Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 798, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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soir-Destruction
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dreams
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pression of a
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his hands.
electricity.
i Very frequently the delusions refet
The patient
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Cyclists in Mobile are taxed $1 per
annum. They fought the ordinance in
court, but lost their case, and the tax
stands.
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“Much bettah.”
“Alius beats the othahs.
"Not always, Cooley.”
„ _ purely arbitrary. All cases begin as
of the simple depression, and delusions are
gradually evolved as the disease pro-
gresses. The delusions at first ate
slight and floating, but gradually be-
down the gang-plank once more to the spiritual welfare.
All these failing him he went oacK nccerte that he has been
to his guitar and his croon songs for ,
consolation. The change was worked
"Yas, suh.”
“I think you can go soon.”
“Is yuh goin’. Mistah Wiley.’
"No.”
"Then I mus‘ wait fur yuh.”
“Turn out the lights an' go tub
over her first-born child.
race bosses, Cooley.
"No, suh. but I reckon she is bout
yuh. sth."
cause. —
These -immediate or exciting causes (
are most frequently of a physical na- '
ture, intemperance in drink affording tagonism
a large percentage of patients. In ; 5
about one-third of the cases the mental
depression is found to have been pre- i
ceded by some trouble of a moral or
a mental character. Business anxieties .
constitute the most common moral
cause in men and domestic affliction
fear and trembling.
throats are blocked up, or their stom-
Change ot scene. *
ment. Proper Food
Canal street.
The minute the man became awara
the old lady was addressing him he
whipped the pipe out of his mouth
AS long as he spoke to her he held
' he clay behind him, his hand closed
-ver it—New York Journal.
was a dirty clay P‘Pe..
Au old woman. shabby and shaky,
ame up and asked him how to get to
A correspondent writing from Italy
gives some interesting details of the
treatment of prisoners on various
Italian islands he visited while on a
’ trip in the Mediterranean, says Eon-
Each of these islands
the Italians
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the same way. This gradual dwindling
of funds was marked by a grdual dark- ;
ening of the Carey brow and a grad-
ual deepening of Cooley’s concern The
latter gave evidence of his trouble in ,
on retaining has
many women who might
have been called pretty.
I shall never forget once seeing a
famous English actress make her tollet
She had invited me
poison in his blood
and awaits the final
demonstration i u went on, more
ENGLISH HAIRDRESSING.
and fought for their beliefs because
they knew they were right, they
knew from positive demonstration
from actual knowledge. They had
. weighed and analyzed and sifted and
the drunkards refined until all facts and data wete
— 1 to one common
■Miss Cha’ity ain’t
PARADISE FOR CRIMINALS.
ley worried.
"Mistah Wiley sho’ am doin ez
well ez he witz onct. Race bosses is all
right and colliges is all right, but
they don’t mix hyah in New York enny
A BLACK FROWN ON HIS BROW. I
then the sight and taste.
The close relation of suicide to
this diseased condition of the mind is
well indicated by the records of eases
at hospitals. Out of 730 cases treated
in Garland’s asylum. England. the sui-
cidal impulse was present in 05 per
ratio, began to see him less; supper
after the races, the theater, and a few
things up-town after the show, you
know. The trail of the man who goes
racing is almost as plain as the broad
track over which his favorites run.
There are rarebits and champagne
corks and other troubles strung
through it—and most of the racing
man’s day are nights. It’s a merry
life for the man with the long bank
account and no particular responsibi
ities but it is not well for the round.
nis face was grimy.
i cholia. Such persons frequently ex-
' hibit an intense craving for sympathy
' and are constantly pouring forth
lengthy statements of their imaginary
maladies. They complain that their
brains to put on fat.
the attack in cases that recover varies
greatiy. Some last only three months ,
and others continue for two years and
began to croon:
“Way down upon the Suwannee
asserts that he has been very wicked,
and that he is lost for time and eter-
03 1 nity. These, it will be observed, come
in under the head of delusional melan-
i cholia. but it must be remembered
that the delusions are not the cause
other purposes.
Mr. Wiley Carey was
racing; there was too much elation
over the winnings and too many mad
moods over the losings. Cooley could
tell best of these variations of temper.
Waiting up nights, he saw his Mr.
Wiley make two kinds of home en-
trances. One was sparkling, irides-
cent. vainglorious, like the peacock’s
strut; Mr. Wiley had picked his horses
well and the bookmakers have regret-
ted him. Other nights he came slowly
in with his hands shoved deep in his j
pockets and a black frown on his brow;
the bookmakers smiled. Those nights
he nodded no greeting to the boy.
but submitted to being undressed, and
went sullenly to bed. Cooley saw and ;
interpreted these signs. There were
more black moods than seemed to be
balanced by the glad nights, and Coo-
only method left to him.
