LIFE'S IMAGINARY ILLS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

LIFE'S IMAGINARY ILLS.

LAST Tuesday Edward L. McWilliams, a veteran detective of this city, committed suicide. He had believed for a long time that he had cancer of the stomach and was an incurable sufferer. An autopsy upon his body by the coroner's physician showed that he was totally mistaken, and that his only trouble, aside from his unfounded fears, was a tumor, which might have been readily removed by an operation not at all dangerous.

The coroner's physician remarks that he frequently makes autopsies on bodies of persons who kill themselves in fits of despondency over deadly diseases, from which they are not suffering. Thus again is the old paradox illustrated, "The worst calamities of life are those that never happen."—New York World.