Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-16
STIMULANTS.

That man Is maniac, dellDeratc
suicide, who drinks tea, coffee or ardent
spirits of any kind to induce him to
perform a work IN hand, and when he
feels too weak to go through it without
such aid. This is the reason that the
majority of great orators and public
tavorites die drunkards. The pulpit,
the bench. the bar, the forum, have
contributed their legions of victims to
drunken habits The beautiful women,
the sweetest singer, the conversational
ist, the periodical writer's, have filled
but too often a drunkard's S grave. Now
that the press haa become such a great
power in the land, when the magazine
must come out on certain day, and
the daily newspapers at fixed hour,
nothing waits, everything must give
way to the inexorable call for copy, and
sick or well, disposed or ludIsposed,
asleep or awake, the copy must come;
whether he feels like it or not, and if
he is not in the vein of writing, he
must whip himself up TO it by the
stimulus Ut drink Some Of the great
est writer's of the country haze con
fessed to the practice, on urgent occa~
sions, of taking 4 sip Of brandy at the
end Of every written page, or even
oftencr. Lord Byron, at the end Of
every paragraph sometimes.
1t may have escaped the general
lok
died young, who have been connected
with the New York press, within ten
years, and that. too from intemperancc,
than in all the other educational call
ings put together; young men whose
talents have been Of the first order
aud gave promise of a life Of usefulness,
honor and emincnce. The best posi-
bic thing for man to DO, when he feels
too tired to perform task, or too weak
to carry it through, is 10 20 to bed and
: iccp n week i'll can; this is the only
true rccupera,on 81 brain power The
only actual renewal II brain force
because during sleep the brain Is in u
sense Of rest, in a condition TO receive
aud appropriate Particles Of uutrimeut
from the blood, which take the place o.
those which have been consumed in
previous labor, since the very ret Of
thinking consumes, burns mp solid
PARTICLES, as every turn Of the wheel
or screw Of the splendid steamer is the
result OF consumption BY fire Of the fuel
in the furnace. That supply Of con-
sumed brain substance can only be had
from the nutriment PARTICLES in the
blood which were obtained from the
food eaten previously, and the brain il
50 constituted that it can best receive
and appropriate to itself those nutrient
PARTICLES during the state Of rest, quiet,
and of stiffness, sleep. Mere stimuIauts
supply nothing in themselvcs-they
only g0ad the brain, force it to greater |
consumption Of its substance which has |
been so fully exhausted that there is
not power enough left to receive a sup
ply, just as men are so near death by |
thirst or starvation, that there is not /
power enough left to swallow anything, |
and all is over. The incapacity Of the
oraln tor receiving recuperatlye partl~ |
c|os sometimes comes on with the rapid |
Ity of u stroke Of lightning, and the
man becomes weak in an instant in an
instant falls into commissions, in an in
slant loses all sense, and is an idiot. Is
was under circum stances of this very
sort, in the middle of a sentence of
great oratorical power, one Of the most
eminent minds OF the age forgot his
IDEAS, pressed his hand against his fore
head, and after q moments silence,
'aid, God, as with a sponge, has
plotted out my mind" BE assured,
'ender, there is crest for the weary"
only in early and abundant sleep and
wise and happy are they who have firm
loss enough to resolve that by Gods
lelp | will seek it in no other way"
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