Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — A TRAGIC EVENT. [ARTICLE]

A TRAGIC EVENT.

A Father’s Despair and Self-Inflicted Death —His Son’s Final Rescue Too Late to Save His Parent. The graphic occurrence that is described below ia one of the most remarkable episodes In the domestic history of America. It is absolute truth which can readily be verified. The inhabitants of the pleasant town of Cortland, N. Y., were shocked one morning by the announcement that Mr. Clinton Kludge, one of their most prominent citizens, had committed suicide. The news spread rapidly and aroused the entire neighborhood where Mr. Rindge was so well and favorably known. At first it seemed impossible that any one so quiet and domestlo could do so rash a deed, and the inquiry was heard on every side as to the oause. The facts as developed on investigation proved to be as follows: Mr. Rindge was domestic in his tastes, and took the greatest enjoyment in the society of his children and pride in their development. And indeed he had good reason to be proud, for they gave promise of long lives of success and usefulness. But an evil day came. His youngest son, William, began to show signs of an early decay. He felt unusually tired each day, and would sometimes sleep the entire afternoon if permitted to do so. His head pained him, not acutely, but with a dull, heavy feeling. There was a sinking sensation at the pit of his stomach. He lost all relish for food and much of-his interest for things about him. He tried manfully to overcome these feelings, but they seemed stronger than hlsgwill. He began to lose fiesh rapidly. The father became alarmed and consulted physicians as to the cause of his son's illness, but they were unable to explain. Finally severe sores broke out on his arms and he was taken to Buffalo, where a painful operation was performed, resulting in the loss of much blood, but affording little relief. The young man returned home, and a council of physicians was called. After an exhaustive examination they declared there was no hope of final recovery and that he must die within a very few days. To describe the agony which this announcement caused the father would be Impossible. His mind failed to grasp its full meaning at first; then finally seemed to comprehend it, but the load was too great. In an agony of frenzy he seized a knife and took his own life, preferring death rather than to survive his idolized son. At that tithe William Rindge was too weak to know what was transpiring. His face had turned black, his breath ceased entirely at times, and his friends waited for his death, believing that the fiend, Bright’s disease of the kidneys, from which he was suffering, could not be removed. In this supreme moment William’s sister came forward and declared she would make a final attempt to save her brother. The doctors interposed, assuring her it was useless and that she would only hasten the end by the means she proposed to employ. But she was firm, and putting all back, approached her brother’s side and administered a*remedy which she fortunately had on handWithin an hour he seemed more easy, and before the day was over he showed signs of decided improvement. These favorable signs continued, and. to-day William B. Rindge is well, having been virtually raised from the dead through the marvelous power of Warner’s Safe Cure, as can be readily verified by any citizen of Cortland. Any one who reflects upon the facts above described must have a feeling of sadness. The father, dead by his own hand, supposing his son’s recovery to be impossible; the son restored to health to mourn the loss of his father; and the agonized relatives with a memory of sadness to forever darken their lives. Hod Clinton Rindge known that his son could recover he would to-day be alive and happy; but the facts which turned hiS brain and caused him to commit suicide were such as any one would accept as true. However sad this case may be, the truth remains that thousands of people are at this moment in as great actual peril as William Rindge, and in as great danger of causing misery if not death to their friends. Liver and kidney diseases are become the most common and most dangerous of any or all modern complaints. They are the most deceptive in their beginnings and horrible in their final stages. They are far more deceptive than Consumption, and can rarely be detected, even by skillful physicians, unless a microscopic analysis-'be resorted to, and few doctors understand how to do this. Their •lightest approach, or possibility of approach, should strike terror to the one who is threatened as well as to alt his or her friends. These diseases have no distinct symptoms, but come in the form of lassitude, loss of appetite, aching muscles and joints, dull headaches, pains sh the back, stomach, and chest, sour stomach, recurring signs of cold, irregular pulsations of the heart, and frequent dizziness. If neglected, these symptoms are certain to run into chronic kidney and liver or Bright's disease, from which there is sure to be great amount of agony and only one means of escape, which is by the use of Warner’s Safe Cure. The importance of taking this great remedy upon the slightest appearance of any of the above symptoms cannot be too strongly Impressed upon the minds of all readers who desire to escape death and pain and prolong life, with all its pleasures and blessings.