The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
ESSAY ON HEALTH.
4 Few Remarks Which Apply to Men
Who Work for "RecreatiOn."

4 Few Remarks Which Apply to Men
Who Work for "Recreation."
1t is easy to tell why a man shouldn't
die, and in point of fact death is almost
always, in public opinion, a curious ac-
cident, though the victim have the age
of Methusaleh. 1t was bad cold. 1t
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 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 vOicelcss
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 latteris 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 Summer mar
ried beautiful woman at a late sOuT
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
doomed above the prevailing greatness
and fun and gentility like the awful
embodiment in small space of an I'M
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-
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
INlo1-a1onI oil bat oit Of
these men under the gay cockade and
give him the small sword and the light
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 it 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 try
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 rich as to escape that necessity.
The physicians are well enough, and
rules looking to health are well
enough; but every wise man is law
unto himself, knowing the tempera-
ment that rules his health better than
any physician can; and behold. con-
trary to all rules and all popular belief,
it is life that is the accident and death
that is the rule.-N. Y. Graphic.
The Forty-ninth Congress will
certainly be remembered by the rail-
roads for the energy with which a dis
position is manifested to revoke all
land grants which have not been
earned From the Gulf to the British
American Inc and from Maine to Cali
fornia, a general onslaught hiss been
made and no mercy ssown. The rail-
roads may succeed in getting and keep
ing land without earning it, bus not il
the Forty-ninth Congress can prevent
it-St. Louis Globe Democrat