The Russellville Democrat., 1884-08-21
ELEVENTH YEAR.---NO. 81.

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was one ofthe greatest and best edu
Gators this country has yet produc-
led, but his health broke down in
college, and he never saw we'll dav
afterwards. IL was only by extreme
carefulncss, s,abstemiousness and regu-
lar exercise at his wood pile or in
his garden that he kept himself alive,
and his system in working order.
He was won't to say that If any other
mans head has been put on his body
they would "both have been under
the sod thirty years ago" He was
a life long advocate of total absti-
nence, not only from wine and tobac-
co, but even from tea and coffee, and
from whatever else came under the
head OF stimulant or narcotic, a
sedative or an anodyne. He once
declared il would be no safer for any
one of his students to be caught
with bottle of ardent spirits In his
room than it would be for him to
erect a lightning on the top of
his head and take walk in a thun
der storm.
Like De Quincy and Klrke White,
John Randolph and Alex. Stephens,
he was bundle OF suffering nerves,
with too little blood and vitality to
sustain the action of his splendid
brain. He achieved much and left
dcathless record rs an educator and
philantEropist, but he achieved
nothing compared to what he would
have accomplished had his physical
constitution been equal to his genius.
Shortly before his lamented death in
1859, he often exclaimed in the bit
terness of his heart: "All along the
life way of a pure minded but feeble
bodied man, on the right hand and
on the lett, his path Is lined by
mcmory's graye-stones which mark
the spots where noble enterprises
perlshed and were buried through
lack Of physical vigor to embody
them IL deeds -
/ "'Fis then a painful sense comes on.
/ or something wholly lost and gone
! OF something from our beings chain
Broke of, not TO be linked again"
A vast host of authorities, scarcely
/ less eminent, might be cited on the
importance of preserving our phys
ical health, without which all knowl-
edge is vain and all talent useless.
All thoughtful minds must agree
with DR.. Dick that at is somewhat
unaccountable, and not a little IN
consistent, that while we direct the
young to look abroad over the sur
fsce of the earth and survey its riv-
ers, mountains, seas and continents,
and direct their views to the regions
of the armament where they may
contemplate the moons of Jupiter.
the rings Of Saturn, and the thous-
ands OF luminares placed at I'M
measurable distances, we should
never teach them to look INTO them
selves. to consider the various parts
Of which they are composed; the adj
mirable functions they perform; the
wisdom and goodness displayed in
their mechanism, and the lessons of
practical instruction which may be
derived from slch contemplations.
/ Man is indeed fearfully and Won
derfully made. The human body is
the house we live in--the tenement
we occupy; the engine We conduct
from the cradle to the grave. Strange
that we should concern ourselves so
little about it's constitution and re-
quirements. / well recollcct the
wave of joyous excitement that
swept over this country when the
! first cablegram crossed the Atlantic
from Her Majesty Queen Victoria to
President Buchanan: "Peace on
earth and good will to menr But
there is a more wonderful telegraph
ic system IN every sentient body
than that which was perfected by
Prof. Morse, and laid under the sea
by Cyrus w. Field. The English
scientist. DR.. Tyndall, claims that
there is a perfect telegraphic system
even in the whale, so that when that
monster OF the deep is attacked by
his brave pursuers a telegram is at
once sent off through his immense
length; 'Harpooned in the tail!'
i Whereupon the head instantly tcle.
graphs back: Switch tail and up
set boat" Surely no telegraph in
vented by man ever eqaaled the mo
tor and sensory nerves OF the human
system which, in healthy state,
transmit the most vitally Important
messages with the rapidity of light
ming all through the multiiorm parts
aud organs of the body. II "the
undevout astronomer is mad" so al
so is the undeyout physiologist. The
highest human art is but an imper-
feet imitation of the work OF the
Great Architect. Even in the auto
Gratis hub of the universe, Dir. o. w.
Holmes Is constrained to admit that
"no telephone conveys message so
faithfully as the membrane OF the
tympanum of the human ear; no
steam engine consumes so little tuel
as the human organism; no dye
house can reproduce the glow OF a
Youthful cheek; no laboratory can
manufacture so much as grain OF
! albumen, no musical instrument can
reach the heart like a woman's voice +;
the best lens of the occulist or tue