Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-05-08

Treasure to be guarded. 1t is All outrd
geous thing to die when We eught To i've
| There is no use of firing up CuDarder
! 10 such speed that the boiler bursts mid
! Atlantic. when at a more moderate rate
1t might have reached the docks OF LIv-
erpool. IL is a sin TO do the work ef
thirty years in 6ve years. A Rocky
Mountain engineer told me, that at GER
tain places they changed locomotives.
and let the machine rest, as locomotive
always kept in full heat soon got out OF
order. Ny advice to all oyer~orked
good people is, "Slow up. Slacken your
speed as you come to the crossings. All
YOUR faculties for work at this rate Will
be consumed. You are on ire now. l
see The premonitory smoke. A hot axle J
Some of our young people have read
till they are craZed-of learned black
smiths, wh no at the forge conquered thirty
languages; and of shOemakers, who,
pounding sole leather, got 10 be philoso-
pliers; and of milliners, who, while their
customers were at the glass trying on
their spring hats, wrote q volume of
| first rate poems. The fact is, no black
smith ought to be troubled with more
than five languages; and, instead OF
shoemakers becoming philosophers. we
would like to turn our surplus of philoS-
ophers into shOemakers; and the supply
of poetry is so much greater than the
demand, that we wish milliners would
stick to their business. Extraordinary
examples of work and endurance may
do as much good. Because Napoleon
enly slept four hous night, hundreds
of students have tried the experiment; +;
but, instead of AusterlitZ and SaragosSa,
there came of iC only sick headache
and botch of arecitatIon. We are told
of how many books man can read in
the i've spare minutes before breakfast
and the ten minutes at noon; but wish
some one would tell US how much rest
man can get in fifteen minutes after
dinuer, OF how much health il an hours
horseback ride, or how much fun In a
Saturday aftesnoOn of cricket. He who
has such an idea of the value Of time
that he lakes none of it for rest, wastes
all his time.
We were recently asked by an editor
TO give our experience on questi' rs OF
ntdith as related To literary toll. Our
anSwPT Is. that We have lived until tnlS
Ime without ache Gr pam, save threr
shakes of ague one summer when We
acre tool enough to own place In
malari0us ntignhGrhUOd. We account
sr our health, which Is 50 far more ex
,Iaordinary than anything We have ever
observed, by the fact that We are fanaL'
cs on the subject of sleep. We have
tive or three hundred friends whose
Sleeping habits are like Napoleon in one
|
He tak- it eight hours al night, and
me hour in the day. If We miss our al
IIuwance-as We often du-one week, We
iEake it up the next week or the neNt
month. We have sometimes been twenty
| nuuTS ia aTreaTageS. We formerly Kept
"A IurmnTdnGum OF hours for sleep that
we missed; we pursued those hours TIL
We Caught them. Ii, at the beginning
If 0ui summer vacatI n, We are many
lnuurs behind IN slumber, We go down On
| he SEA shore or among the Mountains
and. sleep d month. If the world ahuS~s
US at any time, We go anu take an extra
sleep, and when We wak4 up ali the
world is smiling On US. If we come Il
kHotty point in our discourse, we take
d sleep, and when we rouse up the Opaque
has become transparent. Going 10 our
afternoon nap, we say to the servants,
do not call me for anything. If The
house takes fire, first get the family out,
and my manuscripts, and when the roof
begins to fall, call mep' This fauaticisln
on the subject of sleep, together with
half hour in the gymnasium. and a walk
of four miles each day, and abstinence
from AL stimulants, not excepting tea
and coffee, has, under God, enabled US to
escape the hot axle.
Somebody ought to be congratulated
IL do not know who, and so | will shake
hands all sround-on the fact that the
health of the country seems improving
Whether Dio Lewis, with his gymnastic
clubs, has pounded to death American
sicklihess; or whether the coming here
of many English ladies, with their mag
nifcent pedestrian habits, has taught us
a lesson; or whether the medicines in
the apothecary shops, through much
adulteration, have lost their force; or
whether the multiplication of bath tubs
has induced to cleanliness people who
were never washed but once, and that
lust after their arrival on the planet
cannot say. But sure l am that | never
saw so many bright, healthy faced peo-
pie as of late. Our maldenS have lost
the languors they once cultivated, and
walk the street with stout step, and
swing the croquet mallet with force
that sends the ball through two arches
cracking the opposing ball with great
emphasis. Our daughters are not asham.
ed to culture flower beds; and, while
they plant the rose in the ground, a Cor.
responding rose blooms in their own
cheek.
But we need another proclamation OF
emancipation. The human locomotive
goes too fast. Cylinder, driving boxes
rock shaft, truck and valve gear need to
''slow up" o, that some strong hand
would unloOSe the burdens from over
tasked American life, that there nigh,
he fewer bent shoulders and pale cheeks
and exhausted lungs and quenched eyes
the laws and medicine and theology less
frequently stopped in their glorious
progress, because of the hot axle!