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Sick Men Who Lire Long, ana Strong
Men Who Die EARLY.
'Carp'' in Cleveland Leader.
1t is by no means we'll men who live the
longest. John Randolph of Roanoke never
had well day in his life, aud did great
lifes work. Alexander Stephens lived to a
ripe old age, and from boyhood to death had
hardly moment free from pain. Oliver P.
Morton worked and thought years after the
doctors had decided that he was ready for
| the grave, and Samuel j. Tilden, the living
dead man of Gramercy Park, may yet write
an epitaph for Grover ClevelaEd's tombstone.
Judge Waite's sickness is caused by over
work. He has always been noted for being
one of the hardest aud most continuous
workers in public life. In his law practice at
Toledo he burned gallons of midnight oil,
and the excess of unsettled cases before the
supreme court has worried him here at
Washington. His constitution, origin ally
strong, has been long in breaking down, but
his condition at present is such that he must
take rest. His case is only one of thou
sand all over the country. 1t was careless
ness and overwork which killed Matt Carpen-
ter, the greatest lawyer the Northwest has
ever known, and one who made as much at
'Senator Carpenter, had strong constitu-
ton to begin WITH" said his law partner not
long ago; ''but it broke down entirely at the
last, and one year before he died his physi-
clan told him he could not live over that
time. Senator Carpenter accepted this con-
clusion as final, but he said nothing of it to
his family. He went about his business as
usual, and all through that year in which he
was waiting for death he put his affairs in
the most careful order. He studied his case
as carefully as the most practiced physician,
but could find nothing to assure him of any
hope, and each day he would say, pointing
to the calendar as he did so. 81 see have
just so many more days 10 live" He was
at the office several days before he died, and
was perfectly well aware that his end would
come in few days. Hethen told his family
his real condition, and at the time he had
expected to die he quietly passed away"
1t was night work and the disregard of the
laws of health which killed Matt Carpenter.
1t was his custom, it is said, to do all his
study at night. At II O'Clock he would begin
with strong cigar and bottle of wine, and
would work on by the aid of stimulants until
l. At this time he would change from the
wine to brandy and would keep his intellect
up to its full working power by taking sips
of Old Hennessey up until 4 O'Clock AS
the summer sun began to peep into the win
dows of his study he would drop work and go
to bed. He would then sleep about five
hours, when he would arise as fresh as his
fellows who had put in the whole night
For twenty years of his active life his consti-
tuition stood this strain without failing. 1t
then began to droop and at last it fell to
pieces all at once, like the old mans shay.