Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — A TOUCHING INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

A TOUCHING INCIDENT.

A Young Girl’s Dementias—How It Was iL ... Occasioned—Some Sew and Startling Truths. The St. Louis express! on the New York Central Road, was crowded one evening recently, when at one, of the way stations, an elderly gentleman, accompanied, by a young lady, entered the cars and finally secured a seat. As thp conductor approached the pair, the young lady arose, and in a pleading voice said: "Please, sir, don’t let him carry me to the asylum. lam not crazy; lam a little tired, but not mad. Ohl no, indeed. Won’t you please have papa txke me back home.-” Ihe conductor, accustomed though he was to all phases of humanity, looked with astonishment at the pair, as did the other passengers in their vicinity. A few words from the father, however, sufficed, and the conductor passed on while the young lady turned her face to the window. The writer chanced to be seated Just behind the old gentleman, and could not forego the desire to speak to him. With a sad face and a trembling voice the father said: "My daughter has been attending the seminary in a distant town and was succeeding remarkably. Her natural qualities, together with a great ambition, placed her in the front ranks of the school, but she studied too closely, was not careful of her health, and her poor brain has been turned. lam taking her to a private asylum where we hope she will soon be better.” At the next station the old man and his daughter left the cars, but the Incident, so" suggestive of Shakspeare’s Ophelia,awakened strange thoughts in the mind of the writer. It is an absolute fact that while the population of America Increased 30 per cent, during the decade between 1870 and 1880 the insanity increase was over one hundred and thir-i/y-five-per cent, for the same period. Travelers by rail, by boat, or in carriages in any part of the land see large and elaborate buildings, and inquire what they are. Insane asylums! . Who builds them? 7 4- . Each State; every county; hundreds of private individuals, and in all cases their capacity is taxed to the utmost. — Why? Because men, in business and the professions, women, at home or in society, and children lit school overtax their mental and nervous forces by work, worry and care. This brings about nervous disorders, indigestion and eventually mania. It is not always trouble with the hetd that causes insanity. It lar ottener arises from evils in other parts of the body. The nervous system determines the status of the brain. Any one who has periodic headaches; occasional dizziness; a dimness of vision; a ringing in the ears; a feverish head; frequent nausea or a sinking at the pit of the stomach, should take warning at once. The stomach and head are in direct sympathy, and if one be impaired the other can never be in order. Acute dyspepsia causes more insane suicides than any other known agency, and the man. woman or child whose stomach is deranged is not and cannot be safe from the coming on at any moment of mania In some one of Its many terrible forms. -- The value of moderation and the imperative necessity of care in keeping the stomach right must therefore be clear to all. The least appearance of indigostion or malassimilation of food should be watched as.carefully as the first-approach of an invading army. Many means have-been advocated for meeting siich attacks, but all have heretofore been more or less defective. There can be little doubt, however, that for the purpose of regulating the stomach, toning it up to proper action, keeping its nerves in a normal condition, and purifying the blood, Warner’s Tippecanoe The Best, excels all ancient or recent discoveries. It is absolutely pure and vegetable; it is certain to add vigor to adults, while it cannot by any possibility injure even a child. The fact that it was used in the days of the famous Harrison family is proof positive of its merit, as it has so thoroughly withstood the test of time. As a tonic and revivifier it is simply wonderful. It has relieved the agony of the stomachin thousands of cases; soothed the tired nerves; produced peaceful sleep, and averted the coming on of a mania more to be dreaded than death itself.