum; and In his second
childhood. for he was 81 septuaEcnarlan
when this comedy was played, he was
sucked on the uour'shing food OF cN-
piring leases and forfeited improvements
until hc seemed to cNudc sovereigns from
every pore in his enormous body.
A meaner man never lived. All sim
HES ul converse were based upon his cN-
ploits "As mean as old birmingham"
was phrase YOU heard every day at the
Bachelors" In the countless old stories
!hcy put upon him. telling how, at ten
ants lunch in Bedfordshirc, he had cried.
Here's another quart OF cider. and hang
the expense how he had been seen In
Harrington market buying his own fish:
how he haSgled with cabmcn innumcr-
able: how he had been stricken with a
malignant fever on the day he gave away
= sovereign for a shiling-there was but
;he echo Of the general sentiment, The
society prints were hilarious at the mere
mcEtio1 OF his name. ] rccollect well his
ane1T- when waG said in one Of them,
1T is runored that Lord Harninsham is
shortly about To give simcthing away.
lie was in my office next day-a week
rarely passed but what ! saw him--and
he laid the journal upon my table. beat
ing il flat with a stick. and pointing at
il with his ample Gngcr as though his
very touch would wither the writer
Please 10 read that" hc said with
forced calm but considerable emphasis
and tell ME II the scoundrel doesn't
deserve to be hanged He dares TO men
lion my name, dye see, To mention me:
and speak about my concerns. IIa, but
wish ] had him under my stick
''Of course you don't know who wrote
1t" | said.
How should 7 know he gabbled test
lily. Do go round TO the taverns swill-
ing ein-snd- water with such gutter birds?
DO 7 hobnob with all the half-starvcd