Charity’s picture out of the backiroom i
and put it on the mantelpiece ) I
front room, right where one saw it on ,
entering. He talked much, when per-
mitted. about the plantation and the
sweet, simple things of the home i e. ;
urging always what a great day wouia
come when Mr. Wiley and he wa . >
cases was 11 per cent higher among
“Yes.” ,,1a
“Heap hardah lamin’ bosses an U»
i over her ' infraction of the
only a trick 1 around them or c.-------
ished by seclusion in special cells.
The government furnishes physicians
and medicines, a summer and winter
suit of clothes to each prisoner every
year and allows him fivepence daily in
money for his food and other neces-
saries of life. Danger of escape is pre-
1 by a squad of soldiers-one to
iging her hair every ten criminals—and a swit-san
Therefore let ing felucca, manned by marines.
_en account of the cheapness ot labor th
iSlands are so highly cultivated as to
resemble gardens. The correspondent
adds: "As for the prisoners, the open
air makes them the healthiest of any
criminals I have ever seen There ‘
no sign in their faces and bodies of
that prison blight which strikes every
visitor to ordinary jails. ’
College forgot him again, and the
race course began to know
quently and intimately. Cooley,
achs gone, or so on. In addition to
other delusions hallucinations of spe-
cial senses are frequent in melancholia.
These afect mostly the hearing and
i gether,------------- - , ,
I and went slowly into the bedroom.
"Cooley, undress me.”—Charles —
Trevathan in New York Journal.
as it would appear to the ignorant
worla when finished. They did not sit
for hours consuming cigars and star.
i ing blankly at the open sky. They
worked; they bent every energy to
one grim purpose; all their lives were
, f ddloted to the consummation of the one
The duration, odepreme wish of their lives They
gave their work, their hope, their life.
From the dim recesses of the human
mind ordinarily so incomprehensidie,
they evolved the brightest thoughts
and’ followed the birth of each idea with
the sacred solicitude of a loving mother
ili
thinkin’ ’bout
Some of the brightest minds have
been dreamers—but they dream sensi-
bly. says the Home Worker. They
educate themselves along the line
chosen as their life work. Darwin dream.
. ed over his "Origin of Species" twenty
induce an attack of de- g bcfore it saw light. Milton
severity out of all propor- I • ’ over his "Paradise Lost" from
strength of the existing omd. Columbus was condemned as
a soothsayer, a visionary, a quack,
fifteen years of the cruelist an.
he proved the truth of
and astonished the
tn: Cure Worst Cases
I don' want you.”
Cooley turned the lights and pen
into his little alcove, but instead of the
bed he sat down and looked sadly
through the half open door at the fig-
ure of Mr Wiley Carey, sitting there
in the flood of the moonlight, his e
bows on his knees, his head burie in
There was no movement
not adapted to I for an hour, and the moonlishtshp
shifted and left him half in shadow,
1 when Carey wearily arose, walked over
to the table, and picked up a revolver
lying there. Then he resumed his seat
and began twirling the clicking cj n
der. Cooley in the alcove had laid
his guitar across his knees. Carey
looked steadily ort of the window for
a moment, and then stood up, cocking
the revolver as he rose. The guitar
I broke into the silence with a twing.
twang, twing. end Cooley’s soft voice
idea of attaining
earthly happiness. and set yourself
grimly to bear the burden of weariness
and despair? And then, in the ven-
midst of black hopelessness, has the
thought ever flashed suddenly on your
mind that you might put an end to i
as all of her set do.
every lover of beauty hope that even
the formality of Lady Helen s plain
forehead may make headway against
the untidy, unbecoming coiffeurs of the
women of the English nobility.
What a change the sleek, well-groom-
ed head of the American girl must
to them!
(suicidal melancholia.
“Melancholia” is a compound of two
words meaning black bile.
1 was supposed originally to have been
caused by an overabundance of at
bile in the system, the effect of which
was to cause the patient to be in con
stant dread of some approaching evi ■
According to the degree of mental
,, . , c.1. insinuating and in depression cases of suicidal melancno
Which.wasspftiyinsnirestdty,andlia have been artificially grouped as:
Cosinotblind to the sugges- 1, simple meiancholia; 2, hypochondirh
non but when one goes to sleep with acai
the rataplan of hoofs stringing through | melancholia,
his brain, he is likely to wake in the
mon they do down home, an’ I don’ I F OR MOODI
reckon Miss Cha’ity ud ‘zactly like tub
know tha’ Mistah Wiley wuz tryin
hang in front.
