Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-22
ESSAY ON HEALTH.
A Few Remarks Which Apply to Men
Who Work for "Recreation."

A Few Remarks Which Apply to Men
Who Work for "Recreation."
1t is easy to tell why man shouldn't
die, and in point of fact death is almost
always, in public opinion, curious &C.
cident, though the victim have the age
of Methusaleh. 1t was bad cold. II
was little over-exercise. 1t was some
overwork 1t was the failure to have
work enough. 1t was every thing that
wasn't proper, with a most surprising
failure as to the happening of the every
thing that should have been. No man
dies because he is ready to die and his
appointed time has come. Death is
perpetual surprise, and when the spirit
of the dead man gets over there
whichever place it may happen to be-
it probably calls with unspeakable in.
dignation and much volume of voiceless
malediction for the cause of the sur
prise and the reason of the unprovoked.
establishment.
There is great deal of talk as to the
overwork of Daniel Manning and.
Grover Cleveland. The latter is a man
of what is called full habit, as was the
former. 1t is alleged that both should
have taken more recreation and that
the lesson of Manning should be taken
to heart by Cleveland. These are wise
| words; but, after all, what is recrea-
ton? The late Charles Sumner mar
ried beautiful woman at late hour
of his life, and in attending the parties
to which she led him experienced such
acute pain because of his, misplace
ment and the absence of his books
that, according to various accounts, he
1o1r,ol ohnvn tho n1.auoi IN
and fun and gentility like: the awful
embodiment in small space of an inn
pending epidemic. Mr.. Sumner will
ingly submitted to the divorce for which
his wife sued-and no harm to either
and though he died early he lived
happy.
Now, men are the creatures of birth
as well as the creatures of circum-
stances. Probably Mr.. Manning's best
recreation lay in hard work. Few men
get such satisfaction from any thing as.
they get from work well done.
There are men who have never been
used to the effort necessary to that end,
and with them-good fellows, all of
them. beyond a doubt, and men worthy
| of all possible respect--the lighter
pleasures are as necessary to life as the
blood they carry. But Mr.. Manning
as one of the light cavalry people
| would have been as little at home as
the artilleryman or the foot soldier.
He was studious rather than gay, as is
| Mr.. Cleveland also. Put either of
these men under the gay cockade and
| give him the small sword and the lipht
| horse, the dashing mustache and the
| always uplifted glove, and he would
| speedily disgrace himself. Give him
his work and he has his recreation, and
take away his recreation and YOU take
| away his life.
| There is an old adage to the effect
| that 1t is better to wear out than to
rust out There is nothing so pathetic
as the spectacle of man in his prime
who has always been used to work trv-
ing to live without it. There are few
things so ridiculous as the exertions of
the man who kills himself in order to
make perpetual the health the AL
mighty has already given him. There.
! Is nothing more true than the declara-
ton that man must earn his life by the.
sweat OF his brownie can never get
SO rlch as to escape that necessity.
The physicians are well enough. and
rules looking to health. are vol
enough; but every wise man ia iau,
unto himself, knowing the temnaro
ment that rules his health better than
any physician can; and behold con.
trary to all rules and all popular belief
1t Is life that is the accident and death
that is the rule.-M. z. Graphic.
The Forty-ninth Congress wiz
cersalnly be remembered BY the rail.
ROADS Tor the energy with which dc
positlon Is manifested to REVOKE oil
land grants which have not haar
earned. From the Gulf 10 the Rr;t;eh
American Line and from Maine to GaI;
fernia, a general onslaught has haa,,
made and no mercy shown. tn ro;i
roads may succeed in getting and tesn
ing land without earning if. but not !,
iI-ss. Louis Gzo congress Bsr can prevent