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Show THE FEAR OF DEATH. A Hanntla Wreed Which. Grow. Wish the Accumulation of Riches, The fear of death apparently grows with the accumulation of riches. It is strange that while an ordinary man, who is poor, is not more afraid to dls than most people, yet he often develops devel-ops a haunting fear of death after ht has become rich and spends largs sums of money and leads an unhappy life in trying to avert his coming fate. There is one instance In an Englishman, Eng-lishman, John Islip, who made a fortune for-tune out of silver in Mexico, and who drove himself mad through worrying about his death. After exhausting all the safeguards London could offer he bought a small rocky island near Bry-chil, Bry-chil, on the west Irish coast, taking with him one faithful servitor. Here, in feverish haste, he had four stone pillars raised, and a small, one story cabin, with three rooms, rather like a houseboat, slung on chains from iron girders that crossed the pillars, and swung clear of the grbund. Once inside in-side this he shut himself up, with some books and a pet jackdaw for company, and never left his swinging house till his death. The attendant, who lived in a small house close by, used to row to the mainland a mile and a half when the weather permitted, for provisions. . The master spent his time reading and looking out over the Atlantic from the cabin windows. His brain had given .-. way of course, and he imagined bis life stood still while the earth revolved under him. He had no relatives to insist on his entering a private asylum, asy-lum, and he died three years later. In the cabin, worried out of life by the fear of death. . His hair was snow white, though he was only forty-three. forty-three. . . . Another case was that of a man who - made a fortune in speculation and who coneeived the Idea that all move- . ment and effort wasted the tissues of the body. He went to bed in a quiet ' . country house and hardly "" moved head or foot for years. If he moved a , finger he did it with dread, fearing that he would use up his vitality and shorten his life. |