Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1860-02-18
"rHE BLUEs" AND THE REMNDY
EoR THEM.
lEron .Ls Chicago Leslsrl

duAlsis often puEEling question 10 decide
nor has old Burton, with all bis acuteuess
and Prcdgality Of learning, cleared up all
the mysteries Of the subject. Neither body
nor mind, probably, arc exclusively concerned
in the matter, but, each acts and reacts upon
the other
denerally speaking II you are troubled
with the hlGe devils, aud cannot tell Why,
you may be certain that it springs from phys
iesl weakness. Tho best course, then, is to
try and strengthen yourself. This is to be
done by vigorous muscular exercise, The
blood of a melancholy mau is thick and slow
moving sluggshly through bis veins like
muddy waters in a canal the blood Of yonr
merry, chirping philosopher is clear and
quick brisk as nevlv.brosoasd olsmpagre. -
Try, therefore, to set your blood in motion
TO effect this, dou't 20 TO gusg'ing down
brandy-smashes. sherry -cohblers and ga-
cocktails, Cr any Of the other juggling com
pounds il which alcohol is disguised; for
every artificial stimulaut will drag you do wu
two degrees where it lifts you up one. "Thc
devil always beats Us at barter" Try, rather,
what smart walk will do for you, set your
pegs in motion on rough, rocky ground, or
hurry them ups steep, cragged hill build n
stone wall, swing an axe over a pile Of hick.
ory or rock maple; turn a grindstoue; dig dit
ches practice ground and lofty tumblng; :
pour water IN selves With Dlnaides, or with
Sisyphus "up the high hill heave huge
round stVne;" in 8 Ort DO anything that will
start the Precipitation, and you will soon
cease to have your "brsins lined with black"
as Burton says or TO rise in the morning as
CoWpcr did, "like an internal frog out Of
Acheron covered with the ooIe and mud Of
melancholy" II is said Of DeQuiucy, that he
fancied he had living hippopotamus, o.
some such horrid creature, in his stomach,
and the only remedy he found for this and
similar fleets Of opium, was to walk with al
his might for ten miles day or, if it rains.
to lug a pile Of stones from one point to an
other
An Did Gentleman of our acquaintance, who I
Is ;ho co Of a hundred fights With ths Nluc /
devils, tells us that he early learned secret
= bioh he been of infinite value to him, and /
hat is, that they never ride on horseback - /
1qually true is il that they never take smart ,
ynlk, k,-never visit gymnasium-utyor play
,ricket er foot ball-never go skating or hunt
ng-never split their sides over the rib tick
ing pages OF Tom Hood, Rabelais, or Cervan.
es. They may saunter along With you be-
leatb the solemn elms, or through the quiet
yalE Of the cemetry, they sill bend ritu you
be psges Of Tenuyson OF Byron; they
o." rith you by tviightin lonely retired
hambor,
Where glowing smhers through the room
Teach light TO couutsrfeit the gloom,
TSr from al, resort Of mirth,
Save the cricket on the he Irth."-
'ut actiou-vigorous exercise -society--ear-
iest resolyO--the "quibs Rsd cranks and
1anton wiles" Of old Fuller, or Jean Psul,
r Charles Lamb-all these ore their deadly
oes, aud sometime single magic word from
hese authors dispels thea, as the Growing of
be cock does she spectres Of the night. But
be grand panasea-the mltohless sapative
Ihioh isPn iufallible cure for the disorder-is
xereiss, exercise, exercise. Plate thought
o highly Of exercise that he pronounced it
ure even for wounlel conscience, and
'hilips in his poem on the spleen, says
onteutiously
"Ellng Int a stone the giant dss"
As to bad weather, don't become slave TO
> for It Til rule you Ike tyrau:. There
no man 80 pitable as be who hos oonstl--
ltien servils to every skyey inauence--who
Il at the mercy Of bsrOmetrical changes,
hsthsr heshall be wretched or happy. It
but the rising OF falling OF the mercury that
lakes such man As poor as beggar, or
ch as Rothschild-as valiant as C@'ar, or
,wardly as Fallstsf Treat the weather as
oldsmith advises yeu 10 handle the nettle.--
ust so Far as you are delicate wi;h, it will >
'rmeut you but
Grasp it Ike a msl Ufmetils L
And he T.gu" oLsys you we'll Il
In oonolusion, whatever your mis'ortlnes a
trials do not give up to the blue dsyis-- ?
not lot despai, have you on the hip. -
70 you at the bottom Of Fortunes wi eel - {
cry change must be Tor tho better, and the d
~ Whirl must brigg you TO the top When
man il hNt on hls back, he is always look 81
g up. Remember what Horace says {
Nou i male nunG q
H. uiIu siC writ.
-e you cursed with a rckety constitution, d
q do yOu look Eg thiu as a lath that has ha Q
split win rus carpenter, aud a tsllou, with o.
h Plastere as Tom Hood says2 so much Il
E better, rumember how the smugg ,rs &
N tho sails Of the logger TO escape the no vr
q % the cgttvr Turn your edge 10 the old a