The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25

SLEEP THE Best Sr1Mu1ASr
pulpit, the bench, the bar, the forum.
have contributed thoir legions of victims
to drunken habits. The beautiful wo.
man, the sweet singer, the conversation
aist, the periodical writer, have filed.
but too often, the drunkard's grave
NOW that tho press has become suoh a
great power in the land, when the maya
zine must come out on n certain day and
the daily newspapers at fixed hour
nothing waits, everything must give way
to the inexorable call for copy, and, sick
or we'll, disposed or indisposed, asleep or
awake, the copy must come. The writer
must compose his article, whether he
he feels like it or not, and if he is not in
the vein OF writing he must whip himself
up to it by ths stimulus of drink.
Some OF the greatest writer's of the
country have confessed to the practice,
on urgent occasions, of taking a sip Of
brandy at tho end OF every page or even
oftenor. 1t may have escaped the gene-
raj readers notice that moro men
have died young who hive boon con-
nected with the New York press with
IN ten years, and that, too, from intem-
perance, than in all the other education
al calllngs put together-young men
whose talents have been of the FIRST or
der, and gave promise of life OF use
feiness, honor aud eminence. The best
possible thing for a man to do, when he
ieels too tired to perform task or too
weak to carry it through, is to go to bed
and sleep week, if he can. This is
only the true recuperation of brain
power, the only actual renewal of brain
torce. because, during sleep, the brain
Is IN sense OF rest, in condition to ro-
oei7o anu appropriate particles OF nutri-
ment from tho blood which takes the
place OF those which have been con-
sumed in previous labor, since the very
act OF thinking consumes, burns up solid
PARTICLES. rs every turn Of the wheel or
scrow of the steamer is the result of the
consumption by tire of the fuel in the fur
mace.
The supply of consumed brain sub.
stance can only be had from the nutri-
mont particles in the blood which were
obtained from food eaten previously, and
the brain is SO constituted that it can
bent receive and appropriate to itself
those nutriment PARTICLES during tho
state OF rest, of quiet and of stiffness in
sleep. Mere stlmulants supply nothing
IN themselves; they only goad the brain,
AOtOo ~ ~ BIealer consumption OF Its
substance, until that substance has been
SO fully exhausted that thero is not
power enough left to receive n supply,
Just as men nre so near death by thirst or
starvation that there is not power enough
left to swallow anything, and oil is over.
The incapacity of the brain for re-
celving rccuperatiye particles sometimes
comes on with tue rapidity of stroke
of lightning, and then the man becomes
mad III an instant, loses sense, and is an
idiot. II was under circumstances Of
this very sort, in the middle of a SEN
tence OF great oratorical power, one of
the most eminent minds Of the age for
got his ideas, pressed his hand upon his
forehead. and after moments silence
sid, GOD, rs with sponge, has blotted
ont my mind" Be assured, readers.
"There is rest for the weary" only in
early and abundant sleep, and wise and
happy are they who have firmness
enough to resolve that "By Gods help I
will seek it in no other way"
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