The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-07
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ALEXANDER t. STEWART, of New York,
has just suffered physical prostration,
from which it will take him some time to
recpv r. MIR stewart Is 5 At Comparativcly
young. But for many years, and especial
ly of late years, he has been intensely de-
voting his mental AID physical powers to
his immense business, and, al last, unable
10 bear the persistent strain, his system
gave way and be lies helpless, and such d
wreck that his physicians cannot give an
assurance that his health will be re esta b.
hshed.
We published Yesterday an account Of
the departure for Europe IF Mr.. JJhn +.
Tracey, 50 long known to the public from
lis connection with railroad affairs. He,
too has been subjected TO such mental
and bodily strain for the last six years that
the wonder is that he has not broken down
long ago. He goes to Europe, accom-
panied by a physician, and it is uncertain,
50 greatly Is he Frustrated in mind and
body, whether he will ever resume his
active leadership in railroad atTtjFs agail
There are other men engaged ia rail
ads, in banking in ali branches of com
merCr, and in all tn learned professions.
who are also Mastering to like sudden,
and, perhaps, more overwhelming termi-
nation. Every day we read of men. seem
ing,y in good health, suddenly falling in
death, or perishing by pTOlrdCted paraiy sis,
or rapidly falling into mental decay so
numerous have been such cases Of late
years that people have wondered that
heart dlsaasc," To which these things are
attributed, had become SO universal But
the truth is that men III these DAYS never
know wh TO stop. The richer they
grow the more earnes " they labor; the de-
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competition, the intensity OF the spirit Of
speculation which pervades every walk OF
iitc; these things all hasten the mind and
body To that p int where the strength Of
nature fails, aad the m4u, if he does not
die instantly, liugers along with paralyzed
limbs ana weakened int l!ect FOR the re-
mainder of his life.
All men have more or less Of the cares
and anxieties peculiar to human life.
Ihat there is skeleton In every house
hold is pTovcrbial; and no man can long
survive q struggle with d nature who. in
addition To The ordinary cares of life, as
sumes load Of responsibility beyond al
mortal strength, and with Overwhelmed
BRAIN AID t-vertd body, ventures to bat
tie through the world There is a limit
10 the power Of giants. The burdens
which man may carry when taken separ-
ssA' oiI'A dA tItElNtlG, atlll nc DuI the
stronger Tor the labor, if all pressed upon
the brain at once, must produce exhalls-
ton of body and mind We are all work
ing too fast. We are ali labOring as if the
affairs of mar kind must ne arranged be-
fore We die; We are all toiling as if Tor the
purpose OF leaving nothing for any one 10
do alter We have gone. There are men
now living who So labor by night and day
that il Is reasonable u assume that they
expect IN their time to lay every mile Of
railroad tnat viii ev,r be needed on the
COutIOt NJ ut America And the same
SPIRIT is TO he found in every walk of life.
We are destroying ourselves, that poster
lty may have nothing to trouble themselves
with.
This unnatural process of destruction,
Of course, carries of those soonest whose
services 10 society are most valuable. But
the great m stake is in suD.5sing thai the
men who follow us cannot get along as
Well II we leave something for them 10 do.
We make another mistake in suppOsing
that any one of rs is absolutely essential
70 The worlds ptrity, or that the world
VIII miss us week after we have gone.
IL Is madness, therefore, for mcr t. tax
themselves mentally ard physically, to
break down their bodily strength and men
tai yigar un&er the deiuSi0n that we are
tG.hiIlng mission or accomplishing any
thing tha; would not have been as well &C
compiished ii we had never existed.
There are but few men engaged in COM
merciGl and professional duties who, IN
der the insane velocity of the present day,
are not exceeding the proper limits of Ia.
Dor, and who are not thereby inducing
premature decay, ard inviting certain, il
not sudden, death in the very hour of their
work Chicago Tribune.