On went the ever-present English
toque over this heroic bang and I did
not wonder that bellboys stared. vented by a
But she was only arranging her hair l -....... <
larnin books, ain't it?
-Nevah thought uv it that way,
Cooley, but it might be.” c,ty l —reek
“Tha’s whut I thought Miss Cha ity (
sometimes. all by committing suicide?
If so you have very probtbly been
the victim of a disease which is a,
whah tuh (present attracting the attention 0
some of the most noted physicians in
: the world, says the New Y ork W o 1 •
The disease is known technically as
So it is that when
once one has accu-
mulated the Broad-
way and Bohemia
habit, and. finding it hurtful, refo mh
he waits the time when the P®
work again and find its fruition, re-
Mr. Wiley Carey of Teun® na
formed and went to his co e8C, or
studied hard; found early ings
slumber and all those staid doing
which are the man's who ’ n
right. Whereat Cooley, the '
smiled much and grew cheerful.
The Hideous Frizzed. < uried Bang stil
Lady Helen Stewart, a fashion-lead- ,
er of England, has decreed that so- Lve in the
cietv—that is, the feminine element
must part its hair on the side or ex-
pose the forehead guiltless of coguet-
tish curls, says the Philadelphia Press.
And fashion—that is, in Englan
is beginning to sway a bit in her direct -
tion. . , , 10.1 ! don Tid-Bits.
While the American girl would look
with horror on this unfeminine coiffeur i
for her adoption, yet she gives a sigh
of relief when she thinks that maybe
Lady Helen's example will take effect
among the world of Britain's elec..g
That frightful, curled, frizzled bang
To Neither.
Friend— Do you belong to the real-
istic or to the romantic school cf liter-
ature.’ Young Author-Neither. I am
on.y in the kindergarten yetrSomer”
ville Journal.
tuh tangle 'em up.”
More and more moody grew Mr.
wile as the season waned. Plainly,
so" ' of the home donation which had
icen provided for other purposes had
oz. into unworthy hands. As days
of the same thing went
Two Kinds of Courtesy.
He was immaculate as to externals,
nd he was coming down Fifth avenue.
She was a charming bit of feminin-
York can offer—which is
"Yuh kin alius tell a gemman .byolis
acts. Mistah Wiley see he .m
jes’ wha: Miss Cha’ity want hi ;
an When I gin him uh hint he ss
straighten up like uh thur-
an’ go tub wuk. Tha’s thu
uh gemman. ” , . wa1.
Mr. Wiley did straighten, but. ‘ ",
ing always erect has its P4 (Sarop-
and by he stooped just » 11 ’ dwn
ped his lecture room and wele
to the places where horses race. .
Tennessee men and horses and
dose to each other. Cable car bou. [
electric roads can have no e gahes (
a plantation, and men ride, ho hd-
From riding a horse one 8 - hriak
tion of riding the best onen. witn a
dash through a country lane,
neighbor alongside, is the n de
quence, and the race course
monstration of horse abilitysun ead a
saddle is the final. Mr.WieX ,
heritage of that in his veins. A jng
told him that there was horse
in New York, and Carey wenttoina
it. Betting on horses is anotherkihe
of poison and Mr. Wiley w as just the
sort to take a strong inoculation.
effects not only on ______
themselves but equally if not more on • made to converge
their descendants, » center and end there in one grim :.un.
If every victim of suicidal melan- — -------1
cholia should at once submit himseit ,
to a proper treatment the chances
would greatly favor a recovery. A a (
rule recovery takes place gradually
and along with the improvement in the .
mental state there is a corresponding
improvement of the bodily health It ,
is a favorite sign when the patient
U-
'If
I "•
s hereditary predisposition. DREAMSOFI-ATMEM
The tendency to the mental disease is ■ Fame Follow, the ausing* and Labo * °
inborn and only lies dormant till at
some critical period of life it is called
into active existence. Some bodily ail-
ment or mental shock which would ,
produce no mental disease in a person
with a healthily constituted brain is i
sufficient in those with hereditary men-
morning with a want for more
music. So Mr. Wiley Carey went to the
track and left Cooley to devise o
means for btinging ahttsachpllone, come more fixed and unchanging,
the order of things. Sitting I guitar. The delusions vary greatly in char-
Cooley picked his greasj old g ( The patient fancies sometimes
erooned old Southern songs, thatan nis reiatives and neighbors are
ured for Mr. W lley. resume in league against him or that he has in
Actual advice he couldnotPas the some way incurred the enmity of the
to offer, and gentle suggestion WAsiss whole worid. In such cases his dis-
ease will probably end in some form
in the i of mental derangement unless he see s
a speedy cure. Somtimes he imagines
I .hat he is being robbed of his property
( ar that his food is poisoned. In other
I cases some unseen agency is suspecte
to be at work, such for example as
several weeks ago Dr. J. B. I ax ior,
the wealthy Texas stockman, sent three
experienced cowboys and frontiersmen
in search of the herd of wild buffalo
‘ i 7 u were discovered in Brewster ity as New ---- a .
which, two years ago, and have been saying a great deal. Delicate, dainty.
