The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-23
TKR USE AID EFFECT OF 'STIMU
LANES

LANES
Probably no people are more addicted
TO the.use of stimulants thanthe Ameri-
cans. Active, pushing, eager to excel,
and often more anxious as to the end
in view than the means employed in at
tanning it, the wheels Of life are made to
whirl at their utmost speed ,sGnd where
native celebrity is not deemed sufficient,
artificial means are used to increase it.
The result of this in the human sys-
TEN, is the same as in ordinary machIn-
cry. The sEifter it moves the mere
rapidly it will wear out. 1t maybe
only cup of coffee, a glass of brandy, a
cigar, or an "eye opener"-to use a
bar-room phrase-hut just as surely as
itsserves to stimulate the system beyond
Its normal state, just so sure is it max
ing draft, however slight, upon its
vitality, and it is only aauestion of time
when, the deposits not being equal to
the drafts, the reserEeLforce which pru-
dent nature stores upin youth for use
in old age, becomes spent, the sys-
TEN breaks, and the individual,
bankrupt in health and conse-
quentIy in happiness, ekes out
the rest of his existence a physical
wreck, or one in whom weakness has
taken the place of strength.
This is particularly the case where
the constitution is delicate, the tempera-
ment nervous and the nature refined.
The exhilaratiOn which results from
stimulating the body is followed by
corresponding depression of spirit, max
ing an increase IN the original -stimu-
liant necessary for future exercise. The
tension upon guitar string might serve
by way of analogy. The tighter the
string is drawn, the higher and clearer
the sound, but it can never after be
sounded so well at lower pitch, and il
kept where it is, or drawn higher still,
it must sooner or later succumblto the
strain and snap asunder. Some natures
dIS IOO IOUuSS " &c CSLApdASu " tuS
string of a Lutte, but even III such.
prodigal waste OF yigor, either
through the use OF stimulants or
other excuses to which they are
apt to lead. win necessarily
result in its decrease; if not perceptible
at once, none the less certain and to be
made manifest thereafter.
Excuses in youth have very aptly
been compared to promisory notes
made payable in old age. Nature is
strictly just, but never lenient. She
pays every dollar she owes, but she col
lects every farthing owing her. 1t
would be well for the yonth Of to- day to
give this passing thought. Do not de-
lude yourself by thinking that nature
will make an exception in your case,
and that every person is mortal but
yourself. Because now you de not feel
at all, or only temporarily, the evil Ell
fects late hours, stimulation and other
excuses which sap the foundations of
health' do not fatter yourself that it
will always be so. Courses are like
young chickens" and young chickens
are like youthful follies and dissira-
tons" they always come home to
roost."
1t would be wellafor young America
the smartest creature under the sun.
in his own estimation-if he had wisdom
enough to take the back track for sea-
son, and not continue at the breakneck
speed which his ancestors have been
pursuing for the last century in mad
thirst for money and power. 1t never
pays to live at dying rate" and the
fact that America to-day is pointed at
abroad as "a nation of dyspeptlcs, [" and
that in too many instances, through
stimulation and unhealthy go-ahead-
ativeness, we justify the appellation, is
a plain proof of the truthfulness of tn
proposition.
Those who are in the habit of taking
"eye-openers they could more proper
Iy be termed eye-closers-to assist them
IN running up column OF ngures, or
performing any task requiring rapidity
and niceness of mental action, should
have heard the reply of well-known
locomotive engineer who, few years ago
ran his engine atnghtning rate from New
York to San Francisco, on atrial rip OF
speed When asked what he took to
stimulate him for the sleepless and ar
duous strain upon his mind and body,
he answered: Beef seak and cold wa
ter" THE best temperance sermon |
ever heard" exclaimed gentleman of
this city, who happened to be listening.
There is no use talking. Nature is the
best sfmulator, and only those who