The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-25
PREMATURE EXHAUSTION.
Too MUCH WORK AND No RECRIA-
TION rs WHAT WEARS Us Our
FREMATURELY.
(From the New York Herald).


some. Now he would while away
his hours in ferrying people a few
miles down the coast anon in un-
'earthing the basking clam or succu-
lent oyster and escorting them to
the Battery and market. In those
halcyon days, like .Jesse's son Of old,
he little dreamed of the great work
be would one day lay on the back he
was then making strong for its bur-
den. Years rolled by, and now at
80, when he rides easily king among
the men of the iron 4'oad, he loves to
tell how once as night. came on and a
black storm with it he fooled his
brother fishermen into thinking they
had better keep under shelter, while
he, in the friendly dusk hove up an
Choir, and, running for the ty, man
lpulated firm corner on the juicy
bivalves for nearly week. What
In him We would note is not this
way of getting rich, SO suggestive of
a Rothschild after Waterloo, bat the
stout health he got, which has stood
by him so well that now, at four
score years, his eye is yet stark and
stout, like hale 'nan's at thirty
five, and his nerves keep SO steady
that he daily reins, with sure hand.
a pair Of fiery steeds almost as swift
as his iron ones which gallop West
IN seventy-fve mile dashes. How
is ii that this man has kept together
this priceless stock Of health and
vlgor, and in these days, too, when
so many men are worn clean out at
forty ? lie Las certainly hit en-
some way Of taking care Of himself
and keeping up his wonderful force
and energy till no man can yet say
what will be their limit, which
would, indeed, be worth the know
ing. 10 ask whether he, a half
grown boy, tugged numerous books
to school, and day and night pored
over {hem, that he might be the vii
lage prodigy and tickle his foolish
masters foolish vanity, as is the,
fashion nowadays, would be to ask
question which would be self-answer-
ing, Whether by chance or good
planning. until the man was well
grown and his joints well frightened,
there was, as there should have been
abunant, vigorous, hearty outdoor
life, bothood stretching on to we'll
nigh 30, and then. when later years
brought their responsibility. he was
ready for If, and the more he got The
better he seemed to like it, He new
er hurried, and not until long after
ward had he anything like wealth.
All know that men seem now to
break down much earlier than they
used. They see it everywhere. Our
Vice President an invalid Senators
also; Fort Fishers hero "aging"
fast an editor, aspiring to our high
est place politically, reeling into his
grave, even his great brain unequal
to breas:ing the storm Of detraclion
and shameless insult one must face
if he would try for that much coveted
prize one Of our judges breaking
down before he is 40; busy, able
Lawyer Of our city driven by over
work first to home for those whose
faculties have been shattered and
then to terrible suicide the son of
another member Of our Bar bringing
home the highest honels Of an Eng
llsh university, and shortly after
ward going out and taking his life !;
Brlght's disease, of late alarminglv
prevalent, hurrying off great rail.
toad magnate at Sc, and talk heard
constantly that softening of the
brain may any day shelve his success
sor; ministers preaching the need of
bodily training.ss but forced to preface
their words with pitiful apology for
not practicing what they preached :
hundreds sad thousands of our .peo-
pie worn out prematurely and run
ming away to Europe for little rest,
50 that they may come back and tire
out again. -f.a aa8 Il sse
sal Well is there any remedy !? There
IS. as surely as there is for the case
Of the hungry man, THERE'S no
moro need Of this exhaustion and
shortened life than Of cutting off