The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-10-30
Drawi,elBills:on Health.

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1.-THE stomach is what ais the success
full Californian he lives too high" wrote
the author of . graphic sketch of the ILL
fated banker whose death was six weeks
ago The talk of two continents, and then
he tells how he accompanied Mr.. Ralston
on his twenty-six mile drive to his coun-
try seat. "At seventeen miles we stop
ped. SSRalston mixed drinks at the bar"
Drinks which, takensdaily on an empty
stomach, must have had their influence
on his untimely end, whether that was
produced by apoplexy or by suicide.
ellis friend, Samuel Butterworth, antic.
pated Ralston's DEATH" the same author.
ity tells US, "by dying of two attempts
to dissect his liver, and seek the origin of
the disease there" But it is not only on
the Pacific coast that stomach, and liver
lead to misery and 60 to swell the fright
full catalogue ofsuicide. There are thou
sands of rich men on the Atlantic border,
too, who deliberately, from twenty to
forty, set the obvious rules of hygiene at
defiance, and as Lord Chesterfield tersely
says, "draw bills on health to be paid at
80 per cent. at future date" He de-
spised country pursuits, and it has been
remarked that not mores.than one of his
famous letters to his son was dated from
his Derbyshire home of Briefly. which he
neglected, to pay in later years a heavy
penalty::for town life of dissipations.and
excitement. In climates where the re-
suits of carelessness are palpably and
speedily suicidal, all but the desperately
reckless recoil from.it. But here where
a man naturally strong eau lead life
'tfast" in every sense for several years
with seeming IMMUNITY, the temptation
is apt to prove irresistible. But the d.
gestion cruelty avenges all wrongs done
to it. How many of the men who were
careless up to thirty-five are not more or
less miserable to-day. They. dare not
touch this dish or that drink. The din
ner bell rattles in their pockets, and they
do not care to dine out or 60 into society,
not only because in many cases the state
of their digestion depriyes. them of the
power of enjoying it, but because they
are exposed.to temptationiin-th the shape
of dainties which, if INDUCED in, will
render night hideous to them.
There is a theory that we're murder
er's or a suicides body to be dissected,
there would also invariably prove to be
a flaw in his liver. A man whose d.
gestive organs are disordered grows mel
ancholy or morose. In such plight he
becomes ready prey to miserable or
evil thoughts so soon as any circumstance
occurs to excite them, and whilst in the
subject such gloomy brood
ings take the turn of despair and suicide.
they have doubtless in the naorose often
resulted in the darkest crimes. Almost
every one who lives much in the world
can point to men who seem to be hasten
ing on towards the first of these CHASTITY
goals-feeding on stimulating food, per- [
petually nipping to keep themselves up,
and living in whirl of excitement with
no exercise-minds alike, knowing no
repose and their very sleep poisoned. .
When and how did this sort of life be- i
,ome so marked feature of this coun-
ry! There seems to have been no such r
Indifference a century ago. Franklin, .
and Jefferson, for example,
md the two latter especially, were vigor-
JUS in the matter of horse exercise, and
would lose anything sooner than their
laily ride. 4.
Mere driving in a carriage does very
title for torpid liver or weak digestion.
f q man cannot get on horseback or take
brisk walk, let him hew down trees v
ike Gladstone or Greeley, or dig, or row, e
+ do some rough carpentering. If he f
an do none Of these let him at least en- Il
late the abstemiousness which have i
Eabled Pho Nonto, Theirs. and Earl Rus h
I'll to carry the visor of youth into life |,
fourscore. The play is we'll worth the ;.
andle, for let any man get into the con- Il
dence of a dyspeptic friend, and he will
arm from him what dreary, weary
hing life may be, how all the salt seems =,
} be out of it, how it becomes a positive
fort to speak or to smile. No self-de- Il
ial, no effort can be too great to obviate n
n existence so dismal.-NsD York n
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