Eeen several times since then. The trim.
hunters have just returned from their He was smoking a cizarette. that:
rip which they state was a success, judging by the smoke of it. h-k
They round ”'e herd of buffalo, num- ’ from Russia. When they met he took
boring about eighty head, in a remote his het off lazily. Talking to her in a
section of Presidio county. The am- tone of condescension, he pufed. the
mals were trailed by the hunters from blue smoke out constantly, the cigar
the Carmen Mountains, in Mexicoti never leaving his lips.
Now that the exact location of the herd He was standing on the corner of
is again known, it is Dr. Taylors2i Bleecker street,
tention to start with his expedition. (
which has been organized for several
months and round up the animals and
place them all on his ranch in Tom
Green county.—San Antonio corres-
pondence.—St Louis Globe-Democrat.
by the bookmakers, and it came
night. It was rather later than usua
when Mr. Wiley walked in with t e that the delusions are
black brow, blacker than Cooley a
ever seen it. The moonlight dropped
through the wide front window and
Carey sat down where the drift ot of his bodily health.
fell across him. I the group of hypochondriacal
"Would yuh like tuh go home, ■
Cooley?”
1
the males than among the females.
The bodily symptoms of suicidal
melancholig are characteristic. There
13 a condition of lowered vitality and
anaemia, or scarcity of blood. The
complexion is muddy, the appetite
poor, digestion impaired and the bow-
els torpid. The muscles are flabby,
and there is a lack of vigor. Neural-
lgic pains and sleeplessness are also
Carey stood still, put his lips o features.
ether, then laid the pistol on the table It will be borne in mind that
statements in this article are
founded on the opinion of any
„hysician, no matter how skilled he
may be, but are the result of a careful
examination of records and a compari-
son of cases. In this way it has been
found that the most important factor
in the causation of suicidal melat
CAREY AND HORSES.
cent. More than half of this percen-
age had made actual attempts at self-
destruction. while the rest had con-
tented themselves with making
threats. The proportion of suicidal
astonished the world.
: Ferdinand de Lesseps dreamed
for twelve years of bringing Lon-
don nearly 4,000 miles nearer to
India by the reconstruction of the
Suez canal before the necessary per-
mission was granted by the khediye
of Egypt. But these men dreamed with
They read, argued, studied
live. He had on
, contains several hundred prisoners,
who are locked up every night at sun-
set, released at daybreak and locked
up again from midday until 2 o clock.
During the night no prisoner is a -
lowed to be absent under any circum-
ot wales ialsts up-
i these free hours the prisoners can go
! anywhere they like on the island and
for a reception. She had inyitegsuutcanzengagonnanpyeworktarmr. Any
to her room. She was combing • i . ■ rules of ordinary life
mass or yellow rnair down.oyer thekiintrantionem or of their prison is pun-
eves and I thought it was c„
of getting her back hair out of tangles
Judge of my surprise when she frizzed
up this mass with the comb as one
does feathers with a knife and let U |
in Drunkenness is a fertile source of
race degeneration. Victims of melan- , a purpose,
cholia and suicide often have an alco-
holic family history, though there may
have been no previous insanity in the
family. Alcoholism has, in truth, much (
to answer for, as it exerts its baneful I
but the result of the malady.
In many cases the patient s whole
attention is concentrated on the state
These cases form (
gwine tuh tell bout
bettin’ on ’em, suh?"
"Take chances. Cooley.
"Kinder long chances
ain't they?”
-Yes, ve’y long.'
“Mighty hard tuh know
put yo' money."
"Mighty good hosses
reckon. Mistah Wiley.”
“Yes pow’ful good, Cooley; bettah
than you eveh saw down home ” "
-Some is heap bettah ’en othahe 75
reckon.”
Open Air in Comparative
Freed om.
May He Avoided —
o 1 AVE you ever fell
( as if life were not
I e worth living? Have
HA) you ever thought
HE that hope had
Ze been crushed out,
A842V and that existence
(375) was merely a pro-
longed torment ?
) Did you ever give
up all ambition, all
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