Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-05
THE NEED OF SLEEP.

''To tell you the TRUTH" remarked ven
cradle Atlanta physician, 81 do not think
that a person should ever be walked, except,
Of course, in special cases, and where there
is a necessity for it. Nature knows her own
business, and that man who follows natures
rules the closest will receive most of her
blessings. a man in his natural state is
healthy and sound. He contracts disease
or else some one else contracts it for him.
The ailments of the father and mother are
visited upon the children, not because it is
a source of pleasure to the Almighty, but
because it is natures law. One of natures
rules is that man shall have sleep. If 1t
had been intended that a man should work
twenty-four hours out of tWenty-fOur, ma
ture would have made the sun shine with
out interruption all the time. Lights are an
innovation. Wild beasts don't have lights.
They are reserved for man, with his supe-
rior Intelligence and multiplicity of bodily
ailments. Night was made for sleep and the
day for work. The man who disregards the
demands of his mind and body for the
amount of rest which nature claims suffers,
sooner or later, and pays dearly for having
abused this prime rule of health. Nature Is
the best book keeper the world ever saw
You may OverdraW your account, but you
always pay back the last farthing and often
give up the pound of flesh; yes, often more
than the pound. a man may think ne can
steal from nature, but he cannot. AS said
| do not think person should be walked in
the morning, and for this reason when Il
man falls asleep he lis in the shop for repairs
as the railroad men say. His frame and all
its intricate machinery is being overhauled
and made ready for the next days work.
The wear of the previous day is being re-
paired. Nature is doing that herself. She
knows what the tired frame needs just as
she knows how to make the heart thrOb and
send the blood coursing through the veins.
Then she takes that tired frame, lays 1t
down on a bed, surrounds it with the re-
freshing air of night, covers 1t with the soft
darkness and lets the man rest. Tired ma
ture's sweet restOrer, balmy Sleep" visits
him, and as the hours wear by his energies
are renewed, his strength comes back, and
finally, when morning breaks and the sun
light steals through the lattice, he opens his
ewes and is himself again. Or, if he is ear
lv to bed, he wakes with the cocks Growing.
Now, who shall go to that mans side an
hour before he opens his eyes and say to ma
turc, stand aside and let him get up? He
has had enough of rest. Well, nature will
say, "you can take him if you will, but |
will charge him with an hours loss of sleep
and pll collect it out of his bones and nerves
and his hairs and eyesight. You can't
cheat me; I'll find property to levy. on"
The old masonic law used to be eight hours
for sleep, eight hours for the usual vocation,
and eight hours for the service of God.
Masonry was operative then and the law
was carried out. The day was divided into
three equal parts, and each part was devoted
to Il specific purpose, and one was sleep, and
it was not one bit too much. ."--IHonM (o"-
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