The Red Cloud chief., 1878-01-03
Oxsr.Nnek "A Over WorrH.

Certain mAlsiiea Of the H~h ARE er-
ceytionAlly Common .; CERTAIN pszs"iA
The fashionable in~disposisisn Is The
present time Is over wogk and iho pa
tient Who'll hears from The doctor IA; q,
is the stomach. and no; Tn hrain. which
Is over taxed. Is ape 10 fer TIA, - has
received something very Ikea peronai
insult. IL matters 20 on a: this rate. 3,
will soon he ignorrd that we have such
things rs bodies An influenza. s~n
eral mAlAise manii-stly trsc~shle -
want OF proper exercise. the lAasi;ade
that follows exc-ss OF pleasure &C e1-
element, u interpreted ~ . monliion
on the part Of nature tina. the mind
mus, te allowed some pause in ia hero
ic operations
UAbitul violation of the Laws III
health Is visitrt with its inevitable
penalty: the seeds Of n fatal MALAY.
long since sown. Yield their hArv~;And
there Is y premature death The verdict
Of society and the press IL death by over
work. The deceased is compiim-n,ed on
having died in harness. bu, II Is an
understood thing that II wN the con
tinuous pressure Of the harness which
killed him. As matter of fact, what IL
called overwork. but what Is really hard
work. leads 10 length OF days rather than
To- an early grave. The chief instances
Of longevity recently witnessed have
been those Of a career passed IN close
and underwriting toll. Lord ~
Lennards. Lord Brougham and Lord
Palmerston. would have a place In any
modern treatise DE Scnectute. 80 would
Earl Russe]. and So. in all lii elihood.
will the most severe, varied and incsss-
ant worker OF this generation. Mr.
Gladstone. MI. Thomas Carlyle Is not
q young man: Lytton did not die a
young man. Ii anyone Ia inclined "a
think that these are exceptional instan.
ces. let them mentally run over "a list OF
the hardest workers whom he knows.in
state or church. inlaw. letters. medicine
n arts. and ask himself whether there
is any reason 10 believe that indefatig-
able industry is q premium on untimely
dissolution.
That hard work Is purely = relative
term Is tue. Even Milo could not have
accomplished the labOrs Of Hercules
and without work which would be. per
haps. 10 any other living Englishmer
not only hard but impossible. the geniu.
Of Mr.. Gladstone would fret itself u
death. II is not Over- work. 10 use the
word in its conventional sense. tina,
kills. but the conditions under which he
work is done-the over-worry which
sometimes accompanies il, the feverish
efforts which men who work hard. but
are not over-workes that Ii. who do
not work more hard than their natural
abilities qualify them 10 do-make u
combine the pursuit Of pleasure with
industry, society with the study -Or the
shop" 1t seems q truesm which sounds
like "a platitude to say that the human
machinery. as all other machinery which
is to produce motion. must be fed. the
fuel In this case being physical nutri-
ment and rest In other words. II the
energies are not to he prematnrely ex-
haus,td. the demand on them must ne
accompanied by the concession Of a
healthy diet and a proper amount of
sleep. The suitability OF the former and
the So Efficiency Of the latter are not dif.
ricult to ascertain. In each case nature
is the Judge; and il her promptinRs are
disregarded. dyspepsia. insomnia. and
all the other inirmities Of life will fol-
low; net because they are. from the first.
inevitable, but because they have been
wantOnly provoked.
IL brain work in Only done under pres
sure Of stimulants. the brain suddenly
gives way. IL the lyrical precept OF
Captain Morris In followed. and Gays
are heightened by annexing u them part
Of the legitimate territory OF night. the
rice,Ir has no right To complain il the
sequel is disastrous. And. of course. the
mind reacts on the body /; just a. men,
tai exercise 10. II properly conducted. a
physical gain. % that state Of anxious.
hopeless wOrry.the worry which springs
from the haunting consciousness of the
skeleton In the GU pbOard, financial or
otherwise-surely saps. and finally de-
stroys. the physical system. There may
be over work. there\ sasuredly is over
worry. and both in tn, 'ong run end In
death. Blu in a general way j, Is a
demonstrable fact that the deaths which
are attributable 20 over. work 3 too
prosaic to mention. II may be excosa
bic to gid with a specious phrase the
origin Of a commonplace mortality sut
there IL no a why honest industry
should be discredited by . Gait term
and q dAnger-signal hung out where
with proper steering. no danger In. but
rather health and happiness are.
Without Haste. WithOut RAnl